Jokes.

[Gunge]

It seems that having a mental illness is in vogue these days, the latest must-have accessory. Nah, it's just a cop-out for gaining attention / avoiding work or an excuse for being a weak-minded soul who baulks at all of life's usual hurdles. I blame my own belligerence and intolerance of snowflakes etc on my current mental state of disrepair. And that's no joke. Or maybe it is. You decide.

 

[Dozzer]

yes indeed lots of violence out there, Mostly sponsored by some state or religion and plenty of violent people prepared to hurt others because they don’t share their views. Best not to look into the abyss though

 

[ARTYCHOKE]

Foxy, you are indeed VERY fortunate to have not encountered "the bad guys". I did & rather too often for comfort and I was only on the catering/service side of a large psychiatric hospital for two separate three month stints ! Once, I was grabbed at the throat by a male hiding behind the locked entrance door & once by an elderly female trying to gouge my wrists with her finger nails when she had "gone off on one" & was attacking a young female nurse. I heard cries for help & investigated. She attacked me instead. I later discovered that the male had discharged a 12 bore shotgun on his mother-in-law, wife & others in a mass murder. I should have kept his card for later in my life ! :-). Not funny really I know.

 

[Dozzer]

Yesterday I had a date with a girl with a plasticine ******, we didn’t get to do it but I think I made a good impression

 

[Dozzer]

Anyway this is fun, I suspect I’ll have ignored most of you by the end of this thread.

Keep it up

 

[Dutto]

I’ve been in the job 35 years and I’ve yet to meet someone with a mental illness who is a risk to the public, risk to themselves perhaps but not others. Sad that isn’t it?

I met one; if the Police can be classed as "the public".

I was a policeman on night shift and patrolling a small town when I turned a corner and nearly bumped into a giant; I stood just under 6ft at the time and I was looking at the man's Adams-apple! I established that the giant had just been released from the Bracebridge Heath facility near Lincoln but he was okay with me and slept the night in a local bus-stop.

However the next day, having refused to pay his Bill in a cafe, he picked up my Sergeant and started to demolish the cafe by using him as a battering ram. The Sergeant was discarded when the Duty Officer got involved and a few more tables and chairs were demolished before the lad was finally arrested by a concerted effort involving four policemen, the owner of the cafe and a local farm labourer.

To get back to the "Quote" above, all I can say if that the following day there was no shortage of bruises being displayed by the two Officers who had been used as battering rams and they would definitely have considered him a "risk"!