I came across this: www.420.net/~jon/holdingitdown.wmv

I recommend you watch this video as a primer for your class in 'ology. Now that has got to be the craziest mofo I've seen, but it did remind me of a few sightings I've had...

[Disclaimer: I'm not a psychiatrist, so don't be offended by my apparent lack of understanding, and for lack of esoteric terminology, my choice of words and emoticons. These are merely accounts I have either experienced or been told of. Whether folks are crazy because of their genes, or whether they are crazy for other reasons unrelated to their genes (), the bottom line is that sometimes human behaviour can cause people to react with fear and perplexity...and this often propogates as laughter.]

So AAAAAaaaaanyway,

...I was in a taxi skirting round Trafalgar Square (back when you could ) and a noticed a bunch of pedestrians on the pavement seemingly desperate to avoid something...or someone. In fact it was a hurtling down the path wearing a trench coat, sporting crazy dreds, and cussing to himself at the top of his voice. "Seems like the casual Londoner," you might say. However, this guy was also PUNCHING himself, IN THE FACE, with both fists, and in a VERY HARD MANNER. OLD LADIES WERE PRAYING. In fact many a doctor would have diagnosed his face as being 'utterly fucked' due to his self-abuse.

I do have a story of an EVEN CRAZIER dude, although I didn't witness it myself. My dad was a cop and once while he was patrolling our local chav-town, he got a call out from the office, stating that "The Nazareth was AT IT again." 'Nazareth' being the towns major apparently. Well, eventually my dad and his colleague caught up with the guy...or rather, found him, sat outside the entrance to a large, busy shopping center. Nazareth was totally contained within a black plastic bin-liner. According to my dad, this was known as his 'Secret Sac', and noone knew what was inside. However, this time the Nazareth himself was found to be inside it. According to my dad, they yanked off this sac in order to remove the guy, and a whole plethera of pornographic material flew out. The real blinder though was the fact that he was alledgedly covered from head to toe in...hmmm, let's call it 'Agent XY'. Now, the REALLY SCARY thing is that when I was at school (way before the 'Agent XY' incident), my mates and I used to hang outside the chippy during lunchbreak and have crazy conversations with this guy! Apparently, and I never knew this, he used to have day release from a home he was staying at

I do have one more incident of a Whilst serving some crappy gig as a security guard preventing treehuggers from leaping in front of large machinery, I became acquainted with one such Enya-lover by the name of A.C.A.B. His name was in fact tatooed on his forehead. According to the guy, it stood for 'All Cops Are Bastards'. I did 'politely' compliment him on his whit at the time.


What are the craziest people encounters you've had?
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Yeah, let's all laugh at those with some form of mental illness!!

Then we can start on the spastics!

doctormcmeekle said:

'cause I saw it before it was edited

Cloudbuster said:

Yikes!

Now my `spastic` quote is hanging out there all on it's own!

Cloudbuster said:

Apparently my few anecdotes of 'crazy individuals' was deemed un-PC, judging from the sarcasm of our org Doctor. I was merely stating my various observations - if anyone felt the need to associate them with humour, then that says more about them than it does me. HOWEVER, to laugh at the behaviour of classified lunatics is not necessarily a bad thing is it?



If not, then I can re-post my original txt
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Taureau said:

Crikey!

nothing is quite as perky as total lunacy.
btw mcmeekle where are my meds?

Taureau said:

So you do know what the emoticon means!

That's why I added one to the end of my sarcasm!

XxAxX said:

I'm with-holding them so we can see if you'll end up in a plastic bag full of porn covered in, I think, spunk.

Which'll make perfect sense if Taureau re-edits his text.

doctormcmeekle said:

doctormcmeekle said:

I know you had a point!

He really doesn't like those PT Crusisers, does he?

doctormcmeekle said:

ha. betcha ate them all yourself

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

Mini Crack.

She's a vertically challenged crackhead who lives in my hood. One day I saw only a jacket walking towards me and I was like "WTF?" and as it got closer I saw it was her...looking as mean as ever. She may be short, but I would not want to engage in any kind of violence with her...cuz she'd kick my ass.

And then there's crackhead Mary. Basically been around the hook cracking for 15 yrs now. Her walk ...er crawl of shame was when I happened upon her crawling across an alley pulling up her underwear. Sad sight but pretty f'ed up, if you ask me.

ANd then we have Frank Chu. This guy who walks around SF holding a sign protesting something different.daily..asking for impeachment of Jefferson etc.
He's actually a legend here. I recall being at a bar and this guy next to me kept nodding out. I looked over and it was him. I'd ask for an autograph but he was sleeping.

XxAxX said:

Taureau said:

That car he was beating on! That was a PT Crusier, I can't say that I blame him.

By the way the craziest person I've ever encountered was in the mirror.

superspaceboy said:

that's one of the things I love about the States, the 's seem to have a distinguished class about them!

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

Hey I wonder if the guy in the movie clip was actually just the.....parking attendant?!?!?! "HEY BEEYATCH! YOU AIN'T GONNA PARK THERE IF I'VE GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!"

Taureau said:

I have to say that San Francisco has a special breed or crazies and crackheads apart from the rest of the states.

I'm schizophrenic and so am I.

You guys have obviously not seen the kid in the Anthem Health Insurance commercial yet - THAT is some crazy stuff! LOL

Taureau said:

This individual reminds me of the type of students that I had to encounter while teaching in a Junior High School. Many days, I had to mentor counsel students who were destructive like the man in the video. Foutunately, I was sucessful in reaching the childern. The individual in the video is obviously suffering from a bad case of Ghetto Pains.

Ghetto Pains start when the individaul is younger and has to grow up in an enviroment that is not condusive to his development. It is very likely that this individual grew up without a male role model, a stabe mother figure,counseling, and severe poverty. If the individuals in this situation lose faith in themself then, the individual will take his troubles out on any one that comes in contact with them and becomes a menace to society..
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superspaceboy said:

exCUSE me but let's get something cleared up right here and now: that man is not crazy, he is an ALIEN. see how he's wearing shades even though it's not that bright out? that's to hide his alien eyeballs from view. see how he's touting a nutty cause with his sign there? that's to disguise the fact that he and his kind have come to our planet to steal valuable water from us.

instead of being amused we should be afraid, very very afraid

XxAxX said:

hes a nasty parrot!

Christopher said:

Crispy fried parrots! Eat them up good!

subhuman09 said:

KFP=kentucky fried parrots

Christopher said:

I believe I have obtained footage of a parrot sex club:



We must stalk and destroy them.