I worked with a guy that was about 50 years old, never married and kinda quiet. We were eating lunch one day and I noticed he had his dog tied to his truck. I asked him if he took his dog everywhere and he said he had to because his neighbors would poison it if he left it at home. He said that he also had to stop every day and buy food because if he left food at home his neighbors would poison it also. I actually thought he was joking but he kept on talking and said they watched him through the walls with some kinda of infared device and would come in his house at night while he slept. I tried to change the subject and he kept talking.
I imagine he was like these people.
From ‘The Ballad of Pious Pete’’, by Robert Service:
http://www.robertwservice.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?page=1&itemid=68
“They’re taking me out with an escort about, and under a sergeant’s care;
I am humbled indeed, for I’m ‘cuffed to a Swede that thinks he’s a millionaire.
But it’s all Gospel true what I’m telling to you— up there where the Shadow falls—
That I settled Sam Noot when he started to shoot electricity into my walls”
I have a very long time friend who had a mental breakdown about 10 years ago. She’s on some heavy duty drugs and is ok most of the time but every once in awhile will go off on a tangent about something weird like the guy you talked to. The last time was the neighbor guys in her building was piping something into her apartment that was making her nauseous and her apartment stink....and someone was watching her and breaking in and destroying her clothes when she was gone.
I told her to make an appt for her doc to adjust her meds.