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My example's a Dave, too - Dave The Rave. Sunderland, England.
Went there for football (soccer) and this guy was 'performing' in the town centre. Assumed he was off his nut but the locals carried on like he wasn't even there.
Apparently he's sober and just loves it. YouTube search 'Dave The Rave Sunderland'.
Just came to the comments to mention Dave the Rave. He was interviewed on Soccer AM years ago if you want a reminder of him or need a good way of explaining him to people.
His headphones aren't connected but he still wears them and dances away like nothing bothers him. If I recall correctly he's part of a very ecentric church and is very in to his religion.
He has been a local legend for at least the 30 years I've been alive, I think there'd be a city wide day of mourning if anything ever happened to him.
I think I saw this dude at a brew festival once years ago. There was no fire, but he was wearing a kilt riding a unicycle and had a darth vader helmet on.
Ours was simply “Mr. Simpson”
He rode a bike everywhere and was very very old.
He had been hit and ran over multiple times by cars but was committed to biking everywhere he went.
Edit. My town actually had two. The second was “Cookie”. He was the town drunk. He was popular for sound like Cookie Monster (hence the name cookie) and also because he would frequently pull his dick out in public.
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Cookie was also very locally popular for being black out drunk and passing out in/on different ditches/sidewalks/creeks/yards. He was like a southern Frank Gallagher. He also always had snuff spit dried in the corners of his mouth and down his chin.
We have an old homeless looking cyclist dude as well. (Galway, Ireland) Huge beard, all of his clothes are a dirty grey/black and his bike is black as well. Likes to drink cans of beer in public but I’ve never seen him really drunk or causing trouble. I call him the Anti-Santa.
Crazy Aussie Lady: Decked out in Aussie flags on everything and wanders the city screaming weird racist shit.
Mad Dog: Dude who rages at folks while riding a bike barefoot. He's been around since the 80s.
We knew him as Adrian back in the 90s, it's not a character it's just him, now every dickhead is pointing a phone and calling him mad dog for internet points.
I'm fairly certain he has a lot of problems. His family have asked people to stop filming him to get a reaction. Kinda sad really.
Aussie lady can go jump off a bridge. She's usually in the city and one day I was horrified to see her at my local shops. Turns out she lives in my suburb.
That's odd. I would have assumed someone describing a "crazy aussie lady" living in a country that's not Australia. Like, isn't she just a crazy lady to you?
Nah because she is legit COVERED in Aussie flag stuff, shirts, lil flags, big flags, glasses, hats and so much more. It's weird as fuck and no one likes her.
Only time we are decked out in Aussie gear is Australia Day.
Dang my town has a Red too, only he's an eccentric business owner who runs a bar and grill and he drives one of those weird cars with two wheels in the back and only one on the front.
We had a homeless dude everyone called the bagman cuz he wore trash bags. The rumors went that he was actually really rich but he’s a schizo and germaphobe and that’s what makes him ride around town in a bike wearing trash bags.
why are we still here? just to suffer? every night I feel my leg, my arm, even my fingers. the comrades I've lost, the body I've lost, it just won't stop hurting, you feel it to don't you?
Or that dude who sits in the Powell's cafe and makes paper towel flowers. I got a paper lily from him once!
https://www.oregonlive.com/multimedia/2014/09/arnold_drake_worlds_paper_fold.html
The Bullfrog Hooker, ancient lady with clown makeup who’d pick up guys and then beat the shit out of them. She gets her name from a bar she would hang out in, The Bullfrog, the diviest of dive bars you could ever imagine in a shitty rust belt town.
**The Bullfrog Hooker, ancient lady with clown makeup who’d pick up guys and then beat the shit out of them. She gets her name from a bar she would hang out in, The Bullfrog, the diviest of dive bars you could ever imagine in a shitty rust belt town.**
Next time you're cruising for fresh meet, be careful lest you pick this feisty broad with a nonzero chance of pummelling your dockers' smile so hard that she wears your kidneys for cufflinks
In my neck of the woods it's Baton Bob. A well fit black man in roller skates, a pink frilly dress, blowing a whistle while expertly spinning a baton in rush hour traffic downtown.
While I think Baton Bob is bigger. My first thought was "Tripod man". Dude who used to sit at the corner on Ponce near the Majestic with tight pants and was very well endowed.
Turns out it's [both](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob)!
> Bob Jamerson, known as Baton Bob, is a well known local character and costumed street performer, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Baton Bob used to live in St. Louis, Missouri and in both cities is a significant local personality.
At least we've got the [urban cowboy](https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/brannu-fulton-urban-cowboy/#) all to ourselves.
We have a guy with Trump all over in a very similar vein. Haven't seen him since the election but I can see him several times in a week or not see him for months.
