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Tony criticism was born in indianapolis. Nablus indiana he had three brothers friends, tits too France had three brothers in a sister, their father, a greek emigrant owned, a neighborhood store during the summer. All three kids with sell ice cream in the Ben Davis. And garden city areas of the west side of the city, cute little store them. So far. It's pretty good right, adorable, lovett, related, he went to Ben Davis high school, where he was an excellent student, the principal of Ben Davis, to turn this on, I thought so I did oh, my god, the leg move you just did when it's pretty hot right dude, you just did the cad cam. I did a lot of ballet I thought I did as as a ballet major in college is he's out. I was pleased to see the princess

Ben David, said all the oh. It's curators cure riches. its were solid and respected. Another teacher said all the kids were hard working after gradual. It ain't tony serve in the army. For two years he was a small arms instructor for west point: cadets, that's just when he dealt with the you know, tiny yeah sure dependent just like I man, I name, remember his like gnarls berkeley, like o barkley, who see low who's, Cielo Cielo. Well, he has west point. He has a little tiny. Oh, this is very he's like a little dinosaur like a triceratops, so I was thinking about this. The other day he like he came under allegations for like rape yeah he did and then he like when he got fired and he was just like okay,

hey. So, hypothetically speaking, someone sleeping- and you do something- is that crazy? It was like something to that effect that everyone's, like. I don't like to delete this. It's not crazy, but it's illegal yeah. Sergeant. Ronald beazley of the marian county sheriffs department said tony was a man who worked hard, but also on a hot temper seriously, how temper its at some point twenty became the owner of a mobile home park at the age of just twenty six live in the jail one of the tenants, a lot of weird problems you gotta deal with and that? No it's a good thing to have. If you have a temper yeah for sure definitely get a mobile home park, absolutely message: twenty eight mobile home families: if go to to anger. Counseling, you know. If you go to one of those programs, they'll say: buy a mobile home park get a mobile home park. One of the tenants recalled that They would carry a shock on around the property. totally had a temper which,

sort of hearing tat was coming back again, great combo or swimming out and then were also new information. There's a shotgun yeah. Ok, he posted five. per hour. Signs on the streets around the mobile home park and using the shot gun would stop people who were breaking this, be them interesting. So so that's how you that's how he would first, the speed limit laws for which was an average five miles an hour, it's really hard to do it's hard to. Do it so slow its height again, cars got cars are against it yeah it's it's basically stopped it. Basically starting to slow down doing nothing. tony also, would only allow one distributor to sell eating oil at the mobile home park. Only one furnished repairman into the mobile home park after

while other repairman and oil man would not even go to the park when a tenant called when has around thirty four a policeman, sergeant love then a high school friend of tony's, so, the tony shot at his brother twice after they argued about money. He was just selling ice cream a minute ago. Yet what started out great? It's like when you watch intervention and they share the baby- is exactly what we just did exactly. What we just did No one was injured in the shooting, sergeant, love arrested, tony tony, for at air charges. How many times sergeant love showed up to a place where people like we didn't a strip prayers like no god. No, I that's my fucking, you're under arrest, ok all right I'll, be on the bad we offer so this is. very sexy. My arms are okay group with a shock at the moment

but about spread so the charges are eventually dropped for that shooting? Ok, when turning was forty one jeopardy sheriff william newman found tony had cornered two men from the citizen, gas and cook utility tunnies armed with an ax. He was upset. at that they had come onto his property, but they were probably going there to fix up. The two men were installing a gas line that ran under his trailer. Yet again, so he no files were charged. Why are charges not being filed? His anger was said to be quote fearsome, a quick and Heedless of consequences ceases to ban description arable. I mean basic living like eyes, a future for sure, and other police reports That tony had chased his sister with an axe and again he was arrested

but even with these situations, weapons the to twenty was never convicted of crimes. At this point he feels like invincibility Well I mean why. How would you feel after all that, like it's time to use my ass, I'm talkin about, but There said he was a saint tawny alive time back as you can imagine the her because he's doing not in I may too high. For the ladies also I mean once you got an empire like that, you don't a splitter, so I'm talking about you know the attorneys living in an apartment, complex and sixty seven year old, gladys alice, who lived across the hall said he was great quote He's the nicest person that anyone could ever hope to meet one winter during a very cold weather tone offered many times to do MRS El, shopping for her. One policeman, who is a friend of tony said, quote: these friendly and outgoing,

The cotonou him said he has a wild temper. Okay, so one could say: tiny runs all hot called yeah, yeah, hot and cold tiny situations like that. When you hear the crazy shit about somebody, I just don't know anyway. What I come to you when I'm telling you what to call telling you what I called honey I'll take a hot townie. I would have called someone who got out and called special that I hadn't called tony's raw hot and cold. That done called tony. I just said a hot tony, alright I remember the one on tony. That was the axe. Man, that's called tony okay, but what's not done he's also got the axe. Okay, I don't want to tony unless it's very musical that's what it is well known fail in our times in the seventies he had now for a while. He was now just living on offers rental properties such good. I said the worsening thing in a lot of people in the winter

since only seven tony, on seventeen acres on the northwest corner of linares drive and rockville road which had greatly increase in Are you over the years and tony now wanted to turn it into a strip mall? Oh god. Why me? Why not yeah? This is what strip malls weren't as horrible as they are now yeah, that's true, but he was also very behind on his payments to the bank for the property. Ok, he was trying to she had a big sail to developers, hoping that they would solve the issue, a girl, a path back right, but thought. The mortgage company was steering buyers away from his property by saying tony would be risky investment tony thought. The morgue cut mortgage company wanna to forecast, was to get their hands on me now valuable property and when tony gets hot premium, things get axi

