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02 January 2013

A naked guy just walked into my office. This is beginning to be a really strange year. A naked 19-21 yr old guy just walked into our office. He said he was Zeus and looking for the credit union. He was quite in earnest.[More:]

Thankfully I was not alone.

We will now be locking all the hallway doors as well as the front door that goes outside. Sigh.

We all think it was more psychotic break than prank because it was just very strange. Coworker went to get security and they said they'd handle it.

Hopefully they do something other than just send him on his way because it seems like he needed help. We weren't sure if we should have called cops or what.


Are you located near a mental health treatment clinic?

Also, sorry to say it might be appropriate to call the police when someone is as clearly unhinged as that. They liase with local mental health workers in many jurisdictions.
posted by bearwife 02 January | 16:06
Pictures or it didn't happen. j/k

And you seem to be having a busy new year already.
posted by buzzman 02 January | 16:11
Wow, you are really having a time.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 16:24
We're downtown. He may have been from the nearby college. There's housing for them around here.

Hopefully there's no next time but good to know to call the cops next time.
posted by sio42 02 January | 16:32
It'd be neat if later this afternoon a swan wanders in asking if anyone has seen Zeus.
posted by BitterOldPunk 02 January | 16:42
I would definitely enjoy that, B.O.P.
posted by Orange Swan 02 January | 16:48
if that happened, i'd know we were part of a long well thought out prank.

dang it, of course my hair looks like crap today for all those hidden cameras.
posted by sio42 02 January | 17:16
Before I finished reading your post I scrolled down to see if it was written by danf. Congratulations (?) you're in his league with mind boggling events. Um, hugs?
posted by mightshould 02 January | 17:49
Huh. I figured Zeus would use some fancy private bank, not a credit union. Maybe he wanted to smite it.
posted by mullacc 02 January | 18:03
My first thought was where you were because it's pretty cold out there in some parts. Naked usually equals psych assessment, like naked guy climbing a tanker on the highway = something is going on there. But then when that guy in LA was walking around naked with a leopard draped around his shoulders, probably just showing off.
posted by ethylene 02 January | 20:34
I ran into security when i was leaving work. They told me they called police.

He had found some of his clothes and put his pants and shirt back on in the hallway earlier. But it was all still really weird. The guards said he was saying some real weird stuff.

So, at least he got to mental health people if the police took, im gonna assume.

The funny thing is that ive been watching the walking dead lately after just finishing the book (well part one of the compendium) and i realized later that the thought going thru my head was this skinny crazy boy was gonna bite me. Strange how the mind works.

This whole episode has got to be one of the top 5 strangest things that has ever happened to me.

posted by sio42 02 January | 21:59
Well, at least you knew he wasn't armed.
posted by Pips 02 January | 22:28
Naked usually equals psych assessment, like naked guy climbing a tanker on the highway = something is going on there. But then when that guy in LA was walking around naked with a leopard draped around his shoulders, probably just showing off.

This is a good rule of thumb.
posted by Miko 02 January | 23:33
It's scary to have a person in psychosis come visit. Scary for him, too, eventually.
posted by theora55 03 January | 14:03
yeah, i kinda wish it had just been a prank. but hopefully the cops really did take him to MH people. guess i will never know.
posted by sio42 03 January | 21:21
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