St Thomas of Canterbury, High Road, Woodford Green, Essex.

Thug that St Thomas’ sends out on their behalf.  

A crew from this church in Woodford Green calls on various occasions to Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London with a food handout. I’ve been there a few times as they conducted this handout and the behaviour of the volunteers always left a sour taste in my mouth.

A few of these charity workers are inclined to be arrogant and more than capable of winding up the people availing of the products that they share out. The problem, though, with needling vulnerable and homeless people is that a lot of them have emotional problems while some others will have mental health issues.

He displayed obvious aggression when he
realised he was being recorded.

The most common reaction I’ve seen after some of the crew members had wound up the patrons is that the latter will get quite boisterous and a little aggressive. This would then result in the crew members getting annoyed and condescending which, essentially, led to a merry-go-round of a few crew members pecking at the patrons who’d react by getting obstreperous and uncooperative.

Another disgusting habit some of St Thomas’ charity crew have is throwing food at people. On a good few occasions I’ve seem volunteers get huge hilarity out of tossing food at the people gathered at their handout in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.  

On any given night there could be anything up to 150 needy people gathered round the volunteer’s vehicle and it would take someone with the personality of a reptile to throw food into this crowd. And when you’d see how this group would squabble, fight and snatch for the food only a psychopath would continue to throw it at them.

St Thomas Church, Canterbury.

But continue to throw it they did, and for the most times they’d do it with a huge grin or sneer on their faces. While some of the homeless people wouldn’t have the mental capacity to be affected by this type of behaviour I’m quite sure others were. After all, it’s rude beyond belief to throw anything at another, but to throw food is exceedingly disgusting. You might throw food to a feral dog if you’re scared to approach him lest he’d bite, but you don’t throw food at humans – only ignorant ill reared morons do that.

I’d thought I’d seen it all with this particular group of charity volunteers but at their last visit to Lincoln’s Inn Fields they had a chap with them who really took the biscuit. This chap was of Goan provenance and it seemed to be his first time out with them but it took him less than 15 minutes to show himself to be a complete bully and thug.

A friend and I were standing in the proximity of where the handout was being conducted when a patron of the handout suddenly jostled me aside and attempted to grab a bag that my friend was holding. This came completely out of the blue and I pushed the grabber away and asked him what the hell he thought he was doing.  

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

It turned out that the culprit thought that pushing me aside and grabbing the other man’s bag would be a funny thing to do – he had severe common-sense issues and wanted to give himself and his friends a laugh. I, being annoyed at being forcibly pushed aside, quite strongly remonstrated with him and he sheepishly withdrew.

The likes of this is to be expected when a large group gather at a food handout but what happened next was totally out of the ordinary, even for these events. Immediately after the grabber had withdrawn and the incident was closed the volunteer – he who I have already described as a thug – approached me and aggressively shouted that I wasn’t to speak to people like that.

Momentarily I was flummoxed at this idiots arrogance but I recovered and told him to mind his own bloody business and to get out of my personal space. This was when he showed his true colours: he blatantly stared into my face, clearly itching to strike me, while his eyes took on the strangest swiveling motions I’ve ever seen.

Jack Nicholson could portray swivel eyed loons.  

I told him again to push off and when he saw I wouldn’t be cowed he left – as most people eventually find out, bullies are egregiously cowardly. But then, after about 5 minutes, he came back and had a go at my friend. He was highly abusive towards him and I, seeing he was again totally in the wrong, intervened and asked him what his problem was. Then he turns on me, and again with psychotic swiveling eyes and his face twitching he starts to stare into my face while not uttering a word.

Then one of his colleagues from St Thomas’ became involved. But instead of attempting to restrain, talk sense or bring away this very unstable thug he decided my friend and I were at fault – and that he’d back the thug up. When this second chap’s bullying failed he then decided he was shutting down the handout early. He informed me of this in quite a loud manner; I can only assume he did this so as to falsely inform others that it was I who was solely responsible for them missing out on the products that were being distributed.

He seemed to have trouble restraining his thuggish
aggression as I recorded him.

I was annoyed enough by the first ignoramus but this second imbecile and his attempt to make me look responsible – in front of the patrons attending the handout – for having it finish before it had run its course made my blood boil.

So they closed up their van but before they left the thug, who had started the whole disgusting affair, again approached me and made another loud attempt to portray me as being responsible for having the food handout finish before its time.

What these two disgusting scumbags from St Thomas’ were attempting to do was to coerce the people who had attended for this handout to turn upon me. It’s clear to me that they wanted this gathering of vulnerable and homeless people to attack me either physically or verbally or probably both – and in a volatile situation like a food handout in Lincoln’s Inn Fields an attack or assault is very easily provoked.

The bully and troublemaker who started the thuggish event was so quick and ready to bully I can only assume he volunteered to go out with this charity with the sole intention of belittling and trampling on the vulnerable. His colleagues on this handout would have clearly heard and seen his first verbal attack on me; and would also have seen his unstable and thuggish response when I informed him that it was none of his business – I’ll never forget the strangely terrifying way his eyes swiveled and his face twitched.  

You’d think they’d then have taken some steps to rein him in, or at least kept an eye on him lest he do it again. But they didn’t. Some people who volunteer to attend food handouts do so in the belief that they’ve more rights than those who turn up to avail of the service, that they can abuse and belittle as they please. Yet others do so with the sole aim of seeking out vulnerable people they can walk on.