• Your local nutter??
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Here in Pittsburgh there are quite a few homeless people that just make their homes under bridges and overpasses. Now, there are two types of homeless people who ask for change. First, there are these people that sit outside shops and harass you. These people are organized and switch street corners with each other every 2 hours. Some of them aren't even homeless anymore, but this is pretty much the only way they know how to make money. The other type of homeless person in Pittsburgh is the kind of person who owns a blanket, some plastic bags, and a few crates. They sleep on benches and under bridges, etc. I walk to school every day, and I frequently see a man named Arnold who lives in the basement of an apartment building that was being renovated, and then abandoned. Arnold doesn't really talk much, but he grunted and smiled. For a long while I just talked to Arnold, and he told me about where he grew up and where he used to live, which is an interesting story in its own right. The thing that caught my attention the most was the wavering of Arnold's voice when he talked about the places he used to eat, and how his mother would take him out to the Tastee Freeze and they'd buy Hoagies. A long while later, maybe several months, Arnold broke his leg somehow, and I called 911 for him and got him to the emergency room. It was a bit awkward when he told the doctors he couldn't pay, they said that they had to help him if he was injured, and I got the feeling that he was a bit angry at me for the whole ordeal. A few weeks later, I brought Arnold a Hoagie from this pizza shop near my school, and I think he forgave me after that. Now I guess all that buildup was longer than the actual story, but I think it's important that Arnold and I had known each other before this whole ordeal cropped up. You see, I got the very sick and missed two finals when they were going on, so I went to school to make them up as I was told and there was no one there. About a half-hour later, I was able to take one of my tests and I left the building. What I DIDN'T know was that apparently the vice-president was in town and that my normal route home was now off limits to everything but pedestrians, and that when the precession went through it was just ALL restricted. Well basically I got trapped along the route when the precession showed up and I was now committing a federal offence. One of the officers came over and basically told me that he was going to arrest me. Out of the blue, Arnold comes over and starts talking over the officer as he's reading me my rights. Arnold basically stares down the officer and tells him to "git off the kid" until he leaves. He didn't even get my name. I haven't seen Arnold for a while, but when I do I'll be sure to thank him - Arnold was gone before I turned around again.
There's a guy in my suburb who always walks around asking people if they've got $2 to buy a can of coke. In a really slurred voice, as he semi-limps. I always used to think, "Suure, that's the kind of coke you're after." but then I saw him at a train station sipping a can of coke. That shut me the hell up.
my brother went to the university of georgia for a while and was able to meet the somewhat famous rack 'em willie [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GkC0IHCtdc[/media]
Theres a crazy tourettes lady that sometimes yells crazy shit as shes walk past the street that my house is on in the summer.
Bob Katter... [img]http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2011/06/05/2409913/ipad-art-wide-bob_katter-420x0.jpg[/img] More like state nutter.
My town has a guy named Tony. Tony used to play the guitar really well, but then he took lots of acid. Now Tony stares at the sun and asks people for quarters. Poor Tony.
My town was blessed with 'Divvy Tracy' She lives in the less fortunate area of town and pushes an ASDA trolley around, with the christmas edition of ASDA carrier bags that are full of dead kittens :( She steals number plates from cars and puts string through holes, and wears them around her and also grabs people's hair and screams 'YOU UNNATURAL BEAST, YOUR HAIR SHOULD NOT BE THIS COLOUR!' She's bald and has quite a beard on her. I'll snap a pic some time
My town has one guy that sits in his white Toyota and oogles everyone that passes. He's usually situated near a gas-station, and if you stop and look at him, he will immediately start to shout and get really angry. Sometimes he will even slam the accelerator and drive off like a crazy man. We also have a woman that walks the same trafficked road each day, and when a car passes, she will jump back in fear and look scared.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhWQYZ7leKo[/media] Donny May. Apparently he walked backwards from Luss to that point. Luss is 8 miles from there.
i don't really have any noteably crazy people around here, but i did once see some old guy (around 95 years old) just stop in the middle of an intersection for a few seconds with the me gusta face, then drove away.
In Nyköping, Sweden there is a man that works at a recycling center. He is around 60+ and grumby as hell. When someone don't know where to throw some piece of scrap he replys "Over there some where". So he is a old man waiting to turn 65 so he can stop working? No no no... He is a millioner. He takes the stuff that people throw away and makes them abit better and sells them. He has been doing this for over 30 years.
Here in Perth, Australia there is this one woman i've seen at least five times now... She wears a flag, carries a flag (IS a flag), and walks around cheering to everybody how GREAT australia is. I've seen her mainly around the train station, and even on my train once... Babbling on about australia's history and stuff. I even saw a guy retort in her face, telling her to shut up, then she went down to the transit guards and told them what happened. They came back to the guy and talked a bit, but in the end i think they were laughing about it... The other nut is my mom... i'm sure it is...
Way too many in this city, but there is this one women who has ugly toenails and always does something with them at bus stops etc. And I once saw a guy running around, pretending to be moderating a radio show, singing all the songs by himself etc.
[QUOTE=zeebiedeebie;30301772]Well basically I got trapped along the route when the precession showed up and I was now committing a federal offence.[/QUOTE] What? Being within 100-meters or so of the [b]vice-president[/b]'s procession is a federal offence??? I wonder what the fuck happens when the [highlight]president[/highlight] comes to town. "No people within 1KM of president, proceeding within this zone is a capitol offence"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wlV7ez0W6U[/media] God bless him, his name is Ploscar. He is such a drunkie bro...
