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Shortly before I was scheduled to look for billing discrepancies at Kaiser HMO, a gunman
fired a sawed-off shotgun in my general direction. Prior to the shooting, a Kaiser data-processing employee claimed
that I was a "gunslinger" hired by Kaiser management to get rid of employees and that I should be "taken out and shot."
She claimed that she could paralyze Kaiser programmers by making us see the colors red over green.
I was obstructed in conveying my reports to my clients at Kaiser and subjected
to intimidation by Kaiser employees. A Kaiser data-processing employee monitored my movements as I prepared to visit the
internal audit department at Kaiser to discuss my concerns. I received numerous hang up calls in rapid succession in
the hour or so that passed between my two visits with the internal audit department.
A whole array of incidents including arson fires, explosions and property
damage began at that time and has continued to the present. I believe that two fires resulted in one fatality
each.
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Updated July 12th 2008: I came across "MADDI"
scrawled in large letters on one of my routine walking routes on July 2nd 2008. "Maddi" is the surname of a former UC
Berkeley student and drug dealer who lived near me. I have added a photo of this incident near the bottom
of this page.
Updated July 11th 2008: On June 8th 2008, I took several pictures
in front of a San Francisco high school named after a politician: School of the Arts - J. Eugene McAteer Campus.
Two days later, a 15 year old was shot dead in front of another San Francisco high school named after a politician and his
wife: Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School. This is likely to be a coincidence
and I am including it here only for completeness.
Here is an Associated Press news article about Phillip Burton on December 11, 2002 ©2002
Associated Press [Original URL which no longer works:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/12/11/state2055EST0147.DTL ]
"(12-11) 17:55 PST SACRAMENTO (AP) -- State Senate President Pro Tempore John
Burton, D-San Francsico, asked the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on Wednesday to investigate allegations
that Tenet Healthcare Corp. over-billed for workers' compensation cases. An Assembly committee already has
launched an investigation into Tenet's business practices. The nation's second-largest hospital chain, which owns or
operates 113 hospitals and related businesses in 16 states, Tenet has been under intense public scrutiny after
it reported a higher-than-average number of costly procedures, such as heart surgeries. According to the Office
of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Tenet prices on average were about 63 percent higher than other hospitals
in 2000. And a recent report by the California Nurses Association found that Tenet commonly marked up pharmaceutical
prices by 800 percent, nearly twice as much as other hospitals nationwide. Tenet officials have acknowledged that
its prices are higher than other hospitals, but said it's part of an aggressive business strategy. The Senate committee
will meet on Jan. 15. ©2002 Associated Press"
Here is a link to a news article about the shooting of a 15 year old boy in front of
Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco high school: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/BA351172IH.DTL
(One of the photos I took in front of the McAteer campus was of a coyote which
had narrowly missed being hit by cars in front of the high school as I walked on the sidewalk. It is posted near
the bottom of this page.)
Updated July 3rd 2008: During a labor strike, I worked with a Kaiser administrator
named by the San Francisco Chronicle in the article "Bad Doctors Going Unpunished - State Medical Board says SF Kaiser Tried
to Hide Physician's Mistakes." I am including this fact for completeness only. Here is a link to the San Francisco
Chronicle article: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/09/MN49453.DTL
Updated June 19th 2008: Added a photo of the San
Francisco streetcar stop where a boy was shot on April 26th 2008. A book inside the nearby Ingleside branch
library had been tagged with my name and the date of the shooting and left in public view prior to the shooting.
The book had been tagged as part of the normal process library staff follows when holding a book for a patron. Pictures
of the book tag and shooting scene are posted below.
Updated June 18th 2008: On June 17th 2008, I came across
the graffiti "BIN LoDEN" along one of my customary walking routes. This variation of "bin Laden" rhymes with the name of a
programmer I worked with at Kaiser. Scrawled alongside it was "BQM." I have added a photograph of this near the
top of this page.
Posted May 27th 2008: Today, brand new unauthorized purchases totalling
$300 were attempted using an account of mine. I do not know if the thief actually succeeded in receiving
the merchandise or services. The merchant in today's transactions is not the one used in the five attempts
on May 25th 2008.
Posted May 25th 2008: In the past 24 hours, five attempts have been made
to make unauthorized purchases using my account.
Updated May 27th 2008: I took a few photographs on May 21st,
walked a few doors from the spot where I stood to take photos to a Subway Sandwich shop, and then returned
a book at the main San Francisco Public Library in the next block. After leaving the library, I noticed
four emergency vechicles from the San Francisco Fire Department leaving from the exact location where I had taken photos 25
minutes earlier. A workman who had been casually watching the incident told me he thought the SFFD
had responded to a false alarm, but he could not be sure. I am including this incident only for completeness.
See photo below labelled "SFFD as I walked away from library May 21st 2008."
