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Scrump21 · 13/01/2020 22:51

Do you have any where you live, or any local urban legends?

The closest town to myself there was a man who drove round on a mobility scooter with 4 or 5 real life owls sat with him... He would stop and let people have pics with him and all sorts.

It wasn't done as a one off or charity, he just liked to takes his owls out I guess.

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Skyejuly · 15/01/2020 21:39

I used to live in Southampton and the spinner man used to be in jumping jacks every week. Absolute legend!

Also a tramp called Mo. We were at school and people used to buy him chips and sit and talk to him but everyone knew him and he didnt want a house?

Candlesky · 15/01/2020 21:42

@Lurleene we're in the same area! I tested him a few times on the time when I was younger, haven't seen him around for a long time now

LetMeLayAmongTheStars · 15/01/2020 21:44

We used to have Toy Mic Trev who would stand outside the old JD sports singing Frank Sinatra into one of those children’s echoey mics.
There was a homeless lady who had a trolley full of stuff that she would move a few yards down an the embankment of an A
road every day.
We have a man that drives on a jamaican inspired mobility scooter blasting reggae and R&B music.
We also have a chap named ninja, quite tall, dreadlocks, who plays the metal bins with drumsticks and shouts seemingly random things while walking down the high street. I think people think he’s an oddball but My DH has actually met him properly and said he is very intellectual.

FiddlesticksAkimbo · 15/01/2020 21:50

My aunty used to live in the next village from Judith Chalmers.

WhatToBuyForBirthday · 15/01/2020 21:50

In West London in the 80s and 90s there was a woman who lived in her car. It was parked on a residential street and was full of rubbish. She allegedly had been a professional concert pianist and now had mental health issues. She appeared to be left alone.

She was pretty scary actually and used to swear at you aggressively if you walked by her. I always crossed the road as a child.

She was killed by a lorry in 2015 but her death made the papers.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/car-lady-chiswick-dead-tragic-5151543.amp

Worried234 · 15/01/2020 21:51

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners We live in the same town!! Grin

cheesenpickles · 15/01/2020 21:53

We have "Sparkly Dress Guy" who is an elderly man who walks around in, you guessed it, a sparkly slip dress whatever the weather. There's also the "The Incredible Dancing Man" with huge headphones, plugged into nothing that just dances away. Also a local thug who walks around in a top hat bothering people and taxi drivers will often tell you with glee when he's been picked up by police. The guy who sits on buses dictating a what I imagine to be an inner monologue but with police call signs thrown in. There's also "Crazy Helen" who comes and visits sometimes from a nearby town who may have mh issues Sad but apparently isn't actually called Helen.

Fanniesyeraunt · 15/01/2020 21:56

Just seeing Noddy holder mentioned reminded me that dh used to live locally to him. Apparently when everyone was drunk in the local they’d shout “it’s chhriiiiiistmaaaas!! when he came in - poor guy.

cheesenpickles · 15/01/2020 21:58

@pencilpot99 I remember Chinese Elvis! There was so kissy kissy chicken shop man who would block you in chicken shops and on buses with his mobility scooter so you'd give him a kiss. Even saw him mentioned in Vice once Grin

Pootle33 · 15/01/2020 22:00

Local Legend/YouTube/funny man/DJ/Aaron Crascall lives in our town...Always says hello and has a smile on his face Smile

cheesenpickles · 15/01/2020 22:02

Oh! And we have this kid who is half grifter/half magician outside the pubs who went national when he bothered a dance clothing shop by rocking up in a clown mask and stood there for 20 minutes staring.

VanGoghsDog · 15/01/2020 22:03

@Bunnyfuller

Oh well! You kind of know me now! I’m in your village FB group, and my hairdresser lives there so just wanted to ask! Have you ever seen HL?

I go to the gym there a couple of times a week.

Ah, well, if you're in the Fb group - I'm the one who always seems to manage to cause trouble!

I did see HL once walking his dog. I didn't know there was a gym here, is it at the school? My dp knows Paula Radcliffe's dad, PR used to go to the school of course - though dp doesn't live anywhere near here so it's all a bit odd!

My hairdresser is the one at the hotel but she lives in one of the other villages. I was worried about the flooding today as I had a hospital appointment but it's always OK from mine to the main road, and I had to get a taxi anyway (eye thing so couldn't drive there), so it wasn't my car that would be affected. :)

SheSawHorsesHorsesHorses · 15/01/2020 22:15

FuzzyPuffling

sounds like a bad game of consequences

It does, doesn't it? Love your username btw. I love baby puffins.

Catscatsandmorecats · 15/01/2020 22:16

We used to have Burping Ron in our town, everyone thought he was homeless. He spent all his time pushing a trolley of random stuff around and burping at people. He was a local legend. When he died they cleared his house where he had been hoarding stuff and I think found an unexploded ww2 bomb.

augustusglupe · 15/01/2020 22:21

BallstoFLeBay

But Paddy lives in Bolton....Not!! Grin

SheSawHorsesHorsesHorses · 15/01/2020 22:23

My parents live in a little village in South Gloucestershire area and about 10 years ago now down the A38 near them was a man who was dressed in lycra on rollerskates and carried a whip and he would beat the lamposts with it! Never knew what that was about but he did it in all weathers and always made me smile!

Hadenoughofitall441 · 15/01/2020 22:23

Nigel Harmon used to live right near me in my old house. Eddie Kidd lives near me now I see him in the local shop quite often.

SheSawHorsesHorsesHorses · 15/01/2020 22:24

catscatsandmorecats

As a child I used to be fascinated by people who could burp at will- I never could do that. If i did burp it was always when I didn't want to.

Rachie1973 · 15/01/2020 22:28

We had laughing John here. Lovely man with mental health issues. Just laughed and laughed. The locals loved him but he sadly passed away last summer. Very missed in our high street.

WonkyDonk87 · 15/01/2020 22:34

Gordon the Tramp who could tell the time.... because he was sat under a clock most of the time.

Letsnotusemyname · 15/01/2020 22:34

Ken Morley aka Reg Holdsworth used to live just up the road from me.

Used to drink in one of the roughest/dirtiest pubs in town - although in his defence it was conveniently close to him.

Bitchinabonnet · 15/01/2020 22:34

Was the cowboy man in Wolverhampton by chance ?

Milkandhoney123 · 15/01/2020 22:35

Stormzy

Agingdisgracefully · 15/01/2020 22:41

Much loved was Tea Cosy Pete, who sadly died a few years back. He was homeless by choice.

Llareggub. I used to live there and remember him well. Also Leonard from pennard who used to shout into a traffic cone and always carried a radio, Monkey woman who used to hang out in the gardens when they WERE gardens and was tiny and like a prune. Also a woman who had a really tall bun built around toilet roll inners, wore a black cloak and boots, caked on make up and scared us to death

Have heard of the pride man and look out for him when I visit

keffie12 · 15/01/2020 22:43

I live in the home town of Guy Fawkes, who would be a hero today.

Others from here are Dame Judy Dench, Frankie Howard, David (bleep) Davis, Joseph Rowntree, John Terry (as in the chocolate factory ) and Steve McClaren (footballer and manager)