American Thinker:
By Monica Showalter
Every solid blue city has its horrors — from murders in Chicago to organized thievery in San Francisco.
In San Diego, where I live, the problem is homeless attacks. Seems the homeless aren’t just unsightly, unsanitary, or famous spreaders of disease, they’re dangerous, and when you have a lot of them, you have a lot of unprovoked random assaults on law-abiding residents. The problem is out there, and too bad for those who don’t like it. San Diego’s new leftist mayor, Todd Gloria, is de facto advising the victims that he’s going to create more of it.
Here’s the local NBC News report:
[Resident Aislinn] Fava [aged 31] was walking along Broadway between 4th 3rd avenues to grab a smoothie in the middle of the afternoon when a homeless man ran up from behind her and punched her in the back of the head, slamming her into the ground. She said he punched her a second time and tried to steal her purse before police arrested him. Giovanni Moore, 31, is now in jail and facing criminal charges for battery and robbery.
“The thing that really freaks me out the most is that there really wasn’t anything I could do to prevent it,” Fava said. “I couldn’t have seen in coming. I didn’t exchange words with this guy. Nothing. It was so bizarre, so random, that’s kind of the freakiest part.” more
We’re paying our unemployed to stay unemployed, our homeless to stay homeless. Science!
She said, “I couldn’t have seen in coming.”
In some cases…maybe but in this one, that is walking around known homeless clusters, yes you should have seen it coming. It’s called situational awareness.
Whenever I have to be around people, my head is on a swivel and my eyes are constantly roving around looking for anything out of place.
Lemme guess. She had her earbuds in and her nose planted in her phone. I never saw it coming!
And San Diego used to think that the Navy and the Marines was their biggest problem with all the massage parlors, dive bars, X rated theaters etc. were in proliferation on Broadway and the surrounding areas in downtown San Diego back in the 70’s and earlier decades. The last time I went there was in 1996 and Broadway had been totally cleaned up and was a lot cleaner and improved than when I had been there in the 70’s. I like San Diego but it sounds like they’ve gone to hell with a new lefty mayor. And I still remember that outdoor restroom on Broadway in the middle of the city which you would only use in an absolute emergency to go, it was disgusting and so was the YMCA also located on Broadway where all the queers hung out. I about had to fight one onetime who tried to proposition me down there but I got out of there as fast as I could.
…one thing that I learned very well in my years of schlepping red-tagged violent mentals to the pych ward was what they are capable of.
You wanna know what they’re capable of?
ANYTHING.
…see, they may or may not feel pain, they may not react to pain if they feel it the way a sane person does, they may or may not see the world as you do, they may think you’re an angel or a devil, they may think they are God, they may not think at all and just bite, and they typically don’t give the normal sorts of cues we’re used to in sane people if they’re about to go off, sociopaths normally don’t.
See, the problem is that YOU’RE not crazy, so you can’t THINK like a crazy man.
Even if you ARE crazy, you’re not the SAME crazy, so you STILL can’t think like them.
And you never, EVER know what might set them off.
Speaking for myself, I would not more walk past a crazy guy than I would walk past a fire in the doorway of a burning building. They are THAT dangerous, and as this lady says, you won’t see it coming.
We had one guy who was a frequent flyer who this one time, the family called in a minister to talk him down, who was rewarded by dude suddenly braining the minister with an acoustic guitar.
He did not see that coming.
I had this one fellow with ACTUAL PSTD (ex Vietnam, this was a while ago) who went down the pub one day and decided to drink himself to death, and told everyone. The cops tagged him, so we dragged him. I put him in restraints which was SOP at the time, which was good because he kept trying to get up and run out the back door on the highway, telling me about how he wanted to due the whole time. We got him to the VA after painful radio negotiations (no CAD in those days), who proceeded to ignore him, so he got up and disappeared, eventually being found in the clean linen room where he had vomited on everything.
Guys like that are one reason the red-tagging cop followed the squad to the boobie hatch. One time the village down the road from us had one and DIDN’T tie him down, either not effectively or not at all, because we heard a call to the County for “emergency traffic”, followed by a panicked EMT announcing that his erstwhile charge had departed into multiple lanes of 40 MPH traffic. Happily, the officer behind kept dude from becoming a hood ornament, but it was a merry chase to get him back on his way to Pillowless Land.
There’s others, like the guy who tried to burn the house next to his group home down with the family in it “because they’re demons”, but suffice to say that if you DO walk past a genuinely crazy person, don’t be surprised at ANYTHING he does to you as soon as your eyes are off him.
Anything at ALL.
Duh Mare put all his efforts into a weekly TV show about how well he’s doing.What a joke!