quickcurl

Just the mental image of this couple is making me LMAO!!!! Can you see them walking down the street? Him in his wizard outfit, holding the paw of the Magic Dragon????

I'm sorry....I really shouldn't laugh. This is a really crappy situation. You're doing the right thing by documenting everything you can. Do you know if you're the only ones that have to deal with him, or does he terrorize other tenants, too?

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afrosheenqueen

I wouldn't get too relaxed though. Home Dood is Nuking Futs with violent tendencies. One day he may bust through your door calling you "Saruman!" and beating you with his staff.

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velvet paws

We'd be able to get that restraining order then.

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velvet paws

Newest Drama!

So, a few weeks have gone by and we haven't heard anything from the Wizard. This morning, he came up to our floor and starting pounding on the door of the apartment next to ours, yelling some nonsense about how there was Al Qaeda in his apartment and he had to get out. The guy that lives there is an elderly gentlemen, maybe in his 70s and he's pretty frail. His wife passed away a few months ago and he's not doing very well. Anyway, this made me mad, so I opened my door and told him to knock it off and go away, or I was going to call the cops again. The old man is yelling from inside his apartment that he's going to call the cops. I shut and lock my door and then he pounds on my door so hard that he cracked it! He also took my neighbor's doormat and through it out the window.

Meanwhile, I call the police and put on a pair of high heels and stomp around the apartment for a while, until the cops come. We tell them what's going on, how he broke our door and is randomly harassing the poor man next to us. While this is happening, the woman that lives next door to him crept up the stairs and starts to tell the police how he's made threats to her and she's terrified of him. They leave and go and knock on his door and for once, he actually opened it. Then they told him to knock it off, and that if they get called one more time they're going to arrest him.

A few hours later, we hear him outside putting up signs around the building. We go outside and start ripping them down. This is what they say:

Now, we don't even own a stereo, so I don't know what the heck he's talking about. While he's putting the notes up, my fiance and I start ripping them down and he runs away into his apartment. He must've gone to the copyshop and made about 50 copies of them My super lives on his floor and his wife opened the door to see what the fuss was about, along with a neighbor on each side, and again, we told him to knock it off. He whined that he had the right to put up signs and that us taking them down was an assault on him.

So, anyway, hopefully this will be the first move in actually getting the guy evicted. I wasn't aware that he was bothering other neighbors or anything.

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Aries_jb

Wow. Your life is definitely not dull, lol.

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RedCatWaves

He's probably mistaking the noises/voices in his head (and feet apparently) for music coming from your apartment. Be careful...that's the kind of person who can kill you...and it won't matter if you're right.

cympreni

wow, that is insane. Hopefully he'll get arrested or evicted soon. But I would provoke him any further (with the stomping and stuff) It might just make it worse. you never know what those kind of people are capable of. I was living with a guy who had a psychotic break-through once, very scary.

fig jam

You are definitely dealing with someone who is mentally ill. Most mentally ill people are not dangerous, but someone who is paranoid and frightened is more likely to be . . . and the way you describe his behavior, I am guessing that's what is going on.

Do you know any mental health professionals in your area who can advise you the best way to proceed (according to local statutes) to mobilizing officials to get him the help he needs? The police may very well be the best way -- I'd deal through them, and not directly with this poor fellow.

If he is indeed as ill as his behavior indicates, he is not in control of his actions and decisions as you and I might be. He is probably scared and overwhelmed and trying to make sense of the world as best he can. I'm not saying you should tolerate his behavior or adjust to it -- but stay calm, try not to do things that would escalate his reactions -- and let the police know you are concerned about his safety as well as your own. That might get their attention.

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velvet paws

I don't normally do that - we don't wear shoes at all in the house normally, and we also have area rugs. Trust me, we're a very quiet couple. I hope the fact that he cracked my door will be enough to get the landlord to move against him, but we'll see. If I can get the other tenants to actually complain, I'm sure things would go quicker.

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cympreni

believe me I know how frustraiting and agraviating it can be, and how easy it is to do something like that, so I dont blame you at all. the guy I was living with drove me to do many things that I dont normally do, including yelling at him, and purposefully doing stuff that would anger him. but it really didn't help anything. You never know how they will intrepret anything. I took a psych. class in high school, the teacher told us about this one type of paranoia called "delusions of reference" where everything and anything is a conspiracy against them, even the rain is an attempt by "them" to keep him inside. although it was an amusing conversation in the class, it's not very amusing to be face-to-face with someone who actually has it and is focased on you.