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Originally Posted by milliecorrales I have been the victim of assault on three different occasions. I had a man get in my parked car, which I did not discover until I was driving. He had a mask on, a knife, a length of rope and some bath towels in my car. I jumped while the car was moving, got scraped up, but scared me to death. On another occasion, I was leaving a grocery store at 9:00 pm, had just cashed my Xmas bonus check and was held up at gunpoint and my money taken. Further, I went out to empty the trash the day after Thanksgiving and a man entered my apartment, hid in my room and when I discovered him there, attacked me. I know the feeling of fear. The car incident happened 29 years ago and to this day, I will not leave my car unlocked while I run into 7-11 for acup of coffee and I never enter my car without checking the backseat. I do not leave my apartmetn unlocked to walk the 50 feet to the mailbox or to take the dogs for a ten minute walk. All I can tell you is to be aware. Look around you all the time, (don't the windows lock for gods sake) and if you feel that something is wrong, it is! The police told me that if you feel that something is wrong that it is your basic human animal sense protecting you and telling you to flee. I listen to my instincts nowadays, if I don't feel comfortable if a man gets on the elevator with me alone, I get off. If I feel uncomfortable walking to my car across the street from my night job, I either get a security guard or I call the police to escort me. The cops told me that they would rather come out and escort someone to their car than to come out and find a dead body later. Listen to your instincts, talk to your boss about hiring a security guard. Have the police come out and check out your so-called security systems. And by the way, my mom was in a nursing home for 18 years, and CNAs are the unsung heroes, but no patient should be keeping any valuables especially money in their rooms! |
Wow! i'm sorry for everything you had to go through, i'm glad that your Ok! and that your still here to talk about it today!
The sad thing about this facility, is.. the windows are locked every night. but the building is so old.. you can open the windows from outside
.. and all my CNA's are girls tonight and just as scared as i am LOL.. let me tell you about the police in my area.. they are so mean
last night when the cops did come, he was about in his mid 50's.. i told him about the other night when a man came to the door where i worked (my station is by the glass door) and was masturbating. all he said was, ok we'll look intothat, but how old are you, i told him 19, he said, wow your beautiful, and you've got a nice body, so we gotta keep you protected huh.. and then i was like uhhh.. and he said.. i'll be sure to keep my eye on you.. eww i felt so violated lol..
but the cops here will not drive here to walk us to our cars because the parking lot is in a dark alley and the door is about 20 feet away. .. but still, before we had camera's installed (that dont even record anything if we needed it in the future).. guys would break into all the employee's cars and steal things..
But i TOTALLY agree with you on the patient keeping those valuables with him. when we admit a resident we usually take all the expensive belongings and put them in our safe with their name and everything and also do an inventory check so that we know what they have and everything like that, but this particular man refused.
OH did i mention, the room that was broken into, had a chair outside the window. we NEVER put any chairs outside what so ever. that chair came from the dining room. so we are all stumped as to who put that outside.. (the burglar used it to get in the window).. there were large foot prints (im talking like size 14 shoe, the cops measured it lol)..
i'm just scared i guess.. lol