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Originally Posted by Gzesh
How much life savings you got ?
You open to escrowing the stakes, realizing you can never win your side of the wager ?
I assume you are implying that he can never win the bet because if the perpetrator were to not be caught after say 10 years, that is not to say that it is impossible for him to be caught in the future, and therefore the bet would continue and so on and so forth.
If my assumption is correct, then your statement is flawed.
I think that we can all agree that it is reasonable to assume that the perpetrator is a human being. If we used the highest average life expectancy possible (considering we don't know the background of the individual to determine a more accurate life expectancy) and attached say, an extra 75 years onto it (so something like 150+ years,) we could positively assume at that point, that the individual would no longer be living, and thus, it would be impossible to "catch" him.
The crime could theoretically be solved at any point from here to infinity, but from what I read, the bet was more so focused on the perpetrator being caught as opposed to the crime solved.
That said, if you escrow and that amount of time passed without him being caught, I'd say your future generations would be most pleased : )
Also, I am quite bored. That's my excuse for this post : )