To Whom It May Concern

Talkin’ Aboot Fargo, Eh?

So anyways, we were watching Fargo during the night shift out at operations, and I started to wonder about William H. Macy’s character in the movie. Basically he offers 40 grand to a couple of hoods to kidnap his wife so he could extort a million bucks from his father in law. Well, of course the plan goes to shit, the hoods kidnap his wife as planned, but end up killing a state trooper, then of course 2 unfortunate people drive past and see what is going on, and they get killed too. Then the father in law insists that he be the one that delivers the money, and he gets killed, then one of the kidnappers kills the other with an axe, and he kills the wife finally too, and gets caught while putting the bodies of his former accomplice and the guys wife into a wood chipper.

Now, while I did take criminal justice 101 as an elective in college, I am by no means an expert in the ways of our legal system in the United States. What all would Macy’s character (the husband) be charged with? Now, you have kidnapping, conspiracy, and extortion, but would he be tried as an accessory to murder, or even for murder outright? Or for how many murders? Do the effects of your original felony (the kidnapping) that lead to more crimes that he did not intend even if you aren’t involved?

I get a kick out of this movie, because I remember how people in North Dakota went out of their way to say ‘we do NOT talk like that!!’ yet they actually do. I had two friends at the Air Force base in North Dakota and after a couple of years they started to sound like that on the phone and I would laugh and point it out to them yet they didn’t seem to notice it themselves haha. Pretty good, eh?

Current Lyrical Ramblings

I’d like to hear some funky Dixie land
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand hand take me the hand
Come and dance with your daddy all night long

Black Water – Doobie Brothers