{"id":6713,"date":"2024-10-14T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T02:19:45","slug":"first-years-roommate-bears-suspiciously-striking-resemblance-to-d-b-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/first-years-roommate-bears-suspiciously-striking-resemblance-to-d-b-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Year\u2019s Roommate Bears Suspiciously Striking Resemblance to D.B. Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

WOODLAWN \u2013 First-year Ralphie O\u2019Higgins moved into his new dorm room on Friday only to find that his roommate bore an uncanny resemblance to the notorious plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Higgins made the connection half an hour after meeting his roommate, who introduced himself as Brad Normal. \u201cWe were making small talk, just getting to know each other, when I thought, \u2018Gee, he sure looks an awful lot like D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, and obtained two hundred thousand dollars in cash before parachuting thirty minutes out from Seattle, never to be found or identified.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, O\u2019Higgins said, Normal doesn\u2019t look exactly the same as the man who appears in the composite sketch produced by the FBI in 1972. \u201cFor one thing, he\u2019s a fully-dimensional person rather than a shaded drawing. And then he\u2019s also older, obviously. But if you were to turn that drawing into a man, and then age the drawing-man up forty years, you\u2019d basically just get Brad.\u201d When it was put to him that Cooper\u2019s disappearance was fact fifty-three years ago, not forty, O\u2019Higgins said it\u2019s possible Normal \u201cexfoliates or something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

O\u2019Higgins\u2019 suspicions were further raised during a conversation about the current NFL season. \u201cI told him I thought the Seahawks were looking pretty good this year, and he just chuckled and said, \u2018No bird of the sky has anything on me, boy.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there was the moment when a gentle knock on the door prompted Normal to dive under his bed and scream \u201cThey\u2019ll never take me alive!\u201d while brandishing a hunting knife.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost guys I know wouldn\u2019t react like that,\u201d said O\u2019Higgins. \u201cAlso, he coughs a lot, but not like how you would cough, or me. More like a really old guy, like how a really old guy would cough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked for comment, Normal simply smiled and said, \u201cYou\u2019d like that, wouldn\u2019t you? You\u2019d like that an awful lot I bet. Admit it, you\u2019d like that. Wouldn\u2019t you like that? Well. I bet you would. I sure bet you\u2019d like that. You son of a bitch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O\u2019Higgins made the connection half an hour after meeting his roommate, who introduced himself as Brad Normal. \u201cWe were making small talk, just getting to know each other, when I thought, \u2018Gee, he sure looks an awful lot like D.B. Cooper, the unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, and obtained two hundred thousand dollars in cash before parachuting thirty minutes out from Seattle, never to be found or identified.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6867,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}