Mad People That Live Near YOU!

[DangerMouse]

Its common knowledge that the government deploys a set amount of insane people to every new town or city. This thread asks you to track them down and photograph them in their madness....

This good fellow is Nottinghams own Zylophone man, quite possibly a bigger legend in Nottingham than Brian Clough or Torvill and Dean. Its all in the flourish.....

I borrowed the photo off leftlion.co.uk

Coming Soon:

Mad Alan of Ilkeston and
The Blues man

[Pelvic Missiles]

Wow, Mad people that live near me.

Well i don't think they would appreciate me taking pics of them because they are mad.

Ill try though :)

[DangerMouse]

consider it a mission from god....

[Fick]

There's a bloke who rides a bike around Cambridge city centre carrying a cardboard box in a carrier bag on his handle bars. In the box is some form of stereo, which plays really dodgy house music. And he just rides round and round the market square.

[Patrick Moore]

not gunna try and get a picture, because he'll probably steal my camera...but there's this one guy who lives near me, stands outside his house nearly 12 hours a day and spits at anybody who walks past...

he's always there...in his brown bath robe and slippers...once we threw a snowball at him (yes, in the snow) and he started yelling gibberish at us and then started chasng us o.0

[Shmotzy]

I tried taking a picture of the mad man at my town centre, but he started screaming about me stealing a piece of his soul and chased me around for about 2 hours. :confused:

[eidderf]

Well, people are mad near me but they are not nice people. One of them looks like a rat with his big nose and he always wears the same thing. Once he went on a bus and there was a women sitting there with her little child, the man turned around and said they were harrassing him, he has done this to one of my friends sister and mum apparently aswell. This man hang out around schools and I think he follows some children. I am not sure if he has been warned about this. There are numerous others weirdos who are equally odd and crazy, but I can't be bothered to go into the other storys.

[Generic Student]

Can't get a picture, cos i hardly ever see her, but a lady near me lives in a house with very tall hedges and closed curtains. Every day she gets up at 7 and puts all her belongings in her car and drives off to gods know where. All i know is she goes through shepton Mallet, i saw her whilst waiting for a bus on work experience. When she gets home, she unloads her car and goes into her house, locking up every window and door with plastic reinforcement because, as she tells my neighbour, "the men will coem to get her". Also i know she has many cats, i know because my dog once chased a cat into her garden, i followed to catch my bastard dog, bless him, and noticed that the trees had eyes. My dog couldnt remember which of the buggers he'd chased in

This is not to be laughed at. Im sure this lady would be fine if she had a good attentive FAMILY to look after her.

[SWE]

the oldies on the balconies... we are constantly watched...

[snoo]

Originally posted by DangerMouse

This good fellow is Nottinghams own Zylophone man, quite possibly a bigger legend in Nottingham than Brian Clough or Torvill and Dean. Its all in the flourish.....

Doesn't it creep you out when you walk out of the broadmarsh center and you just hear that *ting*, sends a shiver down my spine every time...eep!

I think it would drive me insane if I had to hear it for more than 5 mins...I feel sorry for the people who work in superdrug :eek:

[DangerMouse]

excuse me, i used to work in The Link right outside his current residence and it provided me with many a happy shift.

How can it make a shiver go down your spine? He's a lovely guy with dolcet tunes to make even the coldest soul melt (i should work for Rolling Stone)

[renatzu]

Crazy people are what I love most about being in New York City; there's one on every street corner

Originally posted by Shmotzy
I tried taking a picture of the mad man at my town centre, but he started screaming about me stealing a piece of his soul and chased me around for about 2 hours. :confused:
Was he balck? Because there a few African cultures (99.9% sure they're African) who believe that a camera steals your soul.

There's this guy who hangs outside around my martial arts school and he's always wearing the same outfit. It's black leather with fringes and a big hat. He's also got bad teeth and is carrying a walkman. He'll stand outside looking in and imitate us.

It's amusing to watch; you just can't make eye contact or he'll talk to you.

[an_reithe]

well there is a mental institute hospital thing less than a mile away from my house. so we get to see weird people all the time, and they always try to talk to me

[Gnome General]

Nobody like that in my town, but when I went to San Francisco I saw this guy, who I believe is fairly well known there, who hides behind a tree branch and jumps out at people who walk by. They call him the bushman. Not sure if he's actually crazy though, or just trying to earn a little money.

[snoo]

Originally posted by DangerMouse
excuse me, i used to work in The Link right outside his current residence and it provided me with many a happy shift.

