From a 2004 "best of" column:
In Milwaukee in 1997, Gary Arthur Medrow, 53, was charged with 24 counts of impersonating a police officer in connection with his unique obsession. What Medrow does, according to police (who have arrested him various times over the last 30 years for the same thing), is telephone a woman and try to convince her to lift another person in the room and carry her or him a short distance, sometimes telling the woman that he's a police officer and that it's an official request. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10-7-97]From a November 2004 column:
UPDATENow let me recall for you from my 15 February post this photo of my friend Sarah Linwick that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gary Arthur Medrow, 60, first made News of the Weird in our inaugural year, 1988, but his criminal record (mostly for impersonating police officers) goes back at least 10 years before that. Medrow's preferred scene is to call someone (usually a woman) on the telephone, pretend to be a police officer on an investigation, and ask her to try to lift up another person in the room and carry him or her into another room. He was charged again in New Berlin, Wis., in September. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9-20-04]
It seems that Mr. Medrow saw this picture and was intrigued. In the past week, he called Mr. and Mrs. Linwick, impersonated an officer, and told the couple a story involving Sarah and a carcrash. Apparently the story he told wasn't sufficiently convincing and he never got to his usual request. I suppose he's been unsuccessful many times before, and he'll probably be unsuccessful many times again. Poor guy.
Now that we can be reasonably certain that no one is in danger I must say that I'm tickled to no end that I managed to, in some small way, interact with this man with whom I have been most amused for many a year.
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