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Daniele Bolelli's avatar

I have had some interesting interactions with people with serious psychiatric issues (i.e. folks who emailed me to tell me i had to tell joe rogan to stop sending people to spy on them outside their windows, etc.)

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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

Unfortunately due to the rampant mental illness in society I think that is just a part of interfacing with the public in any capacity. I had one lady accuse me of being part of an international dog kidnapping ring when her dog sitter lost her precious little ball of fluff when she was out of the country. I had literally nothing to do with any of the situation other than I had commented months before when looking at the dog that I always loved that breed and someday when I was too old for big dogs I wanted a little dog like hers. So when someone else lost the dog six months later clearly it was a conspiracy.

Another guy wanted us to remove the cyborg implants from his cat and help him sue the vet who put them in the cat. He insisted upon multiple X-rays when we informed him cyborg implants were not common practice and we couldnтАЩt find any indications of any. After the whole cat was radiographed he concluded that they had clearly used some new highly classified components for the implants that we simply couldnтАЩt see. Although I will say he was very understanding when we told him we couldnтАЩt remove implants we couldnтАЩt find.

Then mix in all the people who have imbibed in too much alcohol or the wrong cocktail of drugs and I think anyone who interfaces with the public in any way probably has some stories. ItтАЩs worse when itтАЩs on the internet because of the safety of anonymity. Anybody who threatens to kill me in person in my small town might accidentally run into me at the grocery store, which would be really awkward, or they might run into my husband in a dark alley...

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Michael Ocana's avatar

Ya, I wish you would cut that out.... jk ;)

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