A couple of friends of mine had a habit of making friends with random homeless people around central London. The homeless people they introduced me to were clearly mental and needed real medical help. One lady was convinced that people were trying to use lasers to control her mind and had a whole host of other paranoid delusions and I met another guy called mantis who despite being mental did a great version of fire starter with an acoustic guitar. Its amazing how much gratitude you can get from someone who lives on the street just by treating them like a human.

 

then get your car nicked,slashed,headbutted,and **** load of disease,yea great laugh mate might stoll down to centre of brum tonight and find some new mates ! not.

 

+1 for not becoming "Mantis's" aka The Acoustic Fire Starters new bestest friend! I can do without that level of gratitude

 

Just opposite my flat is a small car parking area next to the river where people come and go all day - families, dog walkers, joggists, kite flyers, sunbathers, fishists etc. But it also seems to be quite popular for people who live in their cars. Last year we had three Eastern Europeans living in an Audi for about a month, there was a bloke living in a camper over Christmas, another campervan dweller who comes and goes at random and, just two weeks ago a youngish bloke who rocked up in his Focus MK1 saloon and has been sleeping in it most nights. He's spent all day in it today reading the paper but sometimes gets out and does a bit of keepy uppy.

He seems to work as he has an Asda uniform draped over his seat but I can't imagine where he showers or goes to the loo. The public loos further down the prom are shut for a rebuild and there are no others nearby.

I can't tell you how much I want to go down there and ask him why he's living in his car. It seems such an awful thing to have to do and I kind of worry about him. It must be so boring, not to mention cramped and cold. If he's working surely he could get a room somewhere? I can't see that living in a car could be preferable.

I bet he doesn't realise that his every move is being watched by a very nosey neighbour. Thank god he can't see my big telescope that is permanently set up for watching the ships

 

No problem

 

Aaaah, this is just awful. The homeless will NOT lift their heads, or engage you, or make eye contact, or anything like that because they are beaten. They are afraid to do those things for fear fo being verbally abused or worse.

Put yourself in their position: it's only two steps.

 

This maybe true until their in a gang of 3 or 4

 

I think you are confusing the homeless with chavs

 

Did anyone see "Secret Millionaire" the other night.
It was very humbling to see a young woman devoting all her time to feeding and helping the homeless. They seemed like ordinary folks who really appreciated what was being done for them. They relied on her for a hot meal once a day, then had to go and sleep rough. She said they huddled together in a group, for warmth and it was not surprising to find one dead the next morning of hypothermia. So, so sad in todays so called civilised times.
The secret millionaire coughed up 125k to her to get new premises. Had me in tears

 

Possibly..

I'm skint cannot intergrate no more can't get motivated but still have enough face to beg people for money .Apparently its a career choice in Sheffield

 

Civlised? Only on Lying Labour terms: ignore the idigenous poor/homeless, give to the incomers from Iraq, Somalia, Eastern Europe, etc etc.

 

Can you also arrange for me to become extremely rich overnight?

 

Charles church, wouldn't touch them with a barge pole! I think most new building plots now have to have a certain percentage for the housing association.

The last site I worked on had H.a tenants, some were kicked out for dealing drugs, it was ideal for them, right next to a school and the kids were often round picking up drugs.
They still came back, just visited another H.a tenant and sold drugs from their house instead.

 

I could, but the question is "should I"..... you prosper by knowing me, mere money is just a distraction!

Now stop picking your nose and put songs of praise on

 

People end up on the streets for all sorts of reasons really, it's true that this country is seen as soft in some ways, but ya have to see them as anyone else, some deserve more help than others. The last person i met like this said they felt suicidal at times but the damage it would do to their families stops them, i told them to get in touch with the CAB and they'd help them on the 1st step up so to speak. Shame.

 

I sort of ran an old person's charity place for some months, in Guildford. Next to our centre was an oldish timber building with a large roof overhang. Most mornings I would find a couple of youngish lads who had spent the night there. I didn't really find out much about them but usually sneaked out of the back door and gave them a cuppa and a bacon butty. In return I asked them to stop pissing against our front door which was a habit of theirs. There were often a few empty vodka bottles but I never found any needles.

But the charity boss cornered me and told me to stop talking to them as "we don't want to attract those kind of people". Fecking unbelievable and one of the reasons I left some weeks later.

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I don't like giving cash but will sometimes offer to buy them a hot drink and something to eat - easy then to tell if they are genuine or not.

 

The other night I pulled in to the local woods, under side lights only, and there was an unoccupied Mk1 Focus.

The owner must have been sucking the **** of the guy in the Merc parked in front of him.

Still, I couldn't help giggle when the blue and twos on my marked car lit up the car park and sent several men scurrying

I was more unhappy that when the same was done on the heterosexual car-park, I didn't see any women running

 

Are your in-laws mental? If I had the choice, I'd move from Mapperley to Lichfield in the drop of a hat!