How would this guy deal with spam?

Incensed over too many postcards about missing children and meat sales, an Upper Valley man dumped paint on a receptionist at a West Side direct marketing company, police said.

Richard Gesell, 49, of the 5600 block of Green Castle, was shouting profanities in the Advo Direct Marketing office Monday, police said. He insisted he had called many times and wanted the mailings stopped.

Gesell's mother, Ruth, said her son suffers from depression and needed medication. She said junk mail grates on his nerves.

"You get so much," she said. "You start spilling your mail all over the ground and making a mess. No matter what you say, they keep sending it. He's called everybody."

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