LAPD Officer Dives into La Brea Tar Pit for Murder Case

[vienna]

This happened a little while back, but it is interesting. I know there are a few LEOs in Subsim; I doubt if any had to do what this officer had to in order to retrieve evidence...

For those unfamiliar with the La Brea Tar Pits, they are a large series of naturally occurring tar pools in the middle of a park in one of the most fasionable areas of Los Angeles. The pools are the site of various fossil digs and have produced a large number of fossil finds. The entire area of the park and beyond used to be an oil field in the early 1900s and tar, various noxious gases, and other ooze often bubbles to the suface of the streets and sidewalks in the area. Several years back, an accumulation of gasses from underground ignited in the basement of a clothing store and went off with a very loud explosion. Fortunately, and miraculously, no one was hurt, but there were plumes of flames burning from cracks in the sidewalk and streets as far as a block away.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/lapd-officer-dives-tar-murder-case/story?id=19350071

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[Stealhead]

This happened a little while back, but it is interesting. I know there are a few LEOs in Subsim; I doubt if any had to do what this officer had to in order to retrieve evidence...

For those unfamiliar with the La Brea Tar Pits, they are a large series of naturally occurring tar pools in the middle of a park in one of the most fasionable areas of Los Angeles. The pools are the site of various fossil digs and have produced a large number of fossil finds. The entire area of the park and beyond used to be an oil field in the early 1900s and tar, various noxious gases, and other ooze often bubbles to the suface of the streets and sidewalks in the area. Several years back, an accumulation of gasses from underground ignited in the basement of a clothing store and went off with a very loud explosion. Fortunately, and miraculously, no one was hurt, but there were plumes of flames burning from cracks in the sidewalk and streets as fara as a block away.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/lapd-officer-dives-tar-murder-case/story?id=19350071

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To help bring a murder to justice and to help bring some form of closure to the victims family an good law officer would go to such measures.

[Cybermat47]

To help bring a murder to justice and to help bring some form of closure to the victims family an good law officer would go to such measures.

Very true :yep:


He deserves a medal.

[Red October1984]

Salute this Officer! :salute: :salute:

[Platapus]

For a second, I thought this thread was about Hoffa. :D

[Stealhead]

For a second, I thought this thread was about Hoffa. :D

:Kaleun_Wink:

[Wolferz]

They can look for Hoffa until the cows come home and won't find him. He was probably melted into sludge in a vat of acid to destroy all forensic evidence.
Erased if you will.

[Stealhead]

Hoffa sleeps with the fishes.Still what if they did find something unexpected in one of those tar pits like the missing link or maybe they discover that Scientology is the true word or a back door to Area 51 maybe a hidden Illuminati base.If they found that Scientology was true I'd kick Tom Cruise in the gonads and become a heretic.

[Jimbuna]

To help bring a murder to justice and to help bring some form of closure to the victims family an good law officer would go to such measures.

Agreed :yep:

[vienna]

I would like to add the dangers of the Pits is not just the gases and the tar; the pit bottoms are very like quicksand and will grab, hold, and pull under anyone or anything that rests on the bottom. This officer could very easily have been stuck on the bottom and suffocated. The number of times anyone has intentionally dived into the main pit is extremely rare; even the people doing the adjacent fossil digs steer clear of the main pit. The effort of the LAPD to retrieve any evidence in the pit is almost unheard of and, as one other poster has noted, the officer in question does indeed deserve a medal or some other recognition for duty above and beyond...

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