My mother was left home alone for the first time in 15 years,
and it was only for a weekend. On the first night, she felt like there was somebody in the house, so she asked the next-door neighbour to look around. He was very nice and made her feel better... for a while. A couple of hours later, he was so sure there was a man standing in the hallway, she locked herself in the car in the driveway and called 911 from her cell phone. Eight police officers came to search the house and the yard, and found nothing.

The following night, she called the police again for the same reason, and the same 8 officers returned. A year later, when she went manic and didn't want to go to hospital, I called an ambulance and those same 8 officers were on duty and heard the address on the radio. They all showed up to see how she was doing, which led to the incident I posted previously under "My brush with the law".
(ghettobooty, Fri 30 Jan 2004, 4:35, Reply)