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Car fire set off suspicions as crew fought it (Smith Tennesee License Scandal)
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| 15 Feb 2002
| By Bill Dries
Posted on 02/15/2002 1:35:24 PM PST by weegee
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To: weegee
In response to your puzzlement over exactly why so little national press coverage seems to have been devoted to this case, I'm also bamused by this and by another story that's getting the same neglect.
Day before yesterday, here in North Carolina, two armed Middle Eastern men driving an American compact car with Jersey plates tried to hijack an 18-wheeler fuel truck by forcing it off the road.
Admittedly a really stupid move, but nevertheless in line with this incident.
What I'm wondering is, if we are indeed at war, and we indeed have domestic terrorist cells operating here in the Homeland, why are the media being so hands-off about all of this?? Have they been asked to play things down so that we don't all go out and start shooting Arabs??
Admittedly the Olympics have been in full swing, and their (the national media's) contempt for the American people makes them doubt that we have the mental capacity to entertain more than one idea at a time, but STILL, if Japanese had tried to hijack a fuel truck, say, in May of 1942, the press would be all over it. And we are surely every bit as much at war as we were then.
Except that we don't appear to have any allies...
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posted on
02/15/2002 6:58:00 PM PST
by
maturin
To: maestro
"Uniforms",......police, fire, or emergency. This is JimBo's pop quiz, not yours!
Perhaps he'll say the lady needed some more headroom or ventilation or just wanted to experience life more fully so she opened her Acura Legend moon roof for a little open-air motoring. ;-)
To: Inge_CAV
If coming from Mississippi, she would have been traveling east.
Hwy 72 is the main east-west line across the top of Mississippi.
It moves north-west & south-east at Collierville, becoming Poplar Ave in Memphis and ends at the Mississippi River.
I have driven from Corinth to Memphis and visa-vesa far too many times.
To: Nita Nupress
Let's see. She see's police stopping her. She rolls down window, perps toss in lit cocktail.
She rolls window back up? I agree with you ,that dog ain't huntin'.
To: maturin
I found a USA Today story that listed these 2 and 2 other stories, mentioning that the FBI is "On the case!"
Investigators on overtime with the nation on alert
They are aware of these cases; they do agree that they warrant attention; and given the press' interest in "continuing" stories (keeps the readers/viewers coming back for more) it all just seems to be under reported (hey, there's even a car crash and those always make the nightly news).
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:04:41 PM PST
by
weegee
To: razorback-bert
I just looked at a Fayette county map and Hwy72 barely crosses the SouthWest tip. At this point the Hwy is in a NorthWest/SouthEast direction. She would be just over the Miss state line and into TN.
To: weegee
Thanks for the story Weegee:
Guess I ought to get out more...
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:10:32 PM PST
by
maturin
To: weegee
Maybe the press will report if she has family or friends in Miss.
To: Nita Nupress
Your#94)
All I want to know is what makes you assume a grown woman would roll her window down as she's being flagged down in the middle of the night."Uniforms",......police, fire, or emergency.
??...Uniforms...??
Mailman
Pizza Delivery
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Haz-Mat
Clown
Scuba
Bowling
Clergy
MILITARY
Sorry for the 'rant'.
:-)
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:14:01 PM PST
by
maestro
To: maturin
It's not your fault, there haven't been startling headlines in these stories.
I notice that I've missed some threads on this topic (some with 80 messages or more). There may soon be a list.
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:14:11 PM PST
by
weegee
To: weegee
If she wasn't taken out by her terrorist pals to protect their cover, then she was taken out by some american patriots in Tennessee. Choose your poison. She did.
To: Inge_CAV
I don't know that her family want their current whereabouts known by the public after what happened to her.
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:16:28 PM PST
by
weegee
To: weegee
That is a good point.
To: razorback-bert
Then maybe _jim is a BLOND! I'm ignoring you, by the way. ;-)
To: _Jim
Just heard a couple of people took a mysterious red residue off one of the rear seats...where was the Navy when this happened?
To: Inge_CAV
This is my first map posting and I couldn't get it to show up. Making a link to it instead. Fayette County,TN and Hwy72.
Click Here
To: Nita Nupress
I say they killed her then soaked the back seat with gasoline or some other fast burning liquid and then drove the car to a place where there could be witnesses. Then all they had to do is set the car in drive and start it rolling. Open the passenger side and roll out before it really starts moving.
To: Inge_CAV
Disregard! The link didn't work. Back to the drawing board.
To: Registered
She inhaled some of the flames leading the coroner to conclude that she was alive in the car.
Witnesses saw the backseat aflame while the car was moving.
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:48:50 PM PST
by
weegee
To: Inge_CAV
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posted on
02/15/2002 7:56:16 PM PST
by
weegee
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