Uh, did they forget something?
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sidgirl — 9 years ago(April 22, 2016 03:11 PM)
Stella Nickell poisoned random Excedrin capsules with cyanide in 1986 and planted some of them in retail stores to cover up the fact that she poisoned her husband Bruce with cyanide. Her attempt to hide her husband's murder by making him look like a serial killer's victim resulted in one other death, an innocent woman Nickell had never met named Susan Snow.
And that's just the first example that came to mind, because it's particularly famous. I'm sure there are others that I can't recall offhand at the moment.
People said love was blind, but what they meant was that love blinded them.
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justanicknamed — 10 years ago(December 13, 2015 10:20 PM)
Because some company/group pays enough money to some congressperson's "re-election" fund that they push to get a project built under the guise that it will put people to work.
It happens all of the time. There were tons of "pork barrel projects" in 0bama's "Shovel Ready" jobs bill. And, it isn't just one party which does stuff like that.
It is one of the problems with the way our government "operates" now. States have to give billions to the Federal government, who, in turn, doles out money to the states to fund their projects.
So, members of Congress feel that if they don't fight to get as much money from the Feds as they can, they aren't doing their job. They think that their job is to get the money for jobs for their district - even if it means people's taxes will be higher and/or the project that is being built is useless and wasteful.
For example, in my area they built a civilian use airport on an air force base. They measure the success of the airport on if they have to sink less millions into it this year than last in an effort to keep it open. For most of the time it has been built, it hasn't been in use. But, we're still on the hook for it and they keep p!ssing away more money on it even though there are less people in the area/state than when they first built it and said that it was needed because of the over-flow from St. Louis (never mind that they shut down one of the terminals at that airport due to lack of use) -
BertramWilberforceWooster — 11 years ago(August 03, 2014 04:57 PM)
Read the book, it'll fill in the blanks
Why? If the adaptation is good, non-readers should be able to enjoy it without ever cracking it open. Everything is explained in this, you just have to pay attention.
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vake — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 03:23 PM)
Why doesn't it make sense? You think the Russian mob makes their living by selling flowers, or by killing people? When they take over a construction firm which has lucrative contracts with the city, they make millions in profits. People have killed for far less.
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Beauq81 — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 03:33 PM)
Some, but less than in the book. The filmmakers complicated it a bit to sound flashier, with a bit of conspiracy theory. In the book, the Zec and his gang own a quarry and the killed couple owned the competing quarry. No international conspiracy, just a local dispute.
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transmentalist — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 03:12 PM)
No international conspiracy, just a local dispute
Hmn, but "local dispute" doesn't sound big enough (in my opinion) to justify the whole scheme (setting up Barr, killing four innocents, having meth-dealer thugs on call, etc.).
That much effort, I'd expect a bigger conspiracy to justify it - Zec & Charlie going state to state, making a killing financially & sometimes literally, that's big enough to justify this elaborate a scheme
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Beauq81 — 10 years ago(September 30, 2015 04:02 AM)
In the book, Zec's company keeps winning city construction contracts by bribing city officials. The woman they killed in the shooting and her husband owned a competing company and when they suddenly stopped getting work and saw only one company was getting all of it, they started asking questions and got themselves killed.
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TheBeardedWonder — 11 years ago(October 10, 2014 08:37 PM)
Yeah that's what I thought too. I got it, it just wasn't that well done nor did it make much sense as a whole. There's quicker, easier, and less messy (ie: less of a trail) ways for the mob to make money.
Anyone remember the simpsons episode where the mob gets hired to build the school and everything is built with tape and posicle sticks and it falls down right away while they take off with the money? It's literally been a plot device in a comedic TV show, not sure how someone thought it would work as a serious thriller