zipdoa
08-24-2011, 05:21 PM
This is somewhat old news, but I couldn't find any threads related to it on beyond. I used to watch this guys segment in NWD3 before riding, and the talent he had was just unbelievable.
Looks like they're going to turn the whole thing into a movie. I've included the original Rolling Stone article, the CBC's 5th Estate documentary Over The Edge, Sam's segment in NWD3 and a link with info about the movie, along with some news clips.
If you have time, I highly suggest you read the Rolling Stone article and then watch the 5th Estate documentary.
On February 23, 2009, 24-year-old Sam Brown of British Columbia was arrested by U.S. authorities in Washington State as he landed a helicopter he had piloted across the border. Sam’s crime: he was attempting to smuggle almost 200 kilograms of marijuana, “B.C. Bud”. Only a few days after his arrest, Sam hanged himself in his jail cell. In Over the Edge, Linden MacIntyre takes us into the world of drug smuggling in B.C. and the role in it of young people like Sam Brown.
Sam was an extreme sports enthusiast, who thrived on the adrenaline of risk taking. He grew up in the B.C. interior, living in Nelson, where the flourishing mountain biking scene offered him new challenges. Rugged and picturesque, Nelson is a hotbed for the young and unconventional, a magnet for extreme sports enthusiasts—and a centre for the lucrative, underground marijuana industry.
The homegrown pot, “B.C. Bud”, pours billions of illegal dollars into local economies in B.C. Huge demand for the drug has allowed Nelson to ride out normal economic swings. But “B.C. Bud” also fuels a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise on B.C.’s lower mainland and the United States, sustained largely by a core group of thrill-seekers like Sam—young people who smuggle drugs for the sheer high of the risk and their addiction to the money.
In Over the Edge, the fifth estate reconstructs Sam’s final smuggling mission. Linden MacIntyre speaks with a former smuggler who recruited Sam into that world. Viewers will also hear from his sisters and father, still grappling with the circumstances of his arrest and his death, as well as Sam’s American lawyers, some of the last people to speak with him before he took his life.
Death Of A Freerider - Rolling Stone article (http://pro-webpage.com/kathy/SamBrown.php)
CBC 5th Estate - Over the Edge (http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/over_the_edge/)
Jasn Priestley options Death of a Freerider Movie (http://www.slashfilm.com/jason-priestley-options-death-of-a-freerider-cycling-subgenre-explodes/)
IMDB - Death of a Freerider (2011) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1546974/)
Pinkbike Article (http://www.pinkbike.com/news/sam-brown-2009.html)
Drug Kingpin reveealed Informant marked for death (http://www.chbcnews.ca/Shuswap+drug+kingpin+revealed+informant+marked+death/2407853/story.html)
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http://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb3082444/p4pb3082444.jpg
Looks like they're going to turn the whole thing into a movie. I've included the original Rolling Stone article, the CBC's 5th Estate documentary Over The Edge, Sam's segment in NWD3 and a link with info about the movie, along with some news clips.
If you have time, I highly suggest you read the Rolling Stone article and then watch the 5th Estate documentary.
On February 23, 2009, 24-year-old Sam Brown of British Columbia was arrested by U.S. authorities in Washington State as he landed a helicopter he had piloted across the border. Sam’s crime: he was attempting to smuggle almost 200 kilograms of marijuana, “B.C. Bud”. Only a few days after his arrest, Sam hanged himself in his jail cell. In Over the Edge, Linden MacIntyre takes us into the world of drug smuggling in B.C. and the role in it of young people like Sam Brown.
Sam was an extreme sports enthusiast, who thrived on the adrenaline of risk taking. He grew up in the B.C. interior, living in Nelson, where the flourishing mountain biking scene offered him new challenges. Rugged and picturesque, Nelson is a hotbed for the young and unconventional, a magnet for extreme sports enthusiasts—and a centre for the lucrative, underground marijuana industry.
The homegrown pot, “B.C. Bud”, pours billions of illegal dollars into local economies in B.C. Huge demand for the drug has allowed Nelson to ride out normal economic swings. But “B.C. Bud” also fuels a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise on B.C.’s lower mainland and the United States, sustained largely by a core group of thrill-seekers like Sam—young people who smuggle drugs for the sheer high of the risk and their addiction to the money.
In Over the Edge, the fifth estate reconstructs Sam’s final smuggling mission. Linden MacIntyre speaks with a former smuggler who recruited Sam into that world. Viewers will also hear from his sisters and father, still grappling with the circumstances of his arrest and his death, as well as Sam’s American lawyers, some of the last people to speak with him before he took his life.
Death Of A Freerider - Rolling Stone article (http://pro-webpage.com/kathy/SamBrown.php)
CBC 5th Estate - Over the Edge (http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/over_the_edge/)
Jasn Priestley options Death of a Freerider Movie (http://www.slashfilm.com/jason-priestley-options-death-of-a-freerider-cycling-subgenre-explodes/)
IMDB - Death of a Freerider (2011) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1546974/)
Pinkbike Article (http://www.pinkbike.com/news/sam-brown-2009.html)
Drug Kingpin reveealed Informant marked for death (http://www.chbcnews.ca/Shuswap+drug+kingpin+revealed+informant+marked+death/2407853/story.html)
XBD1nuN4JCs
WJf2kqNH9E0
Sam's section beings @ :30
x6d1LBvwVQo
http://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb3082444/p4pb3082444.jpg