6 thoughts on “A young Pat O’Day assaulted at radio station over strange conspiracy theory”
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
One night at KAYO, a couple of Indians phoned and wanted to hear a nice Indian song so I played Red Wing, an old standard praising an Indian girl by that name. Wrong song – the same guys called back and said they were going to be outside when I got off work at 2:00 A.M. and beat me up. I called SPD and they told me if someone was going to do that they wouldn’t call first, so relax, so I did and lived to tell about it.
Scary situation that radio people can face. Decades later, talk show host, Alan Berg was shot and killed. Being a public figure has its dangers for sure.
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
One night at KAYO, a couple of Indians phoned and wanted to hear a nice Indian song so I played Red Wing, an old standard praising an Indian girl by that name. Wrong song – the same guys called back and said they were going to be outside when I got off work at 2:00 A.M. and beat me up. I called SPD and they told me if someone was going to do that they wouldn’t call first, so relax, so I did and lived to tell about it.
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
Dang! Close call. You should have played Running Bear.
December 1, 2024 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
If they had carried out their threat, your advice would have looked great on my tombstone.
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
T.K. says:
Sounds like the unnamed engineer cleaned the kid’s KLOQ.
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
Psycho kid! Must have been hearing voices.
November 29, 2024 at QZVX
Mike Barer says:
Scary situation that radio people can face. Decades later, talk show host, Alan Berg was shot and killed. Being a public figure has its dangers for sure.