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A lot of times they were not just crazy but also completely whacked out on drugs or alcohol, or both, and sometimes they were
also foreigners with no English speaking skills, just to make things really interesting. Some were lifelong crazy and some got
there suddenly with no warning and sometimes I was the first one to meet their new scary personas. I took a lot of them to the
hospital emergency room for psychiatric evaluations. The compliant ones went voluntarily in the back seat of a police car. The
non-compliant ones were strapped down on gurneys and taken by ambulance. The combative ones were drugged with forced
intranasal sprays that put them into a drooling stuporous state of cooperation. Some of my clients graduated on to state mental
institutions and they did not come back. Others had unfortunately actually just returned from those places. Some crazy people
knew that they were mentally ill; they were the easiest ones to work with. Those were also the rare ones. Unfortunately, most of
the crazy folks I met did not know that they were mentally ill. Sometimes I tried telling them about the reality that they actually
lived in but my conversion and success rate was miserably low.

I met a lot of injured people. Injuries like contusions, concussions, lacerations, fractures, punctures, and crushings. I saw a lot
of bloody people. Bloody dead people, bloody live people, and bloody live people who were dying. I saw blood in cars,
ambulances, police cars, blood in pools and in thick puddles on the ground, blood soaked through clothing, blood under bodies,
and blood pouring from people’s heads and faces. I saw people with teeth knocked out, hair pulled out, broken noses, cut with
knives, hit with bottles, hit with boards, hit with cars, stabbed, broken bones, punched and slapped and smacked and shot and
run over. I saw too many people vomit in my presence and I met more than a few folks with poop on them, some dead, some
alive; some knew it, some didn’t. I’ve picked up more broken body parts than I ever wanted to, that includes pieces of skull,
teeth, a finger…and no that was not all from the same scene those were different times and places and victims.