And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen in a lovely publicity pic for π³πππ πΎπππ π»ππ π·πππππ πΊπππππππ (1963).
Her blood alcohol when the body was recovered was 0.14, well beyond legally drunk, at the time of death. She also had a narcotic painkiller and an anti-nausea drug in her system, both of which increase the effects of alcohol. It was dark, around midnight, in November, when the average ocean temperature off Catalina is 56°, and the night she died, it was the coldest day on record for the month, right behind three days of cold rainy weather, with no moon after 7:30 P.M., a moderate (10MPH or so) easterly breeze, light rain and ice pellets, and the low temp recorded that night was 47°.
Add to her being drunk the fact that she couldn't swim, for her entire life, and was, in fact, deathly afraid of the water even on a bright, clear, sunny day.
She was lightly dressed, and her body was found a mile away from the boat 8 hours later, with the boat's inflatable dinghy beached nearby. She was drunk, fell off her boat, and died of hypothermia and drowning. Survival time in 50° water is less than 6 hours, with death possible in as little as 1 hour, even for a young fit military-aged male who's stone-cold sober and can swim. For a drunk middle-aged non-swimming woman of slight stature (5'0" and 124#), considerably less.
All the other nonsense is simply rampant speculation backed up by nothing but tabloid rumors looking to sell TV shows and books. I not only know this because of the four mouseclicks it took to retrieve the info, but because I've lived in So Cal my entire life, and had to suffer through all the bullsh*t radio and TV news coverage of this non-event and the aftermath for the months it was on the news, daily, and was harder to get rid of than syphilis, or the Kardashians (which amounts to about the same thing, really).
Hers is about the least puzzling cause of death since the WTC fell on 2,753 people on 9/11.
So, brave anonymous crap-talker, did you actually want to talk about the weather, or were you just making chit chat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8YfLyYng
But you do take an enormous amount of space to tell us all how much you do not know what you are talking about, don't you? Change your name to loquacious, dick.
Not Anonymous, as you just proved. Consult a dictionary, and figure out where you went off the cliff. "anonymous" and "oxymoron" should be your first two searches.
Again, what is your real name, Anonymous Aesop? Even my 10 yr old grandson knows the measure of a man is taking responsibility for his words and actions. Isn't it time you grew up? ~Mike Hall~
After retiring, that coroner wrote a book about some of his most famous cases. He thought that, due to the current at the mooring site, she had to have hung on the edge of the inflatable and pushed it toward the shore by kicking, or they both would have ended up elsewhere. She almost made it. She couldn't pull herself into the inflatable, and there was no way to climb up the side of the yacht except by the anchor line. Why boats don't have a fixed ladder to get out of the water has always been a puzzle to me. She's not the only one to drown for lack of a ladder.
Grinning because he is feeling that fine rack mashed into his back?
ReplyDeleteNot the rack in the back. It's the sharp nail on the wiggling finger deep in the left ear.
Deleteanonymous, bogside, one for the other is totally worth it.
DeleteStunningly beautiful. Her death (or rather, murder, in my opinion) was tragic. And who wouldn't smile with her wrapped around you.
ReplyDeleteNatalie Wood was a beautiful woman who got mixed up with the wrong men.
ReplyDeleteWalken knows.
ReplyDeletethat's the rumor.
DeleteThe medical examiner was an incompetent publicity hound who made stuff up.
ReplyDeleteThe past is another country.
ReplyDeleteAnd falling drunk into 50° water doesn't require murder. Just intoxication. Mystery solved.
Mystery solved, everyone!!!
DeleteThe know-it-all has spoken!!
Her blood alcohol when the body was recovered was 0.14, well beyond legally drunk, at the time of death. She also had a narcotic painkiller and an anti-nausea drug in her system, both of which increase the effects of alcohol. It was dark, around midnight, in November, when the average ocean temperature off Catalina is 56°, and the night she died, it was the coldest day on record for the month, right behind three days of cold rainy weather, with no moon after 7:30 P.M., a moderate (10MPH or so) easterly breeze, light rain and ice pellets, and the low temp recorded that night was 47°.
DeleteAdd to her being drunk the fact that she couldn't swim, for her entire life, and was, in fact, deathly afraid of the water even on a bright, clear, sunny day.
She was lightly dressed, and her body was found a mile away from the boat 8 hours later, with the boat's inflatable dinghy beached nearby. She was drunk, fell off her boat, and died of hypothermia and drowning.
Survival time in 50° water is less than 6 hours, with death possible in as little as 1 hour, even for a young fit military-aged male who's stone-cold sober and can swim. For a drunk middle-aged non-swimming woman of slight stature (5'0" and 124#), considerably less.
All the other nonsense is simply rampant speculation backed up by nothing but tabloid rumors looking to sell TV shows and books.
I not only know this because of the four mouseclicks it took to retrieve the info, but because I've lived in So Cal my entire life, and had to suffer through all the bullsh*t radio and TV news coverage of this non-event and the aftermath for the months it was on the news, daily, and was harder to get rid of than syphilis, or the Kardashians (which amounts to about the same thing, really).
Hers is about the least puzzling cause of death since the WTC fell on 2,753 people on 9/11.
So, brave anonymous crap-talker, did you actually want to talk about the weather, or were you just making chit chat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8YfLyYng
And...I guess Ukraine is still winning, you dumbass? And, talk about anonymous, is your name Aesop? Uh...no.
DeleteBut you do take an enormous amount of space to tell us all how much you do not know what you are talking about, don't you? Change your name to loquacious, dick.
DeleteGood irrelevant comebacks, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.
DeleteI'd be ashamed to sign those replies too.
Well, what is your real name, Anonymous Aesop?
Delete~Mike Hall~
Not Anonymous, as you just proved. Consult a dictionary, and figure out where you went off the cliff. "anonymous" and "oxymoron" should be your first two searches.
DeleteAgain, what is your real name, Anonymous Aesop? Even my 10 yr old grandson knows the measure of a man is taking responsibility for his words and actions. Isn't it time you grew up?
Delete~Mike Hall~
Yet more Aeslop's Fables?
DeleteI was just a kid in '63 but I knew that was one pretty lady.
ReplyDeleteshe sure looks alot like Sally Fields
ReplyDeleteTwo of the classiest hansome people to ever grace the screen.
ReplyDeleteThe story of his watch is outstanding.
Bear Claw
I know she has makeup on in this photo, but was a very pretty lady.
ReplyDeleteAfter retiring, that coroner wrote a book about some of his most famous cases. He thought that, due to the current at the mooring site, she had to have hung on the edge of the inflatable and pushed it toward the shore by kicking, or they both would have ended up elsewhere. She almost made it. She couldn't pull herself into the inflatable, and there was no way to climb up the side of the yacht except by the anchor line.
ReplyDeleteWhy boats don't have a fixed ladder to get out of the water has always been a puzzle to me. She's not the only one to drown for lack of a ladder.