| Home Archived by the National Library of Australia Homeless Hot Gossip 11 Latest 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Oldest Fan Mail Send your latest insights to [email protected] Messages posted from 27 December 2008 to 7 February 2009 The most recent message appears at the top. Last update Saturday 7 February 2009 Good Food Wasted Next week: Mister "X's" bleeding ulcer; More on Peter Bagdi; Unity and Common Ground: To be supported or not to be supported, that is the question Later this month: It is rocket science. More help for Street-to-home. Latest Guest Book Entries WestCare call police on critic. Claimed he had drugs. They find nothing. Last update 5 February 2009 WestCare call police against critic The moral compass swung wildly last week at the Baptist Community Services Westcare centre near Whitmore Square when a yard manager allegedly called police on one man last week. WestCare suspected him of supplying information to this website, but told the police they thought he had drugs. Police arrived and grabbed the man and held him up against a wall. They searched him bodily in public. They also searched his bag. They found nothing so they left. The man yelled at the employee who had called the police so WestCare kicked him out for "verbal abuse". You have to wonder in what direction their moral compass is pointing. The man had gained the ire of Jayne, the cook when working as a volunteer in the clothing room. Jayne allegedly tried to take donated clothing allocated to welfare clients only. He told her she was a paid employee and to "get out" of the clothing room. The police search for drugs was apparently the culmination of a long vendetta with yet another WestCare employee acting as proxy. Ironically, the previous year he'd urged WestCare management to begin a formal investigation when a number of donated Christmas presents destined for disadvantaged children went missing from a locked room overnight. He said the room was accessible by a very, very low number of people: two, actually. Management made a half-hearted investigation then said all gifts were accounted for and the incident was forgotten. But the cook didn't forget. How does an unqualified cook who lacks the culinary nous to include vinegar with fish and chips wield such influence? Last winter Jayne was caught sneaking her father and his car into the back yard of the WestCare kitchen whereupon large quantities of food went missing. Management reprimanded her - this is on the record - then inexplicably promoted her to where she could kick out the volunteers she suspected of exposing her. They kicked another man out last week. One rumour says he committed the crime of preaching while serving meals while another says it was something he said in Bible study class. Two people say he's been banned for life and that he can't even return as a client to buy the two-dollar lunch - or to access government subsidised services. And then there is the case of the older man kicked out for 12-months last year for unspecified reasons. The cook simply had to say he made her feel uncomfortable and humiliated. Then there are the threats of violence made on her behalf towards critics. Jayne's next target, according to rumour, is a paid WestCare employee she wants sacked. But how does one part-time employee that can't cook cause such havoc while Baptist Community Services management sit back as if mesmerised? 7 February 2009 Missing in Action The celebrity can collector has been missing-in-action for the past couple of weeks. The ghost-who-walks knows the story but he isn't telling anyone. 7 February 2009 Madame Tussaud in trouble? Mr Peter Bagdi, formerly of Kilburn, (the bad part), prophesises the sun will eventually expand and fry the earth. "Madame Tussaud will be in trouble," I replied. 6 February 2009 What's in a name? You don't find many parents giving their baby boys the name "Adolf". It is an unpopular name. But what about naming baby boys, "David". Is that any good? How many inspiring Davids are there in the homeless scene. There's David Wright of WestCare, who wouldn't let the 12-month ban man go to their Christmas party; there's David Tuckwell of Unity Housing Company who denies that the information they have on each client constitutes a file and therefore Freedom of Information copies of these records cannot be requested; there's David Waterford, (also known as the Listerine Kid), who writes huge, expensive indecipherable homeless reports that use up money that should have gone to the "homeless"; then there is the notorious Land Broker, David Cappo whose mission includes clearing the CBD of "homeless" people so the richer folk can take their places. 6 February 2009 WestCare's new healthy food ideology One insider has taken exception to criticism on this website of WestCare at Millers Court. He says the baked goods are held back because over- eating carbohydrates and fatty food makes clients unhealthy. Instead, he says, WestCare gives a piece of fruit to each client who walks through the gates for lunch. But another person says they forgot to order the fruit last week so this week no one was getting any fruit, anyway. However, it was been ordered for next week. WestCare's bread and pastry give-aways were legendary. All the best stuff, fresh from the bakery - not mauled returns from shops. They included apricot slices, fruit mince slices, cream buns, chocolate donuts, meat pies, custard pies, finger buns, continental bread, hundreds and thousands donuts, Berliners. Some were even individually wrapped. But WestCare became worried they were sickening people with excessive baked goods and are replacing them with one piece of fruit for each client. But clients who rely on the baked goods for meals over the next day or so aren't satisfied with one piece of fruit. Clients also feed birds and other animals with the food or give it to old and disabled housebound people. I know this to be a fact because I've been a recipient of this generosity. Some clients also trade the food for money or favours. The recent wastage was due to donated pies and buns being collected from Vilis but not distributed. Another source who visits many homeless places says the pastries collected by WestCare have been re-distributed to the Salvation Army and other organisations. He says to beware of the critics who do little more than sew discord. WestCare has the best of intentions. However, the chronic dysfunction in the kitchen has resulted in WestCare staff spending more time trying to identify my sources of intelligence than explaining why the wastage occurred - and what they're doing to better utilise donated food. 5 February 2009 Bagdi tires of being a Prophet Mr Peter Bagdi tires of being a Prophet. He says people always get angry with him. We were walking through the West Lakes shopping centre. People cast angry, fearful glances at The Prophet. I don't know why: he seemed normal to me. "Misery loves company," he said. I told him a person can't resign as a prophet, but that he's stuck with it. "Bad luck," I said. He didn't take that very well so we bought Cokes from the K-mart machines and watched the girls. 5 February 2009 Casino contingent visits Fred�s Van �C� arrived red-faced at Fred�s Van last night recounting tales of the Casino changing dealers four times in ten minutes. He said they were trying to put him off the game - and they did. �I dropped $******,� he said, having spent three-months scraping it together by playing the percentages. �Gone in twenty minutes, he said� He explained how they won�t let him win. �That figures,� I said, sympathetically. �Broken record,� interrupted �S�, who has heard �C�s� laments many times over the past decade. �S� then explains how difficult it is winning with the horses because payouts are so small for the favourites. �An extra ten-cents on the dollar,� he said. �Have you ever seen a real horse?