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Ed Does anyone here believe that Princess Diana's car crash was suspicious?

Mojo said:
No conspiracy theory is ever too dumb for conspiracy theorists.
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On the other hand, most conspiracy theories are too dumb to be worth dragging out in pointless debate, long after they've been thoroughly debunked.

This one, for example.

The driver was determined to be driving distracted, under the influence, at excessive speed. Give the conspiracy theorists a head pat and send them on their way.
 
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Pacal said:
Were there not at least two separate inquiries into Diana's death and they all found no evidence of a conspiracy at all to kill her? They all took years, had hundreds of witnesses and found basically nada.
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Sure; but the ones in charge of the inquiries that found no evidence of conspiracy were the part of the conspiracy charged with finding no evidence of conspiracy. To understand CTist thinking, you have to first grasp the essential tautology at the heart of it, the idea that every effect can be attributed to the one cause.
 
Maybe it's 'cos my mum (same one) used to be a VAT inspector in Southport in the late 1970s / early 1980s and never actually rioted. I went to boarding school so can't definitively say she was not a rioter. I think I'm learning how to be a conspiracy theorist.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Seconded. And no discussion of who killed it.
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No discussion needed. It was obviously the Clintons. I mean, literally everyone I know says it was. I am honestly flabbergasted that you don't believe this.
And Ronald Reagan.
Oh, and origami.
CCTV as well.
Have a look at my Facebook profile
All of this relevant to this discussion. How can anyone deny that it is not?
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Well, I am currently waiting for a parcel to be delivered. Does that count?
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Only if you've made a fake parcel box out of bamboo and are sitting there holding a piece of cardboard with the Amazon parcel tracking page drawn on it. Oh, and it's someone else's parcel you're waiting for.


(By coincidence I'm listening to the audiobook of Dream Park at the moment)
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Only if you've made a fake parcel box out of bamboo and are sitting there holding a piece of cardboard with the Amazon parcel tracking page drawn on it. Oh, and it's someone else's parcel you're waiting for.


(By coincidence I'm listening to the audiobook of Dream Park at the moment)
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Not that much different from the real Amazon, where sometimes you get somebody else's parcel, or they get yours.
 
zooterkin said:
Not that much different from the real Amazon, where sometimes you get somebody else's parcel, or they get yours.
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There's the fun game where they leave your parcel at a random location within your general area, then send you a photo of it and a few square foot around it & you have to go find it. Oh, and hope you don't get caught on a security camera "stealing" your own parcel! I found myself playing that at about 11pm in the snow before Xmas.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
There's the fun game where they leave your parcel at a random location within your general area, then send you a photo of it and a few square foot around it & you have to go find it. Oh, and hope you don't get caught on a security camera "stealing" your own parcel! I found myself playing that at about 11pm in the snow before Xmas.
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I've luckily not had to participate in that game yet, but I have seen people playing it online, via the medium of Facebook (sometimes successfully).
 
zooterkin said:
I've luckily not had to participate in that game yet, but I have seen people playing it online, via the medium of Facebook (sometimes successfully).
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I've not tried the online version, just the LARP experience. I normally play split class Dog Walker/No-Really-I'm-Not-A-Thief.
m-
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It's not clear to me whether these large sums (was it 8,000 3 months in a row?) were cash deposits by Paul himself or payments from someone else. If they were considered potentially suspicious* then I'd expect the authorities to have follow up who paid them unless it was cash deposited by Paul himself.

I'm sure his job would have been an ideal position for a bit of drug dealing or pimping to wealthy clients, which would explain large amounts of cash. I'm less convinced the pampered guests at the Paris Ritz often find they have a craving for weapons. I'm not sure what lucrative thing he might have done as an "undercover operative". That sounds rather like a movie playing in your head, I'm afraid.

I've already asked but let's try again: Do you suppose that spies are especially highly paid?

* I vaguely remember there's a threshold amount where banks report on large cash payments or transfers. Might be $10,000 in the US, that sort of amount. If he was depositing multiple sums a bit less than that it might well be to avoid attracting attention.
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It's €10,000 per transaction in Ireland on foot of EU regulations, though those limits came in well after Diana's death.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
In a funny sort of way I actually quite like that attitude to minor dings. Admittedly I'm saying that after having someone pull up behind me and stop while I was in motion pulling out of a parking space where a van had parked next to me and blocked my line of sight, £2k for a single dent. Yes I was at fault, but I use that carpark several times a week and if I see someone reversing out of a space and know it's going to be hard for them to see me I hold back for five seconds dammit!
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Myself and my mother were accidentally rearended a good few years ago (before I had a licence so mam was driving). The other party readily admitted fault and it was a fairly minor ding (cracked rear bumper). My mother wanted it off the insurance because she could get it done for roughly €100. The other driver wanted to everything by the book so mam had to go through official dealer who decided the bumper needed replacing and charged north of €2,000.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Myself and my mother were accidentally rearended a good few years ago (before I had a licence so mam was driving). The other party readily admitted fault and it was a fairly minor ding (cracked rear bumper). My mother wanted it off the insurance because she could get it done for roughly €100. The other driver wanted to everything by the book so mam had to go through official dealer who decided the bumper needed replacing and charged north of €2,000.
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Yeah, I'd sooner have just taken care of it, I had an estimate of £300-£400, but the other driver came back (two months later) with a quote of £1200. On the very morning water started dripping through my living room ceiling...
 
Your mom won't have paid though, a rear end is the other drivers fault.

"Due care and attention"
 
Whilst I don't know for a fact that the insurance company paid up for the car wreck in the accident that killed Diana I do know car insurance and your various bumps is not the topic of this thread...
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