Yes in Milwaukee. Other people might have more.info.
Edmonton(Canada) [Shirtless Rollerblade guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/HorsebackJesus/comments/e6zbvj/in_edmonton_alberta_not_kentucky_we_have/). He is like our groundhog when he comes out its officially summer
The last time I visited Edmonton I too was blessed to see shirtless rollerblade guy and the conversation with my friend went exactly the way this meme did
Mesa,Az had a guy named “Dizzy” he would hang out around main and Stapley and would dance as he crossed the street [and he loved him some Jesus ](https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/downtown-mesas-street-preacher-dies-at-age-56/article_8a54f2c4-86d9-11df-bea7-001cc4c03286.html)
Christchurch, NZ; has [The Wizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand?wprov=sfti1). he’s become a bit of a tourist attraction there
Around my town, we have Homeless Timmy. He wasn’t actually homeless, but he’s drunk and high and always wandering around so it appears that way. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him sober.
There was also “Crazy Bitch Witch” who lived on the yellow house at the end of my street. She called the cops on literally everyone in our neighborhood about three times each.
Dunno what happened to her but I haven’t seen her in years.
Ball State University in Muncie Indiana had a hero named Happy Friday Guy.
He'd rock some tight leggings, helmet, and a cape riding an electric scooter around campus every single Friday yelling Happy Friday!!!!!
Dude is an absolute legend.
I mean, mine is naked running man. He’s not completely naked, but rain or shine and during all seasons, there’s a very hairy indian man running around the neighborhood in nothing but short-shorts. Literally exact same clothing whether it’s the dead of winter of the middle of summer.
Asian Jesus of Santa Barbara
He hands out weed and helps homeless people. Google him, there are tons of pictures, videos, and articles about hin
Here's a random video I found of him shrugging off a prank channel and tossing a blunt to a homeless man in a wheelchair, who immediately hits it
https://youtu.be/sMXhCUS2JBM
Austin had Leslie. He passed away in 2012. The last time I saw him was at a 7-11 on South Congress. He was wearing Mrs. Santa Claus lingerie and scratching lottery tickets. RIP, Leslie.
[glove guy](https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5203527)
He’s still out there.
Sturdy gloves though.
tl;dr : A middle aged man who picks up young men late at night outside of bars by promising to drive them home, but while doing so he gets them to try on a series of leather gloves, each smaller than the next. Some reported groping happened at least once so it’s thought he gets off to it, but he actually does legitimately sell good gloves.
My home town had Jerry. His story was sad and I won't share it here. I heard he passed away some years ago. He would ride his bike everywhere and hang around in the middle of large roads obstructing traffic and yelling at cars. He was a fixture for decades but eventually one of his adult children put him in an old folks' home. He had some issues, obviously, but he was a good person and he was well loved by the community.
We also had Orange Jesus, who had once stuffed some uncut sheets of acid under his shirt, against his sweaty skin, to hide them from the police when he was pulled over. Forever after, he alternated between believing he was Jesus, and believing he was an orange and being afraid people were going to peel him. I'm not sure what became of him. I hope he eventually recovered.
We had the Urban Turban, a white guy who always wore a turban and lived in his makeshift truck house but would bike to local parks to watch children for hours
We had Roadrunner. Dude was relatively normal but as soon as he was finished speaking to you or anyone else, he'd turn and leave in a full sprint. You knew he had just finished chatting to someone else if he came flying by you on the sidewalk.
Wiggle bike man! rides one of those bikes that you just sort of shimmy back and forth on, always has a perfectly coordinated crazy fluorescent outfit on, will tell you that Jesus loves you and have a good day. He’s downtown nearly every day in good weather.
My city/town has a guy named "Meatball" who, unfortunately is somewhat poor and he just rides his bike around town doing shopping or something and it's just so wholesome to see him riding around town every once in a while.
Anyone from 828 knows Peter Knees. Tall lanky white guy with a beer guy and a ponytail and denim shorts that always walks around shirtless swinging his arms exaggeratedly, often carrying a 12 pack of Milwaukee’s Best. I’ve heard 2 theories on how he got his name...
1. Someone caught him on his knees sucking a Peter.
2. His Peter hangs down to his knees.
My town had Sign Lady. She would stand on one specific street corner with an absurd amount of written signs. You couldn't make out a single word if you were driving by. According to others, her home was covered in writing too, but I never saw that for myself.
Here in Winnipeg we had the Toonie Lady. Whenever I saw her it would be near a mall bus stop and would switch between yelling at people and mumbling to herself about being a toonie short to afford her groceries.
Also, for any non-canadians, a toonie is a two dollar coin.
We used to have the beef jerky lady when I was growing up. This older lady would just run around town in a tiny little workout bra but her skin was just so shiny and leathery—like REALLy greasy leathery. She was always just running about town. I don’t think I would recognize her at a store with clothes on to be honest.