� I asked, trying to make intelligent input to the conversation. �Don�t be ridiculous,� he says, �Of course, I�ve seen a horse.� I must have been mistaken hearing him previously say he�d never seen a horse. It pays to listen carefully. 4 February 2009 Good shoes for three-dollars Another man at Fred�s Van, born in 1941, said he got a pair of leather track shoes for three-dollars at Hutt Street Centre. Tony, the Spanish can collector who has had three strokes said he bought his at the Central Market for twenty-dollars and said he�s never had a time when shoes didn�t fit easily and comfortably on his feet. What a lucky life. 4 February 2009 Bagdi nervous about the Larsen B ice shelf Mr Peter Bagdi wants to move. Not just because he fears The Prostitute from Kilburn. It is also because being a Prophet he has seen that the Larsen B ice shelf in the Antarctic is about to collapse. The ensuing rise in sea level will swamp his Housing Trust unit near West Lakes. "At least the three Somalis from Kilburn who beat you up will drown," I assured him. 4 February 2009 Gunning for Hutt Street Centre A "trader" on Hutt Street is campaigning to have the Hutt Street Centre closed down. Hutt Street Centre are appeasing the richer folk, who have recently moved into the area, by encouraging "homeless" people to maintain, without pay, the flower boxes along Hutt Street. Perhaps we should campaign to have the "trader" choose another part of Adelaide to do his business. 4 February 2009 DNA Sample Police have ordered an elderly disabled pensioner to attend an address in Grenfell Street this evening to provide a DNA swab. One officer said the sample could be taken in a gentlemanly manner or it could be taken by force. The mouth swab is part of a police report to the Public Prosecutor recommending prosecution against the man. The alleged offence happened twelve days ago in a park on The Parade, Norwood. The man was holding his walking stick in one hand and in the other a placard criticising Israeli military action in Gaza. Painted on the placard was an Israeli flag with a swastika in the middle. Police broke the placard handle in half and put it in their car saying they were doing it, in part, to protect the man from being attacked by others. The tertiary "homeless" man lives in a rooming house and has no criminal record. 3 February 2009 Will �Lance� save the day? WestCare is conducting a review of its services and amongst its review committee is the homeless scene�s �Lance Armstrong�. Lance has a cool head and thinks through problems logically. He also understands the homeless scene and has mostly recovered from his bike smash during a recent race. 3 February 2009 Remembering "Speedy" "Speedy" used to work unpaid at WestCare but left after they said he couldn't park his car at the back. "Stick it," he said. 3 February 2009 One-hundred thousand words Adelaide Homeless Gossip has reached 100,000 words in length and still going strong. Since being archived by the National Library of Australia it will reach future generations of students who want to study the Adelaide homeless scene from the early 21st century. Thanks to everyone who has provided stories for this website. 3 February 2009 The legacy of the incredible "Arnie" Many remember the incredible seventy-five-year-old Arnie. He grabbed anything not bolted down. After cleaning up at Byron Place he'd hit WestCare for their free lunch of pies and soups, too mean to spend two-dollars on their healthier meal. Arnie lined up for bowl after bowl of soup each time pouring it into a bucket with a lid. He collected leftovers from other patrons' tables using them to create a small mountain of food on his plate. He'd bog into the little mountain containing up to twenty half-eaten meals. Each afternoon he'd haul his bounty onto a bus, refuse to buy a ticket, then drag his shopping jeep home to Brighton. Jayne, the WestCare cook, told serving staff to stop him, but the determined Arnie usually won the day. Many laughed at the cook's frustration, one man of which was banned for 12-months on a verbal complaint to management by Jayne. Jayne claimed, according to rumour, that he sat in the dining room during lunch and smiled and laughed at her while she stood behind the counter in the kitchen. She said he made her feel "humiliated and uncomfortable" so he was out for twelve months. Arnie's shopping jeep had wonky wheels so a kitchen worker named, Allan, got him a better one from Baptist Welfare. He too gained Jayne's lasting enmity and was forced out. One insider says expelling these two men, both likeable and respected, was what fuelled the continuing enmity between a number of clients, volunteers and paid employees against Jayne H and her supporters. But, sadly, the continuing battle is costing WestCare valuable and hard-to-replace volunteers. As for Arnie, he collapsed and died while dragging his trolley up a side street off Brighton Road. A quick and relatively painless death; a lucky death and perhaps a lucky life. Certainly a trouble legacy. 2 February 2009 Peter Bagdi's letter to The Prostitute Mr Peter Bagdi, a reincarnation of Attila the Hun, has asked HousingSA for a transfer. This is because he wrote to The Prostitute of Kilburn where he used to live. He told her to give up her prostitution ways or he would curse her. Now he fears she is angry with him. And there is the matter of The Pimp. Peter's mistake was putting his address on the letter he sent to her. That is the reason he wants to move. 2 February 2009 Room prices at Afton House (they now call themselves "The Terraces") Share kitchen and bathroom costs $115 a week. Share just the kitchen; you've got your own bathroom costs $130 a week. Self-contained "studio apartment" (room) is $140 a week. The bond is double the weekly rent. Rent Assistance applies and will reduce rents by just under $50 a week. 2 February 2009 Cordial runs out at Fred's Van The blue cordial ran out at Fred's Van last night. Bad planning. This was on an over forty degree day. Quiet elderly ***** wanted cordial with the curry and rice, but returned to our bench empty handed. An older friend got some cold water for h**. *****'s flesh is falling from h** body and neck. H** face is gaunt and eyes strange, but *** retains that precise politeness everyone respects - an elderly angel in a den of desperadoes. "Cancer", said a friend. 30 January 2009 Goths invade Fred's Van Half a dozen Goth's entertained the Fred's Van crowd with their exaggerated emotions last Thursday. A sensuous woman, half-crying last week, was raging happy this week. She displayed a hand-width of bum crack and her legs, arms and parts of her body were covered in parallel white scars. Superficial, but terrible looking slices. Goths are big on cutting themselves. Ali from Somalia beamed at her from a distance. Someone said they're in town for the festivals. They certainly made us happy though I wasn't wild about the bum crack. 30 January 2009 Someone criticises Jasmin Restaurant food A regular patron at the Teen Challenge/Jasmin Restaurant meal at Hindmarsh Square, opposite the RAA, criticised the Jasmin food twice in a month. Yesterday he questioned the inclusion of solid cloves in the sauce - he didn't know what they were. Two weeks ago he criticised the cinnamon bark in the food. I explained these were what made the Jasmin food spectacularly good, but he was doubtful. But when I suggested he miss the Jasmin meal and eat instead the rice and curry meal at Fred's Van the same evening he became quiet. Ah, ha. Meanwhile, last week the celebrity can collector complemented the Jasmin Food. He said "The Salvation Army and Coastlands, they've got millions. Why can't they provide food like this instead of the muck they dish up?" 30 January 2009 Offensive Behaviour? The police have forwarded a report to the South Australian public prosecutor in regard to the homeless man holding a placard in a park just off The Parade in Norwood. The public prosecutor will decide whether to prosecute the man for creating a public offense. The placard read: Is Gaza Auschwitz Lite? on one side while on the other side was a painted Israeli flag with a swastika in the middle. 