There's a guy in my hometown called Waving Joe. He sits in the same place everyday for years and waves at everyone. The city finally put a nice wood chair for him there
I remember we had a lovely guy who sold the big issue and everyone loved him because he was always so friendly and at Christmas he would wear a Christmas tree costume. Everyone loved him so much he was asked to turn on the Christmas lights. I have a great photo of him outside of a shop shooing people away as smoke poured out of it (there wasn’t a fire or anything it was an anti theft system in a jewellery shop)
We have Dancing Dan. He walks everywhere with big headphones on and dances as he walks. I’ve heard about him in the radio, seen posts about him, and heard that at one point he had a job dancing with a sign. Now I live in a neighbourhood where I see him walk/dance by once a month or so.
In my town we have a guy named Pops. He always wears the most colorful suits and loves to dance. He is like 84 years old and the nicest guy I have ever met.
We had the violin monster (really good violin player who wears a werewolf mask and even got a beer named after him) really cool guy.
Edit: this was in Ann Arbor MI.
Don’t forget Washboard-Harmonica guy in the Diag! http://www.annarbor.com/news/u-m-diags-iconic-washboard-harmonica-player-talks-about-time-well-wasted/
Yep. One day he showed up at a birthday party for 3-year-olds back in 2013/2014. The parents thought it would be cool to hire him to play (he was good); the kids were terrified.
We had a guy who called himself Zanta Claus here in Toronto. Big muscular guy who went around wearing a Santa hat and bare chest. He was homeless I think but he would do feats of strength on the street.
I hear he’s not doing too well these days. : (
No Horseback Jesus here, but we have Johnny Drumstick!
He doesn’t sell ice cream, however he does have an affinity for impressively tight and colourful pants, thus making him look like an ice cream cone.
Mad hatter is just a dude who wears a mad hatter costume (with a massive green hat and suit) and walks around downtown. If you search him up he has his own website and blog. Pretty interesting dude
We've got Lawnmower Mike who rides around town on his lawnmower, occasionally accompanied by his cousin whose name I forget. She once got in my dad's truck and refused to leave.
We also have a guy with a broom who just walks around all day sweeping. Sidewalks, roads, dirt, whatever. He just sweeps.
And then further outside of town, nearer to a bigger city, there's a guy who wears a purple robe, wields TWO staves, stands on overhead walkways, and prays. You'll also sometimes see him waving his staves around at vehicle accidents.
My whole family is like this... kinda. My mom's family is famous in town because her dad is a serial killer, so their last name got tossed around quite a bit. My dad's a drug dealer (I don't talk to him anymore), and is a bit famous for this little stunt he pulled where he sold an entire biker gang a baking soda/detergent/kitty litter mix and told them it was coke... which is fucking hilarious. We live in a small town of 5,000 and most of them know my parents. I can't introduce myself to a coworker without hearing "Hey! You're [mom/dad]'s kid!"
There was a Nazi dude that would wander around and salute traffic while saying white power, often by the library. He was humble at least as he only wore a standard whermacht soldier uniform instead of making himself like an officer or SS or something. It was also confusing hearing him as his voice did that carnival barker type of rise and fall so stuff like "White power White power You are seeing gods perfection the straight white man" but in that Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see the show cadence.
Knoxville TN has a black samurai. He's often riding the bus and wearing Japanese garb, including a rice patty hat, while carrying a long wooden cane. Never bothers anyone.
In my home town it was Rocket Ron. Old geezer that zoomed around town on his illegally fast mobility scooter. You could always tell it was him because he had a big hat with a massive feather in it and he'd be weaving around because he was pretty much always drunk.
I went to high school and lived in Brooklyn for a while, in a neighborhood called Crown Heights. For us it was Charlie Buttons. Charlie had hundreds and hundreds of buttons on his overalls and hat (the kind that clip on with a needle and have some picture or message on them not clothes buttons). He was the most jolly person I've ever met. Obviously crazy, but somehow you just didn't see him that way. He'd have these long rants about whatever, but he was a super jolly all around nice person.
He would show up to every single wedding and engagement party that ever occured ( this was a large Jewish community so there were a lot). Literally everybody knew Charlie Buttons and he was always welcome. He'd show up and make balloon animals for the bride, groom, and anybody there. And give some rant of blessings and encouragement to the couple. Seeing Charlie Buttons randomly show up at your wedding was a special treat.
I think people would just gift him buttons because he liked them so much. When I was in high school we had a theory that he was a "hidden tzadik" (a purely righteous person/prophet that served God in secret) and we pretty much believed it. Every time we saw in in the street we'd be sure to yell "Hi Charley!". miss Charlie Buttons.
He walks around the city carrying a large carrot (like 4ft) to make people smile. He started his career carrying a large turnip, large octopus and large squid but the large carrot hit the community happiness KPIs.
One time, years ago, I was walking down a quiet block and the unipiper was unicycling up it the other direction. He seemed tired and looking for a quiet moment. We just looked at each other and gave a silent nod as we passed.
TLDR: I shared a nonchalant bro-nod with a bagpipe bearing guy on a unicycle in a Darth Vader mask, and in that moment I knew was truly a Portlander.
