The recent sale of the Mayflower triggered memories of this post from April 22, 2019.
A Naked Man Event (NME) took place Saturday night in front of the Mayflower Cafe. An adult male stood at the corner of Roach Street and Capitol Street, caddy-corner to the Mayflower Cafe at 6:45 PM, and proceeded to take off his clothes. The street theatre performance continued as he proceeded to channel his inner Cassius Clay and jump rope off and on for the next 20-30 minutes.WARNING: POST HAS PARTIAL NUDITY & GRAPHIC PICTURES!
Several people, including the Mayflower Cafe manager and your correspondent, contacted the police. However, the naked man dressed himself and walked to a neighboring bar, where he stood outside the front door before the police arrived. Your correspondent pointed him out and showed them pictures of his attempt to imitate Oh Calcutta. The officer said they had received several calls about the gentleman in question and his grotesque behavior. The police officers talked to him for several minutes before removing him from the scene in an ambulance.
Unfortunately, the police officers and security guard provided more disturbing news. They said he was dropped off at the bus station by personnel who work at a certain public mental institution in Rankin County that is southeast of the airport. Such dumping is apparently a regular practice by this facility that is funded by the taxpayers.
Kingfish note: Almost as disturbing was the behavior by another gentleman at the same time - except he was clothed. A man kept walking up and down the area on both sides of the street. He became extremely agitated when the police appeared. He yelled and cursed at them while pulling up plants in front of Parlor Market. He attempted to stand in front of Mayflower but the security guard made him leave. The police finally told him to leave the area, which he did. Several people said he was a new "drop-off" by the mental institution in Rankin County.
Hmm..... maybe we should get around to funding some mental health treatment or providing more beds in this state. One member of JPD Command said the dropping off of mental patients at the bus station was "wearing out" JPD.
If you want to see the unedited video, click on this link. It is graphic in nature so don't say you weren't warned. The police appear at 2:00 or so. Pixelation would require going through over 2,000 frames.
10 comments:
Dinner, AND a show.
A) I want to see somebody jump rope with his britches around his ankles. Is the circus in town?
B) It won't take but one slap of that rope against the head of his wally-tacker to set him to running a four-minute mile.
C) Dropping someone at the bus station with travel-fare is not a bad form of therapy. Let's assume there was a counseling session, and that a therapy plan was established.
Goals for achievement were set. The first goal was to arrange funds to travel to a city of preference. The second goal was to find a method of travel.
The psych unit provided not only the 'plan' but also helped with achievement of the first and second steps of the 'plan'.
Just one more reason not to go inside the city limits of Jackson.
A few years ago, PETA had a lady downtown that painted herself to look like a cat.
No complaints.
If Jackson officials would start dropoing off the mentally ill types on the streets of Madison or Brandon there would be some real action taken to address this problem.
Blogging about a mentally ill person is sick. You people are disgusting.
4:44 am, just stop. It was a published story about the Mayflower from years ago.
Stuff like this makes me wonder why anyone would buy that location and try to make a business continue
Jackson gets everything it deserves.
How is it legal for the unnamed mental health facility to discharge patients who are obviously in need of continued care by just dropping them off at a bus station?
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