Just watched it, why didnt the guy just throw away the Nazi paper..?
what the fk?
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he feels guilt
shareThey say the same thing when they catch criminals: why did they keep trophies and mementos?
shareSome guy robbed a shop I managed a few years ago. They ended up being caught months later trying to sell guns to undercover cops. The raided their house and found IDs, check books, credit cards, credit recipts, and more, all easily linkable to many robberies throughout the area, including my store.
None of that had any value, so they should have gotten rid of it all, but instead they kept it.
I don't know why, only that, as a previous commenter stated, its not uncommon.
All these examples fall in two categories:
- Mementos/trophies (like when serial killers take items from crime scenes/victims)
- Valuables that must be kept around to later be cashed or used to get more money (credit cards, identity cards)
All all the examples involve one kind of criminal: the small time stupid one.
None of these applies here:
- Case is NOT a small time dim-witted criminal. People that stupid/careless just don't get to his position.
- The nazi papers are NOT mementos/trophies nor valuables that enable his career in any possible/meaningful way.
So for someone like him to keep around incriminating evidence for no focking good reason (his "guilt" seems forced and unbelievable for if he truly wanted to be caught why hire White to protect the contents of the box then?) for the sole purpose of having someone else try to uncover it and then for him to try to stop him simply makes no sense.
Don't tell me he feels guilty. If he did he would have killed himself decades ago. He feels guilty about as much as Cheney feels guilty about invading Iraq ("it's not our fault the good lord decided to put all that oil in enemy foreign lands"). All his "charity" and "good works" are no different than the ones of other billionaries: to get tax brakes and good press (by flaunting his charity all over he's already getting his reward according to Jesus himself).
its possible he held onto the documents out of guilt for years, but when the reality that they might become exposed came up, he awoke. Most likely if he were to get a hold of the documents again, he might destroy them or put them somewhere safer. He thought an unmarked safety deposit box at the bank he owned was as safe a place as any, until he realized it wasn't and that someone had discovered his secret, which he probably previously didn't know ANYONE was aware of.
shareAll these examples fall in two categories:
- Mementos/trophies (like when serial killers take items from crime scenes/victims)
- Valuables that must be kept around to later be cashed or used to get more money (credit cards, identity cards)
All all the examples involve one kind of criminal: the small time stupid one.
TIL serial killers are small time criminals share
"Valuables that must be kept around to later be cashed or used to get more money (credit cards, identity cards)"
What? The ID cards will not match their appearance at all. The credit cards were canceled minutes after they left the robbery...
How could those possibly be used to get more money?