How can it make a shiver go down your spine? He's a lovely guy with dolcet tunes to make even the coldest soul melt (i should work for Rolling Stone)

hmm...I think I have a phobia of xylophones due to years of being forced to play one at first school...I always wanted to play the glochenspiel but they never let me!! :nana: :ninja:

[Stemes]

I've got a family that live across the road from me, who buy rubbish cars and pend all day cleaning them and looking around to see if anyones watching them in envy. I'll try and get a picture of this phenomium. They are known only as 'the pikies'.

[mrikasu]

Originally posted by DangerMouse
This good fellow is Nottinghams own Zylophone man, quite possibly a bigger legend in Nottingham than Brian Clough or Torvill and Dean. Its all in the flourish.....

I have seen him too. He must be really famous! Quite good too if I remember rightly.

There is a guy round near where I live who delivers papers. He is probably about the same age as that guy and he just walks in the middle of the road fubling in his paper bag and then when cars very cautiously approach him and avaoid him by a few metres he starts waving his fist and mumbling various obscenities at them.

He also occassionally tries to run after them.

It scares me.

[Marlowe]

I have been to notts and seen xylophone man... lived in Cambridge and I never saw the box guy.... just the bloke who walks up and down Mill Road with various foodstuffs strapped to his head such as fish and baguettes and cakes.

In the town centre the local mad person is Rudi. He is part and parcel of my home town. I have also worked with him on a proffessional basis. That's because I work with the nutters for a living.

[bittersweet]

i *heart* the xylophone man, and the blues man, who always cheers me up.

dont like nasty beggar woman with big dreads who called me a bitch when i wouldnt give her money for crack.

alsom there is this guy who used to live near me who had a bar through his foot, he was cool.

nottingham is great for random mad people.

[Garg]

There is a dodgy geezer live around this area of Leicester who walks around everyday carrying two plastic bags. This big bearded fellow just walks about picking up litter and putting it into his bags. He does this daily.

There is also, once a week, a group of cuntish deeply religious people spouting out shit about god etc etc and they have an amp and mic they talk through so that lots of people can here them.

To talk about the word of god in Leicester, which has a very very VERY high ethnic group, I think is mental.

[seekkis]

we only have one didgeridoo man... but this is small town so you can't expect us to have too many of village idiots... but the didgeridoo man is so hilariuos. i just happen to be little afraid of him, because sometimes he comes to talk to me if he sees me and isn't "playing" at the moment...

oh yeah.. and i also happen to live in this town too. :P

*has no piccies of didgeridoo man, but pictures of self can be found on pictures of you thread*

[Mellomeh]

In Cardiff we have 'Toy Mike Trevor' who stands on Queen Street and sings into a tinny kids toy microphone. He was made famous by Radio 1's One Big Weekend last year. He isn't mad but he seems like it.
Then there's the weird bloke who cleans his street every day, sometimes at night and refuses money from the council.
Toy Mike Trevor:

[bittersweet]

oh my god, i completely forgot that guy that walks around on crutches, practically always in the middle of the road in canning circus, two steps forward, one step back.

miracle that he has never been run over :rolleyes:

also, have officially made the xylophone man the most famous beggar in the country! (because i say so)

[Inverurie Jones]

There was a guy who used to hang around the campus when I was at university wearing Army surplus gear, including an old-style metal helmet painted white, declaring independence for the 'Republic of Deeside'. Loony.

[Ouroboros]

There is the famous resident madman of Wimbledon, who sits outside Centre Court Shopping Centre in the middle of Wimbledon, playing random notes on his tiny kids' keyboard. He is quite well known.

[im_a_banana]

Originally posted by DangerMouse


This good fellow is Nottinghams own Zylophone man



I've seen him! He's always there with his little xylophone :p Tis a bit creepy tho...

[DangerMouse]

Originally posted by Mellomeh
In Cardiff we have 'Toy Mike Trevor' who stands on Queen Street and sings into a tinny kids toy microphone. He was made famous by Radio 1's One Big Weekend last year. He isn't mad but he seems like it.
Then there's the weird bloke who cleans his street every day, sometimes at night and refuses money from the council.
Toy Mike Trevor:

there we go! Just what im talking about. He looks pretty legendary to me...

[queenofself]

there are a couple of crazy twins who wander around my home town. they look a little like garden gnomes. ive never actually seen them together but if theyre not twins then the guy could do the minute mile without breaking into a run.

im also a big fan of the guy in covent garden who hums into a traffic cone


i think the best mad person ive ever seen has to be the guy in san francisco who walks around with a chicken on his head. oh how we laughed & originally termed him 'chicken man'

[jimeh]

I can name about 10 out of hundred- these are the biggest crazies.

