Everyone loves a conspiracy theory. You wouldn’t be reading this otherwise.
I have an Aussie mate who just knows things. He was the first one to conjecture that Princess Diana was ‘knocked off’. He thought the American intelligence services were responsible for the Twin Towers.
Now he thinks that the jumbo that crash landed at Heathrow was an assassination attempt on Gordon Brown. After all, Mr Brown (is that his real name?) was at the airport when it happened. And the car he was in was directly beneath the stricken aircraft as it just cleared the perimeter fence (apparently).
He rang and told me about his theory today. I was astounded but offered an explanation.
‘It could have been a bird flying into the engine’ I said.
‘Yes, but, there were no feathers’ he replied.
He’s got a point.
19/01/08 @ 02:05