On The Street Where I Live - 3

The Crazed

Further up the street lived a young man and his mother. He was apparently schizophrenic. Every couple of years, he'd take a gun and try to shoot out the electrical transformer at the top of the hydro pole in front of his house. He claimed there was a camera there spying on him. That's when his mother phoned the police and they'd take him to the hospital, but not before the son and mother make a scene on their front lawn, drawing all the neighbours out to watch.

The son would point the gun, throw thing, and shout at the pole. The mother cried and screamed, begging her son to stop. She woud tell the neighours to not mind her son as he only got paranoid when he was off his meds. Neighbours would try to calm her, get her away from the house until the police and ambulance took the son away.

But the last time it happened, the mother obtained a restraining order against her son. We don't know where he is now and the mother doesn't talk about it. Some neighbours say he now lives in an institution where he receives full time care.