30 January 2009 "PJ" asks for a spoon "Have you got a spoon?" PJ asked the ghost-who-walks, who was rummaging through the rubbish bin after Fred's Van had left. The ghost found one and "PJ" used it for the meal left by someone else. The ghost pulled out five or six uneaten meals and threw them over the brick courtyard so the birds could get a feed. 30 January 2009 Celebrity can collector gets parking ticket The Adelaide celebrity can collector was banned from taking his trolley on Trans Adelaide trains last year. So he bought a clapped-out car that he parks in the city while he pushes his trolley to collect cans. The problem is he can't afford all-day parking and parks almost anywhere. Thus the ticket. This means he worked all day to pay for the ticket. Trans Adelaide management are a bunch of morons and the Minister, Patrick Conlon, is an idiot. 30 January 2009 Angelo returns from the dead Angelo was mentioned in this column last year. He suffered extreme pain and experienced debilitating vomiting problems. He was extremely downcast while waiting for hospital treatment. The doctor said he had kidney or gall bladder stones and they'd have to stick a tube up his urethra. Angelo was afraid at that. Who wouldn't be? Doctors eventually decided instead to stick a camera through his mouth down into his stomach where they discovered a stomach infection. It was fixed with anti-biotics. Angelo has returned to his bright self after a year of despondency and now moves without pain. Couldn�t have happened to a nicer man. He's still got to have surgery to fix the damage to his stomach caused by the infection, but he's not demonstrably worried. 29 January 2009 Therapeutic activities A person removed two bags of donuts from the WestCare rubbish bins last month. These were part of the quarter tonne of pies and pastries Westcare allowed to go stale rather than give them to clients. The person took the donuts and buns to the park and gave them to the birds. The rest of the quarter tonne went to landfill. 29 January 2009 The Difficult Life of John Hannaford John Hannaford quit working for WestCare last September after one of those devout Maoris from Teen Challenge visited him from St Lukes. That is the rumur. The Teen Challenge fellow allegedly told John he'd visit his house at night and detailed things he would do. John was worried and wanted WestCare management to call the police, but they refused and said John should work it out himself, according to the rumour. They didn't want John phoning the police either. So John quit. John was a devoted defender of Jayne, the cook at WestCare. Front line welfare workers in the church homeless scene have difficult jobs. Some clients are downright dangerous, others injured and close to death; clients die like flies. Returning from holidays is like returning to an obituary count. And support for staff can be difficult because if police are called too many times then the homeless place is declared a haven for violence. This gives power to neighbours and vested interests that want to shut down the homeless centres in the city. Lots of moneyed people want to remove the underclass from the city. Word on the street says that while John Hannaford left in anger he returns on Sundays for the church service. His inspiration is stronger than his worldly disappointments. This must inspire others. 28 January 2009 "PJ" arrives late "PJ" arrived late for last Thursday's Jasmin Restaurant meal in Hindmarsh Square. He often arrives late and misses getting a ticket. You need a ticket for the food. After the tickets are issued they're taken to the Jasmin who package the number of containers for the amount of tickets they receive. "PJ" said they're cutting off the ticket issue earlier and earlier, but admitted he didn't have a watch. He asked to speak to the Teen Challenge coordinator then complained that as soon as he talks with anyone others sneak up and listen so I and the Laughing Man moved away. We joined the queue who were yelling loudly. The food had arrived but wasn't being handed out because the Teen Challenge fellow hadn't said Grace - he was listening to "PJ". "PJ" was dressed in a pair of corduroy slacks so thin the zipper wouldn't do up so there was a big "V" showing his underwear. He was wearing a nice flannelette shirt showing just a few holes. He was carrying a green environment bag full of newspapers and other paperwork. "PJ" being an ex-journalist reads heaps of newspapers. "PJ" says he arrives late because he is a busy man and doesn't sit around like a lot of people. George, George, George of the Jasmin was dressed in black and in a good mood. He watches the food handed out to see that no rich folk had snuck in for free food that they should be paying $20 for at the Jasmin. 28 January 2009 Fried trout at Hutt Street? A man and woman at Fred's Van talked about trouble at Hutt Street at lunch last week. I thought they were talking about trout for lunch until they mentioned the active ingredients: two drunks and the police. 27 January 2009 The sad death of Olga C Olga was the classiest woman who attended the church mission meal. She dressed better than most managerial women in business or the public service. Her car was spotless. She owned her own home without a mortgage. She said she'd been sexually traumatised but didn't go into detail. Yet I found myself making constant sexual references to her throughout the meals. I equated each item of food with a sexual organ. The juices and gravies were the worst. After each meal I felt guilty then finally decided to shut my mouth. I listened for the next few meals and discovered Olga's speech was one constant sexual innuendo. It was hardly discernable, subtle enough to be consciously invisible to the average listener. Olga also talked about religion. That annoyed some people, but not me as I like witnessing others' faith. But she never talked faith to me, for some reason. Olga worshipped at a fundamentalist church. She was ecstatic one time about winning a scholarship for a Bible study course. She was infatuated with a man in the church. He seemed so pure. She later discovered something that made upset her. Olga said church management suggested she return to "her church", that is, leave their church. Olga disappeared from the free welfare meal for three months. She finally returned, slightly overweight, subdued. She said she'd been catatonic for that period. Over the next few months she slowly pulled out of her deep depression, or so it seemed. Then she went missing, at least from our welfare scene. Last week, "L", who sits at the next table, told me someone found Olga's body. It had been lying in her house for quite a long time before being discovered. I rang Olga's number from the phone book. It had been disconnected. Yeah, she's dead. 23 January 2009 "Lance Armstrong's" Advice The arthritic can collector has been unusually happy these past few weeks. Maybe his successful eye surgery giving him double the vision of everyone else has given him a new lease on life. Two winters ago he was almost blind and living outside. The celebrity can collector was complaining about back pains. He went to a masseur, but that helped none at all. "She almost killed me. I said I came here for a massage not a death certificate," he said. The celebrity is thinking about acupuncture though Ben says yoga might be the best idea. The homeless scene's white-bearded "Lance Armstrong" suggested a chiropractor saying they're good for lower back problems but that is about all. But Lance was no advertisement for good health. He was bloodied, bruised, bandaged and had a stitched wound on his leg and had spent a night in the Royal Adelaide Hospital while they did neurological tests to see that he hadn't damaged his brain. He is a top bicycle racer and in last weekends veterans' race had crashed when two bikes in front of him went down. He said the worst thing was the first fifteen minutes when he started talking silly, probably from concussion. Lance was too late for the Jasmin restaurant meal in Hindmarsh Square, but made it to Fred's Van for the Thursday night rice and curry. 