There's a lady often in my local park who is clearly unwell. She sits with bags and a suitcase, looks very unkempt so I assume she's homeless.
She shouts, cries, swears, at nothing or at animals, sometimes people passing by. It's a small park, popular with little children playing on the grass. Yesterday we were there and she started shouting at a cat that walked a few metres away from her. She was shouting "get away from me, you've got aids" and general swearing and gesturing. Toddlers were also close by and were kind of ushered away by their confused looking parents.
I was there last week at lunchtime with my toddler and the lady was shouting/crying (to no one in particular) all sorts of disturbing things including "he set me on fire", "he raped me" "I will shit in your mouth". It's really sad and worrying.
It's a quiet family area but it concerns me that she's very vulnerable to being confronted / attacked. I nearly called the non emergency police number last week but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate and whether they can even get involved or even if they should. :-(
Sorry this is long. Any thoughts?