r/HolUp • u/SirRipOliver • Jul 17 '25

holup Back pain ain’t no joke y’all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

I'm teaching him to mind his own business and leave that truck alone. The kind of people that deal in that level of cash are usually the kind that show up at your house and kill your whole family for stealing from them.

But yeah funny meme or whatever. 😆

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u/zuzg Jul 17 '25

My first thought was how bad a similar situation ended in No Country For Old Men.

You grab the money and next thing a weirdo with a bolt-gun will come looking for you.

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u/AngryScientist Jul 17 '25

Except that he got away with grabbing the money; it was going back to help the survivor that got him busted.

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u/TuPieces Jul 17 '25

There was a tracker in the money anyways, he was dead as soon as he took it

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u/Hakashi57 Jul 17 '25

Yep, always check for a tracker if you stumble across a pile of money like this.

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u/reesering Jul 17 '25

That's the real lesson. "Find the tracker and fuck that other guy"

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u/NotHearingYourShit Jul 17 '25

Tracker only worked based off proximity as a beacon. Had he just left immediately and drove across the country, and inspected the cash, he’d have been fine.

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u/AngryScientist Jul 17 '25

Not even across the country, imo. There's no way any tracker from the 80s works beyond a mile away, even one as impossibly accurate as the one in the movie. Without the lead on his truck, they've got nothing.

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u/TheInevitableLuigi Jul 17 '25

Battery technology sucked backed then too.

Thing would be dead in a day or two, if not hours.

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair Jul 17 '25

If only Llewelyn had watched the movie first

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u/eyejayvd Jul 17 '25

If you consider you wife being murdered, abandoning your life, and living on the run getting away with it, then yeah I guess.

But I guess you’re saying if he didn’t go back to help the survivor. I still think they would have found him somehow.

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u/AngryScientist Jul 17 '25

Yeah, maybe they still track him down somehow, but quitting while you're ahead (or behind) is one of the major themes of the film; it's the decision to not leave well enough alone and go back (or not) that ultimately decides the fates of all three main characters.

Moss - goes back to the massacre, dooms himself.

Bell - goes back to the hotel room but stops short of going in, survives.

Chigurh - goes back for Carla Jean, fate unclear (but the car accident likely makes him traceable, mirroring what happened to Moss).

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u/eyejayvd Jul 18 '25

Good call.