Oh two hundred and thirty thousand dollars on mortgage and the mortgage company meridian mortgage had given him many breaks, so he's been behind. Nonetheless payments they ve, given them breaks like mine, dramatically. The guy get us next month, but in nineteen. Seventy seven: the company dropped the hammer and decided to foreclose boy on the morning of february, eight Nineteen, seventy seven twenty made an appointment to this ass, his mortgage, aberdeen love, I'm! I don't wanna, be too presumptuous, but I assume and he's going to be pretty pass. I love now you're. Making an appointment to go rage right. Where does directed I care, then I could do one. Could you guys do one two o clock? I could do that. I look forward to wednesday it too Goodbye table fucking see you there and if he saw a man when I get there,

act in holding a long flower box and waited so not a lot of people by foreclosure flowers. That's well flock closures. People might bring their mortgage guy flowers. I just closed now. I know you for closer Maybe I saw these white roses Larry, my goodness, also. What is foreclosure yeah I'd That word means down here. Take the flowers, so richard hall, who works there arrived after bit and twenty said: hey you got a minute: they went into halls office just down the hall.

and twenty pull the sort of shock and out of the box than slam. These were not flowers. I would the wrong flores, then you're gonna pay and then he's. and haul against the wall skip ass, a rule. Or for the indianapolis news was talking to police chief gene gallagher when the chief got a call on the hotline. Okay, if there's a couple of things happening here, there's just a beat reporter sit around talking, The police chief are just very spiderman right and then the earth is that their hotline and a gallagher which is very batman, and they do have a gallagher, which is fragile. When the police, you came back, he told skip that. He should go downtown quote, there's some guy who, as a sort of shock on wired to another, guys head- and he says, he's coming out- take em all speakers

tom. You put a wire on halls, neck down the barrel of a gun at around his finger. So it's around the neck, so a wire It's around islam, like like a good like a noose around the neck and then down the barrel of a gun, so the guns when I read the beggars head down the barrel of a gun and then wrapped around his finger, which is then around the trigger, but is is tony in control of that situation, or it's just the dude is in control of it, but if tony is shot and he falls, the gun goes off. and kills all holy shit. So he sniper proved right right. the marathons running this day now,

I love it. I realize tony called this a dead man's line, for twenty one outside he called the police to inform them what he was up to and about the dead bans line so he's like I'm gone. If you shoot made this guy's gonna die right turn. It then walked out of meridian mortgage with the shock and pointed at the back of halls head. God attorney is a burly little man was sideburns. rang a short leave sure, even though it was negative. Five degrees hall was tall slimmer, with the receding blonde hair and as they aid, their way down the street cops we're coming from all directions: with their sirens. Blaring they'd, stop their cars and jump out and then not really know what to do. Like.

fuckin. Why don't you stop? Tony let them know about the dead man's line when they came up. tony and he walked down Washington street, but just a nice gmt What do you do for fun about all this? Not that sounds like miniature golf right. complain about this. I'm sorry, ok, then they turned and walked for. Blocks along the busiest street in downtown indianapolis you're with us, gonna love the place. We're going. by the way? This is how I get everyone to eat with me. Oh yeah. I just want to have a meal yeah, that's it I paying well look. I know the foreclosures messed up, but I just really want to take it from them. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I want someone to talk to. Oh I'm! Oh! I'm sorry I wanted to take you out for a by asphalt, wow, please,

his started running ahead to shoot pedestrians and tell store owners to lock up their stores. Some cops tried to talk to tony, but he was pretty focused on the task at hand. I do love like when, like a hostage like us, it's never like in the movies. So it's like a lot of times a hostage negotiator. It's just like someone. On the other hand, like no screw you oh and hanging up his observed, hey Dennis combined, you got so much dennis you got so to live for Dennis? The weird thing is, as I read many different news parents of so many, so many cops knew him wow yeah. I think it's a small community. I think it's a they get. You know where they it's in indianapolis, like I think in west annapolis, but I think that, like he grew up there, some guys became a cop, some guys, but they are just kind of new each other a little bit. It wasn't like a big community right today, So then other tawny what're, you doin, don't you think so

I got a problem at the markets company going to talk to you later. I think those other gonna get the first. reverse right now: ok, that's what it says. Dont wiki? How so that is a good point delight I guess what is like the the endgame here, probably isn't a foreclosure reversal. What is then do The question is so well, besides warning people had many police just started following in a big pack. walking behind turning it all down the street on foot some at their guns out some didn't tony, would stop occasionally and jerk hall around warning the police. I swear to god. I don't even want to I'm not doing a bit when you said jerk, I was like no way are you about to say off? I know I thought it was just about to take a

an easy turn off. He started jerking him off in the street, but not no, not not that that totally took jerk off brakes on this little. Oh, no, that would be super horrible know that you just made a very bad dollar, Wait what the mayor bill, huh it was sitting in his office when he looked out the window and saw tony parading hall down the street with a shock and strive to his head. Another day nablus, yeah yeah, the best tony slipped on ice and fell. Oh shit. What but hall fell with him. still. If hollered not find the girl would have gone off and kill them is to allow my are the cops quickly whipped out their guns, For a moment. It look like tawny was pulling a pistol out of his pocket and all hell was gonna break loose, but tawny was

rearranging a pistol in his pocket after falling. Thank god, the two men got back up. I seem very carefully here: ok, what I'm an ecologist three I'll go. First, Oh, we should go at the same time. One two three on three or gotta go one. Two three go wait: nope last words were wait and wait. they walked forbid. Then tony saw a cop and his police car and told the cop to get out he climbed to the car with hall and told hall to drive the car behalf. And then a car crash into a telephone call because the driver was watching the madness. some guy is driving by. He sees the guy with the shotgun getting into the car. He sees all the cops standing around and he just drives into a telephone pole. He was an extra spoken to.

