how people behave......

Did you know that in Joliet you can legally be un-medicated?????

And that the only way that they might have to take their medication is if they're a threat to themselves or someone else.....

But why is it that the ones who should take the medication know that if they kill someone they can plead insanity and go to a mental facility for a couple of years and then be released back into society....

i had and incident when someone who had been off their medication, started to threaten me and my family.... we called the cops a couple of times, but they always said that he can say what ever he wants, its just when he actually acts out one of the threats......

so the more threats he made the more calls we made, because the more paper work you have better....

finally one day he snapped...

we were at an intersection, and he began yelling at the car, so we put up the windows.... he kept yelling and we were at a red light so we couldn't go anywhere....

he then got so mad that he jumped on the hood of the car..... omg!!!!!

that was horrible.... it scared us half to death...

he was still screaming and yelling at us.....

we had so many cars pass by us and no one would do a thing to help..... we even had people honking at us for blocking the intersection, because at that point the light was green, but we really didn't want to drive with someone on the hood of the car...

we called the police and while we waited.....

he finally got off the car, but while doing so he grabbed the wiper blade almost breaking it, and he came around to the side of the car and punched the window right were my brother was sitting.....

finally the cops showed up and they started to take the report, and then said that they couldn't do anything to him because he wasn't dangering himself or others........

now to me that didn't make any sense, especially because he was dangering the life of my family and himself..... how is it that climbing on top of a running vehicle in the middle of an intersection isn't endangering the life of people????.....

and because the cops didn't think he was endangering the life of anyone, he doesn't have to take his meds, or go and get help..... he doesn't have to learn from his mistakes... he can just go on with life and think that its OK to threaten people, and never have to pay for his actions.....

library books

Have you ever wondered what happened to the library books after the book sale????

Well I've figured it out..... they throw them away....

i know not that big of a deal right???

well think of it this way, you have to pay taxes every year right???

well some of your tax money that you work so hard for is going towards your library's' books.....

never thought of that did you??? its like their throwing your money away.... there is no notice that there are books that didn't sell and if anyone would want to come pick them up is welcome... no instead they throw them out...

And believe me I've seen them first hand and I've literally gone in the dumpsters to get them out, there is no damage, some are even new in the plastic still....

so what is their reasoning to throw them away...??? they just don't need them anymore.... that's the answer i got....

well I've decided that I'm not done with those books they consider garbage....

i have a whole lot of people that love to read and some for whatever reason don't have t.v. so reading is their thing.... I've been taking car load after car loads of book and making my own library.....

if you ever have the need to borrow a book or want to see what they've thrown away feel free to leave m ea comment and ask.... i have no problem sharing...

history

why is it that in Joliet you cant find any information on the history of the city and its interesting past?????? I love doing research on the history of old buildings and what really happened...... for most of my research i have to go to the public library, but even there they're missing documents and pictures....

i don't understand it...

if you try to look up information on the history of Chicago there's a lot for you to find and almost all of it is on the internet.... Either Joliet is trying to hide something or there's a big problem with people not knowing how to keep records.... Joliet has so much history that they can provide to educate our youth and even our older groups...... there's a whole section from around the 1900's and 1960's that's missing.... there's no information on the prohibition or what really went on during the market crash..... there are no markers for the places that influenced our city, like where silver cross hospital first sat, where the pest house(quarantine hill) was located, where monkey hill was, and i could go on for hours, but i think you get the point.... I've also tryed the historical society, where I've found out that if they don't want it to belong in Joliet there's no record of it..... i find that funny.........if you have any suggestions on the history on Joliet please leave a comment