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. thank you very much now 55. 50 000. now 55. here we go 55.57.5 thank you very much now 60. 57.56 i got 57.5 behind you you got to be 60. 57. i have got to be 62.68 thank you very much that's 62.50 62 and a half you all done something your way mr steve wells thank you tennis hopes of ever owning his dad's car were crushed when local farmer steve wells won the final bid paying 60 000 even though it was only valued at 12 500 but it's what happened next that no one expected especially tanner here's your card [Applause] tanner said he had no idea steve planned to give him the car but it was always steve's intention of buying that car no matter the auction price originally steve was going to buy the car for the woman shelter and then he found out about tanner's story and he decided to buy it for him even though the two had never previously met since the auction tanner has put another 19 000 miles on the car plus he's also added some memories of his dad such as his various deputy badgers now for all those who wonder what he's going to do with the car tanner said he plans to keep the car forever and to one day hand it down to his kids anyway that's the end of this video thanks for watching and we'll see you next time bye bye [Music] you

Channel: Wonder World

Views: 6,324,206

Rating: 4.9503255 out of 5

Keywords: Wonder World, Wonderworld, Tanner Brownlee, Tanner Brownlee at Police Car Auction, Tanner Brownleee Squad Car, Tanner buys his dads squad car, police car auction, tanner brownlee buys car at police auction, Weld County Sherrif News, Son of Fallen Deputy Tries to Buy His Dad's Squad Car at Auction, Son of Fallen Deputy Fails to Buy His Dad's Squad Car at Auction, Tanner Brownlee Story

Id: 7BF6BUry_C0

Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/algae---]

60k ?

[u/InvertedSkateboard]

Whoever that farmer is, you have everyone's respect

[u/Tylet-the-bold]

It's these acts of compassion that keep me going. For as shitty as humans are on the regular, for as fucked as we are as a species, there will always be those of us who hold the others up on their shoulders. Really good people exist, in surprising numbers.

[u/[deleted]]

Comment section toxic as hell like the shut the fuck (to some commenters) not all cops are bad

Edit: and before I get called racist, yes I’m a minority, we don’t like when people assume we’re all bad so don’t assume all cops are

[u/CletusVanDamnit]

There must be a sickening amount of money in this area, holy shit.

Items in charity auctions almost always go for substantially more than the value, but this was kind of obscene that it got that high.

[u/SlicccNiccc]

I’m not crying you’re crying...

[u/mve1]

Some dust just flew into the window and got caught in my eye.

Edit* LOL, you people are delusional. I know it was all the rage to hate cops 6 months ago but cops have tough jobs and families to make it home to.

This kid lost his father and wanted the car. Y'all make me embarrassed to be human.

[u/niamonapope]

There are such good people in this world!!💗💗😭

[u/FishGutsCake]

Why the fuck would he want the car??