Keith Idema, now there is a bloke who believed his own hype! I was in the same motel as him in Newburgh when the Eagles first visited the US and Idema shot a lizard on the ceiling of his room, with a Colt 45!
Everyone was out in a heartbeat thinkin we was under attack from the locals.
He even threatened to beat the c**p out of the PGI team (Press Gang) at a Pondwood Farm speedball event cos Rafe Farmer had advertised an 'Enema' vest in PGI, taking the pee!
He has moved on well since those days, just type his name into google when you have a spare three weeks.
Keith certainly did not threaten me, but I remember Matt, editor at the time going down to Mick's to have a little chat with Keith re what you mentioned.
I don't think he threatened Matt, but he might have done on the day.
I remember Keith getting pi$$ed off at the mag Stewart Wall ran, and he was pi$$ed because Stewart had published a pic of his dog, Sarge, having a number twos.
Keith as you know was Special Forces out of Fort Brag and I got to know him well when he asked to become my team's sponsor.
In the dispute with Stewart Wall, two SAS guys were dispatched to Stewart's house to deleiver the message, Keith had called them from the US to 'enlighten' Stewart to the error of his ways.
Stewart had to print an apology the next month .........the 'or else' wasn't pleasant I can tell ya.
In fact, Keith's dog Sarge was actually kidnapped and injured some years later when two brothers and a third individual (I am intentionally not naming names here) had a dispute with Keith; they injured Sarge, the dog by shooting him him in the back leg as a message. All 3 of those guys died, one drank anti-freeze, the other two were apparently bombed in a car when it blew up ... this is of course, all alleged
Keith got in touch a couple of years back from Kandahar in Afghanistan where he was still serving out his sentence for alleged kidnap and torture of certain Afghan individuals and asked me to put his mate up who had just been released from the same prison and was at Gatwick airport for a few days in transit to the States, he and Keith had been banged up together ... I declined that undoubted opportunity on the basis, I thought this gun toting mercenary would be coming into my house after being banged up with Keith for 5 years or so, with no woman in sight for all that time ... I doubt my wife and daughter would have slept too easy on any of the nights this carnally deprived individual was in the house.
Keith was, and is, an interesting individual to say the least.
He once called me up while in Afghanistan and said 'Pete, man, get your ass out here, it's just like paintball.......you'll have a blast', I declined his undoubtedly kind offer and decided to remain within the confines of my semi-detached house in outer London with not an M16, Kalashnikov or F16 Jet Bomber in sight, I tend to sleep better that way I think