A sleeping bag story

Two and a bit years ago, I did a sponsored sleep out for "Moving On Homeless Support", which is now the "Moving On Project" due to the fact public liability for stuff like tea stands is now £3,000 a year. On the Saturday night, we were slightly drunk lying under the shutters of where Poundland is on Ann Street. People were bretty generous and gave us a lot of food and money even when we tried to refuse it. However one guy from somewhere in Eastern Europe comes up to us and is obviously on something. Kind of seems stoned but the likelihood is it's one of the synthetic drugs like Spice etc. He's chatting to us and despite us appearing homeless and him not being homeless, asks us for food. We've been given a lot so sure, why not - we gave him a sandwich and he fucking INHALES the thing like every cell in his body was dependent on getting the energy before the void within consumes him. He's still hungry but we've got to hold off. Sure we're fine now and I gained weight over the weekend sitting there, drinking rum and eating Happy Meals teenagers gave us, but we don't know when the next sandwich is going to come. He danders off and we go about the rest of the sleep out as is. Turns out that dude was one of the "Russians", a Lithuanian crime family the PSNI according to Sunday Life are shitting themselves about and even the UDA are getting out muscled by. He's now doing time for posession of heroin with intent to supply. Now on the one hand I'm annoyed I gave this sociopath cunt a sandwich. Would probably rather he died of hunger than having allowed him to sell poison, intimidate and harass people. On the other hand, it's probably just as well I gave him the sandwich. As much as I train BJJ and Muay Thai, there's fuck all I could do if the guy took a knife and decided he wanted to stab me whilst my legs are caught in the sleeping bag. Man I would have been opened up like the very hungry catipillar going through a gastric bypass. There's no moral to the story other than sleeping bags have their uses, but don't make the best defensive shield.