Speaking of D.B. Cooper...

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that
his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a
dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in
Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from,
and he worked for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started to
tell Lyle that there was something he had done that Lyle should
know, but then he died.

Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign
shop.

Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man she
was married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever
happened to this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and
drowned. I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed
some time ago. This one will hang in there with some of the other
unsolved mysteries of our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)


There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's
Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man
showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At
that time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table
maximum provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The
man took $727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the
"Don't Pass" at the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man
filled both briefcases with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino
treated him to a limo to the airport. He was never seen again in Las
Vegas. They swear that the bills were dirty and looked like they had
previously been buried and that the man was DB Cooper.

The problem with that story would be that the FBI had all the serials
marked and recorded if I remember right. They would have had a
positive ID on Cooper with the bills alone.


What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. No one there would ever tell
the FBI!.

When the good fellas ran Vegas, the hotel, casinos, and entertainment
were all ancillary to its real business - laundry.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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"Marty Shapiro" wrote in message
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There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At that
time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table maximum
provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The man took
$727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the "Don't Pass" at
the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man filled both briefcases
with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino treated him to a limo to the
airport. He was never seen again in Las Vegas. They swear that the bills
were dirty and looked like they had previously been buried and that the
man
was DB Cooper.


If it was he must have had good a part time job as well. Because he only got
$200,000 in skyjacking.

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote

Ah yes, if those screaming "fans" at the show site only knew how loud one
of their "hero's" could yell "OUCH" into a damn O2 mask when his "zingie"
caught in that damn lower zipper, the whole "fighter pilot hero thing"
would have gone right out the damn window!!

Ouch ??? OUCH ???

You HAVE to be kidding. It had to have been frozen SOLID to only get that
reaction! g

I would think that would at least merit a "SON OF A B*TCH" or something
along that line, or worse. ;-)
What really makes it interesting is that the mask has an open mike, and
of course you're simplexing ATC while all this is going on.

--
Dudley Henriques

Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that
his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a
dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in
Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from,
and he worked for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started to
tell Lyle that there was something he had done that Lyle should
know, but then he died.

Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign
shop.

Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man she
was married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever
happened to this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and
drowned. I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed
some time ago. This one will hang in there with some of the other
unsolved mysteries of our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's
Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man
showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At
that time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table
maximum provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The
man took $727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the
"Don't Pass" at the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man
filled both briefcases with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino
treated him to a limo to the airport. He was never seen again in Las
Vegas. They swear that the bills were dirty and looked like they had
previously been buried and that the man was DB Cooper.

The problem with that story would be that the FBI had all the serials
marked and recorded if I remember right. They would have had a
positive ID on Cooper with the bills alone.


What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. No one there would ever tell
the FBI!.

When the good fellas ran Vegas, the hotel, casinos, and entertainment
were all ancillary to its real business - laundry.

These are valid points :-)

--
Dudley Henriques

"Dudley Henriques" wrote

What really makes it interesting is that the mask has an open mike, and of
course you're simplexing ATC while all this is going on.

Humm, that is surprising. NO PTT button, huh?
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote

What really makes it interesting is that the mask has an open mike, and of
course you're simplexing ATC while all this is going on.

Humm, that is surprising. NO PTT button, huh?
On the end of the throttle barrel, but being a multi-task person I'm
usually doing several things at once :-)

--
Dudley Henriques

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that his
brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a dead
ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in Buckley,
WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from, and he worked
for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started to tell Lyle that
there was something he had done that Lyle should know, but then he
died.

Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign shop.

Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man she was
married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever happened to
this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and drowned.
I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed some time ago.
This one will hang in there with some of the other unsolved mysteries of
our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)


There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At that
time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table maximum
provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The man took
$727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the "Don't Pass"
at the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man filled both
briefcases with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino treated him to a limo
to the airport. He was never seen again in Las Vegas. They swear that
the bills were dirty and looked like they had previously been buried and
that the man was DB Cooper.

The problem with that story would be that the FBI had all the serials
marked and recorded if I remember right. They would have had a positive ID
on Cooper with the bills alone.

--
Dudley Henriques

Look like he parlayed the original $200k (minus what was later found in the
river) into $727,000 so he could make a single bet in Vegas 7 years later.
Not counting any money he may have spent during that seven years. Sounds
like he didn't really need the ransom in the first place.
TP

muff528 wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that his
brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a dead
ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in Buckley,
WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from, and he worked
for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started to tell Lyle that
there was something he had done that Lyle should know, but then he
died.

Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign shop.

Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man she was
married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever happened to
this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and drowned.
I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed some time ago.
This one will hang in there with some of the other unsolved mysteries of
our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At that
time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table maximum
provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The man took
$727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the "Don't Pass"
at the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man filled both
briefcases with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino treated him to a limo
to the airport. He was never seen again in Las Vegas. They swear that
the bills were dirty and looked like they had previously been buried and
that the man was DB Cooper.

The problem with that story would be that the FBI had all the serials
marked and recorded if I remember right. They would have had a positive ID
on Cooper with the bills alone.

--
Dudley Henriques

Look like he parlayed the original $200k (minus what was later found in the
river) into $727,000 so he could make a single bet in Vegas 7 years later.
Not counting any money he may have spent during that seven years. Sounds
like he didn't really need the ransom in the first place.
TP


My guess is that he never made it to Vegas. I still think he's out there
somewhere, probably at the bottom of one of those lakes. It's indicative
that the money bag has never turned up but some of the money did and it
was in the river. Could be the bag went down with him if he drowned
somewhere upstream in something connecting with the Columbia River and
the bills made their way down to where they were found.
I guess dredging every one of those little lakes up there would have
been a bit much on the expense vouchers :-)

--
Dudley Henriques

In a previous article, Dudley Henriques said:
Man, you haven't pee'd till you've pee'd into one of those funny looking
red plastic pee containers at 30 thousand in an unpressurized cockpit on
the way to a show site.

I read a story about an F-16 pilot who "returned his plane to the taxpayers"
due to a mishap while trying to pee in a piddle pack.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer a
Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon and
explode once a year killing everybody inside. - Robert Cringley (InfoWorld)

Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Dudley Henriques said:
Man, you haven't pee'd till you've pee'd into one of those funny looking
red plastic pee containers at 30 thousand in an unpressurized cockpit on
the way to a show site.

I read a story about an F-16 pilot who "returned his plane to the taxpayers"
due to a mishap while trying to pee in a piddle pack.


That wouldn't be me. If you can't **** without losing the airplane,
you're too stupid to fly :-)

--
Dudley Henriques