What Was Michael Hastings Working On?

[kpete]

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And when I hear about a journalist of Hastings' stature dying so young, the first question that pops into my head is not, "What had he worked on?" but "What was he working on?"

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Hastings was murdered by people who knew how to make it happen and certainly had the money, the technology and the motivation to pull it off. Don't look to the LAPD, the LA Coroner's Office and the LA Fire Department to give you any straight answers. They'll tell you after the car's been combed over and the autopsy results take weeks to come in that it was a tragic and needless accident that was caused when Hastings ran into a utility pole after traveling 100 mph down a suburban Hollywood side street.

Do not look for them to tell you why the transmission suddenly dropped out of the car about 50 yards from the impact site and that several people, including one woman, said they heard a sound like a bomb going off, one powerful enough to rattle their house and shake their windows. I've seen plenty of car accidents and heard others. No car striking a light pole is going to create a concussive envelope powerful enough to do that and a car hitting a solid object at any speed is going to result in a sickening crunching sound, not a boom like a bomb.

And it still wouldn't answer why Hastings, a responsible journalist, was traveling 100 mph in a residential neighborhood and why he thought it was a good idea to wrap the front end of his late model Mercedes around a light pole.


more, plus a theory:
http://www.welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-was-michael-hastings-working-on.html

[cali]

1. sigh. this is piece of unadulterated shit.

[treestar]

2. Whoever wrote that decided that it's murder and already has

determined that no evidence will be genuine to convince him or her otherwise.

[WovenGems]

3. Gotta love it

This site has high quality conspiracy theories. If there is even such a thing.

[deutsey]

4. I'm not able to see the video at work

Bookmarking to view it later.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Well, I'll have to quibble with this part:

"...and a car hitting a solid object at any speed is going to result in a sickening crunching sound, not a boom like a bomb."

I have actually experienced just that. A car going at a high rate of speed plowed right into a wall. It literally shook my house and it sounded exactly as if a bomb had gone off. The freakiest thing? The impact happened a quarter mile away. A couple of kids had stolen a car, taken it for a ride, then plowed it into a retaining wall -- air bags were deployed and the little shits were able to run away from the crash.

With that said, I would also be very interested in knowing what he was working on...

[AngryAmish]

8. Exactly right

I've been near and in a few accidents. Inside the car it is a crunch-like sound not dissimilar to a Nascar crash. OUtside it is a big boom!

But what was he working on?

[MineralMan]

6. Well, that's one way for a blogger to boost traffic.

I'm always curious about why people give any credence to random blogs on issues like this. The blogger actually knows nothing concrete about this, but insists that it is a murder. Now, it's possible that it was a murder, but there is no way to know that at this point. There is especially no way this blogger knows that.

I love the Internet, but I'm a little less fond of spreading random speculation bloggery around. It accomplishes nothing, is not news, and is merely the opinion of some person we don't know.

[Recursion]

7. Hmm.. You hear "young guy drives 100 mph and crashes into a tree" and think conspiracy, not bender

Interesting.

[Scurrilous]

9. A six pack?

[grantcart]

10. What an idiot

No car striking a light pole is going to create a concussive envelope powerful enough to do that and a car hitting a solid object at any speed is going to result in a sickening crunching sound, not a boom like a bomb.

Travelling at 100 mph and crashing into a solid object is going to create all kinds of sounds and most of them will sound, to the layman, like an explosion.

This conspiracy garbage at the lowest level.

[FSogol]

11. Unrec. CT nonsense.

[SidDithers]

12. Locking...

Consensus of Hosts is that the type of speculation presented here doesn't fit the SOP for General Discussion.

Please consider reposting in Creative Speculation.

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