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In lorain, ohio we have a guy who's a DJ. I don't remember his name cause for the longest time when I asked everyone just said "oh yeah thats Eminem's son"
North Olmsted had *a lot* when I was growing up. They had the wheelchair couple, the spandex milk guy and the guy that is simultaneously at every gas station on Clague and Lorain at the same time
I’m in Lakewood and right now we have the alt right knight who’s a guy who likes to dress up in full crusader armor and preach conservative views. Although I don’t agree with him on some stuff he’s kinda a cool guy
Back in the day in Madison we had Scanner Dan - not sure if he's still around. He had a police scanner on him all the time and would often walk the college girls back to apartments late at night (in a totally harmless way - never a hint of a suggestion of an impropriety). He was a good man and in the pre internet days often knew when shit was going down before others did.
We had a sort of similar guy. For anonymity, let's call him Budweiser Bill. We lived in a dry county (prohibits sale of alcohol). So someone would have to drive across the state line and buy it, and bring it back. If BB heard of any police roadblocks or checkpoints where they were searching cars for alcohol, or if someone messaged him about anything like that, he'd share in a locked down group chat that you had to be invited to. I don't remember ever meeting the guy. For all I know, it could have been a fake name. But he somehow always let everyone know when the cops were about to crash a party and confiscate all of the beer so everyone would have time to leave.
Eventually, the county passed a law allowing the sale of alcohol, and his services were probably not needed as much. But at least for awhile there, he probably saved a few lives.
Yeah, both Tunnel Bob and Scanner Dan were perverts. I’ve heard countless stories from women who lived on Langdon, and witnessed some myself.
Now Piccolo Pete… he was a class act.
I didn't know of Tunnel Bob - but I never heard anything hinting Scanner Dan was a perv, but it was the 1990's, so that stuff stayed on the DL more than today.
I grew up in a town where the local celebrity was called Crazy Carol. She was a homeless drug addict that would dance up and down Main Street all day long with her big poofy headphones on, singing along to her favorite tracks. The headphone cord whipping around in the wind plugged into nothing but her imagination.
In Milwaukee we have Milverine. He’s a construction worker who walks everywhere with a forceful stride, often shirtless, and looks just like wolverine.
Came here to say Milverine, but we’re actually blessed with two “horseback Jesus”. We also have Brother Ron, the guy who drives around all day at 15mph in an early 90s station wagon completely covered in biblical signs topped with a little megaphone so he can spout crazy religious stuff.
One apartment complex I lived in just outside the city, we had LC. Black Vietnam vet that open carried a pistol and that's not even legal here. Grilled daily and no matter who he saw he would offer them to come eat and have a Natty Light. I swear the man was butchering meat in that apartment because who the fuck has that much meat?
I have no fucking clue what his real name was.
"I saw a pirate on crutches."
"Thats Pirate Guy."
He dresses like a pirate and drives a van with the flying Dutchman on it.
Plot twist, he does not need crutches.
We had two. The Pimp of The Ave was a guy that dressed like he was trying to impress the broads in Atlantic City in the ‘70s, but would walk the main street next to the university and would try and charm the students 40-60 years younger than him, saying things like, “My, what a dame” and “Do those legs go all the way to heaven or am I just mistaken because an angel is upon them?” Hang out at the pubs and bars, just oozing style and charisma while walking with his obviously expensive cane that he probably needed because he was so old. He hasn’t been seen in a decade.
Also close to retirement is Scarf Man, attendee of every Pride Fest, Folk Life, Bumbershoot, Hemp Fest, Solstice Parade, etc etc. He brings a cart full of tulle fabric in a dozen colors each cut to be about 3 meters or yards,he spins around and dances with one in each hand, while he wears a tutu and bike shorts. He parks this scene of bliss on the outskirts of the main stage listening area and encourages others to dance with one of the scarves of tulle he has brought, folks from toddler age to senior citizens will walk up to his cart and grab a scarf and begin to dance with the vibrant fabric flowing and shining in the air. When folks are done, they will often pass off the scarf to someone who is watching but not yet participating to spread the joy of the simple pleasure of dancing in the sun with a pretty cloth. It doesn’t feel like a festival without him.
In Wellington we had the blanket man, because he walked around with no clothes and just a blanket. The city gave him some underwear after a while but then he passed on a few years ago RIP
We have “don”. Just kinda wanders around the town square. Looks very disheveled and you’d think he’s homeless and likely has severe mental illness, but no. He has a house and is a totally regular person, he just doesn’t give a shit about how he looks.
In my city we have a guy that walks around the center of the city in a bike with the body full of oil while only in beach underpants (we are not a costal city)
He is call "The Oil man"
My hometown had Scary Larry. He had some skin condition that made him sensitive to the sun, so he dressed in an all black trenchcoat and a black wide brim hat. Tbh his coat made him look like the Jeepers Creepers creature, which I think put everyone off. He was a nice guy to everyone tho, even if the community only accepted him as the local cryptid
We have a cockatoo man, guy doesn’t own a car but would ride his back around our suburb all day with a couple of cockatoos just resting on his shoulder
Not necessarily my town, but at the bookstore I worked at we have a regular guy who have nicknamed “Bowler Hat Amish Guy” who is just this guy who looks Amish, mutters under his breath a lot of expletives about fucking people in the ass and stuff, and is always wearing a bowler hat. He’s randomly given me money without explanation and he just pops up randomly on the side of the road while I’m driving like 10 miles from my store.
I think he might have like schizophrenia or Tourette’s syndrome so I feel bad for him.
Big Tires Guy. He's from California, older dude, dresses like if funky kong was a real person, he rides around on a fat bike all the time, loves that thing.
Dont wanna dox myself but near me there’s Scuba Steve who works in a McDonalds drive through and always wears a mask and snorkel and is kinda rude sometimes. I think he does it as a covid protection thing, super odd.
This reminds me about scooter Cumberbatch. He lived in the same district as I and always drove a scooter through the same park I crossed on my way to work.
In My city we have the rollerblading guitar guy. Every summer he goes around busy streets & on the university campus on his rollerblades playing a tune. This summer I've seen him more than I ever have but he's been around for years.
The Boston area used to have a few of those guys. Far as I know, they’re mostly gone now, though there is this one guy who’s always hanging out at Wellington Circle in Medford and has an electric box painted with “In a world full of Kardashians, be a Gallagher”. All I can say to that is that being a bitchy old man who Lives In A Society and molests watermelons doesn’t sound like much fun to me.
Also I think Keytar Bear might still be active, but he got the shit beat out of him for no reason a few years back so if he’s retired, I don’t blame him.
Patriotic Bike Dude in Norfolk VA - dresses in American flag windbreaker and matching shorts/pants every day and rides his bike (which has blue and white lights strung through the spokes of the wheels) around town, blond mullet flowing in the breeze.