I have this guy in my senior class. Heard of him, and seen of him since Jr. High. Always talks about how he's a hunter, and how he should commit suicide. Talks a lot about shotguns and how he has one in his car. I expect a shotgun to be inside of his robes as we graduate tomorrow. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/58937_156374727722951_100000512736658_445115_1962579_n.jpg[/img] I need a fucking kevlar vest.
Alright, so apparently the nutter that I know is fairly well-known about Tucson. We all all her the Tucson Umbrella Lady, and she is nothing short of incredible, in my humble opinion. Living in Tucson I know from personal experience that during the summer temperatures can reach up to around 110 F, and do you know what this nice (but seemingly crazy) lady does? She walks from one half of Tucson to the other half in her high heels, her parasol (she has a variety, or at least that's what everyone says, I've seen her with a Victorian parasol and a modern one), and her dresses. I could only find a single picture of her on the internet, but I'm amazed I found that alone : [IMG]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174886_227249663956131_4050501_n.jpg[/IMG] Oh, also apparently her name is Lydia. [editline]7th June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;30305293]I have this guy in my senior class. Heard of him, and seen of him since Jr. High. Always talks about how he's a hunter, and how he should commit suicide. Talks a lot about shotguns and how he has one in his car. I expect a shotgun to be inside of his robes as we graduate tomorrow. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/58937_156374727722951_100000512736658_445115_1962579_n.jpg[/img] I need a fucking kevlar vest.[/QUOTE] Have you ever considered... you know, telling the authorities about him?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;30305386] Have you ever considered... you know, telling the authorities about him?[/QUOTE] Well, after glancing through his fb page, he does have images of himself in camo. Yet, he was so verbally passionate about hunting, I would have at least assumed that he would have some image of him toting some shotgun, or even some fake shotgun to convince his 'friends' that it is real. If you heard some of his stories, it's very easy to tell that he has like...ADD or is just good at pulling random shit out of his ass just to try to entertain people. That and he tags along with people that just say 'hi' to him. Oh, and he also hisses at people whenever we irritate him, or annoy him or prove him wrong. [editline]7th June 2011[/editline] Oh shit, he's not a FP member is he?
We had one a couple of years ago, don't remember his name He sometimes bought a fried fish, hooked it up to a fishing rod and threw it into the water. Then when people passed by he jagged it out from the water and started eating it like it was a fish he just caught. This guy was crazy as hell, but absolutely hilarious at the same time. Still, some lads beat him up just because he was 'crazy' (even though he would never harm [i]anyone[/i])
[QUOTE=Elexar;30305707]We had one a couple of years ago, don't remember his name He sometimes bought a fried fish, hooked it up to a fishing rod and threw it into the water. Then when people passed by he jagged it out from the water and started eating it like it was a fish he just caught. This guy was crazy as hell, but absolutely hilarious at the same time. Still, some lads beat him up just because he was 'crazy' (even though he would never harm [i]anyone[/i])[/QUOTE] I think I already know what kind of people you mean with "some lads". Here in my town we had a guy who was always drunk (or at least carrying around a bottle of booze), bearded, Wore only shorts (ALL YEAR), big black army boots and a biker vest Thing is he'd always go stand in front of the video rental store and started dancing to songs he was singing himself.
He's not really a nut, but everyone knows him for his dancing. He's known by the locals as the "Bayou Bob's guy." I've been told by a few people that he gets a total of $100+ tips every day [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2IcWk3X24I[/media]
Every day when I drove home from school, there would be this old guy at a stoplight, acting like a train and making chicken noises.
There's a woman in my town who we refer to as Mad Mary, she walks about the streets at night, either drunk or well on the way to being drunk. She also smells of piss and likes to sit in taxi places talking about shit to people. She actually has an apartment somewhere, but only seems to go there during the day.
We have an old guy who balances beer bottles on his lower lip while laughing histerically. He usually does this in a bus.
In my town we used to have this middle aged man that we used to call the Slenderman. (before the meme) He was tall, skinny, and extremely psychotic. I remember the last thing he told me and a friend to this day. "When I get my balls back I'm gonna kill you." Poor neutered bastard.
[QUOTE=BALLSANDASHWALL;30300135]all of these people are poor. just goes to show if you lose your mind you'll end up sleeping on the street and begging for real food while you eat shit acorns and cigarettes until you die of malnourishment.[/QUOTE] that's because crazy people who manage to keep enough sanity to keep a job are called eccentric, I had an old accounting teacher who used to blink like mad and mutter to himself but he left after his 1 year contract because while he could teach he wasn't that good.
I think there was some guy that wandered around the mall downtown, called Rudy. He was some old black man who was never seen without his karaoke machine. (how the fuck he got it and kept it working is beyond me) He was shit at singing but he knew the tunes to nearly everything and people loved him. Then we have some old lady and her crew of hippie fuckwads who protest outside the place my mom works. No way in heaven or hell will they achieve their aims, but they just keep on trucking, and they've even tried to break in occasionally.
This guy: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zancai[/URL] He's so famous he's got a wiki page. This guy also wrote a book about the nutters in Toronto, I haven't seen all of them though. [URL]http://www.jasonkieffer.com/[/URL]
i yell at mice with my shirt off
We had a tramp who used to live in a tent on a roundabout (the ones in roads not at play areas) He just sat there in his tent, died some time ago, I think his name was "boccer"
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