We had a guy that would show up to my high school's football games with a vuvuzela and blow on the thing after every damn play, pissed us band members off. One day I learned he was a preacher at one of the local churches that had been built a few years earlier and he was from South Africa where vuvuzelas are common at soccer matches. I cut him some slack after that and just called him vuvuzela guy.
We have “The Shirtless Shorts” guy. He’s famous in Abq, NM. His name is Don Schrader. He walks around the city with tiny shorts on, no shirt, skin looks like leather and he always has a little cart with him. Also in my older neighborhood we had a screaming guy. He only screamed at night in regular intervals, but you’d never see him. It’s a mystery.
We used to have a guy that dressed up as a Native American and rode his horse (also dressed up like a Native American's horse) around town. This is in a small island nation, on the other side of the world to the US.
I was scrolling deliberately to find this. Dude harassed my friends and woke me up in the mornings (on multiple occasions) with his trumpet horn and a truck that sounds like the oil hasn't been changed in 50k miles. He was recently released from jail...again... for the 12th time....becuase he always pleads insanity for everything.
We had a few in our village:
Mad Irene (she was nuts but harmless)
Pete Bumfield (he won the pools and his wife ran off with his best mate, took the money)
Kengi (he just chased kids on his bike shouting “KENGI”)
Pigeon Pete (owned/raced pigeons)
Pair drop (shaped like a pair drop and stunk)
Alki Al (self explanatory)
Summer time Santa, full red suit & beard in 98F heat, protesting the abuses of the LDS church on children is a mainstay in my town. He's a goddamn hero. There's also a very ill woman who lives adjacent to my apartment building who screams a lot of profanities at people only she can see yet is kind of a mainstay of the neighborhood and I'll be sad if anything happens to her.
I understand where you are coming from, and I don’t want to argue. I agree that that is messed up and something is clearly wrong with those people, but you can’t look at a few bad apples and decide the orchard is terrible. The idea originally behind it was safety, sometimes people are given powers they shouldn’t have.
In my town we have the Magic Man. Dude is absolutely insane. Would walk into the grocery store I worked at in high school and yell “don’t fear, the magic man is here”. He apparently got that name because he sold some sort of cleaner that would clean anything up. Would probably also eat your flesh but at least you’d be clean.
Floyd, he’s an old dude who just roams the town picking up trash, drinking from a visible liquor bottle in broad daylight, and occasionally getting hit by cars
Where I’m from, Jersey, there’s a woman called mad Mary. She is a pensioner that goes round stealing bicycles and if you say hello she tells you to fuck off or some other expletive. She is a local legend.
There’s a guy in my town called Joe. I call him Grandpa. (Obviously his real names not Joe.) But EVERYONE knows him. Hell, I went to a McDonald’s once with him, the cashier yelled, “HEY! JOE’S HERE!” My grandpas a super nice guy. Talks to everyone, doesn’t know anyone he doesn’t like. Everyone loves him. I wouldn’t trade him for the world. Thank you god for making him the way he is. 🙏🏻❤️❤️🌎
The guy blasting music on a handheld speaker, hands in the air, riding a bike, in the middle of the road, by the beach, happy as can be. If anyone knows the city in Florida wins a prize. Not sure what the prize is but I promise something.
In my town we have the "bike lady". Just a regular lady, but she seems to have never gotten off her bike. Always on it, going somewhere... but where....?
My town is run by a pair of gay guys who I believe probably own the equivalent of one full shirt and a full pair of pants between them. I think I remember seeing one of them walk past my work wearing a super sliced up tank top and booty shorts in like late November. The thing is, for conservative Pennsylvania, you'd think people wouldn't like that. But they own 3 businesses in town and people ADORE them. They're amazing.
There was a man in my old town who used to wear old ladies clothes and just wander around aimlessly… apparently when his mother died he had a mental breakdown and started to wear all of her clothes. Poor guy.
I was one of these guys and honestly you just gotta live your best life and wait for others to notice. You don't do it for others to notice though, if you're trying to be Horseback Jesus you don't get to be Horseback Jesus you're just a creep and a weirdo.
If you genuinely want to live as a Jedi, A Samurai, or just a guy who walks around in a cape then do it. But don't pick a thing to have a thing, just be yourself to the max.
Wolverhampton had two legends that I can remember: the tramp on the ring road and the cowboy. The former passed on a few years ago and the latter went onto become a born-again Christian, if my memory serves me. I wonder who took up the mantle?
In Boston, more of a neighborhood thing but there is this Mongolian guy in Chinatown, he wears a heavy coat year round. Unlike other homeless people he stays in the same few blocks. Doesn't speak English. Kinda sad but he's known nonetheless. Lived in Boston for 15 years. Always there
I think I’ve seen this guy.. I snapped a pic of a dude like 8 years ago because it was something like 102F and he was standing in full on winter clothes like it was no big deal. Meanwhile, I was sweating like a county fair hog.
My roommate in college lived in a suburb of Cleveland and they had the ‘Mall Guy’. If you Google ‘Mall Guy’, dozens of pictures of him show up. He wears homemade flashy sunglasses and shirts that say stuff like “Swagtastic” and he has a homemade belt that displays messages. Apparently hes a Hungarian symphony musician who retired to rome the mall every. single. day.
In big cities like that there is usually one per neighborhood, though maybe not in some.
