• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      70
      ·
      16 days ago

      Why would Russia want to rid their enemy of parasites? Is China plotting to build mass transit? Are we going to uncover a Cuban plot to fix our democracy?

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    79
    ·
    16 days ago

    rat-salute-2 To the USA’ian who’se about to sue the NYPD for millions for being falsely accused of being a CEO assassin.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    74
    ·
    16 days ago

    it’s been 48 hours and not only have they not ID’d the guy, they’ve begun using tools that will actively make the search harder. he’s probably already on a beach in vietnam, he’s safe. fucking incredible

    Death to America

    • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      ·
      16 days ago

      I both hate and love that liberals don’t think one of the largest countries on earth exists. Maybe he went to Communist Russia. A place that exists and is not made up my mashing together half rembered facts from old TV news.

      Props to them for thinking beaing mean to a rich person is a strike against America itself and can only be down by a component government. Then assuming Russia is compotent enough to plan and execute this perfectly.

    • it’s probably up for debate, but I legit think that is the move. NYC is stupid dense, way too much shit going on day to day. traveling is paper trails unless you’re on a bus, and even then there’s digital trails and timetables etc. it creates a grid with logic to work through for investigators.

      instead, I would think disappearing into a CCTV-devoid place with a thousand exits with tons of traffic in and out, changing clothes, dumping equipment, and exiting back into your routine ass life… that seems like an investigative nightmare. dumpsters full of garbage getting hauled away. after that, you’re just some guy with a head shaped like 10 million other guys.

      • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        47
        ·
        16 days ago

        I’ve never committed a crime with nearly this serious a punishment but just acting like you normally do is such a good strategy for not getting caught. Plus changing clothes and hair etc of course

      • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        26
        ·
        edit-2
        16 days ago

        This makes a lot of sense. After watching many (USian, of course) police car chases on TV over the years, including those “wildest police chases” specials (I know, I know), I only once saw someone get away - they pulled up to the entrance of a crowded indoor shopping mall and ran in. I also heard about another similar escape where they pulled into a giant parking structure, probably also crowded. Much better chance of disappearing in a crowd than isolated.

        • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          23
          ·
          16 days ago

          They don’t talk about the ones they lose. The way to run from the cops i have known to work is a) jam into a neighborhood. Park the car kill the lights and hope the cop passes you by and hide till you can sneak away. B) pull a crazy stunt and hop you make it and the cop doesn’t. C) used to be you could run by the airport and that woudl mess up the police chopper flight. And give you time to escape the cars.

          Those all mostly rely on luck. Bonus having a super fast motorcycle tends to work but will also likely kill you. I saw one where a guy had a super bright flashlight and blinded the cop. Really unless you are very lucky and fast you aren’t gonna do it. Realistically you only have a few minutes till they get a helicopter on you then you are fucked. If it is in your car you are fucked cause you can’t be faster than a radio and you would basically have to be an outlaw from that point.

          • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            17
            ·
            16 days ago

            I escaped the cops once after some bullshit vandalism. They were in a car, we saw them coming, we ran down an alley that was not passable by car, we got to the next street over, I flipped my jacket inside out and we split up and walked away. Nobody was caught. A lot lower stakes than this though.

  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    61
    ·
    16 days ago

    Whoever came up with the whole “blame literally anyone, but especially the Soviets/Russians” bit needs a prize. Its gotten literally over a century of use. Once you notice it, you see it fuckin’ everywhere. It goes beyond any historical level of “foreigners bad” because it really is just used for literally anything. Advanced xenophobia I guess.

    Maybe if libs broke out of it they could actually see results, but nope, RUSSIA, CHINA, CUBA! for any little thing, nope can’t be anything else, can’t be domestic, can’t be our allies, can’t even be random.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    61
    ·
    16 days ago

    Someone’s gonna go down for this and it ain’t gonna be the guy that did it.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      59
      ·
      16 days ago

      Me and my partner were just talking about this

      The desire to appease the wealthy will lead to a poor investigation and probably ruin some poor guy’s life

      Doesn’t help that every time they show pictures or video, everything looks color corrected to hell and back, nothing looks the same twice

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    53
    ·
    16 days ago

    Ok, they will not catch him and I know none of us are surprised, but is no one going to ask the NYPD why they already have an AI trained in phrenology? Guess at least they’ll have fun looking for a man with the sinister slanted nose bridge of a cowardly Saxon wheelwright or whatever their AI comes up with after training itself by reading every work ever written about studying the bone structure of the human head.