[Noisebridge-discuss] Unwelcome person at noisebridge

[Shannon Lee]

We've had a lot of crazy people in and no assaults.

I don't think calling the police if we can't get a disruptive person to stop
being disruptive or leave is inappropriate, but we should also be aware that
as a population, Noisebridgers are uncomfortable with the fuzz, so we should
leave it as a last resort -- and by 'last' i mean 'after you tried to get
them to calm down, and after you asked someone else to try to get them to
calm down, and after you couldn't figure out how to get them to leave any
other way,'

At that point someone who objects to your calling the police has basically
taken responsibility for dealing with the crazy person :)

--S

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Quinn Norton <quinn at quinnnorton.com>wrote:

>
> On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> >
> >> I'm not sure that there's anything that we can do to prevent having
> >> crazy people in the space, except making the space more tightly filtered
> >> -- and that does not seem worth the price to me.
> >
> > Given the standard of "normal" at NB, I doubt we could come up with
> > clear criteria for "crazy" anyway.
>
> Perhaps for the purposes of NB I could never succeed in intelligibly
> describing crazy. But I know it when I see it.
>
> > Besides, I have yet to hear about any of these people doing actual
> > damage.  Not like the woman at my office building who pees in the
> > hallways (damn you, Title 20!).
>
>
> Insofar as they drive people away from NB for fear of personal safety or
> extreme discomfort they harm NB. I'm not sure that's a reason to change
> policy, but I'd much rather hear that we call the police a lot than someone
> got assaulted, which seems possible at this rate.
>
>
>
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