Oh yeah electroshock therapy is actually something we still do. I've worked at two places actually who do it. They put the patient under full medical sedation like they would for surgery (they even have a little mini recovery and PACU in the ECT suite). In fact the only main difference between an ECT suite and an OR suite is that the actual procedure room is just clean, not fully sterile since they're not actually opening the person. On the floor we have to observe all the same pre-op and post-op precautions, like NPO (nothing to eat or drink) after midnight, and changing them into clean clothes in the morning. We don't have to do a chlorhexidine scrub (again not sterile) but showers are encouraged (sometimes the patient is too sick to tolerate even a bed bath though). Our only special precaution is that we have to stop all anti seizure meds the night before because the whole point is to induce a seizure.

They just put electrodes on kinda like they would with an external defibrillator to stop an abnormal heart rhythm (except obvs they put them on the head, not the chest). Then induce a controlled seizure that lasts like 60 seconds or so, then use medications to stop the seizure if necessary. In fact it's almost exactly like a heart defibrillator in that we're turning their brain off and on again to get it to work! Funny that that works with organs like it does with computers! 😅

DB Cooper has been the topic of Drop Zone conversations for years. The jump he made is perfectly doable by anyone trained in the practical application of aerodynamic decelerators. Albeit it was an extremely risky jump as I'll detail below.

As a matter of fact I've gone out the air stairs of a 727. It was at the 1999 at the World Freefall Convention in Quincy, IL. It was fun, but a 727 on jump run is doing about 180kias when normal skydiving operations are around 90kias. It won't injure you, but it feels like you're getting hit by a ton of bricks. So not the funnest jump and I only did one, to say I did it. Going out the bomb bay of a B-17 (Nine-O-Nines RIP) was a lot more fun.

The general consensus in the skydiving community is that Cooper lived, but was probably injured. He jumped a round parachute, at night, in poor weather conditions. Even with modern gear that kind jump is extremely risky. Round parachutes go down where the wind blows them after exit. There is a little bit of control with a round, but nothing like a ram air chute.

He probably had a vehicle stashed close to the drop zone and was able to get to it with most of the money. If I recall correctly some of the money was discovered on a creek or riverbank some time later. He probably lived the rest of his life in secure obscurity... Or he might even still be alive.

Only he knows for sure.

And how they also fucked up the investigation by future proofing it for him. Dan Cooper (that's what he wrote his name as) smoked several cigarettes and kept the butts on the plane, and he had several drinks and... they just threw away the stir sticks he used and also the cigarette butts, hence foiling any attempts to get dna down the line.

Some cases from the 70s and even 60s were solved because some DNA survived on evidence collected. But that was impossible for this case since none were saved.

DB Cooper was Loki, they revealed it in Season 2

Coming to the realization that proper use of free will really does open up so much in life is such a profound benefit.

You can just do shit.

It was obviously Tommy Wiseau, how else did he get the money to make his hit movie The Room.

I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000! Thank you, friend! <3

No body found means that he’s still up there somewhere

The leading theory is he was a CIA operative, because jumping from the rear stairs like that was something they did in the field.

And the leading theory was he survived, because there was a copycat crime, which worked until the guy was caught on the ground, with the cash.

It just gets crazier the deeper you go.

"You are, without doubt, the worst skyjacker I have ever heard of."

Doing a DB Pooper to celebrate

Damn, I saw some guy on YouTube last year going through the parachutes harnesses in a barn of a deceased suspect (with permission) and he found the chute while talking to the camera. Was just turning over over on vest at a time in a box and stopped and said "this is it, we found it."

I think the tape said they turned it over to the FBI? Anyone with more info?

Found the clip:

https://youtu.be/aq5nf9wsuuk?t=373

Just think of all the crazy shit you might be able to pull off if you had cajones the size of cantaloupes.

Loki