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Fish Sticks and Green Jello

Friday, August 05, 2005

Everyone really DOES get their 15 min... 

I started watching this show that started last week on NBC. It's a certain legal reality show. I'm being vague because the last thing I want to have happen is for someone to pull this post up in reference to this show. Anyways, there was a case on there about a dispute between a dominatrix and a guy who created her website. He claimed that he was a partner in the business and that he owned the domain name and the website. She claimed he didn't and that he shut her site down when she didn't pay him money that she owed him as a partner.

So I'm watching this show and they're advising this guy to not be a freak in front of the judge. His attorneys, in interviews, are talking about how he's a loose cannon could jeopardize their case. This guy gets in front of the judge and acts like an intense, scary, crazy kook and then I start to think, hrm why does that voice sound familar? That guy sort of looks familiar... Oh my god.. , I know that name! I KNOW THAT GUY! I haven't seen this guy in 14 years. He used to live one building over from me in Oakland. He lived with some guys I knew back then that had moved near me. We had a lot of mutual friends. This guy was intense, weird, yet seemed to be fun at times. He had really crazy stories about being a heroin addict and almost dying many many times. But overall he seemed okay when we met him. Like a reformed person. Or so we thought.

Then one day he started shooting up heroin again. He would come talk to us and nod off mid conversation. He started getting eratic and out of control. It got to the point where my ex-boyfriend and I stopped talking to him altogether which started some sort of feud. I don't remember all the details anymore. What I do remember is one night he got really crazy, took a baseball bat or something like that and smashed in the windshield of my ex-boyfriend's truck. He fully admitted it after the fact and I remember being scared for my ex everytime he had to leave the house. I was scared for myself as well. Eventually that guy took off and we never saw him again. I figured he must have gone off somewhere and overdosed and died or something. Who knew.

Then I see him on this show. It really freaked me out. The worst part was he won the stupid case. If only the judge knew what a complete psycho this guy was. I'm willing to bet that he was in the wrong on this one. He looked like he was existing and living in decent conditions on the show but overall he still came across as crazy. You know, if you don't want your kids to ever do heroin, just put them in a room with someone like this for a couple of hours. That should put them off it altogether for life. Disgusting. Personally I'm disguisted he was even put on a tv show. Not that I should be suprised though, it's reality tv.

He terrorized people both physically and mentally and honestly I'm afraid for other people out there that have to deal with him. Hopefully the woman he went up against on this tv show won't get terrorized by him. UGH. I have to go email my ex now to let him know. Gosh, he's probably the only one left from back then that knows this guy. Crazy... I'm still freaked out!
Posted by Marian @ 1:37 AM

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