Then tony and hall sped off with police cars chasing them at eighty miles per hour down washington street. This dude made an appointment for this. They made an appointment for this man wednesday to forty. Five is good to get not shit. gotta, go off, that's what I'm gonna do attach a trip wire to a man. What are you do it tomorrow? Tawny, big fucking up in the morning, but the afternoon unswervingly shit tony told how to drive, apartment building at cress what village they got their at nine five an ice neighbourhood. Now this is good together, nine, thirty five m in about seventy five cops arrive seconds later Tonia All went up to his third for floor corner apartment from the apartment. Tony call the cops and said quote: I'm ready to die, Why,

You do you want to talk about the windows or the airport. and had wires strong on this, It's apparently to make the cops think there are bombs. Tony said the apartment was wired with dynamite and if a dude has this setup, I mean you're going to be like he probably does. He probably has dynamite for sure everyone. Then hunkered down residents were removed. from the apartment building, andy at a bell came and set up a bank of telephones for the media in one apartment sent Taking hostages wasn't really a big thing, yet the indianapolis pitied did not have any hostage negotiators, that's gonna, be fun. For someone to learn on a fly So what are you doing? You know what he's doing but like when her How are you? What are you hey? What's your favorite color? What

read, not ride, might start red who so We were all armored car. You wrote back home, the they get did you got that you got I get better. No! No! I didn't want to admit what I want as me. What I want to hear even asked me what I want to say: Hold me Isabella. Let me get a sip. Go ahead, come on you'll, be alright. I say what do you want? Okay, okay, so I'm tony What do you want what you want, but I'm well you're doing good? You don't go! Okay, that's just wow! I'm supposed to do my part, you So much so much to give

The amount you give to people don't do at home. Was there Michael Grable had attended a to b, I a two day: f b, I a hostage seminar, so he was there expert. Well he's fine. By the way I missed the first thing, sir jack, I'm gonna area that I wasn't fund. few, seventy seven hostile situations were fairly unheard of, so there is no standard. Seizure for this. No rules to follow. That meant tony. get on the phone and started calling friends and other people and is and were also ringing him up to talk because they saw

was happening on the news today. He told me when you're walking down the street with a shotgun the trip wire on a guy who foreclosed on my house here, the fuck outta. Here again it's been awhile. Oh my gods, you watch the game. Actually I can I didn't. I didn't get to watch it. I was doing this with this guy. It was a whole day, but I'm hoping to see highlights later. What are you doing later? You want to get together overbearing and I dunno. If I get out of this yeah for sure yeah. Let me do this, let me see. They play a daily I'll, wrap this around nine ten me now I'll, let you know we can meet up, I to Bobby, might want to come, but he's got an old lady is holding her with an axe. Okay, so will work out, though, that still might work area. So do I love you, love to I'm just saying I have an avenue to schlitz. Okay. Well, we'll do most of the talking. Okay, I buy so as friends or colleagues, im and then strangers sir to call to chat because tone number was listed in the phone book. That is, I mean. How could you

is the answer here alone. you do or don't call here. I've got to do business. Oh okay, sorry about that hall. Are you the duty was that I didn't know the cops I think busy signals when they were trying to call tony just sounds like a bunch of idiots up. It's like similar with the o j thing. like they were trying to chase her, but there are too many people in the streets. People are calling him a bible belt Yeah come on, finally, the cops fun and had a new, phone number assigned to tony's apartment that guy we gotta be able to talk to this guy hey by the way, sir. We change your number just for the record. Graybill quickly learn

tony, had no idea what he wanted. He had no plan, my god. His only plan was to get home apartment and that was done well. After listening rebel thought tony had a legitimate complaint against the mortgage company. I'm sure did it won't think a hollow bullshit mortgage armenia nowadays, there worse, but I mean there are. They were inclined towards being But of course twenty wasn't hamley improperly it's slightly extreme. I think we can agree that there is not really a right person in this one and it certainly not tommy the lead pro peter for marion county was in california law seminar get so that that's, ok! I got nine messages. What's what are you guys doing out there? My phone is blown up so that x, guy charge. Was the chief deputy prosecutor, david rims, stilled he was twice seven years old, my god he was

so young that no one realized he was calling the shots at the seeking the prostitute prosecutor's office, which is disturbed. You are three kids in a policeman's outfit joe keeps a tickle of yeah. He kept a ticket to watch the all run out. Yeah you jump a handful of tootsie rolls. You watch that policeman's uniform evaporates and we got happy feet. The prosecutor's office actually brought. Out an older guy who wasn't in charge to put on tv to give the, parents are mature. Guy was in charge, that's good when you casting do you wanna play manage because this adolescent is and isn't a good face for the operation. I'm the a okay. Here we go you're a cop gentlemen were proud to introduce the man who is running the received here in europe.

Be confident in him officer, jan eder, hey. So what is your plan to stop the hostage situation? Prior, just try cleaning up that we don't work questions. Can we talk for a second? yup some threw up. Will you clean it, but twenty seven year old guys now the guy who's put in charge I keep telling him he's talking to tony the twenty seven year old, guys, the guy, but it was hard to san, because he was so out of control with anger. Then he started demands like you five million dollars authorities pretended. Didn't you just gotta doktor evil in a low but yeah. Ok, is prepared to negotiate, but we're just trying to wait him out? They fell like time was, their sight rights, the guide, the guys. Parliament, what are you in a second? Do

Can you haven't there to get by still very treachery Essentially I it's all fucked up. Can they can they see him? They can't see him now, tony's brother Jimmy shut up brought a couple of friends. The party tony one fuck, you will leave pal what are you, I thought to bear I brought it six pack tone, so I guess with your body now that's just one age and then two of us get to work. We three of us could add to what anyway, it's good to me, your hallway, if you shoot that guy then we'd get more yeah. and I don't want to that's the thing. I don't want a job just saying stuff on the table. That's on that bandwagon, but I think you might have a point we all get to yeah.

