Here is a whole collection of strange folk in the comments:
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We have Timmy the Vehicle in my city, hes a crazy person walking on lanes pretending to be a car, hes been at it for almost 20 years, even the police switch lanes and salute him when they drive by him, timmy is a legend
guy in my city always walks his bunny, he also dresses like some black dude in anime
I am from Flensburg, small town in Germany, and we have the infamous "Penner im Bus" (Bus-hobo) who became famous through YouTube Videos of him in the entirety of Germany. Seen him live 6-7 times, and he always puts up a good show. Every picture of him is in Ufo-sighting quality, but he is still quite known to YouTube germany.
I give you OIL MAN. This resident from my city, Curitiba, goes out cycling wearing nothing but a speedo (and mask now) and oils up his entire body. He's famous around here.
We have "Roller skates dancer guy", an athletic man in his 30s who brings with him a speaker and dances on roller skates through the city. We all love him very dearly
my town we called him "Blaulicht Peter" "Blue light (Police) Peter". He was allways first on spot (on his bike) when there was an accident.
we have a whole bunch of these in Basel. lets start with the "Grinsfrau" (grinning lady). the harmless old woman randomly walks up to people and smiles at them until they smile back. if you are sitting she will patiently stand next to you until you do and ive heard tales of her following people around for a while until they smiled.
next is a man that calles himself "Prinz Dom Manuel III de Portugal Hohenzollern Borbone Bourbon Bragança" and claims to be the rightfull king of portugal. he mostly spend his time sitting in front of city hall with flyers and signs looking for people willing to support him in his quest for the crown of portugal.
there is this guy, known as the secret agent. the used to hang around the train station and claims to work for a russian female rights organisation founded by his wife, which he apparently hasnt seen since the mid 90ties.
this guy is commonly known as the general, the legionaire of "Schmürzel" (from swiss-german schmürzeln = to smell like being burned). he usually runs around with camoflage and medals, hence general and legionaire (myth is that he served in the french foreign legion and got burned badly there). truth is, he set himself on fire.
We have Spoons in Vancouver. Someone said he was a talented skateboarder in the late 80s who had his legs broken due to debts. He now walks the streets downtown with bowed legs, playing the spoons and breaking up fights
In my town we have the cowboy, he’s a 60ish year old man going from bars to bars every weekend, dancing like the 60s and getting free beers cuz people like him. He’s not retarded or anything, just a funny old man who stayed in the past. Bought him a couple shots myself.
He always dresses as a cowboy and takes poses in the middle of the street when bars arent open. When we come across him we just say hi, he says hi back and we continue our day
In Antwerp we had "the crazy scot". I think he died. Haven't seen him for a while.
Just a crazy bearded dude wearing a kilt, yelling at random people and objects like poles.
We have a old guy in my city called "volster" he is a hobo thats basicly immortal.
This is the list he have survived.
Overdosed on morphine about 8 times.
Drank 1L bleach
Jumped infront of a truck 3 times.
Shot 4 times.
Stabbed around 5 times.
Aids.
Broken spine.
Dead liver for 3 month without help.
Alot more.
Dont really know how much of this is myth or legend. But everyone kinda agree that this is what he have gone through.
The immortal one.
in Eindhoven there is Arnol Kox. He was know as a streetpreacher who would repeatedly shout quotes endlessly after eachother. Quotes like; Do you want to live forever or forever be dead?! , You know what you know but you don't know what you don't know, Do you want to live now or does your life start until after you die?
He was like the backtune of the shopping street
He died this June due to Leukemia.
I live in Viborg in Denmark, and here we have Kjole-Ole (Dress-Ole, Ole being his name.) he is a friendly older gentleman who has come to be a local celebrity. He is always seen wearing womens dresses around town, and noone in my town bats an eye, as he has done so for over 10 years i believe
Munich: Oelschlager Zwillinge. Always bickering either at each other or at someone filming them.
We have a guy called Pauly he is about 18/19 and has some kind of retardation. Everybody knows him he and i like how nobody is mean to him, he did a Instagram livestream crying because his girlfriend left him and there were like 80 people watching the stream trying to cheer him up in the chat. That was so wholesome
We have ”the purple man”, a man in his 80:s who exclusively wear purple outfits and rides his bicycle about 30km a day. Madlad.
We have a guy in Bremen his name is Klaus Bärbel. A drunk (and most likely mentally ill) guy often seen at the central station wearing a skirt. I haven’t seen him in a while I hope the alcohol didn’t get him already. It’s quite sad but people usually are nice to him. I even found him on Akinator.
Der König von Augsburg!
We have a dude called Sirovi(raw man), a few years ago he got high sniffing glue, climed up on the roof of the local kids daycare, fell asleep in his undies and got sunburnt since it was August with almost 40C.
We had Mad Billy back in the 70s, he would go along the high street throwing imaginary hand grenades into shops and machine gunning people. We laughed then but now we realise he was a veteran with PTSD and needed help to come home from his war.
In Duisburg (Germany) we have the "Frau mit der Gans aus der 901" (Goose lady from the subway line 901) who rides the subway with her goose. Came to meet her and she was really nice, not crazy how you'd suspect. I guess she did just like geese.
In Vienna we have the bier kavalier (beer gentlemen), this guy asks every woman in the subway if they want to drink a beer with him.
In my town we have a guy called kiwi jackson, he's afamous for his "dancing" and his dressing style, you can find him on YouTube !
In Kiel area (northern Germany) we have "Sherlock". Everyone who regularly uses the trains in that area, know him. Haven't lived there since years, so no clue if he's still there.
In my town we got Goat Man, that dude is always with his pet goat, he even takes the tramway with his goat.
We have Muško, a football fan who joined one of those hooligan clubs as a youngster and he was the bravest of them all so when a bus of fans from the opposing club came to town he ran up there alone, punched 3 dudes and then got the shit kicked out of him so badly it left him kinda retarded, he just wanders the town and legends say that if you listen really closely at night you can hear his battle-cry echo throughout the town upon the winds of fate, ''Ej, stari, a maš kak čik?'', translated to mortal tongues it would mean something along the lines of ''Hey dude, you got a cigarette?'', the meme says ''When you're scared that you left the oven on but then you remember you live in the park.''
Der König von Wittenberg
We have happy balloon guy who for prob 20 years goes to mcd’s every day for u guessed it balloons. Until they stopped having balloons. Evil. And some other fun specimens
I give you (if no one else has) Lan Kwai Fong Gollum in Hong Kong. Shuffles around the bar district poaching cigarettes and scaring young women. Deviant.
We got 2 Dino-Man got 1-2 Dino's with him and will you tell all fact of the Dino.
And Cheese feet man, he screams "Women feet must stink"
We had a hobo called Winnetou. He always claimed to have been a famous painter during/for Hitler.
In Breda, Netherlands we have Indian Pete. Guy is dressed as an Indian, outside of his house is year round decorated with lots of lights, and he owns a huge American truck with two jet engines on it. Always friendly, nice guy.
The guy is growing cabbages in his garden, wears an old tophat, rides a donkey in the city, and he still has his own house.
Here in Portland we have The Whistler. He's always walking around with headphones/earbuds blasting and he's whistling whatever he's listening to. He's a TERRIBLE whistler though, they all sound like the wind through a keyhole.
We have this dude 40 years of age or something in my city dressing up like little girls, with small, bright colored clothes and his hair in ponytails, everyone called him aunt Jef.
Spandau (District in Berlin):
Blauauge (Blueeye/Blackeye): a homeless man. He always had a black and swollen eye. Told everyone he met, he was rich when he was younger. Haven't seen him in years. I think he's dead.
Der nackte Fahrradfahrer (the naked cyclist): An old guy, always on his bicycle. He almost never wears a shirt, just when it's really, really cold.
In my brazilian town we have The Runner. Is a black man who run almost all day. The special thing is when he's excited or tired, he screams things like Hey! or Hoo!
He's awesome.
Ours is a guy who only wears shorts! No shirt or shoes, just shorts. Even in winter and we live in an alpine town
In Aberdeen Scotland, we had Shaky Head Man, he would walk the streets scouring the bins, and sometimes he would wear women's clothing. There was also a guy who'd walk around the city centre in full traditional kilt attire, all the time!
