Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 12, 2020

That is a misleading explanation about cracking knuckles. It is actually low pressure gas bubbles that form when you bend the knuckle joint. When these bubbles collapse, not pop, it creates the sound.

how does one know a fed crime is committed in that area aside from the criminal(s)? law-abiding passersby I suppose

It doesn’t mean you can get away with it, it just means you won’t be tried by jury.

I don’t understand the knuckle cracking. If there’s a bubble of air in water, if it breaks you simply have two bubbles. If a bubble of air pops in a joint, where does it go? What separates the two bubbles? Why doesn’t it pop when the two parts reunite? I could understand a noise when one bone snaps into a depression in the opposing bone but the idea of an air bubble makes no sense to me …

I had a record player in my car in the 1960s before 8 track and cassettes were introduced. It was aftermarket, not OEM, from Philips I think.

Now, parents have to explain what records and record players were to the kids!!

Record players on the dashboard? I guess distracted driving is nothing new.

Other facts harder to believe: the cars had cigarette lighters and 8 tracks.

The cars that I remember with turntables were Chrysler products.

We were camping in the early 1960’s and a guy had a turntable in his car and was playing records. I thought that was the height of sophistication.

My grandfather had a ’57 Imperial with a turntable, you had to set the arm with so much tension to prevent skipping, that records would not last long at all.

You could forget listening to a record while driving in Puerto Rico, unless you don’t mine the song skipping about every 10 seconds.

is that were rap came from?

No one lives in my office, but if I burned the building down, you can bet your backside I’d end up on trial.

In 1961 my father bought a brand new Chevrolet Biscayne. That was the base model of the full size Chevy. 6 cylinder, manual 3 speed transmission – column shift, 4 door sedan. That was the last year for the 235 cubic inch motor. The oil filter, an in line add on unit, was an option. The heater was an option. The radio an option. I remember my parent’s ‘discussion’ about which one option they could afford. Mom won the heater. Dad had his buddy get a radio from the junk yard. A brand new car with an AM radio that didn’t fit the dashboard, sticking out. Ahh, the good old days!

Fact is, most Federal crimes in this country are committed with no trial by jury…

Ever hear of a “CHANGE OF VENUE”?

i had 7 diff cars in okc in the 50’s and never saw a player or ever heard of that option and was never offered the extra

Nearly 80,000 people were defendants in federal criminal cases in fiscal 2018, but just 2% of them went to trial.The overwhelming majority (90%) pleaded guilty instead, while the remaining 8% had their cases dismissed.

Don’t remember any of my family or friends having a record player in their cars.Guess we weren’t the “in crowd”.

A bus in Turkey (1964) was equipped with a record player, but it didn’t play well due to the roads of that era. Also, saw a phonograph where the turntable rotated in opposite direction and tone arm played from the bottom of the record.

I miss wing windows.

I’ve lived a pretty long life (so far) and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of record players in cars.

The sound of someone cracking their knuckles gives me the heebee-jeebees.

Pretty sure the cars with record players were Chrysler cars (Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler, DeSoto). I was in grade school and a friend’s father had one. Took special records running at 16 2/3 rpm. But that was a long time ago, and this is all IIRC.

Not unusual; so is the sound from your anus…

In the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham, their car, the Brown Bomber, had a record player.