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Jessse is a friend of mine he has been clean and sober over five years. We all did some shit in our past we wish we did not do. SOme people change for the better some do not.

Some interesting news on Billy Boy. Karma? "This is Karma. My heart goes out to the dead fellow and his family, but Billy had to be knocked off his high horse sometime. You cannot build a good reputation on a foundation of shit. Billy Lane is a spoiled brat kid who went to college and than decided to build bikes from stolen parts purchased from Angles and Outlaws in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Those of us whom really know him know that he is a scumbag lowlife kid from a semi-wealthy family that decided to play like he was a cool outlaw type dude. Him, his father and his older brother never had the balls to actually steal bikes and cars, but had the scumbag sense to buy stolen shit from others and use them for their own gain. He was influenced by his father whom used to deal in Corvettes, ripping off so many people that his shop finally went out of business. His other influence was his scumbag older brother whom dealt in stolen motorcycles and cars, sending at least one of his friends to jail by ratting him out to the local Police. After the heat got too hot for the Lanes in Miami, Billy hauled ass out of town. (It’s hard to deal in stolen bikes and stolen bike parts while the local police are looking hard at your bike shop because your brother sold a stolen bike to one of his friends and than gets his buddy locked up for 3 years.) You may look for proof, but the Lanes are a crafty bunch. Smart enough to get away with their illegal shit for so many years, but now the youngest of the brood will likely take the most heat since the father and brother knew that the best way to be a successful shitty scumbag is to keep a low profile. The hardest thing the people in Miami that know him have had to bear is that so many of you assholes looked up to this total piece of poser shit that never conducted his life in a proper manner. Back in the day Billy and Warren were known as “Instant Bikers”. One day they woke up, got a shit load of tattoos, threw together some stolen junk and tried to hang out with the local Motorcycle clubs. Since they had money and good looks some local shit asses welcomed them for their cash and drugs. Now maybe the world will finally see what kind of a scumbags this guy and his thieving family really are."

He got a dwi four months ago at a bike rally in NC. His DL was suspended from that then he gets in his truck loaded again and kills a fellow biker passing cars in a no passing zone. He will see some major time for sure. I do not feel bad for him at all. I sould not say that yes i do feel bad for him, his family and the person who was killed and his family. This shit hurts everyone. Sure he is a nice guy and builds cool bikes but he should of never been driving loaded again. Man i am glad it was not me i drove drunk many times too but after my second dui i stopped drinking all together. He was twice the legal limit. Sucks for all of them.

