‘Amazing Race’ Producer Fatally Poisoned in Uganda Shakedown
- Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:00pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Two TV producers recently suffered poisoning — which killed one of them — after getting on the wrong side of some local thugs in Uganda, Fox News reports.
Most details aren’t known yet about the poisoning, but what has been gleaned is that the body of Jeff Rice, one of the facilitating producers for the show, was found in Uganda, dead from poisoning. What Rice and his unnamed co-producer were doing in Uganda is not known, but they apparently were not there on business about “The Amazing Race,” the show on which both worked.
The poisoning – also an unclear topic – was apparently the result of a failed shakedown attempt by Ugandan criminals. Following the attempt, both men reputedly became very sick in a manner consistent with poison. So unexpected was the incident that even Jerry Bruckheimer films, the company behind “The Amazing Race,” had no knowledge that one of their facilitators was dead of a poisoning.
Rice reportedly had moved to South Africa after working for five years in Los Angeles. While in South Africa, he cofounded SB Productions, which has been in business since 1999. The website for SB productions described Rice this way:
‘Jeff has an incredible calm nature and a wicked sense of humour,’ it writes. ‘Having played baseball as a kid, he is always ready for the next curve ball. Jeff has the knack for putting together great teams.’
The Amazing Race, which first aired in 2001 and is in its 20th season, shows teams of two racing around the world for a prize of $1 million. The Daily Mail has posted an assortment of photos of Jeff Rice. TV personality Josh Gates tweeted about his death:
Floored by the loss of my dear friend and adventurer, Jeff Rice. You were, quite simply, the real deal. I will never forget you.
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Comments (56)
ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:11amThere was time but its long since past that folks overseas would not dare tangle with an American. A healthy respect existed then, not anymore. Its our rotten culture that precedes us and our image of being so violent. I had Australians asking me if America was as violent as the films they had seen. Austrialia home of madmax. I think thats how I tackled that one. Yea, but in some places yes!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:08amAmerica is plenty big enough to have a life time of touring it’s many sites and wonders. I‘ve been all around the world many times and its America I can’t wait to get back and see more of. I’ll never step foot in Mexico again and several other countries.
Report Post »khoregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 10:46amAlso having been to Uganda, I discovered they refill pop bottles and sell them as new so the seal must always be checked carefully.
Report Post »Unshod
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:35amMy condolences to those reading who knew this man. Pay no attention to the silly posts, they don’t know any better.
I’ve lived in other parts of Africa and poisoning was a very common practice. It was often employed as an act of hatred or revenge but I could image robbery also. Advice to avoid being poisoned is drink from bottles and to never take a drink from a bottle you have not opened yourself.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:26am@UNSHOD
Report Post »…
Appropriate and well stated comment.
TomFerrari
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 10:22amYIPES !
Report Post »Or, don’t move to places where people POISON each other!
InthelandofWTF
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:18amCan anyone say YELLOW CAKE ! No mention of what “ KIND ” of poisoning….. OH THAT’S RIGHT…… Only Iran wants stuff like that!
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:51pmYou couldn’t pay me enough to go visit some 3rd world country being an American. You have lawless thugs running around waiting to rob you or hold you for ransom. I never for the life of me could figure out those Americans that were “hiking” along the Iran border a few years back. What would get in your mind to take a flight to the Middle East to go hiking in Iran? Sometime you deserve what happens when you go into hostile areas.
Report Post »ines
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:22amStop being so ignorant. I’m American and have been to Uganda and back and nothing bad happened to me. Neither of these countries are lawless, the hikers were arrested by the government for illegal entry, not held for ransom by thugs but I guess in America you wouldn’t arrest anyone who crosses over from Mexico illegally eh?
Report Post »ines
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:26amStop being so ignorant. I’m American and have been to Uganda and back. Neither of these countries are lawless, the hikers were arrested for illegally entering Iran, not held for ransom by some thugs. But you would never arrest someone for illegally entering your nice civilized country would you?
Report Post »drobarts
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:37amTotally agree with you, which is why I would not even cross our border into Mexico. I enjoy my freedom and safety way too much to have it snatched away from me in places where people chant our deaths. No thanks, let the mindless global trekers out there prove just how cultured they are with their heads bouncing down the road.
Report Post »mils
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 9:09amtotally agree with you sillyfreshness
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:12pmMaybe the Ugandans just mistook the two Hollywood types for gays. You know how them wacky Ugandans love murdering homosexuals.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:31pmAre you kidding me? I’ve worked around Ugandans as they provided security at the base where I was stationed in Iraq. Half of them are homosexual.
