[sudo-discuss] pidgeon (human) trying to squat sudoroom / the omni

[Torrie Fischer]

The last time Pigeon was at Noisebridge they got in by climbing the front 
gate. They got a very stern talking-to and haven't been seen around since 
then.

Personally speaking, I'm not one to welcome them back to Noisebridge.

Thank you, Jake, for handling this <3

On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 01:19:45 AM Jake wrote:
> last night (sunday) as the last of us were getting ready to leave after a
> long day of BACH, i noticed that Pidgeon was sitting alone in CCL with
> headphones in and using a laptop.
> 
> [pidgeon prefers the pronoun "they" but it is a single person]
> 
> knowing that this person made trouble at noisebridge in the past, and
> assuming that they were trying to squat the omni, i went up and gave
> notice that "we are getting ready to leave and close up" and Pidgeon took
> the hint and started packing up their backpack...
> 
> twenty minutes later pidgeon was still slowly gathering things together to
> get ready to leave.. it was annoyingly obvious that they were trying to
> delay leaving so that I would leave first and they could stay.
> 
> tonight, Korl mentioned that Pidgeon was present but did not seem to be
> anyone's guest, and I agreed that they were here without anyone's
> sponsorship of any kind.  A person with no member-sponsor present can be
> asked to leave for no reason, but before doing that I went to speak with
> others present about the situation.
> 
> No one present claimed Pidgeon as their guest, or objected to asking them
> to leave.  I mentioned this to marc and started posting the following to
> irc:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2014-February/0424
> 56.html
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-October/0399
> 72.html
> 
> a minute later marc returned from a "sweep" of the building and found
> Pidgeon in a downstairs room with the door pulled shut, getting
> comfortable, lying on their belly listening to music.
> 
> Marc asked if they were part of a collective, Pidgeon said they were not,
> and Marc said that we are not open to the public and asked them to leave.
> 
> please be aware that people are already trying to squat the omni and it
> will only get more intense.  I have no patience for this because I feel
> that the omni is more valuable to us as a community space, shared for all,
> rather than a big building to be turned into private quarters for the few
> who care little enough about their community to do something like that.
> 
> Noisebridge regularly has problems with people sleeping on top of the
> elevator, above the loft areas, and in the basement of the building, and
> their building is not nearly as cavernous and expansive as ours.
> 
> -jake
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