It's about I mean mostly. I think this is about beer. I get another six, I let them live really now. You're right kill them. Let's strike these so jimmy his friends, try to talk tony out of what he was doing, but he was too angry. Tonic demanded meridian mortgage, make it public apology to him and one in writing. The company had to admit they cheated him dead conspire to take us and he also wanted his mortgage debt wiped clean and he for immunity from arrests and, of course, immunity from civil liability for the kidnapping. Well, guy has a shock it into his head and these that if he lives, he can't sue right, so I will say for on the fly thinking the last two are pretty great: not bad, not bad, pretty great them as you clearly, this guy's run about how hard oh, I can never get a job readiness,

guess. Random of biogas is down there with a lot of classics, because I think that that one phrase on a mobile home part? What did the to the two top brazen immobile homework are my Others a lawyer- and I want to see you here but also lake- never that at some point, During the first day, tony called veteran newsman fred hechtman in his office sorry, tagging doom had men. Heckling was a well respected these men who had been covering Indiana for ever. He was the towns I mean. Is the towns main news angers these, like that all the old fuckin guys then around forever. The everyone in town knows. I grew up with them by people. Trust them. But then he here like behind the scenes, if you're gonna go to asia and in turn is pain, is there something I ever knew fred

but he soon tawny was saying he would only talk to fret hello, the exactly like that. Now, even though it's a it was against all his journalistic instincts, Fred was acting as a mediator between the cops and tony, the first rule of news is that you report it. You don't become it, but fred didn't seem to have a choice. Man's life was in the balance, and tony would only talk to him. tony now started thinking that he and Fred were pals. Oh boy, then read these guys. This is making plans for the weekend fuck Jesus. He just keeps talking. It's just fuck man. Nobody knows! Nobody knows me, like you fred, I just we've been through it all pal.

Ass, you, my rock, I don't know what I'd be without she, but man you're. The only one get me through this I'll. Tell you what you less time again aegis you're, always there. So he had watched fred fraud, all his life you. It's amazing he's been watching for forever. He knows he knows fred, heed as he knows for and Fred's trustworthy fred's not going to fuck with anybody. Friends, not the fucking mortgage company or the cops fred's. A fucking stand up guy, it's fred friends like guy. Yes, that's right! Tony we go way back friend to do friend was a major figure in the annapolis community. But Fred was then taken off the story

at w I b c t v because he had become part of the story, so he couldn't cover it journalism, that's the real one. You can't become part of the story. You can't cover the story. You're part of yeah, but he's ok fred was very angry, but he understood Ghana people. The station said it was like firing, their boss of the story Then day, one ended and night came that evening, a rubber of meridian mortgage clifford chapman read an apology to tony on local on a local tv news broadcasts and he was watching the game instead, in it the company emitted. Everything tony wanted them to admit after he was done, chapman was questioned by reporters and he denied the company did anything saying he was just trying to get hall out alive. Get do that now say that

it's perfect that will keep up appearances. Mascot good for the sake of saving is immediately say that alright add just so to be clear. It's all our fault that we'll take questions, how how was it It isn't. I write any other questions. Why did you do this time. I wanna make she's alive on taking on staff is alive. We did nothing thanks, guys ex cop out. Meridian mortgage was a family business. Richer hall was the son of murdering chairman Emily hall. Richards brother Jack also work. There. Emma hall erased. Tony's dead and told chapman to say, or do whatever was needed to end the hostage situation with richard alive, but yeah, okay, a mean of on the second day news. Media came all over the country and they said there were allow hostage situation. So this is a big deal Entire city was now watching their tvs and listening to the radio, a behavior model.

Patient specialists from the fbi, training academy came to help deal with ties, crazy, move that big shot left. I swinging his shit in, I know about moods, what's going on well, he seems to be in well. Ok, first of all, this guy's mood is that he's a pussy pussy? Can we get a different guy? Why is the negotiator crying? Hey just know. Okay, my mood is now angry. I professional opinion is that my mood is now on the edge of hitting something I'm really going to get some of those edge proud to come back on. Anything I might hit is the pussy so great to meet you somehow Tony's new phone number was people this before it will set going mad I gotta run in the cops, are forced to cut.

The line again because they couldn't get through a just dared to let you know if the ever get feathers. It took didn't tony didn't This new furniture was, he couldn't call people and tell them the common back or give it out. so it had been someone price and the phone company that give out the fundamental, ok or work up on the inside or are there, but they couldn't stop tony from calling people which continue to do. the police started, taping tony's phone calls and listen to him talking other people to see if he was up or down. I'm excited he was on a high, the cops left them alone and when he was sad, they tried to talk him into giving up. They started graphing, tony's, moods on a board and the command post. If there's any way to get this ring on him, we'll save ourselves a lot of grief

I would say at eighty percent of people know where you tell you so now, maybe maybe less might now less than fifty percent of people know where you're Diana yeah seventies now. I remember them from what I've eightys. I yeah, I think, on I need a mood ring was a thing you put on your finger and it would change colors supposedly Based on your moon, there was a key where you would go and you would be like. Oh it's great, I have a little pissed off. I feel like I'm angry you'd, be like purple yeah. I have a good mood thing drink for telling me what I am feeling technology with great this year. so there's taping his phone, Cause and isn't a high they're doing it all and the low the drawn graphs, which is fucking, awesome bomb, smelling I'd love to hear his highs. What does he just gab? It's just amazing good to catch up.