In Copenhagen we have a couple of those guys. I dislike the Old Drunk Frenchman Shouting Profanities the most.
In Kielce, Poland, we have a strange hooded lady who walks on crotches in heavy winter coat with a camping backpack. She is dressed like that for the entire year. Noone has ever seen her face up close
We have a guy who is always dressed in bright fluorescent green. I call him euglena.
I'm from Paraná, Brazil, and here we have Oilman. Basically he rides his bike around town wearing only a swim suit and oil on his body. He is like a local celebrity
In Belgrade there used to be a ''bag man'', who used to wear a plastic trash bag for a shirt and wore plastic bottle based shoes. Never bothered anyone, never did anything, never talked to anyone, just wore plastic. He died a year ago i think.
We have "The cowboy couple" older dude ans his wife dressed as cowboy and cowgirl every few days with the hole nine yards like the boots with spikes on them and everything except a horse
yeah we have "krychlič", or I guess "cube head" in english, he has his hair shpaed like a box, you know all flat and with 90 degree angles and stuff, hard to describe... He's actually not crazy or anything, as far as I know, he apparantely started this as a form of protest against communist government as back then people with irregular haircuts (guys with long hair, etc.) were seen as non conformists and thus a possible threat to the regime and were often beaten by the cops and stuff...
We Had Ozzy Bácsi in my city.
Well, at one point in time we had Zanta, a man who would be clearly drunk or off meds. He'd do pull ups on public transit bars, do push ups on the street in the middle of traffic. You know, standard crazy but always with some workouts.
Toronto, Sorry, Ontario Canada, sorry.
In Peirea, Greece, we have old man Stefano. Dude walks around all day bouncing a tennis ball like a pro with a posse of dogs following him everywhere. Story goes he used to be a professor who got too deep into books and his wife left him, which pushed him to insanity. He also writes literature on random places.
the enchanted islands of Hawaii have entire villages filled with 'horseback jesus'.. true story.
We have a crazy guy who lives in a dilapidated house, chips away at his doorframe and bows and makes rude gestures at passing vehicles.
We had one, dressed up as Sherlock Holmes. But his mental illness got worse and we locked him away in therapy.
There's a hippy guy who rollerblades around shirtless in Edmonton Alberta and plays an acoustic guitar while rollerblading lol He's just shirtless rollerblade guy.
In Portugal we have this guy that everyone in the country knows about. We call him "emplastro" I don't even know how to translate it. The direct translation is "plaster" but that doesn't make sense in English obviously. Anyways, basically he always stands behind the reporters before any game at Dragão stadium. Or he used to do that I don't watch football anymore...
We have a man here who is always jogging backwards in only a thong with a flag hanging from his mouth. Policemen dont even deal with him anymore... yes I live in USA
In a small Ohio town we have pig and twig. A 300 pound woman who rides around in an electric wheelchair in nothing but a diaper and spaghetti strap, and her 90 pound boyfriend.
Whe had the ubiquitous man, aka ubi man, they made even this facebook group about sightings of him, imagine Alan from the hangover lookalike, kinda hippie/drugo guy, always apparently high, randomly spotted in impossibly short time spans in various places of the city, sometimes on a bicycle sometimes on foot...
It's about time I don't hear or see him, who knows where he is now
In Cambridge we have this dude who walks around in a trench coat, huge boots and a top hat. Usually with one hand behind his back.
well we have business fecó (pronounced somewhite like you would prounounce fatso), he's a gipsy with a bag full of whatever he's dealing that day. usually parfume and things like that
We have "backwards man" in Derby, UK. This Indian guy who walks backwards everywhere with a weird look on his face and a huge backpack. He always has a notepad and pen and writes stuff down at pedestrian crossings. Sad story actually, his whole family died in a car crash and it affected him quite badly
we have the" ferry and train man". He has autism and is always at the harbour greeting people coming from mainland. If you need to be f.e. in zurich he can tell you every trainstation, when you must change trains (with exact time) and on wich track. his caretakers say he reads every evening the german timetable for nearly all the routes.
He never failed me.