Kurt the bum.
Bag Lady.
Bag Man.
(Bag Man <3 Bag Lady)
Stephany (dances when shouted at, violates EVERY lampost)
Mad Mary
Patrick the irish drunkard.
Rosy cheecks ginger dude.
The guy who salutes everyone and sings the national anthem and dances.
The lady stephany hangs around with.
The shouter.
The howler.

Worthing is a crazy place to live in.

[happy thing]

creepy...

[Mittwoch]

i think im actually teh mad person in my village... i live in a pub and hide upstairs until the opportune moment... :ninja:

[Ant2oo4]

There's this man in my area, he must be around 72 years old.

Anyway, he has a paper round (how the heck he manages to carry them at his age I will never know) but the weird thing is, he wears a blue full adidas tracksuit, has his (white) hair in corn rows and wear atleast a grand's worth of "Bling"

Scary Bloke.

Oh and sometimes if you walk close enough near him you can here him rapping to himself quietly

[Generic Student]

Originally posted by Ant2oo4
There's this man in my area, he must be around 72 years old.

Anyway, he has a paper round (how the heck he manages to carry them at his age I will never know) but the weird thing is, he wears a blue full adidas tracksuit, has his (white) hair in corn rows and wear atleast a grand's worth of "Bling"

Scary Bloke.

Oh and sometimes if you walk close enough near him you can here him rapping to himself quietly


Congratulations

You have found Jimmy Saville

[Dr-Electro]

This guy is a Colonel in a local organization that doesn't believe that WW II ever ended. Look what he's making this poor child do!

Actually, he is a very good friend of mine and is a really nice guy. That doesn't change the fact that he is mad as a hatter, but you can't have everything.

[thechinaman]

in the towns near me (tonbridge and tonbridge) there are a load of fruit cakes.

1. the stair master-if you've ever been to tunbridge wells food court you would have seen him. he looks shockingly like jesus christ and he spends all day walking up and down the stairs leading to the food court

2. bagman-a guy in tonbridge i have seen sometimes. he walks around town muttering to himself with a box full of unknown items wrapped in an Asda plastic bag.

3. drippy-another tonbridge nut. when i walk home from school i see him. he wears all denim, no shoes and has a sort of detached/distant look on his face. not to mention he normally dribbles when he walks along

4. mr and mrs cabbage-called mr and mrs cabbage because they smell like it. they walk through tonbridge high street in ripped, soiled clothes just looking at shops.

5. fenner-an absolute whack job (actually one of my friends). he has no concept of real life and doesn't understand what 'being friendly' is. see attached

[DangerMouse]

Originally posted by Generic Student
Congratulations

You have found Jimmy Saville

+ for making me laugh

[thechinaman]

ok who has changed my signature from 'fenners a faggot' to i like to suck animals?

[Generic Student]

ok who has changed my signature from 'fenners a faggot' to i like to suck animals?

A mod, who was annoyed that you used the term faggot to insult someone in a very homophobic way. Thats what you get for homophobia. I suggest you change it yourself.
Tu Comprende?

[OWNage stoat]

Theres a guy who lives round me who takes great pleasure in wearing a welsh flag as a kilt ( seriously thats all he wears in the summer, in the winter he'll put a coat etc on as well). Once i happned to be sitting the bay window of my house he walked past and noticed me looking at him....stopped.....and stared for 1 hour! I would try and get a pic of him but he moves at such a pace (except when hes standing and stareing)and I cant catch him.

[a secret slut]

thers this old man in my williage town, whatever, we all call him old man, i think he lives a few doors down from my cousin, anywho hes mad and jus beats up kids :(
he once broke his leg by trying to knock a kid of a skateboard and purposely starts fights wiv kids coz he wants 'respect'
anyway, hes mad and stole my aunt's cat, hes ok now, the cat i mean.

[robablob XIV]

my friend seems pretty crazy...
actually he also has to go to a mental hospital 5 days a week... so i guess medically speaking he is mad

old people with big beards are always freaky though. last night i was parked outside a mcdonalds and there was a homeless old guy with a big beard inside moving a teabag between two cups for about half an hour, i got bored watching him by then and left...

[Dr-Electro]

Only a loony would wear a Toyota headband.

