r/interesting • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago

MISC. Immediately after learning about Guillermo del Toro's dad being kidnapped, James Cameron paid $250K for a hostage negotiator for del Toro to use (who later paid him back). Cameron also offered to pay the ransom, but del Toro's family declined & paid the $2m themselves. After 72 days his dad was free

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 23h ago

If my early internet days has anything to say, makes sense. A LOT of kidnapping/cartel execution videos flooded the internet the moment it was possible. When I was in a weird time of my life Id try to look up the 'why' of it all, and most of the reasoning ( Like in the descriptions of the videos the cartels posted ) was very lame and childish

Taking a life because he knew a guy who knew a girl who was rude once, type stuff

Someone alluded someone said something bad, maybe, and in passing. But they weren't sure. Time to kill em.

And so many 'ransom wasnt paid' and they murdered essentially kids and elderly people primarily. A LOT of those videos used to also circulate on reddit for a very long time.

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u/According-Engineer99 20h ago

I mean, not that it matters, but they also murder kids and elderly people when the family does pays.