13
Dumbass Movie Tropes (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/general@lemmy.world
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Was just watching a show, and terrorists demanded a very well off country that they pay a STAGGERING sum of £100,000,000.

The government had an hour to do it OR ELSE.

Just thinking about the fact that their decision is based off of lives lost, and how little money that is to them, let alone the most rich, and how real of a situation is just disgusting.

Just wanted to vent this out and maybe talk about other shit. What do we have?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 8 months ago

It's not that much of a stretch.

In 1974, scions of the Bunge y Born business, were kidnapped and only released after the payment of a $60 million ransom.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/21/archives/argentine-ransom-is-put-at-60million.html

In 1996, Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, son of the Hong Kong tycoon, Li Ka Shing: Kidnapped by Cheung Chi Keung, AKA "Big Spender". He was released after the world record payment of a HK$1,000,000,000 (US$134,000,000) ransom.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1368203/kidnapper-asked-me-financial-advice-says-tycoon-li-ka-shing

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •