Nashville RV bomber Anthony Quinn Warner was a weed lover with a “Magnum mustache, PI” – who hated cops, said a former co-worker.
“He was kind of a hippie. He had long hair, ”Tom Lundborg told The Daily Beast about his years of daily relationship with the bomber on Christmas Day, beginning in the 1970s.
Lundborg – who was a teenager when he met Warner, then in his early 20s – said he “kind of admired him” while working in Antioch, a Nashville suburb where Warner stayed until his death.
“He was a kind of smart and arrogant guy. I hung out with him all day, every day – for 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 small boy, the silent type, but cute for girls,” said Lundborg, saying that Warner loved smoking marijuana.
“My father would go diving in bars with him. He was popular with women there, you could tell. He didn’t flirt much, but you could tell they liked him. ”
Warner told him that he had been in the Navy, although there is no history of him, having served in the United States Armed Forces, noted the Daily Beast.
Warner hated the police and taught his young colleague whenever he saw a policeman, he said.
He told the Daily Beast that Warner would tell him, “I hate cops. They are all corrupt. Never trust a police officer. “
Lundborg said that Warner “cheated” his parents and started his own alarm company, taking some ACE customers with him, but failed because “he had no personality” to deal with customers.
He last saw him in 2007, he told the agency, not detailing anything that would suggest the horror that the 63-year-old man would commit to his explosive-laden trailer on Christmas morning.
Authorities also said that Warner was never on his radar and that 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 long been planning his suicide explosion.
He gave his car, telling the recipient that he had cancer, told a client he was retiring and even gave up his home.
Less than a week before Christmas, he also smiled as he told a neighbor that “Nashville and the world will never forget me”.
With Post Wires