23 January 2009 Hot water runs out at Fred's Van The hot water for coffee ran out at Fred's Van last night. Hot water is cheap. Can't they get the amounts right? They should come better prepared. At least the mugs were clean and new. Those old things with permanent stains and grime in the corners and edges have gone, most having been used to crack over someone's head. Last night I even got a fine English mug. But not enough water. They gave out blankets. Good ones. There was a rush. It was disheartening to see the usual crowd grab them, but one fellow looked desperate enough to need them for sleeping out that very night. That makes it worthwhile. And even the usual scroungers are all pretty poor. There was an undignified rush at the Van when they were handing out toxic diet cola. A big nasty rush. But many were disappointed. Someone gave the ghost-who-walks a can but he asked me if I wanted it. "Nah, thanks anyway," I said. I wanted fried trout. The Van was there for thirty-five minutes. 23 January 2009 Gary's desperate life Police were called to remove Gary from WestCare last week. He was banned for one-month for violence and tried to sneak in. He was also shouting and swinging his arms last Sunday outside the Boulevard Caf� on Hindley Street. That guy with the ultra-black Eddie Wolfgang Munster hairstyle and his friends quietened Gary down. They were kind, fatherly. That evening Gary grabbed a well-dressed old man's radio at Fred's Van on Tuesday then dropped it on the pavement and the batteries fell out. Gary offered him a drink from his glass wine bottle. They know each other from way back. Gary got angry with me two years ago at Whitmore Square because I spent thirty minutes in one of the computerised toilets. After ten minutes it started shrieking then the door opened. I ran out then ran back in and closed the door for another ten minutes. Gary had been sitting with friends nearby and didn't need to use the toilet, but the shrieking bothered him. "You either love him or hate him," a gambling addict said of Gary a few years back. Gary is an Adelaide icon. Rumour has it he once played for the Port Adelaide Magpies. Another person said he should be "taken off the streets for his own good." But Gary's freedom to roam is his survival mechanism. 22 January 2009 Unity refuses Freedom of Information Request Unity Housing Company has ignored a Freedom of Information request by a man on their housing waiting list. He wants a copy of his file. HousingSA provides free copies of personal files to clients, but Unity aren't legally obliged to because they're a church based organisation. This is despite Unity administering government housing. Perhaps Unity has a moral obligation to provide them. Unity, and perhaps Common Ground, won't provide copies of personal files because then clients would see how staff have sought then leaked personal information about their private lives. 22 January 2009 The respected and the despised A friend said new laser printers are cheaper to buy new than their replacement cartridges. Consumers respond logically to this by throwing away their printers when the cartridge runs out then buying another printer with a full cartridge. Some bubble jet printers have a similar pricing regime. The Adelaide can and scrap collector who works with his bicycle and homemade trailer lives partly off rubbish bin food. He never catches public transport, taxis or drives a car and uses practically no power at home. You can see him in the local homeless scene. Yet those who design and market laser printers in such a way are rewarded with wealth and prestige despite helping to destroy life on this planet. The Adelaide scrap collector is despised and pitied by the general public yet he lives in a more sustainable manner. Our values are upside down. 22 January 2009 Anger in the WestCare clothing room The following is rumour from a person not directly concerned so the quotes are not necessarily word-for-word accurate. The person who told me this has provided reliable, verifiable information in the past. The story goes along the following lines. WestCare has an excellent clothing room where clients are allowed to take the donated clothing for free. Bill from Austria was very happy about a winter coat he got there. I got a cricket umpire hat from the shelf and still use it two years later. It is good clothing not the rubbish that the Salvation Army gives away while selling the good stuff. A person in the clothing room allegedly got angry when Jayne, the cook, began picking out clothing. The following isn't an exact quote, but paraphrasing from another person: "What are you doing, Jayne? You're a paid worker. These are for welfare clients. Get out of here." 21 January 2009 Westcare shut most of the time WestCare's kitchen, dining room, showers, laundry, "the yard", the clothing room and the TV room are closed to clients all day Saturday and open just three hours on other days. This means these first-class buildings are closed 21 hours a day six-days a week and 24-hours on Saturdays. Other services out of the main office have also been reduced due to "reduced funding". 21 January 2009 Rachel That natural entertainer, Rachel, was at Fred's Van last night with her new boyfriend. She was also at the West Lakes library last week complaining to staff they didn�t buy her a Christmas present. "Did you buy me something? one library worker responded. Another muttered: "Shut that woman up." 21 January 2009 Increase in "rough sleepers" at Fred's Van Last week there was an increased ratio of those living outside to those living inside at Fred's Van. And on Tuesday when the temperature passed 40 degrees a number of "rough sleepers" were sunburnt and verging on heat stroke. Heaps of food bags were left on the benches after everyone left. The ghost-who-walks picked up most of them so they weren't wasted. But Fred's Van should provide triple liquids on very hot days because that's what dehydrated clients need. Demand for buns is low on heat wave days. 20 January 2009 WestCare 12-month ban saga continues WestCare banned a man for twelve months last April. They would give a reason to him for the banning, but it appears the paid cook made a complaint against him. He asked in December, in writing, if he could attend the WestCare Christmas Day meal. The answer was, no. WestCare also wrote: "�the gentleman who issued the ban is no longer an employee of Baptist Care (SA) so it would be appropriate for David ****** the manager of the centre to respond. David is on leave until the 29th December 2009. I will pass on your request for an explanation to him on his return�" The banned man still hasn't got an explanation as to why he was kicked out for twelve-months. It appears the man was charged, judged and punished in the same manner of the medieval "Star Chambres". This is where the victims were not told they'd been charged, never called to give evidence in their defense. The trial happened without their knowledge. All they found out was when the jailer or the executioner arrived. 