[joeysteele]

Good topic 'the truth'.

I have to say I find the Police far better than as described in yout opening post,however I have also seen and heard from others of this kind of dismissive and cold attiude from them especially to men, as portrayed in your opening post.

There are likely many reasons why the guy was there alone and how he got there too,he doesn't fit the usual scams of people coming up to others to get a few quid or even food.
He went with your driver to the station again and rang them from your drivers phone. someone scamming would not have done that.

As with your driver and then yourself, all you came across was someone alone, on a rotten night, with no money and no shelter looking for help, he was also probably in some element of shock too from the sounds of things.

It really doesn't matter whether there is more to this story or not, the fact remains he was alone, he needed a good samaritan for want of better description and found one in one of your drivers and then you yourself too.
Ensuring it was seen through as to that 'crisis' point and get him safe, get him to a comfortable place to stay for the night and a small bit of money too was totally commendable as to your driver and yourself.

Whatever happened the following day doesn't matter, you did the right and good thing at the time.
There are times that events happen in Britain where people maybe could have done a lot more and put themselves out. Some do, many don't.
Hopefully it is not an attitude that is totally representative of Britain now.I would have likely set out to do what your driver did and reach out to this guy, no matter his circumstances.

The whole desciption of the occurence and you and your drivers determination to help this guy is to your credit.
You helped him all you could, how you could and made sure he was safe too,really well done on that.