Posted May 1st 2008: A child was shot at Faxon and Ocean
Avenues in San Francisco on April 26th. At a library at the intersection where the shooting occurred, a book had been
tagged with my name and date of April 26th 2008. The tag was generated by the library staff as they put the
book on hold for me. The book and tag were plainly visible on the open shelves near the front of the library a week
or two before the shooting. A scanned image of the tag is displayed elsewhere on this page. Here is a link
to an article about the shooting in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/26/BA3Q10CMR1.DTL
Posted April 12th 2008: A policeman entered a bus I was riding on this
evening in response to a report that somebody was being threatened in the back of the bus, he said. (San Francisco
MUNI bus #8426 at approximately 5:45 p.m.) Nobody had been threatened, however. It appears that the
policeman was responding to a false alarm.
Posted April 6th 2008: Somebody pulled a fire
alarm switch on April 4th inside the supermarket where I routinely shop. Firemen were busy dealing with the
alarm when I arrived to buy groceries. There was no fire and it was a false alarm. The supermarket is a
short distance down the street from where a sign with the names of one of my Kaiser supervisors and his wife was left
and (at a different time) a gas can was left.
Updated March 30th 2008: An item I previously received in
the mail has "KIDS" in block letters on the front and two World Trade Center references
on the back. The envelope was mailed to my home to an addressee I do not know. I have no idea what
significance, if any, this has. I am noting it here only for completeness.
Posted March 22nd 2008: On Friday March
21st 2008 at 10:09 p.m. there was a loud explosion in my neighborhood, probably near Sigmund Stern Grove. One person
who heard it described it as being as loud as a bomb.
Updated March 23rd 2008: Earlier, I added audio
clips of a 7 or 8 minute tirade by a man who announced that he worked at all the Children's Hospitals, yelling very
loudly at passengers, including me, to get off a San Francisco MUNI subway car as we travelled from Van Ness
station, Church Street station, Castro Station, Forest Hill station to West Portal station where he disembarked. If
you listen very carefully, in one of the audio clips you can hear him say that he worked at all the Children's Hospitals.
The audio clips are near the bottom of this page.
Posted March 2nd 2008: Added an audio recording of a San Francisco MUNI
bus passenger saying that a man was threatening her. It is labelled "Feb 2008 MUNI passenger threatened"
in the MP3 recordings near the bottom of this page.
Posted March 1st 2008: Added an account of two recent incidents which occurred on public
transit in San Francisco. While I was riding a San Francisco bus a week or so ago, a woman seated near me said
in a loud voice that a male passenger was threatening her. The man was standing behind
me while I was seated. The female passenger declined the driver's offer to call the police and exited the bus.
Today while I was riding the subway in San Francisco, a male passenger entered, said that he was an employee of Children's
Hospital, and repeatedly ordered passengers in a loud voice to get off the subway car if they weren't born
in San Francisco. He clearly did not like asians.
Posted February 13th 2008: Earlier I posted a phone message from
a mortgage company responding to "my" request. The first peculiarity is that I had not contacted them or any other
mortgage firm. The second peculiarity is that the mortgage company shares the same name as a pre-school
in my neighborhood. The phone message is labelled "Mortgage Application I Didn't Make" and is posted near the
bottom of this page in the "Audio Clips" section.
Updated February 10th 2008: Added photo near bottom of this page of mechanical
booms near "UCSF IS TORTURING DOGS WITH OUR MONEY" graffiti.
Posted February 2nd 2008 (Revised February 10th): I added
a photograph of "UCSF IS TORTURING DOGS WITH OUR MONEY" graffiti taken October 20th 2006 along one of my routine walking routes.
Within a few yards of the graffiti were two mechanical booms and a Penske rental truck. The graffiti was within view
of a San Francisco hospital and close to the spot where I photographed a Jameson Irish Whiskey bottle.
Posted January 12th 2008: Posted two photos taken at a spot on one of
my walking routes where I often pause for a few minutes to take pictures or admire the vista. Both photos
were taken in 2007. The first photo was taken before a house fire. The second photo shows damage from
the fire. I am including these photos for completeness only. They are near the bottom of this page.
Posted December 29th 2007: Added another photo of the destruction caused by a
fire at the former location of the Red Fern Irish social club. The photo shows a Hertz mechanical boom parked across
the street from the fire scene and was taken on December 27th.
Posted December 29th 2007: Added a photo taken at a pre-school in my neighborhood of
graffiti which looks vaguely like the outline of an automatic weapon. A picture of a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey
beneath this drawing was posted here on December 27th. Photo taken December 27th 2007.
Posted December 28th 2007: Added photo of destruction caused by a fire at
the former Red Fern Irish fraternal orgnaization in San Francisco. The fire occurred approximately a week ago.
I had worked for an entity which has offices located a few doors away. I am including this item only
for completeness.