We gotta. Do this you, my god. This is so great. Meanwhile hall, like tat, die your brother may that is so messed up the whole time halls just sitting there with a gun to his head. He can't even just gave a conversation, could start side be this guy. I gotta do to more than three this guy fuck bomb, knowing police dogs, sniff tony's, car and army demolition experts, told the police that there had been large amount of explosives in the car, recently a and that triggering devices can be seen on the windows of the apartment. So this was obviously a concern for trying a rescue in the apartment times were tougher hall tony at away in the middle of the

parliament which he would chain hall to if you didn't want to keep holding the shock to the back of halls ed, so there I was having a lot of fun right, so the way would just be like if he moved. I think the way I don't even know if the gm Azzam the weight was just. He would time to wait. Okay, I think many tidy apparatus to the weight so that, if you move the weight would almost act as a body, I don't think so, but who the fuck knows Tony asked hall. If you wanted any doughnuts hall said no, a life. My life would be grand again instead of the take I to live here. Also know quote: I don't need donuts away from another one, to gain any pounds that honesty breaks. My heart that is way to they krispy kreme groom? That is yet to be like a a diet. Facing death any time to have it gonad. It's your cheek,

day. That is, you know what my wife would kill me. cause, I'm on a total diet. I'm on it. You know what the paleo is. Yeah, I'm just doing the paleo right now actually yeah. I know they are there. Now I tell you what, though the thing is if one down and I can't stop eating doughnuts. I know I know I'm my diary now. Everything, but I did that just eroded When I go to anyone who maintains its yeah, I can see Is that a glaze? What is I sought to any other says that it would be nice that acts as a donor to death in a minute, This way again fuck, I'm really glad. I took your appointment. I feel I feel good about I feel good about I'm the donor. I feel good about it. There are gone. I shut down a really good tony I'm gonna call nine people so here's the symbol,

so after the houses you know, I don't want to get any weight. Tony responds, don't worry about it. We'll just give and we'll just get an extra palm bear will get an extra paul. There was a palm deny so that's when a tree dies, they have a correct, that's a terrible it. That is a terrible response. Just get an extra pallbearer as a terrible reason. That's the worst response. I've tried to care myself over here. Look if you really want. Have a donor, I well, my god. Awful in negotiations. They were offering tony what every asked for they went back and forth over the amount of cash. They the more they got him to say yes, the more in control. He would think he was p the federal government, however, were not happy about the negotiations and they didn't want the process.

revised, keep common word Second setting negotiator. Go. She ate one sided negotiations, so the fellow gonna didn't want. The He desires to negotiate with him at all, and so they not to give him what he wanted, but the guys on the scene disagreed marian county prosecutor. Then offered tony full immunity from prosecution if he released hall yeah take it take. What take it. The? U s attorney general, but it in and said quote tell MR corbett's to give up entrust his government

all the reporters on scene laughed yeah, trust your government on the morning of day three with a shotgun to your head for for two days. Yeah I did it I mean it just has to be totaled so the morning of day three of the cops and live I mean look at the the the pallbearer answer is all you're thinking about yeah cadets it and the fact that you didn't eat the donut yeah for sure fuck, the fucking donald right, god dammit. So in the morning of day, three the cops in the apartment across the hall were ordered to fry up some bacon and open the door. they opened the window. They wanted. Turning to think about getting a good meal,

and there they are hitting all cartoon pie window sill theorem that that's exactly what they did so once we know that the smoke is entering there, we'll see the steak marks and what will happen is you'll, probably float out nose first, enamelled with the scent yeah, though I am? I am water from one of the very first, negotiations could things we did We made him think he was getting the moon. We did not rush in we, we we his moods and now made some really really nice bacon and I will end up doing was made up of restaurant next door and we could cast so we're making money we're turnin, we're turn hostages in the cash and that's why we're here today work. Just for cash lonely like loudly, and I'm going make you rich with

literally languidly. really length welling yeah? Who else would it be? That could have been Larry yeah? It was Larry. I think it was louis. It wasn't literally the kind of malaria. It was like a cheese, we're okay, so as the then them call them up and talking about a good meal and then talk, and they kept talking about em. Bobby and outside again. They wonder mr thing: being outsides. They start talking about parks and check, he's a top eyes now work in a really shocking. At one point, tony asked if the five million he was getting could be deducted from his income tax. That's not That's not how money works at all. I'm just worried. I'm gonna get screwed up my tax when your head. At this point, I, like you, know why I got one problem I love you say, you gotta give me five main by one problem. Thinking of an that's like what about my tax

is like how much you get a little less tension on the road from the way? How much, but how much he Oh yeah? Are you a tax? Guy too? Are you just a mortgage guy? He taxes yeah. What do you think I can get this like promoting a pair of five million us tremendous amount. I just I just take it, please take it. What do you think what are you gonna put some aside and like I'll, be? it still screw you there. What did you say screw me? The screen, texas, did you fucking say screw me screw your text. I did your taxes apply your fucking head off; no, no, no, no, no nope, they haven't or they haven't fires. The dodger game. Yeah, the the dodgers won it was a oh. Is that what they do when they, when they set off fireworks every night, what a stupid team Is this not happy? No, I wouldn't be there. If I was a cat, I'm not as a person so laura showed up to represent tony. They were told the immunity was for real, as was

If Tony's brother Jimmy was also told the demille, there was a real outlets for real. That's for real, it's real. It's for real immunity now again for real immunity, huge tone, shifting your voice, no game, we came means real. We came real stuff at immunity system. More is the real one fingers crossed it's the top. the most real up, it's a muslim. You look at it. Most real of all immunities hold on this. I got a good feeling. Buddy. then? Finally, on day, three came that word came that tony was gonna hold a press conference. And tony want to be live on, Commissioner, radio, I think he's he's ready. I think I think no one has been more ready. I think it's been talking to fred off for fucking two days. Fred gave him a lot,

pointers on how to handle the camera and how to look at the camera and fred from the news told them. What to do reporter skip has had enough informant in the police department who kept the up on what was going on the whole time now three His he said quote: skip were gettin ready bring. It bring him out, they're gonna. shoot the son of a bitch tony's gonna, come across the courtroom and there's a marksman on top of one of the buildings, and if he gets the chance, he's gonna shoot tony kip. asked about the shock on and the is it still. He still has the gun. This whole thing he's holding, oppressed, The two things he's holding or a press conference at a loaded gun do a man's worry figures. Dollop he's got it skipper star jack in the cop replied. We don't know if you start it attached. Okay, so