Report Post »WatchingAmericaDie
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:34pmIf only more Ugandans would move to the US.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:55pm@SGTB:
Was that before, during, or after 2011?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Bill
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:44am@Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
“Maybe the Ugandans just mistook the two Hollywood types for gays. You know how them wacky Ugandans love murdering homosexuals.”
I thought all Ugandans were gay. So why would a bunch of gay Ugandans murder 2 of their own? Maybe it was just jealousy? After all, you know how them wacky Ugandans love murdering homosexuals.(sic)
Report Post »Maybe they were just fighting over whose Rainbow Flag was more real? Yeah, that’s it. My flag is better than your flag. Or was it, “my *** is better than your ***?” Can’t tell with those silly Ugandans; like you said, “Maybe the Ugandans just mistook the two Hollywood types for gays?” It’s easy if you watch Hollywood movies. Most Hollywood stars are, well, funny. Take Alec Baldwin, please! Just take him to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and leave him there. Or dump him in Cuba. He has already said he loves both of them more than America.
I have many friends who are gay but, none that support Obama and his commie friends.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:24am@ The-Monk
LoL. You’ve been on a roll this entire past 7 days.
The way you’ve been getting people to rag on you has left me feeling left out ;)
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:30am@Lesbian Packer
Report Post »Your vain moniker reveals much about you. Why do you feel the need to proclaim to the world your sick sexual disorder and the fact that you may be armed? So effing what? You‘re probably the kind of person who’s ITCHING for a confrontation whereby you can cap somebody, just because you’re pissed off at the world that you were born without a penis. And why do you, by default, assume that the victims in this case were presumed to be queer? That’s worse than minorities playing the race card every chance they get! What vile human trash you must be. And you pervs wonder why we don’t want your kind raising children? They have enough to overcome by the time they’re grown to have psychological whackjobs like you confusing them about who they should be. Homophobe you say? Hell, no! I’ve never yet met a queer I was afraid of.
nzkiwi
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:57am@ Pouncing
Ummm, that was a bit savage, don’t you think?
Lesbian’s past posts seem quite rational to me, even if I don’t always agree with her. As for her “packing”, according to a recent Blaze survey, 100% of respondents staunchly supported the second amendment. Why single her out for that? Especially when many posters on the Blaze are very quick to point out who they would like to shoot (without actual intent, I’m sure).
As for a gay or lesbian raising children (which presumably they adopt), I confess to some disquiet with the notion – mainly due to the effect on the child (studies go both ways, so a bit inconclusive).
That said, all the gay people that I know would make better parents than some of the miscreant heterosexuals that you ocassionally read about in the news for various abuses of their progeny.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:16am@ Pouncing Monk:
Actually, only the most mentally deficient would read what I wrote as an indictment of Hollyweird for being predominantly homosexual. Especially since they manifestly aren’t. It was an indictment of Uganda and Ugandans for being blood thirsty bastiches. And since as recently as last year, they seemed to be salivating at the prospects of more legalized murders of, specificly, homosexuals, it seems a right and proper bit of hyperbole to play off such stereotypes of the entertainment industry.
And I quite enjoy the fact that my phallus runs on AA batteries, thank you very much. My swimsuit fits a lot better that way. As for screen names, yes, they do indeed say a lot about ourselves. Of course, if you insist on labelling my screen name as indicative of sexual perversion, I’d have to point out the bestial-ity aspects of “pouncing (on a) porcupine”.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:56amAnd yes, take Alec Baldwin, please. But only if you take Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore as well. Put them all in a leaky dinghy with Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers in the middle of the Atlantic and chum the waters as you power away back to shore.
It would amuse me to hear of such an occurrence.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:46pm“And yes, take Alec Baldwin, please. But only if you take Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore as well. Put them all in a leaky dinghy with Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers in the middle of the NORTHERN Atlantic, IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and chum the waters as you power away back to shore.” – LPHP
We could call it Titanic 2…. or would the play off of Moore’s heft be too much? I mean each of these people are big in their own mind…. I mean WAY… big in their own way.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 10:40pm@ Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:56am
And yes, take Alec Baldwin, please. But only if you take Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore as well. Put them all in a leaky dinghy with Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers in the middle of the Atlantic and chum the waters as you power away back to shore.
It would amuse me to hear of such an occurrence.
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why would you want to waste a perfectly good dinghy? ;)
loveoursoldiers
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:16pmThe term ‘shakedown’ strikes me as an odd way to say whatever it is they don’t want to say. Odd phrasing leads to questions.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:10amI was thinking the same thing.
