You can meet Joseph on the Strand - a busy street in London. He has been homeless for 11 years. He takes all drugs but Spice. He tells a story how he saved a girl from being brutally beaten up. Check this out
yes folks we are here with Joseph who's been on the Streets of London for how long 11 years 11 years man yeah a long time how did you end up on the streets uh just circumstances like relationship breakdown that sort of thing usual yeah 11 years right but not least are you originally from this area Joseph I'm from uh yeah South London yeah South London right yeah well just before I started to record you told me the story about last night last night I'll say it last night and I could be scream and I thought oh [ __ ] and I thought I'd take that notice of it then I heard scream as I rushed down there and there was about eight girls and two two boys all like 17 18. don't put it on these three worlds to do girls that are all dressed up nice as going to restaurants and I thought I separated them so I wouldn't talk away and when I walked away they'd grab one of them and slung to the floor wow I saw charanda started kicking and punching the the guys were fancy as well I couldn't believe it so I'll just bam bam bam I knocked them all out the way and then I said I was standing over with my feet I said move get back as I hurt you like would you have to you can't you know so I picked her up she was face down on the floor so I picked her up under her armpits lifted her up and then put her with her two mates by the wall and then then add their back to me and I thought I like that keeping that and I was still punching them get like getting them away from it thank you mate I'm still punching them and snapping them make sure you know they don't get to them and then this black guy who's it was a bit helpful but when the trouble started step back you know when they started surrounding it was kicking her he sort of stepped back so he wanted his Braves yeah they go but um once they realized that they were going to get them and they decided to run they'll Run for the bus the bus will let them on then they run down an alley but they were gone basically so I said wait for a bit so we went to the renewed over and then I said to the guys walking down to the restaurant I think it's a lot of my stuff here he was a nice guy but it's a bit too much for him but it worked for me I just I just dealt with them you know but I'm a street person so I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bedroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves
West Africa tongo yeah exactly yes the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company and covid obviously it wiped it out yeah what happened
I ended up using crack drugs hello Clint how are you tired I'm cold and tired how was last night cold it's very cold last night pretty cold last night yeah yeah so you slept here and then outwards aren't you in hospital what happened is your attention very bad chest infection very bad chest infection and he ended up
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yeah I'm 59 but I can still fight no I mean obviously have you had many fights being on the streets yeah many have been stabbed it with Amazon buying bar so I've had my tent set of light with when a minute three times that happened yeah burnt on my hand hold on hold on yeah show this yeah hello can you see it that's when they set my tent line it all burnt my hands the second time I burnt all my back the first time can you see it yeah that's fine man yeah Dreadful I remember one night I was sitting in the street just around the corner and um it was dry when I went asleep and normally you're supposed to be if you're sleeping you'd get your shoes if not if you're not going to keep your shoes on you put them under a pillar but I've forgotten the left of that I woke up next morning my shoes have gone and it was pissing down the rain I had to walk all the way from here from The Strand to London Bridge with no shoes on because some some redneck my shoes I love a homeless person the worst enemy of the homeless is the homeless yes it's just unbelievable that just rub each other because they've given up for life or something like that they think it's all right to just take Liberties you know right so before you you become homeless what was your like profession what did you do oh laboring Painting and Decorating gardening fencing a Paving uh uh I was I was hot carrier I've done many jobs out yeah I've worked most of my life yeah all right and people like uh is there a lot of drugs on on the Strand yes a lot lots fast spice I feel so sorry for them you know they all smoke is fine some of them are dropping dead because of it one guy went to jail for two weeks he and he was smoking spice he went to jail for two weeks and he come back he thought he could do the same thing and have a big fat joint but he killed him he took one puff of it outside McDonald's he took one puff of a spice joint and killed him thank you darling
um the uh Jam the um doctors in the car came ambulances like paramedics everyone tried to save him he was gone
poison pure evil it really is an evil thing you know it's all it's not it was a legal high but it's not anymore but they're still doing it too late now they're getting it illegally now it's just an absolute nightmare hiya
thank you very much thank you
I'm Ash trained oh yeah you know no yes the spice is the worst one up here spicy yeah you get junkies up here and all that usual [ __ ] but as far as he has lethals so people like will look like zombies they're falling all over the place smashing their face on the floor walking down the wall trying to hold around trying to get but what a lot of [ __ ] scum up here are doing now they've got a trick now the homeless they they put some spice and weed in the joint and give it to idiots and then when they get high and like that they rub them I see [ __ ] little something two-thirds of the homeless a [ __ ] scum the other third need help I'll just pick him with a witch you know what I mean because a lot of the homeless they look like they're nice but they're [ __ ] low life you know so it's picking the right ones it's really hard but a lot of them need help they're just lost souls really you know what I mean they need help but how can you help someone who's a bit of a scumbag you know that something happens in the life to come out onto the street and then have to survive and that hardens them you know and that can work both ways they can be hardened to be nice or be hard and be a scumbag a lot of them give up straight away or no one cares about me why