There’s some crazy lady who keeps screaming obscenities at the top of her lungs outside my window. This has happened off and on for the last three or so weeks, at any time of day or night. This is in front of a strip mall that’s in my parking lot so in the daytime the stores complain, I’m sure, and the police seem to actually do something about it. At night, nothing. I even saw them go once and talk to her and then they left and she was still there! They probably told her to move along, which she did after screaming for a little while longer, but then she just came back later anyway.
I just called tonight and they took too long to get here (still haven’t) and she eventually left. Are there some magic words I can say to get the police to do something?
The operator once told me others had complained too. Multiple complaints of someone screaming, “die, n-word” over and over at 4am in front of an apartment complex, and we just have to put up with it?
Oh I see you met my former neighbor Doborah, my condolences and good luck. She was in my apartment complex for nine months. I would have shot her if I thought for a second I could get away with it.
Time to innocently throw a pot of cold dirty water out the window just when she’s in range. Then stick your head out and say “Oh, sorry. Didn’t see you there.”
Shoot a video and post it on YouTube, with an explanation that the cops won’t do anything. Facebook it with same info, then phone the local TV stations and newspapers and give them the URL. They might even use it.
Is it continual, piercing screaming like a horror-movie victim?
There might be someone in the building she’s particularly targetting, which would make her only a little less nuts than otherwise.
My number one rule in dealing with street crazies is do not interact with the street crazy directly unless you want to become part of the solution. There is a really good chance that she will get fixated on you, or that the cops will see you as her guardian and try to make you part of her solution. Keep calling with noise complaints everytime she’s there and make the call as soon as she starts up so that the cops have time to get there while she is still active.
It sucks that there isn’t really a better solution for what is a mental health problem other than calling the cops, but it’s a big world and you have to figure out what you want to fix, what you want to ignore and what you want to just go away. That is particularly true when it is affecting your home life.
Yeah, this lady is really out of her mind, there’s no way talking to her or doing anything else to her (except maybe running up and sticking her with Haldol) would help.
I don’t think I can just contact a mental health place directly, that would be for the police to do if they wanted to, which apparently they do not.
It actually sounds more like a cross between a really, really loud frog and a really, really loud crow. I was seriously not sure if it was a human voice I was hearing for quite a while because it sounds so weird.
She’s not targeting anyone, it seems more like how people with Tourette’s blurt things out without any meaning, only psychotic. I wish she was, because that or if she’s mentioning or displaying a weapon seem to be the only thing the police care about.
You people have no idea how much I’m looking forward to cooler weather so I can close my windows. Not just because of her, other crazy things go on here too, but usually you can at least yell out the window at them to shut up.
The only way to deter her is to make it not such a good place to hang out. If there are places to sit, they need to be removed. If there is overhang shelter, it needs to be removed. Since these things aren’t really practical, calling the police is pretty much all there is to do, unless you can make the area uncomfortable for loitering without endangering yourself.
