Quote: chipolata @ May 15 2008, 12:16 PM BSTEllie, are you sure you don't live on a pyschiatric ward because you seem to have been in close proximity to some right nutballs.
Ha, those are 3 totally different areas...goes to show...they are everywhere!
Quote: EllieJP @ May 15 2008, 12:14 PM BSTIn Northampton there was "50p Lil". She was an old psychiatrist that went mad when her husband died when she couldn't cure him. She now wanders the streets of Northampton weeing and pooing on the streets by just lifting up her many skirts and letting rip and will apparently do ANYTHING for 50p.
When I lived in the Chinatown part of Ottawa around 11 at night I could hear something scraping outside in the streets. One day when coming home from work I saw what it was. An old guy pulling a canoe with an old dog in sitting inside. This is how (I guess) he took his dog for a walk.
He wasn't the one of the office hunters from Kids in the Hall?
And Chipolata I wrote that sandwich board.
Quote: catskillz @ May 15 2008, 1:19 AM BSTI was always seeing him, when I was growing up. The story goes that his obsession came from his mother dying of Cancer. He used to cycle all over the North West, with anti-smoking slogans stuck to his bike. I remember once taking my dog out for a really early walk, to the beach, and I saw him sleeping rough in a nearby park. I also saw him once in Blackpool, when I was on a family outing. The funny thing about him, was the way he used to shout at smokers, as he rode past them - especially when they had absolutely no idea who he was, or why he was doing it. I was told he was Polish.
Yes I believe he is foreign, he's always in Southport.
Ah Nottingham, Where the crazy gather:
"Nutty Noel": A guy with an old dog that seemed to be old from a puppy, he used to smell a lot and get really drunk, everyone in my town knew nutty noel, he fell in the canal last year and unfortunatly died.
"Mad Alan": Mad Alan, he's a manchild basically but his mum lets him out a lot he talks to a lot of 14 year old girls and waves at anything that moves, but he's harmless.
Lois "The Cat lady": She goes through my rubbish sometimes and feeds my cats food thats not fit for any consumption... She pretty much looks like the cat woman off the simpsons...
There are more but I don't have all day...
I've just remembered a man who lives quite close to me, who may not be eccentric, but did have one of his arms bitten off by a lion.
Thought I'd just throw that into the hat.
That is cool, much more macho than having it bitten off by a kitten, or a gerbil.
Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 5:47 PM BSTHe wasn't the one of the office hunters from Kids in the Hall?
And Chipolata I wrote that sandwich board.
I hadn't thought of that.
Quote: Paul W @ May 15 2008, 6:55 PM BSTAh Nottingham, Where the crazy gather:
"Nutty Noel": A guy with an old dog that seemed to be old from a puppy, he used to smell a lot and get really drunk, everyone in my town knew nutty noel, he fell in the canal last year and unfortunatly died.
"Mad Alan": Mad Alan, he's a manchild basically but his mum lets him out a lot he talks to a lot of 14 year old girls and waves at anything that moves, but he's harmless.
Lois "The Cat lady": She goes through my rubbish sometimes and feeds my cats food thats not fit for any consumption... She pretty much looks like the cat woman off the simpsons...
There are more but I don't have all day...
I love how they all have names.
Quote: catskillz @ May 15 2008, 7:52 PM BSTI've just remembered a man who lives quite close to me, who may not be eccentric, but did have one of his arms bitten off by a lion.
Thought I'd just throw that into the hat.
Holy crap! Did he ever say how that happened? Lion tamer? Guest at Sigfried and Roy's? Or is he some long survivor of the the Bore War? I'd love to know how that happened.
Back in my home town in Northern Ontario we have "Claude the Bum". He was called that because we didn't really have any Bums in our small town...although we found out later he did have his own place.
Claude has been around since I was a kid. He rides around the villages and towns on an old bicycle wearing winter clothing and a snowmobile helmet during even the hottest of summers.
He's extremely friendly and likes to chat about animals and his homemade leather belts which he tries to sell. He once offered me 10$ for my dog, when I told him he wasn't for sale he said "he should be, I bet you could sell him over and over again that dog there is so nice" and then shut his helmet visor and peddled away.
Last time I was driving in to my hometown I was thinking "wow there are a lot of new buildings going up...I guess things do change" until I saw Claude peddling along the long highway with a newspaper sticking partway out of his helmet (I guess he couldn't find a place to put it that day). There are rumors around town that Claude is actually very wealthy but would rather live the bum lifestyle. I don't know if it's true but Claude sure does seem to enjoy life.
Quote: NickTheDon @ May 15 2008, 11:00 AM BSTJesus man! I was just about to say we had one of those too near where I used to live and then I had a look at your profile and saw you were from Carshalton and realised it must be the same one! I was sad when he died.
Haven't seen the guy with the purple robes yet, I'll keep an eye out for him.
He's always in Sutton High Street.
There's also a woman of about 55 (well she must be older than me) who wears Austrian national dress with short socks like the Sound of Music. I understand she may actually be Austrian though so I suppose it's OK.
Theres a guy who mutters to himself, really rude to people everytime someone goes up to him, smells and doesnt wash very much...unfortunatly it's not a tramp but someone Ive got to work with...
Quote: Curt @ May 15 2008, 8:27 PM BST
Holy crap! Did he ever say how that happened? Lion tamer? Guest at Sigfried and Roy's? Or is he some long survivor of the the Bore War? I'd love to know how that happened.
A Circus was in town, back in the '80s, when he was a teenager. The lions were spending the night in their trailer, at a farm, close to his house. He went in to have a look at them, put his arm through the bars, and one of the lions ate it.
There's a guy works down our chipshop swears he's Elvis.
Quote: catskillz @ May 15 2008, 9:10 PM BSTA Circus was in town, back in the '80s, when he was a teenager. The lions were spending the night in their trailer, at a farm, close to his house. He went in to have a look at them, put his arm through the bars, and one of the lions ate it.
Cripes!
Quote: David Chapman @ May 15 2008, 9:29 PM BSTThere's a guy works down our chipshop swears he's Elvis.
The guy who owns and runs my local chip shop supposedly got done for murder.
Quote: Paul W @ May 15 2008, 6:55 PM BST"Mad Alan": Mad Alan, he's a manchild basically but his mum lets him out a lot he talks to a lot of 14 year old girls and waves at anything that moves, but he's harmless.
Manchild? Such the diplomat.
Hmm this thread seems to be a bit of a laugh, at the mentally ill, dispossessed and learning disabled.
Sorry to be a PC tree hugger.
I work with what could be called "local eccentrics," some of them are quite nice people.
Shame they're not all in a circus or something, then you could see them all at once.
I was always humbled by meeting one woman who was a "local eccentric."
Turns out she was a translator at Neuremberg, multi lingual, but never got over what she heard.
Still I'm sure she looked quite funny.