Posted December 27th 2007: Added photo of a Jameson Irish Whiskey bottle on a ledge
at a pre-school pointed at childrens' area. Also, see related photo of a Jameson Irish Whiskey bottle labelled,
"Whiskey bottle pointed at firelog box. Site is identical to one where gas cans were left repeatedly."
Posted December 8th 2007: Two photos of damage done in a residential fire
on April 9th 2007 in my neighborhood are posted near the top of this page. The fire resulted in one fatality.
AFTER THE FIRE somebody placed an object nearby which an ARSON INVESTIGATOR HAD IDENTIFIED AS A MEANS FOR STARTING
ARSON FIRES. He said the object was preferred by arsonists because it is consumed by fire and leaves no
trace. Somebody placed this object near the fire scene AFTER the fire, not before the fire. At various places
where I lived during the time I worked at Kaiser and afterwards, identical objects were left inches from my front door
as well as in front of buildings where I lived. One building burned in a fire which destroyed dozens of apartments after
co-workers at Kaiser recommended it as a place to live. Identical objects were left along my normal walking
routes as well as within blocks of a Kaiser hospital.
Posted November 25th 2007: Shots were recently fired at a person or persons at an
intersection where I regularly patronized a restaurant over a span of years. The intersection
is several blocks away from the location where the name of a sniper ("Malvo") was painted along with the name of a Kaiser
programmer with whom I worked (photo near the bottom of this page.) The intersection is also several
blocks away from another location where the graffiti "CLNER" was painted. In my neighborhood, the graffiti "CLNER" along
with the name of another Kaiser programmer with whom I worked was painted on a building across the street from a playground
where an arson fire caused $100,000 damage. A part of the "CLNER" graffiti on the building across the
street from the playground can be seen in a photo on page 2 of this website. I have no opinion about the connection,
if any, among these events. I am including this information only for completeness.
Posted November 12th 2007: On 9/22/2007 or 9/23/2007 a plastic slide in the childrens'
play area of the San Francisco municipal park in the 1500 block of Vicente Street was torched. According to a newspaper
account, the plastic slide melted to the ground. In my neighborhood, this is at least the 3rd arson fire in
childrens' play areas along Vicente Street and nearby Sigmund Stern Grove. In August 2007 I took photographs of
a Hertz mechanical boom parked yards from the park where the arson occurred in September 2007. EPA
records show that assets of original owner and occupant of the Kaiser HMO computer center became a part of Hertz-Penske
Corporation which preceeded the present Hertz Corporation. (Photo posted below.)
Posted October 16th 2007: I recently posted a photo of fire damage to an apartment building
near the bottom of this page. Several months prior to the fire, I had met with someone across the street
from the building for perhaps 10 or 15 minutes. I do not have reliable information about the cause of the fire, but
a person who is in the neighborhood on a daily basis told me that it was caused by a candle or a cigarette. The apartment
building is on one of my regular walking routes. On the same route on the same day that I first saw the fire damage,
I noticed that a physician's office had been tagged with a cross and name of a street on which a fatal fire described
elsewhere on this page occurred. I am including this information only for completeness.
Posted September 19th 2007: Approximately six explosions occurred at 3:35 am
or 3:36 am today, 9/19/2007, close to a child care center in my neighborhood. I heard all the explosions but
saw only the last one which was accompanied by a momentary bright white light and sparks.
Posted September 6th 2007: A letter arrived in the mail today.
In it a physician writes, "With great sadness I must tell you that I am quite ill and cannot continue to practice."
I am acquainted with neither the physician nor the person he was writing to, although it was sent to my address.
Updated October 11th 2007: Included in the envelope was a letter from a second physician. The
second physician's last name matched the name of a translator whose book I had checked out of the San Francisco
Public Library approximately two weeks earlier. Previously, in an incident described elsewhere on this page, I
had received a call from a stranger regarding the robbery of a physician whose last name matched the title of a book I had
recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library. I am including this for completeness only. UPDATED
JULY 7TH 2008: I have posted the letter in which a physician writes that he is too ill to practice.
It is near the bottom of this page. In the past, I was offered a job either in the building where the physician had
his office or nearby.
Posted August 17th 2007: I routinely walk by two restaurants whose front windows were
broken during the past few (two? three?) months. These might be random incidents. However, for completeness I
have added a photo taken at one of the restaurants on August 14th 2007. The photo is near the bottom of this page.
Updated June 16th 2008: When I first met with arson investigators at the San
Francisco Fire Department in 1991, one of them told me that somebody had set off what sounded like two pipe bombs
as he left his home to go to work that day. He said he believed that they were actually pipe bombs and were
deliberately set for him. He also said that he was not going to investigate those explosions because (I believe these
were his exact words) "there is simply too much of this stuff going on" and "every high school kid knows how to make a pipe
bomb." He and his partner declined to investigate my concerns, attributing the events I described to random acts by
teenagers. Incredibly, he told me that explosions I heard came from a distant firing range even though the explosions happened
late at night hours after the firing range had closed and were much louder than any shots fired at the shooting range.