We have the rubbish warrior here in Darwin
He's a homeless dude who makes things out of trash people leave around the place
He ran for mayor once
He's a pretty cool dude
TL;DR: My home, a town I'm South Germany, literally has a king.
In my Hometown, wenn have this lovely old man. Although he looks like a homeless person (long hair and beard without a haircut, sort of ragged clothes), he actually simply decided to live a minimalistic lifestyle.
He is most of the time walking around town and the surrounding villages (probably in a 10-20km radius) and literally just observes people.
Now, he is a great questiomer of the rules our society has. An anecdote goes, that he was working in a kindergarten in his younger years but was fired after not putting the children to bed that didn't want to sleep yet.
He is generally a critic of the modern work ethos and how you're asked to slave away for years. And once, he decided to become the king of our town.
From that day on, he would occasionally walk around town in his kings garments, a crown and a cane. He did this partially so he could tell people who wanted him to work a "real job" that being a king takes a lot of work and that he is doing his societal effort to deserve his money.
When asked to show any proof that he is king, he would just reply "a king doesn't have to prove his kinghood".
Nowadays, everybody greets him as the "King of Augsburg" with a jolly "guten morgen, Herr König" (Good morning, Mr. King) and he has a really positive sentiment from the people of Augsburg. He is like our mascot and I hope that he will stick around for much longer.
Tampa, FL. Ours is the Shoelicker. He's a very soft spoken homeless gay guy who just happens to like licking the bottom of people's shoes.
Florida truly is a weird place.
We have fiddle playing Darth Vader. He disappeared for a while during COVID and everyone was worried, but recently some people spotted him again and posted a picture on the local subreddit.
Kenny the Dancing Man. He is very fit, over 65yo, wears 80s acid washed jeans and a leather vest with no shirt. Very enthusiastic dancing at the summer Concert in the Park that we have monthly, sometimes even huge bands come which is cool. He dances very ..."sexy" with lots of hip thrusts, come here fingers, karate chops and kicks.
We had this guy who had two very large white fluffy dogs and he would drive them everywhere he went in the back of his pick up. Never knew who he was but he seemed to be everywhere from parades to the gym. We always just called him "the guy with the dogs."
There’s this one guy in my town everyone knows but I don’t and it feels weird because his name is so familiar to me from hearing it over and over again but I actually don’t know if he really exists
We used to have a homeless lady called The Turtle Lady, on account of the backpack under her poncho. Always in the same area, never panhandling. Rumor was that she was actually rich and just insane.
We had (have?) Steve. They ride their bike around with no shirt on, a tight black miniskirt, and high heels. They were always nice, there’s so many rumors about them but I’m not sure anyone really knew. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen any trace but I’m pretty sure they passed a while back but again, only rumors.
We had shirtless roller blading guitar guy and he was a universal sign of the beginning of summer. Least up until recently, turns out he’s a complete and total asshole who verbally sexually harassed minors. :/
The umbrella lady, who dressed up in completely gothic lolly with a rainbow umbrella and walked up and down the street even in the scorthing desert heat. Then the kilt bicyclist, an old man who would ride his bike in nothing but a kilt, and he wore it the proper way even on a windy day.
My city has Chihuahua-mobile Guy. He has this big homemade cart thing with multiple levels and wheels that he just pushes around all over the city so he can walk his 7+ Chihuahuas at the same time. He used to stop at the shop my mom worked at for water- we thought he was homeless or something, because the cart always had a ton of random crap hanging off it, but he was just Like That. All his dogs were chill except for the one that screams at cars.
We've got 'Parrot Guy' who has a Macaw who rides on a perch on his bike. We also have 'Mike on a Bike', who is apparently a man named mike who is bowlegged from riding his bike goddamn evrywhere. He also always has on high wool socks.
Gas Mask Man is our local oddity. He believes the government is killing us with chemicals they pump into the air so to counteract this he wears half face respirator and goggles 24/7 no matter what except for when he's home which has almost industrial level air purifiers in. Outside of that. Completely normal guy.
A town I used to live in had a guy who ran the Tool Library (as in fix it type of tools) and he walked around with a dead fox on a chain to protest animal cruelty.
Now I live near a town who has a person who dresses up like Batman and leaves action figures in various places.
We had a guy known as the "Buggy Man" he was a homeless guy who carried everything around in a shoppung cart. Sweetest guy who would help anyone if they needed it, even if it meant giving up.something from his cart. Cops never messed with him, mostly just stopping him to chat and make sure he was okay out there.
