I feel sorry for the residents on Waller Road, right next to the Transfer Station. One neighbor who seems to be a bit unstable has turned his home, yard and vehicles into a sort of billboard of anger. While most of the more graphic images have been removed, there must be something the County can do to eliminate this mess?
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unfortunatly we have tried EVERYTHING to have some help to him. personally know the owner of this residence and I dont live far from it. The police have been involved many times and nothing can be done because they say he isnt breaking any laws. He has been unstable for about the past 5 months that I know of and we have gone at every angle to have him helped ...by means of emergency petitions in two counties, there have been letters mailed to the residents of waller, hickory mill and calvary circle numerous times and we have called on harrasement and messing with peoples mailboxes because the first couple were hand delivered. He walks the streets at night and does god knows what. If anyone has any ideas on more help please post. The police cant do anything unless he says he will hurt him self or others.
He believes that in doing all this it will have those come forth that he believes is/or/has been watching him for over a year now. It's becoming very hard for his family to handle. It's so sad that he really believes he is fine. What it doesn't show is the porn he has up on the truck and that he has phone number's that does not belong to him on the for sale sign. Also the lady's name he has on there as the person to contact passed away August 2, 2009 so in putting her name on there he hopes to upset/piss off the man she was seeing. In doing so he is also hurting his family member's who have not still gone through the greiving process. It's very sad that he has been addmitted to PRMC many time's and they keep letting him go. It's stupid and I believe the hospital should get better health staff. He has not continued with his med's when he left the hospital. Also shown on the jeep is many things about WBOC in which he has some obsession with the weather girl Ms. Whalen and a new's caster Mrs. Rodriquez. Please anyone that find's this as a disturbance please contact the Wicomico County Police. This man is in need of serious help before he harm's himself, and or others. There is nothing more his family can do with them going insane as well.
How about we do this... Leave him alone.
Is walking around at night illegal?
Is painting words on your own house illegal?
Does doing either of those two things hurt anyone else?
Do you want to "help" him for his benefit or for yours?
If you think you should have the power to make him decorate his home the way you want, or if you think you should have the power to prevent someone from walking around at night, then maybe the USA is not the place for you.
While I agree that if the person is in need of mental help he should seek it. As far as him painting on his own house, while it might not be pleasant, it is his home to do with as he pleases. This is not a communist bloc country, unless you live in a commie run development under the rules and auspices of a HOA, it is none of your business what he does to his property. Like it or not, this is America, land of the free. It doesn't say land of the free as long as it doesn't offend me.
anonymous 9:34, untiol he becomes your neighbor.
anonymous 9:36, try doing this in Salisbury.
Why should the government infringe on this guy's personal freedoms, Joe?
anonymous 9:40, I can't argue that point, seriously.
However, if you saw the more graphic parts of what he has done you'd be concerned.
No child should ever be subjected to the images this guy has painted on his home.
Joe,
No, being my neighbor or yours, or anyone elses, does not give anyone the power to determine what he can paint on his own home.
There may be any number of things about you that I do not agree with. Just like I feel that painting silly things on a home is in poor taste, but I would stand arm in arm with both you and he to defend all our right to do those silly things.
I'm not sure that a poorly executed red and blue spraypainting would qualify as pornography. Ugly, yeah sure, but I don't think there are laws against that.
9:34.... you are not getting the ignorant phone calls or the ignorant texts that say he is on his way to ur house. always gotta be a jerk in the bunch
This is America and yes he does have the right to put up what he wan'ts on. I stopped to look at the truck and in doing so I called the number to find out more info on the truck only to find out that the lady he has on there has been deceased for 6 months. It's disturbing to me that While I was looking at the vehicle my child seeing the pornography was very upsetting to me. That is not something that should be displayed on a for sale vehicle.
ur not getting the point...i really dont care what is on his house. i live not 2 minutes from him and have to ride by his house to and from work...i could care less...i dont have to look at it. just saying its ignorant and he scares the neighbors and walks and put things in our mail boxes after being told not to. the vehicle is not forsale. its a ploy to have someone call the number and ask the man who answers to speak with a woman who has been dead for 6 months! look at the picture...what is the white picture with white dots coming out of it? i would call that pornography
9:49
Maybe he is being unreasonable. Maybe he does need help.