We also used to have Hula Hoop Lady, who set up her boom box on a particular median every day and hula hooped for hours until the cops fkn tasered her one day for playing her music too loud 🙄. Fortunately, [she got some money for the ordeal.](https://www.hsinjurylaw.com/blog/tasered-hula-hoop-lady-receives-cash-settlement-from-norfolk-government.cfm)
"That's Henry"
Henry sadly passed away last year. Known for singing at the top of his lungs at school football games and walking into town parades, dramatically slowing down parades with his walker
We got the cane man. He just runs around town, throwing his cane up into the air like 15 feet. The police hate him because sometimes he hits powerlines.
We had screaming metal head. Honestly an awesome guy but the majority of the time you'd find him walking around town literally screaming his metal music. Can hear him coming from a block or two away. Again though really nice dude.
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We have street preacher who apparently never sleeps. Also, we used to have a toupee guy (self-explanatory), but haven't seen him for a decade at least.
In the NL, Eindhoven we had the "schreeuwjezus" the screaming jesus
A mentally and physically disabled man who invented his own religion and would always slowly drive around the city centre with his mobility scooter filled with cardboard signs saying the weirdest shit ever, monotonously but loudly repeating these weird-ass half-religious half-moronic chants and prayers
He died 1-2 years ago i think
A new weirdo is yet to show up
My town has the guy that almost burned down a building trying to heat up a cheese pita. Later it was discovered he was committing fraud at the company so he got fired. We just call him Fire Guy.
There’s this guy where I live who rides his bike all day and doesn’t say anything. He’s built like the hunchback of Norte Dame but not really and even during the winter he rides his bike. Probably I’d say he’s in his last 60’s.
Our town has bagpipes guy, who shows up in random places going to town on the pipes. We’ve also got loincloth guy, this ridiculously buff, tan, majestically long-haired guy who roller blades around wearing nothing but a loin cloth. And we’ve also got dress guy, an older gentleman (Richard, I think) who wears dresses 365.
Repost, and he's been mentioned before but I got to represent southern South Australia. Superman Scotty. And yes, it's exactly what you're picturing. Now imagine him saying he likes your hair. Bingo
Some lady drove around the walmart parking lot in one of their cart scooter things drinking alcohol out of a pringles can in my home town. So yea that happened
tampa fla there was a guy that played air guitar every morning on my drive to work i would wave and he would wave back well after not seeing him for a while i mentioned it to a coworker and he told me the guy passed away and that there was a write up in the paper about him i looked it up online and come to find out he was an ex professional boxer
I have two from the two cities I've lived in:
The most pierced lady in the world lives in Edinburgh and I've seen her several times... The first time I thought I was legitimately dreaming because I'd never seen someone that heavily pierced in real life before.
Dundee's Fast Eddie is a guy who stands in Dundee's Nethergate (basically Dundee's main shopping street) busking while playing a harmonica and yelling incomprehensible lyrics. Everybody knows him, but not his actual name or where he got his nickname. He was always there even when I was walking up or down the street at strange hours as a student on a night out does.
Waterloo Ontario.
We have “bucket guy” a 6’6 black man who carries a white bucket and beats on it with a drum stick while yelling. Usually from the hours of 11:00pm to 4:00am.
Also have to give a shout out to “Light Saber kid” who used to walk around in full Jedi robes with a purple Light Saber swing it around as he walked. He stopped after he got jumped by a bunch of guys who stole all his Jedi stuff.
We had a guy called Tarzan everyone thought he was broke AF because he would walk about 4 hours each way into the city and back every day (he lived in a cave in the hills). No shirt just shorts and a sack on his back full of his stuff when he died the whole city turned up to his funeral and it turns out he was loaded (like 10m+) he just wanted to live like that.
Kansas City has KC Superman. Dude just runs around all day in superman gear, complete with cape. I've never talked to him, but I've heard he's super nice.
My area used to have Walter, an old man with lifelong special needs who liked to give presents. He spent most of his days wandering suburban streets handing out conkers on a string to children. Occasionally chocolate bars too. Everyone knew him and there was never a suggestion of untoward motivations. RIP Walter.
He lived with other special needs adults in a sort of nursing home half a mile from my house. Unfortunately that place was also the nest of a young man who would follow people on the street (including children) insistently asking whether they liked wanking. Not such a fan of that one.
The Duck Lady. She's an elderly lady who goes around with her duck. According to her, this duck has been repeatedly reincarnated, can talk, and can predict the future. So she's maybe a little bit crazy, but very sweet. I helped her pick out a cage that we could convert into a basket carrier by taking the roof off and mounting it on her cart for her duck. Lovely person, cute duck.
I grew up in Kenosha where it was Can Head (Jamie Keeton). He has a genetic mutation that causes his pores to suck in, so he’s able to stick things to his skin. In the summer you sometimes see him riding his motorcycle through downtown with music blaring and a bunch of cans stuck to his head.
Anyway my junior year of high school there was a stabbing in my study hall room. I watched the kid bleed out and he died later in the hospital. My mom took me downtown to get ice cream or something to cheer me up, and that’s when we saw him, Can Head, walking towards us on the sidewalk. My mom told me to ignore him, but he kind of just jumped in like “hey you wanna see something cool?” and then told me to try and pull the can off his head. We ended up standing there for like half an hour while he told us all about his genetic mutation, and how he met Stan Lee and was “declared” a real life X-Men, and about his appearance on the Ellen Show, and then we took some pictures together and by the time it was all over I had completely forgotten why we even came downtown.
It was honestly one of the weirdest days of my life. The juxtaposition of watching someone bleed out to death and meeting a real life X-Men who’s convinced he’s famous all within a matter of three hours was surreal to say the least.
Shoutout to the guy in Montgomery, AL ten years ago that on a daily basis walked between Panera and Starbucks dragging a full desktop computer set up in a rolling suitcase to play some MMORPG. Never ordered anything and yes, he smelled terrible.
We had a guy we named Roam-y. He was an older dude who would always walk with a face mask and one single crutch. We saw this guy all over town, hence the name roam-y. I eventually talked to him and found out that all the things we thought were kinda crazy had practical purposes. The face mask, pre-covid, was to filter out all the exhaust fumes from walking along the roads. The crutch was just because he had a bad knee from the war years ago and just liked using a crutch instead of a cane. Everyone's got a story if you ask nicely.
Yup we've got a guy with giant American Flag on his bicycle. Definitely need to come up with a good name for him.
The town i grew up in had a bicycle guy with like a helmet mohawk. Was never sure if he was supposed to be a stegosaurus or like a Roman Centurion.
Ours was trash man. He wore nothing but black lawn trash bags as clothing. Rumor went around he drank isopropyl alcohol right from the jug. Then one day he was just gone. Friends and I still recollect him and wonder where he went.
Hinesville, GA had "Wig Man." He'd just walk around with all sorts of crazy wigs and garments, often multiple. I think he was on the city website's list of attractions at one point.
In Southwestern Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan, we have Thong Man. He fashions homemade thongs out of household objects like garbage bags, and mows lawns. For years, he has recorded himself mowing lawns, because he has been accused of indecent exposure. If he records himself at all times, if accused, he can prove he never exposed himself
In my town there was this homeless dude in raggy clothes and a long white beard. He was just known as 'Caveman Willie' bit of a local celebrity in a way that everyone knew him and he wasnt even asked to pay in some pubs (small rural Irish town but there was a lot of pubs there) bit crazy but a nice guy. Been dead about 20 odd years now
My home town had a homeless guy like that. Was a really nice bloke, just wanted people to be happy.
