A couple of kids found a tattered old parachute in their Washington State backyard recently. The FBI thought it might be the one used by mystery hijacker D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a plane with $200,000 in twenties back in 1971. But his parachute was nylon, and the one found by the kids is silk.

It's the BPP's Ramble.

Parachute wasn't D.B. Cooper's/ Deformed beaks mean slow starvation for Pacific Northwest birds/ School deletes students' grades/ Marmosets in the slammer