We have Superman. Overweight guy that stands on the corner dressed as superman. Was not a problem until he started bothering ladies at Dairy Queen. The dairy queen was on the corner where he stood. He got banned from that lot. But he’s still around.
Well that doesn’t sound very super…
We call ours “the artist”. Older gentleman who walks around downtown always dressed completely in white linen. Sometimes he goes in somewhere for a nonalcoholic drink. Mostly he just people watches.
Is he an Ancient Greek time traveller or something? I swear, that would make for a kickass movie. “You all know the guy. Or girl. That one person in your town, or one of those people if it’s a city, in the impossible urban legend. They’re weird, possibly nice, possibly just creepy, probably mentally damaged.” montage of the other examples “This is ours. We called him the artist. Pretty mild, he just sat in coffee shops and watched people walk by. One day, though, our perception of him would change. Not just in this town, but in this timeline. This… is what happens When Worlds Divide.”
Schreeuw Jezus (screaming/shouting Jesus) in Eindhoven, The Nederlands. Some guy shouting about Bible stuff and Jesus.
I was once sat at a pub by a canal on a pretty perfect summer afternoon. It was glorious weather, so all the outside tables were packed. Someone appeared opposite the pub, on the other side of the canal with an amplifier on wheels and a microphone. They set up and started speaking… But there was just a touch of wind, and they were on the other side of the canal… So other than the fact that they were probably talking about Jesus we couldn’t make out what they were saying at all. An awkward sermon for all involved.
Sounds like my man “Sneesus” at Dundas Square. “BbBEEEEELEEIVE IN THE LORD” everyday, same corner. Scaring the crap out of anyone who doesn’t know the intersection but otherwise never approaches or even gives a glance.
My city has The Walker, a very gentle man who walks everywhere, has long chopped hair and at one point (maybe still) wore a Power Puff Girl keychain as a necklace. Some say his family was killed in a car accident, hence the walking. We also had “The Silver Fox” legendary “Mullet Man” who creeped around all the local bars but died relatively recently.
If he lost a kid who liked that show, that certainly would explain it. His story sounds so sad, if true, I can’t imagine what that would be like…
I live in Augsburg, Germany. We have „the king“. He just declared himself king of Augsburg about 30 years ago and everyone just went with it. He spends his days walking through the city looking after the wellbeing of his people. Here’s a video-portrait by the local newspaper for his 70th birthday (in German)
Certainly a better king than most!
Lol, we had this guy in my hometown, except he didn’t wear a robe, he wore cowboy clothes with LEDs sewn into them. He was lit up like a Christmas tree.
My hometown had the “Old Runner Guy”, some dude who was at least in his 70’s would run the same route every. single. day. Rain, shine, snow, hail he’d be runnin. Hell, it’d be -20F out and he’ll still be on his route.
I have some friends in a city with a guy that
dressesdressed as Superman and ran around town praying for folks. I saw him once while visiting. He had great energy. He even got a mural!One Punch Man
My town had Waving Save. He lived across the street from me when I was in high school.
He would walk the 5 miles to town every day most of the year. He would wave enthusiastically at every passing vehicle.
He was very pleasant but odd.
Tricycle Santa!
Ohio apparently has 2-3 separate “crazy bike ladies.” The one in dayton would generally roam around and yell obscenities at traffic. Apparently there’s one in the canton/Akron area as well as Columbus.
I had a dude who would dress up like Britney Spears, and he went by “Britney Girl-Dale”. I never interacted with him, but I had friends who did who said he was HELLA nice, but always high. Which lead me to defending him anytime my judgemental parents had anything nasty to say.
Unfortunately, last I heard he had “found Jesus” and went massively fundie/evangelical. 😮💨
Red letter media has mentioned Milwaukee Wolverine during one of their Neil Breen videos.
My town has the Q-Anon Shaman…
Sauce?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Chansley
About another 1.6 million people can also claim to live in the same town as the Q-Anon Shaman since he’s from Phoenix and you’d see him fairly frequently if you drive by the government buildings downtown before he was thrown in jail for his participation in Jan 6.
Oof, that guy’s probably ended up with a kiwiFarms thread.
Toronto had Zanta, a guy who wore red boxers, black boots and a Santa hat and did pushups on top of mailboxes and flexing while shoutting at passersby. If you knew him it was a fun spectacle but for most people he was aggressive and basically a creep.
He was mentally ill for sure, and had a pretty long sad story.
Any Zanta experts please speak up if you’d like to add more context. Pretty sure someone wrote a book or comic about the guy.
What about the singing guy?
Pallet guy. Very few know his face, but we all know his tiny car and stack of 10 pallets on top speeding down the interstate.
Are you a trucker? Or is this a meme? If it’s the former, I’m impressed and worried that that’s common enough to be recognizable.
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