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Topic: O.J. SIMPSON --------Act 2
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stat
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posted 09-18-2007 08:32 PM
  
I have a feeling that OJ's new case will be a weeks and/or months long affair, so I thought I might start the blogging on a less profane note. As was the first case in '96(?), opinions should abound and I would be interested in yucking it up with you all over this tragic comedy----and I am hoping that Jim Sackett could pop in once in a while for inside commentary (inside Vegas the city of course, not inside Vegas PD) as well as all of you other pros.
AOL is reporting that it appears as though OJ were set up with the audio tape and a phony "tip" that a Vegas dealer of sports memorabilia was selling OJ's alleged stolen collectables. The "set up" is alleged to be driven by revenge for OJ's knifework from the 90's by either a sour business dealer, or a Goldman/Brown family vigileante of sorts. That's a stretch, but who knows? So, dummy and some gun toting friends barge into the dealer's room and make demands, restrain victims with threats from using the phone, and various other commands and threats. AOL is also reporting that OJ faces (next Wed) 10 felony charges---including kidnapping. This case has buzz ladies and gentleman. OJ is being held without bail. We all now all of those felony counts won't fly, but who knows? I have the next 2 weeks off. This is bad news for my wife as I won't be shaving, and I will be absorbing alot of mind-numbing media-----as well as a couple of books. The upside is there will be plenty of floor time with my kids and our 90 million toy cars, trucks, and action figures. yeehaw [This message has been edited by stat (edited 09-18-2007).] IP: Logged |
sackett
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posted 09-18-2007 11:12 PM
All,I have to be honest. I've been watching and whatever comes across the national news desk (personally, I think FOX is the best source), you'll get what you need on the OJ issue; 24/7. I don't know that I can, or want to fight the news junkies and media groupies in front of CCDC to get info on this idiot... especially after the judge did a screw up job in front of the cameras yesterday, acting like she owned the bailiff's... So "stat", while you sit around trying to grow a beard and look like me, I'll let you do the reporting for the masses. Just remember, this town is wierd relative to the "real" world. For example, smoking was recently banned inside any place that serves food (except casinos). Thanks to the "Libs" from California, NY and NJ who moved here and wanted to screw this place up, just like the one they left. Now they've targeted prostitution. What will I do with my extra time and money now!!!??? Sorry for the rant. But the crowd that believes they need to make "sin city" as messed up as the town they left should be shot or deported. They should not have the ability to funk up ths place to a version of the politically correct, green peace influenced garbage hole where "they" came from.... Jim IP: Logged |
stat
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posted 09-19-2007 06:11 AM
Uh, smoking is bannd in most places in Indiana too----Indiana being one of the most conservative states in the country. As for illegal prostitution----that is Hep C and B, TB, HIV, Herpes, Clemidia---just to name my favorites---isn't a local favorite anywhere in the world anymore. See, you are already telling us things about the town that we may or may not have known. I just thought I'd start a thread "Sackett" about OJ and his saga. Lighten up man. IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 09:04 AM
I thought 'what ever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas'.....I was watching the Today show this morning and the guy supposedly selling the 'stolen' merchandise was waffling real bad on all the questions and said the tape that was released had been doctored. He then said he has spoken to OJ three times and wouldn't divulge the contents of the conversations. My guess is one of the calls promised him $$$ if he kept his mouth shut. Stat - how would it be to have two weeks off.....have fun with your boys! Taylor IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 09:35 AM
Bless you Taylor! I am taking a break as my wife restarts her carrer as a counselor and I reenter school full time. I am currently cooking up a new part time contract for polygraphing the very worst sexually violent predators for DOC. I am not interested in traveling every day to test rated R guys with some XXX guys. Just XXX hopefully if my offer flies. If not, than I will be focusing on grad school for now, and mooching off my wife's hard work and our savings-----after 6 years of single income bread winning, it's a little scary. 10 minutes ago, my 3 year old son asked me if Spider Man ever has to go poops in his suit. I told him "of course, but only when he eats White Castle" chow [This message has been edited by stat (edited 09-19-2007).] IP: Logged |
Ted Todd
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posted 09-19-2007 10:21 AM
I can hear it now.....Johnny Cochran stands in front of a nearly silent courtroom and professes:"If you steal your own shit-then you must aquit!" Oh wait! Johhny's dead!.....sorry! Ted IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 10:36 AM
Sorry "stat"I'm just still ticked off at the price of housing out here and the influx of those who come here trying to change it... Have a great day/vacation... Jim IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 10:59 AM
Ted, now that was hilarious!So "Sackett," what does a 3bdr 2 bath home go for in a middle class hood? In Indy, it's between 130k to 180k. I imagine living in Vegas is like living in a smokey (valley -trapped polution) frying pan (the sun is 12 ft overhead in Summer.) I bet the winters are great though. Act 2
OJ's attorney will be wearing a JCPenny's $200 suit, rather than an Armani. IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 11:29 AM
Ted (et al),I went from a 3,300 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath with great room, etc on a 80/120 sq ft lot in KC, MO valued at $145K to a 1,800 sq ft 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath on a postage stamp lot (i.e., if I fell out of my second story window, I would hit the neighbor's house before the ground)in Las Vegas for $340K. Yeah! I'm p1$$ed off....and it's all the CA, NY and NJ invaders' fault!!! Jim P.S. But I have a great job that almost makes up for the B.S.! [This message has been edited by sackett (edited 09-19-2007).] IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 11:47 AM
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I am taking a break as my wife restarts her carrer as a counselor and I reenter school full time. I am currently cooking up a new part time contract for polygraphing the very worst sexually violent predators for DOC. I am not interested in traveling every day to test rated R guys with some XXX guys. Just XXX hopefully if my offer flies. If not, than I will be focusing on grad school for now, and mooching off my wife's hard work and our savings-----after 6 years of single income bread winning, it's a little scary.
