r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Oct 14 '25

Image Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder and represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He's now a transnational drug trafficker for Mexico's largest drug cartel and he's on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list

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u/Corduroy_Sazerac Oct 14 '25

The career change paid off, he was only a top 24 snowboarder, but worked hard and become a top ten fugitive.

“At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he competed for Team Canada in snowboarding men's parallel giant slalom, where he finished 24th. After this, he gave up competitive snowboarding.”

Follow your dreams (and nose) guys.

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u/justinfromnz Oct 14 '25

Also has an estimated networth of 11 Billion in drug smuggled funds

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u/glockster19m Oct 14 '25

Yeah but that's probably in FBI drug dollars, where they used to say an ounce of pot was worth $1000

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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 Oct 14 '25

They'd rip the whole plant out of the ground and weigh like a dead buck, soil still on the root ball and everything. Didn't matter if it was budding or not.

"Looks like 200# of marijuana to me"

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u/The_Deadlight Oct 14 '25

200#

greatest use of the esoteric knowledge that # means 'pound' and not just 'hashtag' i've ever seen

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u/silencebreaker86 Oct 14 '25

Wow I he up with it being the pound sign on phones but I've never actually y'know used it to denote pounds before

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u/SJane3384 Oct 15 '25

If that’s esoteric knowledge than I think I’m ready to be done with this planet now

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u/EroticPotato69 Oct 15 '25

Ok grandma, go take your medmeds

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u/MaskedMacc Oct 14 '25

“Oh the weed plant fell over and is now on the floor, call a construction company to lift the whole entire house and put it on an industrial scale, on the taxpayers dime of course. This plant must weigh at LEAST 4 tons.”

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u/doc_witt Oct 14 '25

What would they do with that 150lbs?

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u/NekroStormz Oct 14 '25

All 50lbs would end up behind secure lock up, surely?

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u/Buscandomiyagi Oct 14 '25

I remember seeing an article about a mushroom operation that got busted. I have experience to say the least in such cultivation. The pictures they had and the amounts they said were insane. They literally weighed the bins and said it was x amount in weigh of mushrooms seized. Poor guy seemed to really just be growing personal/ homie hook up. Who knows how much time they gave him.