From here, Brandi said there are some basic questions to ask before deciding to bid. Are there boxes that are purchased or boxes that are taken from the back of the grocery store, or are they packed in trash bags? And you can see a few items outwardly that look decent? Sometimes the appearance of the unit alone will be a good indicator if the unit is worth an investment. EST on Tuesdays. Distractify is a registered trademark.
All Rights Reserved. Following the auction, the winning buyer must then sort through the contents of each unit, deciding what items can be sold for a profit, and which ones should be thrown out.
Occasionally, the buyers manage to find some truly valuable items, from priceless artwork to original antiques. However, the most exciting aspect of the show was often the confrontations between the groups of buyers and the often-tense moments when they would become embroiled in bidding wars over the juiciest storage units.
Ultimately, it went on to spawn a host of specials and spinoffs. Many times, the items found in the storage units seemed too good to be true. Moore and his hacker accomplice Charles Evens were both eventually sentenced to prison for cybercrimes connected to the site. Unfortunately for Brandi Passante, she fell victim to Moore's grotesquery when, according to The Wrap , he "distributed a pornographic video falsely claiming to feature her over the internet," as well as "published bogus pornographic pictures of her.
If you've ever wondered how Dan and Laura Dotson have stayed solid all these years, it might have a little to do with their relationship's auspicious beginning. According to Laura, the pair fell in love and got married almost immediately. The Dotsons have been together for decades, and with a long relationship come ups starring on a popular TV series and downs. In , the Dotsons were the victims of identity theft.
According to an interview with TMZ , hackers got into their home computer and stole their credit card and bank account information. The cyber-criminals might have gotten away with it, too, or at least for a while, except that they used the Dotsons' accounts to make several huge purchases immediately and all at once, which alerted a credit card company's fraud protection unit.
The purchases were thwarted, but the crooks left some evidence behind: While still remotely connected to the Dotsons' computer, they talked about the heist via an instant messaging account, which the Dotsons could see taking place.
They took screen grabs and turned them over to authorities. Two years later, Dan and Laura had the health scare of their lives when Dan suffered a double brain aneurysm in Palm Springs, California. According to TMZ , Dan's condition was so bad when he got to the hospital that he was given only a four to 20 percent chance of survival. Miraculously, Dan's surgery turned out to be a success; he was released from the hospital a little over a week later. As an added bonus, Dan decided to quit smoking after 40 years , inspired to make a change thanks to the surgery that saved his life.
After Jesse James flamed out in spectacular fashion following his admission that he cheated on Sandra Bullock, the celebrity bad boy then made repeated media appearances explaining his public meltdown.
The meltdown included an incident in which a photograph of him wearing a Nazi SS officer's hat and doing a "Sieg Heil" salute leaked online. James later explained multiple interviews via Starcasm that the whole thing was a joke, and that the hat was a "gag gift" given to him by his "Jewish godfather," Barry Weiss. James also claimed that the hat was not authentic and was "part of a Hollywood costume. In his autobiography, American Outlaw , James admitted that he even begged Weiss, who he called "a buddy of my dad's" for support in the aftermath of the scandal, but Weiss declined.
Sorry, Jess. You're on your own, kiddo. The whole point of Storage Wars is to give audiences a visceral thrill as they watch other people do something everybody wanted to do when they were a kid: find buried treasure.
Hoping to find valuable memorabilia in abandoned California storage lockers is merely the modern, adult equivalent of coming across a centuries-old treasure chest full of pirate gold in your backyard or at the beach.
It would be pretty astonishing and unlikely, then, to find actual pirate treasure in a storage container It was reportedly located inside a real pirate's chest that was "at least years old. Buyer Barry Weiss left the show in and soon thereafter anchored his own short-lived spinoff, Barry'd Treasure.
But before he got involved with storage locker auction television, he worked for 30 years in the wholesale produce business, providing produce for cruise ships, restaurants, and hotels.
Generally as cool as the cucumbers he sold in bulk to cruise lines, Weiss exuded a low level of stress compared to his co-bidders.
He clearly was in it for the fun, having little to no financial stake in the unknown treasures lurking inside those units. Obviously, a lot of this has to do with his financial independence, but he's also offered an alternative explanation for his laidback demeanor.
Wisconsin's Big Cheese asked Weiss about his medical marijuana card, and he responded, "Oh god, honestly, uh, it's been about eight years ago. I'm one of the first in this state to get it, but you know I got a bad back, and I've gotta tend to it. Yuuup, sounds legit. Storage Wars: Miami was the short-lived spinoff of Storage War s that was barely off the ground when a gruesome tragedy struck one of its stars. At a viewing party for the show that had only premiered days before, cast member Kevin Pew's son Hashim shot and killed family friend Janel Hamilton for seemingly no reason.
The younger Pew was allegedly tackled by his father and brother, who restrained him until police arrived. According to police reports, Hashim allegedly said, "She's dead as expletive dawg," while he was being restrained by his shocked family members. According to TMZ , Hashim was charged with first degree murder, but was later found "incompetent to stand trial," and was "remanded into the custody of the Department of Children and Families for treatment in order to 'attain competence to proceed,'" or become competent to stand trial later.
As of this writing, the status of the murder trial is unclear. Storage Wars: Miami never returned for a second season, although it's unclear whether that decision was related to the murder of Janel Hamilton. Storage Wars gets rid of cast members with the kind of frequency reserved for high-stakes scripted shows like Grey's Anatomy and Game of Thrones.
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