The strange, silly and stupid...

[SleepingWarrior]

Things that you have witnessed in your town, or other places you have travelled to that you find strange, silly, or stupid thread.


I'll start since I am bringing up the subject.

Well in my town of 60-70 thousand, we have this strange man who will sit out on the main road through town by the local Dairy Queen dressed up as Superman. He really believes he is Superman and has actually got into trouble with the police for attacking people who make fun of him or tell him he isn't Superman. During times of good weather he will constantly be seen dressed in his cape and leotard, he even goes to the county fair and ' patrols ' for ' evil doers'. You think a man like this would go largely unnoticed but for reasons beyond my comprehension last year his 'good deeds' warranted a 9 paragraph in the newspaper. Slow news day I guess, but isn't it just so stupid of the newspaper here to give his delusions merit?

Now that I am done, I'll open the floor to anyone else who has a strange, silly or stupid tales of people/ events they have witnessed.

 

[Bindii]

There's a man that haunts our local Target store....he waits outside the door until the guard is busy then runs as fast as he can inside, grabs a chocolate bar, runs back out to sit on the bench to eat it.
He knows that the store won't prosecute him for such a small amount, but he has been banned from entering there - hence the reason he has to 'trick' the guards.....I'm not sure if his mad dash is about the chocolate or just beating the guard....but its great entertainment value thats for sure!

 

[Shaq]

UVA and Mich St. played basketball in the Richmond coliseum and the game was cancelled cause the ice under the floor melted.

Krispy Kreme trucks delivery trucks have been robbed at gun point

Fights breakout at celebrity b-ball games in the crowd every year

Half our city council has charges of some sort against them

 

[Never]

Life, the Universe, and Everything.

 

[APhil]

OK, here's stupid for ya....

*preface: I live in a town of about 2000*

About 6 years ago, the FBI, DEA, state police, and county police busted a guy who lives about a block away from me for growing and selling marijuana. They removed and destroyed nearly 300 plants from behind his trailer. He was arrested and thrown into the state pen for 10 years, got off in 4 with good behavior, and LIVES IN THE SAME DAMN PLACE! STILL GROWING POT!!!!

 

[nzwookie]

Some fool robbed a local bank---------He wrote the hold up note on the back of an envelope.................







With his name and address on the front !!!!!!

!!!!!!!DOH!!!!!!!

 

[naudiz]

My town is a gathering place for the bizarre. Why else would I live there?

There was the guy who wore necklaces made of Barbie heads and a tinfoil hat. He used to stand utterly still with his arms outstretched for hours like scary lawn art in the parking lot of the 7-11 near my place. I used to buy him coffee when he was animate and we'd chat. He had some interesting theories.

There was the guy who would ride around on a unicycle dressed in pink latex from head to toe. He looked kind of like The Tick only pink and without the antennae. The unicycle scared me. He had to buy his own coffee. He called himself Pink Man. I wonder why.

In our annual city celebration the Slug Queen (such an honorable title) was a tranny. She was gorgeous.

Every year in June, anarchists from all over come to celebrate the anniversary of something (I forget what) downtown, a few blocks from my apartment. Sometimes there's a little rioting. I was thinking of making greeting cards for it next year. I envision a nice Hallmarky card with flowers and frilly script reading "Happy Anarchy Day" and on the inside, it'll say "Now Fuck Off and Die."

 

[Sillyman]

During debate of whether Alabama should ban sex toys, our speaker of the house decided to pee in a jug rather than give up the floor and end his fillibuster.

Currently a bill is on the floor that would make it illegal to declare any group of people as inherently evil.

 

[Sex & Diamonds]

Some fool robbed a local bank---------He wrote the hold up note on the back of an envelope.................







With his name and address on the front !!!!!!

!!!!!!!DOH!!!!!!!

LOL

There's one for that TV show. America's stupidest criminals..

 

[badasschick]

Anyone who lives in CC philly already knows of Crazy Norman, Tree man, and the Toynbee's idea plaques in the street.

But I think the most bizarre thing is in my hometown in New England (pop. 1300) there was an actual armed robbery.

The one phone booth in town is outside the Stop n Go a kwikee mart of sorts, open 24 hrs.

Some poor sap uses the phone at about 11pm and has something shoved in his back and the words "gimme your wallet" follow. The victim turns around to see that his assailant is holding him up with a snapping turtle.

The victim reported the incident to the police (we have only 3 of them) and of course this news story was promptly printed in the local paper as "Violent Crime on the rise".

I don't think he ever got his wallet back, but his story is etched into the town lore.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

*Bump*

 

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