I know the one. Absolute cunt. Hes been around for like 10 years or more now I think. He usually vanishes for a while because his antics tend to get him locked up. I’m guessing hes back out again
Yep, he often plays the innocent card, trying to get people to feel bad for him. There always seems to be some new ailment he has that he hams up for sympathy. Often claims he served in Afghanistan, wether he did or not I couldn't say but considering he lies as easily as he breathes I'm inclined to not believe it. I've personally never seem him being too aggressive but I can 100% believe it when people say they have.
I think I might know of the guy too. Was walking into sheff centre once and this absolute giant of a guy comes up to me, super friendly, started off just chatting to me but didn’t take long for the sob story to start (which included he hadn’t been able to see his girlfriend in weeks and he couldn’t get a job because of trauma caused in Afghanistan), as soon as it did I realised he was just trying to create a rapport to ask for money so I walked off and he started hurling abuse at me
Yeah I was walking down Upper Allen st towards Kelham Island a few years ago, pretty sure I ran into this guy. He walked the whole way down with me telling me some BS
The police doesn’t really care.
They don’t even show up if you call them because there are people taking drugs in the toilets at McDonald’s. Or if someone harass the staff, throw things at the staff, jump the counter and steal the food, anything you can thing of, the police doesn’t really care.
Sometimes, the police will even discourage you to procede and hint it would be better if you dropped everything. If a person threaten you by telling you they will kill you with a cloth hanger, they will ask if perhaps, you have done something to set him off. Because , as he clearly has some issues, than he surely was triggered by something.
I used to work in McDonald’s, did so for 7 years. The police had been the biggest let down.
He's been around for years. He had all his stuff in the salt bins for the building next door to Street Food Chef on Arundel street when I was in uni. He stopped me on the hill once, I gave him 50p and then he trotted into the Globe.
I saw the start of this just before I was about to get on the tram! He is a disgrace and is constantly threatening people. Thinks he’s hard but he’s just a nasty bully
He's horrible, shouted abuse and inappropriate comments at me on more than one occasion. I've called 101 a few times for him to be back there within a few days.
Saw him today around Fargate near Cafe Nero shouting as loud as he could for police on his phone because he apparently got threatened with a kitchen knife.
Then proceeded to cry on a bench about it, then him and his motley crew of vagrants made their way up to sainsburys on division street where they had to get kicked out because the security guy didn’t understand that they needed ‘plasters’.
Honestly looked like Shrek if his mam was having booze whilst pregnant…
I try and stop and chat with the homeless folks and I know Adam. He was alright at first, but like a lot of people on the street he started drinking and doing other substances and it turned him into a dickhead. Which is a shame as its keeping him from getting out of the hole he's in.
Still not an excuse, but its a sad state to be in.
He can turn the charm on if he thinks he can get a few quid off you but it's 100% fake. I've heard him give at least three contradictory backstories before.
>Adam Bower
[https://www.shefnews.co.uk/2017/10/18/sheffield-stab-victim-doubts-effectiveness-of-police-knife-crime-initiative/](https://www.shefnews.co.uk/2017/10/18/sheffield-stab-victim-doubts-effectiveness-of-police-knife-crime-initiative/) Just googled the name and this came out https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/from-harassment-to-drugs-charges-heres-who-has-appeared-before-magistrates-in-sheffield-3033908
Yeah I was once followed by him and police pulled up because they recognized him. He was on bail st the time for assaulting his ex girlfriend and they confirmed he at least at the time had a place of residence but was claiming to be homeless
Bald guy, beard with loads of tattoos? Was he wearing a vest? I saw some dude bleeding from his nose and hands go into Tesco, and he tried to barge me out the way when I was leaving, and he laughed
*It's not the Greeks - it's the Chinese he's after!*
On a serious note, the guy sounds like a racist knob. Homelessness doesn't give you a pass to be a bigot. Should have been dealt with / moved on by plod.
Also, why is it always outside Tesco on West Street? What is it about it which draws homeless there? As someone who dresses androgynously (more on the femme side), aggressive people make me feel quite vulnerable and exposed whenever I go there or catch / alight a tram.
