Joseph Mills Back in the News

Joseph Mills is in a serious world of shit right now. I've followed the developing news stories over the past few months, and it's becoming more and more interesting.

Instead of the misdemeanor charges that he initially was facing, now he's facing some fairly serious felony charges. He's been indicted by a grand jury and he'll be arraigned April 18th.

I haven't seen him downtown anymore. This is good. But that doesn't mean that there aren't other people out there that have the intentions of harming girls who are drunk while downtown at night. If you read this blog at all, then you'll know there are always shithead guys downtown looking to take advantage of girls. Every single night.

I've heard whispers that Joseph Mills shouldn't be held accountable for his actions because he "isn't right". He shouldn't be held accountable because he's socially awkward and perhaps even a little mentally challenged. He didn't know what he was doing and he shouldn't have to be punished for something that he did without malicious intent.

I say that's fucking bullshit. The only thing that really matter is the end result, regardless of his intentions or mental capacity. Those girls had those terrible things happen to them and I seriously doubt they really care whether Joseph "meant to do it" or not. A guy who's a little slow or socially awkward can go and murder a family, but if he didn't "mean to do it" it doesn't bring back those who were killed. The end result is all the same, and I say that he should be punished for the things that he did to those girls downtown.

He needs to know his actions are not acceptable. They're not invited, they're not excusable and even more so, they're against the law and the people won't stand by and allow him to slip by simply because he isn't like the rest of us. And shouldn't that make us feel better, too? A person who did things like that isn't like all of us. He's different. And we should all feel perfectly justified about sending a guy like that away, because we'll know the odds of it happening again are a lot lower now that the different guy is off the street and is being punished for his uninvited advances.

But then again, that's just one door guy's opinion.

Joseph Mills

As anyone who reads the paper knows, Joseph Mills has been arrested twice in the last few weeks for stalking and sexual battery.

He's been the suspect in the white van attacks, but now apparently has been cleared of those suspicions because he was busy assaulting other girls while the real van attacker was raping his victims.

Charming, huh?

Joseph is about 5"6, 160 lbs, and normally wears slacks and tucked in button up shirts - typically dark colored - and is usually alone. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen him regularly hanging out with anyone. I hate to name bars he hangs out in because there's nothing wrong with any of these places, but I feel a need to let people know where they might see him. As word has it, he's usually in Allgood or Wild Wing. Any place worth its salt has permanently banned him by this point, though.

Over the years, he's taken a liking to employees of certain establishments and goes out of his way to go see them while they're working. Interestingly enough, he figures out their work schedules and will come in when his object of affection is working. Usually it's the female bartenders or servers. And he'll sit there. And stare at you. For hours. And hours.

So fellow doorguys, it's a great idea not to share bartenders schedules with random dudes like Joseph who come around asking, because before you know it, you've got a weird little guy coming around all the time to bother the hell out of the girl behind the bar who's helping to make your money.

He's a creepy little motherfucker. If you ever talk to him, it'll take about 2 seconds of weird conversation before you'll think he's a creepy motherfucker, too. To make things even more strange, he doesn't drink. Never seen him take a sip of any kind of alcohol at all. Ever.

If it's possible to make things even more weird, word has it that he still lives with his mom and has no plans on moving out.

Ever.

Did I mention that he's 24?

I can't imagine what the hell was going through his head trying to get random girls into his car in the middle of the night after they've been drinking and they're walking home. On top of all of this, following them to their apartment and trying to come in under the guise of checking to see if they made it home okay would creep anyone out.

Trying to kiss random girls on the sidewalk? Very strange.

So you've been warned. Odds are, if he's not in jail I can't imagine him staying away from downtown. I personally haven't seen him in awhile, but my sources tell me he was downtown as recently as two weeks ago.

Please be careful.

Part 2

I check my statcounter a lot. Not as much these days, but I always go back and see who's linking me when I get a little spike in my online traffic. Tonight, I got home and saw I had a little spike and found I was quoted here. Jason Winders quotes me from time to time, and I always consider it pretty cool to have a guy from the paper naming me in his blog.

Part of what he had to say on what I had to say:

Interesting stuff. One part gossip, one part character assassination, one part consumer warning, I can see what drew my e-mailer’s attention to this post. It’s the kind of thing that makes for great across-the-bar chatter. But that’s all. It’s not a matter of delivering “all the news.” Far from. In fact, what she’s taking for fact, turns out, is only one man’s opinion. No matter how well-informed, spot-on and entertaining the report, this is still opinions from one guy who can take pop shots from an anonymous position.

He's refering to my post about Joseph Mills. First of all, I'm not one to decide what's newsworth and what isn't. That's the papers job. I only have a blog and I write in it about shit that happens downtown. It's pretty simple. Recently, there's been a lot of bad things happening to girls downtown, and I happen to know the guy who got arrested for some of those things.

