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The Sun Gym at Northeast Sunday Ninth Street and Biscayne Boulevard in Miami with its big shiny windows was a monument of lifestyle in Miami in the 1990s. Within its walls, a world of beautiful bodies, drugs, and sex. This wasn't a gym for casual, occasional workout members. Professional bodybuilders used its facilities to prepare for competitions. Most people who frequented the Sun Gym took fitness to the next level. Sun Gym opened its doors in January 1987. Owner John Meese was a frustrated has been bodybuilder turned CPA who was eager to promote a bodybuilding competition in Miami. In his glory days, John was crowned as Mr. United Kingdom, a bodybuilding contest he entered while stationed in the UK on military service in 1962. In 1992, things weren't going too well for his son Jim. The Fitness Club was as out of shape as its owner. John owned an accounting firm called Mies and Associates in Miami Shore. He also taught accounting theory at two local universities, and the gym was regarded as a hobby, a side business. A side business that took up most of his time and attention and his obsession to arrange bodybuilding competitions took him away from his accounting practice. John would do anything to keep the gym going. He even turned a blind eye to what his employees did in their spare time. So when the smooth talking Danny Lugo entered the Sun Gym's shiny doors and promised John he would turn it all around, it wasn't strange that he wasn't overly concerned about his white-collar criminal record. Danny, with his positive candy attitude and charismatic way of dealing with people, was exactly what the Sun Gym needed. Once Danny started working there, the bonds that were forged while shooting steroids and lifting weights were to immortalize the reputation of the Sun Gym in Miami's history. In 1993, Daniel Lugo was the manager of the Sun Gym, a bodybuilder hangout in Miami Lakes, Florida. In 1991, Lugo had been arrested and pled guilty to fraud, serving a 15-month sentence in addition to a three-year federal probation period. He had been convicted of fraud for pretending to be part of a Hong Kong bank looking to invest in American small businesses. The scheme involved collecting upfront fees for loans insurance and then not delivering on those loans. Noel Dorble worked part-time at the gym alongside Lugo. Carl Weeks was discharged from the Marine Corps after threatening a sergeant's life. He lived in New York City and fell into bad habits of alcohol and drug addiction, which led to burglaries and armed robberies. After a seizure, Weeks went into rehab and became a born-again Christian. He was adamant to turn his life around. So, in 1994, Carl Weeks moved from New York to Miami to live with his girlfriend's cousin, Stevenson Perry. Perry had been hired by Lugo in February 1994 to create a collection agency for overdue gym membership payments. When this didn't work out, he remained at the gym first at the back office manager in the weight room before ending up as a desk clerk. Ultimately, he was fired by Danny. Perry and Weeks were both hard up for money, so when Danny called with the proposition to make $100,000 for two days' worth of work, they were both keen to hear more about it. George Delgado worked with Daniel Lugo as his personal trainer at the Sun Gym. It was Delgado's relationship with Lugo that caused the rift between Delgado and the Sun Gym's first victim, Marcelo Mark Schiller. Mark Schiller was a son of a Russian migrant family born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957 and grew up in New York City before going to the University of Wisconsin and eventually getting a CPA license. His career eventually took him to South America, where he met his wife and had their first child, and ultimately moving back to the US and settling in Miami. At the time of this story, he had a successful medical billing business, owned a restaurant, and had nutritional supplement companies. George Delgado and Mark Schiller had been business partners since about 1991, and at first as a gopher and assistant. In the years that followed, the men became good friends, Delgado's right-hand man and trusted partner, so much that Delgado knew the alarm coat and layout of Schiller's home. The final blow to their friendship occurred after the two had a business fallout. Due to his friendship with Danny Lugo, Mark could no longer trust George. Mark lost $10,000 by bowing out of his partnership, but he was willing to do so to keep the split amicable. George did not feel it was enough, and on the day he met with Mark to receive the funds, George was rude, resentful, and walked away without saying a word. Mark was financially thriving. He owned a couple of businesses, had 100,000 in his personal account, 500,000 in a safe at home, and half a million in Cayman Island's offshore accounts. The abduction and extortion of Mark Schiller In a 1994 meeting, Daniel