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Radio Stalkers?

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Radio Stalkers?

Ok, next question.....radio stalkers..i.e. "over zealous fans"?..ever experience them and any tales you care to share? I have had my share....the incessent phone calls, the crazy mail..... definately some strange people who need a life out there....
 
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This happened a few years ago when I worked at a rock station that no longer exists..Though Im not to sure who reads these posts..certain names will be changed for protection reasons...anyways, here we go...
A friend of mine was dating this girl who was a complete psycho..and she loved the fact that i work in radio..Well one night I was doing my show when I got this phone call from a girl named "Krystal" she seemed pretty cool and I didnt have any problem talking to her..she continued to call during every show that i had. This lasted for about 3 weeks. Wel it turns out that this girl; "Krystal" is friends with my buddys girlfriend...and she had seen pictures of me and thought that i was cute. Krystal then started askin me questions regarding relationships and weather or not i was single...Which I was at the time..but still told her I was taken. Christmas was a few days away and she wanted me to hang out with her so that she could have someone to talk to on the holidays... I told her that Christmas is a very tough time for me because of my family and other things.."Krystal" asked me out to a date the night before Christmas and I had told her no. That night I was returning home from La Salet Shrine in Attleboro, and as I was pulling into my driveway there was a car parked and a girl on my deck ringing my doorbell....It was HER!! She called up my buddy's girlfriend, asked her where I lived and she came to my house to see me...****ing nuts! ..It gets better...As I was talkin to her and I realized that there was a baby in the backseat asleep...when I asked who's it was she replied that It was hers...Hell no was I about to get involed with any of that..So I made up an inscuse so that I could leave "MY OWN HOUSE" and drove around for an hour untill I thought it was safe to return. The next morning when I had awoken with my family to open christmas gifts.. I noticed there was a box on the hood of my truck....left there over night...In it was a box of candy and a teddy bear holding a heard that says "I love you".... It quickly made its way to my trash can....However I never spoke to her again. and shortly after the staion went under and that was the last I heard from miss "Krystal" ....
....Sorry it is alot to read...But hey..I hadto tell it all!
 
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Geez, not a good thing...... Any other oddities from the land of radio out there?
 
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only one nutbag while I was down at Q105..a 50 year old cab driver that used to call up...i was nice and made small talk..until I started noticing a cab following me out of the station lot...a few times i stopped to get gas and this cab would pull in behind me and sit there with this old goofy guy smiling out the window...creeeeeepy
 
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wkrpfm said:
only one nutbag while I was down at Q105..a 50 year old cab driver that used to call up...i was nice and made small talk..until I started noticing a cab following me out of the station lot...a few times i stopped to get gas and this cab would pull in behind me and sit there with this old goofy guy smiling out the window...creeeeeepy
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Sorry wkrpfm, next time I will use a different disguise and keep my distance. I'll have to see how much binoculars are at wal-mart later today. :D hahahaha. Being a board-op, I have no stalkers. Unless you call a guy who keeps calling WPRO-AM with powerballs numbers all the time.
 
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Sorry wkrpfm, next time I will use a different disguise and keep my distance. I'll have to see how much binoculars are at wal-mart later today. :D hahahaha. Being a board-op, I have no stalkers. Unless you call a guy who keeps calling WPRO-AM with powerballs numbers all the time.
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That's funny because when I first got into Radio, a guy used to call the station with the same information everynight. Then I decided to start bringing a mini television into work each night so I could get the lottery Numbers myself. I think it broke his heart to know that he was no longer needed. lol
 
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Headphones: that was a crreeepppy story. Erika's story is just as creepy and disturbing.

I never dealt with any stalkers during my time in radio in Delaware, but we did have a few weirdos that would call the station all the time. We had one guy we called Fast Eddie. When I was stuck on weekend overnights, Eddie would always call and want to talk with the weekend morning sports anchor. The said sports anchor would take his calls. Eddie was a nice fellow (I actually met him a few times at local professional wrestling events), but sadly passed away a few years ago. Eddie didn't have both oars in the water, so to speak.

We had another guy named Allen who would always call the station, asking if the local minor league baseball team won their game that night. Allen wasn't playing with a full deck either, but he was always pleasant with me on the phone. He would ask very nicely what he wanted to know, and would hang up. Sometimes, he would discuss the goings-on with local baseball and other sports. He seemed to be an avid sports fan.

My former station has a Weatherline phone number where people can call and get the weather forecasts (similar to what WPRI-TV currently has). While I was there, we had a blind guy named Pat who would call the Weatherline every hour to get the current temperature and so forth. If the Weatherline hadn't been updated, he would call the station and complain, then ask for the weather stats. He would roll tape on the Weatherline forecasts for his own archiving purposes. He admitted he had tapes from several years ago, with anchors voices on them, who have long since left the station. He was a pest sometimes, but always a nice fellow. He's another listener who I met once, while eating dinner at a local restaurant. I saw him walk in, and heard his voice. I immediately knew it was him. I went up to say hello, and he immediately recognized my voice. He was very pleasant.
 
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When I worked at WSAR a Gay guy would call me up every night. He would frequently proposition me. Even when I told him I wasn't interested, he would still keep calling. He was a nice enough person and we always had pleasant conversation. However it always led to him coming on to me. It got to the point where I did not even want to answer the phone. Every time I saw the blinking Red Light I would hope that it was The Lottery Guy calling and not the Gay fan.

There was also some chick calling who seemed very interested in me. She always had a lot of questions and was obviously interested in more than just the Radio station. I was feeling particularly brave one night and wanted to see what she was all about. So it was about 11 PM and she called up. I told her that I would be there for about another hour. So stop by if you want.

I was a 19 year old guy and I wasn't about to pass up an opportunity that she might be Hot. So she finally arrives and I don't think I ever recall seeing a more spaced out chick than this one. Either she was heavily medicated or she was totally star struck. I don't know what was going on. I gave her a brief tour of the station and then I tried to get her out as quickly as possible. I felt very uncomfortable with her. She was hardly talking and the whole thing felt very strange.

I decided after that I would no longer let fans just stop by. It was probably a dumb thing to do in the first place since I was in the station alone. But the "weird factor" of this girl pretty much stuck in my mind.
 
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Back "then" I don't think the term "stalker" had been invented...

As early as 1959 I had one apparently older woman with a morbid fascination. Only seemed to call within a few minutes I had, as required by format, read the obituaries (were sponsored by several funeral homes) on the original WALE. Never threatening or overtly sexual; just creepy as hell.

Later, when WLKW was "The Sound of Beautiful Music", those calls were frequent and not limited to just one or two air people. We all got them. A few acted upon them with generally bad (though not catastrophic) results.

Fred Grady, doing his Jazz show on the old WXTR, was a magnet for stalking chicks. He had far too much class to be anything less than cool and polite with them. I know Fred retired a short time back...anyone know if he's in good health and getting around?
 
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