should I care about anyone else so yeah times are changing where do you see yourself in in a year time Joseph I have no idea but um with no um business is the answer I see myself I don't know where I'll be but I won't be bitter and angry I know that you want to be bitter and angry no no never am and if I am only the last 10 minutes an hour so I've got nothing uh a lot of positive person I tried to be yeah I think so are you messing with any substances yourself yeah anything but advice oh yeah yeah but I'm not I'm not homeless because of drugs or anything like a lot you know I've been homeless on and off for many many years but I love took drugs since I was about nine and I'm you know I started smoking weed when I was nine and I'm 58 now 59 so no drugs is open all my life but I do take them you know so what people go in the pub they go They're going to Pub they have a drink and they go home no problem I'll go and have a little bit of drugs a lot of people out of my own money I've never still if you still to take drugs you're a scumbag you know if you get a little bits of money and you have a bit of drugs and when you ain't got no money chop you can't ebony same as a club you can go down the pub you can afford it's difficult to get drugs here no no no it's easier to get drugs to help it's easy to get drugs and anything really yeah you can get drugs easier than ask you in the pub if you can use their toilet I'm telling you it's terrible I sit here I suppose a couple hours and guys walk past her on their weeds running spice or any crack it's only heroin yeah
yeah it's hard mess but that's why they take devices because they're numbs them out and they just don't feel no miserable pain they're just locked up it's it's a shame really hey Joseph I mean what do you sleep and all over the place you know it's easy your best best thing to do is find different places all the time all right so you don't have like a stable place and you stay no I move around a lot you move around yeah and you've got that's all your belongings here is that right basically yeah yeah you've got a sleeping bag and a yeah I've got two sleeping bags just to make sure I got I've got a clean shots clean pants everything yeah got everything like that yeah
it seems to know everybody here on the street yeah yeah I know well I've been here a long time she's she that's her boyfriend but she when he went there she tried to entice me around there for some sex life I've got two I've got two daughters older now we've got two daughters I've got two daughters older than her but she's trying to entice me around there to sleep with a lot and then she's got a flat around the corner
wrapping it should get rough time but she takes me home now I said to her now I said I'm old enough to be a dad go away have you got family yourself yeah I've got a lot of family yeah we've got loads of family there's a family most of my family dying now sorry to hear that I lost two sisters and a sister-in-law last year and my brother spoke to him last night and the phone is dying he's on he's on an oxygen thing bleeding terrible yeah but that's you know life's short people think last longest a lot shorter than we all think you know I'm 58 and it just went really quick yeah I know what you mean yeah it just it just flies by one minute you're a teenager next to me and you're a man it just goes so you're saying you you this is your choice to be on the streets is that what you're saying Joseph sometimes it's easier I just use the option I sometimes they help and like trying to really want to stay in the hostel with all smelly junkies and [ __ ] all you can hear is coughing and smell feet all over the place
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and if people want to reach out and donate or help you is there any kind of like a phone number or email yeah I've got a phone number would you like to say that yeah I will I'll find it oh it is yeah
You can meet Joseph on the Strand - a busy street in London. He has been homeless for 11 years. He takes all drugs but Spice. He tells a story how he saved a girl from being brutally beaten up. Check this out
you can do it yeah so Joseph's phone number is zero seven four nine six six three seven three five six all right yeah I could do some help that's for sure I'm getting old I've had a heart attack a stroke you had one yeah I've had a heart attack and a stroke I've had two back operations I've had two broken ankles broken knee I've had a few accidents I've done reading you know just one of them things but yeah I now got cpod what's that that's like a lung disease braving on all this traffic reading the fumes yeah I'm doing not doing too good I've had better days that's for sure but yeah but I've done a wonderful thing last night come on tell us about it well like I say like and it's just God's will I was the only person here that could help her because it was like eight of them surrounded chicken and punching her it didn't last long it lasted about a second you know but I'll run down there just in time just so friends and they were scared of me like and I'm shallow shot at the top of my mouth move get out of [ __ ] kill you I'll let you move and uh these girls have a terrified like and a crowded them behind me like and they were so they were holding on to my car oh don't leave me I should be quiet stay there what actually happened what do you think happened what happened was these three good-looking well-dressed um you know clean girls were going down there they enjoy themselves smiling and these these girls in Traxxas and that street not Street girls like a like Teenage gang they were they were jealous they're simply the girls are jealous of them but they can dress like that they can get themselves a job and sort yourself out and make yourself look nice but they don't it's a rather run around in track is an app with words pull the hoods down stop robbing people that's what I'm doing there's just a group of scum yeah what are those tattoos on your hands by the way uh flowers Just Flowers yeah what did you get them um I've had them years of just like flowers I've always liked flowers like I'm just obsessed by looking at flowers everywhere I go I see them I look at them like yeah another just a weird man I suppose a lot of flowers could be worse yeah I could like Paul not like never like flowers you know I want to get these colors in these ones because they ain't got no color in them but this one's all right yeah I'm just a bit afraid of that okay Joseph yeah well nothing else I can't think of anything else okay cool man
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