My Husband Was Attacked by a Homeless Person Today!
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So my husband was outside with both of our dogs and a homeless man was sleeping in our building's grassy area (AKA, the building's dog patch). Our dogs started having a fit about the man being there, so my husband asked him to move off of the private property.
Well, as soon as my husband bent down the homeless man grabbed his shirt and took him to the ground. There was a scuffle down the sidewalk as my husband tried to get the guy to let go of him. And all of the sudden a few other people (I don't know if they were transients, as we have dozens around here) started getting in my husband's face yelling at him for beating on an old guy. :eek:
My husband ran into our building, let the dogs back in our apartment, called the police (who told him to go wait out front) and then went to the management office to report the incident before going outside.
Now we live right across from work, so when my husband called, I ran home. Medics and firefighters were surrounding the old homeless man, meanwhile my husband is sitting alone on our stoop directly across from two men sitting in their ambulance. :mad:
My husband may be the size of a linebacker, but he's also a diabetic with a heart condition and he looked like SHIT!
I ran back to the firefighters and medics and asked why the fuck they weren't attending to my husband and they instructed me to go ahead and test his blood sugar myself.
By the time I got back down from my apartment the police were there copping an attitude with my husband. I start to try to test my husband's blood sugar and a female police officer is giving me 'tude and telling me to step her way. NOT UNTIL I TEST HIS SUGAR! The fucking medics were with him by this time and they weren't testing his sugar or checking his heart.
My husband was fine, though his shirt collar was torn to bits and his neck is quite bruised.
This whole things pisses me off. These transients piss and shit all over our building. We try to simply ignore them, but sometimes....
So in the end we spent over an hour with my husband giving the story over and over with the cops basically taking the side of the homeless man. We are lucky my husband wasn't arrested and that's fucked up.
I've seen some strange shit since we moved here, but I always thought if something happened the cops would be there to back us up.
I guess that's not the case. :(
Well, as soon as my husband bent down the homeless man grabbed his shirt and took him to the ground. There was a scuffle down the sidewalk as my husband tried to get the guy to let go of him. And all of the sudden a few other people (I don't know if they were transients, as we have dozens around here) started getting in my husband's face yelling at him for beating on an old guy. :eek:
My husband ran into our building, let the dogs back in our apartment, called the police (who told him to go wait out front) and then went to the management office to report the incident before going outside.
Now we live right across from work, so when my husband called, I ran home. Medics and firefighters were surrounding the old homeless man, meanwhile my husband is sitting alone on our stoop directly across from two men sitting in their ambulance. :mad:
My husband may be the size of a linebacker, but he's also a diabetic with a heart condition and he looked like SHIT!
I ran back to the firefighters and medics and asked why the fuck they weren't attending to my husband and they instructed me to go ahead and test his blood sugar myself.
By the time I got back down from my apartment the police were there copping an attitude with my husband. I start to try to test my husband's blood sugar and a female police officer is giving me 'tude and telling me to step her way. NOT UNTIL I TEST HIS SUGAR! The fucking medics were with him by this time and they weren't testing his sugar or checking his heart.
My husband was fine, though his shirt collar was torn to bits and his neck is quite bruised.
This whole things pisses me off. These transients piss and shit all over our building. We try to simply ignore them, but sometimes....
So in the end we spent over an hour with my husband giving the story over and over with the cops basically taking the side of the homeless man. We are lucky my husband wasn't arrested and that's fucked up.
I've seen some strange shit since we moved here, but I always thought if something happened the cops would be there to back us up.
I guess that's not the case. :(
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Sorry about your hubby, man that just stinks. I'm guessing his glucose level was ok? I'm diabetic too.....
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I've never had anything even close to that happen to me. I wonder what caused all the hostility in the guy? Maybe the dogs startled him? Either way, the whole thing was not being handled appropriately by the authorities who are supposed to be there to help.