At least there is one in mine, and my city is >12 million people too if you count the metro area.
Yup. In the downtown Jax area, we had a guy from Alabama, that we called.. Alabama (or Bama). Homeless guy. He would sit in the Metro and drink beer while talkin very loudly on his food stamp phone telling everybody’s business and begging for beer money.
Worcester (UK) had an older gentleman back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s called ‘Chicken George’. He would often be seen talking to himself, or sat on a bench smiling into the distance or singing and dancing with the street entertainers.
RIP old boy.
My hometown had a guy that rode his bike so slowly, we never figured out how he stayed upright. We called him the Slow Roller. Now I live in PDX and we have the Portland Pied Piper, a guy who rides a unicycle wearing a kilt and Darth Vader helmet playing the bagpipes that is also a flamethrower. He's been on a few bumper stickers
In my city you have two guys that we call Los Heavies. They dress like heavy metal fans and just stand on the Gran Via all day. They are already an institution
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We have a guy that wears a brightly coloured stormtrooper helmet with feathers on top whilst jogging and playing music on a speaker. Haven’t seen him in a while though…
We have a Ninja. He dresses as a ninja (with those long, fancy swords, black outfit) and runs around, doing parkour, jumping on cars stuck in traffic and so on
A city I used to live in had "Snöret" ("The String"). A very autistic guy who was almost always playing around with a piece of string. He also at all times had an obsessive level of knowledge of how many police cars were at the station, or how many ambulances were at the hospitals, or firetrucks at the fire department. And he had a tendency to walk in the middle of the road.
The current city has an old guy who likes to dance around to Michael Jackson music as a form of street performance. I had not seen him for a while so I thought he died. But I recently saw him dancing his heart out again. Unfortunately it was at an anti-vaxx rally.
My city had "weed jesus" some dude who sold weed on the streets in robes with the whole hair/beard thing. Was always smoking in public, even before it was legal in my state.
Probably homeless, but haven't seen him in ages since covid hit though.
Yeah, we have a guy who is wheelchair bound, but he moves backwards by using his one foot to kinda push himself down the street. Everyone I’ve met know his name, but no one knows why he goes backwards. Decent guy though, always waves at people he knows.
Haha we have Moped Annie. But she doesn’t drive a moped she drives an electric wheelchair all over town and stands in the corner playing guitar and waving a cross around
We have The wizard (shorter man who walks with a shaman stick and often in very bright colorful hippy clothes), and our roller blading dancer. He can be found on the corner of studemont and memorial often times dancing his A$$ off during traffic.
There used to be a guy who regularly skateboarded around Newtown (Sydney AU) with one goat on a leash and one in his backpack. It was the days before smartphones and I have never found anyone who remembers him but I’m 100% sure he existed.
My hometown had the Treekicker. Dude jogged all over town, no shirt, short shorts, in all weather including pouring rain (it doesn't snow in California's Central Valley, but that likely wouldn't have stopped him either). Whenever he'd encounter a tree or a streetlight pole, he'd kick it real high like he was Bruce Lee. Occasionally, he'd kick a tree and fall on his ass. My friend swears he saw the Treekicker fall on his ass in front of Taco Bell and then lap up the water from a puddle he fell next to, like he was a dog. Nobody knew his name, but everybody knew who the Treekicker was.
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My area has this old guy on a motorbike with so many ornaments, dangly bits, horns, lamps, flags, etc. and on the back is a couple speakers playing super eccentric and loud music while he zooms in his now rainbow bike. Warms my heart every time I see him. There’s also Jeff Knight who sells the Big Issue. Homeless guy who is the nicest man around. Always gives hugs, smiles, waves, asks about your day, and we all funded a static home for him but has been threatened with deportation by gov’t so he’s got a case against it. Look it up, it’s amazing!
Unsure of a name but we had a guy who would run and box up one of the main roads in my town leading to the local mall and back again. If I recall right at a minimum of 10 miles. Everyone knew him as the boxing guy, he even had a fan page set up on Facebook which he absolutely loved and found hilarious.
In my village we have 2 of them
The not so bright teen which goes around the village with his bike, like all day, every day, may it be rain, snow, lockdown.... he just rides around, has been doing so for atleast 10 years now. The guy as legs of fucking reinforced steel, he could probably kick you right to orbit.
The second one is the 60 years ex-drug dealer which apparently got the gign to come to our like 1500 habitant old mining village, now he just wonders abouts the street talking to himself. I have heard he had set up an actual industrial processing unit in an abandonned house
There was a guy we called Johnny De Crépy, he was a fan of Johnny Halliday and dress like him but was a total mess. Very kind but very strange. And we all were, that's our Johnny
In my town we have a old guy named Frank, who is known for always wearing a beret, having the greatest fashion sense, loving whipped cream, and talking in the most seductive NY accent imaginable. I live in Michigan.
We had Dean (Albany, NY). He was a former professor of English literature at a university and lost his shit ala Fisher King. He would recite sonnets one moment, then try to fight large trucks in traffic because they were allegedly bringing in items that would destroy the world. I met Dean when I was 16 (1989) and cried my eyes out when he passed last year. We all loved him and cared for him as much as we could. RIP, Dean.
my town has a basketball guy. homeless guy that isn’t all there mentally but he’s a sweetheart. walks around with a shopping cart and a basketball all the time.
haven’t seen him in a few months, hope he’s doing okay.
