Apartment Life: #414

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

Life Update: 

My daughter is home from the hospital and was doing a bit better and then on Thursday had to go back to the ER. I wrote about that a couple of days ago. The doctors refuse to give her anything more powerful than Gabapentin or Ibuprofen so she's eating marijuana edibles for the pain and that is actually helping. She has a lot of doctors to see in the near future. I want to thank you all for sharing and donating to the GoFundMe that my daughter's friend set up for her. It meant a lot to us both.

I'm doing a bit better. I still can't raise my arms above my head but the headache from the concussion is gone and the pain everywhere is a little bit less.

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Sunday evening I heard the police helicopter flying over my apartment complex and looked outside. I spotted 2 police cars and stood there watching what was going on across the street. All of the sudden people started running out of all the apartments across the street because the police were making them evacuate.

The police started gathering together as more police cars started pulling up.

And then there were 5 of them and the police cars just kept coming.

The the K9 showed up. All of this happened in less than 40 minutes.

I watched the cop in the truck pull out a sledgehammer and a prybar as well as his shield. I knew they were getting ready to break the door open. I found out from neighbors when I went outside that there was a standoff situation going on across the street. The wife was standing outside trying to call the husband and he locked himself in the apartment and wouldn't come out. I don't know if he had a hostage or a gun or what but that's a lot of police and they evacuated the other apartments so I'm thinking he probably did.

Lots of police and Animal control came and picked up a loose pitbull that had been running around for 3 days.

People were lining the street, sitting on the sidewalk watching it all unfold. I took a few pictures as I walked Falcor and then went back inside.

Then the police breached the door and arrested the guy that is standing in front of the police truck.

And then I got a little video when they broke the door down, rushed in and arrested the guy. My brother, Billy is always asking me to get video when things like this happen.

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Poor Falcor is looking at me like, "Are you sure this is a good idea?" 🤣🤣

You might remember last year when I posted pictures about a lady named Shasta who took her wheelchair and ran all over our little garden and pretty much destroyed it. Well, Shasta is homeless and has been for quite some time. Last week she came to my door and asked me if she could get a glass of ice water and if I could charge up her power wheelchair. It was 90F/32C outside and I felt bad for her so I let her in. 

She assured me that it would only take 20 minutes to charge her chair.  🤔 So we sat there and talked and she apologized for destroying our garden. But her excuse was that the spirit of our friend, my elderly neighbor had possessed her wheel chair and made her crash twice. Once in our garden and once down the street. She said the spirit was trying to kill her. But the funny thing was that our friend, Dorothy hadn't even passed away yet! I know she caught herself in the lie but she decided to just go with it. 

I told her it had been 45 minutes and I had to go walk the dog. She wanted me to put the extension cord outside and I said no. So she went on her way. Or so I thought.

Not 5 minutes later I see the ambulance show up down by my apartment. Sure enough Shasta had called them right after she left my place. There was nothing wrong with her while she was in my apartment.

I walked by the ambulance so you could see it's the same power wheelchair. The ambulance waited there for a van to come and pick up the chair and bring it to the ER with her. It took about 20 minutes. 

I guess she just needed a place to stay for the night and when I didn't bite, she decided to go to the ER. Wow. 

The high this week was 98F/36C

The low this week was 66F/18C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.