The good folk of St. Helens threaten their children with Purple Aki. Didn't know about the sex offender stuff. I know he got done for touching young men's biceps and making them do pushups in front of him. Nutter? You'd best believe it.
Like Jackthedog I grew up near Middlewood in Sheffield. I remember Walter clearly. He used to go on trips and would give out random stuff on his return. He gave me an insecticide thing like a solid air freshner that we had in our kitchen for years.
He used to put bets on at the shop on the way to my school. They would save up his bets for a few days and give him a "big win". Also remember Ernest who would sing "oh danny boy" if you asked nice.
Now in Harrogate with Rudy who is Jesus and can move the clouds, he's scared of italians, because they crucified him last time round. Occasional rustles up a little PA system and follows girls who are wearing high heels making clip-clop noises through the speaker. He asked me to bring him some jeans back from America the other year and I thought why not. When I gave them to him he immeadiately tried to sell them while I stood there
A couple of classics from Birmingham:
1) The Jogging Man - Has been spotted thousands of times over the last 5 yrs in north birmingham out jogging - Shortish black man, wearing big 80's style sunglasses, a thick wooly hat, grubby white fleece & a backpack. Runs all day, everyday, and always in the same dirty clothes. I have regularly seen him at 5am and also late at night around the Great Barr / Kingstanding area. Used to be some sort of "Ive seen the jogging man" website, with times and locations on it. Not really sure if he's a nutter, just a local legend!
2) Basketball Man - Big tall black guy,can regularly be seen in & around New St Station, dribbling his b-ball, or strumming an electric guitar, Always taking notes in his little book, and occasionally swearing at passers by. Strangely, i have heard him speaking perfect french, attempting to woo various lady passers by. If they don't respond, he normally (gently) chucks his b-ball at them. He's deffo a legend in Brum.
we've got 'radio man' here. rides his bike around town with a boom-box on his shoulder, singing along loudly to his radio. nothing is played on the radio as it has no batteries.
there used to be a fella that would get all the kids to ride his 'bus'. he'd walk around the park making bus noises and stopping for people to get on and off.
story goes that his mum got hit by a bus when he was young.
that Sykes guy.... watched the vids and it is all just very sad.
Got to be this guy, known by EVERYONE in Manchester city centre, due to his extreme volume:
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Also like the large black guy with the bus badges and the unplugged plastic microphone, who pesters you with surprisingly well sung random tunes and a thousand yard stare in every pub in Manchester.
Oh, and the legendary 'Alkie Malkie' from Middleton, who always liked to relieve himself from the upstairs window of the 17 bus. Used to liven up a trip to town, I can tell you.
Southports rollerblading tosspot
A complete barmpot and an arrogant pain in the aris who nearly knocked my mum over two months ago coming out of Marks an Spencers. I caught up with him and pointed out he had scared my mum so badly she had an asthma attack and had to go home in a taxi he just laughed and said he made people happy I just about stopped my self from knocking him down and using his head as a football.
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We have dancing dougy & Nicolas in Gateshead, both have youtube history though I doubt either would know what the internet is. Dougy will dance round the traffic lights and street lights from one end of Low Fell to the other, he can hang a tab end on his bottom lip all day without it falling off.
Nicolas has serious tourettes and is always on the look out for 20p, which he usually sticks in a fruit machine in the local pub, I witnessed him dropping the jackpot in the Vic one night the poor kid nearly died of shock.
Nick's best trick is in waving down buses and taxis and then giving them gordon ramseys finest verse when they pull over.
Russell, father of two girls aged six and seven, has asked to be moved to alternative accommodation.
Russell clapped his hands and demanded the Taxpayer move him and his brood to another location so that he can get his 12hr daily sleep undisturbed.
The Koreans who stand outside shops in the high street every Sunday shouting "believe in Jesus" through a megaphone.
another Birmingham one is Dancing Rasta, he can be seen at all hours of the day dancing (with no music) outside his house near the No Hope hospital.
there was a bloke who lived on a roundabout in Wolverhampton as well
Steve "Girls~" from Newport,Shropshire. He gallops around the High Street like a horse and likes to stop and stroke girls woth long hair. He's obsessed with the Spice girls and is always off to London to marry Emma Spice!!
Who's your favourite nutter then
Max Mosley 😆