Mr. mom-stat how's it feel to be a kept man? -------- That's great your getting back to school. We need some more real degrees around here. You'll have all kinds of fun learning about things like Poisson distributions and other fun statistical things that can be useful to predict the likelihood of rare events like spying (or deaths by horse-kicks in the prussian military).
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room."
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posted 09-19-2007 12:21 PM
I am "kept" alright. I have already gained 10 lbs this week. Realestate market sounds bad over there in LV Jim. Of course, realestate is sky high in every super city---i.e. Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, LA, NY. A Beaver Cleaver home in Dallas fetches half a mil these days. OJ made bail. wow, that was risky. IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 02:34 PM
I heard about OJ's bail.. I guess now he'll be on the golf courses of Florida looking for the "real" thieves...Jim P.S. "stat", I know in some towns you get what you pay for but, THIS IS SAND for crying out loud, not waterfront property on Lake Michigan..!!! LOL [This message has been edited by sackett (edited 09-19-2007).] IP: Logged |
stat
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posted 09-19-2007 02:47 PM
A close friend and fellow musician used to play guitar with James Brown in Vegas, after having lived there for years. I have to shut him up when he starts ranting about the schools, the polution, the gambling addicts, and lastly THE HEAT. I know better than to bitch about Indiana when I'm around him---lest he start in on Vegas rants. I always thought he was just personally unhappy (working for JB, the reputed biggest A!@ in showbusiness to work for)---but maybe he was right about sin city after all.Don't you just know OJ cheats and lies in golf. I wouldn't trust his score card, nor would I confront him on it either (lol.)He swings clubs like a drunk. IP: Logged |
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posted 09-19-2007 03:23 PM
"stat",yeah? But it's a DRY heat....... Jim IP: Logged |
Taylor
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posted 09-19-2007 07:17 PM
I know this won't top "If you steal your own shit-then you must aquit!"(LOL) but here it is.. I receive google alerts on any polygraph info on the net. I just received one today titled: Steal My Sh*t?: The OJ Quiz by Paul Slansky (I don't know who this guy is or where he is located) So here are the 10 trivia questions..(I copied/pasted from his post)..1) Complete O. J. Simpson's quote in an interview with Esquire: "Let's say I committed the crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because ___________________"
a) I was extremely provoked.
b) I loved her very much.
c) I'm a homicidal psychopath. 2) Who is Ruby Wax?
a) The restaurant owner that O. J. Simpson shook down for $500 after she refused him service because her other customers threatened to leave rather than dine in the same room with a man they believed to be an absurdly acquitted double murderer.
b) The Florida police officer who took the hysterical 911 call that 17-year-old Sydney Simpson placed after she had an argument with her father.
c) The BBC interviewer that O. J. Simpson, while mugging insanely for the camera, pretended to stab repeatedly with a banana. 3) In an interview with ESPN, who did O. J. Simpson say "went through similar things" to his own ordeal?
a) The Menendez brothers.
b) The Manson girls.
c) Jesus and Moses. 4) True or false? After lawyer F. Lee Bailey revealed that his client O. J. Simpson had failed a 1994 polygraph test, Simpson claimed to have never taken one but offered to do so on 60 Minutes or 20/20. 5) Who is Jeffrey Pattinson?
a) One of the police officers who searched O. J. Simpson's Florida home in connection with allegations of money laundering, drug dealing, and stealing satellite TV signals.
b) The driver who flicked his lights at O. J. Simpson's SUV as it cruised through a stop sign, prompting Simpson to leap out of his car, reach into the other car, and rip the man's sunglasses off, scratching his face in the process.
c) The lawyer who said that, for the right price, O. J. Simpson would pose for a tenth-anniversary photo shoot in front of the murder scene. 6) What did O. J. Simpson's girl friend Christie Prody do a month after breaking up with him and telling the Enquirer that he often described the murders while high on coke, that he was stalking her, and that she was afraid he was going to kill her?
a) She dyed her hair black and gained twenty pounds to make herself less recognizable to him.
b) She moved to New Zealand.
c) She got back together with him.
