Comments on: The Worst Parking Job in History

By: CK

CK — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:36:30 +0000

Cool, I grew up in Overland Park, on 97th St. I almost died in the little park they have there, I forget the name. It’s like a KC reunion here haha. Never went to the WWI museum though.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:24:33 +0000

Kate, I am from Overland Park (suburb of KC) and I agree, the WWI museum is absolutely great. It really does paint a facinating and truly graphic picture of the war. It is definitely worth a trip.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:02 +0000

kevin: That’s why I don’t pay much attention to conspiracy theorists. They make simple things too complicated and complicated things too simple, and they give me a headache. I’m inclined to believe that history, for the most part, got it right.

Besides, has there ever been an actual conspiracy that *someone* didn’t squeal on?

By: kate

kate — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:39:36 +0000

Kansas City has a great museum about WWI–it’s the only musuem dedicated solely to WWI in the U.S. They just redid it about a year and a half ago(I think by the same people who did the Holocaust Museum in D.C.). It’s well worth your time if you’re in the area.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:07:58 +0000

Conspiracy theorists will say that the war was intentionally started in order to build profit for the big business men. Not to mention get us started toward a one-world government.

By: ACute Angle

ACute Angle — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:42:36 +0000

Should I find it ironic that after scrolling down from this post my recaptcha came up as “Vienna included?”

By: Veljko

Veljko — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:32:39 +0000

Well, there is more (much more) in all of that then just parking incident… First of all, you have to remember general Oskar Potiorek, the chief of security of Archduke’s visit to Sarajevo. After that first assasination attempt, with motorcade of six open cars targeted with hand granade, he ordered one thing cruical to security – to driver to stop there (they were like sitting ducks for more then two minutes). And Gavrilo Princip tried to shoot him (the general was in a car with Archduke and his wife who were shot) because he was standing and giving directions to the driver – and missed him twice (with bullets hitting those on the back seat). So general Potiorek concluded that everyone was ok and ordered car to the residency – passing by the hospital on the way there with two royalties bleeding behind him…
And the assasins did ther part of incompetence – they were on the suicide task so Serbia could not be involved, and there were three of them on the mission, each with pistol, two handgranades and vial of cyanide (for that suicide part of the mission). But they met three other would be assasins and gave each of them a granate and then they’ve split cyanide into half dose packs. Enough to burn their mouth, not enough to halt the investigation.
There are at least dozen other misfortunes (or plans gone very very wrong) in that event that triggered the Great War – and all in less then two hours from the moment the motorcade reached the Miljacka river to the fatal shots in front of the City Hall…