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It's sad.....because people do look down on these "down and outs" but as granny says if they want to spend any money they get given on alcohol, so be it, if it's the only little bit of enjoyment they can get....let them have it !!....wish there was more we could do to help 
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During periods of extreme weather, lately, there was a phone number being shared on facebook to assist rough sleepers finding shelter, for the night.
I am unsure whether this number is applicable during less extreme weather (in the process of finding out but i cant see why not).
However, the number is 0300 123 2041 if anybody wants to ring it on behalf of a rough sleeper, if you see one. Store it on your phone- may just save a life! It's connected to the Whitechapel Centre, Rude. https://twitter.com/WhitechapelLiv
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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I tried to give a homeless person a couple of quid, about 22 years ago thinking I was doing a good turn and he threw it back at me and mumbled no charity!!
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Its sad to hear of this,the same thing happened to my freind's brother.He was found at the back of the casino on Borough rd.He was staying at the ymca but they wouldn't let him in because he'd been drinking.
no1s gonna keep me from u
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Its all about empathy, experiance and conditioning.
For those of us who know where the next meal is coming from and (enjoy) a roof over our heads, it is so easy to judge a homeless person.
Maybe the homeless person views life differantly-still had his Pride, Sense of Dignity etc
Another question: do those that 'offer' seek comfort for themselves or their perception of what the others need?
Read 'Maslow'.
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Saddens me, there's a little old geezer often around new Brighton and liscard, I always give him money, he's an alcoholic but has always been polite over the years. Shame really. If it's the the man I'm thinking of, (bearded with a walking stick), he's not homeless, he lives, or lived, in a care home on Penkett Rd. A non-recovering alcoholic. A real shame things like this happen in our first world and that this man wouldn't, or felt he couldn't, find the help to get off the streets.
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That's him shambo, has a slight limp too, I thought he was homeless as his clothes are always dirty.
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Rude - almost everything we do is to please our own conscience - don't need Maslow or Freud to advise.
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He wasn't a homeless person his name was Lee Dodd He was 42ish I knew him when I was a teenager. He was supposed to have died from the cold. Wasn't a drug addict or a bum he was a nice lad so sad RIP Lee
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Just doesn't make sense does it....how someone can just curl up and die like that !! 
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Thanks For that number,ive stored it in my phone,like you say one day may save a life and its nothing to keep the number stored.So sad
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number added to my phone,Thanks Rudebox
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has there been any more news on this
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