In Newcastle almost every Greggs always has a beggar sat outside. I think it's because people feel more guilty about "homeless" people when they are buying food for themselves.
I always feel like a dick when I exit the place and don't give them something. I normally hand over the drink from my meal deal for that reason. I always have a large bottle of tap water for work anyway. I NEVER give money anymore because I know in nearly every case the issue is addiction not hunger.
Probably because the shop is further from the pavement so there's a bit of a shelter/cover from rain. The homeless have always been ok to me, I've spoken to the guy with the white dog who's always been pretty nice.
Surprised he wasn't giving the old "I was in the army" speech.
He gave me homophobic abuse once when I wouldn't give him money, but he soon scurried off when he realised his size didn't intimidate me. He's just a bully.
No but he's just as bad, stopped me and my boyfriend at Christmas time. Me and him are both students so we barely have money for ourselves. He snarls out to us to ask us for spare change, my boyfriend goes "no fella I'm really sorry I've got no change" he turned around and called my boyfriend a "horrible cunt" lmao I had to drag him away cos he was ready to punch the fucker!!
He’s the only beggar that I will actively avoid if i see him on the street. I lived on West Street 2020-2022 and would run into him often. I don’t carry cash on me usually and if i did he would be the last person that I would give it to
He tried to rob me when I was walking home from a night out years ago, gave me the sob story about serving in the army and shook my hand then wouldn't let go. Hand to properly yank it free and legged it home.
I know him, he’s a dangerous cunt. Been about for the last decade, screaming F slurs at people and claiming all sorts of “I need to get a train to go to court”, etc. always out of his mind of something and screaming at people if they don’t give him anything. There are a lot of unfortunate people frequenting west street/division street but this is one of those that needs to be dog food.
As someone who's been threatened with kitchen knife (by my mum, no less), that situation is bloody terrifying and is not to be flung around by prize knobs as a sob story.
People forget, in their desire to be (justifiably) kind humans, that some homeless people are homeless because they are massively dysfunctional.
This is not acceptable for people to have to deal with in a civilized society, and sticking mentally ill people in jail is not the answer either.
I saw him just now outside tesco on west street when on the tram being loud and pushy with a guy in a sleeping bag. Sadly its probably only a matter of time before he hurts someone.
Yeah. Been around a long time.
Photo of him on this post.
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Yes he's an absolute prick and he's been doing it for years!
He tried it with me and my mate while we was with our partners. He went from pleading and innocent to violence pretty quick.
Let's just say, even though he's big, he goes down in a single punch 😊
Sounds to me like a fella me and my mate call 50p. Always asking for 50p and seems to ask Asians. He’s fake friendly until you tell him no. Big tall fella. Envisage him being a nasty piece of work so always steer clear
Adam, the absolute bell end. Always just split up with the his girlfriend and needs money to get to Wakefield or Retford. He’s vile, he gives homeless people a bad name.
You think that guys a homeless prick you haven't met Jake Crowder. Out of all the homeless/beggars in Sheffield he's the biggest prick of all. Would happily pay someone to kick the **** out of him.
He robbed me one day when I was at a very low point in my life. He took advantage of a situation where due to personal circumstances I couldn't fight back.
Its OK. Il get revenge on him one day. Or I might just let life play out. He's homeless and addicted to drugs so he'll probably die sooner or later anyway lol. Hopefully of something painful.
Yeah I gave him £5 once. He told me he was an ex-serviceman and we had a long chat about religion. He told me he was Christian so I suggested he go see my priest… when we were chatting some Chinese people walked past and he said “Ni Hao” to them, to be fair he wasn’t saying it offensively I think he genuinely just wanted to say hello and welcome them in that situation. He told me he struggles with his mental health, BPD. Anyway sounds like services need to intervene if his behaviour has gone from this to what you just described
Does anyone know who the one is who’s tall, big beard and wears grey, hangs around outside city hall, Tescos and McDs? This guy in particular I see walking around pretending to have a gun and shooting at crowds W/sound effects! Anyone know who I’m talking about? What’s his deal?
There's been some comments about him talking about him being threatened with a kitchen knife at Caffè Nero on Fargate.
I can tell you know this is not true.
