A Life Interrupted Nothing Is As It Appears

July 7, 2015

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June 15, 2015

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 7

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To recap the tale so far, I, being a homeless, untreated schizophrenic living on the street at the time, was set upon without provocation by Constable Shithead in Langley, B.C. late one night after I exited a bar at closing time.  The ever charming Constable Shithead laid a beating on me at the side of the street, loaded me into his cruiser, and carted my sorry ass about 15 kms out of town where he hauled me out of the cruiser and abandoned me at the side of the road with the instruction to not return too Langley. Outraged and full of righteousness, and with a sizeable chip on my shoulder, I made my way on foot back to the city to seek retribution for my mistreatment. Arriving at the police station, I was turned away by an officer manning the front desk with the flimsy excuse that he could not formally lodge a complaint against Constable Shithead because he lacked a supply of forms upon which to take my statement.  Fully convinced that I was being deflected by the officer in an effort to protect Constable Shithead, I got quite pissy with the officer. Having kicked the beehive so to speak, I left in a fit of impotent rage to go and sleep the night away and fight the battle another day, unaware that the police, like a swarm of angry bees, had plans of their own.  The opening of this, the seventh part in the series, sees me confronted by two people in front of a strip plaza just outside the city center three or four days after my attendance at the police station.
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May 22, 2015

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May 21, 2015

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 6

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Hello folks.  I’m back. I must apologize profusely for the abject neglect of my blog these last six or seven months and ask your forgiveness. As events were, I experienced a schizophrenic episode and was temporarily disabled. My doctor instructed me to cease my usual endeavors and prescribed a period of rest and relaxation until I recovered.  I have just now begun picking up again my usual commitments and obligations and have only recently returned to work. Going forward, my attention to my blog will again be more regular. read more

October 12, 2014

Schizophrenia Simulator

Anderson Cooper, from CNN, tries life as a schizophrenia using a simulator.

Anderson Cooper, from CNN, tries life as a schizophrenia using a simulator.

This is just a little teaser of interest I found to hold you over until the next installment of Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends, as I have fallen behind. The next installment should appear in the next two or three days.  In the meantime, follow the link below to watch Anderson Cooper experience a simulation of hearing voices. This video shows in simulation what would take a thousand words to describe and still not convey the experience as pointedly. Watch the following video as posted on Youtube: read more

September 22, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 5

I arrived at the Langley Police Department approximately five hours after being unceremoniously dumped at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in the darkness of early morning tired, hungry, sober, and a little foot sore, though nonetheless determined and indignant.  The sun had only recently risen. I arrived at the detachment on the wings of the belief that the actions of a rogue constable would not be found acceptable to the powers that be in the Langley police department.  Someone needed to take Constable Shithead down a peg or two and I was just the man to do it. I deserved the respect. read more

August 20, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 4

After a five minute pow-wow the two officers split up. The second officer went back to his cruiser, pulled away from the curb and disappeared into the night.  Constable Shithead entered into the driver’s seat of our cruiser and started the engine.

“What’s happening?” I asked anxiously through the plexi-glass divider on the back of his seat that stood between us.

“Shut up!” he barked with what I had come to recognize as his usual charm. He accelerated the cruiser away from the curb and drove off down the road heading to the outskirts of town with the dash cluster casting a dim blue light upon his visage the side of which I could see over his right shoulder. read more

August 9, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 3

Seeing that I was no longer any risk of resisting the policeman stood up.  Towering over me, he reached with his right hand across his upper torso to the mic of his radio located on his left shoulder and called for back-up, not that I was in a position too pose any threat. Pulling a set of cuffs from his belt, the policeman knelt down, rolled me over on my stomach, and cuffed my hands behind my back. He then angrily told me to get up lifting me by my bound hands at the same time. He walked me over to the cruiser, opened the back door, and roughly shoved me inside. I had caught my breath and, not daunted by my wounded pride and rough treatment, anger burned in my gut. read more

July 24, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 2

Outside in the fresh air it was a cold, dark and uninviting December early morning. I took a deep breath, exhaled, and wished for a smoke of which I had none. A pleasant, mild burning sensation from the beer warmed my guts. To my left a street light cut a conical form of light in the darkness emanating from the bulb at the top of the pole. A row of similar light forms stood as sentinels against the darkness down the road behind it off into the distance.  Same thing in the opposite direction. The streets were empty. Not a soul could be seen. There was an eerie silence. I rolled up the collar on my jacket against the cold and started off at a leisurely pace to the right in the direction of the city center.  Having been in the city for over a week I knew that along the way I would run into a derelict 18 wheeler truck cab abandoned in a small field where, being homeless, I planned to spend the night protected from the elements. It had a bolster and would keep me dry if it rained as it often did in Langley, a veritable five star Hilton to me compared to the places I had become accustomed to sleeping in and the concrete floors I had known. read more

July 20, 2014

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