Man in wheelchair holds 3 hostage in a bank for 9 hours

[~~whimsy~~]

This is the dramatic moment a wheelchair-bound gunman surrenders, after taking three people hostage during a nine-hour siege in a Virginia post office.

SWAT and bomb disposal teams sheltered behind an armoured vehicle as one-legged Warren ‘Gator’ Taylor, of Tennessee, left the Wytheville building with his hands in the air.

Taylor, who wears a prosthetic leg, then levered himself out of his wheelchair and onto the ground after ‘surrendering’ to a bomb disposal robot.

In a bizarre twist, police said his only demand during the siege was for a pizza, which was duly delivered.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1238259/Wheelchair-bound-gunman-surrenders-hour-post-office-siege.html

Not to sound too harsh towards the handicapped, but couldn't those three people maybe get behind this guy's wheelchair and just shove (roll) this guy into a wall and proceed to escape? He claimed to have had explosives, and turned out he didn't. Usually if they have explosives they show it to prove their point, he did not. The same psychological effect many use on people when they wave a gun around.

If more folks knew how to defend [or arm] themselves they wouldn't be held hostage for nine hours by a man in a wheelchair demanding a pizza!

 

[jasonk282]

meh at least he got a free pizza out of it.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I wonder if they let him eat it in the backseat of the cruiser. You know, since he can't run away or anything...

No sense in handcuffing him.

 

[jasonk282]

Better yet, tie his wheelchair to the bumper of the crusier and pull him down main street. Would be even better if they gave him a Santa hat and he said "Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas" while they drove to the station with him.

 

[tunsty]

Charles Xavier is being held for questioning...

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Charles Xavier is being held for questioning...

But couldn't he have avoided this whole situation by just using his powers to have people hand over a pizza?