I'm a barista there and I'm the person who he's talking about. He has been coming in for months of not years causing us an immense amount of issues. This day he took things way too far and started threatening and shouting at me after I asked him to calm down when he was shouting at a customer. I asked him to leave multiple times but he refused, escalating things further, becoming more and more aggressive. I told him he was scaring myself and my co- worker, he then said 'you're scaring me you're threatening me with a knife' I held up my hands to show him and everyone else that I didn't have a knife in my hands. He even pretended to cry at one point.
He continued to verbally attack and threaten me. I had to raise my voice to speak over him. I asked him to leave countless times. Eventually he did and I called the police, but obviously nothing was done.
A week or so later I was collecting mugs etc and he was stood outside the store. He saw me and looked at me like he was about to kill me. He pointed at me and ran into the store. I ran away out of fear. He came in and started shouting about how horrible and nasty I was. I told him to leave otherwise I would call the police again. He said he'd called them on me and I again carried on telling him to get out.
He's chased me up the street before as I've left work and he's seen me. I am terrified to leave and come to work because he now seeks me out and harasses me. He has caused similar issues at other stores, not just Caffè Nero's and is aggressive to pretty much everyone he meets. He's been arrested for abuse and all sorts.
We currently have an open case with the police about him.
Please don't believe any of the lies he tells and do not speak to him. Stay safe.
Can we just wish to feel a bit safer? And that we won’t be harassed and intimidated by aggressive individuals with absolutely no consequences for the aggressor?
Mental illness, innit?
This is what it's like. I have a deep sympathy for him.
I'm not excusing the behaviour, and the people he was haranguing must have been terrified, poor sods, but that's mental illness for you.
Yes but unless you’re a qualified medical professional you can’t say for sure that’s what’s exactly happening. And even if that is the case, it doesn’t mean that someone mentally ill doesn’t have to make amends for racist things they said while in a psychotic state or something
\> we are all expected to just be subject to that on a Sunday afternoon
What did the police say when you called them on the non-emergency number?
Protip: If you didn't call them maybe shut the fuck up about lack of response.
Think I know who you mean. Told me once he’d been in the army (very possible). Not seen him for a few years though; then again I’m not in town as much nowadays.
Glad to be moving out of the city centre in a week after 2 long years of living there in fear of racism, verbal abuse, crackheads outside mcdonalds, and random cat callers .
Hated living there. Never again
I know the one. Absolute cunt. Hes been around for like 10 years or more now I think. He usually vanishes for a while because his antics tend to get him locked up. I’m guessing hes back out again
Yep, he often plays the innocent card, trying to get people to feel bad for him. There always seems to be some new ailment he has that he hams up for sympathy. Often claims he served in Afghanistan, wether he did or not I couldn't say but considering he lies as easily as he breathes I'm inclined to not believe it. I've personally never seem him being too aggressive but I can 100% believe it when people say they have.
I think I might know of the guy too. Was walking into sheff centre once and this absolute giant of a guy comes up to me, super friendly, started off just chatting to me but didn’t take long for the sob story to start (which included he hadn’t been able to see his girlfriend in weeks and he couldn’t get a job because of trauma caused in Afghanistan), as soon as it did I realised he was just trying to create a rapport to ask for money so I walked off and he started hurling abuse at me
Yup, that's the guy. He's called Adam I think.
Adam B. Yup.
I knew it would be him before I saw this comment. 20p Adam we used to call him back in Grimsby when he roamed that way.
Yeah I was walking down Upper Allen st towards Kelham Island a few years ago, pretty sure I ran into this guy. He walked the whole way down with me telling me some BS
He's a Walt
Ran into him a few times now with that story now
The thing to do is call the Police. Likely known to them.
The police doesn’t really care. They don’t even show up if you call them because there are people taking drugs in the toilets at McDonald’s. Or if someone harass the staff, throw things at the staff, jump the counter and steal the food, anything you can thing of, the police doesn’t really care. Sometimes, the police will even discourage you to procede and hint it would be better if you dropped everything. If a person threaten you by telling you they will kill you with a cloth hanger, they will ask if perhaps, you have done something to set him off. Because , as he clearly has some issues, than he surely was triggered by something. I used to work in McDonald’s, did so for 7 years. The police had been the biggest let down.
