I used to work with a guy whose son is also a "ticking time bomb". He has told me stories about waking up in the middle of the night to find his son standing next to his bed with a knife in his hand staring at him. He would sometimes come to work with fresh bruises or contusions from his son attacking him. He's called the police on his son numerous times and has had him committed at least twice. The kid is a mental case and my friend honestly believes his son will eventually kill him sooner or later; he's come to accept this. By the way, his son is around the mid- to late-late twenties.Thomas wrote:If they thought he was really dangerous as they're saying, then why didn't they call the police earlier. Either these people are really stupid or are making it up for their 15 minutes (in which case that still means they're really stupid).
Even with all this, the authorities either can't or won't do anything about it and the kid still lives with my friend and his wife. The wife, by the way, refuses to allow him to be committed again and says she'll leave him if he has their son committed. She believes she can love him to health even though he abuses her, too.
It may not be as cut and dry as "why didn't they call the police earlier." Maybe they did. There's only so much the authorities can do.
Last I heard, he was working behind the scenes and behind his wife's back to get the State of Texas to declare his son a danger and have the State commit him. This way, it's the State doing it and not him and his wife won't be able to blame him, and his son would then be able to get the care he needs in a controlled environment.