Thread 213625723

Why didn't he just make a deposit in his bank account?

why didn't he have a bottle of baja blast with him

I don't get why it took him so long to look through the money, not even to check for tracking devices, but just to actually count how much he even found. Doing so he'd find the tracker naturally. Also when he found the tracker not dipping the hotel immediately and waiting for the assassin like he stood a chance. I would've been out of there the second I realised someone was after me.

>>213625778
>anonymous image board poster thinks he can outsmart the cartels with his incredible intellect

>>213625860
>Toss the tracker
>Don't go back for the thirsty Mexican

That's literally it. How the fuck can they even find you?

>>213625860
>thinks Mexican cartels are super geniuses
fuck they gonna do without a GPS?

>>213625910
>>Toss the tracker
He didn't know about the tracker until after Chigurh was on his trail
>Don't go back for the thirsty Mexican
He's too much of a nice guy

>>213625778
He was a west Texan hick in 1980, doubt he knew much about tracking tech

>>213625778
It says the amount on the bundles, you would only need to count across and down to calculate the value. The actual amount doesn't even matter that much to him, because it's so obviously a life changing sum regardless.

>>213625723 (OP)
Anything over like 10,000 is flagged

>>213625978
but he had an army background. It still doesn't guarantee he would know about it but it still seems like something he might know

>>213625723 (OP)
why didnt he just get a car and drive away lol

>>213626122
Ok but he didn't

>>213625723 (OP)
>deposit millions
>bank reports to authorities/irs
>cartel goons hunt and kill you anyway because funds they were looking for got confiscated

>>213626131
he could have bought any car he wanted, realistically, much faster than Mexican vehicles

>>213626122
That wasn't a ubiquitous technology in the Vietnam war.

>>213625723 (OP)
Cormac didn't think of that
also that's the dude who inspired my man Joel

>>213625723 (OP)
why did he think the Mexican that was begging for agua was gonna be even alive? Dude looked like he already had one foot in the grave.

>>213626304
Seriously. Why didn't he just call the cops from a payphone or something and leave this disgusting wife?

>>213625723 (OP)
The smart move would be to take the majority of the money, fill the case with rocks and leave a slim layer on top and leave the case where he found it. Thus making it look like the cartel was getting scammed, leading to the shoot out, and because he found the tracker he would've never gotten tailed by Chigurh.

>>213625761
lol

>>213625723 (OP)
Why didn't he just bring agua?

>>213626304
guilt or something

Every time I watch it I'm like "Nope, fuck this. No amount of money is worth cartel heat". I know they weren't AS powerful or hardcore back then, but still. I also always wonder why he didn't switch bags at some point? Like, a bag could get recognized, ya know?

>>213626395
Heeey! Now that's a plan.

>>213626475
Pussy.

Take money, check it, toss tracker, buy new car, disappear. Simple. For a no life incel like me with no connections I could get away easily.

>>213625723 (OP)
>get your hands on what is obviously cartel money
>doesn't immediately go North to get as far away from the border as possible
>instead meanders around Texas
I'd be on a train to some random Northern state with trailer parks to hide in within a day. Let's see them find me with that tracking device then.

>>213626304
Army vet. Probably heard people crying out begging for water for hours and hours while he was stuck in a foxhole, unable to take out the sniper using the thirsty guy as a trap. This time he could bring the guy water and couldn't stop himself because of his guilt from the war.

The bigger question is why the everloving fuck a Texan with military experience would go hunting in the desert without plenty of water on him. Ridiculous.

>>213626260
LOL

>>213626122
>Marine grunt was extremely knowledgeable about tracking devices...BECAUSE HE WAS A MARINE GRUNT OKAY!? STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!!!

>>213626131
>>213626260
>buy a car and leave town
>Mexicans ask around about people who acted odd
>immediately hone in on you since you bought a car with cash and disappeared the same day things went down
>they use their contacts and money to bribe a cop to put an APB on your car
>a week later you get flagged down by a cop and think you must have been speeding or maybe have a broken taillight, but it turns out to be Chigurh in a stolen cop car
I'd get a bus or train ticket to a town and then get off one stop early and hitchhike someplace else where I might buy a car, then travel in a completely different direction in case they think to follow me based on general "he must be heading towards LA" principles. Let them play catchup to my random travelling choices. Also I'd shave the crown of my head so I looked like I was balding but I didn't want to let go, in case my photo is being circulated. I don't get why more people hiding don't do that, since it's so effective at throwing descriptions off, with people never categorising bald men and men with full hair in the same slot.

>>213626475
You’re saying that as a young fag on an image board. This guy was like 50, already a veteran and and a tradesman for decades, and despite his toil he’s so poor he has to hunt for food and keep his brass.

>>213625910
Did he not leave fingerprints when opening the truck with the dying Mexican inside?