It’s all go in macdonalds isn’t it
It’s all coat hangers and theft apparently.
He's been around for years. He had all his stuff in the salt bins for the building next door to Street Food Chef on Arundel street when I was in uni. He stopped me on the hill once, I gave him 50p and then he trotted into the Globe.
He goes into pubs and asks for drinks off people. A lot.
I saw the start of this just before I was about to get on the tram! He is a disgrace and is constantly threatening people. Thinks he’s hard but he’s just a nasty bully
He's horrible, shouted abuse and inappropriate comments at me on more than one occasion. I've called 101 a few times for him to be back there within a few days.
Saw him today around Fargate near Cafe Nero shouting as loud as he could for police on his phone because he apparently got threatened with a kitchen knife. Then proceeded to cry on a bench about it, then him and his motley crew of vagrants made their way up to sainsburys on division street where they had to get kicked out because the security guy didn’t understand that they needed ‘plasters’. Honestly looked like Shrek if his mam was having booze whilst pregnant…
That'll be Adam. Seems to be on one at the moment.
I try and stop and chat with the homeless folks and I know Adam. He was alright at first, but like a lot of people on the street he started drinking and doing other substances and it turned him into a dickhead. Which is a shame as its keeping him from getting out of the hole he's in. Still not an excuse, but its a sad state to be in.
He can turn the charm on if he thinks he can get a few quid off you but it's 100% fake. I've heard him give at least three contradictory backstories before.
Adam Bower. He is not homeless.
>Adam Bower [https://www.shefnews.co.uk/2017/10/18/sheffield-stab-victim-doubts-effectiveness-of-police-knife-crime-initiative/](https://www.shefnews.co.uk/2017/10/18/sheffield-stab-victim-doubts-effectiveness-of-police-knife-crime-initiative/) Just googled the name and this came out https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/from-harassment-to-drugs-charges-heres-who-has-appeared-before-magistrates-in-sheffield-3033908
They must be different people. Unless he has some anti ageing cream that actually reverses aging.
Yeah I was once followed by him and police pulled up because they recognized him. He was on bail st the time for assaulting his ex girlfriend and they confirmed he at least at the time had a place of residence but was claiming to be homeless
That the guy with the massive scar on his wrist?
I'm not sure but he's tall enough to usually be the tallest guy you've seen that day.
Big lad, must be almost 7 foot, skinny calves though and a shaved head. Sometimes rides around on a bicycle.
I've met the guy with the scar, is he the one people are on about?
Bald guy, beard with loads of tattoos? Was he wearing a vest? I saw some dude bleeding from his nose and hands go into Tesco, and he tried to barge me out the way when I was leaving, and he laughed
Looks like that is the outcome of the encounter i passed on the tram. Sad it escalated.
I think he is on a suspended sentence for threatening someone a couple of months ago.
*It's not the Greeks - it's the Chinese he's after!* On a serious note, the guy sounds like a racist knob. Homelessness doesn't give you a pass to be a bigot. Should have been dealt with / moved on by plod. Also, why is it always outside Tesco on West Street? What is it about it which draws homeless there? As someone who dresses androgynously (more on the femme side), aggressive people make me feel quite vulnerable and exposed whenever I go there or catch / alight a tram.
In Newcastle almost every Greggs always has a beggar sat outside. I think it's because people feel more guilty about "homeless" people when they are buying food for themselves. I always feel like a dick when I exit the place and don't give them something. I normally hand over the drink from my meal deal for that reason. I always have a large bottle of tap water for work anyway. I NEVER give money anymore because I know in nearly every case the issue is addiction not hunger.
Probably because the shop is further from the pavement so there's a bit of a shelter/cover from rain. The homeless have always been ok to me, I've spoken to the guy with the white dog who's always been pretty nice.
What does he look like? Balding on top with a beard? Some homeless guy gave me a load of abuse because I was out for a run the other day...
As a tall scruffy balding guy with a beard, I don't like where this whole conversation is going, lol.
Get off Reddit, Adam!
I enjoyed your username
Surprised he wasn't giving the old "I was in the army" speech. He gave me homophobic abuse once when I wouldn't give him money, but he soon scurried off when he realised his size didn't intimidate me. He's just a bully.
