The Case of Ron Harris - Inside Job

Quote: FleaStiff

When the reality of 84 months sets in, some people opt for the thrill of 84 seconds.

Happens in the drug trade often. A youthful freedom-loving outdoorsman type is lured by a DEA agent controlling an informant to make a delivery just a little bit beyond the helicopter's Point of No Return. The DEA agent gets to carve another notch in his gun handle, the informant gets some sort of "break" but a Canadian family gets to bury their son who was looking at twenty years for flying a relatively harmless recreational drug across the border.

Sorry, gotta call B.S. on this one.

Quote: EvenBob

This happened 16 years ago, I don't see the
relevance.

No, you certainly don't.

so let's put it this way: human nature, and its strengths and foibles, are timeless.
The cat and mouse game is timeless and fascinating, from spies in the CIA to the rogues on the casino floor.
Pick a side and why...

Quote: FleaStiff

When the reality of 84 months sets in, some people opt for the thrill of 84 seconds.

This is a very good point.

For some, too many, the juice comes from not getting better at the (legit) game, but by finding a way of beating the game, taking a shot, seeing what you can get away with - especially if a wrong actions that insanely made right by simply 'getting away with it.' - that ONLY you secretly know about. Some people don't feel alive aside from the juice of risk-taking in a high-risk illegal maneuver, much in the same way some gamblers don't feel alive unlike they slide $50,000 onto RED at a roulette wheel.
There are books and documentaries about these types, from Richard Marcus on American Roulette, and "the Man with the $100,000 breasts,' etc. which really had to do with the thrill of casino cheating and prop bet managing. It's casino executives gone wild....

Quote: Paigowdan

and "the Man with the $100,000 breasts,' etc. which really had to do with the thrill of casino cheating and prop bet managing. It's casino executives gone wild....

?? Never heard f this 100,000 breasts. Richard Marcus claims to have been a vegas dealer who cheated and he now has some sort of cheating newsletter but I don't think anyone ever trusts an ex-con to ever truly stay "ex" even if just re-prints media stories about casino cheating.

Quote: FleaStiff

Happens in the drug trade often. A youthful freedom-loving outdoorsman type is lured by a DEA agent controlling an informant to make a delivery just a little bit beyond the helicopter's Point of No Return. The DEA agent gets to carve another notch in his gun handle, the informant gets some sort of "break" but a Canadian family gets to bury their son who was looking at twenty years for flying a relatively harmless recreational drug across the border.

Can call it harmless all you like, illegal is illegal. Like when you watch the dopeheads on "Locked Up Abroad" ("Banged Up Abrad" to our international readers.) They would rather do their dope than work for a living. They run out of dope and need money for more dope. So some connection tells them they will make a killing if they smuggle some dope. Common element is they never ask why if it is so easy it will pay so well?

Dopehead ends up is some crazy, amateur smuggling scam. It is so obvious they get caught right away, then spend a few months to several years in a foreign prison. Guy who led them to do it either counts it as a cost of doing business to lose a certain % of loads or/and was "in on it" with the customs agent to provide a pinch or two every now and then so the real loads get by.

It is the smuggler's blues.