Florida - With four attorneys by his side, nationally known motorcycle designer Billy Lane quietly surrendered to authorities Monday on charges his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit during a collision that killed a 56-year-old man on a moped. Lane was charged with driving under the influence manslaughter, driving with his license suspended and driving under the influence with serious bodily injuries in connection with a Sept. 4 accident on State Road A1A, south of Melbourne Beach. Gerald Vernon Morelock, a Sebastian Inlet park ranger from Melbourne Beach, was killed in the head-on collision between his moped and Lane's pickup truck. "At the time of the crash (Lane's) license had been suspended," Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Miller said. Lane's case has drawn attention from motorcycling enthusiasts across the country. "He should have never been behind the wheel," Miller said. After he resisted officers who tried to draw blood, Lane's blood alcohol level tested at .192, more than twice the state's legal limit of .08, Miller said. Lane's attorney issued a statement. "We are currently conducting our own investigation of every aspect of this accident, including the blood alcohol level," Melbourne attorney Kepler Funk said. Morelock's brother, Byron Morelock of Indialantic, praised the effort to bring in Lane on DUI manslaughter charges. He described his brother "Jerry" as a friendly, fun-loving man who moved to Brevard from Ohio in 1984. "I'm relieved, but I had faith in the arresting patrolman and I have faith in our legal system," said Byron Morelock. "(The investigator) kept in touch with me and said the investigators were crossing their t's and dotting their i's. I'm relieved but it's such a shame this had to happen. There are no winners in this thing. Relieved is the wrong word -- maybe just that some of the tension is gone." On Monday, an FHP trooper led a handcuffed Lane out of the highway patrol's Cocoa headquarters about 1:30 p.m. to a waiting patrol car. Looking disheveled and staring ahead quietly, Lane was placed in the front seat of the patrol car, then escorted to the Brevard County Jail Complex, where he was photographed and booked into the jail. He was released within 90 minutes on a $15,000 bond, officials said. "That does seem low, but, unfortunately for us, we don't set the bond," Miller said. "We would like to see a higher bond, but it's a standard bond." Lane must surrender his passport and cannot drive, as part of the requirements of his bond, Miller said. Investigators said the accident happened after Lane, the custom chopper builder featured on Discovery Channel's "Biker Build-Off" and "Monster Garage," crossed a double yellow line to pass several other vehicles before striking Morelock's 1983 Yamaha moped. Lane had been drinking throughout the day, according to investigators. He was at Coconuts on the Beach Restaurant and Bar in Cocoa Beach earlier and left the popular nightclub and headed to Cheaters, another popular nightspot, where he had several other drinks, officials said. Lane got on his motorcycle with a passenger identified as Erin Levens Derrick and rode to his business, Choppers, Inc., located on the 1200 block of U.S. 1 in Melbourne. At the shop, Lane and his passenger got into a black, custom-painted 2006 Dodge Ram pickup and headed toward his beachside home. Later on State Road A1A, a two-lane highway that parallels the beach and cuts through a residential area, Lane was spotted passing the double yellow line to speed southbound past three vehicles on the darkened road, officials said. Several motorists told Florida Highway Patrol investigators that they saw a headlight in the distance belonging to the northbound moped ridden by Morelock. Investigators said Lane saw the light, then attempted to veer east when the pickup slammed head-on into the moped, killing Morelock instantly. The moped was destroyed, its mangled wreckage tossed 64 feet away. Lane's pickup trucked rolled off the road, knocking over three palm trees and overturned into a power pole, reports show. Brevard County Fire-Rescue paramedics arrived minutes later and found Lane, injured but conscious, still in the driver's seat. Paramedics said they also smelled alcohol. Both Lane and his passenger, Derrick, were taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne for treatment. But at the hospital, Lane, still able to speak, refused a request from investigators to draw blood. Troopers then had to hold Lane down while a nurse took the blood sample, officials said. He went home the next day. Investigators did not immediately file charges in the case, something that raised the ire of family members and motorcycle bloggers on the Internet. But agents -- who described the crash scene as one of the worst they had seen in recent years -- turned over Lane's blood to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory in Orlando and asked that the case be given priority. "They actually put a rush on it, and his blood alcohol actually came back twice the legal limit of .08," Miller said. The deadly crash was also not the only run-in with traffic enforcement for the celebrity biker. In June, North Carolina Highway Patrol officers arrested Lane on drunken driving charges. Police in that case said Lane drove on the wrong side of a two-lane road without a helmet. Lane refused a breath test and is due in court Oct. 5 on those charges, according to the Rowan County Clerk of Courts. His refusal to take the breath test resulted in his license being suspended for a year. "The police did the right thing and took their time," Byron Morelock said. "It just goes to show that you cannot go around drinking and driving."

nothing to miss at all....

Yes Shannon is my rock and she rocks.... Thanks for the kind words. I sure believe there is a GOD, someone keep me alive for some reason. I overdosed 5 times. I should of been dead many times but I feel I was placed on this planet to be a drug addict and to get clean and be able to share my story with others. If that article helped just one person it was worth it. Tim

