Possible suicide near the Los Banos Pool. A lot of police are there if you can avoid the area.
Body Found Near Los Banos Pool
Roger
January 9, 2019, 4:28 am
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Parking lot area.
Very sad to see so many homeless today as I drove into and around SB. This is going to be a difficult month for them as lots of rain is predicted. Perhaps some will opt to go home to their families. How can people help with that effort? We had a situation here just yesterday. Motel evicted a guy and he set up camp behind our library, next to the motel. A ‘volunteer’ helped him load his stuff into his truck and supposedly, the guy drove him somewhere (bus station) so he could get to his family. That seems to me the only thing that will work.
6529. As someone who, for over 30 years, was acquainted with many outpatients from Camarillo State Hospital, I can state unequivocally that most families don’t want to know about their mentally ill relatives. Alcoholism is definitely something that stews the brain and warps one’s mind. Drugs? Who can relate to those addled brains? Sad truth is the families are more than happy to have their “lost” relatives keep their distance. The farther the better. Sometimes a bit of guilt will kick in and families will send money or dispense clothing, but ask them to house a crazy relative? You’re dreaming.
I think some police officers here do that I have heard of one police officer who has used his own money to buy tickets for some folks to get home before Our Cops got Hearts of Gold. Heard them transporting the Homeless to Warming centers too. We have Warming centers here where they can get out of the rain. All volunteer.
Is this coming month going to be more difficult than these people getting a job and providing for one’s basic needs? if they dysfunctional addicts, they need to be in an institution. If not, they need to get out of the rain on their own power.
It was the ACLU that made it illegal to hospitalize the mentally ill, not Reagan.
Have you ever tried to get a job while living on the streets? It’s one thing when your young but not everyone has Daddy to save their ass like Dear Donny.
It is really, really hard to know how to deal with “unstable” adult family members. It can be exhausting and frustrating, even ruinous. I have a sibling that blew through his inheritance gambling then turned around and asked for $ for dental care. SMH.
So sorry to hear and see all this. My brother in law suffers from schizophrenia. We can’t get him anywhere near Santa Barbara. He will be fine some days then completely awful on other days. My good friend is caring for his brother who was brilliant then had a brain aneurysm that made him less than coherent. They are going to kick him out of his accommodations because they have new, better money coming in. Many more stories. This happened on Reagan’s watch, but it was the ACLU that forced it. This is one of our country’s greatest needs, how to take care of the mentally challenged, handicapped, disturbed. Until we can address this issue, we will never be ‘the greatest nation’.
It was by shotgun in his truck, so not necessarily homeless.
Drugs: A childhood friend of my daughter’s became a woman who stole everything she could from anybody. She even stole a wedding ring that had been her grandmother’s from her mother. Her parents went through savings, retirement and the equity in their house to get her help, but couldn’t save her.
Keeping the mentally-disturbed at home: A disturbed middle-aged son living with his parents near Foothill Elementary heard voices telling him to kill his parents and the family dog. He did. In their sleep. He was hospitalized and cared for until (Reagan?) closed mental facilities on the grounds that having someone committed was illegal detention. There are those who need 24-hour supervision and care. They
You omitted the part where he also killed his two young sons…
There have been 2 other instances of Sons killing parents since 1980.
The real crisis is within our own borders.
ACLU lawsuit forced Gov Reagan to sign the bill closing the state care institutions. Time to stop even hinting this was Reagan’s fault. ACLU needs to step up and explain the full conseuences of their action to our communities most badly affected by this new “civil right”
I think they were trying to talk him down too when it happened Thanks TAGDES..
I personally don’t think badly of people who refuse to care for their psychotic family members once they become of age. I’m all for opening mental institutions again and forcing people to at least try to get help. The homeless crisis is out of control and is expected to get worse.
I had a schizophrenic brother who was diagnosed in the 1970’s. My parents worked really hard to try to get him help, but, due to the politics of the day, it was extremely, extremely difficult. He was homeless many times, incarcerated other times, committed to the psych ward many times. He was clever, and knew just what to say to get released.
I could write for days, but ultimately a halfway house was found, the owner was an angel, and he agreed to stay on his meds so that he could live there. He is no longer living. Having the crazy person live with the family is not realistic, it just isn’t. Trust me, I know this.
God bless those who care for the mentally hill. It’s a tough, tough job.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) is the statute that repealed President Carter’s Mental Health Systems Act which was supposed to continue federal funding for mental health programs. Reagan gave the appearance of making a consequentialist ethical decision because he presented his repeal of OBRA as an action that would best serve American society and do more good than harm as a result. The OBRA gave mental patients a choice to seek treatment outside of a mental institution, an option to seek treatment at clinics at the state level, and the freedom to administer their own medication . However, Reagan was hasty in taking unsound advice to repeal OBRA because his real motive was to cut the federal budget. He was a leader who never exhibited any interest in the need for research or better treatment for serious mental illness.
I rode past that on my bike. I wonder why no other news sources have reported this?