Re: Paranoid music producer

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:26, my brother wrote:
Never heard of this guy-- but pretty strange

Missing Music Producer Found, Hospitalized

By TIM MOLLOY

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans.

The Topanga Canyon resident found a distraught Christian Julian Irwin saying he feared he was being pursued by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam, sheriff's Capt. Ray Peavy said. Peavy said there was no evidence anyone was actually pursuing the 48-year-old producer, who has worked with Carly Simon and David Bowie, among others.

Irwin was taken into custody because he was deemed mentally incompetent and possibly dangerous to himself, Peavy said. He was found at about 4:30 p.m. and agreed to go with police about two hours later after negotiations in which authorities, at Irwin's request, located his sister to help calm him.

Irwin was questioned by medical and mental health workers and taken to a hospital to make sure he was in good physical health. He was to be transferred to another hospital for observation.

Authorities began looking for Irwin on Sunday after he made a panicked phone call to a friend, saying he was being pursued by people with dogs. He told his friend he was running through water and had lost his glasses and shoes in a creek.

Topanga Canyon, a rustic area long a favorite with artists and musicians, is about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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you know,

it's a bad thing, if not a heinous one, to revel in someone else's
problems, especially if it's mental illness, because it hits so close to
home in so many ways ...

but i have to tell you, i love the fact he thinks he was being pursued
by internet scam nigerians ...

let's see i've totally lost it and my mind is running wild ... what's
the thing i fear most? ... the VERY most? ... it needs to be evil ...
really evil ... something's after me, i can feel it ... it's not freddy
kruger ... it's not the i.r.s. ... i don't *think* it's that hairband --
who was it? yeah, fastway ... i don't think so ... but i can feel the danger
... what is it?

I KNOW WHAT IT IS. IT'S THOSE GODDAMN NIGERIANS AND THEIR INTERNET SCAM. GODDAMN THEM. THEY'RE AFTER ME. THEY WANT MY MONEY. they call me "friend" and tell me to help them expedite money and they'll give me a percentage BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. i've deleted their emails before BUT THEY KEEP COMING BACK. a few months pass and BOOM THERE THEY ARE AGAIN.

i know. i know. they probably SMELL me. they do that. space aliens
do that too -- god knows i don't need that again. not now. but if i
take my clothes off and go to the creek, i'll be safer. the Good Things
are there. the Good Things will help. i'll need to make a wide path
around those fake rolexes, and those home loans and all that viagra, but i'll make it. and i'll be SAFE.