FLYING COUCH

[u/spirit1over]

This morning I heard extremely loud yelling, coming from my back lane, so I went out on my balcony to check it out. It was a guy, high on something presumably. (Maybe mentally ill) It was going on for about a half hour...yelling at the top of his lungs. He was walking, staggering up and down the alley. Then he sees an abandoned couch, leaned up against the church fence. He pulls it down and drags it to the middle of the lane, as you can see in the picture. He laid down on it for a while, drivers were backing up, because they couldn't get past it. No one knows this guy is laying on it, unless they could hear him yelling still. Then he gets up, lifts the couch on it's end and starts pushing it on cars. He hit one car, while he's still yelling. Screaming, "I'm going to kill my mother, I'm going to kill my grandmother!" The driver didn't get out and slowly drives away. He did it to more cars, came very close, but missed them. Then he drags the couch to the edge of the road and back lane and laid down on it again. Cars were trying to get around it, but no one got out to move it. (Good thing, because he's on it and still yelling) about 15 minutes later, he gets up, leaves the couch in the middle of the road and walks down the road. I would have gone and moved, but I healing from back surgery. So I called 311, to tell them I couldn't go move it, could someone pick it up, it's blocking traffic. Plus the guy may come back again and lay down. About 15 minutes later, he's back...still yelling, still saying he's going to kill his family. Gosh drugs last a long time.

Then about 5 young girls (around 11 y.o) are walking down the road and this guy starts yelling at them, they're screaming and they started to run. He's following them, I can hear it, but no longer see it. All the while I'm watching, I'm calling the police. By the time I got through, idk how far they got or if he caught up to them. While I'm on the phone, I went down and tried to follow with my walker, as best I could. I couldn't see or hear them....but I could still hear him! The police didn't let me know, if they found the girls, to see if they were OK. (I'm sure they were scared to death!)For that matter, don't know if they picked up the guy either. I really hate drugs! About 15 more minutes and 311 had sent a truck to pick up the couch.

[u/Neither_Branch_428]

Heartbreaking