This isn't JW related, but I was hoping to get some feedback on a problem that I'm having.
Here's the deal. Yesterday my downstairs neighbor told the maintenance man that she want to shoot us (my family). I've known for about 2 years that she has some mental problems and was somehow focused on us, but I didn't realize to what extent.
Two years ago, around Christmas, we came home from somewhere and saw 2 Christmas cards laying on the rug outside our door. They were from "Pammy & Bill(?)". We don't know anyone named Pammy, and although we both know some 'Bill's', neither of us has been in contact with any recently. I remembered that another neighbor had mentioned a "Pam" that lived under us in the building, so we made the connection...thinking it was odd for them to give us 2 Christmas cards since we don't know these people, but what the hay.
The next morning at around 8:30 there was a knock on the door, I looked out the peephole and saw a woman standing there. I opened the door the woman said, "Is Bill here?" to which I replied "No" and she left. After she left, I realized that I should have explained to her that we don't even know Bill and there was no reason for her to think he was in our apartment. I called Sieg, and we both thought it might be wise for me to go down there and tell her that, which I did, bringing a Christmas card for her and her husband. I explained that I felt I may have given her the wrong impression by not explaining the above. I told her that I don't even know what her husband looks like, and she showed me a picture of someone that I haven't even seen in passing. I told her that. She did seem insistant that he was up there, and I said that if he was coming upstairs, maybe he was going across the hall from me, since they seem to have alot of traffic and I always hear someone knocking on the door. She said that she knew he wasn't going there.
Anyway, we talked for awhile and I tried to get to the bottom of it, asking if she thought her hubby was cheating on her or doing drugs or drinking... why she felt like he wasn't where he said he was, etc. I came to the conclusion that she has some mental probs. We parted and I haven't seen or talked to her since.
I do hear her down in her apartment about two or three times a month, banging around and yelling. She had one of these outbursts yesterday. Then the maintenance guy told Sieg that she said she's going to shoot us. She said that we "follow here around wherever she moves" and that we're "in her bedroom and living room". It has me unnerved.
Sieg seems to think that she is hearing 'voices' from 'up' and that's why she thinks we're One thing I realized is that when she's yelling "I hate you" she's probably yelling it up to our apartment. All this time I've been assuming that she and her hubby were arguing when that happens, but I never hear him.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? What, if anything, can/should I do about it? I really don't like the idea of someone threating my family (me, Sieg, and our 4 yr old daughter live here). Should I just ignore it since it's been 2 years and she's never approached me again?