current events make me tense

[davemerrill]

If you're keeping up with Steve Harrison, you might have seen his LJ post this morning.
Before you get all freaked out, I have been informed that he's OK and has been transported to care.

http://tochiro998.livejournal.com/37818.html

Now I feel lousy, because I was this close to making a 911 welfare check call on him last night, and I didn't do it, and I wish I had.

Repeat: in spite of what this LJ link says, he is still with us, thank goodness.

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[lusentoj]

I'm not keeping up with him (don't even know who he is...) but I actually did this with a friend one time in America. They had a history of suicide attempts and said they were going to do it again, had the pills stashed in their room etc. Well I happened to be at a doctor's appointment at the time and couldn't call myself, so I got my friend to call the police. Unfortunately the police didn't care at all about the suicide attempt and were just grilling my friend about "How do you know this girl? You're so much older than her (5, 10 years) and don't live anywhere near her!" "We're internet friends but that's not important, she's probably dying right now!" *police don't give a shit*. Eventually the police did go to her house.... and simply drove by it, didn't even knock on the door.

If memory serves, the girl just threw up the pills and survived. She was screaming so badly (had tons of ulcers from doing this exact same thing many times before) that her brother found her there in her room and called their mom/the ambulance and then she got her stomach pumped and her ulcers seared up or something. But yeah, I was pretty pissed that the one time I personally had anything to do with the police it went like that.