Cop Says Shawn Johnson Stalker Sounded Crazy, but Aren’t We All Still a Little Shawn Johnson Crazy?

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Robert O’Ryan, 34, is a little obsessed with Shawn Johnson, the 17-year-old Olympic gymnast from West Des Moines, Iowa. Last week the Florida man was arrested for trying to jump a fence outside Dancing With the Stars and carrying a loaded shotgun in his car. Before he arrived in sunny California, though, he was pulled over in Alabama. The cruiser-cam caught O’Ryan telling the officer he had spoken with Johnson and “I know it sounds a little crazy, but my intuition tells me we’re going to have a beautiful relationship.”

Nearly a year after the Beijing Olympics, the Des Moines Register still feeds readers the latest Shawn Johnson updates through a Shawn Johnson mini Web portal. Johnson devotees can enter their location on an international fan map, download Shawn desktop wallpaper, and go outside the lines in a Shawn coloring book. On Shawn’s personal website, her book, Shawn Johnson: Olympic Champion: Stories Behind the Smile, is now on sale, as is the Peace, Love Shawn Johnson Collection by Adidas. The Shawn Johnson line of jewelery features pendants and diamond necklaces with an Olympic twist. Her face appeared on a box of Cheerios, and she competes, with some success, against the likes of Belinda Carlisle and Lil’ Kim on DWTS. Let’s cut this stalker some slack! O’Ryan is not alone in his obsession. Though he is probably the best armed.

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