What's a good plan, then yeah he might come our without such icon now. The media gathered in the recreation room of the apartment building, as did a bunch of cops. Then tony blair the hall, with a shock on still pointed at his head reporter Tom cochrane quote, we followed tone, in hall into the recreation area, and it was this food ask seem here: tony occurrences, with hall still wired to the shock on the chief of police and oliver. Porters? Clearly in the line of fire, it was completely silent, except for tony and the click of the cameras. Tension was immediately palpable hall. Looked absolutely fatigued by looking at the done it on the table in the back on us

I got up and I regret so. I figured so every day I might be. This might be the biggest donor regrettable time when that guy shoots me they allowed. As our questions the questions Another reporters Senate looked like an organism with twenty or thirty legs. Moving. My it never tag yeah, yeah, Fred hackmen was their and tony was not ingrate shape. He'd been awake, the whole time over sixty hours without sleep. Well, I think that's a gift. He looked wildlife, yet yes, tony ordered the tv media to turn In all their cameras, he had written statement that all this holding and we're supposed to read so halls his podium. The house. Can it be this extra folks been isa? Is this little teleprompter? Ok, turkey, organ!

at next lie, gun read next to hire a slow down a little bit. Reading the thing yeah, oh my god wait! Who'd! You think I was talking to that. It was reading. I know haul it up for him to re. Oh no! He's given it to hall to read his statement. This is the logic of someone who's been up for six years. But hall now had a two inch gash in his neck from the wire. So it's been digging away. He could barely reed hall was a mess. So tony snatched the statement from hall as idiot you fucking asshole. What am I talk about at the time People's choice awards were being broadcast. John Wayne tony nominated best shot. go to the bathroom the live tv plot, John wayne, just one in a ward and was stepping up to the podium to give his speech broad

Esters in Indiana then cut away to tony courage is about to give his speech and then tunny critters began the most proof. vanity lace, tirade ever seen on television as thousands of hooters watched the goddamn camera zile, I want to show you something february. Ten nineteen. Seventy seven the man that was called the kidnappers, Damn national hero. Don't you forget it? I've heard this gun stuck in this cocksucker. For three days they ve had once in mind for five years. I have this done. He hasn't got up. This gun doesn't go off, I'm having too much fun, though I took a goddamn good shot and ruin and a man a good man's life, and that's me I happened to be a goddamn, pretty nice fella, my friends, woods

the most stable man that day no they would say that man, whose human centipedal in other member states. Can you imagine what it would take to drive a man like me to do something like this? Ladies and gentlemen, when I picked up this, on tuesday morning. All the help ben through seem like a goddamn picnic. I've never felt such trauma as I picked. This thing up walked out the door drove downtown, and these people maybe do it. I want everyone, its call me and there is sympathetic to know that I get well appreciated and all of a pop upright may not go. I've got a pizza guy so that just has to be the weirdest. Seen ever you can win. We can watch it up and then tony sir, to cry.

Of course, all the emotions I was in trouble friends when you saw what he's got them things off and kidnap somebody. I tell you, It's a narrow waterway road that there's some kids out. There have a the kids now, okay, guys, kids, dots off if you got a problem with that guy at school, you don't like some guy on the team, will tell you running out, don't solve a shotgun this had for three days. Also a message to the children: don't sell ice cream. That's ice cream One just path is a one way: road right here that that makes me you know I am not I'm like losing touch with the idea that the you know the thing that a mortgage is a mortgage. This represents a mortgage, yeah. This is a this is a mortgage situation.

It's also it's sad because they, like you know they put yeah putting someone in a position like that is just so lake I dunno why couldn't actually find it if they did anything wrong? You know what do you mean? Oh if the mortgage company, like I couldn't but ok yeah, that is true for sure. My gut is just I guess, but that's probably click. Ok, so am I show you a picture of the law of the sea. There's the press conference, Are you kidding me? I mean it's it's a guy holding a shocking to back up the guy's head while

people are all around him. It's the idea that eighty percent of the expressions here are normal, that's the crazy thing when you watch the video I they normal, but there's a guy standing right next to tony chewing gum no gun. It it's! The craziest is, if you like, you do in this area. press did not ask any questions when Tony stop talking. It was just complete silence during the speech tony took time to is police chief Gallagher sang if for you I would a blood his brains out gag is a gas kaliko, damn fine man this guy this? These cheap fella. He stopped me from killing these guys great use it go, and he s keep this guy trust me there's something great about the idea that it's about blowing ahead. Often so

Named Gallagher, in their honest besides its oversight ira. Here, besides, tawny was a cop chewing gum, holidays. I close clearly thinking the end of the speech will be followed by his brains being blown out. What tony could not see was down all the halls. The recreation room were swat. Team members are armed with an automatic weapon ready to blow tony's brings out the police. It gets off it with a doctor bring the three days to find out the quickest way to drop a man. If you shot him in the head, the answer was under the neck below the ear and the man would die instantly. So

police chief was standing there besides tawny with a gun in one pocket and a handkerchief in the other. His plan was to pull out the handkerchief to signal everyone that he was about to shoot. Tony, when the chief with that his gun there was to be another cop whose job would be to push the shotgun toward the ceiling away from all ed everyone was on edge waiting for that handkerchief to come out. Who knew all the cops? The press was like where progress had no idea. Two or three times tony got so out of control during his speech to the chief grab, the handkerchief and was about to pull it out, and then twenty would come back down. If tony did not give up the shock on after you read the speech, the chief was going to shoot,

tony was not going to be allowed to go back into his apartment. The rent, the rant, lasted twenty three minutes. Oh god, that is rent level. That is fucking crazy. It's probably not a lot of jokes. Oh no,. Only finally stop talking, then the chief turned to all the reporters and said quote: are you people get the fuck out of here awesome and then news media scrounge, the police lead down the hall and into a side room in died, room there, a bunch of police before all of the hostage stuff start tony had overheard a group of men who were staying in an apartment across the hall from him. about how messy their place had become so tony ray. It was while it with his free hand and took a hundred dollars a hundred dollar bill and asked the place to be