Lugo asked Noel Dorble and Stephen Perry whether they were interested in making $100,000 for two days' work. According to Lugo, businessman Mark Schiller had stolen $100,000 from him and $200,000 from another gym member named George Delgado. At another meeting a few days later, Delgado agreed to the plan to abduct Schiller and force him to sign over his assets and potentially kill him. Delgado was able to give specific information about Schiller, including the codes to his house. The gang had varying plans and made attempts to kidnap Schiller. They planned to wear ninja outfits for Halloween and knock on Shiller's door. This plan did not transpire. On an early morning in November, Dorval, Perry, and Weeks, dressed in black and wearing gloves and military camouflage makeup, crawled across the lawn, planning to storm the house when Schiller went to get the papers. However, a passing car scared them off. In total, there were seven failed abductions. The final failed abduction occurred on Thursday, November 14, 1994. After this last failed attempt, Dorble and Weeks dropped Perry and recruited Michael Sanchez, or Big Mario, a former Sun Jim weightlifting instructor and licensed Florida private eye. That afternoon, Schiller was waiting for a prospective buyer at Schlosski's franchise delicate testant he owns. When at 4 p.m. the buyer still had not turned up, Shiller left and was grabbed by three men while walking across the parking lot who stuns him with tasers and then punched him and forced him into a van. The Sun Jim gang then took Schiller to Delgado's warehouse. That evening, they retrieved Schiller's car from a deli parking lot and drove it to the warehouse. That first evening, the gang mate Schiller called his wife and told her to go with his children to Columbia, giving the gang access to the house. For weeks the gang made Schiller tell a series of stories and under pressure sign over all of his assets, making dozens of requests for his autograph. Initially planned as a two-day abduction, the abduction went over weeks as they converted assets from Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. The last money transferred was made on December the 10th. Finally, the gang decided they would kill Schuler with a $2 million MetLife insurance policy designated to Lugo's ex-wife Lillian Torres as the new beneficiary. The gang planned to get Schuller drunk over a few days and send him out in his car in a fatal car crash. At 2 30 a.m. on December 15th, after three days of forced drinking, Schuller was placed into the passenger seat of his car, with Lugo driving while Weeks and Doorbell followed in the Camry. A crash site was chosen three blocks south of Sloshki's. Schuler was then strapped into the driver's seat and Lugo moved into the passenger side and stomped the gas pedal and steered the vehicle toward a concrete utility pole, jumping out just before the collision. When Lugo inspected the wreckage, Schiller was alive but unconscious. Lugo then splashed gasoline over him and lit the fire. However, Schiller opened the door and climbed out of the car. The gang chased them in their cars, nailing him against the wall. They almost went back to hit Schiller again, but another car approached, causing them to run away. Schiller was admitted into the hospital on December the 16th, 1994, after being treated as a John Zoe and possible DUI case. His injuries included a twisted spine, a shattered pelvis, a ruptured bladder, a damaged spleen. Meanwhile, the Sun Jim gang, after hearing of no one being admitted into the morgue, started calling the area hospitals. They discovered that Schiller was at South Miami Hospital and in a critical but stable condition. The gang visited the hospital intending to kill Schiller, but he had already been transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital. By early January 1995, Lugo moved into Schiller's home that DJ International now owns, a Bohemian company set up by Lugo in the year prior. He told residents of the neighborhood that his name was Tom and that he and the other gang members were members of the U.S. Security Forces. According to them, Schiller had run into legal trouble and had been deported along with his family. The house was not confiscated and became government property. Winston Lee In 1994, Daniel Lugo again planned to extort and kidnap Winston Lee, a Jamaican man who frequented the son gym. However, this plan never transpired. The abduction, attempted extortion, and murders of Frank Gryga and Christina Ferten. Through Noel Dorbal, the gang were informed of another wealthy man, Hungarian Frank Graiga, who had made his fortune by running a phone sex empire. Through a past girlfriend, Dorbel had been introduced to Attila Whelans, who knew Graiga and introduced Dorbel as his quote cousin, Daniel Lugo to Graiga on May 20, 1995. Dorbel convinced Lugo to form a plan to kidnap and extort the couple. At this meeting, Lugo and Dorbel posed