going postal I'm sure many of you out there have heard this term but you might not know exactly where it came from I'm a mod at large today I am in Edmond Oklahoma and I'm going to show you exactly where that term came from let's get going what is there to say about Patrick Cheryl reading up on whatever little history that I can find online about Patrick Cheryl uh just a prototypical loner this guy originally as a child uh growing up here in Oklahoma was always socially inept some of the other kids would kind of make fun of him they would call him crazy Pat later after graduating high school he joined the Marines and he actually served in the Marines and had an honorable discharge in my personal opinion uh this was a man that needed some kind of a strict uh regimen a very disciplined environment and that's what the military offers in hindsight this man should have just stayed in the military for as long as he could until he retired this was not a man that needed to be out on the streets uh in society uh the perfect place for him would have been in the Marine Corps giving him that very structured lifestyle that he really really needed somewhere in the springtime of 1985 Patrick Cheryl had gotten the job at the Postal Service here in Edmond Oklahoma and when you start a new job in particular a government job you're always going to be at the Bottom Rung of the ladder the bottom of the totem pole uh what have you so he worked at this post office for about 16 months he was a letter carrier but I guess you would call it a reserve carrier he would basically be the fill-in postman he would work people's days off if somebody requested time off uh he would be the one to fill in their spot uh I'm sure if somebody called in sick and he was sleeping they would call him and say hey man can you come fill in uh Gary's spot or what have you now you're gonna get mixed opinions and information uh in regards to Patrick's work ethic it probably wasn't the best um he had very few friends that he got along with at the post office uh he was looked upon as a socially quiet guy kept to himself uh he loved guns he would call himself a small arms expert after getting out of the Marine Corps with that honorable discharge he was in the Oklahoma National Guard for a little while before ending up getting this job at the post office here down the street so not a very popular guy by any means now one guy would probably say that he was a good worker if he called he would show up for work but if you ask this supervisors they would say no uh there's been times where he was admonished uh reprimanded I don't know if there's any talk of him having been uh disciplined in terms of uh being suspended but there was complaints from people in the routes that he worked about uh misdirected mail uh them not getting the mail at all just a unsatisfactory performance done by Patrick Cheryl and he had been called in quite a few times into the supervisor's office uh about his work ethic and the day before the shooting that took place on August 20th 1986 uh he had been you know invited in the uh supervisor's office to talk about again yet again his work now I don't really know when they told him to come into their office if he was gonna get fired if he was gonna get suspended whatever the talk that they had between those two supervisors and Patrick Cheryl was not good at all uh he was sent home and that night Patrick Cheryl having being bullied practically all of his life always being called weird probably that time in the Marines there's a reason why he didn't want to stay there and retire I'm sure you had fellow Marines you know razzing him and bullying him and making fun of him and you had people at his uh job doing the same now before he went home that day there was a woman don't know her name but I guess you could say that they got along pretty well and he probably felt that she treated him kindly so just before he leaves and jumps in his car to go back home by the way home was where he lived with his mother thinks she was sick that's probably why he was living with her but you know you got the prototypical 40 mid 40s guy still living with her mother it's always a bad scene at the end of the day unless the mother is sick it's always kind of an odd thing anyways so he tells this woman that's been kind to him for the time that he's been working at this post office he says Hey do you uh go to work tomorrow are you working tomorrow and she says yeah I am and he says it's probably be a good idea if you don't show up for work August 20th 1986 Patrick Cheryl is supposed to be at work normally at 7 00 a.m probably wakes up around 5 30. he gets here at 6 45. in his mail carrier bag is two semi-automatic 45 caliber pistols and a 22 caliber revolver he goes to the facility and he's probably looking for those two supervisors that he felt did him wrong and as soon as he gets here and he sees somebody that he felt belittled him that talked down to him that gave him a nasty look he pulls out those guns and just starts shooting guns and plays and for the next 15 minutes or