Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You do have to give them a hell of alot of credit for that. Mental illness is so debilitating for some people, it would be a God send to have all LE cut them all a little slack when their conditions worsen to this level. I'm no goody two shoes, but I took in a homeless guy for a week when my wife was out of town on business. (He played a mean bango and liked computer programming!). He had alot of sad stories to tell about the hard time that the schizophrenics, in particular, had on the streets. It was weird, we'd walk around and he'd know the diagnoses for many of the homeless folk that we'd see on the street. These worse cases won't go to shelters because they're paranoid about all the *other* crazy people there. Whew! That's a tough nut to crack. The last thing to which they're likely to respond rationally is a gun pointed at them. Their fight/flight kicks in and they can't take any stress and they just go haywire.. Sad, sad, sad. Scott Jeffery Smith wrote: >He was trying "suicide by police". To their credit, they didn't shoot him >when they typically would. >-- >Jeffery > > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)