Remember Brian Wells?

[Ted the dog]

I was doing some spring cleaning last night and I found an article from Newsweek about Brian Wells...the pizza delivery man from Eerie, PA, that was killed when a necklace bomb he was wearing went off during a robbery attempt. I had forgotten about this case entirely. I don't seem to eer remember seeing it up on RI...and maybe it doesn't really belong here...but I thought I'd post it anyway...to see what people remember:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/erie_collar_bomber/">www.crimelibrary.com/noto...ar_bomber/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wells">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wells</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-09-17-pizzaman-case-usat_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/nat...usat_x.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br>A more recent article:<br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166160,00.html">www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...60,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <br> <br>here's a website put up by Brian Wells' brother:<br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.brianwells.net/">www.brianwells.net/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[thoughtographer]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A high school dropout in 1973, Wells had done little other than deliver pizza for 30 years, until he received a call to deliver at an address a few miles from the Erie, Pennsylvania "Mamma Mia Pizzeria" for which he worked. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It was later found that the address was that of an unmanned radio tower at the end of a dirt road.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Yeah, I remember this. The radio tower thing really stuck out to me at the time.<br><br>I was sort of wondering why people hadn't brought this up recently, considering that Kyle Aaron Huff was a pizza delivery man. I guess it's not a compelling enough connection for the more suspicious to latch onto, but I think the world of pizza delivery is a largely untapped source of future quasiparapolitical speculation.<br><br> <p><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"A crooked stick will cast a crooked shadow."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=thoughtographer>thoughtographer</A> at: 4/11/06 5:02 pm<br></i>

[nashvillebrook]

this reminds me of the recent canadian donut shop incident. i'm sure i've seen this plot in a movie, but the suicide bomber getting away from as many people as possible seemed like something you'd do if you couldn't do anything else. <p></p><i></i>