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| Journalist who snakebit McChrystal dies at 33 |
| 2013-06-20 |
| Problems with the story of the fiery crash of Hastings' Mercedes Benz abound, but ultimately, the story appears to be what it appears to be: A man in his 30s, possibly drunk wraps his car around a tree in a posh LA neighborhood. See here. The comments are somewhat amusing. Michael Hastings, the journalist best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone story that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, died Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, his employers at BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone announced. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #22 @Ptah +1 |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-06-20 22:22 |
| #21 Meanwhile - while suicide with a gun is rolled up into the national gun kill numbers, suicide with vehicle is never considered unless there's some obvious note left behind. It's hard to tag and for insurance and 'family' distress issues is often just written off to other causes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-20 17:04 |
| #20 hmmm. what was a journalist doing with a Mercedes? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-06-20 14:54 |
| #19 ...then again, I guess an ejected engine may end up in someone else's lap. EC, thats good. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-06-20 14:13 |
| #18 I like that one: azmtbkr81 NSA operatives hacked the carÂ’s computer causing it to accelerate out of control and crash into a tree. Meanwhile Dick Cheney, piloting a stealth drone from his secret lair in the mountains of Wyoming, launched a Hellfire missile ensuring that the poor subversive journalist went out in a blaze of glory. The Hellfire also served the secondary purpose of obliterating any evidence of government involvement. Perfect. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2013-06-20 14:05 |
| #17 Agreed, seen better things than when the engine stops but the rest of the vehicle keeps going. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-06-20 13:53 |
| #16 No, Doc, you want the engine going away, far away, not in your lap. Pappy, the goat is key, I repeat the goat is Key. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-06-20 13:00 |
| #15 I know Mercedes is really big on safety, but ejecting the engine and transmission in a crash is a bit much... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-06-20 12:39 |
| #14 once the FBI drone data has been edited and released. FIFY |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-06-20 12:27 |
| #13 John: All that 'megadata' can be had, along with the live streaming video, once the FBI drone data is released. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-20 11:45 |
| #12 It was reported Hastings had been recently talking with Wikileaks and he thought he was being investigated by the FBI. 100 mph in 35 mph zone is asking for trouble. Would like to know more. What the air-bag module has on it? Speed, deceleration, hard braking, etc. Any vehicle component failures? Witnesses are not usually reliable judges of speed unless they are following at the same speed or have radar data. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-20 11:42 |
| #11 100 mph on a narrow residential road with a 35mph speed limit. At 0415. And with witnesses. Note the goat. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-06-20 11:32 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-20 11:32 |
| #9 As is say, it isn't paranoia if all that is going on is really true. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-20 11:31 |
| #8 JQC, are you paranoid enough? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-06-20 10:48 |
| #7 If I were paranoid? Wait a minute, I am paranoid. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-20 10:33 |
| #6 his most recent story Note to self: "Don't be paranoid---there is no connection." |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-20 10:19 |
| #5 Before getting too "happy dance" about this, his most recent story: Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-20 08:52 |
| #4 Baruth is crazy and funny: Nowhere in there does it say anything about “then this sucker is going to jackknife out of control and char you like a steak ordered by a high-school dropout at Ponderosa”. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-06-20 08:24 |
| #3 I'll have a double 'Sympathy Meter' Ricky, no twist. Do you have any chips or nuts ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-20 05:32 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-06-20 01:45 |
| #1 karma ?? |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2013-06-20 00:51 |