Posted on 03/31/2020 10:51:54 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As in the red dye spurting over his hands and tracing an arc, before splashing onto his rented Chevy Monte Carlo. An exploding cartridge, he would later realize, had been placed in the pile of bills handed to him by a teller at the Augusta bank he had just robbed with two strangers.
Clutching a wad of cash, a look of horror setting in, Crane figured, quite rightly, that he would not be making the final cut at the Masters, after all.
..., with half a day to kill before his first production shift, he went about scrounging up a fix. He found a pair of local dealers and invited them back to his room, where he quickly blew through $1,500 on coke and crack.
...In no shape to drive, he gave his dealers the keys to his rental car and jumped in the back seat. The three men headed to a Wachovia branch
“My first job out of prison was cleaning Porta Potties for minimum wage
(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...
Had to rob a bank because his sports gigs were cancelled.
Commented too soon. Read the rest of the article and he robbed the bank in 2007.
I guess SI is running out of things sports related to write about.
How do you figure that? The article says nothing of the sort.
Crane’s ONLY answer in life is Jesus. I hope God arranges a Divine Appointment for him.
From only the headline, I expected this was another John Daly escapade.
This sounds like a tragic parable of someone who achieved some great things in life beyond his wildest dreams, and threw it all away.
Crane’s ONLY answer in life is Jesus
YES!
RVs don’t make the best getaway vehicles.
Daly is a good man. Save the sniping for Mr. Perfect - Tiger.
SI - Dead Magazine Walking
Amen!
there was a time when SI had some of the best writers anywhere. Then they became environmentalist and pushed other “social justice” causes. The magazine is a rag now and will crash and burn because of the internet.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
What do?
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SI hasn’t been any good since... the 80’s?
About the time Sports died.
“Crane’s ONLY answer in life is Jesus.”
I think Jesus is only interested in one more replay.
rwood
Those explosive packets should be rigged to take out the robber. Saves the cost of trials, appeals and incarceration.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
A big chief that I worked some years for and thought the world of, atheltic, gregarious, looked like the Marlboro man, sent a note that he was taking an out of town position...
I never heard from him again.
A friend married the Marlboro man’s ex-wife and I got the’rest of the story’.
He went to prison for beating his wife and young daughters!
Three years later he is out and living in his car, huge weight loss, teeth and hair, gone.
He would visit the ex-wife to beg for money!
When his drug debts exceeded welfare the dealer gave him a gun and told him to rob a bank. He did not get far.
Released from prison for hospice and died at (?) age 40.
Yes, cocaine is a hell of a drug!
Poking fun, not sniping. I’m actually a fan of Daly’s, but he does have a knack for insane situations.
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