# What happened to the other $920,000?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 17, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956 "2003-10-17T07:29:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956/1 "2003-10-17T07:29:49Z")

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Seriously. Where is it? The credits said _Fargo_ was based on a true story. So there should have been a briefcase with $920,000 in it lying on the side of a road somewhere north of Minneapolis with an ice scraper lying next to it come spring. If nobody’s found it yet, I call dibs.

And yes, tonight was the first time I saw all of _Fargo_, and yes I know I’m about 7 years too late for this.

(As a bonus prize, when I find the money, I’ll buy Arby’s for anybody who correctly guessed the subject of the thread from the title.)

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956/2 "2003-10-17T07:39:05Z")

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[Death in the Snow.](http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26367)

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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956/3 "2003-10-17T16:47:39Z")

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[Snopes, on _Fargo_](http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/fargo.htm)  
[And again, Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/fargo.htm)

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-other-920-000/207956/4 "2003-10-17T18:50:00Z")

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I was wondering the same thing. I sent my Japanese girlfriend to find the money and she never came back!