Former UW player makes bizarre and dangerous death threats against Barry Alvarez … and Maria Sharapova?
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 – 1:06 PMBy Michael Rand
This is one of the creepiest and certainly strangest stories we have read in a while. It’s from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and, well, here we go (italics for the story, bold for emphasis, plain text for our exploding mind):
Leonard Taylor, a University of Wisconsin defensive back from 1995-1998, threatened in voicemail messages to kill UW athletic director Barry Alvarez, according to a criminal complaint released Monday.
Taylor, 32, of Indianapolis, also threatened to kill tennis player Maria Sharapova.
What the what?
According to the criminal complaint:
Taylor left dozens of voicemail messages with the UW athletic department within the last week. Those messages included a call Nov. 24 during which he said he would come to Madison to kill Alvarez and his family.
“I’ll kill you first, mother (expletive),” Taylor said. “I’ve got 24 (expletive) hours, mother (expletive). I’m coming for your (expletive) ass. You might have a (expletive) war.” …
According to the complaint, Taylor first tried calling Alvarez in September. He left messages with the UW athletic department alleging he had not been paid by an unspecified TV network for work he had done. Police contacted Taylor and told him to stop leaving the messages, and Taylor agreed. However, Taylor resumed making calls Nov. 24, and in a two-day span, Taylor left 29 messages threatening Alvarez and Sharapova.
And you, too, Bea Arthur! Seriously, this is weird.
10 Responses to "Former UW player makes bizarre and dangerous death threats against Barry Alvarez … and Maria Sharapova?"
Maybe he’s friends with this guy.
At least now we know where P3 has been the last few months.
For some reason I picture Alvarez and Sharapova’s baby looking like a taller version of Danny DeVito.
s1rweeze
Nice list of defendants. Who was the most obscure defendant?
I’d go with either Skittles or Jewish Workers at NBC/Universal
Those that deserved to be on the list:
Congolese Army
Chris Berman
Meals on Wheels
Plato
AskJeeves
Planet Hollywood
It’s a well known fact that there’s a secret society known as the Pentavirate who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet triannually at a secret country mansion in Colorado known as the Meadows. Who’s in this Pentavirate? The Queen, the Vatican, Rand, Barry Alvarez, Maria Sharapova, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up.
“Dad, why do you hate the Colonel?”
“Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!”
Clarence wins the internet for reminding me that Mike Myers was once funny.
Excerpts from a few early messages:
11:24am (Beep) Hey Guys, it’s Leonard. Just wondering where my money is for the work I did with… (Beep)
11:25am (Beep) Sorry, machine cut me off. It’s Leonard again, as I was saying, I noticed I didn’t get paid for… (Beep)
11:26am (Beep) Seriously? Leonard Taylor. Got no Money. Call me.
11:30am (Beep) I’m sorry I didn’t mean to sound upset in that last message. Your machine was just aggrevating me. We still cool though, right?
11:45am (Beep) Hey guys Leonard, haven’t heard back yet, are you mad at me? Call me.
11:50am (Beep) Sorry, my mom called and I thought maybe you tried to call when I was talking to her.
12:00pm (Beep) So, yeah. To good to talk to ol’ Leonard now, huh…? This same [redacted] thing happened when I tried to call Maria [Sharapova]. You guys talking about me behind my back?
Perhaps Leonard was trying to spare us all another bowl season with Barry in the broadcast booth?
“Recently we’ve been a little soft in the back end, and that is something we’re working to rectify.”
– Barry Alvarez, as quoted in the Minnesota Daily, circa 1997
Oops, I meant 1996.
http://www.mndaily.com/1996/11/06/wisconsin-boasts-huge-o-line
PS: The Internet is awesome.