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I know how the treatment goes for the homeless guys as well. Well not treatment, but they just tend to roll your eyes at you.
My cousin tried to get a homeless guy out of his back alley, and long story short, the guy picked up a golf club and hit him across the face and then three guys out of nowhere jump on him too. He was in a short coma, and spent 3 weeks in the hospital.
We had the hardest time just getting a police report written up because they didn't want to go after the homeless guys because they were just homeless and should have just been left alone. Basically they said they'll never catch the guy, they don't know who it is, and they don't want to investigate it. They finally got one so insurance wouldn't find a way to weasel out of it.
I hope everything works out and your lives can get back to normal quickly.
Yeah, his gluclose was fine. But, I was worried when I first saw him. He had that classic pale, sweaty not all there look about him.
The one nice police officer has me way more concerned about the homeless here around downtown Seattle and the surrounding hills. She gave examples of police trying to do the same as my husband and ending up stabbed, because it's the person's automatic response to protect themselves.
I think we may move to the next hill over when our lease is up. We're right by the freeway and the food bank is directly behind us, so we have a lot of transient traffic.
Many are nice. In fact my husband had just purchased a copy of Real Change on his way home.
But, you just never know.
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That is really fucked up and infuriating!!!! I'm so sorry this happened!
Our dogs are big, my husband is big. It is possible he was startled out of his sleep.
The guy is still sitting outside on our side stoop. It's weird. I feel sorry for him. This situation sucks, but how many times a day does this guy feel like he has to defend himself - and for GOOD reason??? :(
Oh yeah, and our East Precint sucks. If I find the photos, I'll share a little story about how they handled one woman's eviction from her apartment.
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Kudos to you for being able to put your anger aside and try to see this from his perspective. If I were in your shoes, I'm sorry to say that I don't think I'd be ready to show that kind of compassion.
OMG! :eek: Now that is fucked up.
We've been told we're supposed to call the cops every time these guys are on the private property. That's fine. I used to expedite permits. I know all about being a squeaky wheel.
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These people are literally all around us. I tend to look people in the eye. Some are just high or out of their minds, others show true despair. I feel guilty walking out of my apartment to get groceries, then passing by folks with my bag full of freshly purchased goods. Meanwhile, they are waiting for hand outs from the food bank. It's humbling.
But, my anger isn't that far aside. If one of these people tries to mess with me I will defend myself to the best of my ability.
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I guess today proved that you should be ready to do so.
Living in Chicago, I got very relaxed around the homeless population. That's not to say I was immune to feeling sad for them, but I just got so used to them being everywhere and especially on the train that I really let my guard down, if that makes sense. But I guess you can't ever really know what to expect when you're dealing with someone who is malnourished, possibly under the influence of drugs/alcohol, desperate, frightened, mentally or physically ill, etc...
with that being said. the cops should be doing something about this.
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James works with the police on several issues at his work, helping them achieve their objectives. We thought our positions would give us some credibility, but they just kept seeing James as a linebacker sized guy with two large dogs.
I'm glad the one female officer ran up to our scene from Pioneer Square. She seemed to be able to talk some sense into her colleagues. Phew!
What's sad is my little Timber boy gets all shy when I take him to the side of the building where it all went down. :(
We are definitely moving when our lease is up.
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"We've laid the groundwork. It's like planting the seeds. And next year, it's spring." - Nader
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Prepare for tending to your garden, America.
But that's not as bad as what your husband (and you and your dogs) went through. I'm sorry that happened. :(
Thank you.
On a lighter note. I recently had a homeless guy try to entertain me with a lewd "pole" dance around a street sign. :eek:
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"We've laid the groundwork. It's like planting the seeds. And next year, it's spring." - Nader
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Prepare for tending to your garden, America.
ha!
I'm really sorry about what happened Urban, sounds truly awful, it's strange how events unfold sometimes. I hope hubby is ok.
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well at least no one got really hurt, as backwards as that all sounded!!
hope you 2 are alright