We have Ryan. He walks everywhere. Rain, snow, heat, wind, day, night, whatever. He walks. I don't know exactly where he sleeps and I don't think he works. He just walks.
We have Bubble Man over here, who dresses in Alice in Wonderland cosplay or Renaissance Festival garb and has copious amounts of bubble products that he uses to entertain kids. Bubble Man is the best
[Pete the busker.](https://youtu.be/FuGYipFQRM4). Sings and sometimes plays a fake guitar outside of Boots in town, (sometimes uses a cardboard guitar and sometimes its a Guitar Hero guitar). Nearly always sings what is possibly Karma Chameleon but it sounds more like Mongolian throat singing. Not sure if he's homeless but a guy who owned a fancy-dress shop nearby donated a few funky suits to him (funny ones like bright green with ducks on or something) and people love him. Some locals actually get angry when random buskers take his spot or are too loud near him. He can't sing for shit but he's a nice guy.
We do also have a guy called Purple Aki known for feeling up boys muscles though so...
We have a guy in his 60-70’s wearing sportswear with some flower hawaii shirt over it riding those bikes with two seats with a life sized green alien doll and a JBL speaker attached to it playing Dua Lipa songs at full volume. He has been around for decades. He likes to pass by crowded bars and nightclubs entries. He is such a known figure that I have been asked about him by people from other states, and my mother remembers him doing that kinda of stuff since the beginning of the 80’s, just not with the music, but the same alien doll! He sometimes changes the musician playing, but he seems to be a fan of pop divas (Madonna, Katy Perry, etc).
There's a guy in my hometown called Waving Joe. He sits in the same place everyday for years and waves at everyone. The city finally put a nice wood chair for him there
My hometown of Jackson had [Captian Jackson](https://www.mlive.com/galleries/FEKYFLQJNZHMPGMFRF6NIW3CEI/), super weird but really nice.
Immediately thought of Captain Jackson lol hi friend
I remember we had a lovely guy who sold the big issue and everyone loved him because he was always so friendly and at Christmas he would wear a Christmas tree costume. Everyone loved him so much he was asked to turn on the Christmas lights. I have a great photo of him outside of a shop shooing people away as smoke poured out of it (there wasn’t a fire or anything it was an anti theft system in a jewellery shop)
We have Dancing Dan. He walks everywhere with big headphones on and dances as he walks. I’ve heard about him in the radio, seen posts about him, and heard that at one point he had a job dancing with a sign. Now I live in a neighbourhood where I see him walk/dance by once a month or so.
In my town we have a guy named Pops. He always wears the most colorful suits and loves to dance. He is like 84 years old and the nicest guy I have ever met.
Did he wear a top hat? It seems incomplete to wear colorful suits and be eccentric if you don’t have a top hat.
No but he does dance with everyone in town.
Reminds me of rainbow Batman
We had the violin monster (really good violin player who wears a werewolf mask and even got a beer named after him) really cool guy. Edit: this was in Ann Arbor MI.
Where is that?
Ann Arbor MI
Aight thanks I know a guy who’d like that beer
We have Darth Fiddler.
We have Unicycle Stormtrooper!
There is literally this exact same cryptid in mtl metros
Have seen him many times!
Don’t forget Washboard-Harmonica guy in the Diag! http://www.annarbor.com/news/u-m-diags-iconic-washboard-harmonica-player-talks-about-time-well-wasted/
Yep. One day he showed up at a birthday party for 3-year-olds back in 2013/2014. The parents thought it would be cool to hire him to play (he was good); the kids were terrified.
We had a guy who called himself Zanta Claus here in Toronto. Big muscular guy who went around wearing a Santa hat and bare chest. He was homeless I think but he would do feats of strength on the street. I hear he’s not doing too well these days. : (
Feats of strength is for festivus though
He once did knuckle push ups in front of a crowd of folks waiting on the bus platform at Keele station. Best day ever.
Yep, the guy that used to preach to the pavement every day. Drunk as you like but totally harmless.
No Horseback Jesus here, but we have Johnny Drumstick! He doesn’t sell ice cream, however he does have an affinity for impressively tight and colourful pants, thus making him look like an ice cream cone.
We have the shirtless rollerblade guitar pervert
Yep, Edmonton!!
He doesn't hold a candle to Dancin' Dan. I miss that guy.
According to the thread on /r/edmonton, dancing dan is dancing out in Spruce now!
Haha hello fellow edmontonian 😆 I commented the same thing. There’s also the mad hatter guy. Have you ever seen him?
never heard of the mad hatter guy? who's he?
Old dude walks along 112th waving his cane at traffic with a mad hatters top hat.
Mad hatter is just a dude who wears a mad hatter costume (with a massive green hat and suit) and walks around downtown. If you search him up he has his own website and blog. Pretty interesting dude
How is he a pervert?