GOD=Good Orderly Direction

You sure make a wide assumption that all drug addicts are thieves, liars and cheats. That is the stigma that most people have. It is a very sad fact that you say that because allot of people that are drunks or drug addicts are the people that live next door to you parents. I am a drug addict and a drunk but for today I am clean and sober. I never was a thief or a "waste of life loser" as you put it. I have always made a very good living and always paid for my dope with my hard earned money. Yes some of the people are the way you describe them but I think you might watch and believe everything you see on TV or read in the paper. It is comments like yours that scare people away from asking for help because they are worried about what the ladies at the local church, PTA club, etc will think. A majority of drug addicts are hooked on pain pills, then heroin, coke, etc. I did drugs because I like them I did not use them to escape from reality because of some childhood trauma. I crossed that line from a person who did drugs on the weekend to a daily junkie very fast. I have spent over a million dollars in the past 20 years on drugs. I went into rehab in 1990 because of my ounce a day coke habit. I would go in and out of 12 step programs for 20 years. I would switch from drinking, to just coke, just pot, just heroin, etc. The shit can bring a person down fast. I had to work hard and make allot of money to support my addictions. If it was so easy to just walk away we would have no need for rehabs or 12 step programs. I stopped when I was ready to stop no one could do it for me I had to do it for myself. All I can say is stay as far away from drugs as possible. I do not think pot is a drug either, it should be legal, I do not smoke it anymore but I wish I would of just done that. He is an article on my story that ran in USA Today a few months ago. I also can give out a few links to some great forums for drunks and drug addicts. If anyone needs help or wants to discuss this topic any further please shoot me a pm. Tim http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-19-addiction-family_x.htm In Tim Ryan's family, he is the addict. Updated 7/20/2006 1:02 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Reprints & Permissions | Subscribe to stories like this Enlarge By Anne Ryan, USA TODAY Businessman Tim Ryan has been on and off drugs for the past 16 years. If not for his wife and children, he says, he'd be dead. ABOUT THIS PROJECT USA TODAY and HBO are collaborating on a special report on drug and alcohol addiction. This story is part of that project, which will include future reports in USA TODAY and a two-hour HBO public service special scheduled to air in March 2007. We will explore the latest research on addiction, how addiction affects lives and communities, and cutting-edge treatments. By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY If not for his wife and four children, Tim Ryan says matter-of-factly, he'd be dead. Ryan, 37, estimates he has been sober, on and off, for eight of the past 16 years. He says his most recent stint began about six months ago, when he stopped drinking and using heroin. This time, he says, sobriety is going to stick. "I spend a majority of my time with my kids," says Ryan, a partner in a Chicago information technology company who often works from his suburban home. "I look at their eyes and their faces. If I can't quit for them, I've got a problem." Addiction is endemic in American families. A USA TODAY/HBO nationwide poll of adults April 27-May 31 found that one in five said they had an immediate relative who at some point had been addicted to alcohol or drugs. That translates into roughly 40 million American adults with a spouse, parent, sibling or child battling addiction. And that doesn't count the millions of children living with an addicted parent. ADDICTION: A look at addiction in American families | Share your story Many Americans might find these numbers shocking. But H. Westley Clark, who directs the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, says he's not surprised that 20% of poll respondents said they have an immediate relative who has been addicted to alcohol or drugs. "I don't think that's particularly high," says Clark, a psychiatrist and lawyer. "Roughly half of American adults drink alcohol. You're dealing with a large number here." Addiction is a family disease. Even if only one member is addicted to alcohol or drugs or both, all are affected. And unless addiction is dealt with as a family problem, marriages will be destroyed, and children will be at risk of repeating the cycle. "For every person who's alcoholic or dependent on other drugs, there are at least four or five people hurt on a regular basis," says Sis Wenger, executive director of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. Pay attention to those four or five people as well as their addicted family member, and you increase the likelihood of a successful recovery, says Charles Curie, administrator of SAMHSA, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. "More and more, you're unable to make a real impact on someone's addiction unless the family as a whole is considered," he says. When asked for words or phrases that described addiction's effect on their family, survey respondents came up with "devastating," "abusive" and "bitter," among others. In interviews taken during the poll, the survey respondents described life with an addicted family member. One now ex-husband says he called every drugstore within 50 miles of his home to ask pharmacists to stop filling his wife's painkiller prescriptions because she was getting duplicates from various doctors. Another spoke of how his now ex-wife would crack open a beer as soon as she got home from work and, on weekend mornings, practically as soon as she got out of bed. Not surprisingly, when one spouse drinks heavily and the other doesn't, chances of divorce are high, says Kenneth Leonard, a senior scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo. But when both are heavy drinkers, researchers have found that they tend to be fairly satisfied with their marriage, says Leonard, whose research into the effects of alcoholism on marriages and children is financed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "It's a shared activity, and it's time spent together," Leonard explains. Husbands fall most often When only one spouse drinks heavily or uses drugs or does both, chances are it's the husband. In the USA TODAY/HBO poll, which was conducted by Gallup and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, 31% of women who had an addicted relative mentioned their spouse, compared with only 12% of men. Tim Ryan says his wife, Shannon Ryan, 35, "barely drinks." Ask her to describe life over the years with her husband, and the word "turmoil" pretty much sums it up. When he was using drugs or drinking heavily, she says, "he was not a father, he was not a husband, he was not a friend. He was just someone who existed and brought home a paycheck." They met when she was hired as the office administrator at his company, where he worked as director of recruiting. "I had told him the first date we went on if he was involved in drugs in any way, let me know, because I didn't want to continue with him," she recalls. "He lied to me." Before they were married in December 1996, Shannon Ryan says, "I knew he had the alcohol issues. I didn't even change my last name for a while. A good way to start a marriage, knowing you're going to be divorced right away." They were married at the courthouse. She was pregnant with their first child together (Ryan eventually adopted her firstborn son from a previous relationship). He was hung over, the couple say. After their son was born, Shannon Ryan says, she began hyphenating her maiden name and her husband's last name "so I could at least be associated with him (her son) when he went to school." Around that time she found cocaine on a shelf in the garage. "At first, he denied it: 'It's not mine, it's a friend's.' But after a while, he admitted it," she recalls. "I was blind for a couple of years, but now the pieces were starting to fit." She'd noticed money disappearing. Now she knew why. "And it really wasn't too long after that that he got clean for a while, for about a year," she says. "I wanted to think it would be forever, but I knew deep down it was a temporary thing. I just kind of knew that he would eventually fall. "I think in the back of his head he had the goal, 'I'm just going to do it for a year.' " And then their firstborn child, at age 6, was struck by a car. The boy, who is now 12, had surgery and spent a week in the hospital, followed by weeks of recuperating at home. Shannon Ryan, who was interviewed separately from her husband, figures that the accident served as a convenient reason for him to fall back into his old habits. Over the next several years, during which their family grew by two, "he had brief moments here and there of being clean or sober," Ryan's wife recalls. "Usually, he would either drink, or he would do drugs. It was rarely combined." Eventually, he began using heroin. "Heroin is so different from cocaine or alcohol," Shannon Ryan says. "It has such a different grab on him. It's uncontrollable." Working at home probably helped her husband keep his recruiting job, she says. "He could use here at home. He could go out and get the heroin, and no one knew he was gone." She says she would take him to the train station so he could go downtown to interview job candidates. Or so she thought. "This went on for two years before I realized what he was doing," she says. Besides wining and dining job prospects, her husband admits, he also was meeting drug dealers to buy heroin. Although Ryan says he has made "well over" $100,000 each year of his marriage, his addiction left them broke. "Drugs and alcohol came first, and the bills came second," Shannon Ryan says. They had a car repossessed, then a boat. "I had several loans go into default," she says. "I had to borrow money to pay our electric bills. It was just sickening, making the amount of money he did. We couldn't get credit for anything." Women pay the price In the USA TODAY poll, women were significantly more likely than men to say that a family member's addiction had hurt their mental and physical health and their marriage, and Shannon Ryan is no exception. As a result of her husband's addiction, she says, she developed an ulcer and began taking an antidepressant. Ryan says he can't understand why she stayed with him. She acknowledges: "I thought about leaving him a lot. To be honest, I felt really trapped, being that he was the breadwinner. I didn't have a job. I had four small children. I really couldn't go out and get a job." So she stayed home and covered for her husband. Ryan says he frequently broke promises to take their kids to the park or to the zoo. "The kids would be disappointed, and then I would have to pick up the slack," Shannon Ryan says. "I would have to make up excuses for him. I was doing a lot of lying to the kids." They were young, but they weren't oblivious, she says. "The oldest one, especially. He would know when Tim was drunk, for sure. He would know when Tim was high on cocaine." The toll on children A nationwide household survey in 2003 found that 6 million children in the USA lived with at least one parent who abused or was addicted to alcohol or drugs during the previous year, SAMHSA director Curie says. "Children who are in critical developmental phases, who are quite young, can be profoundly impacted." In one study, Leonard of the University at Buffalo found that among fathers of 12-month-olds, those who abused alcohol spoke less to their children and expressed less positive involvement. They also felt more negative emotions and aggravation when it came to their children. By 18 months old, children of fathers who abused alcohol had more symptoms of anxiety and depression than their peers, Leonard found. If no one intervenes, about one in four children of alcoholics become alcoholics themselves, says Wenger of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. "There's a very disproportionate number of people growing up in those families who end up with addiction or abuse," she says. "These children are so good at looking OK that they fool their parents, they fool their teachers. Then they graduate from college and repeat the cycle." Her organization works with clergy, teachers and pediatricians to identify children whose parents are addicted to alcohol or drugs. "It's a phenomenal number of children, and they all think they're alone," Wenger says. "These children can get better, even if their parents don't, if they get the right education and support." One of the most important lessons for these children is that alcoholism is a disease, not a shameful family secret they must keep, Wenger says. "It's almost palpable, when you're working with these kids, when they get it: 'Oh my God, it's not my fault.' " Some addiction treatment programs involve the entire family. One of the first was Seabrook House, an inpatient treatment center in Bridgeton, N.J., which runs the yearlong MatriArk program for low-income single mothers who are dealing with addiction. Established in 1993 with funding from SAMHSA, MatriArk opened a new $8.3 million complex in May. It contains 36 apartments of various sizes for the women and their children 12 and under, who usually join their mothers a month into treatment. Preschoolers attend MatriArk's day care program, which specializes in working with children who have developmental problems related to their mother's drug or alcohol use. Older children go to the nearby public elementary school. Besides treating the mothers' addiction, MatriArk teaches them how to be loving, responsible moms, says Seabrook House president Edward Diehl. They are typically daughters of single mothers who themselves were addicted, Diehl says. "Our goal is to try and not repeat the cycle in the next generation." Ryan says fear of losing his wife and children finally drove him to go on methadone for his heroin addiction nearly a year and a half ago. "If I would have kept on the path I was, she would have left me." He eventually switched to buprenorphine, another drug used to treat opioid addiction. Many doctors regard buprenorphine as long-term treatment for the chronic disease of addiction, but Ryan decided on his own to stop taking it after a month and a half. He says he was concerned that the longer he took it, the more difficult it would be to stop taking it. He doesn't go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly but says he frequently talks to his AA sponsor. Ryan says he also seeks support in online recovery forums. In the USA TODAY/HBO poll, three out of four respondents with addicted close relatives said they thought their family member could make a full recovery. However, two-thirds of them thought recovery was possible only with professional help. Can Tim Ryan succeed? In Ryan's favor, says Clark of SAMHSA, is the fact that he is married and has children and says he has cut his ties with substance abusers. "You're always at risk for relapse, but that doesn't mean you will relapse," Clark says. Shannon Ryan is cautiously optimistic about her husband's chances for a long-term recovery. "Part of it now is the kids are older, and I'm not as dependent on him anymore," she says. "I'm hopeful he's a little more fearful of falling again." Ryan knows he has given his wife every reason to be skeptical. "I think a lot of times she sits there going, 'When's the other shoe going to drop? Is this for real?' " he says. "You've got to take it on a day-by-day basis."

