Robert was visiting Toy Tiger (a local night-club) on weekends, making efforts to meet girls, and listening to music. He spotted a blonde hanging out there, with a few other girls, and after observing her over several weeks, he made a move to introduce himself and talk to her.

She looked similar to Barbara Eden, and so he gave her his own pet name "Jeannie". The girls who hang out there are college-age, and "Jeannie" fits the same mold.

One evening Robert attended a "hot legs" contest, and there sat "Jeannie" on a stool on the stage, as a contestant. In a "hot legs" contest, girls show off their dancing ability and their legs (frequently scantily clad) for prize money.

"Jeannie" was eliminated in the second round, but not before she had given Robert a real close-up view of her legs, which he had been waiting to see since he had first noticed her. Robert left the stage area to speak to her when she was eliminated, because everyone else in the place faded into the background at that moment. He was experiencing high levels of the hormone PEA which is a very pleasant feeling. He told "Jeannie" that she had the loveliest legs among the competitors, and she confided that "they won't let me win".

A few weeks later Robert seated himself beside "Jeannie" at the bar, and she gave him a business card with a name and phone number. He did not know anything about her yet. She belonged to a four-girl dance troupe which performed at a bar on Dixie highway.

Robert then cross-referenced the phone number she gave him in the Criss-Cross Directory, got a name and address, and presumed that he knew more than before that bit of research. The name he created from the Criss-Cross and her card was erroneous, but he soon heard it broadcasted on a local FM station. Robert wondered if he was the cause of that broadcast, and he also had a separate matter to discuss with her, base on something she said to him one night as she passed him in the Toy Tiger hall, walking the other way.

Robert called the number she had given him, and left at least three messages on the answering machine, since no one ever picked up the phone in person.

Several people approached him to tell him various bits of gossip about her, especially after he inquired as to how he could find or reach her. But she never returned his phone messages, and he was puzzled about:

• who had him wired for sound, (a hidden microphone) ?
• who was defaming him ?, and
• who got his erroneous name for her which he did not repeat to others?,
• how did that erroneous name get broadcasted ?
• was she defamed because of him?
• did she want to sue over being defamed on the radio?
• were girls being frightened away from him by the constant radio defamation ?

He was served with a summons to appear in court on her charges of "threatening and harassing" (a specific KY statute, requiring intent to threaten and harass). His first court appearance as a defendant was in the arrainment court, at which time he pointed out that intent is required to be subjected to the cited statute, and he had no intent to threaten. He was required to reappear on a later Friday.

The scheduled Friday court conflicted with a new work schedule, and so he remained quiet at his new job on the designated Friday and went to court late. The court had issued a bench warrant for his failure to appear already, but an explanation to a new supervisor at a new job of this situation, to get time off for court would have been a mistake.

He was arrested from his night job, causing inconvenience there, and missed his day job, causing a BC290 to be written (he did not have work phone numbers in his pocket to call from jail) into his record there. These missed work hours later caused termination at each job.

He attended the court on several occasions later, while no progress was made. He left court one day to return to day work when he saw that the plaintiff's witness ("Jeannie") (The state is the plaintiff when any criminal statute is allegedly violated, and the victim becomes the state's witness.) was absent. He spoke with the prosecutor before he left, to remind him that the state's time would not need to be wasted that day, specifically mentioning that he (the prosecutor) is a father. The court issued the same bench warrant again, and he was re-arrested from his night job. This again caused inconvenience there, with the third miss being the last. He missed two days of work at his day job during this arrest also, and was written up again with a second BC290.( the phone is difficult while jailed).

The "trial" finally occurred. "Jeannie" did not even use the name her birth certificate lists. Robert was not allowed to speak at all. "Jeannie" said he threatened her three times. Nothing happened, except what ever spot remains on his record from the charges and arrests.

"jeannie" may have been threatened, but it was not by Robert. He had no intent to threaten, and his communications are valid communications, rather than harassing or obscene. If he had threatened her, the answering machine would have recorded his words, for playback in court. She was being maligned on the local FM radio stations at the time, and she had become convinced that someone wanted her to leave town (which she had confided to Robert she was not going to do). She was being stressed by some person or persons, as her facial expressions and mood indicated over those weeks.

Maybe having someone (innocent Robert) to blame allowed her to find the strength to fight back and externalize her anger (much healthier than allowing anger to internalize) even if fighting back against someone who is not an enemy is wasting energy, if a real enemy needs to be identified and dealt with.

Robert has not seen her around lately, but hopes she is fit, healthy, and goal-oriented, where ever she is today. He hopes she has realized that he was not the trouble which a warrant would have implied. "jeannie" was Jonna Angela Thomas from Eastern High School in Middletown, KY.