20 January 2009 Cold-biters close Centrelink office? A Fred's Van client told me cold-biters were the reason Centrelink closed its Currie Street office. He said he made $50 an hour there sometimes, which he used to buy "shit". 20 January 2009 Jasmin Restaurant The Jasmin's meal last Thursday was superb as usual: potatoes, rice, vegetables, exquisite seasoning. I gave the meat to the Celebrity Can Collector. New Teen Challenge staff help serve meals and issue tickets though the ever reliable Ricky drives that rusty truck as usual. It's still at 5:30pm on Thursdays in the park across the street from the RAA in Hindmarsh Square. 20 January 2009 Crisis amongst can collectors You'd be hard pressed to understand how raising the refund deposit from five to ten-cents on drink cans and containers could cause a crisis amongst can collectors, but it has. This increased refund and the generally reduced social services in Adelaide have encouraged a new wave of collectors onto the streets. This threatens the livelihood of the current collectors. The situation has been made worse by falling metals prices making scrap collecting less attractive. The arthritic can collector said he worked from 6pm to midnight and got just $15.20. He laughed and laughed at that. The bearded collector with the bicycle and trailer said every street he worked he'd find someone else coming down from the other end. "Cutting my lunch," he said. He's also bitter about not being recognised as a healthy green example: riding around exclusively on a bicycle and recycling scrap and waste. This lack of recognition is a chronic sore point in his mental existence. The Intruder is an example of the new breed hitting the streets. He's got a framed wide-open fibreglass bag on the back of his bike. He reaches into the bin, pulls out a bottle, tips out the liquid and throws it back into the bag without looking. His reflexes are fast as he works a street, not talking to other collectors: no time for small talk. Things have gotten so bad that the-ghost-who-walks felt obliged to loan the Celebrity Can Collector a few dollars. The Celebrity Collector was seen walking down Pirie Street last night with empty bags on his trolley, and wearing a clean shirt - not a good sign at all. 17 January 2009 Police trouble Police snapped a homeless man's placard in half yesterday and put it in their car as a possible court "exhibit". They said there were "community objections" about the painting of an Israeli flag with a swastika in the middle. The other side read: Is Gaza Auschwitz-Lite? The man was "reported" and may be charged with "offensive behaviour". The police were "friendly and polite" during the incident on The Parade at Norwood. 16 January 2009 Scapegoat Rumour has it WestCare has chosen to blame an unpaid worker for recent exposure of their food waste. Jayne, the paid cook, apparently denounced the scapegoat in front of other staff. I haven't discovered the worker's name but there are numerous sources from WestCare who provide information to this website. Instead of being kicked out they should be rewarded for exposing food wastage. Identifying faults allows an organisation to increase its integrity by correcting the situation. WestCare is a benevolent outfit that helps many in the homeless scene and needs to be strong to withstand pressure from business interests who want to grab its land. 16 January 2009 Fred�s Van shocks clients with non-stale buns "Uum, cream," said the man kicked out of WestCare for one-year last night at Fred's Van. Another client identified the buns saying they were Vilis buns redistributed by WestCare. 16 January 2009 The Falcon at Fred's Van The Falcon said last Tuesday, when it was 42 degrees, that he once had hair down to his waste. He said he shortened it by pouring methylated spirits on it then lighting it. 16 January 2009 Bill from Austria not better yet Bill hasn't fully recovered after being king hit at WestCare recently. His back is still sore. WestCare offered Bill free meals as compensation but Bill insists on paying. Bill is not seeking public liability insurance compensation, which must relieve WestCare to no end. Bill is a cultured man and speaks in old world courtesies. 16 January 2009 Bins of good food thrown out by Westcare WestCare put fifteen wheeley bins onto Wright Street late yesterday afternoon for the Wednesday morning rubbish collection. Nine were full of pastries donated by Vilis then denied by Westcare to its clients. This was despite clients asking what happened to the bread and pastries usually distributed in "the yard". And yesterday there wasn't any bread to go with the lunchtime soup. Clients should have checked the rubbish. Pictures 14 January 2009 The assault on personal self-esteem and self-determination Here are some of the personal history details those applying to get on the Common Ground waiting list are required to provide: Housing History including who owned the properties and reasons for leaving. Formal education levels. Employment History Debts owed and to whom Medical and Psychiatric History including suicide attempts and what medication applicant is using. Substance use history: Tobacco, Cannabis, Crack, LSD, Cocaine, Methadone, Steroids, Alcohol, Solvents, Amphetamines, Crystal Meth, Heroin, Tranquillisers, Other Behavioural Needs/Issues; Spiritual/Faith/Religious Needs Names of people providing support including their phone numbers, nature of support, relationship, address. Two referees: (I don't know if they're supposed to say you're good or bad). Customer Consent to Exchange Information (to be completed by the client). 13 January 2009 Barb and Danny Barb, of Barb and Danny, was at West Lakes shopping centre last Christmas. Barb looked like from another planet. She's so natural in the homeless scene yet plonked out in suburbia her appearance and personality are out of place. Peter Haysman from Byron Place Community Centre once threatened to call the police if Barb and Danny didn't stop yelling at each other. It seemed a "street deal" for some stuff went wrong and Barb was simply inconsolable. But could she scream. I was so impressed by such loudness from a small woman. Barb used to go to Otherway Centre, too. Of course she isn't dead. Luckily, she is alive and well. It's just that suburbia gulps people down then spews them out as homogenised personalities. No wonder we stream back into the city each day from exile in suburbia. Once one experiences the excitement of the homeless scene it is hard to accept that welfare-ised exile in suburbia. 13 January 2009 WestCare management warned its cook about disappearing food - again! The cook at WestCare was officially warned last winter about disappearing food. She controls both the kitchen and the food storage rooms. Management questioned her about a batch of buns and cakes arriving at the back door but not making it to the "yard" for the clients, then the subsequent disappearance of these baked goods. Management also warned her about letting her father sneak through the back gate with his car to obtain food on the sly. 12 January 2009 Fan Club news "Get f**cked," said 5AA shock jock Bob Francis to me outside of Parliament house last Friday. 