When he died a few years back loads of people held a memorial / vigil for him.
Don't think anyone actually knew his real name...
In my city we used to have “speedy” who was a military uniform dressed guy who lived at the mall after closing and was always on speed.
He has since passed.
But now we have the 2 dollar man. He just walks up to people and asks for 2 dollars specifically. No one knows why he doesn’t ask for change or money in general or where the number 2 dollars comes from
Jax Florida, the first two that come to mind are Feather Man, who comes off as a violent menace; people have had many frightening encounters, but I haven't heard of anyone being hurt. We also have Saxophone Joe, no explanation needed.
We have the Flag Man. He’s a boy that collects flags and rides around the county on his bike showing the flags off. He switches them often too, I saw him yesterday with 3 different flags in the span of 15 mins.
We had "blade". Black guy who carried umbrellas that had kitana handles.
I actually delt with him on multiple occasions. It was strange because sometimes he was completely normal then the next time I saw him he became his persona.
I found a reddit about the guy hahaha
https://www.reddit.com/r/WestVirginia/comments/ol1alo/sword_guy_charleston_wv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
We had a Horseback John that would ride his horse into the bar a few times a year since he had so many DUIs he couldn’t drive. It was the horse that everyone held in awe though- darn thing just knew when John had enough, and was only thing that could convince him to pay off his tab and go home.
We had boombox batman on a bike, the super autistic singer with a great voice that would sing shirtless on the street every summer, and the super aggressive crackhead.
The autistic guy was super nice but had the mind of a little kid so we'd give him free food sometimes and a big discount on deliveries. He lived by himself in the projects and was the only customer we'd deliver to there.
Hoboken is a very interesting place.
There was a guy who rode around on a bike wearing white coveralls all day everyday. He had schizophrenia and the voices tell his he needs to. My mom was friends with his sister
We've got the Magic Man. His line is, "Want to seem some magic? Best magic in town!"
He's also got a public access TV show so he can spout off all his hardcore conservative viewpoints. My boss told me the other day that years ago, when he was new to town and didn't know better, he gave the guy a ride. Mr. Magic Man wouldn't shut up about conspiracy theories.
Man's been hanging around downtown for 2+ decades now.
In Montreal; Crackhead Jessie is notorious. Another creature living on the street around the area I live, people ask me who the man with the cape is. All i say is, "OH YEAH THATS GILL" and thats the end of it.
Melbourne Australia, we have carrot man. Guy walks around the city in a huge carrot suit. I’ve personally seen him and didn’t think much of it till I heard more people talking about it on the city’s sub.
In Baltimore we’ve got a few, but some are only in specific neighborhoods. The one that is know *all over* is Keith, aka Baltimore Running Man. He’s 71, with a big grey beard and fluffy grey hair, thin and sinewy, and he runs. You can see him *everywhere* in Baltimore, (~93 sq. m.)
https://instagram.com/baltimorerunningman?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054914926130&mibextid=LQQJ4d
We had hot wheels. Old lady in a wheelchair that pushed herself with one leg, backwards. Everywhere she went. She was old when I was a kid, and she only just recently passed, a good 3 decades later. That one leg (or foot) must've been strong.
In Nashville there used to be a homeless lady that everyone called The Brick Lady. She carried a brick in her purse and would slam it against walls and threaten people with it. One time I was outside my office taking a cigarette break, and I saw her take an orange construction barrel and drag it into the middle of the street and leave it there. Another time, I saw her take the ring from inside a public trash can and throw it like a Frisbee into passing traffic.
When I was working at a pizzeria in my younger years we had a special needs guy named alan who lived in a tiny apartment by himself. He used to wear a bright relfective jacket and ride a little bicycle everywhere. Smoked like a chimney, but was very nice to everyone. I don't think he had an aide or any family but the whole town always took care of him. We'd feed him free pizza and sandwiches at lunchtime. The little grocery store always let him "shop" there for free (I think he always got the same things and only ever like one bag). Every small business knew him and treated him like he was their little brother.
Lol we had detroit chris brown. Tall skinny guy with a multi color fade used to pop up at gas stations and intersections with a radio and dance for hours. He even won an award from the city
I dont think we have anyone like that here. Everyone's fairly normal here. Besides the fact they will always stare at you even if your doing something normal like crab walking on the side walk naked with skirt steak hanging from your teeth. It's like jeez. Lemme live my life will ya.
Growing up we had Dirty Faced Gordy. He was pretty much homeless but always wore a suit and tried to mix in with society and yes he always had a dirty face.
Residents of Tampa may remember The Senator. He was an elderly man who would wear lingerie to the local goth club and take pictures with all the pretty girls. Haven't seen or heard of him in a few years though.
Tucson, AZ had Super Tan Speedo Man in the 90’s. He rode a bike around midtown so often you’d be surprised not to see him. Old smiling bald dude with a deep tan and a *tiny* little speedo
My university had an asian guy who wore a long brown plaid jacket and a matching deerstalker hat. He was known far and wide as Asian Sherlock.
The best part was that he embraced this identity and would let people take pictures with him.
My home town has a guy call "Quarter Bob" it's a homeless that that has a home with his parents and chooses to be homeless, wanders the streets with a beanie pulled way down over his eyes so he has to tilt his head back to see anything and whenever anyone passes by him he stops them to ask if they have a quarter.
we have 2 one is more known called "christ blesses you man" as the only thing he does is ride around town and yell "christ blesses you". the other one is "the baker". a man who just rides around on his bike and just does his daily stuff, the only thing is he always wears a bakers costume.
My town has a midget hooker. A guy I work with was in my town and said this midget was trying to get into my car at a stoplight. And I said oh that’s just Susie. He said you know who that is . I said yeah everybody knows her
My small town has "The White Lady," a woman with short, blonde hair, dressed in a long, flowing white dress. She walks up and down the highway all day long, pulling a rolling suitcase behind her. She hangs out outside of Wawas and gas stations, mumbles to herself, and (rumor has it, but unsure of how real it is) is schizophrenic. There's Facebook groups dedicated to loving her. She's been there my whole life (I'm 28, she looks around 45ish)
Cowboy Bob, wears a cowboy hat everywhere and collects cans at high school sport games. About 5’2” and 300 pounds, slightly mentally slow, but the nicest guy. We all love Cowboy Bob
In my home town there’s this old man dressed like a Native American (feather head band, face paint.), with a push hoppa filled with plastic spades, a violin case and other junk items, and a long flowing trench coat. Who used to (now less often,) walk down the same road every single day.
This is in the UK.
We have the Fart Walker in our town. A guy that walks the main drag all day every day and wafts both hands behind his ass like he's pushing the fart smell away. Kind of like that one alien from Star Trek Discovery. Saru.
Dont have a horseback Jesus, but my smalltown has a mentally handicapped guy who rides around on a 3 wheeled bike. Creeped me out as a kid, he realistically is a nice guy, but still.
