A woman was just assaulted in front of my house
My heart is pounding, and my hands are sweating. I heard a screaming so I ran downstairs and a very young woman was on my front porch. She was angry, scared, and crying. She said someone hit her, and took her shoes and money. Across the street there was a young man howling, looking up towards the sky, while holding his head. He ran off.
She was mad I didn’t open the storm door-but my family is in complete lockdown-Mom is in chemo and her numbers are low. Even a cold could put my mother in the hospital at the moment. Thats the only reason I’m even here, to take care of her since my Pops just had a heart attack and needs some support.
I explained, told my little brother to call 911 and tried to ask her questions to calm down. “How old are you” “where do you live” simple stuff. She became upset when she realized we called 911, and walked off.
The cops talked to us, took some details and went to look for the people fighting. A while later they called to say there was a satisfying resolution.
My brother told me he saw the man she was with push her to the ground, and that they were yelling about money and Xanax.
A while later, about 30 minutes, an army of cops and ambulances came, and someone in a stretcher was taken away. I didn’t see this, my dad was in the garden. His description matched the young lady. He said they were pumping her legs as they moved her.
I lived in NYC for a long time and saw many heartbreaking and scary things (like in any big city), but this really shocked me. A bunch of memories I had locked away are now replaying themselves in my head. It literally feels like time traveling. I don’t think we were much help. Clearly the cops were not much help either.
Its just so fucked up, when the cops called back they told me happy birthday bc they saw it on my id. I feel gross.
I have tried to get this down while it is fresh and as accurately as possible. For some reason I don’t understand yet it felt important to do so.
Posted Jul 28, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC
What the fuck?
My first thought is that these people are drug addicts and this is some type of robbery scam.
It would explain why she was pissed you wouldn't allow access to your home and why she was mad about the cops. It would also explain the ambulance because Xanax can cause respiratory arrest in high doses. Sounds to me like her high as fuck boyfriend (mister howling at the moon...no sober person does that) was pissed they ran out of drugs and she was planning to rob you for money to get more. She probably ODed. Respiratory arrest can come....quickly. I've seen someone die and get brought back from Xanax. It took 6 doses of narcan to stabilize them. Xanax works by suppressing your nervous system. Your breathing is tied into that. So in high doses the breathing just stops. The lungs have been basically paralyzed in a sense by the medication. People high on Xanax do slur thier words like a drunk person as an early warning sign ( you may have confused this for truama) and then they just collapse and will die without intervention in minutes.
I have never used xanax, and had no idea it could cause respiratory arrest! Thank you so much for telling me that because it makes it make more sense, which is profoundly comforting.
I wonder...when I was talking to her she said she couldn’t hear me through the door, but I spent months talking through that door with no problem when I wanted to visit my parents when covid just started and I hadn’t moved back in yet.
I’m not 100% sure on the scammer part, but I can say something didn’t feel right. Very hard to explain. Its as if I noticed something but I couldn’t tell you what it was precisely. But I can feel my mind struggling to parse it out.
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Xanax is a serious drug. Not only is it HIGHLY addictive but it's also mixed with other drugs on the street as a party combo. People,even people with prescriptions, can easily fall into abuse with this drug. Its It's that addictive. I had a friend who struggled after becoming addicted from prescriptions. She abused it and shes the person in the story. That's how I know. Spent 12 hours in the hospital with her. It was a very scary experience. We found her dead. Watched CPR. The whole thing.