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Figure I'd do so again.
This is from when my wife and I lived in a loft-complex near Oakland. We're now way out in the suburbs and all of our neighbors are boring. Mostly retired couples with kids that grown-up and moved out.
Anyway, let’s start in middle: Homeboy ended up running naked down the street in front of our loft complex, after letting his two dangerous pitbulls run free throughout the neighborhood. Cops and ambulance are called. He gets 5150’d.
Now let’s backtrack to how we got here, and what followed:
I want to say six months before that, the guy moved into the complex. Seemed nice enough. Had an Australian cattle dog, big into punk music. A little goofy, but innocuous. Not exactly the type of guy the wife and I would hang out with, but someone we’d say “Hi” to if we saw him in the hall and engage in polite conversation.
A few months after that we run into him in the loft’s complex parking lot, with his Australian dog, and two angry looking pitbulls. He tells us he’d heard that these two pitbulls were in a shelter and were going to get put to sleep, so he decided to save them. Okay, fine. But these two pitbulls look really aggressive. Even as we’re talking, the Australian sheep dog is making sure to keep as safe a distance from them as possible (while still on her leash). The female of the two pits looks like she’s just had puppies, so she was probably in hyper-aggressive protection mode, but with no puppies to protect. And our neighbor is oblivious to all of this. He tells us he’s never had a pitbull before, but figures it can’t be that difficult to care for one.
A few weeks later, one of the pits attacks another dog in the complex. Viciously attacks. Like it apparently took a full 90 seconds to get him off the other dog. The pit clamped onto the other dog’s head and wouldn’t let go. Only reason the other dog survived the attack is because the pitbull bit into a tumor (the dog he attacked was extremely elderly and infirm). The dog’s owner calls the cops and animal control. It’s a giant fucking mess.
And that was the incident that caused a complete psychotic break in dude.
He completely flips out after that. He locks himself in his apartment, with both of his dogs, and rarely, if ever, leaves. He starts blasting loud punk music and Jamiroquai at all hours of the day and night. Really weird people start coming and going into his loft all the time. When he does leave his loft, he often ends up locked outside the complex, yelling and throwing things at the building. The cops are called a few times, but he refuses to let them into his loft. Since he hasn’t technically destroyed any property, the cops say all they do is welfare checks; they can't make him let them in to the loft.
I later learn from his neighbor who lived upstairs from him that the weird people going in and out of his apartment are “disciples” of his who believe that he’s shaman that’s going to save the world.
Then one morning he completely flips out, lets two pitbulls free, and runs naked down the street.
Ambulance comes, he gets 5150’d, his family shows up to try to work things out. No one knows what happened to the pitbulls. Three days pass, he quietly comes back to the loft complex, and resumes his shut-in behavior while he’s family tries to do what it can to prevent him from getting evicted.
A week or two after that, the two pitbulls jump from his loft window and attack another dog walking out in front of the complex.
It turns out that on the day he got 5150’d, one of his “disciples” showed up, quietly collected the two dogs, and drove off. After the neighbor got released from the mental institution, the disciple brings both dogs back into the building during middle of the night. They stay in apartment the entire week, until that morning when the jump out of open window and attack the passing dog and the woman walking him.
Cops and animal control are called. Both pitbulls are taken into custody. I still don’t know how the guy managed to not get arrested after that. Building management start the eviction process, as it also turns out that on top of everything, he stopped paying his rent. Cops are called a few other times due to noise complaints, but no arrests. A couple of weeks later, him and his disciples pack up all his stuff into a U-Haul and leave in the middle of the night. Don’t know what happened to him. I do know the pitbulls got put into permanent foster care in a shelter/home for damaged animals. -----------------
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