BILLINGS - The sight of flashing red lights and sirens around the Lazy KT Motel is pretty routine. You name it, it's probably happened there: murders, police standoffs and gun battles, drug dealing and prostitution.
It seems the location had become a magnet for criminal activity. So, how did the Lazy KT come to be in the first place? Robert Taylor, a former manager there for 15 years, shares a story he was told.
"The story is this horse rancher used to come to town every Friday night in a wagon with his wife and party and drink it up,â Taylor said. âThen, they would go home in a buckboard, and one night, they took off for home in the buckboard and ran off in a canyon and broke both his legs. So, a couple of months later he came to town and bought some property and built the motel, only one wing of it."