12 January 2009 Comparing Cloak Rooms I was standing beside "PJ" on Franklin Street when he said he forgot to pick up his 90 litre backpack from the State Library cloak room one night. When he returned they said they'd "donated it to charity". "PJ" said he also lost items left in another bag another time. Another person reported two years ago that items were removed from his bag by staff in the cloak room. (This guy got his revenge later by splattering a guard with coleslaw outside the library). "PJ" compared the State Library cloak room with the Casino. He says when he's left stuff there for a longer than allowed period they open the bag, itemise the contents, then store it in another area safely until he finally returns to collect it. His experiences corroborate my own view that the State Library staff are being dumbed down by management both in skills and public relations abilities. This house of knowledge is degenerating while the den of evil is ever more devious in sending people bankrupt. 12 January 2009 A tribute from a loyal follower �Last two weeks our dear cook has been on holidays. The kitchen has functioned, if not better, then at least as good as when she�s not here." 12 January 2009 More tribute "[Our cook] makes sure she gets her share of cakes and milk gobbling them down while leaning over the counter while the unpaid workers do the work.� 12 January 2009 Doors Wide Shut There was confusion at WestCare at the end of December. Staff told clients they�d be closed on Friday, 2 January 2009. Then, according to rumour, the government discovered the planned closure and ordered WestCare to open. Staff then announced at lunch on 31 December that they�d be open on Friday. But how can the government order a church mission to open? 12 January 2009 Mysterious appearance of more cardboard trays Stacks of pie and cake trays appeared at the cardboard recycling bin at WestCare yesterday. Since only bread was distributed in �the yard� that day it appears these cardboard trays are evidence of more pastries and pies being dumped by WestCare. This is in addition to the stuff thrown out earlier in the week. Rumour has it that a dozen heavy WestCare bins will be rolled out onto Wright Street next Wednesday morning just minutes before the rubbish truck arrives. They�ll be rolled out at the last minute to prevent night time scavengers from discovering the vast amounts of good food being destroyed by WestCare - destroyed rather than letting clients eat it or feed it to birds and animals. Saturday 10 January 2009 Melbourne Truth newspaper Sam walked by *** and **** and me outside Common Ground units last week. He was pulling a heavily loaded ramshackle shopping jeep full of food from the various free meals. Sam is a veteran of the "homeless" scene. Rumour has it that Sam uses the food to feed his cats that control the rats that eat his vast collection of Melbourne Truth newspapers. "PJ" asked him about this and said Sam said, "I have lots of Melbourne Truth". "PJ" was interested because he used to work as a sports journalist with the Melbourne Truth. "PJ", 68, still acts like a journalist; he can talk to anyone with ease, but prefers affluent women in their thirties and forties. 9 January 2009 Bitterness on the street "They care about us for one day of the week then for the rest of the year they don't give a stuff about us," the other guy with arthritis told me from the next table at Pitt Street Christmas Day meal. "Well, at least it's one day of the year," I said. "They don't give a stuff about us the rest of the year," he repeated. "At least you can walk without walking sticks," I replied, pointing at his knees. "It's important to get exercise," he said, as I faded back to Johnny Cash and June Carter on the stage. Johnny edged towards June, making his creepy eyebrow movements and June's choreography dropped for one-second as her eyes widened blankly and her head shook once, no, and she returned back to her choreography. That added humanity to her performance. She could do no wrong; he could do no wrong, except the eyebrow thing. 9 January 2009 Whatever happened to that milk that WestCare wouldn�t give the clients last week? A pig farmer pulled up at WestCare in his truck. Out came the milk from the kitchen cool room. Clients thought the milk was for them. �What�s going on?� one client asked when seeing the milk going into the truck for the farmer�s pigs. The milk had gone putrid because management decided not to give it to clients last week. �Why didn�t we get the milk?� the client asked as the truck pulled out. late 8 January 2009 What the client saw Someone saw empty cardboard boxes lying around the WestCare wheeley bins. The person looked inside and saw bin after bin full of cakes and pies from Vilis. They appeared fresh and were probably baked on Sunday or Monday and delivered early this week. But WestCare wouldn�t give them to clients. So they ended up squished into the rubbish bins. late 8 January 2009 Strict hygiene at WestCare Thursday is roast day at Baptist Community Services' WestCare establishment in Wright Street. Two-dollars for a roast meat meal. Not bad if you eat meat. They roast the meat on Wednesdays then whack it in the fridge overnight. Recently, the cook left it in the oven and went home. It stayed in the oven, slowly cooling down. They found it in the morning but threw it in the rubbish because sitting warm most of the night had allowed the build-up of microbes to an unacceptable level. "Three-hundred dollars of meat in the garbage," one critic said. But, at least you know they're not going to poison you with bad food. 8 January 2009 Old man had trouble reaching disabled toilets As usual the St Lukes Hall was crowded with too many chairs and tables too close together. An old man pushing a walking frame couldn't reach the toilets so he had to go out the front door, around the church full of Africans, then up the side of the building and in through another door to reach the toilets for the disabled. His apparent Carer walked with him but it seemed like the old guy was going to fall over, but he made it. There oughta be a law making disabled toilets accessible to disabled people. P.S. The old man wasn't me. 8 January 2009 "PJ" in top form "PJ" is looking healthier every day, and moving upmarket. He was seen pushing a Coles trolley down side streets in the city. But it wasn't an old trolley with shonky wheels. It was a brand new trolley and it didn't have a coin in the slot. It was loaded with four neat packages. 8 January 2009 Discrimination against �homeless� WestCare (Baptist Community Services) sought permission from the Adelaide City Council in 2004 to build twelve medium density units on their property at Millers Court near Whitmore Square. They were to be short term housing for �homeless� people. �Community objection� forced WestCare to withdraw the application. Last year the Council gave approval for WestCare to build administrative and consulting rooms on the property � but not as overnight accommodation. This discrimination happens while high-density units for richer folk are springing up all over Adelaide CBD. Big monstrous buildings that overlook parks. You�d think Vicar General Corporate Director Land Broker Monsignor Social Inclusion Commissioner David Cappo would show vital interest in this exclusion of �homeless� housing in Adelaide. After all, he pretends to be about �housing the homeless� and he certainly knows how to fix deals like the swifty he allegedly pulled for his church to buy government land at a lower than market price. 7 January 2009 Hank Jongen lies again Centrelink spin doctor, Hank Jongen, said the city office of Centrelink in Topham Mall was closing because the lease had run out. But why hadn�t Centrelink renewed the lease or rented other office space in the city? Hank won�t tell the whole truth but it appears Centrelink closed the office to further exclude welfare people from the city, especially from Topham Mall, and especially Ugandan John and the Aboriginals who often camp in West Terrace parklands. 