Featured Strange Sights For Strange Times--what Weirdness Have You Seen Lately?

And do you wear your Docs with tight jeans that aren’t quite long enough

 

Actually @Sandi T. after I posted this morning there was someone else I remembered, again in Amsterdam (where else).
There’s a very touristy spot called Leidseplein. It’s a nice place to sit with a beer and people watch, it’s a square surrounded on three sides by bars and restaurants. There was a guy there who used to lurk around and every 20 minutes or so he’d remove his Colombo style raincoat and leap into action to do his act. If you sit in Leidseplein you will get “entertained” by some talented and some not very talented street entertainers. This chap belonged in the latter category.
To me he looked like an 55 year old office worker or a computer programmer who was doing his act whilst his batch program was running. Anyway his act entailed stripping off almost entirely naked except for his man bits which were wrapped in what looked Aluminium foil and would start climbing a rope, which was tethered to a tree and secured to one of the buildings. He brought all his paraphernalia in a little cart which had a CD player inside playing music. He climbed the rope doing a sort of pole dance routine. We hoped and prayed that the aluminium foil did not come loose (thankfully it never did).
After 10 minutes or so he’d come around to his transfixed audience for some money.
We saw this guy many times, always in Leidseplein.
Now this was a memory which has never ever left me, no matter how many times I prayed it would.

 

The very first time we saw him our jaws dropped to the floor. Anywhere else the police would have arrested him. We always knew he was going to do his act even before we clapped eyes on him when we saw the rope attached to the tree.

 

Specially for you @Sandi T. someone has filmed the guy and put it on YouTube. Now you too can share my memory. Enjoy!!

 

Green bomber with orange lining was a 80s skinhead thing.
Skins of the late 60s & 70s had as you say a Harrington and top gear skins wore a Baracuta Harrington.

 

Wifey thinks I’m a strange sight!
Seen here just setting off for Dragon Rally.
Ken.

 

The only bit of my description which was wrong was that he used a piece of metal pole to support the rope, but the rest was just about spot on.
If you’re sat outside enjoying the weather and a nice beer the last thing you want to see is a middle aged bloke in a thong leaving little to the imagination. (Or a women’s swim suite looking like George Bush Jr)

 

Can we get this bloke off the front page? He's disturbing...

 

Can we have her instead?

 

Don't look under the bridges Sandi, most are occupied, especially if there within a mile of liquor store or a car detail shop.

 

And you get there faster than you can spell Kohorna...

A musician that I like very much got stranded and locked down on a tour through Canada. She has been taken in by an old couple just to get her off the street: no tour, no gigs, no income, no hotel...
Man, can you get f.cked up quickly these days!

 

Its definitely a WTF moment

 

Saw this tonight,a few memoirs there Im sure.

 

I’m not really a fan of the old Fords but a guy I used to work with has a 2 door Sierra Cossie and an Escort Cossie, both immaculate and in white.
I can certainly appreciate why he loves them. They’re his pride and joys yet he still uses them both regularly