What prevented the FBI from discovering the identity of the Unabomber?
Multiple things, including:Ted Kaczynski the man convicted of the Unabomber crimes was never arrested prior to his arrest in connection with the Unabomber activities - This means that his fingerprints were not in the “system” and could not be used to determine his identity.The Unabomber didn’t live near his targets - By committing his crimes some distance from his place of residence it was difficult for the authorities to detect a pattern or to locate the subject.Ted Kaczynski was/is a loner - Since he had no close friends or romantic partners, there was no one who could have easily tipped the authorities to him or his activities.The Unabomber’s choice of victims were random - While there was an overall pattern to his attacks, the majority of the Unabomber’s targets didn’t know one another and weren’t linked closely. That didn’t allow for the authorities to establish a useful profile to identify the suspect.Ted Kaczynski apparently undertook a strategy of misdirection to throw authorities off his trail - From using the initials “FC” in his bombs to make it appear that an organization was responsible instead of an individual to leaving notes that shifted the blame to others, Kaczynski was able to confuse the authorities for nearly two decades.
If the police broke down your door right now and placed you under arrest without telling you why, what would you assume the reason would be?
This question got me thinking about an incident that occurred one recent dark and terrible night on a winding back road. I'd made a horrible mistake in judgement, the worst part being, it involved a young boy.So what was this awful thing I did? I allowed a child to ride in my car without wearing his seat belt.My son asked if I could give one of his friends a ride home from the gym one night last week. He sat in the back seat. He chatted animatedly, non-stop, for the 45 minute ride in response to my ill-advised query into his interest in professional wrestling. No, not "real" wrestling... the other kind, exposed as being choreographed and now referred to as “sports entertainment”.When we finally arrived at his house, I realized too late he hadn't been wearing his seatbelt the entire time. Rather he had been leaning forward, excitedly imparting his encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling into my right ear as if no one had ever before asked his opinion.I don't know what concerned me more; the fact that he may not be taking in enough air or the sharp, stabbing pain that had developed in my temple. All the while my son sat giggling quietly in the passenger seat next to me, well aware of his friend's propensity for seizing any opportunity to expound on his passion. I learned all about Classie Freddie Blassie and Toots somebody, Brutus Beefcake and countless others. Did you know Hulk Hogan appeared in Rocky III despite his dad's objections? Well, I DO.I learned all about the 2002 lawsuit initiated by the World Wildlife Fund over the trademark of "WWF" (World Wrestling Federation) and how it affected sales and production of the action figures, video games and on and on and on. He mentioned the wrestler's new slogan became "Get the F Out". I remember thinking, “How very... apt. Don't tempt me kiddo.”I would have explained to the police how very remorseful I was over the danger this boy was in for nearly an hour that could have been so easily avoided. If only I'd noticed he wasn't sitting well back in his seat, strapped securely in, unable to hear me ask, "So, I understand you enjoy wrestling?", over the volume of the CD player.I hope they'd take pity on me and show some leniency.
Why aren't Jehovah's Witnesses allowed to practice yoga?
So I asked my mom to accompany me to a complimentary class of yoga from this studio that just opened by my house. She was completely terrified by the idea and reproached me something along the lines of 'how I could practice such things in the light of my bible knowledge and the christian upbringing she gave me.' I was a little confused, even when I was a Jehovah's Witness I never heard that we couldn't practice yoga. Now that I no longer attend and don't consider myself religious, christian, or whatever, I think it's even sillier the things the organization comes up with to keep people in place. But in all honesty and with no insult intended, can someone tell me why is abhorrent to god's eyes?????
Why are SAS not allowed to say they are special forces outside of work?
They are allowed to but don’t out of self interest. If they announce themselves as SAS they get one of several reactions.Local hard men try to pick a fight to prove how tough they are.Wannabes pester them with “what is it like” “how do I join”People dismiss them as braggarts and liars.The end result is that they prefer discrete anonymity. It is a standing joke in Hereford their home base that the way to tell an SAS man in a local pub is to look for the quiet man in the corner NOT claiming to be a member of the SAS.I had a friend who was vacationing in New York when the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in 1980. He found it impossible to buy a drink as as soon as people heard his accent they wanted to buy him a drink and say how great the SAS were. He told me about this when he got home and then said “God knows what they would have done if they found out that I am in the SAS!”.