Roman Catholic Church of St Peter-in-Chains Stroud Green Parish, London, UK

St Peter’s Catholic Church of Stroud Green, Crouch Hill and Finsbury Park give the homeless and vulnerable food and beverages every Saturday evening in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

The food and beverages, though, are not all they give. From my experience you’ll find that they might also have an Irish person on the team who’ll be eagerly dishing out abuse and sarcasm.

Below is an email which was sent informing this church about the conduct of three of their Irish volunteers:

Subject: Abusive and Bullying Irish Volunteers at Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Dear sir/madam,

I contact you in relation to a food handout that is conducted on behalf of your church in Lincoln’s Inn Fields every Saturday evening at about 07:00 p.m.

Over time I have witnessed three different Irish volunteers being sarcastic and abusive to people that attend at this food handout.

I inform you that I intend photographing these three individuals and publishing their images and descriptions of their abuse and sarcasm on my blog, London’s Milieu.

And in future if I see or experience any of your volunteers being needlessly abusive to patrons I also shall photograph them and publish them on said blog.

I’d advise you to inform any of your future Irish volunteers that the high they get from bullying the vulnerable will last only a short time, while pictures and descriptions of their disgusting behaviour might remain online for years.

Best regards,

Green Light Medical Van, Hillsong Church, PO Box 29971, London SW6 2WX

Green Light sends a van to Lincoln’s Inn Fields to assist homeless people with medical problems. (Image: Green Light Website.)

Whilst passing through the north-east corner of Lincoln’s Inn Fields I was accosted by a drug addict. This person would have been drawn there by the food handouts that regularly set up stalls in the area.

The drug addict had asked me to give him some tobacco and when I informed him I had none he immediately became aggressive and insulting towards me. I have been harassed by this individual before and while weary of him I assume his bark is worse than his bite.

Seems the product doesn’t always do as it says on the tin. (Image: Green Light Website.)

The drug addict is about in his mid-fifties and ordinates in Kerry, Ireland. His mode of conduct towards me when I refused his request for tobacco was to run a short distance ahead of me and then taunt and insult me. And as I moved along towards him he’d skip further ahead and when feeling at a safe distance he’d again issue further insults and taunts to me.

Not only was the drug addict getting a thrill from abusing me, he was also very obviously getting a kick out of the attention his act of aggressive stupidity got from other people in the area. It seems he was getting two birds with the one stone. First, he was getting revenge on me for not giving him tobacco. Second, he was bigging-himself-up in front of the numerous other food handout clients that were at the time in the immediate vicinity.

 

For the most part this type of aggressive and idiotic conduct is all part and parcel of venturing through a food hand-out in London. Though there was something that wasn’t quite within accepted norms for this incident and that was the Green Light medical volunteer/employee who got great glee from sneering and laughing at the drug addict’s abuse of me.

This Green Light volunteer/employee isn’t shy in laughing at strangers.

This Green Light volunteer/employee (pictured right) didn’t make any attempt to hide his hilarity at seeing me being verbally abused, assailed and harassed by the unstable and mentally unbalanced drug addict.

Whilst he heartily sneered and laughed at my attempts to extricate myself from the company of my tormentor he had with him at least two colleagues, whom I am quite sure are also associated with Green Light. I believe part of the reason for his ridiculing laughter was to impress these colleagues.

 

When I saw the atrociously disgusting carry-on of this Green Light volunteer/employee I assumed he was with the Samaritans – this is the type of foul conduct I’ve come to expect from Samaritan volunteers.

I thus approached him and asked whom he represented and he, with astounding arrogance, informed me he was with Green Light. The narcissism emanated from every pore in his body.

I had a neighbour once with special needs who received a large financial pay-out after being in an accident. When he got the money he pranced around like he was God. He thought the windfall made him the bee’s knees and all his old friends were dropped whilst he attempted to climb to a higher social stratum.

I suspect this Green Light volunteer/employee has a similar mentality to this former special needs neighbour of mine. It seems he thinks that going out with a Green Light medical van into the midst of a horde of homeless people gives him carte blanche to belittle and sneer at them.

Or perhaps he has purposefully joined Green Light in order to be among vulnerable people whom he feels he can bully, belittle and sneer at? This isn’t so far-fetched as paedophiles are known to purposefully work their way into positions where they’ll have easy access to victims.

