Dec 30 2009Hostage Taker Surrenders To Police Robot
A wheelchaired man recently surrendered to a police bomb-disposal robot after unsuccessfully negotiating free pizza during a hostage situation in a rural Virginia post office. Not even kidding.
Taylor initially fired shots from the building in Wytheville, but no one was injured. The drama came to an end when police ordered him to let the hostages go and come out with his hands up. Soon after, Taylor and three others left the post office.
Police had negotiated with Taylor by phone, but he made no demands other than a request for a pizza. He is reported to have told police he had a military background.A team of SWAT police sheltered behind vehicles as Taylor wheeled himself out and "surrendered" to a bomb-disposal robot.
Geez, how humiliating having to surrender to a robot. And not even a robot with giant lasers and razor saws, just one with a stick to poke bombs with. I would have had to hari-kari myself right there. And by hari-kari I mean put that thing in a headlock and demand extra breadsticks.
Wheelchair gunman surrenders to police robot [londoneveningstandard]
Thanks to nick bacon, whose last name is actually bacon and I that makes me jealous.
Reader Comments
1. Asperflux - December 30, 2009 10:13 AM
Long live the robots. First!! We are first.
Organics will be be last. You will ALL surrender to us!!
2. AaronZZZ - December 30, 2009 10:17 AM
All the guy wanted was a pizza??? I am pretty sure taking hostage's is an unnecessary step in the process of ordering pizza... Maybe its just me.
3. like2bcold - December 30, 2009 10:19 AM
here we go. apocolypse just around the corner. robots take over.
4. LSDiesel - December 30, 2009 10:20 AM
Hahahahahahaha, wheelchair! hahahahahaha
5. Madgame - December 30, 2009 10:23 AM
Why the CRAP doesn't the Konami code work on this website??
F'ing BLASPHEMY
6. revenantdsm - December 30, 2009 10:26 AM
hara-kiri, goddamnit. :)
7. Pat - December 30, 2009 10:36 AM
Virginia has already accepted our robot overlords; Washington D.C. is next.
8. Jaja - December 30, 2009 10:37 AM
@5 the konami thing is ancient now. I don't think it works on more than 5 websites now lol.
9. Whiskey - December 30, 2009 10:43 AM
Police Captain: "Well boys, we have a man in a wheelchair, armed with a shotgun...demanding pizza. I think us 14 highly trained men should stay hidden behind this giant truck, and once we talk him out, we'll send out Bomb-E. "
LSDiesel: "HAHAHA wheelchair..hahaha"
Whiskey: Wait wait wait....wheelchair? One sec, I'll be right back.
Police Captain: "OMG Whiskey, get back here! Dammit stop laughing LSDiesel!! What is he doing, doesn't he realize he's a desperate hungry man?!
Whiskey: *SMACK*
Police Captain: Well, apparently all we had to do is sneak up on him, grab his wheel chair, take the gun away, and slap him. I see...
Well boys, we better head out, I just received news that theirs a paraplegic holding hostages by knife point at the ice-skating rink.
10. Whiskey - December 30, 2009 10:46 AM
In all seriousness, "Taser-Launching-Pizza".....Mission Complete
11. Jiakasuma - December 30, 2009 10:50 AM
beep beep boop
12. LSDiesel - December 30, 2009 11:29 AM
@9, Tell me another story.
13. naas - December 30, 2009 11:32 AM
'He's getting away!'
14. Two Worlds - December 30, 2009 11:42 AM
Q: What do Mr. Sinister, Magneto, and a Virginia police department have in common?
A: They all got owned by a guy in a wheelchair.
15. AaronZZZ - December 30, 2009 11:56 AM
@14... LOLzzz...... Good job relating this story to X-Men, You should win some sort of "Geek of the Day" award or something.
16. LSDiesel - December 30, 2009 12:21 PM
@15, or a load of hot jizz on his face.
17. LSDiesel - December 30, 2009 12:22 PM
I'm sorry, I'll try to stop being so funny.
18. Branstrator - December 30, 2009 12:38 PM
Wasn't this on gizmodo like 3 weeks ago.
19. Joey the Beer - December 30, 2009 12:50 PM
The man want pizza! What so hard about that? They can avoid using the robot if they just gave him pizza!
20. Fuzzy Tingle Times - December 30, 2009 1:08 PM
Wall-E always gets his wheelchair bound hostage taker.
21. Bourtney - December 30, 2009 2:12 PM
I knew a guy who stabbed a pizza delivery boy and then stole the pizza. My friend was the one who placed the order, too... so of course, he went to jail. True story.
22. SithBlue - December 30, 2009 4:37 PM
EPIC FAIL what a loser
23. supernova_hq - December 30, 2009 6:31 PM
That robot's "bomb pocking stick" will shoot an electrified stream of water at you so hard it will put a hole through your skull!
24. Jaded Icon - December 31, 2009 7:40 AM
If you look closely you can tell the guy gave up because he saw the cops eating his pizza by their van. Johnny 5 was just sent out to tell the guy how fucking delicious it was.....
25. lee harless - December 31, 2009 6:14 PM
this is not old. this happened less than 7000ft from my residence, just last week. the guy was a fruckin' nut case. he made the postal employee sit on his good leg. ...and i have it on good faith that he had forgotten his bomb before going into the building, and that he winged it, from then on. lol. told them he had two. one on his body and one at his truck. the grenades were real. he used the lady as a human shield when he shot at the cops and he told the cops on the phone that another hostage was himself, so theyd shoot him instead. what a faggotous loser fatass. good riddance.
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