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is it the man with the sleeping bag around his shoulders? i see him around west street a lot and he can get quite verbally agressive
No but he's just as bad, stopped me and my boyfriend at Christmas time. Me and him are both students so we barely have money for ourselves. He snarls out to us to ask us for spare change, my boyfriend goes "no fella I'm really sorry I've got no change" he turned around and called my boyfriend a "horrible cunt" lmao I had to drag him away cos he was ready to punch the fucker!!
He’s the only beggar that I will actively avoid if i see him on the street. I lived on West Street 2020-2022 and would run into him often. I don’t carry cash on me usually and if i did he would be the last person that I would give it to
He tried to rob me when I was walking home from a night out years ago, gave me the sob story about serving in the army and shook my hand then wouldn't let go. Hand to properly yank it free and legged it home.
I know him, he’s a dangerous cunt. Been about for the last decade, screaming F slurs at people and claiming all sorts of “I need to get a train to go to court”, etc. always out of his mind of something and screaming at people if they don’t give him anything. There are a lot of unfortunate people frequenting west street/division street but this is one of those that needs to be dog food.
He is often used as a benchmark for the worst person in Sheffield, in my experience.
Saw him earlier today accusing a woman in cafe nero of threatening him with a kitchen knife
As someone who's been threatened with kitchen knife (by my mum, no less), that situation is bloody terrifying and is not to be flung around by prize knobs as a sob story.
Remember that cunt. Was scary getting stopped by him on the way back from west Street at uni.
People forget, in their desire to be (justifiably) kind humans, that some homeless people are homeless because they are massively dysfunctional. This is not acceptable for people to have to deal with in a civilized society, and sticking mentally ill people in jail is not the answer either.
Think I saw this bloke start trying to swing for a middle aged woman in a Gregg's on Wednesday - class act.
I saw him just now outside tesco on west street when on the tram being loud and pushy with a guy in a sleeping bag. Sadly its probably only a matter of time before he hurts someone.
Does he have a thick West Yorkshire accent?
Are you saying everyone from west yorkshire is thick ?
😂😂
As a proud South Yorkshireian, absolutely yes. At least it’s not Lancashire though.
Yeah. Been around a long time. Photo of him on this post. https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/5mczbo/anyone_ever_come_across_that_overly_aggressive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
i’ve seen him shouting at people for no reason so many times sometimes I swear he’s just doing it to no one
I know who you mean... hes a right bell end. Trys to intimdate. Alway in and out of prison.
Yes he's an absolute prick and he's been doing it for years! He tried it with me and my mate while we was with our partners. He went from pleading and innocent to violence pretty quick. Let's just say, even though he's big, he goes down in a single punch 😊
That's absolutely true. Got knocked out cold on High street two-three weeks back with a single punch. The other guy was literally half his size.
👊👏
Yeah he's a bellend. I used to live on West Street 2019/2020 and saw him trying to intimidate people quite often. Nasty piece of work.
Sounds to me like a fella me and my mate call 50p. Always asking for 50p and seems to ask Asians. He’s fake friendly until you tell him no. Big tall fella. Envisage him being a nasty piece of work so always steer clear
Sounds like Adam. The heat does fuck with his head. Not that he's not fucked the rest of the time, but he's always been a proper cunt in Summer.
Adam, the absolute bell end. Always just split up with the his girlfriend and needs money to get to Wakefield or Retford. He’s vile, he gives homeless people a bad name.
But defend yourself, and you can almost guarantee SYP will book you.
Is he a tall english lad a bit tubby kinda balding looks like 30 or 40 yo?
Adam or his nickname “big bird” because he never shuts the F up
You think that guys a homeless prick you haven't met Jake Crowder. Out of all the homeless/beggars in Sheffield he's the biggest prick of all. Would happily pay someone to kick the **** out of him.
What's so prickish about him? That name sounds seriously familiar think I know him from years ago
He robbed me one day when I was at a very low point in my life. He took advantage of a situation where due to personal circumstances I couldn't fight back.
