6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020
COFFEE BREAK
Condo community feels eff ects of stress during the pandemic
DEAR ABBY: My husband and
I own a condo in a building with
22 units. Because of COVID-19,
one of the HOA board members
has posted signs
stating “rules”
throughout the
building. The rules
are typical for these
trying times, but
the number of signs is obsessive.
Many of the residents dislike the
signs, but my husband was the
one who wrote a nasty letter to the
HOA about how many are posted.
The board member who was
responsible for posting the signs
was a friend of mine. Her feel-
ings were hurt, and she has made
some snide remarks about the
letter. A group of women meet
weekly for happy hour, and she
and I are both part of that group.
I feel caught in the middle. My
husband has had a hard time get-
ting over being mad
about the signs, and
DEAR
I know the HOA
member is angry at
ABBY
him. I just want to
go to happy hour
and drink and gossip. Why can’t
we all just get along?
— IN THE MIDDLE
DEAR IN THE MIDDLE: We
are living in trying times, and
many people — your husband
included — aren’t their better
selves right now. The HOA board
was fulfi lling its obligation to
the community by posting health
and safety signs. They are meant
to educate not only homeowners
but also visitors to the building,
but too often they tend to become
like “wallpaper” and are ignored.
You are not caught in the middle.
Your husband owes that woman an
apology for getting snarky. But it
probably won’t happen unless you
insist upon it. (If it doesn’t, you
can always do it “for” him the next
time you all meet for happy hour.)
DEAR ABBY: I met a won-
derful man who was 14 years
older who treated me like I have
never been treated before. He
opened doors for me, took me on
actual dates, paid for things, met
all my friends and family, and
took me on my fi rst vacation at
39 years old. He was very cuddly
and such a gentleman. He even
introduced himself as my “boy-
friend” to some of my friends.
Seven months ago, we had our
fi rst argument and he asked me
how I felt about him. I said I loved
him and he returned with, “I like
you a lot.” He said he didn’t feel
as strongly as I did and doesn’t
want a relationship.
When we broke up shortly
after, he said he wanted to be
friends. But he still called and
invited me over for sex regularly
for the next six weeks. I was very
hurt, but I fi nally cut ties because
emotionally I couldn’t handle it.
He still wants to be friends but I
cannot. He still will do anything
for me and wants the benefi ts of
being together without the labels.
It has been more than two
months and I’m heartbroken. If
I call him, he answers and talks
like we are the best of friends, and
it kills me. How do I get over him?
Is it worth trying to see if we will
work out?
— BROKEN IN UTAH
DEAR BROKEN: This “gen-
tleman” made clear that his feel-
ings for you are not as strong as
those you have for him. You are
involved with someone who is
honest about wanting nothing
more than the status quo. If you’re
willing to settle for being only
FWB — which, I suspect, you
have too much intelligence and
self-esteem to do — go along with
what he’s offering (which is very
little). But if you do, know full
well that it won’t “work out.”
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
1-year sentence for
angry fan who made
football game threat
By Andrew Welsh-
Huggines
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
A California man’s threats
to harm college football
players because they beat
his favored team epito-
mized “fandom spiraled out
of control,” something that
can’t be ignored in the age
of mass shootings, a federal
judge said Tuesday as he
handed down a sentence of
one year and a day over the
2018 threats.
Daniel Rippy, of Liver-
more, California, a Mich-
igan native and University
of Michigan fan, used Face-
book Messenger to threaten
a shooting at Ohio State
University during its annual
game against Michigan, and
vowed to hurt players on
the football team and then-
head coach Urban Meyer,
authorities said.
Federal Judge Algenon
Marbley had harsh words
for Rippy during Tues-
day’s sentencing done via
video conference because
of the coronavirus pan-
Jay LaPrete/Associated Press
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson throws a pass Nov. 24, 2018, against Ohio State
during an NCAA college football game in Columbus, Ohio. Daniel Rippy of Livermore,
California, faces charges of making an “electronic communication” threat from California
during this game, threatening a shooting and vowing to hurt players on the football team.
demic. Marbley referenced
the mass shootings at Col-
umbine High School in
1999 and Sandy Hook Ele-
mentary School in 2012 as
he lectured Rippy on the
seriousness of the threats
against college athletes just
playing a game. “It’s col-
lege competition. That’s all
it is,” Marbley said.
What Rippy “epitizmies
is fandom spiraled out of
control,” Marbley said. The
judge added: “We have to
take this seriously because
weather
it happens.”
The 29-year-old Rippy,
being held in jail in
Columbus, apologized sev-
eral times, saying he’d been
having “a bad day” when
he made the threats and
promised it would never
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
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Castolon, Texas
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W at 4 to 8 mph
0.7
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Minam River at Minam
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Powder River near Richland
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back on his feet,” Dutta said
before sentencing.
An indictment unsealed
late last year in federal
court in Columbus accused
Rippy of “electronic com-
munication” threat from
California during the game
between Ohio State and the
University of Michigan on
Nov. 24, 2018. The game
was played in Columbus
that year, and Ohio State
won 62-39.
Rippy threatened a
shooting at the school,
saying in a Facebook mes-
sage to the university, “I’m
seriously going to hurt
the students and all of the
players from the football
team,” according to a state-
ment of facts fi led with Rip-
py’s July plea agreement.
In separate messages,
Rippy also threatened
“to injure or kill specifi c
players, their family mem-
bers and the head coach,”
the document said.
Rippy made similar
threats against Gonzaga
University on its Facebook
page three days before the
football game, after the
Gonzaga men’s basketball
team defeated Duke Uni-
versity on Nov. 21, 2018.
happen again. As part of an
argument for a lesser sen-
tence, Rippy and his lawyer
emphasized that once he’s
out of prison, he has a
placement at a transitional
housing center in California
for men recently released
from incarceration.
“I really didn’t mean for
any of this. I feel really bad
about it. I would never, ever
do any act like this,” Rippy
said.
Prosecutors asked for
a 15-month sentence,
on the lower end of sen-
tencing guidelines. But
in the end Marbley went
even lower, noting that,
“Some type of psycholog-
ical or psychic imbalance
may have animated this
kind of behavior.” Rippy
will receive credit for the
10 months he’s spent in jail
since his January arrest.
Rippy’s mental health
issues coupled with “some
totally unrelated frustra-
tions” led him to lash out
the day he made the threats,
said his attorney, public
defender Soumyajit Dutta.
What Rippy needs most
are “resources for both
mental health treatment and
for an ability for him to get
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