Salt Lake City has a park located in the icky part of town. The park is named 'Pioneer Park' and the park has a nasty reputation as a cruel place to park. So to speak. Salt Lake's homeless have called Pioneer Park home for quite some time. Pioneer Park is also home to junkies, muggers, and thieves. The nasty reputation of Pioneer Park is notorious. Anyway, Salt Lake's "city leaders" have been trying to clean up the place and make it "respectable" for a number of years and the clean up efforts haven't yielded much in the way of effectively eradicating the park problems. So fast forward to yesterday and that would have been October 1, there's this crazy lady going crazy in the park. Seriously if not dangerously crazy. The crazy woman has been throwing rocks and whatever else she can manage to pick up and is breaking windows and threatening the good citizens of Salt Lake for better part of a couple of hours. Side note inserts here...Salt Lake City is home to the mothership for the Mormon Church. The ever so famous Salt Lake Temple. Ground zero for Mormons. Twice a year and that would be on the first weekend in April and the first weekend in October for 'general conference'. It's time for the October Mormon General Conference so having a crazy homeless lady throwing rocks and stuff while screaming obscenities at Salt Lake citizens and Mormons visiting Salt Lake for 'Conference' is never and I do mean never ever to be tolerated. So crazy lady ends up at Pioneer Park on account of that's where the homelessly insane or otherwise hang out. Crazy lady is still taunting people, throwing rocks, and being an overall in general nuisance. With some ancillary collateral damage thrown in for spite. Salt Lake's Police show up at the already under discussion Pioneer Park to get crazy lady under some type of police control. With all the visiting Mormons and other types in Salt Lake, well, Salt Lake's Police really don't want to have to shoot the woman. This would be the only time of any year that Salt Lake Police don't shoot to kill an insane woman being a public nuisance. Back to the narrative, two of Salt Lake's finest engage with the crazy lady and crazy lady clocks one of the Salt Lake cops with a rock and the officer gets his bell rung. The second cop tasers the woman and the taser is only partially effective. A third Salt Lake cop gets in on the action and with some serious scratch marks and biting from crazy lady, they finally get the woman pinned to the ground and in handcuffs. The peaceful and tranquil atmosphere the park is noted for (?) is restored and all is well. Crazy lady is on her way to jail with charges pending. Charges like vandalism, assault on an officer of the peace, disturbing the peace, and being an all around pain in the ass. Yes you can be charged with being a pain in the ass in Salt Lake City and especially so if it's anywhere near the Mormon General Conferences. Salt Lake does NOT like anyone mucking up the scenery at Conference time. The name of the crazy lady taken into custody has not been released at this point in space/time/Conference history. Crazy lady will end up at University Hospital's really crazy and violently so lockdown unit and with any luck that will be the end of the story. Maybe. The crazy woman must have been a handful of hissing spitting whirly draw blood antics as it took more than three yes count three Salt Lake Police officers to bring her down. The wounded officers drove themselves to a nearby clinic for tetanus shots and bandaids. The officers then took the rest of the day off to lick those humiliating wounds. Dang lady was all kinds of nut up. Now for some none threatening machine art.
dead man's violin -
spanners -
and furthermore, crazy lady is damn lucky it's 'General Conference' time. or maybe she wanted to get shot to ease her mental duress. 🙀
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