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D.B. Cooper Goofs [Possible Spoilers]

  • 12-09-2006 12:20am
    #1
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭


    A few things don't add up about the D.B. Cooper story in Prison Break and what actually happened...
    For example:
    -Westmoreland presents Michael with a $100 bill from the skyjacking as proof that he is D.B. Cooper. However the actual ransom was paid in $20 bills.
    -Westmoreland and others refer to the ransom as being $1m, and Westmoreland later reveals that the real figure was $5m, and that it had merely been lowballed to the press. Lowballed or not, the real reported figure was $200,000.
    -The D.B. Cooper skyjacking happened in 1971. But T-Bag mentions that Westmoreland's $100 bill supposedly from the hijacking was minted in 1972...

    So are these intentional? I mean surely the writers would have researched the facts if they were going to include it as a factor of their story!

    At first I thought maybe Westmoreland was lying, just to get in on the escape, but I can't see any reason for him to continue lying, and even lie further, on his deathbed, so I doubt that could be it.

    I suppose maybe they upped the amount from $200,000 because it isn't that much money today (not that i wouldn't want it!!) but the prisoners are far more likely to be falling over each other and themselves to get to $1m/$5m!
    And so maybe then they changed the size of the bill from $20 to $100, after all its the same ratio between the $200,000 and the $1m Westmoreland originally claimed!
    The 1972 thing is still a headscratcher though...


Comments

  • #2
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    nice observations. Are they yours or did you find them on another forum?
    the show has it's mishaps, everyone on this forum knows that, so i don't think you're going to get too much of a surprised reponse from anyone on here.


  • #3
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Rollo Tamasi wrote:
    nice observations. Are they yours or did you find them on another forum?
    the show has it's mishaps, everyone on this forum knows that, so i don't think you're going to get too much of a surprised reponse from anyone on here.

    I actually didn't know that the D.B. Cooper thing was a real event, until I did a Google search, and then read about it, and noticed that the facts were different, (also pointed out in Wikipedia), and found it confuzzling...
    The observations are my own


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