Update On "It's 5:22 a.m. And Something Weird Happened

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I thought I'd give an update on that strange occurrence that happened to me last week about someone ringing my bell at 5:22 a.m. You can see the original discussion here that gives the full details http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2437342.aspx# To summarize, at 5:22 a.m. last Tuesday morning someone rang my bell and knocked on my door. I DID NOT answer it, but listened from behind the closed door. Someone was talking which I presumed in his cell phone how his mother had had a stroke and he needed money to get medications--he mentioned that his mother was in the apartment over mine. He also indicated that he had rung the bell of the super but no one answered even though they are early risers and would have been awake. I indicated in my first discussion that there are no 24-hour pharmacies near me, that the son moved out years ago, and it's just the mother and daughter living over me. Also he was clearly speaking in English, not Spanish which if it really had been the son of the woman upstairs over me he would have spoken in Spanish if he had rung the bell of the people next door as they are Spanish speaking. Anyway, the next day I rang the super's bell and asked him about it and if anyone rang his bell, and he said no. So today, I rang the bell of the super again...this time his wife answered the door and I asked the same thing about the whole situation. I asked her if she was aware of the woman over me having health problems and had a stroke (my super AND his wife are nosy bodies and know everything that goes on with all the tenants) The super's wife told me that this "person" did indeed ring the bell of the people next door and it was them that he was talking to in English, (so he wasn't talking into his cell phone)/ The people next door told the super's wife what happened. Well it turns out.....IT WAS NOT THE SON OF THE WOMAN LIVING OVER ME---BUT...one of the looney bins from the home down the block. You see in my neighborhood, just down the block from me is what is called the Queens Adult Care Center, formerly called The Leban Home...the place claims to be for senior and assisted living care. Yeah, right. The truth is, it's a mental facility of the "overflow" of severely disturbed mental patients from the "famous" Creedmoor Mental Hospital. We're not talking about people with depression, bi-polar, etc, but severely mental people who are dangerous and often aggressive. Due to the inadequate supervision of this place, the "patients" are allowed to roam around the streets at all hours of the day or night without any monitoring. Some years ago, for instance, around 3 a.m. every morning, one could hear one of the female patients walking up and down my block, yelling, screaming, crying--I later found out she committed suicide (oh yes there are a LOT of suicides in that home. Then there's this guy who I see every once in awhile in which I give a wide berth since he has a habit of lurching toward you if you get to close to him where he's been known to hit people. We in my community we have been trying to get this place shut down for decades, since as I said this Adult Center houses severely, mentally disturbed psychotic people--in my opinion many are either over or under medicated for their problem whatever it is. Even in broad daylight one isn't necessarily safe from these people, also, our wonderful police precinct does nothing either. So anyway, it turns out that the mysterious visitor that rang my bell (and the people next door) was one of these nutcases. The woman and her husband next door told the super's wife about it and had recognized him as being from the Adult Care Center. Now you may ask...how did this person get into the apartment building in the first place, since one has to unlock the entrance door to the building??? Simple, the lock doesn't work properly and anyone can get into the building and our azzhole of a super never fixes it despite we tenants complaining about it. Bottom line...I'm sure as hell glad I didn't answer my bell, not that I would have at that hour. And at least I don't feel guilty that the story may have been true and it was the son of the woman over me...since it turned out it wasn't. A lot of people in my previous discussion indicated that I should have called the cops, but as I mentioned our police don't do a thing to safeguard people in my community from the nutcases at that Adult Care Center.