but it makes for a very entertaining story for me. Sorry but I got a good laugh out of it. Hope someone gets her some mental health care but given the state of Mental Health Services these days, I wouldn't hold my breath. Take care and update us if she returns. LOL.

But I hate to break it to you. You're living in my house.

The second or third time I had seen her, I'd have been arrested for assault & battery. or worse.

I am TOTALLY out of fucks to give. Bring it MF'ers, You'll find out how some trained old farts fight back.

Whatever the police need me to do. She needs this on her record and I suspect she's got quite a record already. I don't expect to get anything from her, as I don't expect she has anything to take. I'll be gob smacked if I get the battery back. (I suspect she traded it at the convenience store. She didn't have it the first time I saw her on my front porch and she didn't have it when I saw her the third time when she came back for her EBT card. It went somewhere.)

But seriously, she needs help. If charges get her that, I'll press charges. Like I said, she's scheduled to hurt herself or somebody else or both. I hate to see a human being wasted.

Thanks for sharing that harrowing story. I'm glad you're okay, and I'm also glad you're a fighter!

And YEAH! DON'T MESS WITH OLD PEOPLE! We've been around long enough to know a few things.

was when we had a domestic situation down the street. I woke up to flashing lights and a bullhorn saying "Come out with your hands up!". They were right in front of our house.

I got the dogs secured in their kennels for their own safety. Got into decent pajamas (don't ask) and stuck my head and hands out the door. What I yelled was "It would help if you said which house." A cop stuck his head out of the squad window and yelled "Not yours!" I closed the door and went back to the bedroom.

It was two doors down the street, as it turned out. The next announcement was somewhat strangled but did include the name of the person they wanted. I looked out the window to see a cop with an automatic rifle sheltering behind a tree in our yard. And considered that I might be late for work.

I think our address is already notorious.

evaluation. That should keep her away for at least 72 hours. She sounds delusional and deranged.

Your neighborhood sounds, um.....interesting.

Unfortunately, she probably won't, a sad legacy of the deinstitutionalization of the severely mentally ill during the Reagan years. Apparently it was more important for the rich to pay less in taxes than for those unfortunate souls to get decent, professional care.

i have a neighbor who's an untreated schizophrenic. in 2020, she started showing up at my place. in a previous incident, she had walked into my house in the middle of the night. looking for her ex, she said. i called 911, and she got 30 days.
she showed up twice in my back yard. the 1st time i shooed her off, but the 2nd time i called 911.
the dispatcher was obsessed w finding out if this was 'a domestic situation'. they were getting so many domestic and neighbor conflicts that they wouldnt come out if no one was armed or throwing punches. i argued w the dispatcher for 10 min. i knew who she was and where she lived. she finally walked away as i was talking to dispatch. i followed at a safe distance, and i knew she wasnt violent. but dispatcher was pissed. trouble is when i didnt have eyes on her any more, they had their excuse to blow off the call.
i asked for a super and didnt get connected but she came back and said she could send an car, but i never saw a car.

a friend of mine is rehabbing the house next to hers, and she's a real problem. she worries about her getting hurt.

She sounds like someone who needs mental health treatment, but is unlikely to get it.

My response:
A. Glad you're OK.
B. Hope you stayed OK.
C. Right on, sister, about old people not giving up. Gotcha there. Would have done the same thing. Confront then seek.
D. The older I get, the less life in prison is a deterrent. Cannot recall who said that. Wish it'd been me.