Remember When Tim Allen Nearly Got a Life Sentence For Trafficking Coke?

[ItsjustMe]

https://defamer.gawker.com/remember-when-tim-allen-almost-got-a-life-sentence-for-1682644188

Most of America knows Tim Allen best as the genial, lovable sitcom dad from Home Improvement and his current red-state reassurance vehicle Last Man Standing. But if you were looking for coke in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the mid-70s, you might have known Tim Allen as your drug dealer. Enough people knew him as such that in 1978 an undercover officer set up a sting operation that might have landed Allen in jail for life had he not snitched on nearly two dozen other dealers.

Allen, who was born Timothy Dick, had a fraught upbringing. In 1964, when he was 11, his father was killed in a car accident while returning from a University of Colorado football game. Two years later his family moved to Michigan, and his mom remarried. He eventually matriculated at Central Michigan University, but soon transferred to Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, where he would meet his first wife and, according to one biography, begin dealing drugs. He graduated in 1976, and by October of 1978, he was staring at decades—if not life—in prison.

[SergeStorms]

1. Im surprised he lived to see.....

his career in Hollywood take off. Snitching on nearly two dozen drug dealers would definitely be a death sentence these days.

Back then it was considered one of the hazards of the trade. Times have changed. We certainly live in a more violent world now.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. I bet he's thought about it a lot over the years

A lot.

[brewens]

7. I'd be skeptical about the two dozen. Usually,they are ratting out fellow users and help set

them up. Anyone they can burn that isn't a real threat. That way the worst scumbag gets off. It happens all the time.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. We don't live in a more violent country though.

Homicide rates in this country were much higher in the 70s-90s. They went down significantly until the pandemic and then they went up but not to the levels of several decades ago. Using NYC as an example, in 2022 they had 422 homicides as compared to 2,262 murders in 1990. That’s just one example. In any case, we’re far too violent of a country and the reason is easy access to firearms, especially super deadly ones plus more deadly ammunition.

[FakeNoose]

3. Wow Tim Allen gets 2 DU stories within 24 hours, after being ignored for years

Did you guys see this one?

"Pamela Anderson Alleges Tim Allen Flashed His Penis at Her When She Was 23"

(link) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143022798

I don't know, maybe he needs a new press agent.

[ItsjustMe]

4. Yes, I saw it

That thread reminded me that Tim Allen was also a Convicted drug trafficker.

[3Hotdogs]

5. Born, and appropriately named,

Timothy Dick.

[atreides1]

6. He was lucky

If he'd have been working in the Southwest...he wouldn't have made it to his next birthday...

[IbogaProject]

9. Yep total dirtbag

There were many sitcoms in the 80s and 90s that normalized White Conservative 'values' it was all another facet of the heavy propaganda wave pushing fear and selfishness.