[Dirtjumper999]

For those of you who remember the old NWD movies, he was the one who built that North Shore wheel called the Disconstructed Wheel. One hell of a ripper.

http://www.nsmb.com/page/s/2893/sam-brown-rip

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Uh.....wow....

 

[Total Heckler]

Um wow. That was quite the predicament he got himself into. RIP.

 

[Slugman]

Life is about the choices you make... he chose poorly

 

[fortenndu]

That kid ripped, sad to see he went down such a dangerous road.

 

[stinkyboy]

Sucks. I'd like to know more details...

 

[I Are Baboon]

That sucks for sure.

NSMB could have done without the little editorial at the end of the story.

 

[.:Jeenyus:.]

That sucks for sure.

NSMB could have done without the little editorial at the end of the story.

so you think the war on drugs is working...?

 

[narlus]

i think that it's fairly accurate to call the war on drugs (specifically pot, in this case) 'fruitless.'

 

[I Are Baboon]

so you think the war on drugs is working...?

It doesn't matter what I think.

 

[smp747]

As a close friend, he will be missed. Rest in peace.
He was also the one who built the infamous trail "The Monster" in Kaslo, BC

 

[narlus]

It doesn't matter what I think.

we can't put mods on ignore.

 

[IH8Rice]

i think that it's fairly accurate to call the war on drugs (specifically pot, in this case) 'fruitless.'

very true. it is one of the nation's largest cash crops too.
they should give it up..god created pot so it must be good.

if he didnt have his choppa license, he must have been close to getting it to actually fly the damn thing

 

[I Are Baboon]

we can't put mods on ignore.

I wish I could put myself on ignore.

 

[jerseydirt]

I wonder how he stole a helicopter?

 

[dump]

The war on drugs is an attempt to solve a social problem with criminal tactics.

As long as there is money to be made from selling illegal drugs, the trade will exist despite the efforts to stop it.

 

[IH8Rice]

I wonder how he stole a helicopter?

very carefully

 

[Nick]

I wonder how he stole a helicopter?

I heard that the heli belonged to MMike, and he always leaves the keys under the floormat.

 

[stinkyboy]

I wonder how he stole a helicopter?

Not to make light of a sad story, but that is an awesome way to go out...

 

[.:Jeenyus:.]

I wonder how he stole a helicopter?

it probably wasn't 'stolen' until he got caught.

 

[MMike]

It ain't hard to do.

It it very rare that anyone has a disabling device for a helicopter. You can usually just walk up to any machine and press the "FLY" button and off you go.....

 

[Nick]

it probably wasn't 'stolen' until he got caught.

I was thinking the same thing. I bet the owner of said whirlycopter was in on the deal.

350 lbs is a LOT of pot. (I'm just sayin')

 

[boostindoubles]

It's funny, I live an hour south of Spokane and this is the first I've heard of anything relating to this incident. It's too bad that the DEA is setting up kids and then throwing them in jail. Their creating opportunities for people to be criminals and then busting them and patting themselves on the back for busting criminals.

 

[MMike]

http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/revelstoketimesreview/news/40795708.html

Yeah it was a jet ranger....pretty impressive. I could be wrong, but to be able to operate a turbine machine, I'd be surprised if he didn't have a helicopter license. Turbine is usually the second step. Many people start out on piston machines like Robinsons etc. Once they have that license, they move onto turbine machines.

 

[ThePriceSeliger]

Wow, I don't know what to say.

 

[skinny mike]

It's funny, I live an hour south of Spokane and this is the first I've heard of anything relating to this incident. It's too bad that the DEA is setting up kids and then throwing them in jail. Their creating opportunities for people to be criminals and then busting them and patting themselves on the back for busting criminals.

ummm... he had 350 lbs. of pot. i'd be quite surprised if he wasn't working for a large smuggling operation.

 

[stinkyboy]

The story didn't break until 5 days later? WTF?

 

[Nick]

It's funny, I live an hour south of Spokane and this is the first I've heard of anything relating to this incident. It's too bad that the DEA is setting up kids and then throwing them in jail. Their creating opportunities for people to be criminals and then busting them and patting themselves on the back for busting criminals.

Are you serious?

Listen, as bad as I feel for his family and friends the DEA didn't make this happen.
This is not a case of some narc getting a troubled kid to sell him a few joints. This guy was moving serious amounts of weed across international borders.

