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Do you think the waiter who tried to poison Bumpy lived or died?


Discuss. I'm talking about the scene where Bumpy found the rat poison in his ice-cream, having his men force Jimmy (Dutch's goon who disguised himself as a waiter) to eat the rat poison at gunpoint. Do you think Jimmy lived or died after that? How did it turn out?

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Bump

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Although it was off screen, it was highly insinuated that he died from eating rat poison..If Bumpy was wrong, I think they would have addressed it onscreen then or in a future scene.

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Definitely dead.

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I see it differently. The drug used in rat poison is the same medicine we give patients as a long term method to help a person's blood not to clot and cause a heart attack, stroke, or PE. A rat needs much less than a human to cause the rat to bleed to death. That is how it works.

It is not so much a poison as one might usually think of poison. Humans take considerable doses everyday for decades. One dose, no matter how big, would have a difficult time causing any lasting problems. To kill a person it would have to be given everyday without fail for awhile. Miss one day and the person's levels start to bottom out. Three days and the process starts from scratch again.

I don't think the guy could tell he ate anything. And that dose would not have killed the intended target either. Others might disagree.

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