This just in: A second maid has hit the South Tower. Repeat: A second maid has hit the South Tower.

hyphenated-name-trifecta now in play

/oddly, my auto-spellcheck dictionary has 'perfecta' but not 'trifecta'

Lots of conspiracy derp in the article comments.

Cool, the United States has found a way to export paranoia and derp.

I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job. Especially considering the history of the person who stepped into the position when he was ran out of office. No Agenda?

shower_in_my_socks: FTA: ...the 911 call is placed by Adrian Branch, the hotel's security chief, more than an hour after staff first learned of the complaint of rape.

"Less than two minutes later, the footage from the two surveillance cameras shows Yearwood and an unidentified man walking from the security office to an adjacent area," the article claims.

"This is the same unidentified man who had accompanied Diallo to the security office at 12:52 p.m. There, the two men high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes."


If that's true, then that's incredibly suspicious, no? Tha sounds like a "we're gonna be rich!" celebration.

That just sounds too bogus to be true. They danced for three minutes? What were they doing, grinding each other?

shower_in_my_socks: FTA: ...the 911 call is placed by Adrian Branch, the hotel's security chief, more than an hour after staff first learned of the complaint of rape.

"Less than two minutes later, the footage from the two surveillance cameras shows Yearwood and an unidentified man walking from the security office to an adjacent area," the article claims.

"This is the same unidentified man who had accompanied Diallo to the security office at 12:52 p.m. There, the two men high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes."

If that's true, then that's incredibly suspicious, no? Tha sounds like a "we're gonna be rich!" celebration.

Yes, but (i) it's not true, (ii) there's no indication that it was at all related to DSK. It could well have been a "I just got a winning lottery ticket, we're gonna be rich!"

HiFiGuy: Cool, the United States has found a way to export paranoia and derp.

So you think we invented paranoia and derp? No. We just have our own flavor. France on the other hand are the professionals to our wanna be amateurs. They laugh at our conspiracy theories, and form their own that are much more complex.

/and weird

Lee Bruns: I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job. Especially considering the history of the person who stepped into the position when he was ran out of office. No Agenda?

too many negatives, not enough coffee.

Lee Bruns: I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job.

It's a bit tough, though... If his claim was that he had never met her, or done anything with her, then perhaps. But when his claim is "yeah, even though I was married, I had violent consensual sex with an unattractive 30-something immigrant maid and accidentally wrenched her shoulder hard enough to tear a ligament, but it was all totally consensual," then it gets a bit more suspicious. Like, what was the hit job? Even his story is bad enough.

... particularly when you add in the fact that he repeatedly changed his story to the police, first saying he'd never met the maid, then saying that he met her but nothing happened, then saying that she blew him. He's already lying to investigators, so what's the "hit"?

Lee Bruns: I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job. Especially considering the history of the person who stepped into the position when he was ran out of office. No Agenda?



In The Morning to you, too!

DAY ONE of this issue, the thought that crossed my mind: SET UP.

I think this is damage control spin, and that it was not a hit job. Think about it for a second. You are setting up a political hit job. Do you get a woman who is reasonably attractive, or do you go out and get one of the most butt ugly women in the city?

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Lee Bruns: I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job. Especially considering the history of the person who stepped into the position when he was ran out of office. No Agenda?

too many negatives, not enough coffee.

OOF! true, sorry about that.

Theaetetus: Lee Bruns: I don't think it takes all that much conspiracy tin-foil hattery to not view the whole thing as a hit-job.

It's a bit tough, though... If his claim was that he had never met her, or done anything with her, then perhaps. But when his claim is "yeah, even though I was married, I had violent consensual sex with an unattractive 30-something immigrant maid and accidentally wrenched her shoulder hard enough to tear a ligament, but it was all totally consensual," then it gets a bit more suspicious. Like, what was the hit job? Even his story is bad enough.

Stories don't mean a mountain of beans.

Serial killers are very good story tellers.

But I don't buy the 6 minutes part, he is pretty old and would have needed more prep time unless the maid was hired for her specialzed skillz and not looks.

I forgot about this and got excited for pictures of the hot Dominique McElligot

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Lots of conspiracy derp in the article comments.

I can believe in the conspiracy simply because I find it hard to believe any man would look at her and say "I have to rape her now!" That woman is a 5 hour drink a thon woman and especially not one that you try to fark in the morning when sober.