Sounds like Pam was tired of him.
That’s sad. :o( RIP.
Or was he afraid that obama was going to raise his taxes?
I’ll be making a batch of Dandelion Wine this Spring in his honor. :)
I saw the HBO program. Sad to see the man go that way, but better than rotting in prison.
I had some ‘white lightning’ in Knoxville, once.
Tastes like a toxic defoliant. Horrible stuff.
“Popcorn” sounds like he earned that nick by having an accident or 2 during his time making that corn liquor.
When pot is “legalized” we will see old hippie potheads being hauled off to jail in his place. I woder what their nicknames will be...Pothead? Dopehead? Hacking Hal?
bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times.
Otherwords Government couldn’t fleece Popcorns pockets.
Yes, Freedom and Liberty mean different things to different people. Soldiers fight and die for it. Nothing wrong with the Bootleggers perspective here.
Bottom line is... there are more important things than life as we perceive it in the world of form.(My opinion of course)
I remember this guy from the history channel.
Looks like he got on the wrong side of the ethanol cartel. The “green energy” liberals want all the money for themselves.
/sarc
I sure hope they don’t try to cremate him.....
Illicit stills threaten two streams of government revenue - sin taxes and fuel taxes (the latter to soon be supplemented substantially as to reflect carbon emissions costs). Dual brigades of the morality police (enviros and the usual busybodies), in addition to the revenue collectors, have dogs in this fight.
RIP, Popcorn.
She has no doubt Sutton died on his own terms. “Of course he did. That man went out in a blaze of glory, and flipping his finger as he went,” she said.
The weekend before 9/11, I flew into Knoxville to visit my brother and his family with a big assortment of firearms for when we went to the range.
We departed TYS, and he told me the plans for the day:
*Shooting up the side of a friend's mountain
*BBQ
*An evening of dirty fun at The Atomic Motor Speedway (where he gave the invocation before the events)
On the way home, I mentioned that it was the perfect redneck day, save for having the chance to be chased by the Feds into the hills with a load of shine in the back.
His reply?
"You have no idea how easy that could be arranged!"
It’s a shame. If Popcorn would have just sold his moonshine as ethanol, he not only would not have had to pay taxes, he would have got a tax break.
The freedom to live one’s life the way one chooses died with Popcorn.
RIP.