How crazy are some people?

[mwmisses4289]

Story from near Houston, Texas:
Woman with gun sets up lawn chair in the middle of 1-45.
LEO has determined she is having a mental health crisis, both sides of the Freeway have been shut down since about 2:30 houston time.

I know that area and that freway: how the bloody hell did she dodge traffic enough to get out there and set up her lawn chair, without getting hit?

Texans. Freakingly crazier than bedbugs.

Edited to add link to story:
https://abc13.com/post/north-freeway-shut-down-both-ways-cypresswood-amid-heavy-law-enforcement-presence-armed-woman-pct-4-says/16855435/

[ms liberty]

1. Must be a white woman.

They shut down the interstate instead of running her over.

[PJMcK]

2. Texans?

How about folks from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Utah, Kansas, the Dakotas, etc.?

These crazy people voted for Trump. Freakingly crazier than bedbugs, as you wrote.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. I can vouch for Florida.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. As a psych social worker, there are many. We kept guns out of the hands of many.

There were 3 very paranoid clients we dealt with who kept on trying to get guns. There are areas in every town that has what we used to call “mental health ghettoes” usually near psych facilities - also in lower rent areas due to them living on Medicaid.

[mwmisses4289]

5. She may live in a part of that area that is lower on the economic scale,

but that area is generally higher income (think 1960-70's white flight from the inner city areas of houston). Also lots of gentrification since 1990's-2000's.

[Ping Tung]

6. The very apex of insanity was proven to be possible by the voters of the USA in 2024.

Further evidence can be found by seeing the result of that insanity in the form of a fat blond guy on the golf course chasing a ball and promoting war.

[H2O Man]

7. That's easy.

You noted she had a chair and a gun. One of those two is how she got to the middle safely. It was not the chair.

As a long retired worker at the county mental health clinic, I was among a team that responded to "community crises." This frequently involved a human being experiencing psychosis. Among other possibilities, they may have stopped taking prescribed medication, they may be using other substances, or both. When a gun was involved, the police were called, and they took the lead in a coordinated effort to resolve the situation.

Over the decades, I've met many, many people. As a rule, no one I've known signed up for a major mental illness. (Some criminal defendents fake symptoms, hoping for an insanity defense. But those attempts fail.) Most of those I served that had major mental illnesses were decent people, and some about the best you could meet. But they have an illness.