A priest from the Archdiocese of Boston named David Ajemian is stalking late-night funny man Conan O'Brien. Newsday reports:
"I want a public confession before I ever consider giving you absolution _ or a spot on your couch," wrote the Rev. David Ajemian, who signed the notes "Padre," said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office. Ajemian, from the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping session of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, near where other NBC shows are taped and the famous Christmas tree is put up, Thompson said. Court papers say Ajemian referred to himself as "your priest stalker" in one note and complained of not being allowed in to see an earlier taping of the O'Brien show. "Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans?" the note said."
Wow, and I always thought that if you were a priest you were automatically a nice, pious man... well, until I was told that about half the Archdiocese of Boston had molested little boys. Then I just thought that being a priest meant you were a diddler, but not quite a stalker.
Creepy, isn't it? Oh, well it gets creepier. Details of Father Ajemian's stalker notes have been released. The New York Times reports:
A Feb. 20 letter said: “I’m told by some of those officious little usher people that you’re overbooked. Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans? You owe me big-time, pal. I want a public confession before I even consider giving you absolution.”
In another letter, Ajemian compared himself to the gunman at Virginia Tech. The New York Times Reports:
“I am not Seung Cho,” apparently alluding to the gunman at Virginia Tech. The letter continued: “Even if I did once look out on that dark and dreaded doorway on West 72 Street, remember Frank Costello once dodged a bullet in your building, and so can you.” The gangster Frank Costello was shot and wounded in the lobby of the Majestic on West 72nd Street in 1957. The priest said in his correspondence that he had followed Mr. O’Brien’s career since they both attended Harvard."
How bizarre is that! What a nut job. Don't they have some sort of psychological screening for priests before they're ordained these days? Then again, most religious zealots aren't too stable, I guess. Hmm, tough call. In the meantime, though, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has placed Father Ajemian on leave. Poor Conan though... of all the crazy hot female stalkers out there, all Conan could score was some creepy priest. I feel for ya, Conan. I do.
