Infamous local 'legends'?

[LaLaLand]

Do you have any of these where you live?

Usually someone who has gathered attention in your area and has a nickname, known for doing something and being spotted around where you live?

A well-known one is Purple Aki in Liverpool who used to hang around outside gyms and ask to feel young lads muscles, also known for chasing people who refused his offers (apparently running one lad onto a traintrack!!)

Basically the local alcoholic or anyone that's "known" in your area to keep an eye out for!

Someone you'd come home and say "Hey, I saw _____ in town today doing _____" if you get me.

[InOne]

There is a 'Jesus man' in my city. Walks around in robes. He been around since the 70's and never seems to age :shocked:

[setanta]

Big time drug dealers mainly. And the weird thing is that the top guys look normal.

[bansheewails]

Robo cop here, an alcoholic pensioner, who doesn't appear to be able to bend his legs when he walks!

[Beso]

Jimmy minto.

Always walked about with a blue sports bag.

He was really old n ugly unshaven etc..he obviously had porn mags in the bag all the time.

[setanta]

We have an Elvis here too. He's had the same hairstyle for the last 20 years.
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Oh, and there was a lad who shaved half his face so he had a beard on the other side. Very weird.

[Beso]

I asked the g/f..she said john terry.lol

[bansheewails]

I asked the g/f..she said john terry.lol

Well you can't fault that! :hugesmile:

[Smithy]

Crazy Pidgeon Lady D:

[setanta]

I was in a pub once with a friend and we were just chatting away when this lad sat at the bar next to us and ordered a pint. Seemed normal enough until he started talking to himself in the mirror, like it was his best friend. We pi$$ed ourselves, even though it was a bit weird. But you know when you've had a few scoops and anything sets you off, right?

[LaLaLand]

We have:

- "Big June" an ex-police man (rumoured to be once a force to be reckoned with) turned transvestite with hairnet, fur coats and bandaged ankles. At least 6 ft 5 and had a FaceBook tribute group with over 5, 000 fans once!

- Les the "Big Issue" man who looks like a cross between John McCrirrick and Janis Joplin, well known for constant bird-whistling which turned out to be code for him selling drugs (which he was busted for)!

- Betty the Tramp used to walk around with a dirty duvet and sleep in hedges, I think she's dead now though.

- This man who campaigns almost violently to passers-by to stop smoking, apparently once was a very rich family man who lost his fortune in a house fire started by a cigrette who was left with nothing and committed himself to ban smoking!

Just a few.... hah

[Vicky.]

The dancing tramp :D

He has been apparently slapped with an ASBO recently though...dunno how true that is but I havent seen him for a while

[Smithy]

Ohh we used to have the "Six for a POUND your gas lighters, 2 for a pound a bungey ball" man who came on market day, but I think he died :(

[Callum]

Lauren Harries lives literally round the corner from me. She's been on BBBM a few times and on lots of daytime TV shows.

[bansheewails]

The Werewolf. An old man who has hair every where and kind of growled when he was drunk. He is in an old peoples home now and all cleaned up, but he looks very sad. :(

Spiderman too, who used to have to hold on to a wall with both hands when walking home from the pub!

[Josy]

We have

Sady Glen - Old smelly woman who looks in the bins down the main street.

Hector - A guy that walks about asking everyone he meets if they have any empty ginger bottles, Hector Hector, bottle collecter :laugh:

[Beso]

NEWCASTLE..

Dancing geordie bloke, comes in the pubs with his ipod and earphones and just dances..

would be ok if he could dance and looked cool, but he doesn't.

[setanta]

The Werewolf. An old man who has hair every where and kind of growled when he was drunk. He is in an old peoples home now and all cleaned up, but he looks very sad. :(

Spiderman too, who used to have to hold on to a wall with both hands when walking home from the pub!

There was a guy I worked with in the bar that I started calling the pinball wizard cuz everytime we had a lock in we used to have to wait for a taxi while he walked home cuz he lived close by. Well, it was obviously about 6 or 7 in the morning so we saw his movements. He bounced and fell into everything along the way. Comical.

[Vicky.]

Oh

Tony the tiger...another who growls at everyone...when he is drunk. And stinks to high heaven.

And Al the perv. Kisses ANY female in sight. Including kids too, tries to actually snog them. But when he comes at you its like a sink plunger. Absolutely vile.

[setanta]

Oh, and we have a guy here that looks the spit of James Nesbitt and we always get people who don't know him to go up looking for an autograph.

[Josy]

Bobby Jelly Neck - Guy who nods his head constantly :hugesmile:

[bansheewails]

There was a guy I worked with in the bar that I started calling the pinball wizard cuz everytime we had a lock in we used to have to wait for a taxi while he walked home cuz he lived close by. Well, it was obviously about 6 or 7 in the morning so we saw his movements. He bounced and fell into everything along the way. Comical.

There is always one isn't there! :hugesmile:

[Vicky.]

NEWCASTLE..

Dancing geordie bloke, comes in the pubs with his ipod and earphones and just dances..

would be ok if he could dance and looked cool, but he doesn't.

That is probably the same person I was talking about.

Gingery, and quite old by any chance?