If all you want is for him to stop bothering you on your phone... block his number.
If you want to help him, talk to him.
If you want to force him to behave a certain way, then you are the jerk in the bunch.
9:49
Is the pornography "displayed" as you say it is, or is it just inside the vehicle and you need to look in to see it.
If the former is true then I think the police can do something about that.
If as I suspect, the latter is true, then stop looking inside someone elses truck.
Anonymous 9:49 1st That takes thing to a different level. That has nothing to do with the house , that is personal . Call the police .
If you mean the white painting on the fence to the left, I guess if I squint and turn my head to the side, it sorta looks like two alligators. Not really sure though. I thought I had a good imagination but this one has me stumped.
I won't detail my personal experience with a mentally ill family member, but I will simply state the 2 key facts I've learned through this process.
1) the mentally ill person cannot be helped until they decide to get help.
2) and this is the big one. The authorities will NOT help until this man has put either his life or someone else in danger. And then they will throw the book at him in court and treat him like a regular criminal.
This man believes that the people inside the tv are talking to directly him. He believes someone planted a tracking/gps system inside his body or inside his phone to keep tab's on him at all times. He believes that Ms. Whalen the weather girl on CBS is in love with him and want's him there for got a room that over look's WBOC at the bestwestern so he could keep an eye on her. That's considered stalking and is against the law. He also believes that he met Maggie Rodriquez another news caster for WBOC using an alias name and want's him. He text's his family member's and call's them interigating them trying to find answer's to it all that no one can explain because it's all made up in his head. He has made several threat's to the man his mother was dating for 8 years. This man let him stay in his home for 3 month's after the passing of his mother feeding him, letting him have access to all 3 of his vehicle's, putting a roof over his head money etc. In which he went out drinking and driving several time's, causing over 1,000.00 worth of damages and laughed about it. When he was arrested the first time and then released he busted out the back window to this man's truck and took off in it again. When the owner of the vehicle came to pick up his vehicle this man became very angry and hostile toward's him even more believeing he was wrong for taking it back. He has also meantioned someone being stabbed and he thought he might have done something to harm someone and thought that he was going to go to prison for a long time. None of the thought's he is having is real and he is really putting a burden on the one's that love him and care. The petition's that was seeked one held up and he was addmitted and was in there for about 3 weeks and when released became more hostile and ignorant. His family is so scared to let him stay with them affraid he is going hurt them in the night while they are sleeping. People have the right to there own opinion's, but anyone that doesn't see this as a public and physical disturbance might need to seek help as well.
its his house, he can do what he wants with it
This is un-real I really feel sorry for this man. It's clear that he may have some issue's that need to be dealt with. The information on his vehicle is wrong and clearly not for a child to see.....
As far as the truck goes, It's pretty thoughless to put a deceased womans name on the for sale sign. Not illegal, but another bad move on his part. Just the kind of thing a person with a mental illness might do.
As far as the porn goes, is it actually displayed on the truck, or is it inside the truck.
If it is visibly displayed then I bet the police can do something.
If it is inside on the seat, then don't look in there.
Several years ago there was a man in Delmar who wrote a letter on his house to the Delmar town government. They couldn't do anything about him either.
It's his house, he can do what he wants to it. We can't enforce everything people do on their properties.
Should there be guidelines? Maybe, but how do you go about the guidelines without actually dictating?
I feel sorry for the neighbors too but maybe if the neighbors were friendly neighbors they would have had a chance to stop this out of being neighborly.
Chances are, this guy doesn't even know his neighbors and they don't really know him either. Or, there is a bad past between the neighbors so he could care less what they think.
@ 10:38 The porn is tapped to the glass of the jeep.
his family is lives right around there...and he knows the neighbors...that house was his mothers and stepfathers for years...we all know the family. and we are all friendly and have had converstaions with him.....try again.
its amazing how far the things have to go before the law steps in and helps someone that is in serious need of mental health help. this looks like a cry for help to me!
10:48
Seems to me the only picture of a person is completly clothed and looking much more serious than sexy.
So, you must mean the Twinkie. I will admit Twinkies are kinda sexy, with all their sugary goodness.
