Assume for a moment that this happened: A customer, and a long advertiser with the paper informs us of a peculiar message they received today from a customer that I had the grace of dealing with not so long ago. Nope it ain't the GypsyKing. I'll kick his ass next time he tries that religious "stump the chump" shit again. Next, think about having THIS message put across your desk (not mine, THEIRS):

"Joseph is in heaven. With his family I'm here to get they others
Tell Len Joseph is gone end of contract"

I thought this was pretty fucking funny until later today. Read my prior posts about the "cleaning guy than enunciates his words". Joseph is the one that placed the message, EXCEPT he's not dead in Heaven. And wants out of a cleaning contract, and this is his method of doing such. This is one crazy dude, and "here to get they others?" Got Columbine anyone? Yeah I saw today about the Harris & Klebold released tapes on TV, and seeing this shit from customers today didn't help.

What happened? Well it's like this: Joseph is the cleaning guy I first thought was actually a theatrical student at a locall comm. college. I believed it having seen real drama students try to act out their shit in public many times already. He cleaned houses on the side. He hooked up with a local samaritan (Len in this case) who happens to own a carpet sales company. LONG time advertiser with the paper. Nice guy, wanted to help out a local loony drunk fucker up or down on his luck. You pick. Anyway, the guys wife is a DA and did some checking on his shit. Well, the guys got quite a history of mental problems. Some violent. And CarpetGuy told this guy to take a hike the other day, according to the story I heard.

That brings us up to right now. Our chipper sales team heads out to pick up new ad copy from our gratuitous local businessman only to find them in mental shreds having found the above note scrawled out on a piece of paper and put on his desk.

If "I'm here to get they others" doesn't sound like a death threat from some religious crazy son of a bitch I dunno. The lucky saleswoman that got to deal with this new drama today was emotionally lost. Fear of physical harm is not something I like to see in people when they're out trying to make a buck. Bunjee jumping maybe, but not this. I said call the cops and have this crazy bastard watched. CarpetGuy already did. I'll watch his ass myself. Or smash it if need be. He lives too close to my home for me to ignore as a random idiot among all the loonies that come into the paper everyday.

Now I've got 2 more assholes to keep an eye on. Geezus people.

Stay tuned.