Sam Hurd Trying to be Tony Montana

[military_irish]

I just don't get it. He is making 4 million a year with the Bears and all he has done is catch 6 passes for a little over 100 yards. I would love that job. This quote from the article is just crazy.

At that meeting, Hurd told the informant that he wanted to buy "five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week for distribution in the Chicago area," according to the complaint.

10 Kilos is a little over 20lbs. That is a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if he goes away for awhile. Then again I wouldn't be surprised if he gets not jail time at all and it is just swept under the rug.

Bears Sam Hurd Arrest on Drug Charges

 

[e34croak]

Damn, that's pretty intense to move 5-10 keys a week while having an NFL career. But I can understand trying to swell his bank roll since he would only take $685,000 this season.

 

[BeauBenken]

Well...SMH.

 

[Who'saWildManNow]

Anyone who says hi to Urlacher ten times a day must be a good guy..

Sickening.

 

[irishog77]

I don't know about Tony Montana...but in the least, Nate Newton or Jamal Lewis!

 

[hrc08]

5 to 10 keys a week isn't that much in Chicago. Willie Lloyd probably moved that much or more in the 1990's.

 

[Rhode Irish]

I love the thread title. I'm pretty sure this was a fed bust, and the feds don't play. I doubt this gets swept under the rug. He might be able to flip and keep himself out of jail, though.

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

Just saw this... lol at the connoisseur part

Sam Hurd’s prosecution for drug trafficking more than meets the eye | The MMQB with Peter King

 

[Bluto]

He's probably toast. If he flips on his suppliers there's a good chance he ends up dead. I'm guessing he was the go to guy for most of his teammates. Crazy. Anyhow, interesting op ed on cocaine.

Cocaine trafficking horrors: Users are complicit in the atrocities of the drug trade.

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

He's probably toast. If he flips on his suppliers there's a good chance he ends up dead. I'm guessing he was the go to guy for most of his teammates. Crazy. Anyhow, interesting op ed on cocaine.

Cocaine trafficking horrors: Users are complicit in the atrocities of the drug trade.

Did you read the story? They are all nobodies, chances are Hurd wasn't some big time drug dealer and neither were his connections. Which is why people in jail laugh at him...

That slate article is similar to one I read a few weeks ago. Sad story.

 

[wizards8507]

I love the people referring to cocaine kilos as "keys" like they're Denzel Washington in "American Gangster."

 

[Irish#1]

Damn, that's pretty intense to move 5-10 keys a week while having an NFL career. But I can understand trying to swell his bank roll since he would only take $685,000 this season.

Sounds like a sensible guy just planning for the future. He knows NFL careers are short and he's got to get that Fidelity IRA beefed up for retirement.

 

[Bluto]

Did you read the story? They are all nobodies, chances are Hurd wasn't some big time drug dealer and neither were his connections. Which is why people in jail laugh at him...

That slate article is similar to one I read a few weeks ago. Sad story.

I read the story. Maybe in the grand scheme of things they were "nobodies" but trying to move 10 keys of cocaine is something that could easily get you killed. Back when weed was $5,000 a pound or so in California growers were getting robbed at gun point all the time. Anyhow, the guy was already dealing weed. No much of a jump to dealing coke.

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

I read the story. Maybe in the grand scheme of things they were "nobodies" but trying to move 10 keys of cocaine is something that could easily get you killed.
Yeah in general that much drugs (probably far less as well) can get you killed. But in Hurd's case his suppliers are an informant and mechanic trying pay for a wedding. No one is killing him if he starts talking.

Back when weed was $5,000 a pound or so in California growers were getting robbed at gun point all the time. Anyhow, the guy was already dealing weed. No much of a jump to dealing coke.

Growers are still getting robbed though not as much as before. Dispensaries really put a dent in that business model

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[PANDFAN]

I love the people referring to cocaine kilos as "keys" like they're Denzel Washington in "American Gangster."

that has loooong been a slang term...used forever

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

that has loooong been a slang term...used forever

My guess would be Scarface(movie) introduced it into the average person's vocab.

 

[Irish#1]

I read the story. Maybe in the grand scheme of things they were "nobodies" but trying to move 10 keys of cocaine is something that could easily get you killed. Back when weed was $5,000 a pound or so in California growers were getting robbed at gun point all the time. Anyhow, the guy was already dealing weed. No much of a jump to dealing coke.

Probably not since you have the logistics and distribution already in place.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Yeah but according to the story he really didn't want to do anything. I'm almost tempted to believe him because of his attitude about the whole thing, unless I'm misremembering that article.

 

[PANDFAN]

My guess would be Scarface(movie) introduced it into the average person's vocab.

not necessarily the movie, but the time frame....during the 70's and 80's the cocaine boom from miami

 

[wizards8507]

that has loooong been a slang term...used forever

Yeah, I know the term exists. I'm questioning its use in ordinary conversation for those of us who aren't "on da streets."

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

Yeah, I know the term exists. I'm questioning its use in ordinary conversation for those of us who aren't "on da streets."

 

[BGIF]

Yeah, I know the term exists. I'm questioning its use in ordinary conversation for those of us who aren't "on da streets."

Sorry to burst your bubble little grasshopper but it didn't start "on da streets" it's got to do with the metric system and Americans inablity to deal with it. Used to be the UK and USA against the rest of the world but even the UK went metric.

Anyone ever stationed or leaving overseas was familiar with "Klicks" and "Keys" Americanisms for Kilometers and Kilograms. I'd hazard a guess it came out of WWI when The Boy went Over There and brought it and French Postcards back home.

It was less well know during the Roaring 20's then today but it was there.

It came home again after WWII.

It was part of the vernacular of Kerouvac and The Beat Generation.

It was widespread among college and high school kids in the 60's. Play some Arlo Guthrie some time. Not many needed an explanation even among the non-heads when he recorded "Coming into Los Angeles" in '69. He made it part of the anthem of Woodstock where the audience was 99+% whitebread. Nobody from the ghetto or barrio were hitchhiking up the Thruway to catch some tunes in 600 acres of mud.

It was around long before Frank Lucas or the Marielitos.

 

[BGIF]

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of key
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man


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[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

Comin' into Los Angeles
Bringin' in a couple of key
Don't touch my bags if you please mister customs man


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Crazy story.

Great tune!!

 

[ACamp1900]

I'm from 'da streets'......... what's 'a key'??

 

[Circa]

I love the people referring to cocaine kilos as "keys" like they're Denzel Washington in "American Gangster."

I know, almost as odd as people named William being called Bill... The nerve...

 

[dshans]

My guess would be Scarface(movie) introduced it into the average person's vocab.

Earlier than that is my guess. I don't know when it started but a kilogram of weed (a little over 2 pounds) was called a kilo or a key. This was back in the '60s.

 

[irishog77]

Earlier than that is my guess. I don't know when it started but a kilogram of weed (a little over 2 pounds) was called a kilo or a key. This was back in the '60s.

And this man knows.

 

[BGIF]

And this man knows.

... sittin' downtown in a railroad station ...

 

[dshans]

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