so uh a basically a true uh real life Horror Story was taking place at this post office right here and in total he killed 14 people and wounded six this Memorial Fountain was made for the victims who died that day Patricia Ann Chambers Judy Stephen Denny Richard Esser Patricia gabbard Joanna Ruth graggart Patty Jean husband Betty and Jared William Miller Thomas Shader Patty Welch Kenneth Mori Leroy Phillips Jerry Pyle and Paul Rockne all those people brutally shot to death and cut down by one madman lunatic 44 year old socially inept loser Patrick Cheryl this is where the term going postal all started right here at this very facility this is the inside of the post office today is a holiday so it's closed right now but this is the building where the Carnage took place and it's very echoey in here right now so I can only imagine how loud those gunshots were and all the times he was firing over and over and over again who knows how many shots were fired and you could just imagine hearing the people scream just running for their lives an absolute Terror behind those boxes where the mail sorters put your mail in there they were all running for their lives right behind these very walls if you think that was the first postal shooting that ever took place in our nation's history you would be incorrect no the first postal shooting took place on August 13 1970 in Los Angeles California when 41 year old Alfred Kellum showed up to work he was acting a little weird his boss 54 year old postal supervisor Harry syndro says um you're acting a little weird I think you're drunk and Alfred says no I'm not and Harry says yes you are you are drunk go home you're done for the day so he goes home retrieves a handgun shows up back to work and shoots and kills his boss then he goes back home where the police find him and they arrest him charge him with the murder and yes indeed he was drunk also in January January the 30th of 2006. Jennifer San Marco showed up to a postal service center where she used to work at in Goleta California which is about 15 minutes north of Santa Barbara proper where she shot and killed six of her former employees or employers what have you I believe in that case that is the largest mass shooting to ever be committed by a female and U.S history unless you want to count the San Bernardino shooting where uh Saeed rizwan farrukh and his uh crazy nut case wife tashfin Malik went into the Inland Regional Justice Center in San Bernardino California and shot and killed 14 people and uh wounding dozens and dozens of others during a Christmas party that would have been uh called a terrorist attack and all together 11 different shootings 35 people killed now the Postal Service wants to do away with the term going postal because it was kind of like a running joke in the 90s you know I mean hell there's even a business uh not too far from here called go and postal it's a male Center thing where you go mail stuff like a UPS Store crazy crazy you got a guy with a bad brain who always you know pretty much kept to himself I mean his main hobby was uh Ham radios he would talk to other people on ham radios and uh one day woke up and uh absolutely uh went bonkers a crazy world we live in uh where you go to work one day and your family never sees you again and we've had plenty of workplace violence within the last five years this is the grave of the murderer 14 times over this is Patrick Cheryl and if you look he's buried really next to nobody I mean there's people right there but he has his whole role practically to himself [Music] no flowers no nothing just him and some dirt in the proper place where he can no longer hurt anybody payable on death is what I say by the time the police were able to get to him he was already dead he put the gun to his forehead and pulled the trigger and other than the victims of this massacre I feel bad felt bad for his mother because his mother was older as she was ailing and he you know was there to take care of her and he left her all alone to commit this atrocious crime all right guys I'm out of here I gotta hit the road by the way um I'm in Watonga Oklahoma I believe that's how you pronounce it and there's a man if you see right over there you probably can't see it unless I zoom if you see those uh structures over over there uh there is a cemetery on the other side of those structures and over there I did a video of a Despicable monster human being if you want to see that video maybe you haven't seen it before I did it a couple years ago I'll put it in the link in the description box below check that video out that's another scumbag that is exactly where he belongs as a matter of fact I'm probably just going to go over there right now just to go look at his grave and then start heading west back towards Texas all over the place guys always always at the scene of the crime live but not live but still alive by the grace of God I am lemon at large coming to you from the ioof cemetery here in Watonga Oklahoma I will see you on the next vlog I hope to see you on the next Vlog be good y'all peace out