It backed in then tore out and drove away fast!
It's terrorism, says a caller!
http://www.kptv.com/news/15598019/detail.html

JenniferMarlow did it.

Nah it was Scooter. LOL

The driver must certainly not be a fan of Lars Larson!

What a TERRIBLE thing to do! This from KOIN:

PORTLAND - The employees at KXL radio may be a bit shaken Friday afternoon after an angry listener crashes his car into the office.

It happened just after 1 p.m. at the offices on Southwest Bancroft Street.

Preliminary reports say the driver intentionally backed his car into the offices because he was unhappy with the station's morning radio broadcast.
No one was injured, but the suspect is still on the loose.
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See a picture from KOIN:

http://www.koin.com/content/news/topstories/story.aspx?content_id=5a0e0112-5430- 42a1-aa6e-c13fd21508c0

I guess we will have to start installing those reinforced concrete Freeway median barriers at the front door entrances of all broadcast facilities now.

I know at LEAST a half dozen people who would be more than willing to drive a Sherman tank thru the front door and pull the trigger!

That's way over the line, Cweaklie. And if it was a joke, it isn't funny.

Regardless of what you may feel about a person's political stance or the quality of the show they put on; they're still human beings.

How dare you display such a low regard for human life!

Boy, I wonder if it was 62kgw?

I couldn't agree more with Chaplain.
As much as dislike Lard Larson, I wouldn't even think of doing somethig that horrible.

How do they know it was beacuse of his dislike for the morning broadcast if the suspect is still on the loose?

There's some thought it was aimed at the FM...both kxl.com and kgw.com have visuals...

the driver intentionally backed his car into the offices because he was unhappy with the station's morning radio broadcast.....

Actually ,the driver was looking down trying to change the channel on his Sirius Sattelite radio, and lost control..........

I just heard on KOIN news that some whacko backed his car up to the door at KXL then hit the gas and drove into the lobby!

I guess from the report he then drove off!

They arrested him in Vancouver and are sending him for a mental evaluation.

Fortunately, no one at the station was hurt, but he made a big mess!

"I know at LEAST a half dozen people who would be more than willing to drive a Sherman tank thru the front door and pull the trigger!"

A proud NRA member I'm sure. Lars must be proud of his brethren.

Eastwood is correct. This was done to Jammin' 95.5. The story led the KOIN 6PM News. Police have the Vancouver man. Koin even interviewed the man (Ranting) before police arrested him. I'd watch the 11:00pm News on KOIN tonight. They seen to have the most coverage. KATU & KGW were very brief. This from the KATU:

"According to P.K., one of the morning radio show personalities at the station, KXL had been receiving threats from a particular person for a number of years."

Read the story and see pictures from KATU:

http://www.katu.com/news/16687591.html

Maybe he didn't like Lars???

the article said
"Police said they are not yet ready to classify what happened as an accident or intentional, although witnesses said the driver smashed into the building at least three times before taking off."


Smashing into the building 3 times before taking off???
Sorry, BUT THAT WAS NO ACCIDENT!

He just could get it right the first 2 times. Third times a charm.....

Man Held After Ramming Car Into Radio Station

This from The Oregonian:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/03/man_held_after_ramming_car_int.h tml

AP has now picked up this story. Its featured on the KTVZ Bend website.

This from All Access:

---------------------Car Assaults Jammin's PlayHouse---------------------

A not-so-funny thing happened to the offices and studios of ROSE CITY RADIO Talk KXL-A and Top 40/Rhythmic KXJM (JAMMIN' 95-5)/PORTLAND: At around 1p FRIDAY afternoon, a listener purposely backed his car into the station lobby, ramming through doors, walls and the front desk. News reports indicate the assailant was angry about something that was broadcast on one of the station's morning shows.

Although KOIN-TV's website reports that it was a KXL listener, KXJM morning host PK believes it was his PlayHouse morning show. "We have evidence and reason to believe it's a listener who has been threatening us for the last five years," PK told ALL ACCESS. "I don't really know what we said today, but he must not have found it funny."

Fortunately, no one was injured. The assailant is still on the loose.