 

What was even worse with this Green Light “medical” team was that they had allowed a member of the vulnerable community to latch himself onto them. This person is male, quite large and goonish; and from what I’ve seen of him has an IQ that hovers somewhere around the South Pole.

I took a picture of the Green Light personnel in question and then took a photo of their vehicle. Whilst doing so I could hardly believe it when the goon began threatening and abusing me. From his short association with Green Light it seems he assumed he had authority to forbid people taking photographs in the public area.

At one stage he made towards me as if to attack me. Green Light staff/volunteers then tried to dissuade him be coaxing him and gently rubbing his arm. It would have been comical if not for the serious consequences if this goon – believing he had authority from Green Light to do so – attacked someone and seriously injured them or worse.

I’ve seen him involved in numerous physical fights. His modus operandi is to latch himself onto those who are conducting food and clothes handouts. When he has inveigled his way into their company he presents himself to the vulnerable community as being an authority figure. From this position he then finds it easier to throw his weight around and lord-it-over others in his peer group.

I can understand how this goon’s sly inveigling might work with ordinary people who go out on the street to give aid to the homeless. But I can’t understand how an outfit like Green Light, who presents itself as a medical group, could let a member of the vulnerable community latch himself onto them and then start to blatantly bully and abuse others in the area.

Samaritans, 46 Marshall St, Soho, London W1F 9BF & Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Two Samaritan volunteers: One can’t understand when they are not wanted and the other is something of a fishwife.

The Samaritans send volunteers out on the streets who, I suspect, are supposed to be of assistance if someone is feeling especially low or contemplating self-harm. These volunteers sometimes turn up in the area of food hand-outs and such like.

I’ve come across some of these volunteers, and I’d describe four of them whom I’ve encountered as being particularly unqualified for being in the profession of lifting people’s spirits.

The first was an Irish female who approached me out of the blue one evening. She was a vile, uppity, vulgar and an obviously ill-reared little brat. Quite clearly, she thought that the Samaritan’s badge which she was wearing gave her the right to patronise and be sarcastic to me. And just as clearly, I told the ignorant little scumbag to f-off.

I then approached a male volunteer about the conduct of this brat but was met with a flood of arrogance and aggressive dismissal.

Then a while ago I met this fellow (pictured right). He’s Irish. He showed up one evening and began to instruct people as to what they could talk about. I’m serious, he ordered me and some people I was speaking with to change the theme of our conversation. Obviously he didn’t like what we were saying.

He wasn’t polite about it, he told us to quit what we were speaking about from about 5 metres away with a headmasterly loudness and attitude. Like above female, he seemed to have the impression that representing the Samaritans gave him authority over others.

I emailed the Samaritans about his conduct. And thought at least that that would be the last time he stuck his nose into a conversation others and I was having.

But he did decide to have another go at cowering me. After a few months he again approached me with an arrogant smirk on his gob. He had a crony with him and began to speak patronisingly to me. I immediately and loudly told him I didn’t want anything to do with him. He then got a little annoyed at this – probably upset at not being kowtowed to in the presence of his crony – and aggressively asked me to repeat what I’d said. He definitely heard my second reply.

As if this wasn't bad enough, he again approached and spoke to me two weeks later. It’s as if it’s a challenge to him to get the better of me through a mixture of patronism and annoyance because I had previously made a complaint about him.

Getting alarmed about his provocation and his inability to understand I wanted nothing to do with him, I approached another Samaritan volunteer (pictured right) who was in the area.

I intended to request her to relay a message to her colleague, for her to let him know I wanted him to stay away from me and to refrain from speaking to me.

Immediately upon realising what I wanted, she lost her veneer of decency. And turned into an arrogant and sarcastic fishwife – she also seemed to me to have mild mental health issues that are somewhere on the spectrum of those with special needs.

She met my request with sarcasm and a blatantly sneering ridicule. She’s red-headed. I suspect she was annoyed because she viewed me as showing disrespect to, what is very probably, her fellow countryman mentioned above.

I also suspect she was annoyed because she’d met someone whom she couldn’t talk down to and patronise – as far as I have experienced, "they" like to meet “vulnerable” people who’ll accept without question their efforts at double-speak, sarcasm and sly abuse.