[Imc] People at the IMC

[Peter Miller]

The WEFT station manager sent this to the main WEFT email list.  I think 
Mick is describing the same person who's been hanging around the IMC.  I 
don't know how to handle something like this.  Does anybody have any 
suggestions?
-Peter

>Delivered-To: wefta at prairienet.org
>Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:24:43 -0600 (CST)
>From: Mick Woolf <mwoolf at prairienet.org>
>To: wefta at prairienet.org
>Subject: Police/911
>Sender: owner-wefta at prairienet.org
>
>There is an individual who I have encountered over the last several weeks
>in another setting, who has been stopping into WEFT the last few days.  He
>has shown more and more signs of being mentally imbalanced, certainly
>delusional.
>
>He has longish reddish/aburn hair, is around 5'5" or 5'6", carries a
>backpack on his back, wearing a greenish coat (?), and is a bit plump--a
>bit.
>
>He talks in low tones, seems harmless, and talks about how his grandmother
>started WEFT.
>
>Sunday afternoon, during our Pledge Drive Committee meeting, he did the
>routine about the grandmother again.  He then asked who owned WEFT and who
>our BOD members are.  I handed him a WEFT Revue, not thinking much about
>it.
>
>Then, he started asking me if I am paid to work at WEFT, and if I get paid
>in cash or by check.  I thought, ok, here we go.  He then began insisting
>that it was cash, that I am some other identity, that I know some guy who
>just died, that I am running drugs, and that there is a warrant out for
>my arrest.
>
>I told him he needed to leave.  He was already up in my face.  He then
>told me I needed to leave.  I reached for the phone and called 911.  He
>then walked out.  They said to call back if he comes back.
>
>He may be harmless.  He appears, at first, a bit eccentric at the very
>least.  But he did become agressive in sort of a low key way that was a
>heartbeat way from amping up. Hard to describe.
>
>In any event, he does not have any business being in the station.  If you
>can handle a moment of mentally imabalanced behavior, do so until he
>leaves.  If you cannot, ask him to leave and call our friends in brown
>around the corner at the cop shop.
>
>WEFT has always attracted people who are off kilter.  It is sad,
>so we do our best.  But, we are not the place for them to land, as we are
>indeed a radio station, not a half-way house or support center.  And, as
>nature always moves to fill the vacuum, there is always another colorful
>fellow traveller stopping by for a visit of varying episodes and spells.
>
>So, remember, when you are at the station and on duty, it is your call as
>to who can be there IF you do not know them,and  they are not WEFT
>airshifters or volunteers, and IF you feel at all uncomfortable or
>threatened in any way.
>
>To the grandmothers everyway who have laid their community radio eggs...
>
>to rd lang
>
>and to some zen restraint...reach for the phone, not the club.
>
>Your resident hurdy-gurdy man.