mjmooney Posted November 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2019 45 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Anyone here used Streetlink before ? was just coming home when I saw someone staggering a bit on the road before falling over . i pulled over and went to help him and although a bit drunk ascertained he’s a homeless man , managed to get him to a bench so he’s no longer half laying in the road , then went home made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich and dropped it off with a few blankets but I’m kinda at a loss what else I should do ... google suggested Streetlink as it helps local authorities to be aware , but just wondered if anyone had any experience with that ? Seems you have to register first ...Or any other suggestions ? I really don't know the answer, but good on you, Tony. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted November 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I really don't know the answer, but good on you, Tony. Was just going to post the same thing. Never used Streetlink so cant offer any advice, but that's a very good thing you've done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: Anyone here used Streetlink before ? was just coming home when I saw someone staggering a bit on the road before falling over . i pulled over and went to help him and although a bit drunk ascertained he’s a homeless man , managed to get him to a bench so he’s no longer half laying in the road , then went home made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich and dropped it off with a few blankets but I’m kinda at a loss what else I should do ... google suggested Streetlink as it helps local authorities to be aware , but just wondered if anyone had any experience with that ? Seems you have to register first ...Or any other suggestions ? I work for a homelessness charity, and highly recommend Streetlink Nice one, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted November 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2019 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: Anyone here used Streetlink before ? was just coming home when I saw someone staggering a bit on the road before falling over . i pulled over and went to help him and although a bit drunk ascertained he’s a homeless man , managed to get him to a bench so he’s no longer half laying in the road , then went home made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich and dropped it off with a few blankets but I’m kinda at a loss what else I should do ... google suggested Streetlink as it helps local authorities to be aware , but just wondered if anyone had any experience with that ? Seems you have to register first ...Or any other suggestions ? Bloody Socialist. (Only joking, nice one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: ... coming home when I saw someone staggering a bit on the road before falling over... a bit drunk.. ascertained he’s a homeless man , managed to get him to a bench so he’s no longer half laying in the road , then went home made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich and dropped it off with a few blankets... Sounds like you've already made his night Tone. Good on you for caring x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Coffee communism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 45 minutes ago, avfcDJ said: I work for a homelessness charity, and highly recommend Streetlink Nice one, btw. Cool I’ll check them out when I get home Just at a charity do at my local where amateur musicians get up and kinda play out of their comfort zone and raise some money ... Chesney Hawks always supports it ,( his brother is my daughter music teacher ) ... he just played some funny instrument as he song “Love me do” , always comes along every year and joins in pokes fun at himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 8 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Cool I’ll check them out when I get home Just at a charity do at my local where amateur musicians get up and kinda play out of their comfort zone and raise some money ... Chesney Hawks always supports it ,( his brother is my daughter music teacher ) ... he just played some funny instrument as he song “Love me do” , always comes along every year and joins in pokes fun at himself Amazing, he is the one and only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, TheAuthority said: Bloody Socialist. If Tony had walked into your house to take the sarnie and blankets to give to the homeless man...then you could accuse him of being socialist. Edited November 17, 2019 by WhatAboutTheFinish typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 15 hours ago, tonyh29 said: Chesney Hawks always supports it... he just played some funny instrument as he song “Love me do” He's a good musician. Composes varied production material. https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/composer/chesney-hawkes_668 Looks like a melodica from this angle? