# Creepy, creepier, creepiest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149 "2018-10-18T16:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/21 "2018-10-18T21:33:51Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > …but it hadn’t really occurred to me before that there might be external, political reasons for choosing a charge. The reason we have masses of mentally ill people living unmedicated and homeless is entirely political. Virtually all other Western developed nations have some kind of system for dealing with the chronic mentally ill who don’t have family able or willing to care for them, but the United States as simply treated it as a problem that some kind of ‘market’ will take care of in some undefined capacity. Most mentally ill people—even schizophrenic and schizoaffective—are not dangerous (except to themselves) but a combination of a lack of any kind of support or medication combined with the constant stress and hostility of street living can turn a nominally non-hostile person into being aggressive as a defense mechanism. And the stupid thing is that it would be easier, cheaper, and far more effective to deal with this pre-emptively as a mental health problem with trained social workers than reactively as a law enforcement problem with police officers who are untrained and largely unexperienced in dealing with serious mental health issues. But we don’t to that because…capitalism? I don’t think there is even a good rationale other than that we just don’t have the collective will to care for people who cannot care for themselves. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/22 "2018-10-18T21:45:27Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > The reason we have masses of mentally ill people living unmedicated and homeless is entirely political. Virtually all other Western developed nations have some kind of system for dealing with the chronic mentally ill who don’t have family able or willing to care for them, but the United States as simply treated it as a problem that some kind of ‘market’ will take care of in some undefined capacity. Up until the 1970s, we had been warehousing them in large mental institutions. What was supposed to happen next was that the warehouses for the mentally ill were to be closed in favor of smaller, more community-based facilities. Then came the Reagan Revolution. The institutions were closed or shrunk, but the smaller facilities never opened. You can fill in the rest. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/23 "2018-10-18T21:55:01Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > . . . > And the pièce de résistance, check out his mug shot. > [Man arrested for trespassing in Burlingame girl’s bedroom](https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-trespassing-in-burlingame-girl-s-bedroom/article_8fd6af12-d1c1-11e8-826a-ebdfc4b18b10.html) If you’ve ever wondered what “crazy eyes” look like . . . ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/24 "2018-10-18T22:43:47Z")
That’s a really bad case of pink eye. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/25 "2018-10-18T23:15:58Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Okay, I read that too fast and thought it said that the police found him hiding under the bed. I’ll argue your statement stands. It is still a perfect fit between creepy and creepiest.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/26 "2018-10-18T23:24:43Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > It seems pretty likely from the description that the perpetrator probably has some serious unmedicated mental illness problems rather than being a predator sex offender given that (from what is reported in the article) he doesn’t seem to have actually attacked the girl (although waking up with a strange person in your room can be a frightening experience as I can attest to). Here is hoping he gets a real psych eval and treatment rather than just being thrown in prison for a few years and released back onto the streets further traumatized and neglected until he actually hurts himself or someone else. > > Stranger You can say that again. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/27 "2018-10-19T12:57:29Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Jared Enix is a cool name. Sounds like the protagonist of a sci fi novel. I googled it thinking surely there was only one Jared Enix, nope. As usual when googling a strange name there was a whole passel of them. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149/28 "2018-10-19T21:25:33Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > I’ll argue your statement stands. It is still a perfect fit between creepy and creepiest.🆒 No, _I’ll_ argue that it’s creepiest by far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepier-creepiest/823149.md?page=1)