as serious businessmen offering GRIGA investment opportunities. Lugo involved his girlfriend, Sabrina Petrush, who believed that Lugo was a central intelligence agency and that she was assisting him in his mission to capture a Hungarian businessman who was guilty of using women for sex and circumventing U.S. tax laws. On May 25, 1995, after several meetings, Torbel killed Geiger during a fight at his apartment. The gang planned to bring Geiger back to the warehouse where they would begin to extort him as they had Schiller. However, they were frustrated in their plan when they accidentally killed the victim early. Christina Ferton, Gregor's girlfriend, was also at the apartment talking to Lugo in a separate room to Dorbell and Gryga. After witnessing her partner's murder, she was injected with Robum, a horse tranquilizer, by Lugo. The gang began to attempt to extract information from Fertin regarding the codes which would grant entry into Griga's home, whilst continuing to inject her with the rubum. After this, Ferrin stopped supplying them with information. The third dose of tranquilizer was administered, resulting in her death. The next day, May 26, 1995, Gregor's body was concealed in Mark Schiller's stolen couch and Ferton's body in a U-Hole clothing box. Both were placed into the back of a van, and Delgado, Lugo, and Dorbo drove to Lugo's Hyalea warehouse. It was here that the gang dismembered and disposed of the bodies of Griga and Ferton, with Dorbo doing most of the work. The Downfall. Therefore, they only made minor inquiries into the case. The morning after the disappearance of Greiga and Ferton, housekeeper Esther Toth arrived at Grego's home. She was shocked to find their dog barking unattended, sparking her suspicion. She acquired the help of Judy Proz, a friend of Ferton, and the two entered the empty house together. Shortly following, Bratz contacted their mutual Hungarian friends in the Miami area to see if they knew the couple's whereabouts. After some time, the Golden Beach police department were called. At 7 30 a.m. on May 31, 1995, Lloyd Alvarez, a friend of Gregor's, spotted Griga's yellow Lamborghini traveling in a convoy between two other cars. He followed the trio of cars and recognized Danny Lugo and the Mercedes. Beatrice Wheelan and Attila Whelan were contacted by the police, who began speaking to them. Eight days after the disappearance of Griga and Ferton, Captain Al Harper phoned Ed Duwa and they began to collaborate with the police investigation. On Friday, June 2nd, Marshall returned to Miami, two months after he had first told the investigators his story. The next morning, MetroDate police served warrants in the houses of Daniel Lugo, George Delgado, Noel Dorbell, and John Meese. Lugo had already fled to the Bahamas, but was arrested five days later in Nassau by multiple agency task force who brought him back on a commercial flight to Miami. On June 10th, Lugo agreed to review the hiding place of the bodies in return for the police mentioning his helpfulness to a jury. He brought them to the submerged barrels in southwest Miami. However, the drums did not contain the victims' heads, hands, and feet, which were crucial to the identification. Following this event, Lugo ceased cooperation with the police. The body of Ferton was later identified through her breast implant's serial number, which was matched to the records held by a plastic surgeon. A month later, information about the missing body parts was supplied by an anonymous caller. Police also arrested Cara Weeks and Stevenson Perry. John Meese was returned to police custody after the initial interrogation. Sabina Petrov and Cindy Elridge also face charges. On February 24, 1998, the trials of Daniel Lugo and Noel Adrian Dorbel and John Meese occurred simultaneously, with two juries picked, one listening to the evidence against Lugo and a second to listen to the evidence against Dorbell and Meese. It was the longest and most expensive criminal trial in the history of Dade County. It featured more than 1,200 pieces of physical evidence, 98 witnesses, and took an hour to read just the indictments, but yet it only took the jury 14 minutes to deliberate and return a guilty verdict. Danny Lugo, DC number at Union CI, received 60 years. On October 2nd, 1996, Danny Lugo was indicted on 45 counts and pled guilty to all the charges of indictment. Conspiracy to commit racketeering, racketeering, first degree murder for Furton, first degree murder for GRIGA, three counts of kidnapping, attempted extortion, three counts of grand theft auto, attempted first degree murder, armed kidnapping, armed robbery, burglary, possession of an identification plate, arson, extortion, eight counts of money laundering, six counts of forgery, six counts of uttering a forged instrument, and conspiracy to commit a first degree felony. He remains on death row for the murders of Griga and Christina Furton and has made multiple unsuccessful