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In reply to the discussion: Mother turns over sexting 13-year-old daughter to police for ‘harsh’ punishment [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)We received involuntary detentions from 3 or 4 rural counties. I did it for 4 years. Some of the admissions had been engaged in pretty violent acts. One guy was brought in after ramming a bunch of other vehicles deliberately with his truck at a dealership. He had found out that his wife had been having an affair with the owner of the dealership. That guy still had a knife on him that the cops had missed on their pat-down. He pulled it out & chased a psychiatrist around the staffing table a couple of times with it before the (female) chief nurse took it away from him.
And then there was what I used to refer to as "Taylor County Pattern #2" because it was so common. Every so often a guy would grab a gun, announce his intention to kill himself, & head out into the woods (almost always at night). The cops would go out after him, talk him down & bring him back. Can you imagine the Fergustan cops doing that?