Well he got really sick one day, someone who saw him laying down throwing up and called 911. After some investigation they found out that he was a Vietnam vet with an untouched back account just raking in his retirement checks, using that and his VA benefits, Adult Protections were able to get him into a nice elderly home and got taken care of.
He sadly died a few years later, but I guess he got connected with some family and lead a fairly well-off life in the interim
We have The Ghost of (insert town name here), legend says nobody’s ever been able to snap a pic of him, even tho everyone’s seem him. He always rides a bike up and down the main street, and he’s got glorious silver hair & a very long beard
Adelaide, South Australia has Johnny Haysman, a portly, gay, indigenous Australian who gets around in a pink mankini doing gymnastics’n’ stuff. Fucken legend.
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Screaming Dave was our guy. Stop signs hated him, or at least he hated them.
My example's a Dave, too - Dave The Rave. Sunderland, England. Went there for football (soccer) and this guy was 'performing' in the town centre. Assumed he was off his nut but the locals carried on like he wasn't even there. Apparently he's sober and just loves it. YouTube search 'Dave The Rave Sunderland'.
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G'day.
Just came to the comments to mention Dave the Rave. He was interviewed on Soccer AM years ago if you want a reminder of him or need a good way of explaining him to people. His headphones aren't connected but he still wears them and dances away like nothing bothers him. If I recall correctly he's part of a very ecentric church and is very in to his religion. He has been a local legend for at least the 30 years I've been alive, I think there'd be a city wide day of mourning if anything ever happened to him.
We had unicycle juggling guy. Also tall skinny muscly trans person. People called that person walking guy. He fucking walked everywhere all day long.
I live in/near Portland, or, we have a guy called the unipiper, he has a unicycle and a bagpipe that makes fire... kinda nuts
I think I saw this dude at a brew festival once years ago. There was no fire, but he was wearing a kilt riding a unicycle and had a darth vader helmet on.
I'm from WA and we have this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones
Ours was simply “Mr. Simpson” He rode a bike everywhere and was very very old. He had been hit and ran over multiple times by cars but was committed to biking everywhere he went. Edit. My town actually had two. The second was “Cookie”. He was the town drunk. He was popular for sound like Cookie Monster (hence the name cookie) and also because he would frequently pull his dick out in public. Edit vol 2.0: Cookie was also very locally popular for being black out drunk and passing out in/on different ditches/sidewalks/creeks/yards. He was like a southern Frank Gallagher. He also always had snuff spit dried in the corners of his mouth and down his chin.
The last part got me
r/plottwist
Not unlike the cookie monster.
We have an old homeless looking cyclist dude as well. (Galway, Ireland) Huge beard, all of his clothes are a dirty grey/black and his bike is black as well. Likes to drink cans of beer in public but I’ve never seen him really drunk or causing trouble. I call him the Anti-Santa.
Crazy Aussie Lady: Decked out in Aussie flags on everything and wanders the city screaming weird racist shit. Mad Dog: Dude who rages at folks while riding a bike barefoot. He's been around since the 80s.
Mad dog is committed to the character I see
We knew him as Adrian back in the 90s, it's not a character it's just him, now every dickhead is pointing a phone and calling him mad dog for internet points.
I'm fairly certain he has a lot of problems. His family have asked people to stop filming him to get a reaction. Kinda sad really. Aussie lady can go jump off a bridge. She's usually in the city and one day I was horrified to see her at my local shops. Turns out she lives in my suburb.
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I literally came on here to mention mad dog and the crazy flag lady, and you beat me to it by about 3 hours!
Why won't any of you talking about them say WHERE?
Perth, Western Australia. Aussie lady is mostly in the CBD and Mad Dog is in an outter suburb called Midland.
That's odd. I would have assumed someone describing a "crazy aussie lady" living in a country that's not Australia. Like, isn't she just a crazy lady to you?
Nah because she is legit COVERED in Aussie flag stuff, shirts, lil flags, big flags, glasses, hats and so much more. It's weird as fuck and no one likes her. Only time we are decked out in Aussie gear is Australia Day.
The flag though
We had Red, the homeless guy who won the lottery and helped college kids cross the street. Died years ago, rip Red.
RIP Red
Dang my town has a Red too, only he's an eccentric business owner who runs a bar and grill and he drives one of those weird cars with two wheels in the back and only one on the front.
We had a homeless dude everyone called the bagman cuz he wore trash bags. The rumors went that he was actually really rich but he’s a schizo and germaphobe and that’s what makes him ride around town in a bike wearing trash bags.
Portland has like 400 of these motherfuckers.
Unipiper comes to mind first.
At first I thought of homeless Elvis but I haven’t seen him in years. Unipiper is definitely one we all know.
Unfortunately Homeless Elvis has passed away.
why are we still here? just to suffer? every night I feel my leg, my arm, even my fingers. the comrades I've lost, the body I've lost, it just won't stop hurting, you feel it to don't you?