it's the guys to hire a cleaning surface on what is happening. Well, he's a good guy. That's what's happening. He said he was a good guy is a good guy, hey, look I'm goin out, but it'd be great. If the guys the guys across accustomed to having some problems there find a little bit. We're cleaning and I think it'd be great if they got their place cleaned up. All of it he's a hard guy to I it's hard for me to be rooting for him. I am a moving from that's a good way, for it is the and then I have someone to hug him and be like you're going to get a nice home. I feel like that'll happen and then tony onward, the shotgun from hall's neck. Let all go and walked over to a sliding glass door open. that said, I've wanted to fire this thing for three days and blasted the shotgun off outside and the media was like he's dead for sure dead right. All the media thought that something yeah for sure yeah they're all yeah

and he also did this because he wanted the cops to know it was loaded. He laughed and said, god, I told you how hall passed out, is what we call a halt, pass. The cops grab tony and arrest He was then address. That's a good question He was then informed they weren't giving and five million dollars, and he wasn't getting immunity tony said quote: that's a cheap shot. I mean it honestly that use of language in this moment is amazed. Acknowledge that achieve shot. You just had a dude hooked up to a shotgun for three days: the best they ever. When the cops went into tony's apartment, they did not find any bombs or dynamite, but they did find a lotta gasoline skip has reporter quote, I looked in and the whole place had wires hook two plates with burning candles. Above

of gasoline, I couldn't tell you how many there were well there is some level of threat bringing her candle guy. We don't need the blood of user bringin candlestick georgiana up here, we're gonna have to pay. All these out. You know what I'm only my blog. I get up. I need my candlestick maker god damn it. I need to talk to the words. Let me call my young feller. Alright, we need this ox gave up here too. Hurry getting all crowded up here, too we are too many guys. We have a lot of guys up here. Why is the budget year? You have you just put the pork

ass in the candlestick elder sister, but here you got it. We ve been at Right so many say the kitchen with. the knife by MR must have done for the last time. We are not playing clue up here for fuck yeah, stop trying to god, damn it get along You need about very, let's go. Let's get out of here. Only a few the cops Day were sort of antoni side, or they felt for him I'll walker, The indian state police said quote. I thought that was going his grand, showing that he was gonna blow halls head off yeah. but it didn't happen that way. I m glad it didn't turn. It was just a guy what a bad day chair yeah.

Was it a monday? You might have had a case of the mandate. it started out. I just I hated lasagna. I've had a that and I that they blows. I think it's already say cage if you were asked by reporters to make a diagnosis, but they all refused because he got shit because you can't make a diagnosis of a guy on tv yeah though they did say to be examined for hawk into a press conference later that day, when ass by reporters. What he was thinking hall said quote: I just here in my mind that god had a plan for everybody I didn't quite understand This was part of his plan. Yet kind of a weird take forgot. Apparently Tony was an atheist in hall was a deacon, so they spent a lot of the Sixty three hours disgustingly is discussing

the existence of god and the power of prayer, and then I can only imagine how hard halls push for that. All I can think of is pitiful. shock into my head said it do and that obviously, sixty three hours was doing the hong kong authorities. An atheist in hall is vague in so seriously fucking instead of sitting there. Listen to that put a gun to my head, because wanna hear an atheist and deacon have a talk ever The next day when word got out, the twenty was not getting. Immunity is promise. So we're, not happy, and they let the police know. Police chief gallagher said quote or many girls today from people were upset because they feel tony was lie to our position is that it's a matter of which president president should be set saving lies or that of never having told a lie: okay, so either either we were tragic. Keep a guy from being shot, and so we lied.

do that. We're sorry about that. I guess we should let the guy from kelp yeah. I well, I mean yeah tony Brother Jimmy said he didn't realize the prosecutor's office was negotiating in bad faith. The mayor agreed with the decision quote. If I were at end of that gun. I'd want people negotiating, they say whatever they could detect that man out of shooting my head off their fair point, their point four point, four point and the prosecutor's office also said that tony had broken. They merely agreement terms by now releasing hall before going downstairs, told the press conference actually just a press conference itself was enough to break the agreement. The agreement he'd leave home the apartment or let him go so he did neither guys who had the dirty apartment across the hall turned down the one hundred dollars to hire cleaning service right with these guys? What the? Why take the money

take the money. If I can clean your place, we maybe they like- maybe maybe they like conflict a little bit too much. They must then like a dirty place at times. pre trial. Hearing things had gone. South tony was strapped on a gurney ranting and raving at one point. He looked over at reporter skip Hassan said: skip you son of a bitch. He never came back and bought that car from me. What skip quote? I thought what the hell, you're talking about has certainly done on me. Ten years earlier, he worked for pontiac dealership and I was thinking to bind and nineteen sixty eight pontiac convertible tunny was the salesman and I told them. I would sleep on it today, later I came back and twenty wasn't there and about the far from somebody else, and tony never forgot man that guy can hold a grudge. His trial was later that year. His lawyers convinced him to pursue a not guilty by reason of insanity. Defense, even though tony did not want to in court among many belligerent

allegations and non sequiturs tony accused hall of having once marked his sports goat. The court appointed psychiatrist said tonia was in a paranoid, delusional state tunny took the witness stand and a paper said. His defence attorney quote: play him like a harp tony land, and then he cried and then he was very serious. It just was like up and down all over. The fireplace police officers recalled testify, and they largely said the same thing. Tunnels really good guy and believe that following the law- and he couldn't have been in his right mind when he did it out, during the trial. Everyone's eating lunch when one of the jury started choking another jurists try to before heimlich maneuver, but he was doing it wrong and then his brother Jimmy ran over and performed it quickly. Saving the jurists like wow you I mean bill that come on juror number, eight We would testify- and a couple of days later on his brothers behalf, I'm assuming the jurists

