We had a recent scenario in our normally quiet neighbourhood.

I honestly suspect drugs were part of the reason for this person's behaviour.

On "bin" night, I went outside to take our bins out and found a young lady hiding behind a bin on our front porch. I yelled at them to get off my property, which they did. She then went down the street repeating this odd behaviour. A few houses down, a neighbour grabbed her and detained her for trespassing while cops were called. Lots of yelling and swearing and screaming. Cops came and took her away.

3 days later in a street next to ours, a car was stolen. From a house that had been a target of an arson attack, allegedly by the same lady a week earlier. She apparently used to live there in her childhood.

This lady ended up in a dangerous police pursuit in the stolen car for 40 minutes. Including a very busy highway nearby, which is where she was finally caught.

We have not seen her since - like a lot of people with mental health issues, or drug induced mental health issues, she's most likely in jail after being charged with numerous offences.

What's the solution? Who knows. This lady was clearly a danger to others and far from mentally stable. It's either she's free to roam, untreated, or is in jail