[sudo-discuss] about shawn (old man who talks only nonsense)

Fri Nov 28 10:10:37 PST 2014

here's what Stan has to say about him

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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:31:16 -0600
From: Stan Osborne <stan at ana.com>
To: Jake <jake at spaz.org>
Subject: Re: Shawn

Jake,

Thanks for helping SuDo learn more about Shawn.  For awhile he was a
regular at Spazport.  When he is at OMNI I attempt conversation.  He now
speaks in a manner that is understandable.  I recall a few years ago when
I could not understand one word of what he was trying to say.

His desire to be a part of a community has not changed.  Since I have
known him more than a decade his eccentricities do not bother me.

At h3ll he would tell me he was not involved with playing chess any more.
In recent months I've seen him playing chess with others at OMNI.  He has
made suggestions on improving OMNI, and uses SuDo room coputers for email,
etc.  These are all things he has not done in some time.

Stan

On Thu, November 27, 2014 10:39 pm, Jake wrote:
> regarding
> https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-November/008376.html
> [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Strange man sleeping in eyeball room
>
> this is an email from my friend John who tries to take care of Shawn, the
> guy who has been coming to the omni and sometimes making trouble, to the
> point where people need to ask him to leave.
>
> I understand why people ask him to leave when they do, I just figured i
> would pass this along for context, both for him specifically, and for the
> kinds of situations people wind up in.
>
> -jake
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:47:47 -0800
> From: John Benson <followthatparade at gmail.com>
> To: Jake <jake at spaz.org>
> Subject: Re: shawn squatting the omni
>
> Hi Jake,
>    wish we were more regularly in touch... alas.
> on the Shawn front:
> over the last couple of years five of us. little by little were able to
> get Shawn
> a successful SSI claim which produced its first benefit check of 768$
> we have a budget and a couple of folks helping out....
>
> 200 of it is going to pay for the storage container at my shop
> where he sleeps and fills with garbage until i clean it all out.
> (which I have been paying for about two years now)
>
> In other news he has had his dad, Russel, his aunt Connie, Alrita, and
> a cousin, Darrel, each separately continue to  threaten  and harrass him
> these last couple
> of years.  they have done various things such as call the city on the
> warehouse
> for code violations and sit infront of my house for hours and call me and
> shawn repeatedly
> and tell us that we are sinners going to hell and that they have lawers,
> ... etc.  I don't know what their
> motivation is really
> could be the money, could be the christian thing to do , but the all seem
> to hate each other
>  i am the one who found them in the ssi process and reached out to them. 
> none have seen Shawn in the last
> 15 years but two had been payee's until 2004.   so I suspect money....
>
> this last year Shawn has been in three different Psychiatric facilities
> after being hospitalized by the
> police
> and i have three separate abuse claims with Berkeley police
> review/oversight committee with the emergency
> room reports
> (these actually helped in evaluation process of the ssi claim)
>
> he also has a ticket for not having a light on his bike which he refuses
> to give me any info
> on other than a photo of a crumbled up ticket which he sends in a text
> message some times.
> over the last six months and  talks about aids, Chinese  and ebola some
> how being related to this ticket.
>
> there is also a long string of cafe's he is no longer allowed into who at
> first, allowed me to run a tab
> for him. the YMCA revoked his membership after two appeals i requested and
> the purple house wont let him
> inside
>
> this is the recent stuff in a nutshell.
>
> Ill talk to him about not abusing the OMni, I LOVE that place
> a dream come true
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>        hi john!!!
>
>        i am writing to mention that Shawn is interacting with The Omni
> Collective in non-ideal ways,
>        and i'm hoping you can offer some suggestions or do something to
> help...
>
>        I know you're loath to hook him up with any social services that
> imply that he is not 100%
>        competent, but given that friends of mine have declared themselves
> fully incompetent just to
>        receive a salary from the state, i don't think it's a big deal for
> him to get a little
>        professional help.
>
>        especially as he gets older and the squats and other opportunities
> he has been depending on for
>        years are starting to dry up, i think it would be good for him to
> have some sort of reliable
>        backup plan.  He can likely get an apartment and have a safe place
> to go at the end of each
>        day.
>
>        here's what happened at the omni:
>
>        https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-November/008379.html
> --
> john benson
>
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