it had been buys yeah for sure toddy He was innocent by reason of insanity, I'll write. It was the first jury verdict of acquittal brow. cast, live on nationwide television summer tawny had become kind of folk euro, the little guy fighting the system fighting the bad banker. When they announced the verdict in the middle of a pesos game, the audience cheered wildly the painters crab yeah LAO four guy who the shock onto a man's head for sixty three hours, but that did not mean tony was free tonnages. Captain city for the next decade. Until doctors believed he would not pose a danger to himself or others if he were free the whole time tony refused to allow a psychiatrist to evaluate him. He could have possibly gotten out in six months if he had, but he wouldn't do it. While he can

buy a gun right now, but probably the tony crits is a case led to Indiana legislature's amending the law to provide for verdicts of guilty but mentally ill and not responsible means reason of insanity. Things did not go for richard hall for the hostage crisis, he had a nervous breakdown years later. He was divorced. He was the opposite before the incident he had been found. Having a joy to be around now is quiet and depressed. He went back to his job at the mortgage company, a coworkers said he spent one hundred percent of his time is staring out the window as though tony eroded come back and get him. He never another interview about what happened hall eventually lost his business. The situation was a big moment for tv news. It, raises questions about responsibility and whether or not they are being used by tony who is in charge. When should they stop those portable cameras made the tv reporters vulnerable. They

the mercy of anyone who chose to create a new story. It became obvious I wouldn't have taken all hostage if there wasn't it the media coverage. After looking back on and reflecting Some said, given the chance to do it over again, they would not have stayed live antoni as he gave his rant quote. We were saying, in effect to the television viewer. This man may blow this man's head into your living room at any moment and it's going to be dramatic and it's going to be theatrical. It's going to be great stuff and we're going to bring it to you We chose to stay alive because the story was so overpowering. The story had outrun us. marie in mortgage, was a family business. How was the son of meridians chairman emma hall and his brother?

jack also work there. In fact, jack people think might have been the intended victim. One of occurrences, acquaintances leaders said tony- had told her about this exact type of kidnapping fantasy, but instead it was jack hall in richard. but he saw while you guys look a lot alike are actually get that alot. You guys have used faces a noses. It's like a brett like the way your brother's, like a brother, you have like a brother thing for the jackass guys look real. I was going to. I know it's been forty eight hours, but I gotta. I gotta tell you something I yeah This is a laugh I I came. I could use all that I can there for your brother. Your brother should be here now you fuck, but you want to donate your shirt done it people can.

yeah, you guys look along like I'm gonna die. We both her. So on a january twenty, in nineteen eighty, seven, a republican member, the pennsylvania state senate bud I held a new conference to discuss his conviction for receiving a bribe. He believed it was a clinic. Prosecution and he was to be sentence in a couple of days. The media believe he was going to resign from office. After reading a speech, she pulled a three forty seven magnum from manila envelope and put the gun in his mouth people yelled at him. Not to do it. He fired the gun. The press conference was not carried life, but the news it recalled the event one camera even zooming. In on his body. Several television stations then broadcast the suicide, using the tape footage to their midday audience. Some froze the action before he fired.

Some have audio playing over the frozen image. Others aired it edited showing dwyer blowing his brains out. It was a snowed many children were home from school due to a snowstorm and saw the suicide. Even though hundreds of yours complain that some stations continued The budd dwyer killing himself throughout the day, so the media learned a lot from tony's a moment. Well that song, hey man, nice, shot yeah. That was the situation or so worth it. Yeah today was released in nineteen eighty eight. He found work as a car salesman. He was now on medication and would occasionally go off tony and call the media with conspiracy theories. Excuse me its old cars again. Yes, I would give a job

when everybody knew tony, you know it's good guy and put their family people to get that. He was justified in doing it. That he's going to get a job. Well, look, and I think well I mean obviously the car dealerships their their commercial bottom is pretty loves. Yeah, I'm sure they had him like holding a shotgun up against a car. holding a sharp gonna close up like I'm gonna blow your head off, and then they reveal that he's pointing in the garden is like, with our fault rises. That's right! I'm all right! drop. It drop it away. Everything all right, we are financing is lower than it's ever been. If you don't come down here, I'm going to put why around your neck and all your hostage for sixty eight hours while I threatened to shoot so you're Wednesday come fuck twenty it's called a congressional aid and told them he'd get the same treatment as richard hall. The aid need tony story and told the police

I checked tony and found out. He was once again office. Meds tony died of natural causes in two thousand and five richard halls is retired and living somewhere in indianapolis, so crazy. It's not a fucking crazy, so that real, even for this part, yes, that's insane. I just can't even it's crazy, an end to the point that year leading towards the end the mean that you know. That is part of the thing. I always think it so funny how like when, on a sporting event, if a stricter dashes on the field, they will turn the cameras, a wave, yad and yet the stuff at their comfortable was showing or the chance is there willing

I take in live, media and stuff like that, it's just insane yeah, it's completely like we live in a different culture. Obviously we're like we report on ourselves. Now more than we listen to you know, we follow what yeah news organizations show us, but it's still. It's like there is the the media is so implicated in all that yeah, it's really it's! It's for him again and all this like they. This is this seems like a time when they they crossed the line and that they have not gone back. There. There was a time when there were the voice of reason. Here. When do you got for now just ass I was lying is suspicious. His second home for his kindness talking bag. I was right.

When that was alone, when people around vainly. Let him finish right, crazy and end. The fact that there also close and right there and then he's like we're partners in this we're partners. In this mean this guy Paul's like sign anything. I don't think it's a good lily, binding can we are initiating stuff like the shock and, for instance, who, as the jacket on the back of your head? Well, we did it. We did it together we made it happened, must resign cars.