My first volunteer experience was not pleasant as one young lady told me to "F" off when I told her what door she needed to leave from.

I'm sorry. It will never happen again. 

Regarding the KLS yelling event: I'm surprised that fans didn't get involved. It doesn't take but a few people to restrain an individual or calm a person down until the actual security personnel arrives there, rather than letting the situation go on for too long. But, as someone else mentioned previously, people don't want to get involved for fear of escalation or personal attack. I suppose that comes with the job.

The fans did get "involved" in a rather disgusting fashion. The fan in question has a mental disability, and several audience members took it upon themselves to yell at him to get off the stage, to whistle at him, etc. Frankly, I found that behavior from the crowd far more offensive than anything the fan did. When I saw the video of that portion of the proceedings, it literally made me ill. (Commenting on other reactions that offended me would involve violating the board's guidelines about referring to other sites and forums in a negative light, but suffice it to say that this type of behavior didn't end when the event itself ended.)

As to why he was or wasn't banned, there's probably a very simple explanation. None of the actors who interacted with him in the incidents presented here requested it. The response to this fan's behavior reveals far more about the observers' incivility and intolerance than the fan's.

This raises a larger question. Who's to decide what is or isn't appropriate behavior?

Burke wonders if Barnabas' cane tastes like peppermint, but he doesn't dare lick it in public.

Just to clarify my earlier remarks in response to some of the subsequent posts in this thread . . . I do not feel that it was the responsibility of the volunteers at either event during either incident to prevent what happened.

One incident occurred outside the door of my hotel room. I don't expect volunteers to be hall monitors. Had the incident rattled me that much, I would've contacted the hotel desk, but I didn't. In defense of the hotel, they did have security strolling down that hallway at fairly regular intervals, so there's not much more they could've done.

The other incident involved questions that were not really appropriate, but there is such a thing as free speech. I would hate to see volunteers constantly eavesdropping on conversations and telling fans to stifle themselves or risk being tossed out the door.

David, please don't take this the wrong way because I do think that incivility is repugnant, but the only vicious remarks I've heard about you have come from you via your repetition of remarks you have attributed to others. I'm not questioning the veracity of your statements or the false nature of the things that you say were said about you, but, by repeating them so often, you're just continuing their circulation rather than putting them to rest.

O is for oxygen tent. Feel free to light up a cigarette near one. 

I is for incognito. Barnabas was for most of the series.

O is for the ocean. 

For all of the grousing about the fact that this series is being sold exclusively through the DVD club first, here's a situation where it's actually a good thing. MPI knows exactly who's purchased copies of the set and will be able to remedy the problem. Had the discs gone out through outlets like Amazon, every buyer would've had to contact them individually, assuming that they recognized the problem as a defect with the disc.