Insider info: this was a sick puppy who got upset about something the Jammin morning show did six years ago, which nobody on the show can remember, and has bugged them ever since. Even got in and ran around the station once. History of threatening e-mails. Has nothing to do with KXL. Guy's being held. Hopefully he'll get the help he needs, and hopefully, other local stations will have a look around their security.

SIX years ago?!

Time to move on! Anyone that angry/bitter over something that long ago definitely needs some serious help.

I apologize to any I may have offended with the Sherman tank at the front door of KXL/Jammin reference.
I certainly wouldn't want to imply anything that Michael Savage talks about every single day.
I just feel terrible...
On the other hand...if the whole (hole?) office just slid down the hill into the river, would any more than about 12 people give a rat's ass?

ROFL MFAO Cweaklie!

Very scary. I have friends in that building.

I would think, Most of us do. This is a real jarring, for the entire radio community.

Eastwood,
Do you know if this is the same weirdo that had a blog a few years ago where he talked about how he thought The Playhouse was out to get him?

I hope Mary, who works at the Rose City Radio front desk, is OK.

She is ok, she went on and talked to Lars about it and Lars said she still had glass and whatever on her clothes. She saw the car just before it backed in!

Mary wasn't at the front desk when it happened. Leann (sales person) was filling in for Mary so she could take a break. The person who drove into the building is the same person who had the blog a few years ago. I believe he is male.

Clark County Man Detained After Car Rams Into Radio Station Lobby

The Vancouver Columbian:

http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/03/03152008_Clark-County-man-detain ed-after-car-rams-into-radio-stations-lobby.cfm

Check the audio on Lars' web site. He interviews Leann about an hour after the incident.

http://www.larslarson.com/

She's understandably very shaken up. She's not the one he was angry at, yet she was in serious danger. That's somebody's daughter, somebody's girlfriend.

The way that place is designed made it easy for this sick bastard to drive straight into the lobby and out again. I bet some posts go up.

I usually just delete snotty e-mails from trolls. No more.

Eastwood: Thanks for posting that Lars audio clip. It really brings the event up close. What a scary thing to go through, witnessing the whole thing, not knowing what HE would do next and you're all alone! She was very brave.

Didn't that happen at King 5 in Seattle years back? thinking late 80s...... I know when I interviewed there a couple of times, they had a concrete barrier in front of the door

Mary was at Kisn running the reception & phones when the Real Don was at Kisn in 63.....She was still at Kisn in the 70's. Mary is the BEST! Everyone at KXL adores her...as they did on 10th & Burnside.

I think Lars said the guy was lucky that he(Lars(with his Gun) was NOT in the kxllobby at the time also??!!!

Lars is so tough with his mouth and his guns.

I woulda emptied the mutha F'n clip.

That's what Lars says he would've done. But Leann was the first line of defense.

Legal opinion please... Would Lars have been within his rights if that would have happened, or would he be charged with a crime?

Oregon has a flight rule, when defending yourself, if you can leave the area is safety,you may not use deadly force to defend yourself.

If someone in the lobby with a conceled weapons permit, had felt endangered, and had no way to leave safely, they could have fired, but once the vehicle started driving away, you could not fire, if you did, you could be charged.

In the five years I did Conservative Talk Radio I received 3 threats of harm, one paint can, two slashed tires and an envelope with my name on it with a tiny baggy of meth stuck in my mailbox.

In the 22 years of doing music radio I have had 3 blondes, a brunette and 2 redheads stalk me. Can you say PLAY MISTY FOR ME?

But never something as dangerous as a car running through the office. Good Lord man, someone could have been killed.

So WHAT DID JAMMIN DO or WHO SAID WHAT?

For the record, i was being facetious to illustrate a point about concrete cowboys. Thanks for legal clarifications. Glad everybody is ok.

The KING thing was done by a former salesman who was ranting about Jesus when he was dragged out of the wreckage.
It was the same guy who, years earlier, laid me off at KRKO in Everett.
Actually, he was tasked by the owner with firing the $1,000/month news anchor and then hiring a $750/month news anchor. No wonder he went nuts.

