Even my almost 30 year old Mercedes is built like a tank and runs fine. I would imagine a late model M-B is even safer. If he'd been in a Chevy or Suzuki, I might buy some of this.
Posted on 06/21/2013 12:35:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is a distasteful subject to write about. But Los Angeles talk radio is obsessed with the death of Michael Hastings and the insinuations that somehow he was killed by unknown forces attempting to silence him.
Yesterday afternoon, I drove to the scene of the car crash. Several bouquets of flowers ringed a tree. I saw candles and notes. It's very sad.
Trutherism (the catch-all term for instant conspiracies based on extreme mistrust and/or unfounded supposition) makes me angry.
I would much rather have Hastings' life work be the subject of discussion and criticism than to hear L.A. radio jocks gawk at Hastings' personal history and demons.
Maybe it's a little too personal for me.
1. Cars don't often crash and burst into flames. Especially not cars that are new and well-made, not Mercedes, and especially not cars that are designed to eject their engine blocks when a major compression is detected. So the fact that Hastings' car burst into the flames on impact is unusual. But it is not impossible. It happens.
2. If you were attempting to engineer a death by making a car burst into flames, you would probably not know a heck of a lot about how hard it is to rig a car to explode like this, absent propellants and ordnance. (There were none detected at the scene.) If you wanted to make a homicide look like a suicide, you wouldn't rig a car to explode on impact precisely because it is out of the norm and doesn't often happen. It draws attention.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
I wouldn’t be surprised if this Fascist Regime had him killed.
I’m past the “surprise” part of anything this Fascist Regime does.
There are those who think people are conspiracy theorists on Benghazi, even when FACTS AND TESTIMONY backs them up.
And what purpose does it serve to have an ejecting engine? Not sure what the design in that is for. Maybe some Freepers can help me?
I think deaths like Breitbart’s and this one are to send a message loud and clear. But hey. I’m just a conspiracy nut. I am. It’s also convenient that it happened in LA. The medical examiner’s office has already been silenced.
It’s past time to hunker down into survival mode and get close to God.
Energy dispersion. The mass of the engine is great. Remove it form the car and you reduce the force of the impact significantly. Good thing unless you are a passerby and the engine hits you. F-ma
Why WOULDN'T they kill this guy?
Hastings was “breitbart-ed” IMO.
“Trutherism” is not a real word. One of the techniques that these paid liars use is to invent a word or short phrase that can dismiss those they are trying to discredit through name calling.
The article is full of lies.
The circumstances of the crash were highly unusual and not consistent with a one car crash.
The following describes eyewitness accounts of the crash:
A witness said his car “suddenly jackknifed” before crossing the median and hitting a tree, causing a ferocious explosion that reportedly threw the engine block of the brand new Mercedes Hastings was driving 30 or 40 yards from the car. Mercedes engine blocks typically weigh between 290 and 540 pounds. It would take tremendous speed or force to throw one nearly half the length of a football field. “It sounded like a bomb went off in the middle of the night,” another witness told the TV station. “The house shook, my windows were rattling.”
Something is wrong here. Why is the author lying and saying not to look at the facts?
And they have the people that are experts in making murder look like an accident. At this point in time if the Government or the media [sameo, sameo] tells you that water is wet, don’t believe it until you check yourself.
Even my almost 30 year old Mercedes is built like a tank and runs fine. I would imagine a late model M-B is even safer. If he'd been in a Chevy or Suzuki, I might buy some of this.
A one car crash, late at night, at a high rate of speed.
Were their drugs or alcohol in body or a history of alcohol and drug abuse?
Was there a history of recklessness and in this case recklessness bordering on a suicidal death wish.
Was there a mechanical failure, if so that feeds conspiracy theories more than discounts it.
Somebody wished him dead. They got their wish.
It was done quite professionally. Amateurs leaves clues at the crime scene.
The crime scene was clean of clues but heavy on the questions which is always the mark of professional job well done.
I want a qoute from Merceedes that this car was engineered to eject the engine and transmission! And exactly how that system works! I would assume other drivers would be in peril from an engine being propelled 200 yards at a high rate of speed.
The only thing I know for sure right now is He was traveling in excess of 100 mph.
We need to get the Mercedes engineers in on this one.
I would guess that the heavy engine block thrusting into the passenger cabin is one of the most lethal aspects of a head-on collision. Ejecting it might make crumple zones more effective.
Yeah, a fact curiously not in evidence, yet appearing in the article. Hmmm.
"As more details come out the “Boom!” and fire happened before the car hit the tree." ...says, brityank.
HF
Can you describe for the us the expertise that enables you to make this magisterial judgment?
Amateurs leave clues.
Professionals leave unanswerable questions.
That is called common sense.
Common sense was the expertise on which this Free Republic was built.
The absence of that expertise is that upon which this Free Republic will be lost.
I do not need no stinkin' experts to tell me that 2+2=5.
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