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What weirdos do we have around here?

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merlin617:
You can Call me "Admiral" :shock:

diggerdog36:
We have an old guy in kings lynn, he has a smashed up old guitar that he has to hold together and pretend to play it, but he also has a good condition guitar that stands behind him unused!!! He mimes to himself too....bless him!!!  Ill try and get a covert picture!!

Lord Shagg-Pyle:

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--- Quote from: lee celtic on October 17, 2008, 15:10:34 ---Your standard British excentric don't worry about it :lol: :lol:

any other country and they would have the tazer out..

We had two belters in bangor .

one thought he was the king of wales (including full robes and crown ) and the other we called Marrigold as he wore washing up gloves all the time .. and he also wore a black rubber mini skirt ,tweed jacket and black watch cap , If you bibbed your horn he would salute then whip out a note book and take your reg number :lol: :lol:

mad as a box of frogs the pair of them... ;)

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You had a Marigold too??  :shock: There used to be a character in Norwich who would stand in the middle of roundabouts directing traffic. Lord Shagg-Pyle will tell you all about him, I'm sure. Don't see him any more. No idea what happened to him.

Then, of course, there's the famous puppet man.........  :D

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From my recollection, Marigold was a chap who had 'mental health issues'. Completely harmless and used to stand at the top of Grapes Hill in the City, directing traffic. He would regularly supplied with flourescent jackets from numerous sources, including the local Police, to make sure he was visible. He always wore a pair of bright yellow rubber gloves, hence the name. He disappeared a few years ago, and it was thought he had died.
Such was the feeling towards the chap, that there was talk of putting up a statue in memory of him.
It turned out he was in fact alive and well, and had been seeking treatment


MARIGOLD
Special Ability: Traffic Direction Although no longer around, MARIGOLD was one of the true Norwich Super Heroes, equipped with a fluorescent jacket or vest and bright yellow marigold gloves, you would find him, in times of National Emergency, defending the City by standing on a traffic roundabout directing the traffic. Unfortunately, quite a few people actually took notice of what he was telling them to do, resulting in the building of Norwich Union Insurance Department.


THE PUPPET MAN
Special Ability: Hypno-puppets that stun and mesmerise passers by with their inane jumping up and down to Des O Connor Cd’s. He is actually a multi-millionaire, having left his successful career as a merchant banker to “give something back to the people”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIbYUBbTqMg


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http://www.isthisit.net/?cat=1

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Its fair to say that I meet a fair few people who are 'different' during my working day. I was on patrol the other night when a chapleapt out in front of my vehicle and asked that I escort him home as he was afraid of the lions that were in the woods.
I told him that there weren't any lions in Hampshire, only in Sussex, near Worthing.
He seemed happy with that.

littlepow:
Near to where my perants reside, is a Lord who has some harmless but rather excentric traits.  He keeps smuggling food out of the home he resides in and hides it in the hedgerow at the end of the lane.  Refuses to wear any new clothes regardless of who gave them to him, will even remove his clothes from the washing machine while it's mid cycle to stop people from exchanging them for new items.  Went missing one day for about 3 days, had tried to take a short cut back from the pub and got caught in a barbed wire fence. Survived fortunately and is still up to his old tricks.

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