Once during the height of the spotted owl vs. logging period, I, being the morning guy in a logging town, made a dumb joke on my show about loggers.
There was a bumper sticker going around that said "save a logger, eat an owl" so I said, "save an owl eat a logger.....or his wife".
Got two tire slashed and one bullet hole in my gas tank. Luckily none of it happened whilst I was driving.
So, this incident brings back memories of WHY WE DO LIVE RADIO!! The nutjobs!!

Ya, dont mess with the " Axmen " .

I remember people standing around in front of the station after I got off at midnight with bottles of Bacardi insisting that I take a drink following me all the way to my car...

That was scary.

So, like, this incident is getting national play. Which is to be expected. The "Fishwrapper" totally underplayed it today...three column inches in the Metro section. Memo to the O: this isn't yet another case of Grandma in her Taurus hitting the gas instead of the brake. It's attempted murder.

Anyway. North Carolina TV:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/15605324/detail.html

Here's a truth about radio: of all the mass media--and if you're on a big station, you truly are mass media--we are by far the most accessible. We're live, some of us. We answer our own phones, reply to our own e-mail. Listeners feel like they have a personal relationship with us, because they do. Our studio locations are known, and they're unguarded. It's a one-in-a billion thing, or something, but it happens. Particularly if you're controversial. Just google Alan Berg.

I've been lucky enough to have worked at two Portland locations including current with night security guards within the builds. You really appreciate them at times like this, with the weird hours I've worked. Or even working morning drive can be scary at times, I can well imagine.

Boy, all of this really takes me to many many times when I was in what easily could have been very dangerous situations, especially with my mouth!
Anyone ever seen where KRCO in Prineville is located? Imagine going there at 5 in the morning or leaving after midnight.
I know the big city is probably a scarier proposition but I don't think size is the issue, the crazies listening are. Alan Berg is MORE than a memory to me. If you were in radio at that time, you never forget about it.
Heck, an old timer back in the 1970's MADE me watch "Play Misty for Me" to "teach me what I was up against"! LOL!
Of course that is a rare case as is this latest, but still, Eastwood is very correct.

Dodger makes an excellent point, and I amend my remark that if you're on a "big station," you're mass media. If you're on any station at all, you're part of the celestial umbrella of electronic stardust, and those who love you, or hate you, find it remarkably easy to touch you. Take care, kids.

"On the other hand...if the whole (hole?) office just slid down the hill into the river, would any more than about 12 people give a rat's ass?"

That's not the point, or the issue. When speech is fought with violence, it's criminal, and it's deplorable.

When you say "Eastwood is very correct", are you referring to the poster or Clint Eastwood?

750 a month? Jesus!

Most of the time I had a positive response from listeners either at a remote or an event, whatever. But a few times it was creepy over the 21 years on the air here in the Tri Cities. For nine years I was on one of the stations that was number 1 for almost all that time, a CHR or Hot AC during those years.

The worst one that ever happened to me was in Medford, Ore (1979) @ KYJC in their very old bulding/transmitter site on Barnett Road, when someone came in through the transmitter room door one friday night, which was open and I dont know why...And was peering at me through the equipment racks while I had the mic switch open, no less. I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye and looked over that way. My train of thought staggered and what ever 'bit ' i was doing got truncated real fast. I popped up and had a few words with this 'person'...who again was 'juiced to the gills', but meant no harm to me or the station ...I locked the door, and every shift there after , checked the door...

The Oldies listeners that turned to AM960/ KALE were much more mannerly and more mature, of course. Always good feelings from those people, very few negatives. One oldies " hot button issue " i got after moving to FM some years later was ' Why are you still the NEW CHERRY FM??? Good question especially after 4.5 years of being the NEW CHERRY FM..it made a lot of normally peaceful respectful people M A D and I dont blame them.

I used to get 12 yr old kids knocking on my front door asking me for free music CDs on Sunday morning and that kind of thing, lots of times at the behest of their parents. A little creepy, but not too bad. Mostly drunk people mouthing off in different places/venues or outside the station.

"' Why are you still the NEW CHERRY FM??? Good question especially after 4.5 years of being the NEW CHERRY FM..it made a lot of normally peaceful respectful people M A D and I dont blame them. "

And that is the same question that can be asked about Portlands 99.5. For years, they keep saying they are the "New 99.5, the Wolf".