>>213626122
He did know about tracking transponders but didn't think that there might be one in a bag of a shit load of money. Too excited.

>>213625860
This movie is capeshit and the main villain has unexplainable superpowers to go invisible and teleport. MC couldn't outsmart cartel not because it was hard, but because cartel is filled with magician-assassins

>>213627233
So? Fingerprints mean nothing unless you're already in a database. But why would sugar have access to fingerprints lol

>>213625778
>I don't get why it took him so long to look through the money, not even to check for tracking devices, but just to actually count how much he even found.

You can do this by knowing the individual bills in a stack and then calculating how many stacks in width and depth, you wouldn't actually have to thumb through every stack.

>Also when he found the tracker not dipping the hotel immediately and waiting for the assassin like he stood a chance. I would've been out of there the second I realised someone was after me.

Chigurh was literally right downstairs when he found the tracker. He heard him there and thought he had the element of surprise by getting ready to blow him away as soon as he opened the door. He didn't count on Chigurh blowing out the door lock instead of trying to come through the door first.

>>213626122
I have a military background and am dumb as shit. What now?

>Toss tracker
>Take greyhound bus out of state
>Take out a big loan to buy RV
>Live in RV constantly driving never staying in same place for long


How long exactly was chigger going to follow him?

>>213628065
you're fine, anon.
thank you for your service.

>>213628065
Thank you for your service.

>>213627928
>unless you're already in a database
When did the military start fingerprinting soldiers?

>>213628242
Stay on the run

You guys DO know that cartel bank notes are tracked, right? Now I don’t know about back then, but when money gets deposited into banks, an entry is made for each note. Cartel banks would be able to triangulate the money very quickly. That’s how they were planning on catching DB Cooper.

>>213628065
*salutes* Thank you for your sacrifice brave brother, can I give you a complimentary blowjob?

>>213625978
>He was a west Texan hick in 1980
And the cartel are are even dumber.

If I found or stole a huge pile of cash, or gold or whatever, then I would not spend any for like a year minimum. Using the time to work out a plan for laundering it. If I was in his situation of it having a tracking device that I'd have no reason to know exists then I'd be truly fucked. But the first thing I'd do though is transfer it from the distinct case to a nondescript bag or old safe, so hopefully I'd find any tracker. Or the safe buried in concrete would block the signal.

Getting a big score and immediately spending money that all your neighbours know you don't have is just an invitation for misery. Not just from cops but from people wanting to steal from you or blackmail you. That's the reason why I'd also never allow any rumours about me having hidden riches, I'd silence that shit as fast as possible. So many old people get tortured to death because of some tweaker who believed stupid rumours like that about old misers and tried to get them to divulge where they've hidden their gold. Shit's scary.

>>213629038
>misers always looking over their shoulder

I bought bitcoin like, when I first heard about it. Made some other wise investments around 2017, buuuuut I started to flaunt my wealth. Regular people have no idea how hard it is to hide that you have money. Like it’s INSANELY HARD! I had to first pretend I was addicted to drugs, then gambling. I had to actually attend rehab two times and then make it seem like I lost all my money….but easier said than done! How do I afford to live in my apartment? Make up a fake job? Okay…WHAT JOB? I have to fool the landlord too. So that’s a fake auto detailing business, that I have to pay for to have bank records that show me making very little money whenever I get a new apartment. People ask for auto detailing ALL THE TIME. I get offered jobs all the time. Dress like a junkie and have a family that thinks I’m the biggest loser in the world. But if not then it’s “can I borrow money” EVERY FUCKING TIME THE PHONE RINGS. The final straw was when a childhood friend tried to sue me when we got hit by a drunk driver.

And this isn’t even counting the people that I knew who had access to financial records. I’m in a fucking relationship with some fat chick just so her name goes on the rental agreement in a so so neighborhood because the landlord didn’t ask for my info. If you know, you know.

>>213629397
Just say no, you pussy lmao.

>>213629397
Why would you keep renting instead of buying a house and telling everyone you spent the last of your money on that and now you're basically paycheck to paycheck but with your own house, dressing shabbily and making it look like you're poor but hanging in there living off a reverse mortgage type thing? Then there's no extraneous lying to landlords. Unless you made your investments in drugs and can't tell a bank about it? Instead of doing what looks like fraud to any cops or bank who might look it up.

>>213625723 (OP)
>dump money into another sturdier briefcase, followed by several bags so i can bury it safely
>discover tracker
>bury said money
>glue tracker to a random bus
>wait a few months
>dig money and change states

>>213625723 (OP)
If he did that, the main villain would have been the IRS.

>>213625778
It goes back earlier, anon. He left the mexican to die of thirst and heat exhaustion in that pickup. He decides to go back in the middle of the night? Stupid.