Come on back anytime. Nationals 2007.... Tim

No sky scrapers around sdc, Chicago is 70 miles away and they face the other direction. Good guess. We just get some kick ass sunsets every month or so.

I love the sunsets out at SDC or in my back yard, 20 miles from the DZ. Tim

He is from NYC-Queens.

That is GREAT news Chris. Please let me know if I can do anything to help out in any way. Keith has done a great job spreading the love out at Skydive Chicago. He is always the person helping out the new jumpers. I am glad he is getting better, Tim

Chris, That sucks man. I do not know Keith well but he is party of the SDC family. I wish him the best. Tim

That is a urban myth Wont happen

Go rub one out, box the clown

I would have well over a million dollars in the bank or stock market.

GOOD FOR HIM. He went in for the wrong reasons but oh well. He needs to get help for himself first not to save a marriage. Robin Williams checked himself into rehab in a desperate bid to win a three-year battle with booze that's threatening to destroy his marriage, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. The Oscar-winning actor's drinking was so out of control that he suffered repeated blackouts, sources say, and after he was photographed hugging a waitress in a bar on May 22, his wife Marsha slapped him with an ultimatum: Get help or I'm leaving. To save himself and his 17-year marriage, Williams entered a 30-day program at the Hazelden Springbrook alcohol rehab facility in Newberg, Ore., on July 11. "My drink of choice was vodka," he told a pal. "I would buy two pints at a time, one for each jacket pocket. But I had to be careful. I didn't want to be seen buying liquor every day." Williams told a souce that he hatched a plan to buy booze only at liquor stores owned by Asians, figuring he wouldn't be recognized. He was wrong. The first time he went into an Asian-owned liquor store, the proprietor said: "Robin Williams, how are you? You buy liquor?"

NO SHIT. Some people just have way too much time i guess. She is a washed up has been...ummm whore if you ask me.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=399454&in_page_id=1770 Poor weather grounds parachuting grandmother 18:27pm 7th August 2006 A grandmother's hopes of parachuting from a plane at 12,000ft were dashed today by bad weather. Mary Armstrong, 90, from East Molesey, near Woking, Surrey, was due to parachute jump at Headcorn airfield in Kent. The great grandmother-of-nine, who took her first jump at the age of 87, hopes driving rain will clear to enable the leap to go ahead tomorrow instead. All the money raised from the event will go to Brooke, a veterinary charity for working horses and donkeys overseas. She said: "I am disappointed that I wasn't able to do it today, but I will do it once the weather clears. "I love the feeling you get when falling through the clouds. I feel like a bird." It will be the third time Ms Armstrong has parachute jumped, and she said: "I'll keep doing them until I'm 100."

That SUCKS. I would call the local police.

Scott, It was a pleasure to meet you at SDC. Glad you were able to spread the love with the suits. Tim

Glad you are having a good time. I am still sun burned from chillin by the pond all day with my 4 kids. I am blessed to have the Nelsons in my life. Man i was spoiled to learn to skydive with Roger, Melissa, Rook, Dave C and so on. Well gonna blow off work the next few days and be at the DZ. I hope the 20 minute drive does not take to long HAHA SDC ROCKS!

I did it 20 years ago in college, needed beer money. Took an hour and we got 12 bones a visit. It sucked i would not do it. Tim

Tito all the way.