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What's even more interesting is Although I believe the foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Can

What's even more interesting is Although I believe the foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013.

mikeyouse 13y ago
I formatted your post a bit better so it's readable on mobile devices, but I agree. 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Since the police couldn't find a record of the alleged murder victim, I'm guessing that "redandwhite" and "friendlychemist" were the same person playing a con on DPR to get some cash.
- TheLegace 13y ago
  I have been trying to fix the formatting. Sorry about that. I just put in two spaces like the formatting guide said. But the whole thing ended being one line.
  - mikeyouse 13y ago
    No worries, the best way I've found to do it is to manually split the lines every 10 words or so. So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
    - DanBC 13y ago
      You could include an angle bracket. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Or an angle bracket, with an opening and closing asterisk. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" This means you don't need to include any line breaks.
      - nether 13y ago
        I've added (another) comment to the HN feature requests post asking for a real quote function, so that offtopic discussions like this can come to an end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074
        krapp 13y ago
        until then feel free to take this for a spin: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736
    - Jtsummers 13y ago
      If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs: So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. And your split-by-hand block quote: Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
- badclient 13y ago
  I'd venture a wild guess that DPR knew the two were the same :) He paid off friendlychemist "indirectly" but also communicated that he wouldn't mind extreme measures to make him disappear shall this occur again.
  - samstave 13y ago
    He may have also lied about having paid for a ht previously for $80k to bolster his bluff. EDIT: Or he was watching too much breaking bad and beginning to assume Heisenberg's characteristics after feeling invincible for earning $80MM
  - ssharp 13y ago
    If you keep reading, the document later details that DPR contacted this "redandwhite" person, who he contracted to kill the other person, regarding false identifications. That seems to add some doubt to your hypothesis, or at least complicates things.
  - calinet6 13y ago
    It appears to fit with his persona of being a ruthless pirate, and the language also fits the big talk idea. He was paying for the problem to disappear, and he knew that, but he talked it up for fun. However, he went too far into his fantasy, and not too smartly, and he'll pay for it.
zipppy 13y ago
If it was a 'clean' hit, why would there be record of a homicide? From what I've read, it sounds like a clean hit could/would be made to look like an accident.
- alan_cx 13y ago
  What, like a Merc driving in to a tree and weirdly blowing up?
  - 6d0debc071 13y ago
    The US gov produced a document a while back about assassinating people - though for the life of my I can't find my copy so it's possible there wasn't anything novel enough in there to be worth keeping it. I believe they recommended causing someone to fall from a high place. I'd imagine by grasping their ankles and then tipping them over the edge; though the precise methodology for the tripping was redacted in the version I saw.

mikeyouse 13y ago

I formatted your post a bit better so it's readable on mobile devices, but I agree. 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Since the police couldn't find a record of the alleged murder victim, I'm guessing that "redandwhite" and "friendlychemist" were the same person playing a con on DPR to get some cash.

TheLegace 13y ago
I have been trying to fix the formatting. Sorry about that. I just put in two spaces like the formatting guide said. But the whole thing ended being one line.
- mikeyouse 13y ago
  No worries, the best way I've found to do it is to manually split the lines every 10 words or so. So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
  - DanBC 13y ago
    You could include an angle bracket. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Or an angle bracket, with an opening and closing asterisk. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" This means you don't need to include any line breaks.
    - nether 13y ago
      I've added (another) comment to the HN feature requests post asking for a real quote function, so that offtopic discussions like this can come to an end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074
      - krapp 13y ago
        until then feel free to take this for a spin: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736
  - Jtsummers 13y ago
    If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs: So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. And your split-by-hand block quote: Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
badclient 13y ago
I'd venture a wild guess that DPR knew the two were the same :) He paid off friendlychemist "indirectly" but also communicated that he wouldn't mind extreme measures to make him disappear shall this occur again.
- samstave 13y ago
  He may have also lied about having paid for a ht previously for $80k to bolster his bluff. EDIT: Or he was watching too much breaking bad and beginning to assume Heisenberg's characteristics after feeling invincible for earning $80MM
- ssharp 13y ago
  If you keep reading, the document later details that DPR contacted this "redandwhite" person, who he contracted to kill the other person, regarding false identifications. That seems to add some doubt to your hypothesis, or at least complicates things.
- calinet6 13y ago
  It appears to fit with his persona of being a ruthless pirate, and the language also fits the big talk idea. He was paying for the problem to disappear, and he knew that, but he talked it up for fun. However, he went too far into his fantasy, and not too smartly, and he'll pay for it.

zipppy 13y ago

If it was a 'clean' hit, why would there be record of a homicide? From what I've read, it sounds like a clean hit could/would be made to look like an accident.

alan_cx 13y ago
What, like a Merc driving in to a tree and weirdly blowing up?
- 6d0debc071 13y ago
  The US gov produced a document a while back about assassinating people - though for the life of my I can't find my copy so it's possible there wasn't anything novel enough in there to be worth keeping it. I believe they recommended causing someone to fall from a high place. I'd imagine by grasping their ankles and then tipping them over the edge; though the precise methodology for the tripping was redacted in the version I saw.