Why didn't the authorities just simply ditch and destroy the TSBD rods?
Agent Howlett may well have done just that, at least eventually.
But first, the problem posed by whoever had found the rods in the Depository (two curtain rods, marked with the digits 2-7-5 and 2-7-6) needed to be addressed. This person, if they kicked up a fuss and went public with their description of the two curtain rods they had found, could destroy trust in the official claim that Mr Oswald had not brought curtain rods to work.
And so a scheme to----------------
a) generate paperwork that would satisfy this witness that the curtain rods had been thoroughly examined and shown not to have been handled by Mr Oswald
b) generate insurance against any potential future public claims by the pesky Depository employee by placing into the official record two curtain rods, marked (as Ruth Paine Exhibits) with the digits 2-7-5 and 2-7-6
---------------was hatched.
Why go through that whole "Rods Found In Ruth's Garage" charade?
And then the WC somehow got Ruth Paine to just play along with this charade as well?
Your fantasy scenario concerning Ruth's curtain rods is utterly ridiculous....not to mention totally superfluous (even if people WERE trying to frame Oswald).
~Grin~
Says the man with the following hilariously kooky explanation of the crime lab document:
Two curtain rods were submitted by Agent Howlett to Lt. Day EITHER a good half a day BEFORE Agent Howlett extracted them from the Paine garage (=the
Von Pein 23 March Option); OR nearly two hours AFTER they were released by Lt. Day back to Agent Howlett (=the
Von Pein 24 March Option)
Is the above time-bending fantasy
still the best you can come up with, Mr Von Pein?