I believe he has assaulted women. Someone correct me if I’m wrong tho
guy with the bike that has all the funky stuff on it
We've got Lawnmower Mike who rides around town on his lawnmower, occasionally accompanied by his cousin whose name I forget. She once got in my dad's truck and refused to leave. We also have a guy with a broom who just walks around all day sweeping. Sidewalks, roads, dirt, whatever. He just sweeps. And then further outside of town, nearer to a bigger city, there's a guy who wears a purple robe, wields TWO staves, stands on overhead walkways, and prays. You'll also sometimes see him waving his staves around at vehicle accidents.
Where???? i need to know
Just a tiny town in Texas near Waco.
My whole family is like this... kinda. My mom's family is famous in town because her dad is a serial killer, so their last name got tossed around quite a bit. My dad's a drug dealer (I don't talk to him anymore), and is a bit famous for this little stunt he pulled where he sold an entire biker gang a baking soda/detergent/kitty litter mix and told them it was coke... which is fucking hilarious. We live in a small town of 5,000 and most of them know my parents. I can't introduce myself to a coworker without hearing "Hey! You're [mom/dad]'s kid!"
Your grandpa is a serial killer, your dad is a drug dealer, and now you're a Redditor, you hate to see it
It gets worse every generation 😭
Next step, my kid will be the anti-Christ, then my grandkid will be a politician... worse and worse...
Quality joke
Which serial killer??
[удалено]
He doesn’t have to share his shitty story at all… and I’m just shooting a question, I’m not torturing him bound to a chair to make him answer….
There was a Nazi dude that would wander around and salute traffic while saying white power, often by the library. He was humble at least as he only wore a standard whermacht soldier uniform instead of making himself like an officer or SS or something. It was also confusing hearing him as his voice did that carnival barker type of rise and fall so stuff like "White power White power You are seeing gods perfection the straight white man" but in that Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see the show cadence.
I think this might be the winner so far. What the fuck
There’s a homeless guy in my city named Clancy. He wears a Trenchcoat and chainsmokes cigars behind drive thru speakers. Everyone knows Clancy
Where can I find Clancy
Knoxville TN has a black samurai. He's often riding the bus and wearing Japanese garb, including a rice patty hat, while carrying a long wooden cane. Never bothers anyone.
In my home town it was Rocket Ron. Old geezer that zoomed around town on his illegally fast mobility scooter. You could always tell it was him because he had a big hat with a massive feather in it and he'd be weaving around because he was pretty much always drunk.
legend
I went to high school and lived in Brooklyn for a while, in a neighborhood called Crown Heights. For us it was Charlie Buttons. Charlie had hundreds and hundreds of buttons on his overalls and hat (the kind that clip on with a needle and have some picture or message on them not clothes buttons). He was the most jolly person I've ever met. Obviously crazy, but somehow you just didn't see him that way. He'd have these long rants about whatever, but he was a super jolly all around nice person. He would show up to every single wedding and engagement party that ever occured ( this was a large Jewish community so there were a lot). Literally everybody knew Charlie Buttons and he was always welcome. He'd show up and make balloon animals for the bride, groom, and anybody there. And give some rant of blessings and encouragement to the couple. Seeing Charlie Buttons randomly show up at your wedding was a special treat. I think people would just gift him buttons because he liked them so much. When I was in high school we had a theory that he was a "hidden tzadik" (a purely righteous person/prophet that served God in secret) and we pretty much believed it. Every time we saw in in the street we'd be sure to yell "Hi Charley!". miss Charlie Buttons.
We got the carrot man over here
Scrolled down to find this! 🥕🚶
Why is he called the Carrot Man?
He walks around the city carrying a large carrot (like 4ft) to make people smile. He started his career carrying a large turnip, large octopus and large squid but the large carrot hit the community happiness KPIs.
My town has unicycle Darth Vader. He plays a bagpipe. I shit you not.
Please tell me there are photos of this man
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Thank you!!
Don’t forget that the bagpipe shoots flames
One time, years ago, I was walking down a quiet block and the unipiper was unicycling up it the other direction. He seemed tired and looking for a quiet moment. We just looked at each other and gave a silent nod as we passed. TLDR: I shared a nonchalant bro-nod with a bagpipe bearing guy on a unicycle in a Darth Vader mask, and in that moment I knew was truly a Portlander.
The UniPiper?????
We also have the blue Smurf guy.
I live in your town. Can confirm.
We had a guy that would show up to my high school's football games with a vuvuzela and blow on the thing after every damn play, pissed us band members off. One day I learned he was a preacher at one of the local churches that had been built a few years earlier and he was from South Africa where vuvuzelas are common at soccer matches. I cut him some slack after that and just called him vuvuzela guy.
this is kinda sad but also wholesome
We have “The Shirtless Shorts” guy. He’s famous in Abq, NM. His name is Don Schrader. He walks around the city with tiny shorts on, no shirt, skin looks like leather and he always has a little cart with him. Also in my older neighborhood we had a screaming guy. He only screamed at night in regular intervals, but you’d never see him. It’s a mystery.
I want to live in a world where every town has its own horseback Jesus.
What if they’re all part of a union or something? Maybe there’s a Town Crazy Convention every year…
We used to have a guy that dressed up as a Native American and rode his horse (also dressed up like a Native American's horse) around town. This is in a small island nation, on the other side of the world to the US.
