We had a guy, Cecil Leadinghorse who ran up a $2,000,000 hospital and transport tab paid for by the taxpayers for this same type of nonsense. My crews and I responded to him twice a day on many days. We never roughed him up, but often would take him back to his subsidized apartment instead of transporting whenever his vitals would allow. But he really wanted to go to the hospital to get some free food and attention from the nurses.
One time he was pulling this type of scam laying in front of a planter in front of a McDonalds. At that time I was a driver. The third man was taking his vitals and the Lieutenant was writing the report. I thought he would look better sitting up, so I sat him up in front of the planter. Then I thought that he would look a lot better siting on it, because that was what the planter was for.
So I got behind him on the planter, bent over and gripped the top of his jeans and gave him a good yank. My fingers slipped off his jeans but I had a good grip on the elastic band on the top of his tighty whities. My super wedgy pulled him all the way off the ground and when I let go it snapped him in the butt. He turned around and started trying to kick and punch me while he spit and made Cecil ninja sounds.
Then he ran into the McDonalds while yelling out an impressive stream of obscenities. He yelled that he wanted a coffee at the clerks and they responded that they had a court order banning him from the store. So he ran back outside and laid down in the exact same spot. So I ran over and grabbed at the back of his jeans. He got up and ran off while we all were laughing our butts off. No one had to respond to his hijinks for several days after that, but then he went right back into his old routine.
He eventually did make a recovery and is still alive today living in a nursing home.
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“Cecil” and countless others were the reason the nation used to have insane asylums.
True, that some were snake pits, like the expose Geraldo did on Brookhaven back in the seventies. But instead of closing them and letting the inmates out in the street to fend for themselves, they should have made institutional changes to the facilities.
Now, the streets are the madhouse’ and neither the sick and mentally impaired are safe nor the public at large!