Because they would have been shredded like ecoli-laced Taco Bell lettuce. I like to think I'm a fairly respected member of this community, but I had a bad dealing with Lonnie last month but knew that if I dared to say anything negative about him, I would be taken to task for daring to disparage him. Until yesterday, talking bad about Lonnie was the equivalent of calling Mother Theresa a syphilis-ridden, take-it-up-the-ass whore.
Oh, how times have changed. That loud crash you heard yesterday? That was the sound of the mighty falling...
Exactly Mark! I thought many times of revealing the strange things I had encountered with Lonnie, but by the way everyone would just fall apart with the reports of his supposed health problems, I knew better....think back, he had atleast 2 big problems in the past few months, then would reappear in fine shape....things like that seemed to always bother me..also, it is apparent he would disappear after making deals with alot of folks, I just thought it was me.....but without absolute proof of wrong doing or illegal activity, myself and others could not just start slandering him....and really, would anyone on this board have listened anyway? seems to me he was the local hero that went bad.....
Some of us may have listened...but we will never know.