Nashville RV bomber Anthony Quinn Warner was a weed-loving flower kid with a “Magnum, PI mustache” – who hated police, a former employee claimed.
‘He was kind of a hippie. Had long hair, ”Tom Lundborg told The Daily Beast about his daily dealings with the Christmas Day suicide bomber from the 1970s onwards.
Lundborg – who was a teenager when he first met Warner – said he “looked up to him a little” while they worked in Antioch, a suburb of Nashville where Warner stayed until his death.
‘He was a smart, opinionated guy. I drove around with him all day every day — during the summers, at least for a few years, ”he said of his partner who worked for Lundborg’s father’s company, ACE Alarms.
“He was a little boy, the quiet type, but looked nice for girls,” said Lundborg, who said Warner loved smoking weed.
‘My father went to bars with him. He was popular with the females in there, you could just tell. He didn’t flirt much, but you could tell they liked him. ”
Warner told him he had served in the Navy, although there is no history of him, ever serving in the United States Army, The Daily Beast noted.
Warner hated the police and lectured his young colleague when they saw officers, he said.
He told The Daily Beast that Warner would tell him, ‘I hate cops. They are all corrupt. Never trust an agent. “
Lundborg said Warner “betrayed” his parents and started his own alarm business, taking some ACE customers, but failed because “he didn’t have the personality” to deal with customers.
He last saw him in 2007, he told the outlet, giving nothing to suggest that the 63-year-old was going to horrify with his explosive-laden camper on Christmas morning.
Authorities have also said that Warner was never on their radar, and his only arrest was in 1978 for marijuana possession.
This year, he seemed to be changing his life in a way that suggests he had been planning his suicide bombing for a long time.
He gave away his car, told the recipient he had cancer, told a client he was retiring, and even gave his home away.
Less than a week before Christmas, he also smiled when he told a neighbor that “Nashville and the world will never forget me.”
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