7 December 2009 Hot and Cold "Ah, it's too hot in here," a man at St Lukes Christmas lunch hall said. "Ooh, it's too cold in there," a teenage African said coming out of the Church in front of the hall a few minutes later. 2 January 2009 Wasted Milk Jayne H, the cook at WestCare agreed to accept hundreds of two or three-litre containers of donated milk, according to a reliable source. The milk processor apparently mislabelled its Use-By date with 29 January, 2009 instead of 30 December, 2008. Much of the milk was picked up by WestCare before Christmas, but what happened to all this milk? The WestCare cool room on New Years Day was allegedly loaded with this milk, which had been held back from the clients by the cook, according to my source. The destination of dozens of crates of this milk is now expected to be the empty wheeley bins, which will be clogged for some time. However, another source said WestCare tried to give some of the milk to Byron Place Community Centre, but they didn't want it. This source says some of the milk went to Fred's Van and that WestCare tried its best to distribute it. But my first source says the milk wasn't distributed on Christmas Day to clients when it could have been, but instead left in the cool room to putrefy. 6 January 2009 More food rots at WestCare Adelaide Rumour has it that many, many boxes of cream and trays of pies and buns have been left to rot in the WestCare kitchen cool room. This has allegedly occurred because the cook, Jayne H., won't distribute it to the clients as was previously done. Day old bakery goods that never left the bakery were previously put in the Day Centre TV and tea room. Welfare clients could take as much as they wanted without asking permission. These included bread, meat pies, cream buns, chocolate donuts, mince slices. Lately, the amount available to clients has dropped dramatically, according to one of my sources. This is despite the cool room bursting with food that is routinely thrown out. My source says dozens of trays of cakes recently went into the rubbish while clients complained that food wasn't reaching the client area. There have been allegations that food has been stolen by a staff member. 6 January 2009 Mystery continues of why man was kicked out of WestCare for twelve months The fellow who king hit old Bill from Austria at WestCare was reportedly kicked out of WestCare at Millars Court for one-month. This was despite Bill needing ambulance treatment. Yet another man with no history of violence was kicked out for 12 months last March. He doesn't know why. He asked then WestCare employee John Hannaford, why, and below is a paraphrased recollection of their conversation. "Why have I been banned?" asked the man. "You know why you've been banned," John Hannaford, allegedly said. "Then why do you think I'm asking you?" he replied. "I'm not going to argue with you," John Hannaford said, walking off. The man wrote to WestCare last month asking if he could attend the WestCare Christmas Party. Here is WestCare's reply. 19th December 2008 Dear Steven, In response to your request to an explanation to your ban, John Hannaford the gentleman who issued the ban is no longer an employee of Baptist Care (SA) so it would be appropriate for David ****** the manager of the centre to respond. David is on leave until the 29th December 2009. I will pass on your request for an explanation to him on his return. In regard to your request to attend the Christmas lunch this year, in the light of a current ban to be reviewed it would be best if you visit another day centre such as Hutt Street this Christmas. Thank you for your patience and wishing you a pleasant and happy Christmas. Yours faithfully, David W***** Executive Manager posted on this website 5 January 2009 New Year's Eve at Fred's Van A subdued crowd. The line stretched almost around the corner. Indigenous people shoved their way to the front of the queue as Fred's Van arrived. One drunk wanted a fight. He accused others of talking about him. No one took him up on the offer so he chose a Chinese man, slim build, wearing sunglasses. The drunk shaped up then grabbed two mugs from the coffee table. He tried to hand one to the Chinese man who simply watched him. Mugs are a choice weapon at Fred's Van. You crack it on a bench then use the sharp ceramic handle to slice up your opponent. The blood pours out like a tap. The Chinese fellow looked like an office worker, not a thug at all. Two police arrived and watched everyone. A small blond woman looking for a fight and a blond man wearing a troubled expression on his face. An indigenous woman shouted at the thug to sit down and he did so, obediently. Then the indigenous group left, blankets over their shoulders. The police left, also. It was sad. Cruelly excluded again, but no one was unhappy to see them go. The guy who reads French magazines in the library was there. (Not Frenchy from Goodwood). He had eye surgery and has a double magnifier lens in his eyes so he sees everything twice as close as normal people. He collects cans. New Year's Eve is the best day of the year for him. He collected during the day and was going home to sleep for three hours and then head back out about 11pm. He is always unhappy but this night he seemed slightly less unhappy. The Laughing Man started a rumour that Fred�s Van would be handing out small boxes of chicken and chips. "Where are the chicken and chips?" I asked him as the church people doled out sausages and white bread. He just laughed. I laughed, too. The church people handed out Diet Mars Bars. They contain less milk fat than the regular bars so you have to eat twice as many. One man got about 15 and said he'll store them in his suitcase at Byron Place Community Centre. There were heaps of church volunteers. Must have been 15 of them. They hung around after the clients left. Everyone left by 7:30 except "R", the Laughing Man and me. Then we left. 2 January 2009 Cash Converters Cash Converters were open on the Saturday and Sunday just after Christmas so burglars could unload their stolen property before the owners got back from holidays. And so people could pawn their unwanted gifts for ten-cents in the dollar. 2 January 2009 Volunteers banned from car park Volunteers (unpaid workers) no longer can park in the laneway back of WestCare due to food thefts by paid or unapid workers. 2 January 2009 Correction "R" and the Laughing Man said there was coffee at the St Lukes Christmas lunch. It was claimed in this column there wasn't coffee for two years running. I couldn't find it. 2 January 2009 Message from the past to the present "Yet it was in this night camp among the dark pines, with even the stars shut out, that we learnt that outbush "Houselessness" need not mean "Homelessness." Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, "We of the Never-Never" 1908 31 December 2008 A short sermon from a mesmerising "homeless" man outside Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide building in Pitt Street while we waited for the doors to open for Christmas Day evening meal "Some charities are going broke. Church charities are fusing with government, with business. Housing is more critical than before. It's getting worse. These places, (he jabs a finger at the Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide), are getting more and more power over the individual, (he points at each person standing staring through the locked glass doors at the security guard). Individuals are nothing, just pawns under their control. (He points at the building, again, and the security guard)." 