Something of a 'Stray Dog' feeling about this one. Ever had one of those days when you're more dead than alive, yet you keep going somehow only because you've done it so often? I think of your subject that way. As some of the paramedics I work among have commented regarding certain patients on the edge: 'he was already dead; he just didn't realise it yet.
29 Mar 2007 4:07am
@Damon Schreiber: Aye. Its a sad sight and you tell a sad story. He's a regular fixture around my work to the point where I think he's actually getting annoyed with me being in the same locale with a camera around my neck. Last thing any of us should be doing is making folks like him any more miserable than they surely are already. G'luck to him.
I used to have a similar fellow who was a fixture around the neighborhood I worked in. Every now and then I'd slip him a pack of smokes or hook him up with a hot meal. No sense in eating out of a dumpster every day.
1 Apr 2007 8:00am
@Mike Cash: its a sad scene ne. kudos for doing what you can.