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To: servantoftheservant

“No evidence because the freakin Mercedes exploded with such force the engine was sent 50 to 60 yards. No skid marks as the car turns 60 degrees into a tree....”

You see, this is where a basic knowledge of physics comes in handy. There’s a little something called “conservation of momentum”. So, when an engine that weighs say, 500 pounds is attached to a car traveling over 100 mph, and the car comes to a dead stop from hitting an immovable object, like a tree, that engine’s momentum doesn’t disappear. If the momentum is sufficient, the engine will break free from the car and then it will keep traveling on its merry way. No “explosion” is required.

Also, drunks that nod off, or people that have a seizure or medical emergency may not hit their brakes, so no skid marks is not necessarily unusual either. If you can’t eliminate the potential mundane explanations for these things, then you have no reasonable basis for leaping to some extraordinary explanation. That’s how sane people investigate things.

“Why won’t the LAPD make the Mercedes available for inspection or release the reports?”

Since when do police departments ever make evidence available for public inspection? Never heard of that. As for the reports, I don’t know that they are even finished investigating. Just because armchair sleuths on the internet think they have the case all figured out doesn’t mean the LAPD will work according to your timetable.


147 posted on 08/05/2013 7:34:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
There’s a little something called “conservation of momentum”. So, when an engine that weighs say, 500 pounds is attached to a car traveling over 100 mph, and the car comes to a dead stop from hitting an immovable object, like a tree, that engine’s momentum doesn’t disappear.

The engine was BEHIND the car, f**ktard. Try to keep up, or your BS just looks stupid.

148 posted on 08/11/2013 9:10:17 PM PDT by servantoftheservant
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