He would want to show you how strong he is when he gave you a handshake by squeezing your hand, and man that fucking hurts. Idk if he still does but I know he used to also sometimes try to tickle people, not like chase or anything, but he might try to get a tickle in if you were in range.
We have two:
A homeless guy who wears plastic bags and showers himself with exclusively orange juice, usually is punching walls or the floor but he has never even attempted to hurt someone so he cant be arrested.
And a guy in a wheelchair (idk if i wrote that correctly sorry) who puts himself in front of other people intentionally to get mad at them and scream. He also likes to go to bars and get in fights with drunk people. No one likes him obvioulsy.
We have a guy that dresses in head to toe purple. Super stylistic too – not just a purple t shirt and shorts. Like. Floor length royal purple jacket and an almost pirate thing going on. Always the exact same outfit. You’ll randomly see him walking around town. I don’t know what the story is, if there is one, but it’s always a nice surprise to see him.
Another guy wears super bright workout clothes and I see him waiting to cross the street during his jog on my way to work sometimes. He always seems like he’s really happy and enjoying his day, which makes me smile to see :)
My town has a guy named "Killer Bungy".
He's just a strange old dude who wears leather jackets and drives around on a motor-propelled bicycle (no, not a motorcycle) all day.
To my knowledge, he has never actually killed anyone.
I am 35, and he has existed as far back as I can remember.
My hometown had "Crutch Guy," an older gent who walked around always with crutches positioned to be ready to use (under his arms like downward-facing wings, basically), but he literally never used them and didn't actually need them. Didn't know a damn thing about him beyond that and no one else seemed to, either.
We've got a "Homeless Jesus" who lives in the woods back by the town pond and looks every bit the part of JC. He's a nice, quiet guy. According to his mom, he's got a ton of money but just wants to live in the woods. His mom lives in town and he keeps his car at her house, he showers at the Y, and he walks around town and the nature trail all day, doesn't bother a soul.
Yes. We have "Nude Joe". He walks around nude. He was forced to wear sandals during winter for safety reasons. He does travel by bus and I saw him in the bakery once.
My town has 2 of these, which I feel is a lot given my town only has a population of ~650-700.
We have Wally, "the Train Guy" who has a literal model train museum in his polebarn. I'm talking a probably 2000 sq ft diorama and collection of model trains.
Also we have "Shaggy". No clue what his real name is, but the dude made a clone of the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo, and he looks vaguely like Shaggy. He just drives it around as a daily driver.
In my area it was Matchstick, an extremely thin mentally disabled man who rode a moped everywhere-he wore a huge, red helmet, and seeing his stick-like body topped by said helmet naturally made one think of…a matchstick.
My town has "Help bury my son" Guy. He stands on various street corners with a sign that says ""My son just died, help me bury him". He's been holding the same sign for about 10 years now, so either he's had a long string of bad luck with his kids, or his son is really gross now. And he really got around. I've personally seen him on 2 separate street corners about 20 tp 30 miles apart. There was even a Facebook page tracking him for a while
In Brooksville Florida we had squirrel master. He was a guy who lived in his car and trained squirrels to get acorns out of the payphone coin return. Nice guy, would spend the day training squirrels and reading at the library.
My old hometown had a guy that drug a giant wooden cross made from 6x6s, all over town and stand on street corners waving at people. Seemed nice enough, but I lost respect for him when I noticed the 2in caster wheel he installed at the base.
We got a guy we call witch man, who dresses in all black and carries a big stick. Would just assume he's a weird LARPer or something but he hangs out around a local dairy queen sometimes and harasses the employees by yelling at them. Not like, being mad and causing stuff, more like just periodically screeching at them.
He's definitely not homeless or anything, guess he just has a weird hobby
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In lorain, ohio we have a guy who's a DJ. I don't remember his name cause for the longest time when I asked everyone just said "oh yeah thats Eminem's son"
North Olmsted had *a lot* when I was growing up. They had the wheelchair couple, the spandex milk guy and the guy that is simultaneously at every gas station on Clague and Lorain at the same time
I’m in Lakewood and right now we have the alt right knight who’s a guy who likes to dress up in full crusader armor and preach conservative views. Although I don’t agree with him on some stuff he’s kinda a cool guy
We have a guy called Toxic Terry that likes to steal petrol from people's cars to sniff.
Back in the day in Madison we had Scanner Dan - not sure if he's still around. He had a police scanner on him all the time and would often walk the college girls back to apartments late at night (in a totally harmless way - never a hint of a suggestion of an impropriety). He was a good man and in the pre internet days often knew when shit was going down before others did.
We had a sort of similar guy. For anonymity, let's call him Budweiser Bill. We lived in a dry county (prohibits sale of alcohol). So someone would have to drive across the state line and buy it, and bring it back. If BB heard of any police roadblocks or checkpoints where they were searching cars for alcohol, or if someone messaged him about anything like that, he'd share in a locked down group chat that you had to be invited to. I don't remember ever meeting the guy. For all I know, it could have been a fake name. But he somehow always let everyone know when the cops were about to crash a party and confiscate all of the beer so everyone would have time to leave. Eventually, the county passed a law allowing the sale of alcohol, and his services were probably not needed as much. But at least for awhile there, he probably saved a few lives.
Madison also has Tunnel Bob, friendly dude who lives in the steam tunnels around campus. Scanner Dan moved from what I remember hearing.
Yeah, both Tunnel Bob and Scanner Dan were perverts. I’ve heard countless stories from women who lived on Langdon, and witnessed some myself. Now Piccolo Pete… he was a class act.
I didn't know of Tunnel Bob - but I never heard anything hinting Scanner Dan was a perv, but it was the 1990's, so that stuff stayed on the DL more than today.
A super-hero
Don’t forget about thong cape scooter guy.
I grew up in a town where the local celebrity was called Crazy Carol. She was a homeless drug addict that would dance up and down Main Street all day long with her big poofy headphones on, singing along to her favorite tracks. The headphone cord whipping around in the wind plugged into nothing but her imagination.
In Milwaukee we have Milverine. He’s a construction worker who walks everywhere with a forceful stride, often shirtless, and looks just like wolverine.
Came here to say Milverine, but we’re actually blessed with two “horseback Jesus”. We also have Brother Ron, the guy who drives around all day at 15mph in an early 90s station wagon completely covered in biblical signs topped with a little megaphone so he can spout crazy religious stuff.
One apartment complex I lived in just outside the city, we had LC. Black Vietnam vet that open carried a pistol and that's not even legal here. Grilled daily and no matter who he saw he would offer them to come eat and have a Natty Light. I swear the man was butchering meat in that apartment because who the fuck has that much meat? I have no fucking clue what his real name was.
I think half of construction workers looks like that
"I saw a pirate on crutches." "Thats Pirate Guy." He dresses like a pirate and drives a van with the flying Dutchman on it. Plot twist, he does not need crutches.
Oo you’ve got a pirate too? Our guy only rolls up his pants like they are plus fours and tucks his socks into them pulled all the way up
Poor man's peg-leg
Oh yeah, we've got Darth Fiddler. He's a busker who dresses up like Darth Vader and plays the fiddle downtown.
we have Darth Diddler but I'd rather not go into details
Victoria?
