Do high profile contract killings like in fiction actually ever happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by whaleross@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You know the type. High security, weeks or months of stakeout, sniper three blocks away...

The hitman sorta things I recall from the news are either planned and executed by national intelligence agents or some savage gunning and running from hired brutes, but never the variant with sophistication and private sector.

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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

There's a reason rich folk hire armed private security, ride in bulletproof vehicles, and hold kidnapping insurance.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, well, kidnapping is something different, isn't it.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, but my mind kinda buckets it under the file of rich people problems, like getting bumped off

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