[Beso]

ghosty delso from kelso...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHUwM9Jadzk


watch him get the words wrong.lol

[Beso]

That is probably the same person I was talking about.

Gingery, and quite old by any chance?

nah this was a young lad, half mongolish down the big market.:joker:

[Vicky.]

nah this was a young lad, half mongolish down the big market.:joker:

Ah I dont know of him then :laugh:

I might if I saw him

[setanta]

There is always one isn't there! :hugesmile:

He's a legend. His legs just disappear. He once fell down a flight of stairs. Just a joke when he's drunk, and we're all as bad as him but we never lose our relationship with the perpendicular, you know that way?

[Lucy.]

Ever seen the chap on Northumberland Street Vicky who grunts at you when you walk past and then follows you mumbling? I guess that doesn't describe much... that's half of Newcastle's alchy population! LOL.

[bansheewails]

He's a legend. His legs just disappear. He once fell down a flight of stairs. Just a joke when he's drunk, and we're all as bad as him but we never lose our relationship with the perpendicular, you know that way?

A woman here too, she tries to box everyone. She is 5ft **** all and a fart would knock her over, but she is game!

[Vicky.]

Ever seen the chap on Northumberland Street Vicky who grunts at you when you walk past and then follows you mumbling? I guess that doesn't describe much... that's half of Newcastle's alchy population! LOL.

Haha nothing stands out really :laugh:

I know of many like that :p

[Lucy.]

Haha nothing stands out really :laugh:

I know of many like that :p

:joker:

[setanta]

But your man at the pub was so funny. he was saying things like, "they don't know, they don't know. You and me, all the way. They're just jealous...Jjjjealous. " We were dying.

[MTVN]

In the village I live there was this guy who lived in a caravan who was basically the village tramp, went around on his bycicle stealing from people (my Dad caught him taking some wine and chips from us once) and begging for money. He actually died a few months ago after moving to a proper house a few miles away

There's alsp this crazy lady in my village who recently escaped from an insane asylum. She just strolls around all day occasionally popping in the pub, she's so mad :joker:

[bansheewails]

But your man at the pub was so funny. he was saying things like, "they don't know, they don't know. You and me, all the way. They're just jealous...Jjjjealous. " We were dying.

He must have loved himself!

[Beso]

Ever seen the chap on Northumberland Street Vicky who grunts at you when you walk past and then follows you mumbling? I guess that doesn't describe much... that's half of Newcastle's alchy population! LOL.

thats me you cheeky cow:nono:

[setanta]

He must have loved himself!

Nah, he loved the chap in the mirror; that was why it was so funny. Why are us Irish so mad in our sense of humour?

[Lucy.]

thats me you cheeky cow:nono:

I knew I recognized you from somewhere :hugesmile:

[LaLaLand]

Where my Auntie lives there was a man called "Dirty Dai" (Welsh nickname for "David", pronounced 'die') who had a house but was basically a tramp. His house was near-derelict and his car had no windows except for the windscreen.

I went to a wedding do in the pub and came out with my family, walked about half way back to our car by my Auntie's house and heard people talking quite loudly and then heard an audience laughing.

We got nearer to find he'd wired his TV up to the street lamp somehow and was watching "Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned" in the middle of the road lmfao!

Nice bloke though, always said hello and things, God rest his soul.

[Ramsay]

westlife

[Ramsay]

used to smoke up loads of ganj with shane filan befoere he got famous :/
sellout

[bansheewails]

westlife

Oh, I am sorry for your troubles. :shocked:

[ILoveTRW]

A man was printing money in his garage a couple of years ago and got caught, thats about it.

[Lee.]

We have a few here, but the best known is Disco Deek..

He walks around the town all day, going into every shop and shouting hiya and waving at all the staff.. He ALWAYS has a bottle of juice under his arm and I think he is definitely the happiest person I know!

In the summer, he wears tiny tight shorts with an ever so attractive line of arse crack sweat on the back :laugh:

Here he is..

http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz351/happyland76/61685_1535831548298_1010123276_31543401_1513477_n. jpg
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz351/happyland76/34563_104445759610186_100001342873696_30024_200822 3_n.jpg

[Beso]

I love disco deek.

[Lee.]

I love disco deek.

:shocked: Are you from around the same parts as Disco Deek??

[Stacey.]

Well twice there's been some pedo round my old primary school waiting for kids and as it's a really small town where I live, everyone knows about him. This was like a while ago now though, don't know what happened to him. D:

There's this woman who rides round on her grannymobile and everyone knows her, she's a bit mental or something I think.

Also there's a lollipop lady who's been on the weakest link LOL and she's old, fat and ugly, goes everywhere and knows everyone. She's a bit freaky actually. She's a virgin too.

[30stone]

An elvis bloke, havent seen him in months..

But he used to wear and elvis t shirt and walk around holding up an elvis book or picture..

Rain sleet or snow he was there lol.

[Jords]

Spalding.

Dancing Fred - tramp who used to dance for food, money etc. Was a decent man with a wife but turned to alcohol when he found out she cheated on him, everybody loved him here. However I think hes moved to Peterborough now, though there were rumours he had died/gone to a care home.

Furry Man - singing tramp who plays the same note on a guitar. Wears a furry hat (hence the name), and apparently used to be a pedo, but could be rumours again :S