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Józef Stawinoga (15 December 1920 – 28 October 2007), also known as Fred and incorrectly reported as Josef, was a homeless Polish man who lived in a tent on the Wolverhampton Ring Road in the West Midlands, England for nearly 40 years.〔.〕 Little is known about the recluse, but he is thought to have been involved in the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, before emigrating to the UK in the 1940s. ==Wolverhampton== After the war he lived in Wolverhampton, finding work and a place to live – and an Austrian wife who left him after a year, according to Juliusz Leonowicz, who identified himself as Stawinoga's friend. Official records show that Stawinoga married Hermine Weiss in Wolverhampton in 1952. It has been reported that Stawinoga worked for some time at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks in Bilston. One day, however, he did not turn up to work and the next his colleagues knew "...he was pushing a pram with all his possessions and had grown an ankle-length beard" 〔(Ring Road tramp Fred dies in Express and Star )〕 It seems therefore that, at a date given by different sources as 1954 and 1967, he opted out of society for unknown reasons, left his job, and became homeless. He was evicted from several lodging houses,〔 and by the 1970s he had moved into a tent on the central grass reservation of the town's inner ring road. The council tolerated his presence, as he was claustrophobic, and he became something of a local character. A series of replacement tents was erected by the authorities over his original plastic sheeting; in April 2003 this involved "an operation involving the army, the police, social services and environmental health". Fred was treated as a holy man by the Hindu community, with many people believing he lived a truly enlightened life.〔 A group devoted to him on the social networking site Facebook had over 6,500 members and he was awarded an honorary degree by Wolverhampton Polytechnic.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Józef Stawinoga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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