You're not going to suck air into the engine through the E X H A U S T either.
That's right, so the rag would serve no purpose whatsoever to help the engine's isues.
Like you, I personally do not know Maura's expertise on automobiles. Nor his father or any people in their family tree. However, stuffing a tailpipe tells *me* only TWO things - 1) person wanted to commit suicide, and there was a hose accompanied to a rag - i.e., a hose from the tailpipe to a window, as seen in Client List, 1994. Otherwise, simply stuffing a rag onto the tailpipe would only slow Maura down. Maura's car would be trying its best to exhaust its exhaust to the atmosphere. Second would to throw everyone off. I, myself, might be a bit biased, but I cannot think of a reason to walk up to my own car's own exhaust pipe plugged up for any other reason other my own." From this I'm only guessing someone with mechanical aptitude was waiting for someone like Maura.
I haven't followed this case, and certainly do not know all the details. So bare with me. Is t thit known if she stopped anywhere near where she crashed? Like to get gas, or go to the restroom? Because if she did, I wonder if someone didn't put that rag in the tailpipe then. I don't think it was in the actual muffler. You would have needed a broom stick or something similar to push a rag through the tail pipe into the muffler.
From what little I know about vehicles, a rag in the tail pipe would affect it's performance. It doesn't get air from the tail pipe, but from the air filter on the motor, but what goes in, must come out, so the air leaves through the exhaust. I can't imagine someone driving like that. And I can't see any reasonable reason to put it in the tailpipe after it's crashed. If the tail pipe was hot, and releasing 'smoke' or condensation, then you'd burn yourself trying to stuff something into it.
I recently saw this one some TV show, and it just doesn't make sense. Maura's disappearance. I would have thought suicide, but then, why no one has found her body? Of course now, unless someone saw a skull, they probably wouldn't even know it's a person.
Such a bizarre case!
http://whitmanhansonexpress.com/ind...sing-part-ii-the-accident&catid=912&Itemid=83
Of all the ways to disable a car, this seems like a pretty futile method. A solid object in the exhaust is one thing, but a rag? Why not cut the brake lines? Sugar in the gas tank? Slash a tire or two? In that context this never really made sense to me.
Precisely. And this has been the source of so much of the frustration about the case. Now, all we have is the white noise of all the rumors and speculation that, over the years, have become the conventional wisdom. (There's been very little confirmation of any of these ideas that are being discussed today as if they were facts of the case.)
I have wondered, what if the purpose of the trip was to get an abortion? Maybe the death in the family excuse was just a cover for that. I haven't thought it through much beyond that though.
