New York Sportscaster Warner Wolf Was Arrested For Ripping The Word "Plantation" Off Of The Sign At His Gated Community

NYDN- That’s a penalty for Warner Wolf. The longtime sportscaster was arrested Thursday for removing letters that spelled out “Plantation” on both sides of a sign at the private community where he lives in Florida, according to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by the Daily News.

Wolf, 81, removed the word from the sign at the Classics Plantation Estates community in Naples on Nov. 30, according the report, with an official saying they obtained footage showing a man who fits Warner’s physical profile in the act. Wolf had been a “vocal critic of the name ‘Plantation’ at board meetings,” the report states, and had advocated for the word to be taken off the sign. About two weeks after the letters were removed, a man returned them to a security guard at the community’s vehicle gate.

Wolf turned himself in to authorities on Thursday. The damage he allegedly caused was valued at $1,139.50.

LETS GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE because that mugshot is brutal, Warner. I don’t know how things work south of the Mason-Dixon line, but Plantation is one of those words that makes some people uncomfortable because it’s associated with slavery. To be honest, my Northern Yankee ass doesn’t even like typing it because it has a very Confederate flaggy vibe to it. I personally rebuke the word Plantation and stand behind Double Dub for his actions (just came up with that nickname, nbd).

I know lawyers will say you can’t go ahead and rip things apart no matter how much you don’t like them. But my rebuttal to that is you don’t have to follow the basic rules of man when your name is as badass as Warner Wolf. That name doesn’t fuck. That name fucks people up. I bet Warner knew he wasn’t going to get away with this vandalist and didn’t give a fuck either. He was probably the only person griping about the P word at every single one of the meetings held at Del Boca Vista Phase 2 to the point they stopped bringing it up because people were missing their Early Bird rezzies. So Warner said “Fuck all this” and took matters into his own hands. That’s someone fulfilling the destiny of the name written on the birth certificate type of shit.

My only problem with this entire scenario was Wolf giving back the letters like a sheep. Once he took those letters off, he should have melted them down into a gold rope chain because $1,100 letters have to be made of some sort of gold. I don’t know how the case will go in the Floridian courts because I imagine they are just an 8 hour long Jerry Springer shows without cameras every day. But I stand behind the Wolfman and his pursuit of social justice considering he also watched the fall of Communism happen right before his eyes while calling Drago vs. Rocky on the radio.