Found Dead as a Door Nail at Bow Street doorway!!

Police Inspector Malcolm Bernard, who

heads the Met Police Homeless Street

Unit, and I by chance bumped into each

as I was just hitting my Big Issue pitch

this morning. I'd not seen Malcolm for

close to a year and so it was good to see

him once again ...

It was then that he told me of the grim

discovery just hours before of a rough

sleeper found dead at Bow Street, which

is just around the corner from my own

pitch on Long Arce at Covent Garden.

According to the inpector, the homeless

dead man was from Hungrey, around 50

years old, and had kids of his own. It

appears, too, the fella had also been drink-

ing and then got very cold overnight and

died at where he was found sleeping ...

There was no foul play involved, I guess,

and the fella died of Hypothermia. (see below

the description of such a deadly condition.)

With extreme cold conditions now forecast

for London and elsewhere in Britain, the

homeless and rough sleepers must take

urgent steps right now to find shelter off

the streets and from under bridges to en-

sure they, too, don't die of Hypothermina.

Many think they're invincible against

such a deadly condition since they're sur-

vived past cold and figid nights outside.

So what? That means nothing!! Don't

kid yourself or anybody else that you're

some kind of hero for having withstood

nature's elements in the past. If it gets

cold enough, sooner or later it's going

to kill you especially as you grow older

and less fit medically due to your

homeless lifestyle ... Get shelter no

matter what off the streets, etc.,

while winter wages her war against

us. You'll then live to tell the story

and not have someone like the good

Inspector Malcolm Bernard finding

you dead as a door nail. You then

become another homeless dead

person because you took no steps

to protect yourself as death looks

you in the face ... Be smart, not

stupid ...

Truly, Monty. January 2nd, 2oo8

•Hypothermia. In this potentially fatal condition,
the body temperature falls, impairing normal muscular and brain functions. Initial symptoms -- which occur if the body temperature drops to 95 degrees from the normal 98.6 -- include shivering, the inability to perform complex motorfunctions, mild confusion, and lethargy. If body temperature continues to fall, hypothermia becomes more severe until victims cannot perform even simple motor functions. They may also fall into a semi-conscious state, exhibiting slurred speech and irrational behavior; campers caught in a blizzard and suffering from hypothermia, for example, have been known to tear off their clothes and run in the snow. The most severe state of hypothermia occurs when body temperature falls to 90 degrees. This causes the body to move into a state of hibernation: the heart rate and breathing slow and the victim may lose consciousness; full heart failure can occur.
Source: http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/extremecold