Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and that 2-hour
'car chase.' I'm ex-NYPD and here's the
411 on their 911
Posted By: Moritz55, 5/20/2023 10:39:45 AM
As an attorney and retired NYPD Inspector, I’ve been told some stories in my day. This one lands someplace between "Beowulf"and Monty Python. So let us now uncover these mysteries, hidden deep in the tale. As we’ve all heard by now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (wasn’t he recently banished from the realm or something?) are claiming that on Tuesday night, after leaving an event in Manhattan’s midtown, they were pursued by paparazzi in a "near catastrophic" car chase that went on for two hours.
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and that 2-hour
'car chase.' I'm ex-NYPD and here's the
411 on their 911 23 replies
'car chase.' I'm ex-NYPD and here's the
411 on their 911 23 replies
As an attorney and retired NYPD Inspector, I’ve been told some stories in my day. This one lands someplace between "Beowulf"and Monty Python. So let us now uncover these mysteries, hidden deep in the tale.
As we’ve all heard by now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (wasn’t he recently banished from the realm or something?) are claiming that on Tuesday night, after leaving an event in Manhattan’s midtown, they were pursued by paparazzi in a "near catastrophic" car chase that went on for two hours.
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Finally, a Solution to the Problem of
Intermittent Power Generation - the "Virtual
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Intermittent Power Generation - the "Virtual
Power Plant" 14 replies
As discussed here many, many times, the big problem with generating electricity from wind and solar sources is that they are intermittent. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they don’t work for days on end. The times when both wind and sun fail at the same time for multiple days tend to be concentrated in the very coldest days of the winter. This poses a huge problem for central planners’ dreams of “net zero” electricity. Try to solve the problem with grid-scale batteries, and suddenly you’re talking wildly unaffordable costs in the trillions of dollars.
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Harry and Meghan should be retitled Duke and Duchess of Smollett