>>213629557
>Unless you made your investments in drugs and can't tell a bank about it?

That a boy. Although it wasn’t drugs. Still, let’s just say I’d like to stay away from alphabet agencies.

>>213629974
They don't care about your bitch ass.

>>213626122
>but he had an army background. I
He should have knew, Jose would be dead by that night. And never went back.

>>213625860
I really don’t think it’s hard to outsmart a bunch of wetbacks.

>>213625778
captain hindsight here to the rescue

>>213630027
>He should have knew, Jose would be dead by that night. And never went back.
Had he not gone back, he would have been killed in his sleep by Chigurh or the Mexicans that very night

>>213625860
If he had just examined the money or even pulled out a couple of stacks there would have been zero ways to locate him.

>>213630114
The thought of having a tracking device in a briefcase of money never occurred to people even in the year this movie released, let alone 1980

>>213630095
No, he wouldn't. They had no idea what the fuck happen to the money. The track box had to within 100 feet to ping. They were going to just happen to drive by his trailer park???

>>213630223
>They were going to just happen to drive by his trailer park???
You mean like they did with the hotel
and the other hotel?

>>213630275
They knew it was him by then from info off his truck. They knew he was running. Did you watch the fucking movie??? Until he went back to give Jose a drink of water, cartel faggots had no idea who,what, or shit. That is why they were sitting there with their thumb up their ass watching the site.

>>213629974
>making money from crypto
>but not selling drugs
So you bought and sold CP and think you're being clever and hiding by creating an elaborate fraud system to mask the fact that you've got lots of money? The noose is tightening.

>>213627233
>Impling cartel not only has a forensic team and lab which is capable of analysing the fingerprint, but they also have an access to a government database of fingerprints to compare it to

>>213627050
Northern Midwest states would be ideal, I might try east OR or WA. That or anywhere MT to Dakota

>>213629397
Damn your life sounds cool. Still butthurt I was too naive to figure out how to buy bitcoin when I wanted to back in 2014 and I had highschool job money saved

>>213626587
I’d rather not be eaten alive testicles first by hungry dogs, thanks.

>>213629955
but the mexican didn't die of thirst, he got shot

>>213625723 (OP)
he’s so hot in this movie i wish i looked like him

>>213625723 (OP)
The problem with all you guys saying you'd flee and ditch the tracker is all they'd have to do is look for who just up and left town and then find out who his relatives are and where they went from there. you'd leave some sort of trail and you'd always be looking over your shoulder and worried they would find you. You'd never be relaxed again. The point is when he decided to take the money he was done either way.
>at what point would you stop looking for your 2 million dollars?
He knows he screwed up and the running would never end. That's the point his life was over, just a matter of time. Especially when woody finds him without the tracker in just 3 hours in fucking Mexico.

>>213625723 (OP)
lol the bank would have flagged him for depositing a measly $200, let alone millions https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-09/california-texas-zip-codes-financial-surveillance-200

>>213626303
ummmmmmmmmm surely you mean jim raynor in sc2

>>213631826
>Especially when woody finds him without the tracker in just 3 hours in fucking Mexico
Wasn't that part really dumb or am I dumb. Like how did he know where to look.

>>213626304
He’s wasn’t going back to help the guy he was going to silence him in case anyone asked him where the money went.

>>213631539
>buying bitcoin
I regret being a lazy fuck who never set up my computer to mine it back in the beginning when even potatoes could mine, before anyone was bothering to buy it. I planned on doing it just out of a tech interest for so long but was too lazy to get it done. I know for a certainty I would never have used them up to buy a pizza or anything, either. I always hold on to things because cashing out is too much work until I can get something for it that will actually improve my life. Still got my pokemon cards for that reason.

>>213631906
Woody probably knew the general area of where they would be in West Texas. Then got word that there was a couple murders and possibly some injured people in the border town of Eagle Pass, TX. Sounds like Anton's handiwork. He reasonably assumed that Llewelyn would be in the hospital just across the river in Mexico if he was still alive.

>>213632000
don't be too sad anon, you would've surely sold it the second it crossed $100. Or $1,000. Or $3,000. You would've never held it until now.

>>213625723 (OP)
i don't even care about the plot holes this movie si great

>>213628476
best post itt

>>213632440
No I probably wouldn't have held it until now, but I would have made a fat load of money from it that I would have invested in more stable venues and been way better off than I am right now. Even then I might actually have only cashed out half and kept the other half to see how high it would go. I've had that impulse with other "found money" situations, only risking half of it.

The more likely sad outcome would be a HDD crapping out on me or me forgetting how to access it. My brother is in that situation. Bought a small amount to buy drugs and then when they were worth big amounts he no longer knew where the HDD was.

>>213625723 (OP)
most people would have gotten away with the money