DEAD: Our own Carl Grossman

[Spud Demon]

Carl died of an asthma attack last Saturday. :(

From DCRTV:

Carl Grossman Dies - 8/24 - DCRTV gets confirmation that Carl
Grossman, 60, the Leesburg man who pleaded guilty in Fairfax County
Court in May 2007 to a misdemeanor charge of stalking in connection
with a January 2007 incident in which former WJFK afternoon host Don
Geronimo (aka Michael Sorce) received a letter that allegedly
contained threats to himself and his family, has died. Grossman, who
had been a frequent caller on the Don and Mike O'Meara show, was given
a one-year jail sentence with 10 months suspended, followed by a year
of probation and a period of supervised mental health care. Grossman's
sister, Sara, tells DCRTV that her brother's death "was very sudden
and unexpected. Of course, my family blames Don Geronimo for his death
in a weird way." She adds: "Our view is that if Don had accepted
Carl's written apology, or allowed Carl to pay a fine and be on
probation instead of insisting that no plea could be reached unless a
jail sentence was attached, then Carl would not have been fired from
his job, would not have been denied unemployment benefits, would not
have lost health insurance, could have gone to see doctors and afford
medications for his asthma, and would not have died uninsured and with
respiratory failure that he could not afford to have treated
properly." She says that Carl went to an emergency room last
Wednesday. He was released from the hospital on Friday and was found
dead of an apparent asthma attack on Saturday morning after placing a
911 call at 5 AM.....

[Cal O'Chortus]

Wow. Just wow. That is very sad. No matter how many times and in how
many ways Carl was told to let it go and move on he just wouldn't do
it. His sister can blame Don all she wants, but it was Carl's
insistence, perhaps due to mental illness, on maintaining this
obsession that drove him to disaster.

I'm very sorry to hear that Cheezface has left the building. :(

[Joe Mama]

Total bummer... I played poker with him at Tom Gavin's apartment
once. I even went to a newsgamp meeting (complete with photos posted
to the gamp) and met him. Bad news to read.

Joe Mama

And a shout out to Alice from Hell, Dr. Crab, and some of the old
regulars from the wayback machine time.

Watchit!

[Ledbelly]

Too bad, he should have had some help.