# Prisoner Provides Info re: Hoffa's Whereabouts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935 "2003-07-16T18:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/1 "2003-07-16T18:06:48Z")
Well, his corpse’s whereabouts, that is. According to this [article on FOXNews.com](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92100,00.html), they’re digging up a pool in Oakland, CA now. How cool will that be if they find him? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/2 "2003-07-16T18:12:28Z")
Cool? _Cool???_ Think of all the good jokes that would go wasted if they find him! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/3 "2003-07-16T18:37:10Z")
At first I thought Encino Man but it’s Oakland County, Michigan. Okay, someone fire off the first _can opener_ joke. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/4 "2003-07-16T18:44:41Z")
What do Jimmy Hoffa and Bill Clinton have in common? They’re both pushing leaves of grass. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/5 "2003-07-16T18:55:51Z")
Sorry, but that location sounds a little off the deep end. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/6 "2003-07-16T19:01:42Z")
Hey, waitaminnit! I thought he was a part of the Meadowlands complex. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/7 "2003-07-16T19:03:46Z")
There never was any concrete evidence. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/8 "2003-07-16T19:09:34Z")
Whoops, sorry about the CA part in my OP. ---
**Author:** ![chewbasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@chewbasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewbasta)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/9 "2003-07-16T19:10:00Z")
Smee teamster, (dirtbags) Unions are good, to keep the suits in check. Only the bastards are just as rotten, smee looking at lawsuit… Bastard was part of Kennedy/headshot ---
**Author:** ![sylphishone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@sylphishone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylphishone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/10 "2003-07-16T19:58:11Z")
EEEkkk! Sorry I didn’t see you started this one first. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/11 "2003-07-16T20:20:02Z")
**lieu** : Wouldn’t that have been funnier if you had said “Walt Whitman” instead of Clinton? 😉 Sure would end a lot of rumors. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/12 "2003-07-16T20:53:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > Cool? _Cool???_ Think of all the good jokes that would go wasted if they find him! Indeed. I’ve been claiming for a generation now that the Rapture’s already happened. How do I know: well, where’s Hoffa gone to? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/13 "2003-07-16T20:54:36Z")
**lieu** : Wouldn’t that have been funnier if you had said “Walt Whitman” instead of Clinton? 😉 Sure would end a lot of rumors. ---
**Author:** ![chewbasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@chewbasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewbasta)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/14 "2003-07-16T21:34:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Indeed. I’ve been claiming for a generation now that the Rapture’s already happened. How do I know: well, where’s Hoffa gone to? \*\* HELL. (rapture? smee ruptured something last night, not the colin though…) ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prisoner-provides-info-re-hoffas-whereabouts/188935/15 "2003-07-16T21:36:19Z")
The mystery lives on and the jokes may continue. The pool search turned up [nothing](http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030716_1699.html).