Slightly OT: D.B. Cooper currency sale / T206 Wagner partial?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

What’s nuts is that I never before heard of Cooper or the hijacking until last night when there was some show about it (on history or travel or something like that), and how that kid found the stacks of money in the sand by the river. And now you post this thread. When it rains it pours

Definitely cool, but I am not sure how good a buy/collectible it is. But it sold for over $10k, so what do I know?!?!

I promise that no disrespect is meant, but how have you missed this legendary story over the past 52 years?! It's been all over the media for so long.

Now that you're familiar with it, you should check out these Beatles I've been hearing a little bit about. They've apparently written a couple of toe-tappers.

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

I promise that no disrespect is meant, but how have you missed this legendary story over the past 52 years?! It's been all over the media for so long.

Now that you're familiar with it, you should check out these Beatles I've been hearing a little bit about. They've apparently written a couple of toe-tappers.

I was born in 1974 and was not watching media in my teens in the 80's. By the time I started paying attention to things other than girls, beer, sports, and friends, it was very late 90's and I never came across the story.

I did hear about the Air France hijacking in the 70's and I remember a bad/violent one in the mid 80's, but I guess I am very late to the game on Cooper.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I find it truly remarkable that this escaped your field of vision for so long! My comparison to the Beatles isn't so far off, either. In the world of unsolved crimes, perhaps only Jack the Ripper is more notorious and better known.

Well, I'm glad you managed to finally hear about it. It's been done to death, but if you're fresh to it and have interest, it can prove fascinating for a great amount of time.

[JollyElm]

There are a billion specials, investigations, etc., that have covered the case forever. Some even claim the found money on the bank of the Columbia River was planted there, because tides and air currents and flight paths (and not enough proper water damage to the bills) in no way make it possible that the bundle came from Danny Boy that night.

The wildest thing is, every new History Channel show presents suspects who the producers are 'sure' is the perpetrator, but it's a very rare event when they simply show pictures or videotape to the surviving passengers/crew members who interacted with him and ask, "Hey, was this the guy who did it?"


And there's this...

638. D.B. Recouper
Anyone attempting in vain to resell a card for a profit that he paid much too much for to begin with, just not comprehending that his money’s simply lost in the wind and it ain’t coming back.

[ALR-bishop]

Surely someone could restore these 😬