Yea. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 01/01/2016 2:54:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Dear Amy: My neighbor, who is otherwise clean and healthy, imagines being spied upon, imagines break-ins and is generally paranoid. My neighbor is clearly disturbed by these thoughts and I worry this person might go "over the edge."
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Dear Concerned:
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If you feel this person's actions rise to the alarming stage and pose a risk to him/herself or others, call 911 and be very specific with the dispatcher that this is a mental health call. Report exactly what you see. Some police departments have crisis intervention teams. Ask if there is a CIT officer available. Then repeat all of this to the responding officers, for instance: "This is a mental health call. I don't think she is dangerous, but she is delusional and I think she might need to be transported to a hospital." (Officers may not have received all the information you conveyed to the dispatcher.)
Mental illness 911 calls pose a risk, both to the person suffering and to responding officers, so conveying and repeating correct information is vital.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
“Operator, there is a shifty eyed man near the street here. He has a BIG GUN! Dressed in blue, shoulder patch, what appears to be a radio, AND A TAZER! He also is carrying a club! There appears to be a metal emblem on his shirt, left front side! OH!OH! He is looking MY WAY!”
I hope the neighbor doesn’t have a doggie.
Why not post the first part? Good advice...
“Dear Concerned: I shared your question with Dr. Ken Duckworth, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He and I agree that, depending on the severity of this situation, you could start by simply asking your neighbor, “Do you have a friend or family member I can call for you?”
You can also call the National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline at: 800-950-NAMI (6264) (nami.org). Trained volunteers answer calls such as yours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
You don’t provide details, but also keep in mind that some of the behavior you notice could also be signs of dementia.”
“Operator, my neighbor has a sticker on his car that reads `Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.”
why would a sane person put that crap on their car?
Amy’s answers might be a little better if she didn’t hate men so much. Bitter divorced women shouldn’t write advice columns.
if you were an ahole would you advertise it to the world?
” No situation is so bad that calling a cop can’t make it worse.”-—
Not true.
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It might be time for me to remove the NRA stickers from my truck. I live in California, get along great with all my neighbors but one. But that one could be the jerk that calls authorities to "check" on me. Just because he can under this new law.
“...get along great with all my neighbors but one. But that one could be the jerk that calls authorities to “check” on me. Just because he can under this new law.”
You have NAILED it! (Unfortunately)
The only silver lining I can think of is that there are so many disgruntled liberal jerks out there, especially in CA, that their denunciations of neighbors they don’t like will quickly overwhelm the reportage system.
Cops will simply be logistically unable to SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT-SWAT every single last targeted individual.
And it might quickly turn deadly if they go full jackbooted thugs. Cops already know which groups hate them and which groups generally support them. They are not the majority; do they want the majority of citizens to regard them as stormtroopers?
I wouldn’t recommend a 911 call, but instead a call to the neighbor’s family or minister, someone the neighbor knows and (more or less) trusts or someone who would know where to turn to find someone s/he does trust. The police could only make things worse for this person.
BUT I would not say ‘mind your own business’ as has been suggested elsewhere. One of our neighbors started acting like this in the early Clinton years. He was sure “they” were after him. Before too long he went on his back deck and blew his brains out, leaving behind a wife and 5 year old son. Intervention would have been a good thing.
Yea. What could possibly go wrong?
Amy is a self righteous newsprint yenta.
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