In my town We have the Dog riders , He has A chair mounted with some wheel and get around town getting pulled by his 2 dogs
True, women cant really reach that kind of originality, but on the other hand, no male spouse ever reached the stardom among men like that of best Wife ever Heather Harmon, Joe, you lucky soab
"The man in blue" in Limoges, France. He always wears a blue working-uniform and rides a bicycle.
In my city, we have spider-lady. She's got a birth defect where her knees bend the wrong way around, so she can often be spotted crawling in the subway, begging for money.
In my city we had cowboy joseph he had cowboy hat, leather vest and he would ride around on his 40 yo moped with self made mini trailer and pick up junk to sell at junkyard, oh and he didn't speak only yell indistinguishably
In my town, we have "Pfand Enrico" and a crazy hobo. He is always drunk and looks like jesus. We call him Jesus.
Chuck. We have one beggar in our town who sits on one corner. Is real talkative and very nice and sits there all day every day. The town Raised $20,000 through a go fund me for chuck. He spent it all in 3 weeks and went right back to the corner. Hes been there for 20 years at least.
I don't know if he has a local name. But Amsterdam has this old dude that rides his bicycle in nothing but peach coloured swimming speedos.
KC Superman or SuperJesus
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We have a homeless woman that always sits in the middle of a busy street where many stores are. She knits bracelets and stuff that she sells. Apparently she got offered help a lot but she enjoys the life she has. I never talked to her but usually people are around her and speak about life.
In my city (Olomouc, Czech rep.), we have the mysterious twins. Basically, they look like the Olsen twins a hundred years from now. They're old, tiny, frail and just so thin you get sort of scared just looking at them. They just walk through town, never seen them smile or talk or go into a store. They just walk around ominously in silence. They usually wear matching outfits, crazy is, the outfits are real nice. They dress very nicely, but you can still tell they're either homeless or incredibly poor. I always wondered what's their story.
In Teresina PI (Brasil) we have a Thannis . He is a very annoying flamboyant creature who will sit at your table in any restaurant and hit on anything with a dick. No matter age or if its with a wife or grandparents close by.
We have Hettie de heks. Translates to Hettie the Witch. I think she is kill though
There is this crackhead in a city near me. We call him whispering Phil cause always stares into a single direction and whispers crazy shit to himself. What a legend
In Frankfurt we have the guy "nackischer Jörg" (naked Jörg) who runs a round fully naked... Shopping, doing sports etc. Completely harmless and friendly, everyone knows him. Police arrests him from time to time but since it's just a minor incident they eventually let him go...haven't seen him for a long while now
We have this "Elvis" in my hometown, we call him "elvis tomppa" and he's been dancing and singing middle of town for as long as i can remember, im 21yo. And he's still at it, same spot, dancing and singin, sometimes even in very bad weather.
We have a man we call pikachu because when he says ‘please buy big issue’ it sounds like ‘please buy pikachu’
When I lived in Columbus we used to have the rapping bum aka "help is on the way". RIP.
There's a guy who rides a unicycle in darth vader mask and cape, but wearing a kilt, and he plays the bagpipes.
He dons a santa outfit during christmas.
We have Hobo Joe. He's like 7 feet (200cm) tall, has a massive beer gut, and just walks around town.
We got 2 here in Split to Trogir area, first is "Santa" who wears a santa hat all year. The second is "Snaping guy" who takes the bus and snaps his fingers and laughs like a maniac.
Jesus guy, randomly starts playing music in whatever place he feels like, rides one of those bikes you have to lie down on and tells everyone that they are blessed by jesus.
he helped me once with a flat tire. Really good guy.
A long time ago in my city we had "La Giulia te le chiai" (literally Julia of the keys):an old woman who had something like 100 keys with her all the time, who claimed to be the secret lover of the king, and that she was bound to marry him eventually. Her keys were supposed to "open the seals of the city".
Another one who still lives at the time is Tubocco, aka Checco Dance. He's mostly harmless and spends his days singing loudly around the city while listening to his ear pieces. He's a witness of the technological passage of time: 20 years ago, he would wear a Walkman, then passed through the CD Era and when he finally switched to an mp3 player he stopped carrying around his backpack full of Cassettes and CDs
I lived in Belleville Ontario for a few years and there was a few of these people around. The one I remember the most was Pilon Joe. He would set up traffic cones for no reason in random locations and people just knew that you don't fuck with those cones. He'd case you for several blocks.