These arson investigators were painting their offices when I arrived and when I left.
Having fresh paint on their walls was a higher priority for them than investigating my concerns.
Updated June 26th 2007: Recently I received two medical bills for a patient
whom I have never met. However, some of the past intimidating messages that had been sent to me included this patient's
last name. The patient lives on 39th Avenue in San Francisco. This may or may not be a coincidence. I am
noting this incident for completeness.
Updated June 21st 2007: Yesterday I found a panel from a box of Black Cat brand
bullets a short distance from the site where I had earlier found a stylized zodiac symbol. The box panel
was stuck in the ground where I routinely walk.
Updated June 7th 2007: "Teen boy held on suspicion of planting
bombs outside S.F. General . . . A 16-year-old boy from Belmont was arrested Wednesday night
after he allegedly placed two bombs outside San Francisco General Hospital. The boy was found to be in possession
of a third explosive when he was arrested, San Francisco police said. They did not immediately describe the bombs."
See the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/07/BAGFSQAVCA4.DTL
Also, there was another incident near my residence last night at 9:59 p.m. but it was barely
audible from my home. The night before last, somebody near the front of my house yelled what sounded like my name at
3 a.m. I live in a very quiet neighborhood where people don't yell on the streets.
Updated May 16th 2007: I added a photo where
the name of a Kaiser employee I worked with was scrawled alongside graffiti consisting of the outline of a bullet and the
name ("Malvo") of a sniper. The photo was added to the pictures near the bottom of this page.
Updated May 10th 2007: Once again, there was another incident in my
neighborhood last night, but not loud like other incidents.
Updated May 9th 2007: Once again, there was another incident in
my neighborhood last night. For years, some persons had been setting explosions in my normally very quiet
neighborhood and also loudly squealing their car tires. Hangup phone calls would sometimes be
made to me 1 minute before the explosions. The explosions were often followed by the sound of a motorcycle driving nearby
my residence. While the explosions and tire-squealing incidents occurred at different times of night,
they followed an easy to recognize pattern based on the number "3090." For years, I was employed writing programs
for IBM 3090 mainframes at Kaiser HMO.
Updated February 4th 2007: When I worked for Kaiser, it collected
timely information from large employers about the numbers of newly covered enrollees but not their names.
Because large employers did not have to provide a list of names for up to approximately a year, some unscrupulous companies could
tell employees they had Kaiser coverage while paying premiums for only a fraction of them. When these unpaid-for
employees showed up at Kaiser claiming to be covered, Kaiser assumed they were part of the pool of employees whose premiums
had been paid but for whom it had no names and routinely issued them HMO membership cards. Companies which were thought
by some at Kaiser to be engaged in this fraud had large employee turnover, so many of their employees would quit without Kaiser
learning of their identity. Wards, which is a now defunct national retailer, was one of the companies I heard
named as seeming to be engaged in this fraud. A large employer had only to pay premiums on a sufficiently
large fraction of new hires to avoid becoming too obvious. This type of deficient accounting was an opportunity for
collusion between persons at Kaiser and suspect firms to divert funds for personal benefit.
Updated December 1st 2006: Added
photos I took at Mission and 18th streets in San Francisco in the mid-afternoon of August 15th 2006 hours
before a father reported that his baby had been kidnapped there. Police dispute the father's account.
What is certain is that the baby was found dead and the father claimed the child had been kidnapped during the evening while
left unattended in a car at Mission and 18th streets. I am including this item only for completeness.
Updated November 4th 2006: A bomb recently exploded outside of an Internet
based business. The name of the business and the surname of a former Kaiser programmer I worked with sound identical.
The name is uncommon. I am including this item only for completeness.
Updated October 14th 2006: Added a photo of a phone kiosk which was used in
a kidnapping of an adult while I frequented a cafe across the street. This account is based on my recollection
of a news account.
Updated October 13th 2006: Added a short audio clip of a San Francisco Municipal
Railway train operator telling his passengers including me that there had been a bomb threat. The bomb threat had
occurred soon after I left a SF Muni subway station for an appointment and I first learned of it when I returned
to the station from my appointment. This incident occurred May 5th 2005. The audio clip is near the bottom of
this page.
Updated October 12th 2006: Years ago (5 years ago?) Kidnappers used a pay phone
across the street from a restaurant I frequently patronized. The victim of the kidnapping was a large investor
or owner or corporate officer of a steel making plant (in Contra Costa County?) I am including this item
ONLY FOR COMPLETENESS.
Updated October 11th 2006: Posted a copy of my library records. Apparently, two
phone calls I received regarding landscaping and a robbery at the home of Dr. Jeffrey Pearl occurred soon after I borrowed books
with "Pearl" and "Perl" in their titles. Audio clips of these calls to my answering machine are posted near the bottom
of this page.
