News BJ Penn ordered to leave his home; potentially homeless: UPDATE, BJ arrested for entering home

[mmacool]

In a world of clones, BJ is a god.

 

[Serge421]

Like a moth to a flame

 

[Mike]

But lots of people homeless with psychiatric problems.

Yeah that post seems hilariously out of touch. Go walk around downtown in pretty much any midsized or larger city. All the homeless people you see arguing with pigeons and shit are mentally ill people that have finally imploded completely.

There's literally 3/4 of a million people homeless out there, and most of them have mental disorders and substance abuse problems. There's certainly nobody coming to check on them or get them help in any city I've ever lived in.

 

[Mike]

Why hasn't his family, friends, Sherdogger gotten him help.

Help how? Everyone says to vaguely "help" people like this but how exactly? It's extremely hard to force them to get help using the legal process. And even if someone is lucid enough to know they need help, there's no magic solution. Therapy doesn't magically make you stop having paranoid delusions. There's no pill that's guaranteed to just fix symptoms like this, and even if there was it's very difficult to get unwell people to take their medications consistently.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Its really sad and worrying. Penn is very mentally ill, he is so paranoid, beyond paranoid. He needs help and lots of treatment, and to be placed in a facility where he can't get out for a while.

 

[KillerIsBack V2]

She's not his real mom anyway, she's just a clone.

Her real mom is held hostage somewhere on a military base

Wait a min. Her?!

 

[HockeyBjj]

arrested and released on $3,000 bail, I was hoping after violating the restraining order they'd hold him for his mom's safety

He needs to be in a mental health facility if he can't understand something as simple as "You're a threat to your mom, you're not allowed to go near her or where she lives. Rent out an Airbnb for a bit while this shakes out"

It seems like he has zero friends left to help him. That guy in the first arrest video wasn't a friend, just a mooch stealing from him

 

[Lee Danger]

take away the drugs from him and cross the fingers.

 

[Söze Aldo]

It's only going to go downhill from here too.

 

[Fedorgasm]

For everyone who's saying they need to get help for BJ. It's not that easy.

You can't force someone to get help. I learned the hard way with my own family. You can get them held for 72 hours but that's it. After that, they let them go as long as their deemed not a danger to themselves or anyone else, but my family member was both and they kept letting her go anyway. There's just too many people with issues and they can't hold them all.

 

[MMA Maine-iac]

There's no way this doesn't end with murder, suicide or both. Very sad.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

someone post pictures of bjs mom before and after. he even said in one of those videos, who is this lady with all this ass? if bj is right, his mom will have no ass before. someone, do the research now!

 

[koa pomaikai]

Penn was the guy that made me a huge fan of the sport basically. Lot of good memories of watching his fights with the bros, way back then. It's really fucking sad watching him decline like this.


And not just him. A lot of these guys are fucked up. I knew that fighting would have repercussions and consequences for these guys. But whatever I expected that to look like, it wasn't this.

I don’t think it’s entirely the sport or cte. I think the early days of fighting attracted people that were already borderline out there and kinda fringe.

You have to be a little crazy to want to fight mma when the sport was still young. I think a predisposition to insanity coupled with drugs and a loss of purpose post retirement destroyed more of BJ than punches to the head did.

I think he probably runs into a lot of mental health problems even if he never did professional fighting, just maybe not as bad.

 

[Mike]

I don’t think it’s entirely the sport or cte. I think the early days of fighting attracted people that were already borderline out there and kinda fringe.

You have to be a little crazy to want to fight mma when the sport was still young. I think a predisposition to insanity coupled with drugs and a loss of purpose post retirement destroyed more of BJ than punches to the head did.

I think he probably runs into a lot of mental health problems even if he never did professional fighting, just maybe not as bad.

I do agree with the idea that fighting attracts some abnormal personalities, but I definitely don't think the damage helps. Back when I started watching a lot of people thought mma would end up being less damaging to fighters than boxing. I don't think a lot of people believe that anymore.

 

[Gilday]

Absolutely fucked situation

That being said, any shoopers who can stick BJ Penn on the Star Wars The Clone Wars poster?

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Sounds like an episode of Dog The Bounty Hunter Brah!

 

[jeff7b9]

He should go live with Positive Balance.

Positive Balance is a clone.

 

[VinceArch]

Positive Balance is a clone.

 

[PaulieVegas27]

But lots of people homeless with psychiatric problems.

Well then if he has to fight other homeless people for a bed, I like his chances.

Or after that one video, do I really?

 

[Dorkman]

For everyone who's saying they need to get help for BJ. It's not that easy.

You can't force someone to get help. I learned the hard way with my own family. You can get them held for 72 hours but that's it. After that, they let them go as long as their deemed not a danger to themselves or anyone else, but my family member was both and they kept letting her go anyway. There's just too many people with issues and they can't hold them all.

True. But given this guy was a professional fighter. I'm hoping it creates special circumstances where it's clear he's a threat. And are able to order court ordered treatment.