appeals against his sentence. Noel Adrian Dorbell, DC number M16320, and Union CI received 51 years. On october second, nineteen ninety six, Dorbell was indicted and sentenced to the following counts on july seventeenth, nineteen ninety-eight. Conspiracy to commit raggeteering, racketeering, first degree murder for Ferton, first degree murder for Gryga, two counts kidnapping, attempted extortion, grand theft auto, attempted first degree murder, armed kidnapping, armed robbery, burglary, grand theft in the second degree, arson, extortion, conspiracy to commit a first degree felony. Because of changes to capital punishment laws, Dorbo's death sentence was overturned in 2017. John Meese was indicted on October 2, 1996 for the kidnapping, extortion, and murders of Furton and GRIGA, in addition to crimes against Schiller. On July 20, 1998, Meese was sentenced to 56 years imprisonment for the kidnapping and extortion of Schiller after a judge set aside the convictions for GRIGA and the Ferten crimes. Meese appealed and the state cross appealed the sentence to Florida District Court of Appeal. The District Court of Appeal judge ruled that at trial, the judge had improperly set aside the two Rico convictions and ordered a new sentencing hearing to occur on those counts. And January 15, 2003, Meese was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering. He died of a stroke in 2004. The Fate of George Delgado In return for testifying in favor of the state, by the way, he was first to crack and received 15 years for Schiller's crimes and a concurrent five-year sentence for his role in the Gregor Fern case, he served only seven years in jail and was released from the Everglades Correctional Institution in West Dade on September 27, 2002. In 2008, he was arrested for felony grand theft, receiving one year probation. Last known detail was dated July 17, 2011, when he married Joshua Nunez and moved into a three-bedroom home in southwest Miami Dade. The Faith of John Raimundo John Raimundo was a power lifter and a karate expert, a 6'5, 250-pound diesel. Raimundo was a sworn law enforcement officer, a six-year employee of the Metro Dade County Corrections Department. When he wasn't guarding inmates at the county jail, Raimundo liked to brag he was out committing home invasions. He was also known to be an expert at a body disposal. Raimundo was indicted on one count each of conspiracy to commit racketeering, first degree murder of Furton, kidnapping of Ferton, and attempted extortion. He was convicted to one count of kidnapping and was sentenced to eight years. He was released in 2002. Carl Weeks was sentenced to ten years in prison. Stevenson Perry, sentence was only seven years. Shuller finished his statement and said his quiet farewells to his attorney and the prosecutors with whom he had worked for the past three years. With one quick glance back at the defendants, he walked out of the courtroom, a victim, a survivor. He had done his duty. Outside again in the sultry air, Shuler paused on the courthouse steps. In that brief instant, he heard the voices. Men were shouting and commanding him to stop. Puzzled, he turned just as they closed in around him. The old panic surged, and for the second time in his life, Schiller was grabbed and taken away. The news broke over Miami later that day. Mark Schiller was a wanted man. He'd been a target all along, ever since the arrest of his son Jim Gang, but the feds had patiently waited until he'd done his business in the courthouse. Two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. FBI agents arrested Schiller on charge of orchestrating a fraudulent Medicare billing scheme that generated somewhere around $14 million. He now faced up to 25 years in prison, ten years more than his nemesis Delgado had received for kidnapping and murder. Yet Schiller's thoughts were not with Delgado in the blurred hours that followed. He was thinking about assistant state attorney Gail Levine, and all he could think was that she had sold him out. For three years she had used him, forced him to relive every excruciating detail of the confinement, the starvation, the burns, and electrical shocks, the beatings, the abject terror, the absolute physical and psychological mortification. She had extracted everything she could, and then she had disposed of him. From his perspective, her tactics were not so different or any less brutal than those the Son Jim gang had employed against him. His attorney had been right. He shouldn't have returned to Miami. The death sentences came in just as predicted. Schiller got the news while he sat in jail. In fact, the state attorney's office had been aware of the federal investigation for at least three years. Fourteen months before the trial began, in October 1996, prosecutor Gail Levine had written a memo to her supervisor addressing the fact that federal prosecutors were targeting Schiller, almost to the exclusion of any other potential