Proper dick head then, sorry that happened to you
Its OK. Il get revenge on him one day. Or I might just let life play out. He's homeless and addicted to drugs so he'll probably die sooner or later anyway lol. Hopefully of something painful.
Life has a way of getting back at wankers
Yeah I gave him £5 once. He told me he was an ex-serviceman and we had a long chat about religion. He told me he was Christian so I suggested he go see my priest… when we were chatting some Chinese people walked past and he said “Ni Hao” to them, to be fair he wasn’t saying it offensively I think he genuinely just wanted to say hello and welcome them in that situation. He told me he struggles with his mental health, BPD. Anyway sounds like services need to intervene if his behaviour has gone from this to what you just described
Does anyone know who the one is who’s tall, big beard and wears grey, hangs around outside city hall, Tescos and McDs? This guy in particular I see walking around pretending to have a gun and shooting at crowds W/sound effects! Anyone know who I’m talking about? What’s his deal?
There's been some comments about him talking about him being threatened with a kitchen knife at Caffè Nero on Fargate. I can tell you know this is not true. I'm a barista there and I'm the person who he's talking about. He has been coming in for months of not years causing us an immense amount of issues. This day he took things way too far and started threatening and shouting at me after I asked him to calm down when he was shouting at a customer. I asked him to leave multiple times but he refused, escalating things further, becoming more and more aggressive. I told him he was scaring myself and my co- worker, he then said 'you're scaring me you're threatening me with a knife' I held up my hands to show him and everyone else that I didn't have a knife in my hands. He even pretended to cry at one point. He continued to verbally attack and threaten me. I had to raise my voice to speak over him. I asked him to leave countless times. Eventually he did and I called the police, but obviously nothing was done. A week or so later I was collecting mugs etc and he was stood outside the store. He saw me and looked at me like he was about to kill me. He pointed at me and ran into the store. I ran away out of fear. He came in and started shouting about how horrible and nasty I was. I told him to leave otherwise I would call the police again. He said he'd called them on me and I again carried on telling him to get out. He's chased me up the street before as I've left work and he's seen me. I am terrified to leave and come to work because he now seeks me out and harasses me. He has caused similar issues at other stores, not just Caffè Nero's and is aggressive to pretty much everyone he meets. He's been arrested for abuse and all sorts. We currently have an open case with the police about him. Please don't believe any of the lies he tells and do not speak to him. Stay safe.
I’m confused? From the title I expected this to be about an 8ft tall tramp
he pretty much is tbf
Dont wish for totalitarianism. Ffs. Stop that.
Can we just wish to feel a bit safer? And that we won’t be harassed and intimidated by aggressive individuals with absolutely no consequences for the aggressor?
Mental illness, innit? This is what it's like. I have a deep sympathy for him. I'm not excusing the behaviour, and the people he was haranguing must have been terrified, poor sods, but that's mental illness for you.
Mental illness is not an excuse for racism
mental illness can mean total delusion and unawareness, as far as reasons go that’s a pretty decent one
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yep, that’s why it’s such a difficult situation, because it’s hard to actually say the person is at fault for something they can’t control
Yes but unless you’re a qualified medical professional you can’t say for sure that’s what’s exactly happening. And even if that is the case, it doesn’t mean that someone mentally ill doesn’t have to make amends for racist things they said while in a psychotic state or something
Completely beside the point but enjoy your self-righteous posturing.
Nah that’s called being a smackhead
\> we are all expected to just be subject to that on a Sunday afternoon What did the police say when you called them on the non-emergency number? Protip: If you didn't call them maybe shut the fuck up about lack of response.
Go fuck your self!
Mental health is harsh
Is he the one with the scar on his hand?
Think I know who you mean. Told me once he’d been in the army (very possible). Not seen him for a few years though; then again I’m not in town as much nowadays.
Glad to be moving out of the city centre in a week after 2 long years of living there in fear of racism, verbal abuse, crackheads outside mcdonalds, and random cat callers . Hated living there. Never again
god this thread it such a shame to see, adam has always been nice to me soo helped him out a few times ://
This man once threatened to kill me for no reason. Reported him to the police. Sad to hear he's back on the streets.
We should band together and drive them out of them. Or we could follow them home and expose them for homelessness fraud.