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Alright. So..the crazy child molester story.


I had just gotten up, I had a strange dream the night before (that oddly enough, involved being chased by police AND crazy people) so I went out into the living room to tell my mom about it.

So there we were, idly discussing random things when there is a rustling outside. Usually that kind of noise would be one of the dogs trying to get through the plants and getting stuck or something like that. No big deal..they are giant, clumsy Great Danes...So I don't pay any mind to it until my mom scream "WHO ARE YOU?!" and I turn around to the window and there is a man I've never seen before in my life staring right back at me. He had a glazed over look in his eyes and there was absolutely no recognition in them. He was wearing white boardshorts, a navy tshirt and a hat. No shoes. He had crashed into the wooden archway that is covered in flowering vines and was now against the window and screen and he was looking for a way into the house. He made a movement towards the door but I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE." I had no idea what the hell was going on. My mom got the phone and called 911 and we both went out the back door as the man was in our driveway. He was obviously disoriented and I wasn't sure if he spoke english or even understood anything, so I pointed to the gate and yelled "EXIT! EXIT!" and he went towards the gate. Unfortunately, it was latched and he couldn't open it and he couldn't jump over it. So he started back towards us and the house. Thankfully, at this point the dogs came out...Except they were less into the idea of protecting their family and more into the fact that there was a new friend. But their size deterred him enough and he started back at the gate. I guess at this point he decided to try to hop the fence that ran between my house and the orange grove next door. So he went over to it and began to try to hop over it through the bushes. Unfortunately for him, he chose the one place where a cactus grows up in between the bushes. This whole time, he was silent. The only noise he made was when he crawled over the cactus. He fell over the fence and my mom got off the phone with 911. At this point we heard yelling on the street and we went out there to find out what the hell was going on.

As it turns out, this man had been on the school field/track area directly next to my house while a foothill football game was going on. He was acting strange and eventually moved to under the bleachers, where there were small children playing. He apparently was trying to grab them or touch them or doing something inappropriate, which raised the alarm to the parents and it just so happened that a good portion of the dads there that day were off duty cops. So when they approached him, he bolted, hopped over the fence around the field, booked it down our street, jumped over my garden wall (and stepped on one of my lettuces! god dammit) and tried to HIDE in MY house. If my mom had been at the store like she was planning I would have been alone in my room, with the door shut or if I had been at work, or if no one was home, he would have gotten into the house and according to a cop he may have been able to hold one of us hostage.

SO, back to the story, there is a small angry mob of men after him. At this point the police have arrived and they are directed to the orange grove where this crazy bastard is loose. Apparently he tried to break into my next door neighbor's house as well, the man that lives in the orange grove, but his nurse, her husband and the man that picks oranges for him were all there. There was also a family buying oranges at the time. So he is running around, he turns back towards my house and a guy finally tackles his ass right against the fence. It takes 4 men to hold him down, he is still struggling, he is maced AND tazed and still trying to get away. He eventually had to be hog tied. The entire street was blocked off with cops cars, an ambulance, there may have been a firetruck there as well. It took 4 guys to carry him to the squad car and then he started convulsing (which I was told was probably from the drugs and not the tazing.) And yeah.

Fucking scary. Scariest thing I've ever encountered in my life. This man was like a wild animal. It might as well have been, there was nothing behind his eyes. He just was scared as fuck and wanted to get away and thats what makes people dangerous. I guess he was on acid or pcp because the way he was acting was not the way people act on other drugs. And..yeah.

God damn, you guys. God damn.