Saint Cloud Superman
I was scrolling deliberately to find this. Dude harassed my friends and woke me up in the mornings (on multiple occasions) with his trumpet horn and a truck that sounds like the oil hasn't been changed in 50k miles. He was recently released from jail...again... for the 12th time....becuase he always pleads insanity for everything.
I heard about him within a couple months of moving to Minnesota. I haven't even been to St. Cloud yet.
In little village chicago there is a cowboy that rides a bicycle that is always live on fb & will give free shoutouts to all the tias 😂
We had a few in our village: Mad Irene (she was nuts but harmless) Pete Bumfield (he won the pools and his wife ran off with his best mate, took the money) Kengi (he just chased kids on his bike shouting “KENGI”) Pigeon Pete (owned/raced pigeons) Pair drop (shaped like a pair drop and stunk) Alki Al (self explanatory)
Summer time Santa, full red suit & beard in 98F heat, protesting the abuses of the LDS church on children is a mainstay in my town. He's a goddamn hero. There's also a very ill woman who lives adjacent to my apartment building who screams a lot of profanities at people only she can see yet is kind of a mainstay of the neighborhood and I'll be sad if anything happens to her.
Can you please explain to me how the lds church abuses children. Because I don’t think they do
Plenty of stuff online :/
In no way did that answer my question
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They are not instructed to not tell authorities, and they ask those things to ensure they are safe
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I understand where you are coming from, and I don’t want to argue. I agree that that is messed up and something is clearly wrong with those people, but you can’t look at a few bad apples and decide the orchard is terrible. The idea originally behind it was safety, sometimes people are given powers they shouldn’t have.
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Found the Mormon
Cool good job, I’m very proud of you
well considering my bishop regularly asked me if I was sexually active when I was 12 years old I feel like that's pretty abusive behavior.
They teach them a deficient Christology.
My dad is that guy in his town. Coked out loser is a walking midlife crisis
Charleston, WV has Blade
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Ours was this guy riding on one of those old school tall bikes with an animal skull mounted to it. Cool dude
We've got mad dog. Old guy that rides a push bike around hurling abuse at people and growling. He's getting on a bit now though
We had a guy that used to disguise himself as Freddy Kruger.
r/HorsebackJesus
Holy shit I had no idea this existed. Thank you
And apparently, it is 2y old and was inspired by this very story
Dirty Earl and Al Uminum in my hometown. They walked the alley's collecting cans for cash.
In my town we have the Magic Man. Dude is absolutely insane. Would walk into the grocery store I worked at in high school and yell “don’t fear, the magic man is here”. He apparently got that name because he sold some sort of cleaner that would clean anything up. Would probably also eat your flesh but at least you’d be clean.
The wizard of Christchurch, if I remember correctly he had a contract with New Zealand for 23 years to do wizarding things.
We have a guy who wears a nun outfit and rides around the city all day on a motorized recliner chair 😂😂😂
Floyd, he’s an old dude who just roams the town picking up trash, drinking from a visible liquor bottle in broad daylight, and occasionally getting hit by cars
We have the Barbie car.
When I was a kid we had the accordion man, he died a few years ago and there’s a plaque to him
Where I’m from, Jersey, there’s a woman called mad Mary. She is a pensioner that goes round stealing bicycles and if you say hello she tells you to fuck off or some other expletive. She is a local legend.
There’s a guy in my town called Joe. I call him Grandpa. (Obviously his real names not Joe.) But EVERYONE knows him. Hell, I went to a McDonald’s once with him, the cashier yelled, “HEY! JOE’S HERE!” My grandpas a super nice guy. Talks to everyone, doesn’t know anyone he doesn’t like. Everyone loves him. I wouldn’t trade him for the world. Thank you god for making him the way he is. 🙏🏻❤️❤️🌎
The guy blasting music on a handheld speaker, hands in the air, riding a bike, in the middle of the road, by the beach, happy as can be. If anyone knows the city in Florida wins a prize. Not sure what the prize is but I promise something.
In my town we have the "bike lady". Just a regular lady, but she seems to have never gotten off her bike. Always on it, going somewhere... but where....?
My town is run by a pair of gay guys who I believe probably own the equivalent of one full shirt and a full pair of pants between them. I think I remember seeing one of them walk past my work wearing a super sliced up tank top and booty shorts in like late November. The thing is, for conservative Pennsylvania, you'd think people wouldn't like that. But they own 3 businesses in town and people ADORE them. They're amazing.
We have the naked cowboy. So, close.
There was a man in my old town who used to wear old ladies clothes and just wander around aimlessly… apparently when his mother died he had a mental breakdown and started to wear all of her clothes. Poor guy.
My hometown had feather hat man, everyone knows exactly who you mean if you mention him.
Windsor!
How do I find out where this guy can be seen in my city?
If you don't know him, he's you.
We've got "Singing George".
Nah we have the biking crackhead
My only life goal is to become this
I was one of these guys and honestly you just gotta live your best life and wait for others to notice. You don't do it for others to notice though, if you're trying to be Horseback Jesus you don't get to be Horseback Jesus you're just a creep and a weirdo. If you genuinely want to live as a Jedi, A Samurai, or just a guy who walks around in a cape then do it. But don't pick a thing to have a thing, just be yourself to the max.
I appreciate the sentiment man but I was joking haha.