Medicare fraud defendants. The feds, she wrote, just seems like they will plead everyone out. But Schiller, that's the only person they cared about. On Wednesday, March 17, 1999, Mark Schiller took a plea deal and was sentenced to 46 months in prison, the most lenient sentence available under federal guidelines. He served 24 months and was released in 2001. After receiving his CPA license back, he worked as an account and tax resolution specialist for a national tax resolution company. He's written two books, lives in Boca Raton, and seems to be doing well for himself. In 2014, he sued Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, and Paramount Pictures for his portrayal in the movie we all know and love Pain and Game. Sir this story sounded familiar, yes, it is from the movie Pain and Game. Pete Collins published a three-part series in Miami New Times in 1999 and 2000, quarkling the stories of the gang titled Pain and Game, which was then loosely, very very loosely, adapted into the 2013 film Pain and Game, directed by Michael Bay. Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer born on February 17, 1965. He is best known for making big budget high concept action films with fast-cutting stylistic cinematography and visuals and extensive use of special effects, including the frequent depictions of explosions. The films he's directed include Bad Boys and its sequel Bad Boys 2, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the first five films in Transformers series. His films have grossed over $6.6 billion worldwide, making him the fifth most commercially successful director in history. He is a co-founder of the production house The Institute. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which remade horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Anneville Horror, The Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street. Painting Game was released on April 11, 2013, and received mixed reviews, praised for his script, but criticized for the violent directing and historical inaccuracies. Against a $26 million budget, the film grossed $86 million worldwide. Mark Wahlberg was Daniel Lugo. Dwayne DeRoc Johnson as Paul Doyle, based on Carl Weeks, Stevenson Perry, and George Delgado, Anthony Mackey as Adrian Noah Dorbo, Tony Shaloub as Victor Kirscher was based on Mark Schiller, Ed Harris as Detective Edward III, and Rob Cody as John Meese. In reviews, the movie was seen as grotesquely inappropriate, every bit as pumped up and steroidal as the appalling characters it is attempting to portray. Michael Bay once claimed he wanted to make a small personal film that would rival the real bae, and I'm here to report that Pain and Gain is that film. It's dumb, shallow, deeply cynical, and creatively bereft. And finally, the last review says, as ambitious and vibrant as it is ugly and scattershot. The film portrayed the Sun Jim gang as consisting of only three members Daniel Lugo, Adrian Noel Dorble, and John Doyle, and two accomplices, John Meese and a stripper. In reality, the gang was much larger, of different races as portrayed in the film, and Doyle was the amalgamation of Weeks, Delgado, and Perry. In the film, Victor Kircher states he was born in Bogota, Colombia. In real life, counterpart Mock Schiller was born in Argentina. Schiller and Lugo did not befriend each other. Schiller actually distrusted Lugo. It was Delgado who befriended Lugo and targeted Schiller, and it was at Delgado's not Schiller's warehouse when the kidnappers turned and tortured Schiller for a full month while extorting him and before trying to kill him. In the film, a blindfolded Victor Kirscher recognized Lugo by his cologne. In reality, Mark Schiller recognized his voice. The car with which the gang tried to kill Schiller by crashing it into a construction vehicle in the film into a utility pole in reality and then by setting Schiller and it ablaze was a Toyota 4 runner, not a BMW. In contrast to the film, the gang did not secure Schiller's seatbelt before crashing the car, and Schiller did not survive the crash from inside the car, rather, Schiller bailed out of the car, rolling onto the ground before it hit the pole. While crashing the car and setting Schiller ablaze failed, the real life gang ran over Schiller's body twice, but with Toyota Camry, not a van. The movie portrays Paul Doyle as first running into demeaning Frank Gryga at a strip club. In reality, Thorbel first discovered Gryga when Thorbell spotted a picture of a Lamborghini Diablo in a photo album belonging to his Hungarian stripper girlfriend, Beatrice Wheelan. He asked her who owned it. It turned out that Gryga was one of Whelan's former generous boyfriends. It was she who introduced Gryga to the gang. In reality, Frank Geiger was Hungarian and therefore lacked an American accent, in contrast to his on-screen portrayal. The gang did not meet at Frank Grigo's home as in the movie. In reality, they met three