There is a kid who goes to school where I work. He is a crazy as a bedbug. One day he will answer to his name like a normal person, next day it's, "That's not my name!" He likes to start arguments, too. Big problem is that he's extremely intelligent as well as wholly nuts. I will look for a pic of him to post for you.

[hidingmonkey]

Theres a guy near me who went around being only known as jester, he even used to go round wearing a jesters hat. He's not mad just has a different view on life i guess you could say. Now he does entertainment for parties, as a jester unsurprisingly...

Then theres also this other guy who runs around town who's pretending that he's drivin a truck. Even pretends to honk his horn. Someone i know spoke to him while he was waiting at the traffic lights one day and the bloke asked them what they thought of his fairy lights. My mate asked which ones and the bloke replied "the ones round my window you idiot".

[OWNage stoat]

Hey hidingmonkey I notice your in swansea I live there two are eith of thoses guys here?

[moog]

dibbie, myself and che hamstera live here too.

you can't come round though; we've got no biscuits

[OWNage stoat]

I have plenty though, but you also cant come round.......I have no house *sobs*

[hidingmonkey]

sorry OWNage stoat those people live in the somerset area. Haven't spotted many odd people round swansea. although there are is a guy on my course who is a complete nutter. He been a para, done mediumship, think he said he worked on an oil rig and can make dog houses out of driftwood. He also cuts his own hair....

Edit: actually there are loads of weirdos, generally hanging round in Sketty. You know the place, Hendrefoilan (sp?) Student Village, its full of complete nut cases. Not often you see people going down the road at 3 in the morning in a bath...

[OWNage stoat]

...I live in sketty......

[gemmellow]

I live i few streets away from what everyone calls 'the mental hospital" i have to walk through it on the way to school.

[Flack]

i know hes not insane, but has any1 seen that guitar guy in mansfield? (if you know your way around, he plays just about opposite the co-op.)

Cant anyone get him a record deal? He's an ace singer. LOL

James

[Marlowe]

Aye you may laugh and chuckle at these poor souls who wander around town and look slightly mad... just remember that most of these poor sods live in awful conditions even if they do have a home. The old gent with lots of bling jewelry, and adidas tracksuit sounds like a classic personality disorder... probably not very good at forming relationships and very lonely. There is usually a serious mental illness behind a lot of these peoples behaviours. Not all of them, but in my experience most.

Sorry didnt mean to make the "laugh at the nutters!" thread all serious... carry on.

[da_dude]

i got heaps of mental people that live near me! theres the mad cat lady (everytown should have one), she has over a hundred cats an they go everywhere AND she has a afro and theres a van drivin into the hedge of her garden.AND theres a mad old guy that wears a shell suit an smokes a pipe, an he walks round the place swearing at cars an sometimes people, ANNNNND theres some old wifie that goes about with a bottle of coke and speaks to it like it was her best friend and she must have a troublesome invisable friend cos shes always shoutin into air sayin it cant get the coke. fineshed, fewww

ACTUALLY, theres also a asylum not to far away, and sometimes one of the patients escapes an a siren like a air raid warning goes off, its scary but kinda exciting:eek:



definatly fineshed know, il maybe try to get some pics

[argh]

I can not get pictures of these people for various reasons (like not haveing a qulaity digi cam and not having a scanner.)

1. Pidegon lady- her house was home to probally 1000 pidgeons. Seriously, Pidegons everywhere. Shes died last winter though.
2. The lister-bums- Theres a bunch of them, like 4 or 5, I've talked to them, one of my friends drank listerine with them one night. Can'te remeber names, but they always smell like mint.
3. Bag lady- Only met her last winter, large shopping cart filled with bags. It was cold out, I wonder why she didn't wear some of the clothes from her bag.....?
4. Prostitute- She was crazy drunk when I saw her. Living in her car and dressed up wierd. Some of this may be because I emt her on Holloween, but I saw her before she changed into her costume, crazy.
5. Craig- Possibly my roomate next month. Done some very odd things, like getting naked a lot in public.
6. Me- I was drunk and pretended to be the Fonze. Also while sober, I pulled down my pants, jumped around and yelled "indecent exposure, indecent exposure".

This seems good for now.....

[Chicken man]

Originally posted by queenofself
i think the best mad person ive ever seen has to be the guy in san francisco who walks around with a chicken on his head. oh how we laughed & originally termed him 'chicken man'

An old post, but I had to point out that this is some strange coincidence.

It's NOT me, okay?!?

[DangerMouse]

but by saying that, you have just alerted us to the fact that it could be you. . . . . Guilty conscience i think