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[hipster holocaust]

I just finished reading a book about the history of Sesame Street. The guy who played David (the dude in the hat in this picture) was bipolar and went crazy one night and bashed a woman's face in with a lead pipe. They didn't fire him from the show because "he was sick" and didn't think it was right to do so. Later, while hospitalized, he bit a doctor and escaped from a mental hospital.

Thank you for making my day.

The full account of all that he did is fucking hilarious:


[edit] Personal issues
In his early thirties, Calloway slowly began to exhibit signs of bipolar disorder which led to a nervous breakdown on the morning of September 19, 1980 in Nashville, TN. He beat his hostess with an iron rod, giving her serious head and rib injuries. He then fled into the suburbs of Nashville. Along the way, he smashed a plate-glass window and storm door at one house and did extensive damage to the interior of another, destroying the family's collection of fine crystal, smashing a television set and breaking light bulbs with his bare hands. He also stole a backpack from a first grader and smashed a windshield with a rock before fleeing the scene where witnesses reported him wearing only a T-shirt. He was arrested after hiding out in a couple's garage, screaming "Help! I'm David from Sesame Street and they're trying to kill me!" Despite this incident, Calloway continued to work on Sesame Street. Calloway's final years on the show were marked by periods of declining health and ability punctuated by episodes of erratic behavior; during these years, Calloway reportedly bit music coordinator Danny Epstein during an on-set fight, and he once appeared unannounced at actress Alison Bartlett's high school and proposed to her.[3]

Calloway left the show in 1989, and died in January 1990. The circumstances surrounding Calloway's death remain unclear. Some sources report that he died of stomach cancer, although his family never officially announced the cause of death. 'Unfortunately, Calloway's family rushed him to the closest hospital that happened to be a psychiatric hospital, which created rumors that Calloway had died in an asylum'.[4] He was then taken to Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown, where he was pronounced dead at the age of 41. In his authorized history Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, author Michael Davis claims that Calloway had been a patient at the Stony Lodge psychiatric facility in Ossining, NY at the end of his life, and had died after going into cardiac arrest during a violent altercation with a staff physician. A coroner's report listed Calloway's official cause of death as exhaustive psychosis, now more commonly referred to as excited delirium syndrome (EDS).[5] He was survived by his wife and their only child. Unlike Will Lee, who had played Mr. Hooper, no mention of his death was made on Sesame Street as at the time of the character's leaving, Calloway was still alive. He was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery.

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