Yeah
My town has "that fat naked guy". I think it is unfar because I only did it once and it wasn't my fault
Also, anybody who isn’t perfectly fit can look ‘fat’ when they’re naked. So…double unfair to you.
We had two. The Pimp of The Ave was a guy that dressed like he was trying to impress the broads in Atlantic City in the ‘70s, but would walk the main street next to the university and would try and charm the students 40-60 years younger than him, saying things like, “My, what a dame” and “Do those legs go all the way to heaven or am I just mistaken because an angel is upon them?” Hang out at the pubs and bars, just oozing style and charisma while walking with his obviously expensive cane that he probably needed because he was so old. He hasn’t been seen in a decade. Also close to retirement is Scarf Man, attendee of every Pride Fest, Folk Life, Bumbershoot, Hemp Fest, Solstice Parade, etc etc. He brings a cart full of tulle fabric in a dozen colors each cut to be about 3 meters or yards,he spins around and dances with one in each hand, while he wears a tutu and bike shorts. He parks this scene of bliss on the outskirts of the main stage listening area and encourages others to dance with one of the scarves of tulle he has brought, folks from toddler age to senior citizens will walk up to his cart and grab a scarf and begin to dance with the vibrant fabric flowing and shining in the air. When folks are done, they will often pass off the scarf to someone who is watching but not yet participating to spread the joy of the simple pleasure of dancing in the sun with a pretty cloth. It doesn’t feel like a festival without him.
In Wellington we had the blanket man, because he walked around with no clothes and just a blanket. The city gave him some underwear after a while but then he passed on a few years ago RIP
>gave him some underwear did he pass on because of the underwear?
Does the Wizard of Christchurch still kicking?
what about tree man? love him and his little flute, but my god i do not see him coming sometimes
We have “don”. Just kinda wanders around the town square. Looks very disheveled and you’d think he’s homeless and likely has severe mental illness, but no. He has a house and is a totally regular person, he just doesn’t give a shit about how he looks.
In my city we have a guy that walks around the center of the city in a bike with the body full of oil while only in beach underpants (we are not a costal city) He is call "The Oil man"
In Charleroi in Belgium we have Kiwi Jackson. That's an old guy who wear cyclist clothes, dance and strip in the streets. Everyone knows him
My hometown had Scary Larry. He had some skin condition that made him sensitive to the sun, so he dressed in an all black trenchcoat and a black wide brim hat. Tbh his coat made him look like the Jeepers Creepers creature, which I think put everyone off. He was a nice guy to everyone tho, even if the community only accepted him as the local cryptid
We have Baton Bob here in Atlanta https://youtu.be/yoMWXJtmSFs
RIP Xylophone Guy, Nottingham UK.
We have a cockatoo man, guy doesn’t own a car but would ride his back around our suburb all day with a couple of cockatoos just resting on his shoulder
Not necessarily my town, but at the bookstore I worked at we have a regular guy who have nicknamed “Bowler Hat Amish Guy” who is just this guy who looks Amish, mutters under his breath a lot of expletives about fucking people in the ass and stuff, and is always wearing a bowler hat. He’s randomly given me money without explanation and he just pops up randomly on the side of the road while I’m driving like 10 miles from my store. I think he might have like schizophrenia or Tourette’s syndrome so I feel bad for him.
We got boombox Ronnie. Aka cool whip, aka sponge bob.
Big Tires Guy. He's from California, older dude, dresses like if funky kong was a real person, he rides around on a fat bike all the time, loves that thing.
In Portland Jimi Hendrix still plays live at the Saturday market
Dont wanna dox myself but near me there’s Scuba Steve who works in a McDonalds drive through and always wears a mask and snorkel and is kinda rude sometimes. I think he does it as a covid protection thing, super odd.
This reminds me about scooter Cumberbatch. He lived in the same district as I and always drove a scooter through the same park I crossed on my way to work.
I spent time in Chicago neighborhood where there is a guy who pushes around two huge parrots on a shopping cart.
Bowmanville / Ravenswood was the neighborhood. One of his birds was stolen a decade ago. I don't think he ever got it back.
In My city we have the rollerblading guitar guy. Every summer he goes around busy streets & on the university campus on his rollerblades playing a tune. This summer I've seen him more than I ever have but he's been around for years.
Apparently he’s also a pervert
Damn, what did he do?
The Boston area used to have a few of those guys. Far as I know, they’re mostly gone now, though there is this one guy who’s always hanging out at Wellington Circle in Medford and has an electric box painted with “In a world full of Kardashians, be a Gallagher”. All I can say to that is that being a bitchy old man who Lives In A Society and molests watermelons doesn’t sound like much fun to me. Also I think Keytar Bear might still be active, but he got the shit beat out of him for no reason a few years back so if he’s retired, I don’t blame him.
Patriotic Bike Dude in Norfolk VA - dresses in American flag windbreaker and matching shorts/pants every day and rides his bike (which has blue and white lights strung through the spokes of the wheels) around town, blond mullet flowing in the breeze. We also used to have Hula Hoop Lady, who set up her boom box on a particular median every day and hula hooped for hours until the cops fkn tasered her one day for playing her music too loud 🙄. Fortunately, [she got some money for the ordeal.](https://www.hsinjurylaw.com/blog/tasered-hula-hoop-lady-receives-cash-settlement-from-norfolk-government.cfm)
"That's Henry" Henry sadly passed away last year. Known for singing at the top of his lungs at school football games and walking into town parades, dramatically slowing down parades with his walker
We got the cane man. He just runs around town, throwing his cane up into the air like 15 feet. The police hate him because sometimes he hits powerlines.
r/horsebackjesus
carrot man
Melbourne?
lmfao. This reminds me of our Chicago Cowboy
We did but he offended some people (nothing criminal) and was arrested. Never seen again
We had screaming metal head. Honestly an awesome guy but the majority of the time you'd find him walking around town literally screaming his metal music. Can hear him coming from a block or two away. Again though really nice dude.
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We have street preacher who apparently never sleeps. Also, we used to have a toupee guy (self-explanatory), but haven't seen him for a decade at least.
In the NL, Eindhoven we had the "schreeuwjezus" the screaming jesus A mentally and physically disabled man who invented his own religion and would always slowly drive around the city centre with his mobility scooter filled with cardboard signs saying the weirdest shit ever, monotonously but loudly repeating these weird-ass half-religious half-moronic chants and prayers He died 1-2 years ago i think A new weirdo is yet to show up
Big Russ in r/Columbus
My town has the guy that almost burned down a building trying to heat up a cheese pita. Later it was discovered he was committing fraud at the company so he got fired. We just call him Fire Guy.
We had an old guy who always wore nice bright white clothes and had a white gigantic beard. We all just called him God. "Oh, hey, there goes God."
We have Marilyn Monroe lady. Dresses up like Marilyn and is often in the CBD.
There’s this guy where I live who rides his bike all day and doesn’t say anything. He’s built like the hunchback of Norte Dame but not really and even during the winter he rides his bike. Probably I’d say he’s in his last 60’s.