31 December 2008 TV camera at St Lukes Christmas meal The man on the stage in St Lukes hall said Monsignor so-and-so had entered the room. He mentioned a name, but it wasn't the Land Broker Monsignor. Then a camera man walked in and began taking footage of the crowd lining up for the food. Then some guy in a purple shirt walked in. He had a fat gut: perfect heart attack material. A gold-coloured cross hung from his neck. The man on the stage announced him as Archbishop Drover or Driver, something like that. This guy said Grace. The camera man was all over the place. Then Drover or Driver sat down near me and talked to a middle-aged Italian man who had brought three surly not-wanting-to-be-there teenage girls. Drover or Driver talked to him across the table, dangling his cross back and forth as if trying to hypnotise him. The camera man hung around for awhile then pissed off after single-handedly creating a collective feeling of unhappiness. I wonder who invited him there. 30 December 2008 The military buff Two people at homeless Christmas parties said a "short man" who goes to Hutt Street Centre, Fred's Van and DIRC and talks military matters incessantly was going around saying this website was no longer accessible. 30 December 2008 Social Exclusion Centrelink is closing its one City office. Those on welfare living in the city are advised to go to suburbia for service. Is this a move to discourage welfare types from visiting the city? 30 December 2008 Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide Christmas meal The food is always good at Pitt Street. Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide may hire tricky accountants to disguise their not inconsiderable financial investments, but at least they provide nice clean meals on Sundays. Their Christmas meal for the "homeless" was no exception. Twenty of us were hanging around the front entrance while a security guard let in "volunteers" who were preparing the festivities. An unsmiling fat guy grimly waited for the doors to open to use the toilets. David "E" was there, charming a woman who the security guard let in. David used to live in the abandoned flour mill on the Port Adelaide waterfront. Someone cut the fence allowing people to enter but David had his "private" entrance. Earlier on Christmas day David attended the St Lukes church service that was nearly 100% Ethiopians and Somalis. They let us in at 5:30pm and we charged upstairs. An old guy asked me if I needed help on the stairs. "Nah, thanks," I said, thinking, not quite. The executive director of Space Intelligence Masters and I went out onto the first floor balcony that overlooks a back lane. The fat guy with Terret's Syndrome was also there. You can see him in Gawler Place regularly, yelling obscenities in a threatening voice. He adds colour wherever he goes. "The proceedings are about to begin," a clear, cold-eyed man advised us so we went inside. The Space Intelligences Masters fellow left the building after discovering there would be some religious talk. "I prefer Santamass rather than Christmas," he advised. He has principles. The preacher lady spoke saying it was a common fact that homeless people helped each other on the street. She gave an example of sharing money. "R" rolled his eyes. He's lived outside for years and watches human behaviour carefully. We queued in the food collecting area with our plates then returned to the dining room. The food was simply terrific: fresh salads, the best cherries I've tasted in forty years, top quality ice-cream, even coffee. Just like St Lukes. There were about 35 "volunteers" providing the service. And like in both places the staff were nicer than those in expensive restaurants. The preacher lady came and sat at each table for three or four minutes. It's called "circulating". I pointed out the ghost-who-walks sitting up front. "He grabs as much food as he can wherever he goes then if anyone turns up late and has missed out he gives them some of the food he's gotten for himself," I said, confirming her premise that us "homeless" share with each other. "R" was talking to a chronic gambler at the head of the table. A beefy woman wearing a skimpy Santa dress, aged about forty or so, (not the dress), was belting out some Christmas songs with the help of a karaoke machine. A dangerous looking Italian was sitting behind her making creepy movements with his eyebrows. Then he got up and they switched to Johnny Cash and June Carter songs. He covered up his creepy eyebrow movements with a large black hat while she widened the angle of her legs and adopted a series of choreographed facial gestures. The audience clapped loudly because Johnny and June were excellent. "R" clapped the loudest though he said he was clapping because of the skimpy Santa dress. His puritanical cynicism has kept him alive and healthy on the streets for years. My only criticism is that staff began "cleaning up" too early, just like last year. This prompted guests to begin leaving, to talk loudly, to say their goodbyes and June and Johnny began turning into typical suburban Adelaide people. The staff should have timed it better. Johnny and June gave up their time to provide high-class entertainment and deserved more respect. I left about then, intending to return but got my arm stuck in a partially open car window. The ghost-who-walks locked his keys in his car and I have skinny enough arms to reach through the space: skinny from doing nothing except sitting in a chair and pushing around walking sticks. Anyway, my arm slipped through the crack, past the elbow and undid the door, but it was still stuck tight in the window and blood flow was slowed horribly. The ghost-who-walks tried to open the electric windows but he had to turn on the ignition first but he had a set of wires rather than a key: as if he'd just stolen the car. He pressed buttons and some windows went up and some went down and I was afraid he'd make my window get tighter. Then it opened and I was free, but it was too late to return to Johnny and June. The show had ended. "PJ" was the last client out with his trolley and I'd forgotten to say thankyou to any of them. 30 December 2008 The clash of the titans Two big names appeared on Christmas Day at Byron Place Community Centre. Ralph Clarke and Howard Williams both contested the last Adelaide City Council elections. Ralph won a position and Howard missed out. Ralph wore a huge yellow shirt and handing out business cards. Howard challenged him with a huge Christmas hat made from stapling two hats together then circling them with tinsel. Howard also carried a mysterious box like a suicide bomber. He pressed a button and up jumped up a red puppet singing a song and sang a song. Ralph felt severely outclassed and nervously looked over his shoulder in case "Media Mike" had planted an assassin in the crowd. Ralph also made the fatal mistake of not arriving before the food was served. He should have copied the ploys of veteran political campaigners like Jane Lomax-Smith, MP and Peter Bicknel, CEO of Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide. They turn up at gatherings uninvited then hang around the kitchen merging with the staff bringing out food. They stand in front of the tables pretending availability of the food is somehow connected with their presence. Jane particularly disturbs people with her rat-like face while with Peter you don't know whether he's smiling at you with his good eye or his glass eye. Howard Williams is still deciding if he'll nominate at the next election. 27 December 2008 Bill attacked at WestCare A thug king hit Old Bill from Austria at WestCare. Police and ambulance were called and Bill was treated but wouldn't make a formal police complaint. He's become increasingly fragile in recent years and is afraid of repercussions. 27 December 2008 Home |