Leave the dude alone, the truck window is a mess, not a nusance.
10:48
If you are all so friendly, then what's the big deal?
Use your powers of friendly persuasion and ask him to stop doing whatever it is you don't like.
If he refuses then maybe you're not on such great terms after all.
11:07....how about u coming to try to talk to him. you dont know him. nothing u can say to him will make a difference. including his family...sisters that have been letting him stay in thier homes and feeding him and keeping him warm this winter and trying to help him and he jus spits in your face tells them they are all wrong and that they are too being watched from satellite and by actors and actresses and news anchors...this is a guy who walked from galestown to wboc to talk to jimmy hoppa cause he thought he was involved
The woman's picture, with the phone number, is his mother who passed away a few months ago. If you call the number you are calling her boyfriend, who cared for her throughout her illness for years, and who cared for the gentleman you are discussing here in the months following his mother's passing. This man, who I will refer to as "G", is a severely disturbed individual. I have known him my entire life. He has a drinking problem as well as the mental instabilities. He had these problems prior to losing his mother, but seem to have been intensified by her loss. Most of you are correct in stating that "unless/until he causes harm to himself or someone else" there isn't really anyway to intervene and get him the help he needs. He is not going to let anyone help him either. I found him laying on the side of the road, next to his motorcycle, a few years ago. He was drunk, he had left a bar, stopped at a stop sign, fallen asleep/passed out, and fallen off his bike. We stopped, saw that he was not hurt, and tried to wake him to take him home. He would not allow us to help, started to become aggressive so we left. An hour later the police and an ambulance were loading him up.
If this man is able to get the help he needs he would probably be able to grieve his mother properly, and no longer be an annoyance. And he has several friends and family members that would be more than willing to help him clean the property up... if and when the time comes that he does get the needed help. In a perfect world.
11:07
Simple answer, because I don't know him. He has done nothing to me and has not broken any laws. I have no reason to talk to him.
If what he does bothers you and is not illegal, then the only recourse that you have is to use your powers of friendly persuasion.
If caring does not get through to him, then stop caring. If you can't stop caring, then try harder.
The only things you can't do (thank God and the founding fathers) are things that force him to behave the way you want just because you don't like the way he does it.
11:52 you are correct. I will be honest. This is a family member of mine that is being discussed in this blog. He is really a great person, very intellegent and would do anything for anyone. I dont know what has happened in the last year or so, all that I know is that he feels his privacy is being invaded. I have helped as much as I can...letting him stay with me, taking him food, drinks ect but I cant have him stay cause I also have kids and a family and we work ect. I feel horrible that I can not do for him, but in the same sense he is almost 40 years old and should be able to care for himself. Why do I want him to have help? for me? yes in a way because then I wont have to worry about where he is if he is warm enough if he has enough food if he isnt laying on the side of the road somewhere or what. for him? definatly....that way he isnt wondering why this is happening to him and why his privacy is lost and why his family doesnt want to let him stay with them why we are shutting him out. I know that if it was me i would think no one wanted me ect. He has always helped us in the past and we have all helped him out as much as we possibly can, but we dont know what else to do now. I feel bad that his house ect has been posted to the public but heck...if he didnt want attention then he wouldnt have done what he has to the place. so, if he isnt crazy...then who ever is watching him and invading his privacy you need to come forth and explain your self.
Nobody can help anybody that does not want to be helped.
It is sad that this fellow spends so much of his time on distructive behaviors. Especially when it seems there are still people that do care about him.
It would be sadder still to live in a place where you could be forced to behave a particular way because somebody felt that it would be better for you.
i remember recently seeing in the histiory channel/discovery channel(get all the good educational channels mixed uo), but one had a town in a 3rd world country where certain body parts were painted all over town, especially the church. so to each his own on what you believe in or have taste for.
although i cannot personallly comment on this place because i have not seen it.
I don't understand what the big deal is? I find the drawings more pretty than the ugly house itself. If people don't like it then don't look at it. At least he has good handwriting.
so why hasn't something been done about this yet? I understand he might have the right to do what he pleases with his home his property. Isn't there a law that prohibits a public onuses.