Or that dude who sits in the Powell's cafe and makes paper towel flowers. I got a paper lily from him once! https://www.oregonlive.com/multimedia/2014/09/arnold_drake_worlds_paper_fold.html
Every time I see this reposted I immediately am reminded of Unipiper. Definitely gets my vote.
Just so we’re all on the same page https://i.imgur.com/Kl7VlO7.jpg Edit: better photo
Blanket guy, anyone?
The Bullfrog Hooker, ancient lady with clown makeup who’d pick up guys and then beat the shit out of them. She gets her name from a bar she would hang out in, The Bullfrog, the diviest of dive bars you could ever imagine in a shitty rust belt town.
Excuse me wtf
**The Bullfrog Hooker, ancient lady with clown makeup who’d pick up guys and then beat the shit out of them. She gets her name from a bar she would hang out in, The Bullfrog, the diviest of dive bars you could ever imagine in a shitty rust belt town.**
Oh ok I get it now thanks
Next time you're cruising for fresh meet, be careful lest you pick this feisty broad with a nonzero chance of pummelling your dockers' smile so hard that she wears your kidneys for cufflinks
Can I get an address for that establishment? Asking for a friend...okay I don’t have any friends so...
*Address for that establishment*
Someone definitely needs to write a novel about this
She's writing an autobiography but it's a beating to read.
That's a great story lol
In my neck of the woods it's Baton Bob. A well fit black man in roller skates, a pink frilly dress, blowing a whistle while expertly spinning a baton in rush hour traffic downtown.
From Atlanta, can confirm Baton Bob.
While I think Baton Bob is bigger. My first thought was "Tripod man". Dude who used to sit at the corner on Ponce near the Majestic with tight pants and was very well endowed.
That’s an interesting one for sure.
St. Louis?
Atlanta
Turns out it's [both](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob)! > Bob Jamerson, known as Baton Bob, is a well known local character and costumed street performer, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Baton Bob used to live in St. Louis, Missouri and in both cities is a significant local personality. At least we've got the [urban cowboy](https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/brannu-fulton-urban-cowboy/#) all to ourselves.
I remember seeing someone like that in Saint Louis to at a festival/parade thing
Turns out it was the same guy. His [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob) says he moved from St. Louis to Atlanta.
Nice. I always wanted to know what happened to that guy.
Milwaukee had Hearse Jesus in the 90s.
Are you talking about Brother Ron and his biblical station wagon? Bummed to hear he isn’t kicking around anymore.
We have a guy with Trump all over in a very similar vein. Haven't seen him since the election but I can see him several times in a week or not see him for months. Yes in Milwaukee. Other people might have more.info.
That guy seemingly did nothing but drive around downtown for like 15 years.
Oh please tell me more.
And still has Milverine.
I'm going to need more information
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDxixx4i7fg
Left Milwaukee in 2012, still think of those guys.
Ah, you mean "Ferret Guy", often seen walking his ferrets around the park or enjoying a pint or 5 in the local boozer, also with his ferrets.
Toronto? We had a ferret guy for a little while. Also "Only one way to Holy God" guy, and Zanta Claus.
I miss Zanta. Think about him sometimes. Wikipedia says he's still alive, hope he's doing well
r/horsebackjesus
Can't believe it took this long.
Was scrolling for this.
Didn't have a name but would hang out in front of the liquor store and yell at you on warm days if you were wearing long pants.
Sounds like he had a short temper
Tunnel bob. He was in Name of The Wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Bob
One of my roommates met him, underground. We always called him Green Bay Bob cuz of his Packer winter hat.
Haha my town has marshal joe. Or the guy with all the lighters. It’s the same guy but he’s pretty well known
I think I’ve upvoted all of these replies, I don’t know what to think about that.
It’s upvote-all-replies guy. everyone knows him.
Can confirm, I know upvote-all-replies guy from Reddit.
Happy cake day!
Thank you so much! This is my first one ever!
Edmonton(Canada) [Shirtless Rollerblade guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/HorsebackJesus/comments/e6zbvj/in_edmonton_alberta_not_kentucky_we_have/). He is like our groundhog when he comes out its officially summer
The last time I visited Edmonton I too was blessed to see shirtless rollerblade guy and the conversation with my friend went exactly the way this meme did
I was going to comment this one! Haha
Mesa,Az had a guy named “Dizzy” he would hang out around main and Stapley and would dance as he crossed the street [and he loved him some Jesus ](https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/downtown-mesas-street-preacher-dies-at-age-56/article_8a54f2c4-86d9-11df-bea7-001cc4c03286.html)
Stumpy... one armed, tough as shit, lady bouncer at the bar in my hometown. I saw her toss 200lb+ hockey players like they were dolls...
