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  • RIP: Legendary moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton

    PARROTTSVILLE, Tenn. –

    Legendary Haywood County moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton took his own life because he couldn’t stand the thought of going to prison, his wife said today.

    Pam Sutton said she found her husband Monday afternoon dead of carbon monoxide poisoning outside their home in Cocke County, Tenn.

    He got his letter to report Friday, and he just couldn’t handle it,” she said. “We tried everything we could to leave him on house arrest, and they wouldn’t do it. So I thank the federal court for this.

    “And he was really sick. He was depressed. I didn’t know he was that depressed.”

    Sutton, 62, spent much of his life making moonshine, a craft that brought him fame and a string of criminal convictions dating back to the 1970s. He was facing 18 months in federal prison on moonshining and weapons charges and had told a judge at his sentencing he was in poor health and would rather die at home than in jail.



  • #2
    I hope this has nothing to do with my connect in Central VA.

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    • #3
      18 months WAS leniency! I'm surprised they didn't throw the book at him. Age or not, the government loves to set examples.

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      • #4
        18 months is leniency for failure to affix a tax stamp to a product? I think we need to get our priorities straightened out.

        -denise

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Morella View Post
          18 months is leniency for failure to affix a tax stamp to a product? I think we need to get our priorities straightened out.

          -denise
          I never said we didn't. Going to jail for murder is better than going to jail as a convicted hacker. Justice is great but the law is seriously fucked up.

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          • #6
            I like the Wiccan philosophy:

            Do what thou wilt, but harm none.


            Unfortunately, it's a hard philosophy for the powers-that-be to profit from.

            I hate to sound like John Lennon, but can you imagine how simple life could be if we owned our own bodies, and were free to make the decisions that could make us happy, healthy, and pain-free?

            In the UK, recently, there was a cancer patient in a hospice who had about two days left to live, and the doctors refused to give this person any pain medicine because he might become addicted to it.

            Hmm...what's this television show that's coming on? Oh, my balls?

            -denise

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            • #7
              we had a big bon fire last saturday night, and this guy brought a quart of Peach from Tenn.
              I wonder if it was his, if it was it was some of the smoothest i'd had in years. $40.00 a quart. But it was worth it.

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