I don’t know anything about the man, but Gary Mortensen must be a fan of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  When the Oregon State Police pulled the man over on Interstate 5 just outside of Eugene, they discovered that his 1991 Acura looked like Hunter S. Thompson’s garage sale.  Police found the following, either on Mortensen or in his car:  a half-pound of marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, hashish, drug paraphernalia, two rifles, a machete, a samurai sword, a hatchet, and various other knives.

Given the rash of drug dealer beatings, I imagine he felt he needed protection.  Still, that is a whole lot of drugs and weapons for one guy to be carrying around.  Even by drug dealer standards, that’s excessive.  Here’s Dr. Gonzo’s shopping list for a weekend in Las Vegas:

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.  Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

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