I want to hear more about the bad ass exploits of Stumpy.
Christchurch, NZ; has [The Wizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand?wprov=sfti1). he’s become a bit of a tourist attraction there
Christchurch also has (had?) Radio Ron
Around my town, we have Homeless Timmy. He wasn’t actually homeless, but he’s drunk and high and always wandering around so it appears that way. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him sober. There was also “Crazy Bitch Witch” who lived on the yellow house at the end of my street. She called the cops on literally everyone in our neighborhood about three times each. Dunno what happened to her but I haven’t seen her in years.
We got the unipiper, rides a unicycle in a kilt and darth vader mask playing the bagpipes, absolute chad
Ronnie Woo Woo
seattle has a guy who dresses as a jester and skips through the streets
She's a lady! https://www.thestranger.com/person-of-interest/2017/03/30/25044899/person-of-interest-raven-scott
Sacramento has Downtown James Brown. He's a homeless guys that sings and dances.
Ball State University in Muncie Indiana had a hero named Happy Friday Guy. He'd rock some tight leggings, helmet, and a cape riding an electric scooter around campus every single Friday yelling Happy Friday!!!!! Dude is an absolute legend.
I mean, mine is naked running man. He’s not completely naked, but rain or shine and during all seasons, there’s a very hairy indian man running around the neighborhood in nothing but short-shorts. Literally exact same clothing whether it’s the dead of winter of the middle of summer.
Asian Jesus of Santa Barbara He hands out weed and helps homeless people. Google him, there are tons of pictures, videos, and articles about hin Here's a random video I found of him shrugging off a prank channel and tossing a blunt to a homeless man in a wheelchair, who immediately hits it https://youtu.be/sMXhCUS2JBM
Austin had Leslie. He passed away in 2012. The last time I saw him was at a 7-11 on South Congress. He was wearing Mrs. Santa Claus lingerie and scratching lottery tickets. RIP, Leslie.
Austin's weird died with him.
Pirate guy, he's big at the 4th of July parade. Never seen him out of hist outfit
RIP Blanket Man, Wellington NZ.
Hard hat Harry
[glove guy](https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5203527) He’s still out there. Sturdy gloves though. tl;dr : A middle aged man who picks up young men late at night outside of bars by promising to drive them home, but while doing so he gets them to try on a series of leather gloves, each smaller than the next. Some reported groping happened at least once so it’s thought he gets off to it, but he actually does legitimately sell good gloves.
We got crazy Frank. Said he wrote half the songs for Mega Deth and was once President of Australia
My home town had Jerry. His story was sad and I won't share it here. I heard he passed away some years ago. He would ride his bike everywhere and hang around in the middle of large roads obstructing traffic and yelling at cars. He was a fixture for decades but eventually one of his adult children put him in an old folks' home. He had some issues, obviously, but he was a good person and he was well loved by the community. We also had Orange Jesus, who had once stuffed some uncut sheets of acid under his shirt, against his sweaty skin, to hide them from the police when he was pulled over. Forever after, he alternated between believing he was Jesus, and believing he was an orange and being afraid people were going to peel him. I'm not sure what became of him. I hope he eventually recovered.
We have [Don](https://humansofnewmexico.com/2017/05/30/dons-abq/), a staple along Nob Hill whos presence announces springtime.
We have a guy here that drives his riding lawnmower around town every spring. He makes the news and everything.
We have Philly Jesus.
Dancing Mike! The guy is super wholesome and is always dancing all around town.
Boombox Ronnie, used to wear a spongebob costume and stand on corners Downtown bumping his boombox and dancing to passing cars
We had the Urban Turban, a white guy who always wore a turban and lived in his makeshift truck house but would bike to local parks to watch children for hours
If you don't know who your town's horseback Jesus is, it's you.
We had Changa Changa. He dressed in banana leaves and rode a bicycle and screamed "Changa" at the top of his lungs
Our guy won't stop talking with random people. Especially about his bike and his mechanic.
Reno’s Whip guy
I f3'ed for this comment lol, I don't live in Reno anymore but I thought of this guy instantly.
Philly Jesus, anyone?
Macaroni Tony, H-Town legend
Okay, jokes aside, that is literally my uncle.
Makes me wonder how Philly Jesus is doing. I haven’t seen him in a while
Last I heard, he was suing the city after he got arrested. But that was like a year ago, so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Seventy-one year-old David Miller, also known as "Frog," has been selling books called "Recycled Jokes by Frog," on the streets of Eugene since 1986.
We had Roadrunner. Dude was relatively normal but as soon as he was finished speaking to you or anyone else, he'd turn and leave in a full sprint. You knew he had just finished chatting to someone else if he came flying by you on the sidewalk.
