I went up to Stratford again today to try to get my Christmas shopping done. Coming home, I came across exactly the same guy I wrote about last week. Irritated, I decided to try to do something about it, and fortunately saw three police officers on patrol not far away. I went up to them and explained the problem, showing them my blog entry to help them understand why I saw it as such an issue. At the very least, I reasoned, if he did turn out to have learning difficulties after all, perhaps they could get him the support he would need.
Somewhat perversely however, I was told that there was nothing they could do, given the guy wasn’t breaking any laws. They could see why I was so upset, but their hands were tied. Feeling rather disgruntled, I decided to head home and leave things at that: as insulting as it is, it seems there are no laws to stop people pretending to be disabled to scam people out of money.
The Ill-Informed Ramblings of a Cripple 
You simply do not know for a fact that this guy was pretending…and so I stand by all I said in previous comment. Sharing your “opinions” (and I use inverted commas because that’s exactly what your blog is, your opinions, which you are of course completely entitled to.) However it does not comprise facts or any sort of evidence upon which the police could act.
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I wouldn’t have blogged about this guy if I wasn’t absolutely certain that he was a fraud.
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OK, well I’ll have to take your word for it and if it’s true then I can understand your frustration. But i still think that you have a very unrealistic view of how the statutory services operate (or rather don’t) to support those who are in real need.
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