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From: Jasper
Date: 3/1/03
Time: 2:55:35 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.57.36
Kari,
I think I know the picture you’re talking about. It shows a close-up rear view with the right REAR tire a bout 9 inches away from the curb. You get the illusion that the vehicle is parked at an extreme angle because you cannot see that the right FRONT tire is about 6 inches away from the curb.
It’s like the “sawing-the-lady-in-half” trick where you see the woman’s head sticking out of one end of a box and her feet sticking out of the other end. When the magician cuts the box in half where YOUR MIND “sees” the woman’s body, you get the impression that she is being sawed in half. When you see the rear end stuck out that far without seeing the front, your mind automatically fills in the angle and gives you a much greater one than was actually there.
The police said that the rear end was out a foot farther than the front (Fuhrman said a foot , Gonzales said two feet“). They used words like “jutting out,” “sticking way out” and “extreme angle” to describe it. The photos showed a difference closer to three inches. Taking into consideration the width of the tire, the distance from centerline of the rear wheel to the centerline of the front wheel and the distance of each tire from the curb you get a 2-degree angle.
The width of the concrete apron gives you a constant frame of reference to take a proportional measure regardless of the foreshortening in the photos or the angles they were taken from. (see http://www.smartfellowspress.com/bronco_and_stick.htm ) The driveway is cropped out of most side view pictures of the entire Bronco so the only way you can tell how far north it was from the driveway is by looking at a photo used to show the Rockingham address on the curb. I used it to measure the distance from the rear of he Bronco to the cub. With these views I could project a an accurate plan view (top view) for the pictures in Iago and in the animations.
Now that I knew exactly were the vehicle was parked and how it was parked I could test a wide variety of scenarios to explain how it got there. The only scenario that fits that location without resort to a mind-boggling series of coincidences is O.J.’s. To get the Bronco closer to the curb without increasing the angle he would have had to go forward another foot and a half. To straighten in out he would have had to go forward an additional foot and a half or more. Where he parked it and the way he parked it for the reason he said he parked it was ideal. --Jasper