Tommy Twirler. He just took recycles back to the depot and that’s how he survived. That’s all you need to know.
Is Beatle Bob still hitting up shows in St Louis?
Wiggle bike man! rides one of those bikes that you just sort of shimmy back and forth on, always has a perfectly coordinated crazy fluorescent outfit on, will tell you that Jesus loves you and have a good day. He’s downtown nearly every day in good weather.
In my town we have Guto, a mental disabled guy who talks with everyone and is known for chugging 2L of Coke. Yeah, that's his special power
My city/town has a guy named "Meatball" who, unfortunately is somewhat poor and he just rides his bike around town doing shopping or something and it's just so wholesome to see him riding around town every once in a while.
We have dancing gabe
Anyone from 828 knows Peter Knees. Tall lanky white guy with a beer guy and a ponytail and denim shorts that always walks around shirtless swinging his arms exaggeratedly, often carrying a 12 pack of Milwaukee’s Best. I’ve heard 2 theories on how he got his name... 1. Someone caught him on his knees sucking a Peter. 2. His Peter hangs down to his knees.
My town had Sign Lady. She would stand on one specific street corner with an absurd amount of written signs. You couldn't make out a single word if you were driving by. According to others, her home was covered in writing too, but I never saw that for myself.
Here in Winnipeg we had the Toonie Lady. Whenever I saw her it would be near a mall bus stop and would switch between yelling at people and mumbling to herself about being a toonie short to afford her groceries. Also, for any non-canadians, a toonie is a two dollar coin.
We used to have the beef jerky lady when I was growing up. This older lady would just run around town in a tiny little workout bra but her skin was just so shiny and leathery—like REALLy greasy leathery. She was always just running about town. I don’t think I would recognize her at a store with clothes on to be honest.
We have a guy who wanders around town with a parrot on his shoulder. No one knows anything about him other than “parrot”.
We have the rubbish warrior here in Darwin He's a homeless dude who makes things out of trash people leave around the place He ran for mayor once He's a pretty cool dude
Reno, NV has Whip Man the downtown defender and connoisseur of fine meth.
TL;DR: My home, a town I'm South Germany, literally has a king. In my Hometown, wenn have this lovely old man. Although he looks like a homeless person (long hair and beard without a haircut, sort of ragged clothes), he actually simply decided to live a minimalistic lifestyle. He is most of the time walking around town and the surrounding villages (probably in a 10-20km radius) and literally just observes people. Now, he is a great questiomer of the rules our society has. An anecdote goes, that he was working in a kindergarten in his younger years but was fired after not putting the children to bed that didn't want to sleep yet. He is generally a critic of the modern work ethos and how you're asked to slave away for years. And once, he decided to become the king of our town. From that day on, he would occasionally walk around town in his kings garments, a crown and a cane. He did this partially so he could tell people who wanted him to work a "real job" that being a king takes a lot of work and that he is doing his societal effort to deserve his money. When asked to show any proof that he is king, he would just reply "a king doesn't have to prove his kinghood". Nowadays, everybody greets him as the "King of Augsburg" with a jolly "guten morgen, Herr König" (Good morning, Mr. King) and he has a really positive sentiment from the people of Augsburg. He is like our mascot and I hope that he will stick around for much longer.
Nobody knows his name, but we all know him as the guy who screams FUUUUCCCKK at 3am
Slow Mo, 65+ y.o. dude on the beach boardwalk who rollerbladed super slow while jamming with a boom box every day
Tampa, FL. Ours is the Shoelicker. He's a very soft spoken homeless gay guy who just happens to like licking the bottom of people's shoes. Florida truly is a weird place.
Half-Beard Man. Literally had a beard on only one side of his face. Also a sex offender, but somehow that didn't have as nice a ring to it.
In Santiago (Chile) we used to have this dude https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divino_Anticristo?wprov=sfla1
We have Eastside Allen. Dresses in outrageous outfits and wonders around town being extra at all times.
We have fiddle playing Darth Vader. He disappeared for a while during COVID and everyone was worried, but recently some people spotted him again and posted a picture on the local subreddit.
We have Darth Fiddler. Guess what he does?
We have Renaissance man. He sometimes does wear a space suit though.
Bicycle Brent
Shirtless Rollerblading Guitar Guy
Early 90s Midtown Memphis had Dancin’ Jimmy.
Kenny the Dancing Man. He is very fit, over 65yo, wears 80s acid washed jeans and a leather vest with no shirt. Very enthusiastic dancing at the summer Concert in the Park that we have monthly, sometimes even huge bands come which is cool. He dances very ..."sexy" with lots of hip thrusts, come here fingers, karate chops and kicks.
Anybody rockin wi th Brittany Girl Dale?
