Warren “Gator” Taylor, a wheelchair-using man with a leg amputation, held three people hostage at a Post Office in Wytheville, Virginia last Wednesday. The reasons why are still unknown, although - no joke - he did ask for pizza mid-standoff when police asked him if there was anything he wanted.
And don’t worry, this crazy story gets even better. Upon entering the bank, police report he brought in a black duffel bag, fired his gun, and revealed he was strapped with explosives. He then said, “I have enough explosives to take out the whole block.“
Take out the whole block? Nice.
After several hours of negotiating with police, eating pizza, and being an all-around blight on humanity, Taylor finally released his hostages and came out himself, surrendering to a police robot (who knew police employed robots for situations as sensitive as this, btw?).
This whole story is obv pretty crazy, and further proof there are real idiots living among us, wasting our police forces energy on matters complete inconsequence. And need I say this “Gator” Taylor kind of perturbs me? Even though the 5lbs of plastic explosives were real, he came out as sheepish as a lamb in the end, ultimately realizing his mission was futile. Yeah, no sh#! Sherlock.
But the real thing we should be discussing is the WHY. Why did Gator do it? What were his motives? It’s pretty ballsy to take a facility and its inhabitants hostage from a wheelchair. In fact, I’d have to say you’d need to be crazy to do such a thing.
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