It's difficult for me to effectively argue with anyone about how true the things I've said are because I'm anonymous. Unless I say my name is X and I work at X bar and I saw these things happen on X date, ultimately no one will take me seriously. But that's okay. The trade-off works for me.

Keeping that in mind, the things I wrote about are true. I know they're true because I watched them happen with my own eyes. In fact, actually there's a lot more to the story than I'm letting on to because to divulge any more information than I already have might compromise my anonymity and I'm not willing to do that.

To anyone who reads this blog on any regular basis, I can promise you this: I won't lie. I have no reason to. No one knows me and that's the way I'd like to keep it. That's also part of the reason that I don't have to lie.

I'm not accountable to anyone for the things I say, and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm a pretty decent person. I'm honest. I have nothing motivating me to embellish my stories. I don't make a dime from this blog.

Truth is always stranger than fiction, anyway.

But on another note, if you come downtown and do stupid shit and I see you, then I might write about you. I'll tell a story and some people will read it and think it's funny and ridiculous and sit around and tell their friends about this ridiculous story that the AthensDoorGuy wrote about. That's the risk anyone takes when they come downtown and get drunk and fight and puke and try to steal stuff, or worse...go around assaulting girls.

And allegedly, that's what Joseph Mills did.

He creeped people out. He picked his favorites from Allgood, Wild Wing, The Loft, Doc Cheys, Barcode, Locos and a number of other places and visited those places and sat there and stared at them.

He didn't drink. He didn't start fights. He didn't make a scene. But to a girl who's constantly surrounded by drunk guys hitting on them and throwing money their way in the hopes that they'll convince the hot bartender to go home with them, the silent guy sitting at the end of the bar by himself drinking his coke or sprite staring at her in silence for hours creeped her out more than any drunken frat boy could.

And apparently there were a few nights where staring just wasn't enough for him. He grabbed and groped and tried to kiss girls who weren't open to that behavior. And odds are, they were drunk. Guess who probably wasn't? Joseph. And to me, that's fucked up.

So I wrote about it. I told the truth. Are my stories really true? You decide.

Regardless of any of my opinions, his actions caught our attention - and apparently the police, too - and it eventually caught up to him and now he's facing a bunch of charges that he'll probably get convicted of.

And if he's convicted, then let that speak for itself. A jury of our peers deciding he's guilty is more than enough for me to take it as fact.

But if you ask my opinion, you can probably tell I already have my mind made up.

Joseph Mills... Again.

I'm coming out of "retirement" briefly to post on the latest development of Joseph Mills.  This was in the Athens Banner-Herald today.  Our good friend has had another run in with the law, and this time for lurking in a gated neighborhood. 

If you remember, I posted about this weirdo and now convicted sexual predator multiple times over the years of my employment downtown.   Not surprisingly, he's violated his probation multiple times at this point, has spent almost a year in jail, and he's still out there being a fucking shithead creepster.  There's no telling what girls house he was sitting outside of.  I hope the cops canvassed the neighborhood, because I guarantee you she knows who he is.  

At this point, years and years later, I can admit to everyone that I had a hand in getting this fucktard arrested.  In fact, I was out one evening drinking my sorrows and troubles away back in 2007 and came home fairly late (as in, late enough that the ABH website had been updated with the next days edition) to find a composite drawing of our good friend on the front page.  I immediately recognized him, and the rest is history.  I have no regrets for rolling over on this now convicted sexual offender, and if you've ever read any of the things I've stated in this blog over the years, I don't take kindly to anyone mistreating the ladies.  

Athens-Clarke County:  PUT THIS FUCKING SEXUAL PREDATOR AWAY.  Probation isn't going to do it.  He's not going to change.  He's got all the hallmarks of a dangerous predator quickly heading down a slippery slope, and the scary part is that he's just getting started.  It won't be long until the lurking and stalking and groping and spying and molesting drunk UGA girls downtown turns into rape, and possibly worse.

Do the right thing.  The judge needs to sign the arrest warrant.  The prosecutor needs do his job & lock this kid up for the remainder of his probation, and if possible, much, much longer.  

Be safe out there.

-AthensDoorGuy

Our (Alleged) Downtown Stalker Has a Face

This story appeared in the Athens-Banner Herald. His name is Joseph Mills, and he is (or was) a staple of downtown Athens to those of us "in the business". I don't have much time right now to write about him but there are several things you need to know about him.

1) I know him from working downtown.

2) I know girls who know him.

3) Based on #1 and #2, my personal opinion is that he is guilty as sin of the crimes that he's accused of.

When I have a little more time after the holidays, I'll share some of my personal experiences with Joseph.

If you are a girl and frequent downtown, I strongly advise you to avoid Joseph if you see him hanging around. He'll likely be alone.

Sorry to taint the holidays with a creepy post, but regardless, please try to have a great Thanksgiving anyway.

He's back

Joseph Mills in the news again. I'm not surprised.