Mike Albo apparently finished what Marc Star started at the summer Expo. In an outdoor confrontation with Luke Ford, Wednesday afternoon, Albo bitch slapped Ford. Albo said he got the idea from Jack Hammer's postings.
Albo: "Yesterday he started up again with this Lynne Lopatin, who I never met, casting aspersions that I was sending Jeff Hickey, of all persons, out to buy heroin for me. Of course I had to set the record straight but he goes on his website and says, 'that's what Wally Wharton told me, too.' What does she know? That's a stupid kind of thing. Then he calls me again, which is his habit of late, to call and taunt me: 'Aren't we having fun yet, Mike? Aren't you having fun with all this? Isn't this funny? Come meet me.' Fine, I'll meet you but I'll kick your ass. But you gotta meet me right now. So I wait for him about a half an hour. He never shows. I call him back then he posts on his site that I flaked.
"Then, I'm going out to lunch and Bill Daniels who's our security guy asks me isn't that Luke Ford. Luke was apparently supposed to meet with one of the Hustler editors, a guy named David Buchbinder to straighten out some misquote Luke did with him. I walked out and choked him [Ford] out in the front of our building by the John Wayne statue. I told him to get off the property and chased him into the street.
"He kept backing up and kept wearing this stupid grin on his face like he thought it was funny. It was sort of annoying. I ask him what are you laughing about. 'I'm nervous. Hee-hee-hee.' And so I sort of chased him around the block and finally caught up to him and told him this nonsense has got to stop. So he goes, 'I'll make sure it stops.' I go we'll have to shake on it. He foolishly tugs my hand. As soon as he did that, just to emphasis the point, I grabbed him with my left hand by the collar and shoved him into a light standard."
G. Ross: "This wasn't a bitch slap. This was a bitch slam."
Albo: "Yeah, I like body slammed him into a light standard then sort of slapped him in the face. I told him it's got to stop. I'm just playing with him, now. Next time I will break his nose, break his jaw and every other bone in his face. Then he ran across the street. He was literally running but I wasn't going to expend the energy to chase him. I smoke three packs a day. In the course of all this he was pleading like a little girl, 'Please don't hurt me! You're hurting me, stop!' People were driving by telling him to hit him back. 'The bigger they are the harder they fall.' And so that's where we left it where he was going to write an apology and tell the world that I publicly humiliated him."
G. Ross: "Vigilanteism is running rampant in this business!"
Albo: "All I can say is people who know me know that I'm not a violent person. But this guy has pushed me like he's done so many people. There's no need for it. He's willfull about it and it's got to stop. It's really fucked up. I do enough interesting stuff. You don't have to go to these people who don't know me or don't like me and get these stories that have no basis in fact. He's been pushing it. He calls me up and taunts me. It's like clock work. It happens like every two weeks. I can set my calendar by it. But he did give his word."
