I remember my parents glued to the TV at the time and I, at 16, said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” And then there was the trial and my parents watched it every day and laughed at the Dancing Judge Itos on Leno and I said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” I mean yes, it’s a miscarriage of justice that he got let off when he was so obviously guilty, but that’s what happens when you can afford really expensive lawyers.
I have never understood why people are so obsessed with it. The only time I ever even think of it is when someone claims that “X is innocent because the court found him innocent” and I ask the person if that means OJ is innocent.
The OJ Simpson murder case carried serious implications for a number of major issues: race relations, police treatment of African-Americans, domestic violence, and the effects of money on the justice system.
I’d like to read the whole thing, because I would say the first two were more brought into the American consciousness by the L.A. riots. The other two- I can see domestic violence and I already mentioned the effects of money on the justice system.
In fact, I would say the fact that he was able to buy his way out of it says very little about the plight of the average black person in the justice system.
I lived in a mostly black neighborhood during this time, this was being looked at as Rodney king 2.0 and if he was guilty there were going to be riots, kinda hard to conceptionilize what it was like during that time period.
Wikipedia says the hatch was combat locked, but there is really no way that I can see to attack the hatch with bolt cutters. I suspect (and this is entirely speculation) that the true detail missing on Wikipedia may be that one of the hatches was locked from the outside with a padlock, which is a common way of securing other military vehicles when they are in depots. If the lock was cut and the hatch was not locked from the inside, that would be the way police got access.
Tanks have more than one hatch. (IIRC a M60A3 has two on the turret and a driver hatch in the hull). He was mentioned has having cut padlocks on a few tanks, which supports the supposition they were locked in that way.
Once inside, he may have combat locked the hatch he had broken into, but not combat locked the other hatches, which would still have padlocks on the outside.
Again, that’s all speculation but based on the way combat locks work I have trouble picturing police somehow cutting the door itself open.
Yeah, to secure a military vehicle in a lot, they use a regular padlock. Guarantee a key is lost every quarter, and the unit in charge has to go out and cut it to get access to their own vehicle. This guy came in with bolt cutters, and then used the combat lock on the door he entered in. The only possible way a policeman without heavy ordnance got in with boltcutter, and the thief used a combat lock, was if there was another door that was padlocked closed, but not combat locked.
Tldr; yeah, you can still steal a military vehicle if you can sneak into an army base with a pair of boltcutters. It sure as shit won't be loaded, and if you pick the wrong one it might not even start up because they all breakdown regularly, and aren't clearly marked as such.
His grandson crown prince Frederik will be King Frederik X the 14th of January, when he takes over after Queen Margrethe II on the 52nd anniversary of her crowning.
King Frederik X like his grandfathers king Christian X and king Frederik IX is a real badass, he is a Navy Seal, the toughest military education we have, and he has a degree in political science. He and his wife Mary who will be queen are very well liked in Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/…/Frederik,_Crown_Prince_of_Denm…
This makes so much more sense than my first impression that this photo was the successor. First thought was damn, he’s a grown ass man 70 years ago how old is he today??
The Crown Prince Frederik (linked above) who will be king Frederik X in a few days is 55.
The OP picture is of King Frederik IX died May 14th in 1972 aged 72, and his daughter became Queen of Denmark Margrethe II on that day.
The Queen is now passing on the reign to her son on the same date after having served as Queen for 52 years.
I don’t have a bellybutton, because I was born with my guts the wrong way around and they used my navel for the incision when they operated on it. So I do have a scar in the same place, but not a traditional one. You can imagine the kinds of moments when people notice, and it’s never when I’m in the mood to talk about it, of course.
Will someone draw the killdozer humping the tank on the freeway with cop cars in the background? Or am I going to have to spend more money to get that commissioned? I need this. Do ask why.
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