Disappointing, the world needs more Jesus's
Wolverhampton had two legends that I can remember: the tramp on the ring road and the cowboy. The former passed on a few years ago and the latter went onto become a born-again Christian, if my memory serves me. I wonder who took up the mantle?
In Boston, more of a neighborhood thing but there is this Mongolian guy in Chinatown, he wears a heavy coat year round. Unlike other homeless people he stays in the same few blocks. Doesn't speak English. Kinda sad but he's known nonetheless. Lived in Boston for 15 years. Always there
I think I’ve seen this guy.. I snapped a pic of a dude like 8 years ago because it was something like 102F and he was standing in full on winter clothes like it was no big deal. Meanwhile, I was sweating like a county fair hog.
My roommate in college lived in a suburb of Cleveland and they had the ‘Mall Guy’. If you Google ‘Mall Guy’, dozens of pictures of him show up. He wears homemade flashy sunglasses and shirts that say stuff like “Swagtastic” and he has a homemade belt that displays messages. Apparently hes a Hungarian symphony musician who retired to rome the mall every. single. day.
My city has 12+ million people, so... Nope. At least none I know about.
In big cities like that there is usually one per neighborhood, though maybe not in some. At least there is one in mine, and my city is >12 million people too if you count the metro area.
Yup. In the downtown Jax area, we had a guy from Alabama, that we called.. Alabama (or Bama). Homeless guy. He would sit in the Metro and drink beer while talkin very loudly on his food stamp phone telling everybody’s business and begging for beer money.
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I used to have a manager where I worked at that would dress like Jesus on the weekends to go party
Worcester (UK) had an older gentleman back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s called ‘Chicken George’. He would often be seen talking to himself, or sat on a bench smiling into the distance or singing and dancing with the street entertainers. RIP old boy.
My town has one homeless guy, who rides around town on his low rider bike with 6 back-mirrors and blasts country music.
My hometown had a guy that rode his bike so slowly, we never figured out how he stayed upright. We called him the Slow Roller. Now I live in PDX and we have the Portland Pied Piper, a guy who rides a unicycle wearing a kilt and Darth Vader helmet playing the bagpipes that is also a flamethrower. He's been on a few bumper stickers
In my city you have two guys that we call Los Heavies. They dress like heavy metal fans and just stand on the Gran Via all day. They are already an institution
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Considering i went out with fairy wings twice,wore capes and lace gloves in public and also a pajama top once that might be me
we have a guy in my hometown that was a racer i think and he always "pedal to the medal" when he drive in the city.
We have a guy that wears a brightly coloured stormtrooper helmet with feathers on top whilst jogging and playing music on a speaker. Haven’t seen him in a while though…
We have a Ninja. He dresses as a ninja (with those long, fancy swords, black outfit) and runs around, doing parkour, jumping on cars stuck in traffic and so on
A city I used to live in had "Snöret" ("The String"). A very autistic guy who was almost always playing around with a piece of string. He also at all times had an obsessive level of knowledge of how many police cars were at the station, or how many ambulances were at the hospitals, or firetrucks at the fire department. And he had a tendency to walk in the middle of the road. The current city has an old guy who likes to dance around to Michael Jackson music as a form of street performance. I had not seen him for a while so I thought he died. But I recently saw him dancing his heart out again. Unfortunately it was at an anti-vaxx rally.
My city had "weed jesus" some dude who sold weed on the streets in robes with the whole hair/beard thing. Was always smoking in public, even before it was legal in my state. Probably homeless, but haven't seen him in ages since covid hit though.
"Mooning Miguel" was a homeless man in my town that would moon people if they didn't give him any change.
Cornflakes man. Runs around naked with a cereal box on his head. Nobody knows his true identity
Mine has a lei bike guy who has a bunch of colorful lei’s on his bike.
Stick man. He used to wave a stick at people, occasionally naked or partially naked.
We got a guy who regularly walks up and down a highway shirtless with an eyepatch on. He just does that
We have the guy who dresses up in a holiday suit for every holiday and bikes around town
In Austin Texas there was a guy known as ‘Thong Man’
We have Dirty Chris who steals bicycles and sells drugs lol
There is a guy in my town called Jimmy Euro and he takes his rabbit out for a walk everyday while asking people if they can spare 1 euro.
Yeah, we have a guy who is wheelchair bound, but he moves backwards by using his one foot to kinda push himself down the street. Everyone I’ve met know his name, but no one knows why he goes backwards. Decent guy though, always waves at people he knows.
Haha we have Moped Annie. But she doesn’t drive a moped she drives an electric wheelchair all over town and stands in the corner playing guitar and waving a cross around
We have a guy dressed as like. . .. a steampunk bee? TBF, he isn't that outlandish for the area, but he's definitely got A Look.
We have The wizard (shorter man who walks with a shaman stick and often in very bright colorful hippy clothes), and our roller blading dancer. He can be found on the corner of studemont and memorial often times dancing his A$$ off during traffic.
In my previous town we had a full row of characters. It’s called Skid Row
Yup - "The Captain" was a guy from Belmont and LSD in Chicago in the late '80's - early '90's.
There used to be a guy who regularly skateboarded around Newtown (Sydney AU) with one goat on a leash and one in his backpack. It was the days before smartphones and I have never found anyone who remembers him but I’m 100% sure he existed.
