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Man charged with threatening massacre at Florida Walmart
WEAR TV3 Pensacola ^ | Monday, August 5th 2019 | Staff

Posted on 08/05/2019 12:35:06 PM PDT by Red Badger

VALRICO, Fla. — A Florida man is charged with threatening to open fire inside a Walmart, one day after a gunman killed 20 inside a Texas store.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested 31-year-old Wayne Lee Padgett of Valrico late Sunday. He is charged with calling the Walmart Supercenter in Gibsonton, Florida, on Sunday afternoon and telling managers he planned to shoot up the store. About 1,000 people inside were evacuated.

Investigators said they traced the call to Padgett. No gun was found at his house near Tampa.

Padgett is charged with filing a false report of using a firearm in a threatening manner. He was being held Monday at the Hillsborough County jail on $7,500 bond. No attorney was listed.

A gunman killed 22 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: anotherwayne; wayne; waynelee
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1 posted on 08/05/2019 12:35:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Tell me you didn’t seek out Florida Man:)


2 posted on 08/05/2019 12:36:52 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Deception, the greatest weapon of the demcrats.)
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To: Cold Heart

One named ‘Wayne Lee’ at that.


3 posted on 08/05/2019 12:37:25 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Red Badger

“Wayne Lee”.

Ok...


4 posted on 08/05/2019 12:39:21 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Cold Heart

No, I did not.
WEAR is my local TV station...........


5 posted on 08/05/2019 12:40:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

Texas needs to pass a law banning ‘gun banning’ in public malls. The quantity of CCW holders is high in that state yet they were prohibited by Mall Rules (and therefor the law) from carrying there. Thus causing the current situation in El Paso as an armed citizen could have stopped this


6 posted on 08/05/2019 12:44:12 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Red Badger

[31-year-old Wayne Lee Padgett of Valrico]

Genius, Wayne. Really brilliant.


7 posted on 08/05/2019 12:47:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Vaquero

I was thinking along those same lines over the weekend.

Ban GUN FREE ZONES!..............It’s obvious they don’t work!..........


8 posted on 08/05/2019 12:47:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

bump


9 posted on 08/05/2019 1:01:47 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Vaquero

They can arrest me after i use my weapon to save myself


10 posted on 08/05/2019 1:15:10 PM PDT by South Dakota
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To: Vaquero

I took my concealed carry training with a retired TX DPS Captain. He told us we could carry in buildings with “no gun” signs as long as they were concealed. If someone noticed we were carrying, we would be asked to leave. Refusal would result in a trespassing violation


11 posted on 08/05/2019 1:16:08 PM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: Red Badger

I think he should be the object of an after-birth abortion. That way, crazy libs would be supportive of an appropriate, effective preventive measure assuring that this moron won’t ultimately kill after some lefty judge puts him back on the street...


12 posted on 08/05/2019 1:18:34 PM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Red Badger

Here’s Wayne

13 posted on 08/05/2019 1:20:49 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Cold Heart

Gibsonton used to be a retirement community for circus freaks. That Wal-Mart may still have some VERY special shoppers.


14 posted on 08/05/2019 1:21:55 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Red Badger

Who hasn’t wanted to go Yosemite Sam at Wal-Mart?


15 posted on 08/05/2019 1:23:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: csvset

Why he looks like Rhodes Scholar!...........


16 posted on 08/05/2019 1:24:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

Tuco, the character in the movie, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” said it well in regards to problem behind what we’ve been seeing. “You want to know who you are? Huh? Huh? You don’t, I do, everyone does... you’re the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.”


17 posted on 08/05/2019 1:40:24 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Yep!...................


18 posted on 08/05/2019 1:43:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger
...the problem behind what we’ve been seeing, even.

19 posted on 08/05/2019 1:44:39 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Red Badger

I heard his mother worked at that store too.


20 posted on 08/05/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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