# Life Imitates "No Country For Old Men" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863 "2024-01-30T13:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/1 "2024-01-30T13:21:25Z")
In a remote-ish desert in California, it appears a drug deal gone wrong resulted in the murders of several people. It looks like many people in cars met in a very un-traveled location to transact something, and mass murder was the result. Law enforcement at the crime scene have to look it over and piece together what they think went down, and the investigation is still ongoing. But man, it’s so much like that initial scene in _No Country For Old Men_. Except the fictional version took place in Texas, and it was probably over cocaine. But still. [Here’s the story.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/us/california-mojave-desert-six-dead-arrests/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/2 "2024-01-30T13:36:50Z")
I’m betting a screwgie was involved. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/3 "2024-01-30T16:58:42Z")
Over _illegal marijuana_? In _California_?? Seems like you’d want to save the mass murder for something that isn’t available in every other shop on every block in every town. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/4 "2024-01-30T17:06:55Z")
I had the same thought. But, there’s this, buried WAAAAYYY at the bottom of the article: > San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon D. Dicus said the illegal marijuana market in the area has led to brutal crime scenes including killings, sharing that in the last year alone, marijuana enforcement teams served more than 400 search warrants for illegal marijuana grows and recovered more than 650,000 marijuana plants and $370 million. ETA: I’m assuming the illegal stuff is being shipped over state lines. Gotta love that War On Drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/5 "2024-01-30T17:09:14Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Except the fictional version took place in Texas, and it was probably over cocaine. Heroin, actually. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/6 "2024-01-31T06:23:26Z")
California has had a booming marijuana growing industry for decades. I suppose it’s unrealistic to expect them to shut it all down just because the legal market opened up. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/7 "2024-01-31T06:45:31Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > But man, it’s so much like that initial scene in _No Country For Old Men_. Such a Rookie Move! First thing you do is inspect the cash. Find the tracker. Ditch the bag. Hide it nearby and let it sit for a while to cool down. Pick it up later. Patience, My Man! The desert is a very big place. Easy to hide stuff in plain sight, more or less. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/8 "2024-01-31T12:11:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Such a Rookie Move! First thing you do is inspect the cash. Find the tracker. Ditch the bag. Hide it nearby and let it sit for a while to cool down. Pick it up later. Patience, My Man! And above all, don’t return the next day to bring water to one of the victims. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/9 "2024-01-31T14:00:49Z")
And don’t shoot puppies just because they run after you wanting to lick your face. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/10 "2024-01-31T17:59:35Z")
No guy with a denim jacket and hideous bowl haircut showing up on the scene? Not much of an imitation is it? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/11 "2024-01-31T19:39:24Z")
Yeah, and this looks like one event - in the movie “it looks like more 'n one fracas. Wild west of there, execution over here.” Were any of the victims managerial types? NSFW due to corpses: [Here is the referred-to scene](https://youtu.be/XfRf8Pt2QTs). ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863/12 "2024-02-01T13:50:19Z")
Jeez, what a brilliant movie. I haven’t watched it in years, and that scene is one of the best in the film. Yep, it was heroin all right, confirmed by Tommy Lee Jones. I had forgotten. “If it ain’t it’ll do 'till the mess gets here.”