In real life back in 2008 in Port Protection, the "boys" would use the word dad all the time. "My dad said to come get these things" and would hand the Trading Post clerk a scrap of paper with a few things written on it. The "boys" would always be in pairs and there would just be a few items written on the scrap of paper, things like: toilet paper, paper towels, milk, bread, 2 Banquet fried chicken, pot pies, burritos, 12 Dr Pepper, 6 Pepsi, Marlboro's, camels, chocolate ice cream etc. They never bought alcoholic beverages but I did often see the "boys" including 16 year old Noah, down on the dock drinking beer and smoking pot with the fisherman. Matt was down there on the dock the most and often none of the other "boys" was with him later in the evening. Matt and Josh and I think Sol and Gabe smoked cigarettes, and they all 5 smoked pot at times. Matt always had a pack of cigarettes with him and smoked a lot including roll your own Top and Bugler tobacco. At the store, the "boys" would say, " oh and dad said we could get these things" and they would grab some snack items and junk food like cookies, Dr Pepper, chips like Funions etc. Then sometimes, just a short time later, another two of the "boys" would come in and do the same thing. In one day, this would happen a dozen times, always just a few items on the list, including items like paper towels and toilet paper and canned goods that were picked up more than once a day. Some friends of mine saw where the Browns later stashed boxes and boxes of things in the woods hidden under a tarp with brush and branches over it near where their maroon SUV was parked. When the Browns left, they had the roof of that vehicle piled high with boxes and covered with blue tarps and the inside packed with lots of things and all nine of them going down the logging road. They always said "on dad's account". The "boys" would always be in pairs, (Matt is the only one I ever saw alone and not often), always have a scrap of paper with items written on it by "dad" and always would get a few junk food items for themselves also. I was there every day and this happened every day for the more than the two months they were there that summer of 2008. People saw that SUV on the logging load loaded with boxes a few times before they left, so they were stashing boxes of things someplace else down the road. Every few days, Billy and some of the boys would leave in the SUV down the logging road for a few hours to most of a day sometimes. Billy ordered lots of things through the Trading Post on it's account, I unloaded the float plane with hundreds of pounds of boxes from the A&P Ketchikan grocery store, for the Browns. Many times after Jack, (WWCTrading Post owner) went home or when Jack was up at a community meeting, the Brown "boys" would load up the skiff and go over to the landing by the logging road and stash a bunch more boxes of things like cases of paper towels and cases of canned goods. At the end of the first month, a check came from TN for a couple thousand dollars towards the Browns' account, but then Billy had a sad story on how his good friend in TN that was his "backer/investor" had suddenly died but he had another "backer/investor", a lady in California and the Browns went on charging things for more than another month. By the then, in more than two months there, Billy's bill was over $40,000 including the rental of 4 skiffs for 3 months, lodging, charged on account groceries, fuel, other supplies and things came to head between in the office with Jack's office worker and Jack asking about the payments now way overdue on Billy's bill and Billy, who had all 5 "boys" in the small office yelling and threatening Jack and my friend, Jack's office worker. Billy was red faced, yelling, cursing, threatening Jack, Solomon jumping up and down bouncing and Gabe with fists clenched and raised. Fishermen friends on the dock heard the commotion and came up to outside the office and the Brown males left and went back upstairs to the lodge. I saw Matt and Gabe just a little while later out on the porch of the upstairs lodge laughing. TheBrowns left a few days later, not paying their bills, leaving a mess in the lodge and piles of garbage inside and outside and at another place that they had set up a tent at and trashed and garbage over on the parking area by where they loaded up their vehicle as well as in the woods nearby where they had stashed lots of boxes. Billy is a very good con-artist, amazingly, incredibly good at scamming people and getting what he's after. He has done it for decades and has been very successful at it. Billy's 5 sons and and his wife and the two daughters he has raised are also very good and week trained, going along with Billy on everything as a family. Billy is a very smart man when it comes to reading people and getting what he wants. I believe that he has even successfully conned Park Slope and Discovery as he has also conned producers, investors and backers over the last decade.
Review of Alaskan Bush People