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 17, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2019 17 hours ago, tonyh29 said: he just played some funny instrument Augustus Pablo will haunt you from the grave... it's definitely a melodica (He's probably the most famous player of one) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 17, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2019 21 hours ago, tonyh29 said: a homeless man Not to the same extent as you (well done, Tony), I was having a fresh air break outside the Pub (greyfriar's in Preston) 2 weeks ago, and obviously saw the homeless/beggar types loitering around outside. his one bloke asked me for some money so he could buy some food. So I had a chat with him, asked him his name, where he was from, what he wanted for tea and stuff. It was cold and drizzly. He was Polish, came over here for work, didn't currently have a job, had no money and no way to get back to Poland either. He wanted a pizza from a takeaway up the road, he said. As he was genuine, and genuinely miserable I gave him some money and went back inside, thinking he'd get the rest of the money off someone else. Went back out about an hour later, he's still there. Spoke to him again, he'd not had his tea, still. So I gave him the rest of the money and off he went, happy and bought his Pizza, and at least he was fed for the night. But what struck me was that firstly there are a fair old number of these people, secondly that they're utterly **** - stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thirdly that there's no council or voluntary orgs (in Preston) seemingly able to help them get sorted and lastly that standing in the rain for 3 hours hoping to get someone to give you 4 quid or whatever for some hot food is utterly miserable. Most people ignore these people completely, like they're invisible. There's a whole lot wrong with our society. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted November 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, blandy said: Not to the same extent as you (well done, Tony), I was having a fresh air break outside the Pub (greyfriar's in Preston) 2 weeks ago, and obviously saw the homeless/beggar types loitering around outside. his one bloke asked me for some money so he could buy some food. So I had a chat with him, asked him his name, where he was from, what he wanted for tea and stuff. It was cold and drizzly. He was Polish, came over here for work, didn't currently have a job, had no money and no way to get back to Poland either. He wanted a pizza from a takeaway up the road, he said. As he was genuine, and genuinely miserable I gave him some money and went back inside, thinking he'd get the rest of the money off someone else. Went back out about an hour later, he's still there. Spoke to him again, he'd not had his tea, still. So I gave him the rest of the money and off he went, happy and bought his Pizza, and at least he was fed for the night. But what struck me was that firstly there are a fair old number of these people, secondly that they're utterly **** - stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thirdly that there's no council or voluntary orgs (in Preston) seemingly able to help them get sorted and lastly that standing in the rain for 3 hours hoping to get someone to give you 4 quid or whatever for some hot food is utterly miserable. Most people ignore these people completely, like they're invisible. There's a whole lot wrong with our society. Nice one Pete I Agree , I wasn’t the only car around when Keith ( I learnt his name a bit later) fell over , it looked a bad fall as well ... I was the only one that bothered to stop , which sorta pissed me off a little , I thought people were better than that was something similar in Guildford the other month , man in a wheelchair had come out of Sainsbury’s had a trolly full of shopping , but was clearly quite distressed , everybody walked past him and looked the other way ... quick chat with him and it turned out he wanted a wheelchair access taxi , none of the companies he called had one readily available .. i rang a few with not much luck but one told me that Guildford station legally had to have some on the rank , so I drove down there spoke to the taxi driver with a wheelchair ramp and told him the situation , he pretty much wound his window up and ignored me , thankfully the second driver said yeah no problem I’ll follow you to him and off we went ... wheelchair man (Paul) essentially does all he can to be normal , wants to do his own shopping just had a mare that day with the taxis ... he gave my daughter one of his donuts as a Thank you , so she got an important lesson in one good turn deserves another People are often quite generous when it comes to giving money but don’t appear to want to engage with the people face to face like they will catch something off them. Edited November 17, 2019 by tonyh29 Spelling 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 It’s very true what you say about there really being three groups, those not interested and winding up the window or walking past, those happy to donate at arms length, and those engaging. Most days of most weeks, I’m probably in the second camp. We’ve discussed the subject before and its really tricky to know when someone genuinely wants a couple of quid for a warm slice of pizza, and when they want a fix of something. Trouble is, on a cold crap drizzly day, that spice fix is likely just to get you away from your situation for a brief while. And who can deny that? I tend not to give directly to street beggars. I suspect Keith and pizza guy would have got little from me. I will buy the Big Issue (I’m prepared for the price now, got massively embarrassed a couple of years ago when I’d got the price very wrong and didn’t have enough money). Quite ‘lucky’ here in Cardiff as there are a few options to try and do a tiny bit to help. My conscience salving version of ‘help’ today was to simply camp in Big Moose coffee shop whilst the gang went shopping. It’s staffed by people getting a second chance, learning to hold down a job and move on from there. So I get coffee and toast, they get paid employment and a reference. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 17, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2019 3 hours ago, tonyh29 said: o I drove down there spoke to the taxi driver with a wheelchair ramp and told him the situation , he pretty much wound his window up and ignored me , thankfully the second driver said yeah no problem I’ll follow you to him and off we went Never ask the cab at the front of the rank, more chance at the back, they have longer to wait for a fare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 5 hours ago, blandy said: Not to the same extent as you (well done, Tony), I was having a fresh air break outside the Pub (greyfriar's in Preston) 2 weeks ago, Oh all the pubs in all the world you chose the cheaper Wetherspoons in Preston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 17, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, Sid4ever said: Oh all the pubs in all the world you chose the cheaper Wetherspoons in Preston I didn’t choose it, Sid, my friend Pam did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted November 18, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2019 Get to the station this morning, about as on time as I possibly could be. Just as I'm about to go down to the platform, buy my ticket etc, train pulls in. Right, I think, if there's no queue at the machine and I run, I can probably do this. So I sprint down the stairs, round the corner, to be greeted by the ticket machine door open and some bloke collecting the cash in it I guess. Split second reaction - get on the **** train, sort the ticket after. Get on the train and remember that this is a local line, they'll have an inspector/conductor once in a blue moon. Bollocks. Right, I think, look up what the procedure is for getting on a train without a ticket these days. I look it up to discover they'd charge me £20 potentially, when I'm paying £6 for an all day return... Prepared, I decide **** that for a game of soldiers once I get to New St I'll just be straight with someone and hopefully they'll understand I'm not trying to dodge a fair I'm actually looking to pay etc etc. Silently curse the prat that thinks the best time to empty out a ticket machine at a train station is right as the commute starts for costing me 3 days worth of travel through little fault of my own. Pull into the station and am reliably informed to go stand in a queue in the middle of the station at a hastily put together desk where a harried looking woman is staring into a nondescript tablet seemingly hoping to find retirement in it's blank visage, while a bewildered bloke looking for all the world like a plasterer that suddenly found himself in Narnia is looking at her whilst holding out a credit card. And behind him there's a dozen other people looking like they'd rather meet the cold embrace of death than stand there for a second more. Joining the back of this queue I discover that the machine isn't working. Whether that means the tablet, the printer, or the woman sat behind them I don't know, but I can probably be sure the tin lockbox with added elastic band security wrapped around that she was hunched over wasn't broken. Eventually a bloke looking like Father Christmas on secondment to National Rail comes, looks at harried woman, looks at the printer, looks at the pile of blank tickets, looks at the queue of people waiting for God and/or to be relieved of £20 to be allowed to escape the station, and shouts across the no man's land between exits 'Neil! Let this lot out!' and provides us all with the best present anyone could ask for - being let out of New Street. 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, Chindie said: - being let out of New Street. That is a beautiful story. Small wins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post welnik Posted November 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) On 16/11/2019 at 19:20, tonyh29 said: Anyone here used Streetlink before ? was just coming home when I saw someone staggering a bit on the road before falling over . i pulled over and went to help him and although a bit drunk ascertained he’s a homeless man , managed to get him to a bench so he’s no longer half laying in the road , then went home made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich and dropped it off with a few blankets but I’m kinda at a loss what else I should do ... google suggested Streetlink as it helps local authorities to be aware , but just wondered if anyone had any experience with that ? Seems you have to register first ...Or any other suggestions ? Completely unrelated, but I was stopped the other day by a homeless guy in new street. Asked me to buy him a hot drink. "sure" I said "what would you like?" without batting an eyelid he said "large caramel latte please" Tickled me no end Erm, he didn't tickle me, that would have been a bit weird. Edited November 18, 2019 by welnik Clarification 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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