[Noisebridge-discuss] Unwelcome person at noisebridge

[Michael Ashmore]

Hm. So a weakness of hackerspaces, from a threat modeling perspective,
appears to be the injection of undesirable personalities / the mentally ill.
Like, what the fuck do you do about those guys?

I mean, seriously.

Makes you remember what locks were originally invented for. Freaky, huh?

-Moto

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com>wrote:

> I did say kicked out.  Three of us went over to him and told him that he
> was being very disruptive and that he'd have to leave.  He said he'd be
> quiet and that he was leaving soon anyway.  He stuck his head in a book and
> we went back to what we were doing.  Within a few minutes he was back
> riffling through boxes and making weird gestures and comments.  We got back
> up and told him he had to go or we would call the cops.  After some bustling
> about ("I have to run to the bathroom", "Is this mine? I'm not sure if I
> brought this...", "Let me check on the bottom side of this chair to see if
> anything of mine is under there.") we finally convinced him that it was safe
> to leave and escorted him out the front door.  Thankfully it was a peaceful
> encounter, if prolonged and particularly awkward.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk at brevity.org>wrote:
>
>> On 9/19/10 10:29 PM, Robert Fletcher wrote:
>>
>>> We kicked someone by a similar description out of Noisebridge Saturday
>>> afternoon.
>>>
>>
>> I assume you meant to say "kicked out".
>>
>> How did you remove him?
>>
>>
>>   He was climbing on desks, rooting through boxes, ranting at
>>> no one in particular and generally making a nuisance of himself.  He was
>>> clearly beyond the level of imbalance we typically see at the space and
>>> seemed to be a danger to himself and others.  He was wearing a hospital
>>> gown and a skirt around his waist, neither of which hid much.  I gather
>>> his name is Robert (Bobby) Owens.  Others said they have seen him at the
>>> space before, though he seemed more subdued and sane on prior occasions.
>>>
>>> --Fletch
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Hephaestus <hephaestus at antipunk.net
>>> <mailto:hephaestus at antipunk.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    As we were leaving 2169 tonight, a man was coming into the space who
>>>    was obviously unwelcome. Several members asked me to escort him out of
>>>    the space, and when I tried he got very hostile, loud, and disruptive.
>>>    Some members were obviously afraid of this man, and he was behaving in
>>>    an agressive manner while following them around the space very
>>>    closely. When he failed to leave after several requests, we called the
>>>    police. The police eventually arrived, exclaiming 'NOT YOU AGAIN!',
>>>    and quickly escorted him away.
>>>
>>>    He is 5'9, approximately 160lbs, Caucasian, balding white hair trimmed
>>>    very short, in his early to mid 50's, wearing an olive drab jacket, a
>>>    yellow tie-died dress, brown cut off pants, flip flops, and a pastel
>>>    blue baseball cap with a pink flower on it. If anybody got a picture
>>>    it'd be helpful.
>>>
>>>      He is the person Shannon had to remove the other morning. Is he the
>>>    person who showed up this morning without pants?
>>>
>>>    (p.s. Rubin, I fully expect you to carry out your threat to 'punch the
>>>    next person who calls the police to noisebridge.' It was me.)
>>>
>>>    --
>>>    Hephaestus
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>>
>> --
>> Neil Kandalgaonkar  |) <neilk at brevity.org>
>>
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