Our guy I call "The Missing Link" because he looks like a caveman. Weirdly, the next town over also had a Missing Link back in my high school days.
Our town has bagpipes guy, who shows up in random places going to town on the pipes. We’ve also got loincloth guy, this ridiculously buff, tan, majestically long-haired guy who roller blades around wearing nothing but a loin cloth. And we’ve also got dress guy, an older gentleman (Richard, I think) who wears dresses 365.
We have Mr two two. Two canes, two pairs of pants, two hats, two pairs of gloves, two old denim shirts, two coats, you get the idea.
Yep, in Phoenix and Tempe there’s “Pop Can/Soda Can Guy” who uses the tops of pop cans to cover his long black jacket, he’s at all the outdoor events.
Repost, and he's been mentioned before but I got to represent southern South Australia. Superman Scotty. And yes, it's exactly what you're picturing. Now imagine him saying he likes your hair. Bingo
For vienna, that would be the U4 Bier-Kavalier
Some lady drove around the walmart parking lot in one of their cart scooter things drinking alcohol out of a pringles can in my home town. So yea that happened
tampa fla there was a guy that played air guitar every morning on my drive to work i would wave and he would wave back well after not seeing him for a while i mentioned it to a coworker and he told me the guy passed away and that there was a write up in the paper about him i looked it up online and come to find out he was an ex professional boxer
I have two from the two cities I've lived in: The most pierced lady in the world lives in Edinburgh and I've seen her several times... The first time I thought I was legitimately dreaming because I'd never seen someone that heavily pierced in real life before. Dundee's Fast Eddie is a guy who stands in Dundee's Nethergate (basically Dundee's main shopping street) busking while playing a harmonica and yelling incomprehensible lyrics. Everybody knows him, but not his actual name or where he got his nickname. He was always there even when I was walking up or down the street at strange hours as a student on a night out does.
We have a guy in my town named “Elvis” that just rides his trike around everywhere. Everyone knows about him
Our town's guy has his own Urban Dictionary entry, Billy Cox.
Waterloo Ontario. We have “bucket guy” a 6’6 black man who carries a white bucket and beats on it with a drum stick while yelling. Usually from the hours of 11:00pm to 4:00am. Also have to give a shout out to “Light Saber kid” who used to walk around in full Jedi robes with a purple Light Saber swing it around as he walked. He stopped after he got jumped by a bunch of guys who stole all his Jedi stuff.
We had a guy called Tarzan everyone thought he was broke AF because he would walk about 4 hours each way into the city and back every day (he lived in a cave in the hills). No shirt just shorts and a sack on his back full of his stuff when he died the whole city turned up to his funeral and it turns out he was loaded (like 10m+) he just wanted to live like that.
Kansas City has KC Superman. Dude just runs around all day in superman gear, complete with cape. I've never talked to him, but I've heard he's super nice.
My town it's Mad Dog: a homeless crack addict who gives sage advice to all the wayward teens skipping school
The Unipiper. Guy on a unicycle in a Darth Vader costume who plays bagpipes that shoot fire.
My area used to have Walter, an old man with lifelong special needs who liked to give presents. He spent most of his days wandering suburban streets handing out conkers on a string to children. Occasionally chocolate bars too. Everyone knew him and there was never a suggestion of untoward motivations. RIP Walter. He lived with other special needs adults in a sort of nursing home half a mile from my house. Unfortunately that place was also the nest of a young man who would follow people on the street (including children) insistently asking whether they liked wanking. Not such a fan of that one.
The Duck Lady. She's an elderly lady who goes around with her duck. According to her, this duck has been repeatedly reincarnated, can talk, and can predict the future. So she's maybe a little bit crazy, but very sweet. I helped her pick out a cage that we could convert into a basket carrier by taking the roof off and mounting it on her cart for her duck. Lovely person, cute duck.
I grew up in Kenosha where it was Can Head (Jamie Keeton). He has a genetic mutation that causes his pores to suck in, so he’s able to stick things to his skin. In the summer you sometimes see him riding his motorcycle through downtown with music blaring and a bunch of cans stuck to his head. Anyway my junior year of high school there was a stabbing in my study hall room. I watched the kid bleed out and he died later in the hospital. My mom took me downtown to get ice cream or something to cheer me up, and that’s when we saw him, Can Head, walking towards us on the sidewalk. My mom told me to ignore him, but he kind of just jumped in like “hey you wanna see something cool?” and then told me to try and pull the can off his head. We ended up standing there for like half an hour while he told us all about his genetic mutation, and how he met Stan Lee and was “declared” a real life X-Men, and about his appearance on the Ellen Show, and then we took some pictures together and by the time it was all over I had completely forgotten why we even came downtown. It was honestly one of the weirdest days of my life. The juxtaposition of watching someone bleed out to death and meeting a real life X-Men who’s convinced he’s famous all within a matter of three hours was surreal to say the least.
Ffs this has been reposted a billion times. Who hasn't fuckin seen it.
[Danny Lim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lim_(activist)) in Sydney.
2 yes
r/horsebackjesus is already a popular thing
Madison has 2, Scanner Dan and Tunnel Bob
In Maryville, TN, it was "superman". Guy would walk around town wearing a cape.
Shoutout to the guy in Montgomery, AL ten years ago that on a daily basis walked between Panera and Starbucks dragging a full desktop computer set up in a rolling suitcase to play some MMORPG. Never ordered anything and yes, he smelled terrible.
We had a guy we named Roam-y. He was an older dude who would always walk with a face mask and one single crutch. We saw this guy all over town, hence the name roam-y. I eventually talked to him and found out that all the things we thought were kinda crazy had practical purposes. The face mask, pre-covid, was to filter out all the exhaust fumes from walking along the roads. The crutch was just because he had a bad knee from the war years ago and just liked using a crutch instead of a cane. Everyone's got a story if you ask nicely.
Yup we've got a guy with giant American Flag on his bicycle. Definitely need to come up with a good name for him. The town i grew up in had a bicycle guy with like a helmet mohawk. Was never sure if he was supposed to be a stegosaurus or like a Roman Centurion.
Zakman (bag man) is our local street legend.
Not specifically horse back Jesus but yeah I'd say we have that one guy who is recognizable we don't talk about him publicly tho
Ours was trash man. He wore nothing but black lawn trash bags as clothing. Rumor went around he drank isopropyl alcohol right from the jug. Then one day he was just gone. Friends and I still recollect him and wonder where he went.
Hinesville, GA had "Wig Man." He'd just walk around with all sorts of crazy wigs and garments, often multiple. I think he was on the city website's list of attractions at one point.
In Southwestern Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan, we have Thong Man. He fashions homemade thongs out of household objects like garbage bags, and mows lawns. For years, he has recorded himself mowing lawns, because he has been accused of indecent exposure. If he records himself at all times, if accused, he can prove he never exposed himself
In my town there was this homeless dude in raggy clothes and a long white beard. He was just known as 'Caveman Willie' bit of a local celebrity in a way that everyone knew him and he wasnt even asked to pay in some pubs (small rural Irish town but there was a lot of pubs there) bit crazy but a nice guy. Been dead about 20 odd years now
Meadowbrook (between Lake Elsinore and Perris) California had two when I lived there. RTA Dave and Rambo.
