Dear Friend and Reader,
I should be on a beach in Tijuana right now, sipping on a cleverly-made cocktail with some fresh pineapple, next to my hot male-to-female transsexual lover, DB CooperВ with $200,000 in ransom money. But unfortunately, I’m about 40 years too young.
Those of you who live in the Pacific Northwest may have heard of him: he’s the friendly hijacker who took off with $200,000 and a few parachutes on Nov. 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving. Cooper was the first hijacker to jump out of a plane, never to be seen again. Here’s the FBI’s page on him, with all the evidence they’ve gathered so far, and here’s an official news report from 1971 on Cooper.
Basically, Cooper was on a plane leaving Seattle when he handed a stewardess a note saying he had a bomb, and wanted $200,000 and four parachutes. He was very nice about the whole thing; when the planeВ landed at the airport to pick up the ransom,В he let all the passengers get off. While waiting for his money, Cooper asked that the stewardesses get a chance to sit down and eat their dinners (the hijacking occurred between 5 pm and 8:30 pm — dinner time.)