Save The Children and NSPCC Strike Themselves Off My Charity List
Last week Save the Children were chugging at the Angel.
Today it was the NSPCC.
Both charities are too arrogant to have an e-mail address on their web site, to where I can voice my disgust at their behaviour.
I’m Going Off The Angel
I don’t know why it is, but it seems to be getting impossible to go past the Angel these days without getting accosted by a chugger.
One day last week, it was a group wanting me to save the tiger. Of course, I want to save the tiger, but the way to do this is to put pressure on various countries that use tiger parts in quack medicine. So where are the protests in places like Beijing and Hong Kong? Annoying me, doesn’t help this at all.
Today it was more chuggers and a protest about saving the NHS. I was accosted by an obese man smoking a cigarette. When I said I don’t support protestors who smoke, I giot a mouthful of abuse. So I just walked on. The protest was also using the only dry place in the rain as a shelter, so we had to get very wet to get past. So not intent of just breathing smoke on us, they were trying to give us pneumonia.
The trouble is that to get across the road from the station to Waitrose, M & S, Chapel Market, the other main shops and the cinema, is that there is only one crossing, so you have to run the gauntlet of chuggers and protestors every time you do it.
Bad News for Chuggers
The Sunday Times is also carrying a story that Just Giving has developed a system with Vodafone to collect donations by SMS text message. A hundred percent of the charge will go to the charity.
They predict it will cut down the number of chuggers on our streets.
Amnesty International Strikes Itself Off My Charity List!
You can;t walk down Upper Street in Islington, without getting accosted by one of the numerous Big Issue salesmen or chuggers.
Today, I got stopped by someone trying to sell me Amnesty International.
These charities would be better off publicising their donate by SMS message numbers.
It is a charity that I follow and have donated to in the past.
But I won’t be supporting them in the future, as I don’t support charities who chug.
I should say that another charity that approached me in the traditional way with a bucket held my a lady earlier, got my loose change. As I always do though, I refused the sticker.
The Anonymous Widower 