Son of Fallen Deputy Fails to Buy His Dad's Squad Car at Auction

weld county sheriff's deputy sam brownlee was killed in the line of duty after a police chase in 2010 and five years later his retired squad car was to be auctioned off to benefit a charity organization that helped survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty it's going to be sad to see this car go i think we all kind of remembered this as part of sam but it's the right thing to do and it's a it's a good way to help an organization that really helped his family out sam brownlee's son tanner wanted to own a part of his father's legacy when tanner learned that he would have a chance to buy his father's squad car at auction he started a gofundme page asking for help to raise enough money and managed to raise 3 465 the retired squad car was a dodge charger and had over 147 000 miles on it and was valued at twelve thousand five hundred dollars based off a kelly blue book valuation the retired police car may have only been worth twelve thousand five hundred but to tanner it was worth so much more it was part of his father's legacy and that meant the world to him tanner had never bid on a car at an auction before so his plan was just to watch what everyone else was doing and bid a little more than the last bid for a good cause folks you all know what's going on here so uh why don't we just go ahead and get started we're going to jump in at 2500 we'll go from there 25. who'd have been twenty-five hundred twenty-five now five twenty-five and five thousand who'd been five five thousand seventy-five hundred five five five seventy five seventy five hundred that's ten thousand seventy five now ten now twelve and a half ten that's four and a half four and a half nine fifteen twelve and a half now fifteen you got two and a half up front there bell's gonna be fifteen throwing that now fifteen now seventeen and a half thank you very much seventeen and a half not 20. yes 25 000 here we go 25 not 27.

5 25 000 27. 50 this is a tax deductible donation so you can write this off on your taxes no issue there goes to a good cost i got 36 thousand you get you're out over here 37 now 38. tennis started off the bidding at 5 000 but the bidding price quickly surpassed what he could afford and it just kept on going all tana could do was sit and watch the auction all while his mum was comforting him 49-41 49-41 thank you very much 42 i got 41 in the back 42 now 43.

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