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Livewire · Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Location: BI-WINNING!

There is a man in my Hampshire village that changed his name by deed poll to 'Henry the Eighth' and he goes out every day dressed up as Henry the Eigth.

But he is not my one.

I used to work at a major hospital during my last two years of uni as a cleaner and porter. One day I was asked to work in the morgue. I was a bit squeemish about that and my boss told me that hospital policy was that if you felt you didn't want to do it, you didn't have to, so I declined.

In the office with me at the time was a woman in her forties that had two kids of schooling age. She jumped in and said with a worrying glee 'Oh, I'll do it!' She then tried to talk me into coming with her and said it was so fascinating to see the dead bodies.

She also said that I should try, if I got the chance to work the pyschiatirc wards and if I was lucky, I might be able to see someone getting electric shock therapy treatment. All this was said with the same wide eyed wonder of someone telling you the sites you should visit if you were going on a trip to a major tourist destination. I did actually work the psych ward, but I wont go into that gratuitously, though I could relate some shocking things. She was like a kind of hospital voyeur.

There was also the head porter who was a chrsytal speed addict and looked like Uncle Fester and earned extra money as a poacher on a nearby woodlands. He was married to the head cleaner. He used to carry dead animals round in his backpack before going into town after the morning shift to sell them to butcher shops.

sadguy · Joined: 13 Feb 2011

i was a bartender and there was a regular named "crazy scott." he was in a boating accident and wasn't mentally right after the accident. i always called him rod stewart because he looked kind of like rod stewart. anyway, he would say off the wall things, i wasn't sure if he was joking or if he was just really out there. like one time during a summer shift, i was making small talk with him and then he asks me "have you done your christmas shopping yet?"

he eventually got arrested for talking to a little girl while she was waiting in the car. the parents pressed charges on him. it was sad.

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

In Montreal, there was this interesting vagrant who'd go around with an obviously broken camera and pretend to take pictures of stuff.

Also, at the middle school where I work, I caught some boys pretending to breastfeed eachother. I still get a big kick out of that.

daeguowl · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Location: Seoul

Every time I go to watch a Korean match at the World Cup Stadium I run in to this guy, who I suppose is mentally challenged. He has football shirts for IReland, France and Holland and alternates wearing them and has the other two in his bag. Every time we have the same basic conversation and he never remembers that we've met before...I'm sure a lot of other people here will have met him too cos he seems to flit from foriegner to foreigner rather than watching the match.

mmstyle · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: wherever

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Hmm... there's this really awesome old dude with long hair who's often at the same running events as me. I think he runs half marathons... Once, I think he was carrying a Korean flag on a sort of big pole, running really well the whole way. I've never spoken to him, but he'll pose with pictures with any foreigner who asks. I've always thought he was the coolest Korean in Korea.

daeguowl · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Location: Seoul

mmstyle · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: wherever

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

Livewire, which Hampshire village are you from?

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

I met a wierd guy from Yugoslavia when working at Dofasco. He always talked how there was nothing wrong with wanking off not that there is but this is not appropriate talk for a steel company and it was how he liked to relieve stress. One day he was giving me a ride home. He asked me if I would like to go to his home and watch porn with him and wank off together. I couldn't get out of the car fast enough.

crossmr · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul

Easily the filipino who approached me in the e-mart with his nose hair and proceeded to push me to allow him to come to my place so I'd help him immigrate to Canada.

The guy's English was atrocious, he was apparently working here as a labourer and he had a single nose hair coming form each nostril that went all the way to his lip. The guy had all kinds of stories about how half his family was in Canada, but for some reason he needed my help to get there.

I took a different route home that day.

rmparent · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Location: Gangnam

tatertot · Joined: 21 Oct 2008

I finally have something to add to this thread. Although, we didn't really meet...

Earlier today I was walking from the line 2 platform to the line 7 platform at Daerim Station with my girlfriend, and we suddenly encountered a crazy person. Out of nowhere, this woman lobbed half a radish in the air underhanded, then batted it at me and my girlfriend. She then did it again with another radish. After that, she picked up the two radishes and put them back in her bag (it looked like a reusable shopping bag). Her bag had nothing but radishes in it. She then kind of wobbled for a few seconds (like she couldn't decide whether to go or throw another radish at us), before going on her way.

We were shocked, to say the least. But after we recovered a bit, we couldn't stop cracking up about it.

computermichael · Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Location: Anyang

I met this guy once: http://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/OffenderDetail.aspx?OffenderId=14883

I was in college at the time and wanted to buy some pot, so my friend called him and invited him over. He came in without knocking while already smoking a joint, proceeded to interrupt everyone's conversation, and talked about how he hated Jews for about fifteen minutes. Then he went on about how he won the 1998 Pizzalympics and used to be some big-shot pizza mogul in New Jersey. Eventually, everyone became hostile toward him and heckled him until he left.

Furthermore, he was an exotic cat owner and once had a pet serval, which is a kind of African wildcat, that lived with him in his apartment. His serval managed to escape and stayed on the loose in the public parks of Pittsburgh for a few months while he gave regular updates on the local news.

In 2008 the police caught him in a public park getting blown by a fourteen year old boy. I was curious about his life when I saw it on the news, so I Googled him and noticed that all of his Myspace friends were kids. There was also a video of him on Youtube trick-spinning a pizza at his house in the company of a bunch of teenagers.

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

I had the misfortune to meet his guy in Vancouver.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/13/bc-skytrain-slapper-parole-violation.html

He didn't slap me, but he was really scary. He asked me for directions... first, he seemed to make sure I wasn't with anybody else, which is a total red flag, but once he started talking, he seemed normal and I calmed down. Then, he seamlessly segued into some really unbelievable story about being part of a film crew from LA and a taxi left with his stuff and he needed money.. blah blah.. anyway, I said I couldn't help him, and he starting yelling and swearing, and saying stuff like, "Get her! Get her!!" kind of gesturing to a sniper who'd somehow be sitting on top of the Pacific Centre Mall.

I think about him, and I still get mad. I wish I kicked him in the kneecaps or something. How dare he speak to me like that!!!