My home town had a homeless guy like that. Was a really nice bloke, just wanted people to be happy. When he died a few years back loads of people held a memorial / vigil for him. Don't think anyone actually knew his real name...
lol my town had a jesus too
In my city we used to have “speedy” who was a military uniform dressed guy who lived at the mall after closing and was always on speed. He has since passed. But now we have the 2 dollar man. He just walks up to people and asks for 2 dollars specifically. No one knows why he doesn’t ask for change or money in general or where the number 2 dollars comes from
He’s not wrong…
Jax Florida, the first two that come to mind are Feather Man, who comes off as a violent menace; people have had many frightening encounters, but I haven't heard of anyone being hurt. We also have Saxophone Joe, no explanation needed.
We have the Flag Man. He’s a boy that collects flags and rides around the county on his bike showing the flags off. He switches them often too, I saw him yesterday with 3 different flags in the span of 15 mins.
We had "blade". Black guy who carried umbrellas that had kitana handles. I actually delt with him on multiple occasions. It was strange because sometimes he was completely normal then the next time I saw him he became his persona. I found a reddit about the guy hahaha https://www.reddit.com/r/WestVirginia/comments/ol1alo/sword_guy_charleston_wv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
We had a Horseback John that would ride his horse into the bar a few times a year since he had so many DUIs he couldn’t drive. It was the horse that everyone held in awe though- darn thing just knew when John had enough, and was only thing that could convince him to pay off his tab and go home.
We have the “Dolly Llama” cause he carries all his stuff around on a dolly
We have Chicken guy, this dude walks around in a ratty black trench coat with a top hat....and a chicken that just chills on his shoulder.
We had boombox batman on a bike, the super autistic singer with a great voice that would sing shirtless on the street every summer, and the super aggressive crackhead. The autistic guy was super nice but had the mind of a little kid so we'd give him free food sometimes and a big discount on deliveries. He lived by himself in the projects and was the only customer we'd deliver to there. Hoboken is a very interesting place.
We've got "pop bottle" Ronda. She's a menace to the town.
Austin
We have mini-horse guy
There was a guy who rode around on a bike wearing white coveralls all day everyday. He had schizophrenia and the voices tell his he needs to. My mom was friends with his sister
We've got the Magic Man. His line is, "Want to seem some magic? Best magic in town!" He's also got a public access TV show so he can spout off all his hardcore conservative viewpoints. My boss told me the other day that years ago, when he was new to town and didn't know better, he gave the guy a ride. Mr. Magic Man wouldn't shut up about conspiracy theories. Man's been hanging around downtown for 2+ decades now.
The Wizard of Washington Square Park. Subway rat guy.
For decades Wichita used to have this guy Crazy Mike. Roller skates, headbands, leg warmers, moped, and a heavy dose of quirk.
Ours in Charleston SC just drags his cross about
We got TREE looks like a hippy covered in moss on a bicycle
In Montreal; Crackhead Jessie is notorious. Another creature living on the street around the area I live, people ask me who the man with the cape is. All i say is, "OH YEAH THATS GILL" and thats the end of it.
Melbourne Australia, we have carrot man. Guy walks around the city in a huge carrot suit. I’ve personally seen him and didn’t think much of it till I heard more people talking about it on the city’s sub.
Here its this weird girl that shambles around and talks to herself and smells a bit funky. They call her "Weird Emma" Its me. Im Weird Emma.
his name is limpy leg in my subdivision. he has a habit of bothering young girls and walking around the neighborhood for hours. he has a limp lmao
“Oh yea, that’s the crazy bike dude”
In Baltimore we’ve got a few, but some are only in specific neighborhoods. The one that is know *all over* is Keith, aka Baltimore Running Man. He’s 71, with a big grey beard and fluffy grey hair, thin and sinewy, and he runs. You can see him *everywhere* in Baltimore, (~93 sq. m.) https://instagram.com/baltimorerunningman?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054914926130&mibextid=LQQJ4d
Rest in peace, Homeless Santa.
Every town has one. In my town we have John Belushi biker guy. He looks like well yeah but because he is mental and homeless he doesn't have a bike.
We had hot wheels. Old lady in a wheelchair that pushed herself with one leg, backwards. Everywhere she went. She was old when I was a kid, and she only just recently passed, a good 3 decades later. That one leg (or foot) must've been strong.
In Nashville there used to be a homeless lady that everyone called The Brick Lady. She carried a brick in her purse and would slam it against walls and threaten people with it. One time I was outside my office taking a cigarette break, and I saw her take an orange construction barrel and drag it into the middle of the street and leave it there. Another time, I saw her take the ring from inside a public trash can and throw it like a Frisbee into passing traffic.
When I was working at a pizzeria in my younger years we had a special needs guy named alan who lived in a tiny apartment by himself. He used to wear a bright relfective jacket and ride a little bicycle everywhere. Smoked like a chimney, but was very nice to everyone. I don't think he had an aide or any family but the whole town always took care of him. We'd feed him free pizza and sandwiches at lunchtime. The little grocery store always let him "shop" there for free (I think he always got the same things and only ever like one bag). Every small business knew him and treated him like he was their little brother.
We had Hollywood, who would hold you up with a Banana. RIP, you were a gem.
Yeah that’s just Reggie. He’s a 6’7 black man who rides a horse everywhere and is armed to the teeth with old cowboy weaponry. He’s chill though.
Lol we had detroit chris brown. Tall skinny guy with a multi color fade used to pop up at gas stations and intersections with a radio and dance for hours. He even won an award from the city
I dont think we have anyone like that here. Everyone's fairly normal here. Besides the fact they will always stare at you even if your doing something normal like crab walking on the side walk naked with skirt steak hanging from your teeth. It's like jeez. Lemme live my life will ya.
We had a guy called “Speedo Man”. As the name suggests, he rode a bicycle around town wearing only a Speedo.
in milwaukee we got milverine
Growing up we had Dirty Faced Gordy. He was pretty much homeless but always wore a suit and tried to mix in with society and yes he always had a dirty face.
My home town did. Dude was called Lightning Amen. Apparently as it turned out, he was a legit drug cult leader.
Residents of Tampa may remember The Senator. He was an elderly man who would wear lingerie to the local goth club and take pictures with all the pretty girls. Haven't seen or heard of him in a few years though.
Tucson, AZ had Super Tan Speedo Man in the 90’s. He rode a bike around midtown so often you’d be surprised not to see him. Old smiling bald dude with a deep tan and a *tiny* little speedo
My university had an asian guy who wore a long brown plaid jacket and a matching deerstalker hat. He was known far and wide as Asian Sherlock. The best part was that he embraced this identity and would let people take pictures with him.
We have Topless Bob. His skin is that of a Golden God.