This guy was an adult and should have known the risks of what he was doing. If he did off himself, then its a shame he couldn't deal with the consequences after he got busted.

(/opinion)

 

[Brian HCM#1]

we can't put mods on ignore.

The poor guy can barely walk to the fridge and get himself a beer. Be easy on him.












At least until his surgery

 

[stinkyboy]

It was a whole lotta weed, but it was just weed. The US is so fuqed when it comes to marijuana.

The DEA prolly threw him around and scared the sh1t out of a youngster that had prolly never been in a cell in his life and facing 10 years or so, he made another poor choice?

I do think some hardcore agent(s) had a hand in this tragedy in their sorry azz "war on drugs".

 

[DirtMcGirk]

Wow, that sucks.
RIP man.

 

[boostindoubles]

I'm not saying that drug smugglers are innocents in this. They are the ones who agree to do it, but I bet alot of people would say yes if they knew how much they were getting paid for a couple hours of their time. He had 350lbs of BC weed... Street value at wholesale thats like $700,000. If Brown was cut a $100 a lb for his service thats $35,000. A pretty fat return for his risk and a couple hours. Unfortunately it cost him his life.

If pot wasn't illegal and worth so much damn money kids wouldn't be getting the action movie eyes over this bullsh!t. It is ridiculous and created artificially, by the likes of the DEA and similar agencies.

Pot isn't worth all this trouble. It's just not. Therefore I can't condemn the kid for doing something that doesn't make sense. I have to look at the bigger picture and see that he was just a pawn in a gigantic game of idiocy

 

[TKCastle]

Sad, sad story. Of coarse Mr. Brown was an adult and knew the consequences but having to kill yourself for plants that just so happen to have value is dumb. Yeah the war on drugs is a big scam. Hell I bet even DEA agents toke bowls now and then, Sh!t they don't even know how to hold on to there own weapons. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4545561&page=1
I wonder how many of those weapons were used in real crimes like maybe........MURDER!...or ..........RAPE. Good job boys. I'm only venting on Law enforcement because my company's store was just cleaned out of 1/2 mil in merchandise. So..yeah.

 

[skinny mike]

The DEA prolly threw him around and scared the sh1t out of a youngster that had prolly never been in a cell in his life and facing 10 years or so, he made another poor choice?

i can see some naive kid getting suckered into smuggling a couple pounds of weed across the border in his car, but he took a helicopter to bring a large amount of weed across the border. he had to be aware of the consequences. i don't support the war on drugs, but does everyone here think that the group transporting that much of an illegal(doesn't matter if it's harmless, it's still illegal) substance across the border is just a bunch of harmless pot dealers?

it's unfortunate that his life took a turn like that.

 

[stinkyboy]

i can see some naive kid getting suckered into smuggling a couple pounds of weed across the border in his car, but he took a helicopter to bring a large amount of weed across the border. he had to be aware of the consequences. i don't support the war on drugs, but does everyone here think that the group transporting that much of an illegal(doesn't matter if it's harmless, it's still illegal) substance across the border is just a bunch of harmless pot dealers?

it's unfortunate that his life took a turn like that.

I never said he was suckered.

My second wife is Canadian and she paid for college by living in a grow house. She was smart, young and cool but needed easy cash for her future, but had she been busted by some overzealous American cops and felt there was no where to turn, who knows what would have happened.

 

[tozovr]

Are you serious?

Listen, as bad as I feel for his family and friends the DEA didn't make this happen.
This is not a case of some narc getting a troubled kid to sell him a few joints. This guy was moving serious amounts of weed across international borders.

This guy was an adult and should have known the risks of what he was doing. If he did off himself, then its a shame he couldn't deal with the consequences after he got busted.

(/opinion)

Agreed.

Sam can also be considered a casualty of the misguided, expensive and - worst of all - fruitless, 'War On Drugs.'

The war on drugs killed him? No, either he killed himself or someone he was dealing with pertaining to the weed did.

 

[stinkyboy]

Oh look, another noob chimes in for fail...

 

[jerseydirt]

its funny how they refer to the weed as "crop" when they talk about when he was unloading it. If they are referring to it as a crop then why is it illegal?

 

[tozovr]

Oh look, another noob chimes in for fail...

Hey it's douchbag McGruder. nice to see ya!

 

[stinkyboy]

This thread is about a young, sick rider who died unnessarily in the "war on drugs" dumbazz. Your avatar speaks volumes...