7) True or false? In a 2001 New Yorker profile of O. J. Simpson, his lawyer Yale Galanter said, "I envision a day when O.J. will again be a celebrity spokesman in the mainstream of commerce."
8) What was the name of the hidden-camera TV show O. J. Simpson was trying to sell in which he would play pranks on people?
a) Sliced.
b) Juiced.
c) Hacked. 9) On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the murders, to which shameless provider of national television time did O. J. Simpson say that he didn't really think there was such a thing as date rape, that the TV exposure Fred Goldman got as a result of his son's murder provided him with great career opportunities, and that he was mad at Nicole for not being around to help him raise his kids.
a) Fox News's Greta Van Susteren.
b) NBC's Katie Couric.
c) Court TV's Catherine Crier. 10) What did O. J. Simpson tell People magazine about women who heckle him in public?
a) "I see their husbands trying to get them to shut up, and I understand why men get into fights with women."
b) "I just laugh because I know it means they want me so bad they have to hide it even from themselves."
c) "They only do it because I murdered two people." ANSWERS
1) b, 2) c, 3) c, 4) False. He offered to take one on a pay-per-view TV special, 5) b, 6) c, 7) Laughably true, 8) b, 9) a, 10) a
And we think George is off his rocker...
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posted 09-19-2007 07:42 PM
Cool, a real guilty pleasure. Thanks Taylor. I will look for the BBC intrview (OJ mugging for the camera pretending to stab the interviewer with a banana)on UTube.
I, as did millions of Americans, followed the original trial closely----although I failed most of the above trivia questions. I remember feeling a sense of loss at the not guilty verdict. The racial strife didn't help, as a major portion of the country who are disenfranchised felt like the criminal justice system deserved to be made a fool of. The whole affair was painful for the entire country, most of all the Browns and Goldmans. This new case is diferent. Maybe there is a part of me that longs to have that happy ending where the bad guy gets his up the backside. Perhaps we are witnessing a very long awaited sequel, where the homicidal maniac ISN'T playing golf every day while we schlep day in and day out to earn a few bucks.
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posted 09-20-2007 01:11 PM
OK, with no inside knowledge, here's my prediction.The "victims" in this case become relunctant to testify they were actually in fear and the guns were not really pointed at them... OJ is found guilty of terroristic threats and unlawful detention and receives 2-4 years probation and immediately transfers his probation case to Florida where he serves out his time on the golf course... Jim IP: Logged |
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posted 09-20-2007 01:42 PM
Interesting Jim. Here's my prediction. OJ will suffer a health crisis of sorts----and his attorney will ask for continuance. OJ's co-defendents will place the full responsibility (conspiracy) at OJ's hands-----and they will probably lie about some things against OJ (they are criminals after all)----which will be the linchpin of OJ's upcoming phony dire illness. In Florida, you can't swing a dead cat around without hitting a crooked doctor.
With OJ's thieving, arsonist, rapist co-defendents, the case against him will strengthen----and OJ's only refuge will be a phony health crisis. The 2 most difficult medical emergencies to confirm by authorities will be an "at home" heart attack/arithmya or stroke (mini-stroke.)
OJ's strategy will be to stall, stall, and stall some more. [This message has been edited by stat (edited 09-20-2007).] [This message has been edited by stat (edited 09-20-2007).] IP: Logged |
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posted 09-24-2007 10:36 AM
I think it was pretty smart to lower OJ's bail and let him out. The guy can only do one thing......screw up again! In addition to all of the tabloids following him around, I suspect there are some law enforcement folks close by as well.Mr. Sackett, any thoughts?? Ted IP: Logged |
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posted 09-24-2007 05:32 PM
I agree Ted,let the press and the gang of goons act as Nevada's parole depart. Saves money and get's his dumb a$$ out of Nevada. Smart move, I mean common', where in the world can he go without notice? He couldn't even shake down a guy inside a cheezy, off strip hotel room in Vegas for goodness sake... Jim IP: Logged |
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posted 09-24-2007 05:54 PM
True, with OJ's very large head, he is unable to avoid recognition. OJ's head is sooooo big... how big is it?
OJ's head is so big he is a mustache away from affecting the tide.
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posted 10-04-2008 09:41 AM
GUILTY! On all 12 counts! Of course, this finding is wrong and unduly influenced by racism and a "let's get even" mentality by the jury...I predict 6-13 years, out in 6, interstate compact to Florida to live out his days; unless of course, he get's shanked in High Desert Prison... Jim IP: Logged | |
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