Updated September 26th 2006: Replaced a photo of May 15th 2006 fire scene
near "Jew Kod" graffiti with one of wider scope. Updated caption beneath picture of arson fire at Sigmund Stern
Grove to disclose that the arson occurred just yards from a children's play area. ( Added October 11th, 2006: In
the past, I received calls where an anonymous caller played recordings of childrens voices.)
News article August 10th 2006:
"Kaiser to Pay Record $2-Million Fine for Kidney Program
Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay a $2-million fine after state HMO regulators found that its Northern California
kidney transplant program imperiled hundreds of patients, in some cases delaying critical surgeries or losing track of patients
altogether, four people familiar with the deal said. . . . In Kaiser's program, twice as many patients died on the waiting
list last year as received kidneys, The Times found. The statewide pattern was the reverse: Twice as many patients received
kidneys as died."
The full online article from the Los Angeles Times is at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser10aug10,0,3276737.story?coll=la-home-local
UPDATED September 15th 2006: Yesterday a person involved with a long-running series
of explosions over the span of years was apparently in my neighborhood again. His return comes after a long absence.
At approximately 1:50 a.m. this person drove near Vicente Street making loud squealing sounds with his car. Similar
squeals often occurred in the past immediately following explosions. Approximately eight hours later, police
found three silverish tubes taped together near Bosworth and Arlington streets. Police treated the item as a bomb,
though it proved to be non-explosive. I routinely transact business near Bosworth and Arlington streets and had
planned to be there on the 14th. Coincidence? Perhaps.
Here is a detail which may be significant. What looked like a mechanical boom had recently been
parked in the off-street parking area visible from Bosworth and Arlington streets. It was parked alongside a recently
completed apartment building. It was painted blue and may have been a Hertz rental unit. (See photos and descriptions
below for more on incidents near mechanical booms.)
UPDATED July 13th 2006: Yesterday, I encountered a fire extinguisher which
had been discharged on a lawn and left there in a disassembled state. The two fire extinguisher components pointed at
the pre-school across the street. The fire extinguisher was a red Kidde brand unit. This scenario is consistent
with threats by a Kaiser employee I worked with who said she could paralyze Kaiser programmers like me by making us see
the colors red over green. I have posted two photos near the bottom of this page.
UPDATED June 29th & June 27th 2006: "A pile of wood chips roughly the size of a football
field caught fire Monday afternoon [June 19th] in Martinez and was anticipated to burn into the night and possibly the next
few days." This fire was reported exactly one week to the hour (3:04 p.m. according to one news report) after a
tree-related incident near an elementary school (3:00 p.m.) Two photos taken near the elementary school are near
the bottom of this page. The fire near 1000 Central Avenue in Martinez at Henry's Wood Farm was two miles
from Kaiser Foundation Hospital Martinez located at 200 Muir Road. See:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/14859392.htm
http://www.shayden.com/_HenrysWoodFarms/contact_us.htm
UPDATED May 31st 2006: Added additional photos of a fire which occurred on
May 25th 2006 at PRECISELY the same location as an incident involving the San Francisco Fire Department one block from where
I walking in December 2005 (probably December 2nd 2005.)
UPDATED May 25th 2006: Two fires recently broke out within minutes of
one another near businesses where both I and another Kaiser programming department employee had worked while we were
students. These fires were near the Ashby BART station and Essex Street in Berkeley. As Kaiser employees we both
worked at Kaiser's programming offices in Oakland. During a strike we both worked at Kaiser's main San Francisco campus.
He also worked in a Kaiser department with the husband of a woman who claimed that I was a "spy for Kaiser management."
Possibly this is just coincidence.
UPDATED May 15th 2006: I encountered two fires today at locations I routinely
visit. Hopefully these were coincidences. One fire was around the corner from an office I visited.
Graffiti including "Jew" in green and possibly "KOP" or "KOD" in red had previously been scrawled near
the fire scene. ("Jew Kod" might suggest "Jew Dok" or "Jew Doc.") Later I encountered a smokey, smelly
fire at a gas station one block from where I regularly shop. I have posted pictures of the first fire scene
and the graffiti. Also, posted an additional photo of the Hertz Equipment Rental lot which had been the scene of
an earlier explosion and fire previously described here.
UPDATED May 7th 2006: Years ago, a mainstream newspaper published letters
on its letters to the editor page written by me critical of a right wing paramilitary group. The group practiced
war games in remote areas of California and the western U.S. and stockpiled weapons and ammunition. I met approximately
six times with an outspoken member of this group who believed that the U.S. was about to be invaded and that Jews and
blacks were plotting the overthrow of Christian civilization. I am noting this only for completeness.
The incidents described here arose from my work at Kaiser and not from my criticisms
of a paramilitary group.
