And another one,,,
Last year we operated a homelessness centre in Acton in a former BBC building which is opposite a Holiday Inn. Being a responsible organisation the charity always gets local authority permission to operate and notifies local businesses and residents in advance. Unfortunately we sometimes get the odd bit of local disruption but nothing bad (to the point we often get lent the same buildings for several years). The little bits of disruption can involve a slight amount of kleptomania which we warn businesses about in as a positive a way as we can.

I was running the shift one day when I was asked to go over to the Holiday Inn as they had had a full keg of Kronnenberg “liberated” from the hotel underground car park by a few of our guests & the hotel manager wanted to get the police involved. We had a pretty chilled atmosphere going on at the centre so I didn’t to spoil it by the rozzers attending so reached an agreement with the hotel manager that if I could get the keg back he wouldn’t call the filth.

After a quick walk around the block I found about 6 of our guests with said barrel which they had managed to open (fuck knows how without a spanner or something) merrily drinking away from 2L soft drink bottles they had managed to cut open to resemble glasses. After some quick negotiation (hurry up & don’t drink it all – I need to return it so you don’t get nicked) me & another volunteer carried it back to the hotel. I didn’t pass on the message from the guests to the hotel manager of “thanks very much but can we have Stella next time”.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:47, Reply)