title: Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance
author:  Tom Reynolds 
description: On July 22, 2003, an emergency medical technician living in London began writing a blog under the pseudonym Tom Reynolds. One mention by a writer for the<i>Guardian</i> and that blog has changed his lifewith more people coming to know him as Tom Reynolds than as Brian Kellett.<br /><br />Author's web site: http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog
zlib_text: **Somebody Told Me**
  
    
  
   **by Stephen Puleston**
  
    
  
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   **Chapter 1**
  
    
  
  In a puddle of Diet Coke and piss is an unedifying place to die. I counted a
  single bullet wound to the centre of the man’s forehead and several to his
  chest. His sweatshirt was a neutral grey, frayed around the collar. His jeans
  looked clean, at least the parts I could see. The oblong storeroom stank of
  the urine that had pooled by his feet on the concrete floor.
  
  And there was blood. Thick pools of the stuff.
  
  Against one wall were towers of various coloured soft drink cans, and lining
  another were boxes of crisps and snacks and chocolate bars. A wooden chair lay
  on its side a few feet away from the corpse. He looked mid-forties, 