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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I came home from a night out as a teenager to find a shirtless, shoeless chap with a large kitchen knife in our house, my dad chatting away to him waiting for police . Schizophrenic who had absolutely no idea where he was and couldn't remember anything about where he had been, last he remembered he was in a town 20+ miles away and it seemed he had walked, shoeless, until at some point coming out of his daze and walking into the nearest house which happened to be ours.

My dad was a mental health professional who had worked with violent offenders/unstable people for years. Really quite a bizarre coincidence.

He got quite agitated when I walked in like "WTF..." butluckily police turned up and took him off a couple of minutes later.

ANYWAY, that was just me as a large late-teenager and my dad who dealt with these situations professionally and it was terrifying enough. Can't imagine what it would be like with young children in the house.

So lucky your dad was a Mental health professional or it could have gone a very different way