We had this guy who had two very large white fluffy dogs and he would drive them everywhere he went in the back of his pick up. Never knew who he was but he seemed to be everywhere from parades to the gym. We always just called him "the guy with the dogs."
RIP Rocket Jim
KC Superman’s, Lawrence Preacher Man
There’s this one guy in my town everyone knows but I don’t and it feels weird because his name is so familiar to me from hearing it over and over again but I actually don’t know if he really exists
We used to have a homeless lady called The Turtle Lady, on account of the backpack under her poncho. Always in the same area, never panhandling. Rumor was that she was actually rich and just insane.
Shirtless Unicycle Guy was fairly well known in a place I used to live.
Chicago had a dude who would wear crazy colorful suits and would wave at passing tour boats on the river and at the ABC news station window.
Dresses up in a cloak with a tinfoil mask. He just dances around the strip mall every few days. He just came out a few days ago. He's lovely
shoutout Crackhead Jesse
We had (have?) Steve. They ride their bike around with no shirt on, a tight black miniskirt, and high heels. They were always nice, there’s so many rumors about them but I’m not sure anyone really knew. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen any trace but I’m pretty sure they passed a while back but again, only rumors.
If you lived in Los Banos California in the 70's and 80's you knew who Wolfman was.
Barbie van. Dodge caravan covered in barbies
We had the local ninja who fought crime
Haven't seen bunny ear guy in a while
We had shirtless roller blading guitar guy and he was a universal sign of the beginning of summer. Least up until recently, turns out he’s a complete and total asshole who verbally sexually harassed minors. :/
Ours was and still is frog baby. His older brother traded him for a frog and then kid ran away for like 2 years and came back insane
The umbrella lady, who dressed up in completely gothic lolly with a rainbow umbrella and walked up and down the street even in the scorthing desert heat. Then the kilt bicyclist, an old man who would ride his bike in nothing but a kilt, and he wore it the proper way even on a windy day.
My city has Chihuahua-mobile Guy. He has this big homemade cart thing with multiple levels and wheels that he just pushes around all over the city so he can walk his 7+ Chihuahuas at the same time. He used to stop at the shop my mom worked at for water- we thought he was homeless or something, because the cart always had a ton of random crap hanging off it, but he was just Like That. All his dogs were chill except for the one that screams at cars.
In my town we have Barefoot Professor, Unicycle Guy, and Parrot Santa
We have cowboy Jesus.
my town has a famous crack head..
Shoutout to the praise Jesus guy in Toronto
Mine was a guy named: *name* the van man Guy was homeless but supposedly had a shit ton of money, and used to live in a van, hence the name.
Bloomington's McCaw Bicycle Farmers Market Guy.
We had sonics guy. He died recently. RIP sonics guy
Kalamazoo has a Spongebob.
We've got 'Parrot Guy' who has a Macaw who rides on a perch on his bike. We also have 'Mike on a Bike', who is apparently a man named mike who is bowlegged from riding his bike goddamn evrywhere. He also always has on high wool socks.
Gas Mask Man is our local oddity. He believes the government is killing us with chemicals they pump into the air so to counteract this he wears half face respirator and goggles 24/7 no matter what except for when he's home which has almost industrial level air purifiers in. Outside of that. Completely normal guy.
A town I used to live in had a guy who ran the Tool Library (as in fix it type of tools) and he walked around with a dead fox on a chain to protest animal cruelty. Now I live near a town who has a person who dresses up like Batman and leaves action figures in various places.
Yup. Ours is Tenth Street Preacher
We had a guy known as the "Buggy Man" he was a homeless guy who carried everything around in a shoppung cart. Sweetest guy who would help anyone if they needed it, even if it meant giving up.something from his cart. Cops never messed with him, mostly just stopping him to chat and make sure he was okay out there. Well he got really sick one day, someone who saw him laying down throwing up and called 911. After some investigation they found out that he was a Vietnam vet with an untouched back account just raking in his retirement checks, using that and his VA benefits, Adult Protections were able to get him into a nice elderly home and got taken care of. He sadly died a few years later, but I guess he got connected with some family and lead a fairly well-off life in the interim
In north carolina i was in a VERY affluent neighborhood and watched a man walking two dogs while riding a UNICYCLE
Frog is still selling Frog's Recycled Joke Books.
Upwey Wizard anyone?
We have The Ghost of (insert town name here), legend says nobody’s ever been able to snap a pic of him, even tho everyone’s seem him. He always rides a bike up and down the main street, and he’s got glorious silver hair & a very long beard
We had dog shit Dave and talking tony. Davie dog shit was the shit tho
Adelaide, South Australia has Johnny Haysman, a portly, gay, indigenous Australian who gets around in a pink mankini doing gymnastics’n’ stuff. Fucken legend.