times. The final instance at Dorbel's Miami Lakes apartment, where the murders actually took place. In reality, Lugo did not kill Gryga, Dorbil did, by first cracking the side of his head with the blunt objects, then strangling him with the headlock, and finally injecting him with the rumpum. Christina Frenton ran to see what had happened and screamed. Lugo covered her mouth and tackled her. She had no gun, contrary to the movie's portrayal. She was bound, then Dorbil injected her with the drug. Overall, Dorville injected her three separate times instead of twice. They bought a gas-powered chainsaw from Home Depot to cut off body parts, but forgot to fill it with mortar oil so it broke the first time they cranked the power tool on. Lugo returned the chainsaw to Home Depot demanding a refund. He left the home improvement store with an electronic Remington power cutter, which came with a one-year guarantee to handle all your cutting chores quickly and easily. He went back to the warehouse and handed the chainsaw to Dorbell, who took charge of the greasy dismemberment. When the power tool's teeth got caught in Ferrin's hair, Dorbell had Lugo chop off her head with the hatchet. The two murders then used a curved blade and pliers to remove the faces and teeth off their heads. The movie depicted Lugo and Dorbell dumping the body parts and several barrels into the lake located somewhere in what appears to be the Everglades. In reality, Lugo, Dorbell, and Little Mario dumped Griga and Fur in torsos and drums into a drainage ditch in Miami Southwest. Details in the scene in which Paul was shown incinerating the victim's severed heads on a barbecue grill to remove the fingerprints were changed. In reality, Lugo did the grilling using a steel drum with an iron grate lead on top, not a barbecue grill. Lugo tossed Gryga and Furton's hands, feet and skull fragments into the grate, doused them with gasoline, and began to grill. When Zolgado returned to the warehouse, he yelled at Lugo, who reluctantly agreed to move his operation from in front of the warehouse to the rear alley. In the film, Doyle robbed an armored truck and got his toe shot while escaping. That sequence is entirely fictional. No member of the Sun Gym gang actually robbed an armored truck or had their toes shut off. Doorbo was violent and sadistic in real life, unlike Anthony Mackey's mild-mannered character in the movie. In the movie, the police arrest Mies at the Sun Jim gang. In reality, Mies was arrested at his own bodybuilding competition in downtown Miami. Doyle at a church, Doyle's real composite counterparts were all arrested at home. In the film, Lugo escapes in Kershaw's Go Fast Boat and at Du Bois' home. Kershaw asserts that he owns a boat. In reality, Schiller did not own a boat. Only Grigo owned a boat. And it was a tall yacht, Christian by the name of Foreplay. Near the end of the movie, Lugo is seen getting hit by a car driven by Kershaw in the Bahamas. This event never happens. In reality, Lugo fled to the Bahamas with his fiance and his parents, and neither Schuller nor the detective Du Bois was there during the capture. Instead, a multi-agency task force apprehended Lugo at the hotel in Nassau. At the end of the movie, Doyle has an attack of conscience, confesses, and testifies against Lugo and Torbo. Instead of the death penalty, he gets 15 years, but only serves seven and a half. Carl Weeks, the religious and recurring drug abuser, part of Doyle's composite, drove the car their Van Overshiller, and got 10 years for attempted murder. He served seven. George Salgato, who actually testified against the rest of the gang, did so in order to avoid the death penalty. In the film, Dubois is portrayed as a retired police officer who takes over his quote old man's detective agency. When he accepts Kershaw's case, in reality, Ed Dubois III had been a licensed private investigator since 1960 and took over his father's agency in 1968. Dubois continues in this capacity to this day. The end credits of the film state that John Meese was sentenced to 15 years and died in prison. While he did die of a stroke in 2004, his sentence was actually 56 years, not 15. Survivor Mark Schiller and the family members of the victims are furious over the movie's comedic take on the ordeal. Gregor's brother, Frank, and his girlfriend Christina Vernon were murdered and dismembered by members of the gang. He said that the movie's depiction of the gang as sympathetic goofballs is ridiculous. She adds, quote, It's horrible what happened to them. I don't want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers. The way they tell it made it look like a comedy, explains the survivor Mark Schiller. You also gotta remember that not only I went through this, but certain people were killed. So making these guys look nice is atrocious. And there you have it, folks. The story of Pain and Gain and the Sun Gym.

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