A woman recently called into her local LGBTQ community center like it was “gay animal control” asking if they could do something to get her gay neighbor to stop bothering her.
Jackson Whitt, a man who works in the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City, shared a TikTok video in which he played the woman’s voicemail.
“We get like a lot of crazy calls,” Whitt says. “But this is my favorite voicemail we’ve gotten so far.”
In her message, the woman states her name and then says, “I’m having problems with a gay person that I’ve known for a while, and he is bothering me and I would like to report him to you… And I know that you can help me so that he will not bother me any longer.”
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After playing her voicemail, Whitt remarked, “She called us like we were gay animal control to come remove the bothersome homosexual from her neighborhood!”
@jacksonwhitt In her defence, I’m usually havung problems with gay person too ???? #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #queercomedy #gaytiktok #gayboy #gaybear
In a follow-up video, Whitt said that the woman called the Pride Center again before he could call her back, and she said that the gay man in question had lived across the street from her for years.
“He’s evil. He’s wicked. He’s Satanic,” Whitt says, recounting the woman’s complaint. “And he has been harassing her, but she can’t prove it.”
The woman apparently said that the gay man had “energy machines in his house that shoot electrical pulses” through his window into her window to harm her. She then said that the gay man had also gotten his next-door neighbor one of these machines too.
“I felt two of them hit me straight in the chest just the other day,'” she reportedly told Whitt. Whitt exclaimed, “She’s getting shot by gay lasers through her living room window!”
When Whitt told her that the Pride Center doesn’t really handle issues like that, he asked if she had tried talking to the authorities.
“She goes, ‘That’s a laugh. They’ll never do anything,'” Whitt recounted. “And for the first time in this conversation, I was like, ‘Yeah, right girl?'”
However, the woman said she had talked to her Mormon religious leaders all about it. She then asked Whitt to speak to someone called “Pastor Jimi” because he “knows all about these machines.”
Whitt looked up the pastor and sent him a message expressing deep concern for the woman’s mental well-being, asking if he knew the woman or whether they should contact someone to do a wellness check for her own safety
“Pastor Jimi works in one of those churches where they wear flip flops and everyone’s carrying an acoustic guitar, and some of them are wearing crystals as deodorant,” Whitt said. “And you know what? Pastor Jimi never even bothered to email me back. Pastor Jimi, that is not very ‘man of the cloth’ of you. And when I say ‘the cloth,’ I mean a Tommy Bahama button-down. ”
@jacksonwhitt Replying to @Michelle #greenscreen watch out for those gay lasers ???? #bewhououare #pride #gay #queer #lgbt #lgbtq
Comedy aside, the World Health Organization has said that over 20 percent of adults aged 60 and over suffer from a mental or neurological disorder, including ailments like paranoia. Previous studies have shown that sometimes elderly people will call and complain to social service providers out of sheer fear or loneliness.
While it’s unlikely that her neighbor is shooting lasers into her home, it’s likely that she needs genuine help.
But come to think of it, maybe her desire for “gay animal control” isn’t such a bad idea: We’ve seen quite a few unruly otters and bears causing chaos at local watering holes.
whereshouldistart
Maybe I should call the LGTBQ hotline about the chipmunks that keep stealing my birdseed.
Man About Town
Well if their names are Chip & Dale, you’ve got a case!
GayEGO
She sounds mentally ill and this article describes it, she is over 60!
Eldred
“Pastor Jimi works in one of those churches where they wear flip flops and everyone’s carrying an acoustic guitar, and some of them are wearing crystals as deodorant,” Whitt said. “And you know what? Pastor Jimi never even bothered to email me back. Pastor Jimi, that is not very ‘man of the cloth’ of you. And when I say ‘the cloth,’ I mean a Tommy Bahama button-down. ”
~ Ok, that made me chuckle.
still_onthemark
Perhaps Pastor Jimi is happy with this congregant’s financial contributions and doesn’t want to upset that apple cart.
Tombear
Well your nuts must not be appealing if the Chipmunk is stealing your birdseed.
Lavander Crown
STOP! You’re gonna make me pee my pants from laughing. LOL
msfrost
Her neighbor, exists.
winemaker
It’s Utah, there’s the answer. As for this lady, she evidently has too damned much free time on her hands and nothing better to do with that time, like getting a job, learning tolerance, getting a life, minding her own business and instead kvetches. Utah that mormon utopia where they shove mormonism down your throat like giving a kid castor oil, where they say you’re welcome hereand we accept you ( what a load of bandini if ever there was one) but down deep inside they despise you, yeah utah that place. Ask any gay former Utahn and they’ll very likely say the best day of their lives is when i got myself out of that hell hole.
Dr Sarah
This sounds way beyond ‘having too much free time’. Yes, she’s a bigot, but she’s also clearly mentally ill. I hope she gets help.
inbama
Sounds like she follows Marjorie Taylor Greene who claimed Jewish space lazers were responsible for the wildfires.
Musk
I was quite surprised to learn that MTG is 60.
dwick
she was born in 1974 so that makes her 49
Just.my.opinion
This woman is obviously mentally ill and needs help. I hope she gets it soon.
Lavander Crown
She possibly could have mental problems, but it feels like she’s merely someone who needs attention so she’s making up a tale to get it. Oh I’d just love to get on the phone with her and pass on a saying a friend shared with me, years ago. He said, and I quote; “Be careful of what you say and to whom you say it for it takes a fool to make a fool act the fool.” I hope she has some fantastic clown makeup.
Me2
Haha!! I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time!!
dbmcvey
This isn’t so far off from what many conservatives believe in their daily lives.
abfab
When naming one’s newborn, is Karen even considered anymore?
dbmcvey
A lot of conservatives seem to think that LGBT+ is a cult and that there is some leader who decides things for us. Some of the trolls on this site will often claim there is, but I don’t know who this leader is supposed to be.
S.anderson
“We’ll give them a stern talking to at the next Gay Meeting”.
DBMC
I recently saw some heterosexual woman (assuming it wasn’t a bot or troll) on a message board saying that the LGB community was going to have a divorce from the T, I asked who she thought could make that decision and force on the whole community and she actually thought there was someone who could.
peluzo
Get your gays under control!