Report Post »“Shakedown” is awfully vague, let alone a “failed shakedown” whatever that means???
SageInWaiting
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:03pmHoney! Forget that trip to Uganda. Let’s dig a bunker instead….
Report Post »Nevada405
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:54pmJeff was working on a project about Uganda Government housing. He was working to provide a home and a good life for his wife and children. He was a great guy and a good friend to my little brother. People that speculate, spout rumors or spead heresay should get a life. Its childish, and makes you appear ignorant. Seriously. Stop. Pray for the loved ones that lost a husband, father, son, friend… and ask God that he gives them peace.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:04pmI am sorry for your loss and for all those hurting. Prayers to everyone involved.
Report Post »RAMJR
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:43pmMy condolences to you and his family. God Bless.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:42pmUganda 12 % muslim passed the tipping point.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:12am“…The Amazing Race, which first aired in 2001 and is in its 20th season…”
Report Post »If they’re using the same math, that 12% is probaqbly a wrong number.
marie77
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:22pmWhile there may be no more to this story than what has thus-far been reported, my knee jerk reaction is to wonder what was he really doing there? On the other hand, I have a brother who has spent a significant portion of the last six years living in the Phillipines and after listening to him recount his living conditions and how they conduct “business” there, I must say that if what is being reported now is the whole truth, I am not surprised.
As Americans, we enjoy a quality of life and a set of moral standards, that as far as I know, is unsurpassed in the world. While graft and corruption certainly do exist here, it does not always touch each and every citizen personally and in their daily lives. From what I have learned from my brother, life abroad, especially in third world countries, is not the same.
Given that fact, that any sane American would choose to live and conduct business in these places is certainly beyond me. I would never willingly choose to give up my creature comforts for the probability of no working in-home toilet, no shower, no air-conditioning,no refrigerator – you have to walk everywhere lifestyle. And, for the life of me, I do not understand anyone who would – unless there was an ulterior motive at work.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:13pmPale folks in Africa generally are not welcome thesedays. Libs ignore this b/c they would have to look at the world anew.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 7:35amLots of cash on hand and a decent heavily armed security detail with a few locals too. Libs don’t like that. They are so above the fray that we live in. His advance work for Uganda didn’t bring up the fact that he was a rich *******, going to a poor black country, where an Amin used to be in power? Put another one down for the Darwin award. Nothing was gleaned from Katrina, here.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:03pmLesson learned: Don’t go to Uganda.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:10amPersonally, I’m not leaving the lower 48 any time soon.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:48pmDon’t be messing with the natives…give em what they want. jimho
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:45pmThat was the most convoluted piece of prose that I’ve ever read!
The two young men weren’t there on business, but they were victims of a shakedown by thugs that resulted in the piosoning of the two producers? Say what?
Me thinks that there’s plenty of this story left to be told (or not).
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:15pmVery likely an opportunistic group or gang preying on obvious tourists coming into country. Makes me think of the gang attacks on European tourists leaving Florida airports in rental cars. They were taking advantage of the license plates marked as rental cars and hitting the ones that appeared most vulnerable. A number were killed before the tactics were figured out, then the state changed the law for their rental car license plates. Having lived in Tampa for five years I was familiar with the plates, and being stationed in Germany during the attacks, that news shook the Germans in particular who loved to fly into Miami for vacations.
Report Post »But, you are right. There is more news to come of this.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 9:19pmForgot to mention that the rental car attacks were in the early ’90s.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:40pmJust like those hikers on the iranian border that couldn’t seem to find a better place to explore and hike.When you play with fire you sometimes get burnt.It sounds like they were’nt there on buisness so why go to a place like this?Such a shame.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:35pmAny chance it was those things Chris Rock was talking about?
Report Post »OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:32pmObama’s Jungle relatives!
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:42pmWhat?
Was the klan meeting cancelled tonight?
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:15pm@MrButcher
Report Post »Let’s not rule anything out. There is such a thing as distant relatives you know.
JJ Coolay
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:12amButcher.. so an off color comment immediately puts you into the KKK? Wow
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:06amSeriously?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:29pmWell, Blaze…..you got this story. Have you seen what Mick Jagger is singing to the Pres??????? You been scooped!! Becoming very common…….what happened.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:25pmThey should ‘race’ in America!
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:19pmDisgusting……………..never be alone with sub-humans, period.
Report Post »DividedWeFail
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:16pm2 less Obama voters.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:11pmLOL — The World is a Cruel place with plenty of Evil to go around!
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 8:10pmThey don’t call them thugs in Africa. Those killer dudes was from Philly.
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