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This is part of an email exchange I had with Sledge’s friend Maya-
Cindi,
Its just so upsetting to see people on multiple adult forums now making accusations about steroids and saying he had heart problems and medications. people who didn’t even know him… I was around this man like between 4 to 7 times a week for almost 4 years, I know he wasn’t on drugs or steroids. we are all in horrible pain over this, people don’t know what its like to think your friend is getting help and then walking into a room to find him strapped to a bunch of machines all beat up. Alexa is in so much pain and seeing idiots post judgements is not helping. we just want to spread the word so this never happens to anyone else.
thank you again Cindi, any little help means the world to us right now.
-Maya
NL- Many more stories about Sledge below…
Hey Cindi,
I do not usually comment on here but I have strong feelings about the passing of Sledge. I have to say that this was the most gentle giant of the adult industry.
I am sad to say I only worked with Sledge once but that was all I needed to say to you now that He was an incredible person, actor, and human being. He was soft spoken and professional. He was one of the first people I met when I entered the adult biz. I met him with Stoney Curtis(his good friend) who I also respect very much.
This man would never harm or threaten anyone. His passing is a tragedy to say the least. Though we only talked for a brief period and shook hands a few times I feel the adult industry and the human race period, lost a true, kind heart. This is all I will say on this gentleman. Rest in peace sir. I will never forget your kind ways and your contribution to my life and your positive ways.
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This is way too much!. Just found out about Mike passing this morning and way too crazy!. Mike always seemed like a really nice guy and never had any indications of any type of “problems” before and was a good smoking “pot” buddy!. I wish and hope that his family get taking care of fiancially by the “crooked” LA city council for this “senseless” killing the the PUNKS in blue, and this doesn’t ever happen again. RIP big Mike!.
My condolences go out to Sledge’s family and close friends. I did not know him other than from his performances and some BTS banter he was in, perhaps running into him at a show a time or two.
I think what drives some of the accusations is that as much as cops use taser devices, very few uses result in death unless the person was either on something or already had a medical condition. How many times do we see people zapped on TV jump back up in a few seconds with no side effects?
I suspect that once the medical autopsy reports are released, it will clear up a lot of the questions people have. Those who were close to him or liked him as a friend are going to see things differently than an objective outsider would. That shouldn’t be taken as judgmental, just an unwillingness to jump to conclusions.
This is a sad story, a very nice guy will be missed. All the speculation and blaming big pharma and police brutality. As a pharmacist i don’t think prescription drugs had a part in this. When treating depression there are documented cases of SSRIs (like prozac, paxil ect) causing a depressed patient to become suicidal during the first month of therapy. But he wasn’t on those. He couldn’t develop a tolerance to OTC sleep aids, they are just antihistimines. Long term marijuana use can cause trouble sleeping and anxiety but you never see that coupled with suicide attempts and i don’t know how long/often he smoked. I’m not sure what caused the paranoia, late onset paranoid schizophrenia happens in the late 20’s, not 30’s. I believe the police tazed him because he was a big guy and also a threat to himself. Tazing has been shown to be extremely safe, very few deaths, like 2 that resulted from tazing only and not coupled with huge doses of drugs, usually speed. The thing I don’t know, he was tazed multiple times, were there more than one tazer gun involved. A tazer has 2 leads that shoot out, 1 positive and 1 negative. If those leads arched current across his heart then you can interfere with heart conduction and cause cardiac arrest. If more than one officer was tazing him then that is definitely wrong. If those leads were in his chest then care had to be taken. It sounds like he shouldn’t have been tazed but if officers feel threatened and he is a danger to himself it’s a tough call. Again I’m not a proponent of tazing but it’s been shown to be very safe and much better than having to shoot someone.
What pharm drugs are you on expurg8d? Tazing is “very safe”? Then why is Sledge gone? Yeah, compared to the number of adverse drug reaction deaths that pharm drugs cause every year (estimates of about 100,000 per year), tasing is very safe. That explains your thesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser_safety_issues
I’m on lots of drugs, pharmaceutical grade is the best stuff. I guess I should amend “very safe” since there have been numerous deaths. I’m curious how many of the deaths were due to arching the current over someone’s heart and also how many deaths vs. how many stuns. That being said I’ve read that Sledge was tased twice in “drive stun” where the officer doesn’t shoot the leads out but puts the Taser directly to a combatants skin. If that was near the chest/heart that could cause dangerous arrhythmias. Still very sad that Sledge is gone, especially since it wasn’t necessary.
Deaths from pharm drugs are one of the top killers. That’s what you called “the best stuff” on Earth?! “I’m on lots of drugs”. The Rockefellers have got ya, sucka! But at least you practice what you preach so I tip my hat to you for that. Next to the war industry, pharm drugs are the biggest industry and both are made through mass murder:
History of pharmaceutical interests
In the early half of the 20th century, petrochemical giants organized a coup on the medical research facilities, hospitals and universities. The Rockefeller family sponsored research and donated sums to universities and medical schools which had drug based research. They further extended this policy to foreign universities and medical schools where research was drug based through their “International Education Board”. Establishments and research which were were not drug based were refused funding and soon dissolved in favor of the lucrative pharmaceutical industry. In 1939 a “Drug Trust” alliance was formed by the Rockefeller empire and the German chemical company IG Farben (Bayer). After World War Two, IG Farben was dismantled but later emerged as separate corporations within the alliance. Well known companies included General Mills, Kellogg, Nestle, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Procter and Gamble, Roche and Hoechst (Sanofi-Aventis). The Rockefeller empire, in tandem with Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), owns over half of the pharmaceutical interests in the United States. It is the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world. Since WWII, the pharmaceutical industry has steadily netted increasing profits to become the world’s second largest manufacturing industry; after the arms industry.
http://www.growyouthful.com/tips/adverse-drug-reactions.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222×15599
I can tell you just love the soft balls i’m throwing at you jeremysteele. Right in your wheelhouse, you knock them all out of the park. I love it. Drug companies are great money makers, isn’t that what America is all about? Drug companies donate millions to each candidate so it doesn’t matter who wins. Drug companies are very good at advertising too. Isn’t America about advertising and selling stuff? Drug companies are so good at it now that if a patient sees his/her doctor now they expect a prescription for something. And doctors don’t want to disappoint….
“I can tell you just love the soft balls i’m throwing at you jeremysteele. Right in your wheelhouse, you knock them all out of the park. I love it”.
I’m not into softball as much as hardball, but I respect your formal respectfulness, sir. Hardbore is more of a challenge and more of a workout.
“Drug companies are great money makers, isn’t that what America is all about?”
Money rules truth/media/minds. Big Pharm rules the uber corrupted FDA, which tells us what’s “safe”, and doctors who are given kickbacks and educational systems who depend on Rockefeller-related endowments. Big Pharm pushes controlled QA and push their products out the door so fast there’s no way to know the long term effects, etc, bluh blah.
“Drug companies donate millions to each candidate so it doesn’t matter who wins.”
In other words, drug companies own politicians. But yes, you’re absolutely right. Thanks for that point.
“Drug companies are very good at advertising too. Isn’t America about advertising and selling stuff?”
Yes it is, depending on what you mean by “good”. So “good” advertising means the product is good to have?
“Drug companies are so good at it now that if a patient sees his/her doctor now they expect a prescription for something. And doctors don’t want to disappoint…”
That’s right. That’s what a drug pusher does.
How many perscription drugs are you on? Just curious.