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A married mother of four from Florida ditched her family to become part of the raggedy mob in Zuccotti Park — keeping the park clean by day and keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.
“I’m not planning on going home,” an unapologetic Stacey Hessler, 38, told The Post yesterday.
“I have no idea what the future holds, but I’m here indefinitely. Forever,” said Hessler, whose home in DeLand sits 911 miles from the tarp she’s been sleeping under.
Hessler — who ironically is married to a banker — arrived 12 days ago and planned to stay for a week, but changed her plans after cozying up to some like-minded radicals, including Rami Shamir, 30, a waiter at a French bistro in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
She swears she’s not romantically involved with her new friend.
Yesterday was a typical day for the pair, who woke up at 8 a.m. on their little patch of paving stone near the communal kitchen and dashed off to Trinity Church to wash up.
Hessler emerged an hour later, her brown hair in dreadlocks, wearing a T-shirt depicting Han Solo and Princess Leia kissing, and bearing the slogan “Make Love Not War.”
She got coffee and a granola bar from the protest kitchen before sorting laundry for two hours.
The unemployed Long Island native compared her decision to abandon her family to Americans serving in the armed forces.
“Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad?” a defiant Hessler said. “I’m fighting for a better world.”
She said she had been following the movement on Facebook, and the more she learned, the more obsessed she became with joining the demonstrators.
At around 11 a.m. yesterday, Hessler moved from laundry duty to park cleanup — a four-hour detail from which she broke just once to give a troubled protester a hug at the “empathy table.” She also found time for a meditation session later in the day.
Hessler has spoken with her family — husband Curtiss, 42; son Peyton, 17; and daughters Kennedy 15, Sullivan, 13, and Veda, 7 — just three times since leaving them. “Friends are taking care of them,” she said.
Not everyone has supported her decision. “My mother told me I was being very selfish,” she admitted.
And her husband, a former Bank of America financial adviser who now works at a local Florida bank, is perplexed. “He says he’s working for ‘the Man,’ and I’m fighting against him,” she said.
After finishing her morning routine and afternoon chores yesterday, Hessler spent the evening attending organizer meetings and helping fellow protesters find sleeping spots.
Hessler herself bedded down on an air mattress at 12:28 a.m., ready to do it all over again today.
Additional reporting by Gillian Kleinman
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she’s a blow job waiting to happen
Why are you assuming it didn’t happen already?
oh it has alright.just got to give her some benefit of doubt. you know,for the old mans’ sake,cause he’s back home working in a bank.
Unfortunately, divorce courts in Florida or some of the most idiotic in this country. She will maintain full custody rights after the divorce, no questions asked. I have a family member going through just such an ordeal with the bimbo he knocked up.
If this guy is smart, step one is to pack up and move North.
remember.it’s the fuckin you get,for the fuckin you got. that seems to be they way of this generations’ twats. part time job,part welfare who goes after the child support,so the twat really doesnt need an attorney to go chasing after dad,cause the state does it for her. divorce chicago irish style.
Oh that’s so nice.
what a stupid bitch
DeLand is about 15-20 minutes from my house.
If I knew the guy I could recommend a good divorce attorney.
Hopefully by now he has cancelled credit cards, withdrawn all cash from joint accounts and hidden same where it can’t be traced, etc.
Bitch.
That is a most bizarre story. Sounds like an un-diagnosed mental disorder.
Didn’t I tell you they were mentally ill?
Strange…but I’m sure a Psychiatrist could quickly identify the movement…and likely will after they start bombing shit
Being a superior alpha male in Florida I do believe I have gifted her with a bedding already. EOM
The first obvious question is, why would he want her back. Even if she was a smokeshow – stupid is forever.
IDIOT WIND – Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWLjgPTR_c
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin’ south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You’re an idiot, babe.
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.