Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Smackdown

There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you’ve got 100 kilos of heroin in the trunk of your car. Just to be near it, to smell it. Driving along at 120 mph in France somewhere and thinking: “I know what I’ve got in the car.” Police stopping beside you. A gun under my seat. Wouldn’t think twice about shooting them. Taking the risk. At the end of the day that’s why I became a drug dealer. Not the money or the power, but the buzz.

That's from an interview with Suleyman Ergun, formerly the "world's most prolific and powerful seller of smack," in Vice Magazine.

Lessons: 1) I think I lack a certain business acumen, 2) we're all just looking for our rush, and 3) "if you don’t have money, you have nothing."