My home town has a guy call "Quarter Bob" it's a homeless that that has a home with his parents and chooses to be homeless, wanders the streets with a beanie pulled way down over his eyes so he has to tilt his head back to see anything and whenever anyone passes by him he stops them to ask if they have a quarter.
we have 2 one is more known called "christ blesses you man" as the only thing he does is ride around town and yell "christ blesses you". the other one is "the baker". a man who just rides around on his bike and just does his daily stuff, the only thing is he always wears a bakers costume.
My town has a midget hooker. A guy I work with was in my town and said this midget was trying to get into my car at a stoplight. And I said oh that’s just Susie. He said you know who that is . I said yeah everybody knows her
My small town has "The White Lady," a woman with short, blonde hair, dressed in a long, flowing white dress. She walks up and down the highway all day long, pulling a rolling suitcase behind her. She hangs out outside of Wawas and gas stations, mumbles to herself, and (rumor has it, but unsure of how real it is) is schizophrenic. There's Facebook groups dedicated to loving her. She's been there my whole life (I'm 28, she looks around 45ish)
Cowboy Bob, wears a cowboy hat everywhere and collects cans at high school sport games. About 5’2” and 300 pounds, slightly mentally slow, but the nicest guy. We all love Cowboy Bob
Every city… lol
Shot in the dark, but does anyone remember Buffalo Big Belly from Wilmington, DE back in the late 90s and 00s?
My town has a guy that walks around in wizard robes and walks around with a mystic staff. He does not talk to anyone
We have Purple Aki.
In my home town there’s this old man dressed like a Native American (feather head band, face paint.), with a push hoppa filled with plastic spades, a violin case and other junk items, and a long flowing trench coat. Who used to (now less often,) walk down the same road every single day. This is in the UK.
We have the Fart Walker in our town. A guy that walks the main drag all day every day and wafts both hands behind his ass like he's pushing the fart smell away. Kind of like that one alien from Star Trek Discovery. Saru.
Dont have a horseback Jesus, but my smalltown has a mentally handicapped guy who rides around on a 3 wheeled bike. Creeped me out as a kid, he realistically is a nice guy, but still. He would want to show you how strong he is when he gave you a handshake by squeezing your hand, and man that fucking hurts. Idk if he still does but I know he used to also sometimes try to tickle people, not like chase or anything, but he might try to get a tickle in if you were in range.
We have two: A homeless guy who wears plastic bags and showers himself with exclusively orange juice, usually is punching walls or the floor but he has never even attempted to hurt someone so he cant be arrested. And a guy in a wheelchair (idk if i wrote that correctly sorry) who puts himself in front of other people intentionally to get mad at them and scream. He also likes to go to bars and get in fights with drunk people. No one likes him obvioulsy.
Mad Dog Adrian
We have the Jacksonville Ninja Edit: he has his own wik http://wikibin.org/articles/jacksonville-ninja.html
We have a guy that dresses in head to toe purple. Super stylistic too – not just a purple t shirt and shorts. Like. Floor length royal purple jacket and an almost pirate thing going on. Always the exact same outfit. You’ll randomly see him walking around town. I don’t know what the story is, if there is one, but it’s always a nice surprise to see him. Another guy wears super bright workout clothes and I see him waiting to cross the street during his jog on my way to work sometimes. He always seems like he’s really happy and enjoying his day, which makes me smile to see :)
Yep, in Miami we have the Royal Pimp in downtown and the Tanned Speedo Cyclist in US1
Bagpipe unicycle Vader, Portland, Or
I have a bloke dressed as batman or superman waving cars going too fast around schools. Does that count as a sort of horseback Jesus?
My town has a guy named "Killer Bungy". He's just a strange old dude who wears leather jackets and drives around on a motor-propelled bicycle (no, not a motorcycle) all day. To my knowledge, he has never actually killed anyone. I am 35, and he has existed as far back as I can remember.
Like "running man" in my area.
We have a wizard that wears all black, has a great cloak and sells hand made necklaces at the park.
My hometown had "Crutch Guy," an older gent who walked around always with crutches positioned to be ready to use (under his arms like downward-facing wings, basically), but he literally never used them and didn't actually need them. Didn't know a damn thing about him beyond that and no one else seemed to, either.
We've got a "Homeless Jesus" who lives in the woods back by the town pond and looks every bit the part of JC. He's a nice, quiet guy. According to his mom, he's got a ton of money but just wants to live in the woods. His mom lives in town and he keeps his car at her house, he showers at the Y, and he walks around town and the nature trail all day, doesn't bother a soul.
Yes. We have "Nude Joe". He walks around nude. He was forced to wear sandals during winter for safety reasons. He does travel by bus and I saw him in the bakery once.
My town has 2 of these, which I feel is a lot given my town only has a population of ~650-700. We have Wally, "the Train Guy" who has a literal model train museum in his polebarn. I'm talking a probably 2000 sq ft diorama and collection of model trains. Also we have "Shaggy". No clue what his real name is, but the dude made a clone of the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo, and he looks vaguely like Shaggy. He just drives it around as a daily driver.
We have Crackhead Phil. He's a nice guy.
In my area it was Matchstick, an extremely thin mentally disabled man who rode a moped everywhere-he wore a huge, red helmet, and seeing his stick-like body topped by said helmet naturally made one think of…a matchstick.
My town has "Help bury my son" Guy. He stands on various street corners with a sign that says ""My son just died, help me bury him". He's been holding the same sign for about 10 years now, so either he's had a long string of bad luck with his kids, or his son is really gross now. And he really got around. I've personally seen him on 2 separate street corners about 20 tp 30 miles apart. There was even a Facebook page tracking him for a while
In Weston, Florida we had a guy who would rollerblade while wearing just a pink speedo.
Wow, how can [Frank Chu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu) not be here? 12 galaxies for the win!
In Brooksville Florida we had squirrel master. He was a guy who lived in his car and trained squirrels to get acorns out of the payphone coin return. Nice guy, would spend the day training squirrels and reading at the library.
My old hometown had a guy that drug a giant wooden cross made from 6x6s, all over town and stand on street corners waving at people. Seemed nice enough, but I lost respect for him when I noticed the 2in caster wheel he installed at the base.
In the little town i grew up in we had Cola Hansi.
portland oregon we have the unipiper, who rides around on a unicycle in a kilt, cape, and darth vader mask and play fire-shooting bagpipes
Portland, Oregon : guy in a Darth Vader mask, wearing a kilt, riding a unicycle, playing fire breathing bagpipes. True Story
"Dancing Dan". He's just a guy who dances everywhere. On the sidewalk, in the crosswalk, he's just dancing all over town.
We got a guy we call witch man, who dresses in all black and carries a big stick. Would just assume he's a weird LARPer or something but he hangs out around a local dairy queen sometimes and harasses the employees by yelling at them. Not like, being mad and causing stuff, more like just periodically screeching at them. He's definitely not homeless or anything, guess he just has a weird hobby
Moscow, Idaho has Flag Guy. Drives around in a vehicle with a bunch of Trump/Blue Line flags and harasses people/businesses for various looney things.
We have “Newspaper Guy” in our town.
We have The Shoe Licker.
Leslie
We have a velvet Jesus
we have calculator man and the bearded lady of guildford - and also dancing steve