3:47
When you paint your house the color that I want, I will help this fellow paint his house the color you want.
Try leaving phone numbers to Life Crisis Center and Go-Getters in his mailbox. Maybe they can help him. This man is a time bomb that I would not want to run into. I feel badly for the neighbors being harrassed by him. Can't he be charged w/telephone harrassment? I see in the newspaper all the time where people are charged w/this. Also, isn't it illegal to leave things in mailboxes? I would also think it would be harassment to post a dead person's picture w/her boyfriend's number on it only to have them be called repeatedly. Call him in when he is driving drunk and maybe he'll get locked up. Our laws need to be changed to protect society. Aren't our rights important?
Very Well said 4:22 he is a ticking time bomb ready to blow.
"Our laws need to be changed to protect society. Aren't our rights important?"
What about this mans rights?
If it's illegal to put something in a mailbox then charge him with that. Whoopty Do!
If you don't like his phone calls, block his calls. Pretty simple.
Yes, It seems that this man can be very offensive. He has the right to be offensive. You do not have the right to not be offended. Deal with it.
Thinking somebody might commit a crime is something very different from them commiting a crime.
If we locked up all the people that seemed crazy or that looked scary, or might cause trouble... who would be left holding the keys?
4:50 you don't have a freaking clue if you were in his family's/neighbor's situation you would re-act much different than you are now. no none of that is against the law but making threat's to a man that did nothing but help is. Making nasty phone call's threating letter's in people's mail boxes is. It's pothetic that all of this is going to come to an end where he is going to hurt himself or someone else.
Glad I live in a community with a homeowners' association and covenants and restrictions. People have the attitude, "It's there house, the pay the bills, the should be able to do with their property as they please" until they go to put their home on the market and this shit hole next door is affecting the marketability and value of you home.
It is easy for people who dont live near this man to say "Its a free country. He can do what he wants." "He isn't breaking any laws. Ect." It is very scary to go to bed every night and know there is a mentally distrubed man (who thinks people are out to get him) walking around your neighborhood. I just pray he doesn't hurt anyone! I hope he gets some help soon. Our children won't even be able to play in their back yards this summer.
4:50
Firstly, I bet I would feel exactly the same way if he lived right next door to me.
Second, what sort of threats? If he made a legitimate threat and has the ability to carry out the threat then he could be charged with assault. Since this has not happened, it either was not a legitimate threat or the person threatened didn't care enough about it to call the police.
Interesting that you can predict the future and say with such certainty that he is going to hurt someone. The police should hire you to point out all the bad people before they do something wrong.
9:31
So... what are you saying? We should launch a preventative strike? Lock him up before he does anything?
He does not scare me. He saddens me.
You however, you really scare me. You and anyone else who feels that it would be ok to punish someone for something they might do.
I have heard about him being mean, careless, thoughtless, offensive, vulgar, and he is definately no artist. I have heard nothing that sounds like he is violent. If he had been violent then getting him treatment or jailed would be a bit easier.
If you really think that he is violent enough to go into your yard and harm your children then by all means keep your eyes open but until or unless he actually commits a crime, just stay away from the grumpy old crazy man.
I can see where being in the same neighborhood with someone that has done this to there home and vehicle would cause a disturbance. I can't believe he can't see he doesn't need help of some sort. Maybe losing his mother was the tipping point for him. Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of it's a form of a chemical imbalance. So if that's what he's affraid of in getting help I hope he get's over that and seeks the help he seems to need desperatly.
Is there anymore photo's other than the one's that are up. I could have swore going by there not to long ago there was a bunch of stuff out in the yard.
yeah that would have been the first time he decorated his yard. that was probably back in nov or dec...it had a million little orange flags in the ground, propane tanks ect.....it was cleaned off when he was in the hospital for a couple weeks. He redecorated it when he got out.
That is just too sad, I just can't get over someone doing that too there home, on a vehicle you see stickers and stuff up all over them all the time. Usually with a home you dont see spray paint or other things on the home like that, unless its a bunch of adolesent kids that want to be cool. I think this man needs help and quick before it proceeds further than just decorating a house. Sounds like some mental issues that should not be taken lightly. My regards to his family and friends I pray things work out for the best.
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