On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:56 AM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > what did buddy need backup for??? go get a life...
I think those saddles don't have room for an arrested person; I'm guessing the cop car was to cart Mohan off. I just wonder why the officer needed to deal with him at all. Like I said, he's a regular beggar in this neighbourhood, but I've never seen him belligerent or nasty. He certainly seemed compliant last week. Didn't look like he was fleeing and I saw no sign that anything on the street had been broken into. In fact, it looked like he was pretty strung out and maybe even non-responsive, whether it was from substances or mental health issues I don't know. Might have been taking him off to detox or holding him on a mental health warrant for his own safety. This was about 4 or 5 blocks from 1001 Queen West, which is Toronto's largest and oldest mental health facility (used to be called The Toronto Insane Asylum, now called the more PC Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) and there a many psychiatric outpatients living in the numerous rooming houses and halfway houses in the 'hood. Maybe Mohan's one of them and was having "an episode". The police don't tend to hassle these poor folk from what I've seen - I'd like to think that whatever was happening last week was for Mohan's own protection. Thanks for looking! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