UPDATED May 6th 2006: When I first met with an arson investigator at the San Francisco
Fire Department, he told me that somebody had set off explosions as he left his home to go to work that day. He said
he believed that the explosions were deliberately set for him. He also said that he was not going to investigate those
explosions because (I believe these were his exact words) "there is simply too much of this stuff going on" and
"every high school kid knows how to make a pipe bomb." He and his partner declined to investigate my concerns attributing
the events I described to random acts by teenagers.
These arson investigators were painting their offices when I arrived and when I left.
Having fresh paint on their walls was a higher priority for them than investigating my concerns.
UPDATED April 14th 2006: Posted a photo of a prospective Home Depot site
in San Francisco. The names of my Kaiser supervisor and his wife and later an oversized gasoline can had
been conspicuous yards from here. A property manager told me that someone had tried to start a fire nearby.
UPDATED April 7th 2006: A counselor at a school I attended was charged
with defrauding the Army of $2.8 million by filing fake medical claims during the time I attended the school. The counselor
was charged along with an accomplice of getting 59 false medical claims approved between 1991 and 1994. According to
the San Francisco Examiner in an article of January 27, 1998 the counselor and his accomplice "altered legitimate medical
claims that had been submitted to the hospital (Letterman Army Medical Center) and got checks made out to two friends who
posed as doctors, the indictment said." I have included a scan of this article below. See "Counselor charged with
defrauding Army" below.
UPDATED April 6th 2006: I previously posted an entry about an arson fire
at a Thrifty Drug store while it was under construction. I realized today that I had worked for a corporation whose
stores became Thrifty Drug stores.
UPDATED April 4th 2006: Briefly noted that I did some work for the
Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. I worked at HAFC while their administrative offices had temporarily
relocated to the Laurel Heights Campus of the UCSF Medical Center following a fire. Recently, when
a substantial embezzlement was reported at HAFC a bomb threat was made to an organization which had been its
neighbor near UCSF. While I worked at HAFC I frequently visited that organization.
UPDATED April 4th 2006: Added a call from "Funky Worm" who, based on his other
calls, may be selling heroin or other illegal drugs at a clinic. The audio clip is labelled "Funky Worm
- probably a drug dealer" and is near the bottom of this page.
UPDATED MARCH 6th 2006: After I had an appointment in the Nuclear Medicine Department
at San Francisco General Hospital, a physician in the department was slain. There is probably no connection between
these events. However, for completeness I am noting the appointment and murder here. I've included the appointment
reminder left on my answering machine as an audio clip labelled "Nuclear Medicine Appointment Reminder" near the bottom
of this page.
UPDATED MARCH 1st 2006: Yesterday, a message from a stranger regarding a robbery
was left on my voice mail system. The caller apparently believed he was leaving a message for a neighbor of Dr.
Jeffrey Pearl, a physician at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. I am concerned about
the phone calls which have been made to my phone number by physicians' offices trying to reach their patients and
calls, such as this one, which are personal in nature and intended for a neighbor of a physician. I've included an excerpt
from the message near the bottom of this page as an mp3 audio clip labelled "Robbery Call."
Updated October 11th 2006: Posted a copy of my library records. Apparently, two
phone calls I received regarding landscaping and a robbery at the home of Dr. Jeffrey Pearl occurred soon after I borrowed books
with "Pearl" and "Perl" in their titles. Audio clips of these calls to my answering machine are posted near the bottom
of this page.
UPDATED FEBRUARY 26th 2006: Please listen to the audio clip labelled "Call - Selling Heroin at Clinic" near the bottom of this page. In listening to this recording,
you should know that a "dime bag" or "dime" for short is heroin or another unlawful drug packaged for sale at about $10.
UPDATED FEBRUARY 16th 2006: In 2004, a security guard at El Dorado Hospital in Tuscon
made a false claim that her hospital was going to be bombed. Federal authorities need to investigate.
UPDATED FEBRUARY 10th 2006: Added a phone message from a stranger regarding
landscaping done at a physician's home. The caller provided the physician's first and last name and the name
of the street where he lives. I have provided an excerpt as an audio clip near the bottom of this page
labelled "Call for Dr. Pearl's neighbor."
UPDATED DECEMBER 26th 2005: Added photos related to a recent explosion and fire
in San Francisco. See photos near bottom of this page.
UPDATED DECEMBER 26th 2005: Fraudulent charges for automobile related expenses in Virginia were
recently made to a credit card issued to a member of my household. The day before this transaction, I received
messages on my answering machine in Cantonese and English. The messages are difficult to understand. The caller
self-identified as being at a garage and left an engine number, a social security number, and a birth date for somebody I
do not know. I have posted an audio clip of these calls labelled "Calls Received 1 Day Before Fraud" in the
section headed "AUDIO CLIPS --- MP3 FORMAT" near the bottom of this page.
UPDATED DECEMBER 20th 2005: Recently, explosions occurred at a company whose equipment
is in use at a construction site in my neighborhood. Not far from the construction site, a hedge was previously set
on fire. I've included a photo near the bottom of this page.
