911 call tonight

here is a letter i wrote to my property supervisor, regarding my evening ruined by a longhaired hippy, LSD, and his own personal selfishness, and not knowing when enough is enough. by holing up in the elevator, poor little old ladies who live on the 6th floor had to climb up a lot of stairs. this is a fucking apartment building, not a psych ward or extended care facility.

ada,

we had to call 911 tonight, tenant P. G. from #XX was arrested.

earlier tonight, a tenant called to report that someone was spotted climbing up the fire escape and into the building. he looked for him, but the person was not found.

later, we got a complaint from another tenant that someone was asleep in the elevator. we went up, and this guy was now awake but had turned off the power and wedged himself between the 3rd and 4th floor. he looked homeless, and i did not know he was a tenant at the time. other tenants were gathering to see what was going on. we gave him the option to turn on the elevator and leave, otherwise we would call the police. he was noncompliant. he had power tools and other stuff in there, and said he was the manager in training. he also seemed like he was drunk or on drugs. after talking to him and it going nowhere, we had no choice but to call the police.

the fire department and police showed up, but could not coerce him to get out. they had to tear off the door on the 4rd floor and drag him out. one tenant tried to tell the police that he was a normal guy and not intoxicated. it doesn't matter, he created a nuisance and safety hazard, and refused to comply with police orders.

the fire department says he had unscrewed the top hatch of the elevator and was tampering with the cables and other electrical stuff that controls the elevator! there were personal belongings all over the hallway, its obvious he was on drugs or crazy. ie, he screwed a windchime to the door by the back stairwell, screwed a sawblade into the fire escape window at the end of the hall to prop it open, took off the latch that closes the window, propped open the window in the back stairwell, moved potted plants and other personal items into the hallway, including what looked like drug paraphernalia, put up stickers on the window, etc. the police threw his stuff back into his apartment, though he said it was not his stuff (it clearly was).

the police said that all charges for repair of the elevator and everything else should be charged to him. obivously he should be evicted immediately.

here's the list:

1. send an elevator repairman ASAP. the door was reinstalled by the fire dept, but it needs to be inspected because he was tampering with it.
2. the latch on the 4rd floor market street-facing fire escape needs to be replaced, as he removed it.
3. evict this guy.
4. can you please print a letter saying we need to keep the fire escape windows shut to prevent this? should we bother mentioning all this to them?

obviously many other residents were alarmed by this whole fiasco. they thought he was just moving out, since he was moving personal items all over the 4th floor. everybody was asking questions.

please call me if you have more questions-
ken