[HN Gopher] Conversations with a hit man
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       Conversations with a hit man
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 132 points
       Date   : 2025-07-01 14:29 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | keiferski wrote:
       | Interesting story, worth reading if you're interested in crime
       | and corruption in the South circa 1960-1980. The atmosphere
       | reminded me of the first season of True Detective, also set in
       | Louisiana.
        
         | genewitch wrote:
         | As someone who lives here now, the corruption is still alive
         | and well. We're - the citizens - currently fighting against
         | having CO2 "pumped in via pipes" and injected into "geological
         | formations". Every citizen in the state gets their water from a
         | well. Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate
         | our water supply; but as the person at the meeting i went to on
         | Monday said, "When there's money involved the politicians stop
         | thinking about the citizens."
         | 
         | I don't know. I don't really like it here, but my kid's family
         | live here. And on the other side of the coin, where _isn 't_
         | there corruption?
        
           | akudha wrote:
           | If there are humans somewhere, that place is going to have
           | some level of corruption. I suppose a more practical way is
           | to look at _relative_ levels of corruption. Countries like
           | Singapore, Norway etc have lower levels of corruption (at
           | least according to various rankings)
        
       | RickJWagner wrote:
       | Nicely written, and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing, OP.
        
       | Communitivity wrote:
       | This brings back memories. I enjoyed following the travels
       | described in the She's a Flight Risk series. I never did quite
       | buy that it was a hoax either, though perhaps I am too gullible.
       | If Isabella V. was real, then I hope she's chilling on a tropical
       | beach in Buenos Aires, or somewhere else.
        
         | fipar wrote:
         | She'll need a lot of help from climate change before Buenos
         | Aires gets a tropical beach though :)
        
       | Neywiny wrote:
       | This was a good read. I'm not sure I'm fully appreciating its
       | role on this site specifically, but it's worth it nonetheless
        
       | garaetjjte wrote:
       | Eh, he's old man sitting in prison probably spinning tales to
       | anybody who will listen. He didn't tell them anything that wasn't
       | publicly available, and on details that they needed to dig for
       | into archives actually contradicts them ("Imagine that. Nobody's
       | ever seen him." about Rick, but he appeared before grand jury).
       | Neither do they explain why such apparently notorious criminal
       | would appear in the investigation only under alias in this case,
       | but not in the many others mentioned (and why nobody that
       | previously saw him as Rick noticed).
        
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