# Sportscaster Warner Wolf Arrested **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 10, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290 "2019-02-10T18:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/1 "2019-02-10T18:31:13Z")
[Story here.](http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/02/09/broadcaster-warner-wolf-arrested-damaging-racist-sign/) Not sure if this is the proper forum, but I figured more people here would be familiar with the name. Mr. Wolf, who is now 81 years old, was arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief for removing the word “plantation” from the sign outside his gated community (Classics Plantation Estates) in Naples, FL because he considered the word racist. He then handed the letters to a security guard, telling him to pass them along to the property manager. The sheriff’s office said Wolf has a long history of complaints about the name. He was released after posting bond. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/2 "2019-02-10T18:39:49Z")
From a legal standpoint, what he did was clearly criminal vandalism. But he’ll probably succeed in getting the name changed by having drawn public attention to it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/3 "2019-02-10T18:41:25Z")
if you pioked outdated racist names over wolf YOU LOST ! He was one of the better things about the old Imus show ……. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/4 "2019-02-10T18:44:47Z")
Will prosecutors go to the videotape? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/5 "2019-02-10T22:47:55Z")
I guess it’s a good thing he lives in Naples and not at the other end of I-75 [where I grew up](http://www.plantation.org). That’d be waaaaaay too many signs for him to deal with all of them himself. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/6 "2019-02-11T16:48:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I guess it’s a good thing he lives in Naples and not at the other end of I-75 [where I grew up](http://www.plantation.org). I like how a city named Plantation brings up colour in the town motto. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/7 "2019-02-11T17:14:28Z")
Was it not named that when he moved in? ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/8 "2019-02-11T18:24:04Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Was it not named that when he moved in? I have no clue what the real answer is in Mr. Wolf’s case, but it’s possible he was in contract to build the home before the community was named. I went through this with a home build where there was no street name at contract time and the street ended up getting a fucking awful name. Not racist or anything, just very stupid. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/9 "2019-02-11T19:39:18Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Was it not named that when he moved in? Lots of word meanings change over time. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/10 "2019-02-11T19:54:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Lots of word meanings change over time. They sure do. Did the meaning of “plantation” change in the last few decades? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/11 "2019-02-11T20:55:39Z")
I used to call into his radio show on ESPN Radio in NY every Saturday morning. I knew the call screener back then, so he’d get me on whenever I wanted. Warner was already starting to lose a little bit, and this was probably 10 years ago. I suspect there is some age-related aspect to his recent actions. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/12 "2019-02-12T08:40:45Z")
I have no strong opinion about his actions or the appropriateness of the name, but I support messing with HOAs for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/13 "2019-02-12T09:41:45Z")
I heard he was last seen angrily yelling outside a Soup Plantation restaurant ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested/829290/14 "2019-02-12T17:34:42Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I heard he was last seen angrily yelling outside a Soup Plantation restaurant In fairness, a lot of old people yell angrily at restaurants, particularly between 4-6 p.m.