UPDATED DECEMBER 16th 2005: As I reported here earlier, soon after I inquired about briefly
staying in a San Francisco hotel a major blaze damaged an apartment building very close to the hotel.
An acquaintance who is staying in that hotel tells me that the unit across from hers recently caught on fire. The fire
was caused by a candle and broke out one day after the fire sprinkler system had been disabled for maintenance. It involved
one fatality and extensive property damage.
UPDATED NOVEMBER 15th 2005: A Kaiser employee who alleged that I was
a "spy for Kaiser management" claimed that Kaiser managers were "bozos" and "sickos." Graffiti consisiting of "BOZO"
and "MALO" was painted at various sites I frequented. At one location where "BOZO" and "MALO" were painted,
there were incidents several times weekly for months. I've added two photos of this graffiti near the bottom
of this page.
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2nd 2005: Last year, a security person employed
at a hospital in Arizona made a false claim that her hospital was going to be bombed. Federal
authorities should investigate. What kind of hospital would continue to employ a security person who falsely claimed
that her hospital was going to be bombed?
UPDATED AUGUST 22nd 2005. Added a photo of site of
a recent arson fire which was set at a children's playground adjacent to Ulloa Elementary School hours after
I had a conversation with a parent there.
RECENT SIGNIFICANT UPDATES: (Caution: There is some
redundancy here. I have no plans for extensive editing of this web site.)
Fire trucks responded to a false alarm at San Francisco General Hospital in January
2005 several minutes after my arrival at a cafe across the street from the hospital.
A San Francisco subway station was evacuated due to a bomb threat minutes after
I exited it in early May 2005.
Hours after I had a brief conversation with a parent on August 9th 2005 at
Ulloa Elementary School in San Francisco, a shopping cart was set on fire in the children's playground.
A community center located across the street from a site where I worked received
a bomb threat.
A business where I worked received a threat.
The names of one of my former Kaiser supervisors and his wife were posted at the
prospective and controversial site of a "big box" store in San Francisco. Later, I noticed that a large gasoline
can identical in appearance to ones left repeatedly at another location I frequent --- only larger --- was left
in front of the "big box" site. In San Francisco, at least one controversial chain store --- a Thrifty Drug
store under construction on Haight Street --- was the victim of what was reportedly an arson fire. I have no firm opinion
about this incident. However, I contacted the "big box" store to express my concern.
A physician who worked in a department which I visited a few weeks ago was murdered on May
19th. See: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/24/BAGTFCTOL01.DTL
One site of many of the explosions described on this web site is used as a
children's activity camp near my residence each summer. In the past, I have received phone calls where recordings
of children's voices were played. I found it puzzling that somebody would call me and play recordings of children's
voices. The "connection" between these phone calls and the numerous explosions near my residence is probably just a
coincidence as the world is full of coincidences. Nevertheless, because children and explosions are a potentially
dangerous combination, I will post these phone calls near the bottom of this web page as I am able to locate
them. Most of these recordings have probably been lost. Some of these phone calls were recordings played
over the phone rather than live calls from children. I could hear the abrupt audio transitions caused by rough
splices in the recording the caller was playing. Some of the calls may have been made multiple times using the
same recordings. In some calls, a woman can be heard in the background, possibly coaxing a child.
Some of the other phone calls posted near the bottom of this page demonstrate
that patient records in various medical offices have been altered so that my personal information has replaced
that of patients. Hopefully, only contact information rather than actual medical data has been altered.
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This web site includes information about bomb threats at and near Kaiser
Permanente hospital facilities and other hospitals, suspicious fires, intimidation of health care workers, and problems in Kaiser
Permanente's hospital information systems. Some incidents at San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California
Medical Center in San Francisco are also included.
Approximately one hour before I was scheduled to look for irregularities
in Kaiser HMO's computer systems, a gunman fired a sawed-off shotgun in my general direction. A bizarre Kaiser
employee s whom I worked with said that I was a spy for Kaiser management and that I should be taken out and shot. She
also said I was a "gunslinger" hired by Kaiser to get rid of employees. She said that she could paralyze Kaiser
programmers by making us see the colors red over green. Standing a short distance from the man who fired the sawed-off
shot gun at me was a man wearing a bright, garish red shirt and green pants who left the scene immediately after the
shots were fired.
For years after this shooting incident, frequent explosions, a long running
spate of false fire alarms, occasional fires, and other intimidating acts occurred at venues and along routes I frequented.
At Kaiser, a supervisor described me as a "walking hostage," the Personnel Department told to take
a different route to work daily and to buy a nondescript car which could not be easily singled out in traffic. A Kaiser
manager described one Kaiser data processing employee with whom I worked as being so dangerous that she had to be
under twenty-four hour surveillance.
Two unmanned California Highway Patrol cruisers were parked
near my Concord residence, twenty-four hours daily for about two weeks, a move which did little to stop ongoing intimidation.
