Re: Fairfax County Community Service Board (CSB).
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horror story
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Date: October 10, 2015 11:47AM
I, and several others, look after a somewhat elderly friend with some mental health issues.
He likes to get out from time to time. I took him to McDonald's (he likes the free tea refills), and told him I'd run an errand or two and come back. I have done this before, he doesn't wander, he sits and drinks his tea and may try to read something.
When I came back, there were three police cars. He was in the back of one of them.
It turns out someone was in the McDonald's selling something. He did not respond well to this. The "saleslady" called the police and told him he had propositioned her and exposed himself.
I told the police this was ridiculous but they would not budge. The McDonald's manager said she knew my friend, he had never done anything like that.
I asked the police if they could get mental health services involved, they said I had to do it.
I called his doctor, the office said to take him to the Emergency Room, I said I can't, he's in a police car.
They suggested I call the Fairfax mental health mobile crisis van. I called them and they were busy.
I called the doctor's office back, they got his doctor on the phone, the doctor talked to the police.
I got a lecture about leaving an "unstable person" out without supervision (he's not unstable, just don't hassle him, he'll say odd things).
The McDonald's manager then tried to file a complaint against the "saleslady" and the police said since they did not see it, they would not do anything (of course they did not see the alleged exposing but that's neither here nor there).
So why do I pay taxes? The police are not sensitive to mental health issues. Fairfax' mental health services are useless. This was a crisis.
So this poor guy suffers, shut up by himself in the house. I guess he's lucky the zoning people did not come out.