I THOUGHT Christmas was a time for kindness and helping one another. Well, something happened on December 27 that made me sick.

Having just dropped off a member of my family, I was returning along my normal route home when I noticed somebody lying in the middle of the road, by the side of a car with its door open.

Having thought it was better to park my car up at home, I returned not two minutes later. To my astonishment, I found an old age pensioner lying in the middle of the road.

I helped him up and managed to get a bit of sense out of him.

It seemed he had a little too much 'Christmas spirit' at his local and decided to get a taxi home.

The taxi driver, I was told, couldn't get any sense out of the poor chap so decided to chuck him in the middle of the road, hoping somebody else would see and deal with him.

Why does this government tolerate this behaviour?

Why do we let them tolerate it?

I'm ashamed to call myself British at this moment in time.

Stories like this need to be told to stop acts like this happening to other people.

P SHEFFIELD, Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn.