I live in a duplex on a cul-da-sac that is usually very quiet.  However, last night there was some insane stuff going on between a few of my neighbors.  A man that lives right next door to my place, in the same duplex, was shot by a woman that lives a few doors down.  He was in the street intoxicated with a group of others, not on the woman's property, but in the street, yelling and calling her names with some others.  Without a doubt he was intoxicated.  She on the other hand suffers from untreated severe bipolar disorder and for whatever reason had access to her boyfriends gun.  She went inside and brought it out and started shooting it into the small crowd gathered in front of her yard.  Today he is still in the hospital being treated for a gun shot wound to the stomach, and she is in jail for assault with a deadly weapon resulting in serious bodily injury.  I was writing my post when all this stuff was going on outside.  I went to open my door and look to see what all the yelling was about when the first two shots were fired.  I retreated back into my apartment and called 911.  While on the phone with them a few more shots were fired and thats when I heard my  neighbor screaming in pain that he had been shot.  

When all was said and done, the police, ambulance gone, I thought to myself... God, I am so truly grateful that whatever mental health problem I have (anxiety/depression)

is not allowed to go unchecked, and I'm not a drunk standing in front a mentally unstable woman with a gun in her hands, continuing to argue with her about something, like an idiot! LMAO!

I sat back down and continued writing my post.  

This is what it looked like outside my front door last night.  Yeah, I couldn't help but take a pic with my cell phone.  :)