A tattered, half-buried parachute unearthed by kids had D.B. Cooper country chattering, again, over the fate of the skyjacker, who leaped from a plane 36 years ago and into the lore of the Pacific Northwest.
The parachute is about all most people in this neck of the southwestern Washington woods ever expected would be found as evidence of Cooper’s daredevil escape attempt…
In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight, claiming he had a bomb. He demanded and got $200,000, then jumped out the back of the plane somewhere near the Oregon line.
He might have landed in the area where children playing outside their home near Amboy found fabric sticking up from the ground where their father had been grading a road.
And it’s a parachute…
The last of the counter culture icons. Mr. Cooper.
Let’s hope he never is found, nor comes out from hiding.
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How much you wanna bet that he staggered away just far enough to not be found?
Cooper, like much of the counter-culture, is not forgotten but long since dead.
If finding him would kill the counter culture, that would be a very good thing.
#3 really wired the Amerikan ethos. Conform or die!
There are many corporate clods with golden parachutes these days. At least the law enforcement types get to check off the box on the paperwork that has look for and criminal and parachute on the same line.
Marco
Polo
Maybe these idiots might know what they are doing after all?
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=15387
RBG
BTW, I am in the camp that says he’s dead (or lost the money) after learning that none of the bills ever made it into circulation.
Checkin on D.B.
There is a couple in Washing that just wrote a book called Legend of D.B. Cooper. This is quite different from all other Cooper capers. Check it out @ http://www.legendofdbcooper.com