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A woman enters unlocked homes, looking in mirrors combing what she thinks are silk worms coming from her head. A man is holed up in a room full of guns as he fights voices in his head that are telling him to kill himself. Prior to the establishment of a new mental health team at the Burbank Police Department, these sorts of calls would elicit a purely police-centric response that would do nothing to address the root of the problem, officials say. Now, the team is funneling these people away from the law enforcement grind and into a system where they can be connected to services that have a more long-term effect.

The man accused of using a Burbank officer's gun against him and his partner during a scuffle at a Kmart last year was double-handcuffed because of his size and to allow for greater range of motion, according to testimony Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Jamie Willard - the man accused of shooting at two Burbank police officers after he was able to wrangle one of the guns while under arrest at Kmart for an alleged shoplifting - required two connected handcuffs because his 6-foot-tall, 220-pound frame was too large for a single cuff, one of the officers testified during the preliminary hearing.

Daughter 1: It?s 9:15! Daddy: Do you like your new watch, honey? D1: Yeah. Daughter 2: No fair! I didn?t get a new watch. Daddy: But you got Sea Monkeys and she didn?t. D2: But I want a watch, too. D1: No fair. Why didn?t I get Sea Monkeys? Daddy: Guys, please. It?s Christmas morning. Can we not do this? D2: I feel funny?.?.?.? Daddy: How many Gummy Bears have you eaten? D2: I can?t count higher than 100. Daddy: And Reese?s? D2: Only 12. Daddy: Chocolate-covered marshmallow Santas?