Yeah I do see where you’re coming from. I sometimes look in the hats where homeless people collect their money and it normally contains a collection of 2ps. But it all adds up at the end of the day and Danny should have never done what he did to your Gran.

I stopped and chatted to a street entertainer playing with a violin in one hand and a devil puppet in the other. It was only the other day and I gave him 10p and he was grateful. I wanted him to go and do his street entertainment next to chritian preachers who I’ve just walked past who were going ‘GOD IS YOUR SAVIOUR’. It totally made my day seeing god and the devil on the street!

Edit and here's a picture of the guy -

There used to be this guy who always rollerskated everywhere backwards around Burley and Hyde Park, I used to always see him going down the hill of Royal Park Road going down from Woodhouse Moor.

There's a guy who I thought had Tourettes who used to walk around campus at Leeds Uni sometimes shouting and swearing at everyone and I've seen him in other parts of town, he's only small but permanently angry and hurls obscenities at everyone he sees. I got to know one of the security guards at Leeds Uni quite well and when I mentioned this guy to him he said he's well known to all the guards and to the police, he's a Falklands vet who saw some brutal stuff and ended up gone in the head, spent the late 80s and early 90s in prison and has been unemployed, friendless and mentally ill ever since. Sad story.

This genuinely made me

!!! Ken Bates , times must be hard

What about that chap with all the junk who sing and the dog that sings with him? Usually chills around Briggate

BGT Material!

sounds like bernard davy the irish artist

2 very famous names come to my mind from my area of Morley

Selwyn: who allegedly used to have sex with his dogs!
Has now passed away, the dogs don't seem to hold their cheeks so tight around town nowadays

Underpant Joe: He has had nothing more than a paper round for the past 40 odd years to supplement his income.
Not seen him for a while,and my newspaper deliveries are months behind

does anyone from LS28 area remember Terry "The Tramp". he used to loiter around the centre picking up tab ends and chatting up the women.

Bod. The LS14 leg-end.

two famous otley residents

1) half pint bob. (Who goes round all the pubs in otley every day and has half pint in each)

2) His brother smiler (who walks round smiling)

Think both have facebook pages!!

He did exactly the same to me as kid (I was about 8 I think) I went to give him some change he threw it all over the floor and shouted at me for mixing up copper with silver.

He might have raised alot of money and given up alot of his time but there was no need for him to be like that.

This has brought back some painful memories think I need councilling

I know the one you mean, he's been banging the tunes out badly for decades, you'd have thought that by now he'd have picked up some of the right notes.
I used to see him in York a lot too.

Must be on his fifth dog by now.