D.B. Cooper
D.B. Cooper
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[[A stick person stands in front of a board with a bulleted list, using a pointer to indicate. The board reads:]]
D.B. Cooper
("Dan Cooper")
Hijacked a plane in the 1970s. On landing, demanded money and parachutes. Jumped from plane mid-flight and was never found.
-Vanished mysteriously with large amount of money
-Real age
name unknown
-Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("negotiable American currency")
-Fate unknown
[[Again the stick person gestures towards a board behind him which reads:]
Tommy Wiseau
("Johnny")
Wrote, directed, and starred in
The Room
, a film widely hailed as "The
Citizen Kane
of bad movies".
-Appeared mysteriously with large amount of money
-Colleague says he's much older than he claims.
-Ambiguous, possibly affected speaking style ("You are tearing me apart, Lisa!")
-Background unknown
[[An FBI sketch of Cooper appears side-by-side with a flickr photo by Al Pavangkana of Wiseau. The person is standing at the board, responding to someone in the audience, who is out of panel.]]
Audience member: This is the dumbest theory I've ever heard.
Stick figure: But it explains
everything!!
{{Title text: 'Why on Earth would someone commit air piracy just to finance a terrible movie decades later?' 'People are very strange these days.'}}