It is way past old!!!!

KTRO is still the new talk station.

It's "new" until somebody else "improves", or they choose to "improve".

Marketing and positioning 101.

Sometimes, names stick around for awhile: Newfoundland is fairly old by now not to mention the entire new world and new testament! Sometimes I drive to Lincoln City but end up in Port. The "new" is often necessary. I k you'd get it.

If I have this correct, a product that is "new and improved" can only be described as such for six months from introduction to market, according to the Federal Trade Commission. This covers foodstuffs and laundry detergent (among other such things), but does NOT apply to radio stations. The FCC has some say in that (as in *silence*)...

I heard a station some years ago down here hang onto "The NEW..." for two-and-a-half YEARS. Needless to say, some listeners lost faith in whatever else they claimed...

Semoochie... Have you been enjoying St. Pat's Day? LOL! Say hi to a seagull for me the next time you're down at the coast!

Meanwhile, if the rumored KXJM format change comes about, could THAT be "new and improved"?

***Ducks under the desk with a one-week supply of water and groceries until the expected carnage clears...***

I don't know about the coast but the next time I'm in Hershey, Pensylvania, I'll try to remember to say "hi" to Barbara. I started to say something else but decided it was bad for my image.

Lars and the Playhouse. Well no wonder.
Don't even get me started about Lars and his guns.

Now we know his name. This from yesterdays All Access:

----------------------Update: Angry Listener Caught----------------------

Updating our story from FRIDAY (NET NEWS 4/14) about an angry listener crashing his car into the studios and offices of ROSE CITY RADIO Talk KXL-A and Top 40/Rhythmic KXJM (JAMMIN' 95-5)/PORTLAND: A 30-year-old assailant, ANDY CHUN, has been caught and is being held while undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

Apparently, CHUN was upset with KXJM's morning show, THE PLAYHOUSE, and has been reportedly sending threatening e-mails since 2003. A rambling e-mail was sent to THE PLAYHOUSE on WEDNESDAY (3/5).

PLAYHOUSE host P.K. told ALL ACCESS, "The crazy thing is that he is mad because I hung up on him back in 2003 as he was trying to do a shout-out."
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This from WW:

----------------------------P.K. Get Your Gun----------------------------

http://wweek.com/wwire/?p=11100

Are you sure Andy Chun's not Asian and up set with the introduction of tone-deaf karoake? "Hello Round Eye" in an fake asian accent?

My only question and comment is that this could not have happened at a better time for the playhouse but where does PK and company go once the format flips?

Z100.....

This guy is a psychopath. Here is his homepage, where he is talking about how he was harassed and made fun of on the air numerous times .
http://www.geocities.com/radiosuit/

Well, here's one about a guy I worked with that was doing overnights on KXPC a long time ago. He was evidently on the phone with some female caller doing the phone sex thing and got busted by the boyfried/husband who picked up an extension and heard what was going on. The cuckold wannabe gets angry and threatens to kick the overnight guy's ass. The overnighter says go ahead and come down to the station and try.

A few minutes later the overnight jock gets a call from the jealous man who informs the jock he's waiting out back. Sooo...said overnight jock, who will henceforth be referred to as "dumbass", leaves the studio, exits the station, walks down the hall, and unlocks the mall door. Dumbass then informs the guy that he'll be out in a minute, but that he has to get back into the studio because his song is running out. He turns his back on the guy and goes trotting back into the station leaving the mall and station door wide open.

The man was not content to wait outside when he could kick the crap out of dumbass in the warmth and comfort of the station lobby, so that's what he did. Along with beating the hell out of dumbass, he also effectively trashed the front office as he pinballed the jock off of the walls, desk, furniture, and file cabinets.

The jock was fired later that afternoon.

Not a large IQ present on the face of this story. Dumbass mustah had a great set of pipes and an excess of testosterone to match.

"I heard a station some years ago down here hang onto "The NEW..." for two-and-a-half YEARS. Needless to say, some listeners lost faith in whatever else they claimed..."

I swear I heard "The new 99-5, The Wolf" less than a month ago on KWJJ! WTF?! It was early 2004, that "The Wolf" was born.