Some people just shouldn’t be out wandering around loose.

Case in point: A worker at a California Target store, who was wearing a red Charlie Kirk t-shirt, was berated by an unhinged lunatic calling her a racist. She handled it with grace and self-control, which is more than one can say for the unhinged lunatic.

A medical center caught in the crosshairs of an internet meltdown caused by one of its employees who cussed out a Target worker for wearing a Charlie Kirk T-shirt said that it was overwhelmed by thousands of “profanity-laced” messages.

Mike Wiltermood, president and CEO of California-based Enloe Health, said at a press conference Wednesday that the medical center had received more than 6,000 “profanity-laced” messages since the video went viral earlier in the day.

Wiltermood pleaded with the public to stop calling the center’s primary phone number, as the repeated calls “impeded our ability to serve patients and their families.”

Enloe Health, who apparently employs the unhinged lunatic, released a statement:

Enloe Health acknowledges that the off-hours behavior of a medical assistant employed in one of our outpatient clinics, as depicted in a recent social media post, was abhorrent and deeply concerning to our caregivers, our organization, and our community. The Target employee who was verbally accosted in this post deserves significant credit for handling the situation in a calm and collected manner.

We appreciate the many individuals who have seen this post and exercise restraint as they voice their personal views regarding this situation. Unfortunately, thousands of others have chosen to use profane language to express their disapproval to Enloe caregivers. These comments have overwhelmed our phone systems, impeding our ability to serve patients and their families.

The behavior depicted in this video does not mirror Enloe Health’s core values, and we are committed to doing what is right by taking the actions necessary to protect our patients and community. At this time, we ask for patience, grace and civility as we do so.

Maybe they should ask for some patience, grace and civility from their employee.

In a just world, that employee, who has not been named, would have been summarily dismissed, and indeed, that may well be what happened, although Enloe Heath isn’t saying.

The good news is that the Target employee is now the beneficiary of a GiveSendGo fundraiser that is, as of this writing, approaching $200,000. Let’s hope she takes a nice vacation, or perhaps retires; in either case, hopefully she will be far away from any more unhinged lunatics.