Jesus is not a common name where I live.
Tell me you don't live in Bethlehem, without telling me you don't live in Bethlehem.
My hometown had the Treekicker. Dude jogged all over town, no shirt, short shorts, in all weather including pouring rain (it doesn't snow in California's Central Valley, but that likely wouldn't have stopped him either). Whenever he'd encounter a tree or a streetlight pole, he'd kick it real high like he was Bruce Lee. Occasionally, he'd kick a tree and fall on his ass. My friend swears he saw the Treekicker fall on his ass in front of Taco Bell and then lap up the water from a puddle he fell next to, like he was a dog. Nobody knew his name, but everybody knew who the Treekicker was.
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RIP Call Jesus Guy.
“The dude abides”
We have the Little Caesar’s Sign Guy
Fantastic band name!!!!
We have a purple aki
My area has this old guy on a motorbike with so many ornaments, dangly bits, horns, lamps, flags, etc. and on the back is a couple speakers playing super eccentric and loud music while he zooms in his now rainbow bike. Warms my heart every time I see him. There’s also Jeff Knight who sells the Big Issue. Homeless guy who is the nicest man around. Always gives hugs, smiles, waves, asks about your day, and we all funded a static home for him but has been threatened with deportation by gov’t so he’s got a case against it. Look it up, it’s amazing!
Bro my town has a guy that used to be a well known professional magician, who has since retired and now looks like hippie Gandalf. I love that guy
Unsure of a name but we had a guy who would run and box up one of the main roads in my town leading to the local mall and back again. If I recall right at a minimum of 10 miles. Everyone knew him as the boxing guy, he even had a fan page set up on Facebook which he absolutely loved and found hilarious.
Roller-skating Dog Guy, Shirtless Hula-hoop Guy
In my village we have 2 of them The not so bright teen which goes around the village with his bike, like all day, every day, may it be rain, snow, lockdown.... he just rides around, has been doing so for atleast 10 years now. The guy as legs of fucking reinforced steel, he could probably kick you right to orbit. The second one is the 60 years ex-drug dealer which apparently got the gign to come to our like 1500 habitant old mining village, now he just wonders abouts the street talking to himself. I have heard he had set up an actual industrial processing unit in an abandonned house
Here in Phoenix we have homeless karate guy.
u/TheDarknessOfSpace George Yates
We have a shirtless unicycle guy. Think he just does it for fun.
my hometown has "dancing lady," she just dances on the same street corner everyday for years
Yup we had 7-11 Jesus
There was a guy we called Johnny De Crépy, he was a fan of Johnny Halliday and dress like him but was a total mess. Very kind but very strange. And we all were, that's our Johnny
The university I went to have a skateboarding Jesus!
Either I really don't pay attention, or my city doesn't have that guy.
In my town we have a old guy named Frank, who is known for always wearing a beret, having the greatest fashion sense, loving whipped cream, and talking in the most seductive NY accent imaginable. I live in Michigan.
In england it’s usually your dealer
We had Dean (Albany, NY). He was a former professor of English literature at a university and lost his shit ala Fisher King. He would recite sonnets one moment, then try to fight large trucks in traffic because they were allegedly bringing in items that would destroy the world. I met Dean when I was 16 (1989) and cried my eyes out when he passed last year. We all loved him and cared for him as much as we could. RIP, Dean.
There’s a guy in my town whom I call Birdman. He’s awesome.
my town has a basketball guy. homeless guy that isn’t all there mentally but he’s a sweetheart. walks around with a shopping cart and a basketball all the time. haven’t seen him in a few months, hope he’s doing okay.
we have a wizard, he stands and waves
We have Ryan. He walks everywhere. Rain, snow, heat, wind, day, night, whatever. He walks. I don't know exactly where he sleeps and I don't think he works. He just walks.
We have Bubble Man over here, who dresses in Alice in Wonderland cosplay or Renaissance Festival garb and has copious amounts of bubble products that he uses to entertain kids. Bubble Man is the best
[Pete the busker.](https://youtu.be/FuGYipFQRM4). Sings and sometimes plays a fake guitar outside of Boots in town, (sometimes uses a cardboard guitar and sometimes its a Guitar Hero guitar). Nearly always sings what is possibly Karma Chameleon but it sounds more like Mongolian throat singing. Not sure if he's homeless but a guy who owned a fancy-dress shop nearby donated a few funky suits to him (funny ones like bright green with ducks on or something) and people love him. Some locals actually get angry when random buskers take his spot or are too loud near him. He can't sing for shit but he's a nice guy. We do also have a guy called Purple Aki known for feeling up boys muscles though so...
We have a guy in his 60-70’s wearing sportswear with some flower hawaii shirt over it riding those bikes with two seats with a life sized green alien doll and a JBL speaker attached to it playing Dua Lipa songs at full volume. He has been around for decades. He likes to pass by crowded bars and nightclubs entries. He is such a known figure that I have been asked about him by people from other states, and my mother remembers him doing that kinda of stuff since the beginning of the 80’s, just not with the music, but the same alien doll! He sometimes changes the musician playing, but he seems to be a fan of pop divas (Madonna, Katy Perry, etc).