In my hometown there was this 60 y.o. guy wearing skirts, dresses and bras (on top of the other clothes). Nobody knew why he was wearing these clothes. Some say he liked it better that way others say he has a trauma because his mother always wanted a girl and dressed him up this way so he still
Yeah, we had a homeless guy who would routinely be high from sniffing glue, and when approached would shout "I AM A SNAKE UUUUURRRRRGGGGHHH". For some reason everyone called him Jesus. I never questioned it, so to this day I have no idea why he was known under that name.
There is a guy in my city who rides shirtless on a longboard while playing an acoustic guitar. Only on a specific street. We just call him the longboarding shirtless guitar guy.
We had Dog man. It was hobo who was followed by pack of stray dogs. But the thing is he wasnt hobo, he was a lawyer and highly educated one and owned a house in really expensive part of town. He went nuts and one day he burned to death in abandoned house.
In Lyon, France, we have the "spider woman" in the metro. She "walks" on her hands and feet but her knees are bent forward instead of backward which is why she's called "spider woman"... There's a ton of videos of her on youtube.
We had a ”talking dog” in my hometown (he looked like a bulldog and constantly kept talking, even with himself)
In Hasselt we had dancing pete. I think he moved tho. A crazy, extremely gay black dude who'd come up to you and give you compliments and would start to dance for your whole company, whenever he'd get real drunk he'd dance for dogs. Going from bar to bar
We had a guy "Jesus", just like you imagined, he looked exactly like Jesus. Sandals, silk clothing everything.
We have several people like that. One of them is the “crazy townsman“ who always wears a warning vest and drives around with a christmas tree on top of his car and a dummy dressed depeneing on the the season in his backseat. He also has a photo of his own face on his engine hood. Another one would be a guy who's always walking around bare feet no matter what season it is. And he made his hair into a single dreadlock that he grew down to his butt, folded it and put it back on his head.
In Elche (Spain) we have El Ruso. He's a nice guy and he's our lord
See him here
We have cowboy Superman. Has a cowboy hat and wears a Superman outfit, and pushes a pram/stroller around with filthy stuffed toys in it
In my city we have a guy that walks around only in bathrobes and asks for money for train tickets
We have Rat Poison Guy. He basically goes around the town in his bike selling rat poison everyday for close to 40 years now. I never actually saw people buy his rat poison, although i assume he is rich judging his house and how he always advertise something since he is famous.
Shirtless roller-skating guitar guy
In Santiago, Chile, we had the “Divino Anticristo”... RIP
Germany Essen =Ghettoblasterboy legend
Flaschensammler Joe (Bottle collecter Joe)
Nijmegen had tamboerijnvrouwtje
Godofredo!! schineider!
Ah we had Hanf-Ueli here in Zürich... he died last year unfortunately...
"Mark De Maanman" (Mark the moonman)
Kailua, Hawaii. We got Mango Man
In Rostock its "Flaschen Paul"
in Toronto we have the Believe guy (who just yells "BELIEVE" at you when you least expect it), there's the muslims and christians having yelling matches, that homeless guy in a wheelchair that uses his legs to move, and so on
In Lyon, France, we have " la Femme Araignée " = Spider Woman ( and hell of Covid !!! )
Type " la femme araignée Lyon" to discover her !
Belfast has violet-trumpet guy
In my town we have the "I'm on my bicycle listnening loudly to shitty song and fuck all of you" guy, don't know his nickname. Wherever and whenever you are you have a chance to see him, his only purpose is to ride with shitty music. Don't know his nickname, if someone from ALBI France is around here i'd
Lived in Frankfurt Germany. Drove to work and saw a naked 40 year old dude walking around at the street. Thought he had a heat stroke because it was very hot this day. So i called emergency. They said "Oh that's just the naked Jörg" Seems like this guy walks around there naked so often that people got used to it.
Here in El Paso there's a dude that dresses up as the Undertaker and walks the streets.
I'm from Enschede, the Netherlands, and we have the Loose Euro Man. He asks for loose euros.