As I left the Kaiser data center one evening, a Walnut Creek police car pulled up in front of a woman who had often watched
the Kaiser data center and my apartment; I continued on my way without pausing.
SELECTED ITEMS:
Updated November 12th 2007: Added photo taken before a childrens' plastic slide in
the San Francisco city park at 1500 Vicente Street was torched by an arsonist. The plastic slide reportedly melted
and flowed to the ground. This is the 3rd arson in childrens' play areas on Vicente Street and nearby Sigmund Stern
Grove with photos posted on this website.
Posted June 20th, 2006: I am including this news item only for completeness. It is likely to
be only a coincidence. "A pile of wood chips roughly the size of a football field caught fire Monday afternoon in Martinez
and was anticipated to burn into the night and possibly the next few days." This fire was reported exactly
one week to the hour after an incident near an elementary school which I had recorded near the bottom of this page
with two photos. See:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/14859392.htm
http://www.shayden.com/_HenrysWoodFarms/contact_us.htm
Posted May 20, 2005: A physician in a department which I visited a few weeks ago was murdered yesterday.
This is probably just a coincidence.
Posted May 9, 2005: A bomb threat resulted in evacuation of a San Francisco subway station
last week soon after I exited it for a short 9:30 a.m. appointment nearby. The station was functioning normally when
I exited but had been evacuated when I returned. At least four stations were evacuated due to this threat. Probably
this is a coincidence, but that determination has to await the outcome of an investigation.
(For what it's worth, In the mid-90's I was present at the collision of two San Francisco Municipal Railway
trains at the intersection of Sloat Boulevard and West Portal Avenue. One train was switched into the path of a train
travelling in the opposite direction. I was on a bus a few car lengths from the scene of the accident Not
far away, the West Portal subway station had been tagged with the same "CLNER" graffiti left near the Bank of America and
California State Automobile Association data centers in San Francisco and along Vicente Street in San Francisco. I
pointed out the graffiti to the West Portal station agent.)
Posted April 9, 2006: An audio clip of a San Francisco MUNI Railway train entering disaster
prevention mode and being thrown into a hard stop by a computer error was posted here several months
ago. Had this incident occurred on a train packed with passengers, there could have been serious injuries.
There are two audio clilps here. The first is of the train going into a hard stop. In the second clip you can
hear the train operator saying that he is going to move the train to Forest Hill station to check if the passengers and
train are okay. The audio clips are near the bottom of this page and are labelled with "MUNI" in the links.
Posted January 18, 2005: Fire engines responded to a false fire alarm today at San Francisco
General Hospital within a few minutes after my arrival near the hospital. I had just entered a cafe across
from SFGH at about 2:35 p.m. when I heard approaching sirens within a few minutes. Fire trucks stopped at
the SFGH building one block away and at the hospital's main entrance. I handed a paper with my name on it to
one fireman. Historically, there have been as many as three or more false alarms monthly over a span of months at
locations I frequented. I consider this rate too high to be dismissed as mere coincidence.
Posted December 22, 2004: Here is the transcript of yet another phone call for a
patient I do not know from a physician I do not know. Taken as a whole, these numerous phone calls may indicate that
patient records have been tampered with in these doctors' offices. This call originated from Dr.
Alireza Bagherian's office. "Hi. This message is for Edward. This is Anita calling from Dr. Bagherian's
office. I was actually . . . to schedule a follow up appointment for you since you haven't been in for such a long time.
If you can please call us back at 415-921-6200 so we can . . . for this week or maybe next. Please give us a call.
Once again our number is 415-921-6200." I briefly noted this call as an incident in an earlier
posting here on my web site, but accidentally came across the full transcript this morning and decided to post it.
Also, I'd like to note that I've had my current phone number for nearly two decades, so it is unlikely that my phone
number ever belonged to a patient of Dr. Bagherian. An audio clip of this call can be heard in the "Audio
Clips" section near the bottom of this page.
Posted November 30th, 2004: Added this additional information about a shooting incident:
"A bizarre Kaiser employee s whom I worked with said that I was a spy for Kaiser management and that
I should be taken out and shot. She said that she could paralyze Kaiser programmers by making us see the colors red
over green. Standing a short distance from the man who fired the sawed-off shot gun at me was a man wearing a bright,
garish red shirt and green pants who left the scene immediately after the shots were fired."
Posted November 29th, 2004: Posted a threat from "Wonder Wick" and additional information about
one fire. These are presented as scanned images at the bottom of this page.
Posted October 3, 2004: My phone number has erroneously appeared
in records for patients at Kaiser Hospitals, the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center
(UCSF), and the offices of physicians in private practice. Some of the calls received by me are listed elsewhere
on this web site. The most recent call was received today from UCSF. Here is a portion of the call left on
my answering machine: "Hi. This message is for Sarah (I've omitted the last name). This is Jack (I'
