[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] Hippie Apocalypse

[Meredith Scheff]

I think just making it known that he's unwelcome is a good first step.  
Cops aren't needed.
M

Drawing and making

On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:56 PM, Sean Cusack <sean.p.cusack at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hey - so has anyone actually directly asked this dude to leave? If  
> not, maybe it should happen. If that hasn't worked, can this be  
> remedied by the somewhat controversial, but generally effective call  
> the cops approach? I know its not really the noisebridge way, but if  
> these peeps are not only non-contributors to the space, but also  
> takers-of-others-robotic-shit from the space, we can kick them out,  
> yah? Just some idears...
>
> Sean
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Meredith Scheff  
> <satiredun at gmail.com> wrote:
> This.
> This guy's been sleeping at noisebridge and bringing piles of clothes
> off the street and piling them in the space. I've seen him walking
> around the space barefoot with his feet black with dirt and bloody. He
> wrote 'smoke DMT' on the wall. He's been taking stuff from member
> shelves and putting them in his clothing exchange pile. He's often
> shown up /whacked the fuck out/ with several others ofthe same.
> I've talked with him twice about the taking/moving of member stuff
> twice, and both times he shrugged it off.
> I don't feel comfortable with someone this obviously high(not on pot)/
> filthy in the space, especially with him bringing more folks in.
> I'm not really sure how to go about dealing with this dude. But It
> needs to be adressed. Hit me up off list for serious discussion.
> M
>
>
> Drawing and smakin
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Jesse Zbikowski
> <embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Last night in my slumber, I was visited by a singularly horrifying  
> and
> > bizarre nightmare. In my dream, as I sat up absorbed in some
> > late-night kernel hacking at Noisebridge, I was approached by two
> > homeless hippies. The first introduced himself by some stupid
> > quasi-religio-artistic hippie name, explaining that since he had  
> found
> > this wonderful "resource", he was making it his duty to liven up the
> > space with other homeless hippies like himself.
> >
> > I groggily suggested the "resource" was mainly intended for  
> hacking on
> > projects, and did he have a project he was interested in? Oh yes, he
> > beamed; the "clothing exchange" was his project; a place where  
> filthy
> > hippies can get off the street and root through piles of
> > patchouli-stained rags! Horrified, I turned to leave, but froze in  
> my
> > tracks at what I heard next. "I just handed out 150 stickers for  
> this
> > place at Dolores Park," he whispered to his guitar-playing  
> companion.
> > "They'll start turning up soon enough! AND - the people here LOVE
> > music."
> >
> > When I woke up I knew immediately what I had to do. ZERG-BRIDGE!  
> COME
> > BACK AND RESCUE US! PLEASE FILL THIS SPACE WITH DECENT GAMING FOLK
> > CONTINUOUSLY BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND LUNCHTIME EVERY DAY! DON'T LET US
> > BECOME THE NEXT ALTAMONT!
> >
> > Stay tuned for the next episode of Misanthropic Hacker, wherein I  
> beg
> > the hippies to come back and fight off an infestation of crack- 
> heads;
> > then subsequently re-invite the crack-heads to deal with an  
> attempted
> > takeover by MS Access developers.
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