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Here's some would be burglars who are not so gentlemanly; or smart :)

As people slowly start joining GB, you'll notice the links at the bottom... If anybody has a personal page they want to link to, let me or Lana know. As for the Cinth Degree Art Challenge -- anybody can contribute. Don't be intimidated by Lana's mad skills. ^_~

a Musical Interlude

The name D.B. Cooper made me think of the "Gary Cooper" line from this song. Here's the best version.

Another Famous Gentleman Burglar

D. B. Cooper (aka "Dan Cooper") is an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington. No conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts; the FBI believes he did not survive the jump. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump.
The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people. The Cooper case (code-named "Norjak" by the FBI) remains an unsolved mystery.

On March 24, 2008, the FBI announced that they were in possession of a parachute recovered from a field in northern Clark County, Washington, near the town of Amboy. A private property owner was in the process of making a road on the property with a bulldozer when the blade caught some cloth, and his children pulled the cloth until the canopy lines appeared. A comparison to the backup chute given to the hijacker (but never used) is planned. According to lead investigator Larry Carr, the discovered parachute is the right color (white), right size (26-foot canopy), and was found in the right location, but the FBI has yet to determine whether it is a Navy Backpack 6 - the exact kind used by Cooper. The FBI is seeking the assistance of parachute experts who might be able to confirm the plausibility that the chute belonged to Cooper

Our First Gentleman Burglar!