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"There was a bum by that description a few years back who came in to Golden Dragon while I was eating lunch there and proceeded to tell each table that he was "going to take care of us" and "make sure nothing bad happened to us"."

fuckin awesome

11/26/2007 11:42:05 AM

11/26/2007 11:48:09 AM

that is one thing i would like about being a bum, you could anyone anything, get away with it, scare some people, and make up a giant back story that completely kicks ass.

and then at the end of the day, go back to your condo.

beggin is the ultimate get rich quick job

11/26/2007 12:05:28 PM

just gotta make sure the local teen hooligans don't kill you

11/26/2007 12:06:30 PM

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"what about the Angry At the World Bum on Western Blvd (the dude who always had his shirt off doing push-ups and karate and stuff)?"

I think someone already said his name was Joseph, but we've always called him dreads. He walks into bojangles a lot and steals almost all the napkins out of the holders and then walks back out.

Does anyone else remember the guy on western that always wore a dick tracy T-shirt?

11/26/2007 12:23:30 PM

didn't joseph get hit by a car outside of taco bell or bojangles earlier this year?

11/26/2007 12:30:46 PM

I want to know more about this Joseph dude on Western. I used to see him all the damn time... has anyone ever talked with him much?

11/26/2007 12:32:26 PM

I call the Hillsborough street guy Crackie. He is always sitting around on hot days in his huge military snow jacket with a 40 in front of cookout.

11/26/2007 12:32:59 PM

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"Ok, found some evidence on the Hillsborough St. fiddler that proves his connection to Duke. Apparently he is a Duke alumni, and also was involved in politics. [quote]You may know McKnight as a one-time Duke Blue Devil mascot, U.S. Senate candidate — Democrat, 1978, finished fifth out of eight — and newspaper editorial writer. http://blogs.newsobserver.com/bullseye/index.php?title=local_musicians_release_cds&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 [link]http://media.<a href="http://www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007/11/05/Features/Fiddler.On.The.Sidewalk-3077174.shtml[/link]" target="_blank">http://media.http://www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007/11/05/Features/Fiddler.On.The.Sidewalk-3077174.shtml</a>"

No shit, I already said that but I had to interview him for my journalism class and the dude went on and on about his crazy views.

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

11/26/2007 12:46:55 PM

of all the places to beg at, why a public university?

p.s. i'd be awesome if a half dozen of you dressed up as ninjas and jumped out at western bum

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 12:49 PM. Reason : hooray this page to too wide too now]

11/26/2007 12:48:43 PM

couple years ago there was a bum with real stringy hair named Larry. I was working at the Brewery and he was in love with one of our bartenders. I had to kick him out all the time, and he wrote shit on her windshield, and it started getting really weird. eventually he just disappeared, I think he worked as a carny and just stayed.

oh yeah, the bum named joseph introduced himself to me as "johnny satan" one time in the food lion parking lot, and I gave him a beer.

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 1:09 PM. Reason : ..]

11/26/2007 1:07:12 PM

I met a black lady bumb on hillsborough strt one time by the bus stop in front of papa johns. She said she needed food for her kids downtown. So I walked with her to Harris Tweeters to get some stuff for her kids to eat. I told her she had a 15 dollar limit. She asked me what I thought she should buy so i recommended some lunchmeat, bread, cheese, fruit and some veggies. Cause if her kids were living on the street this would be the best food for them in case they were mal-nurished. Instead she wanted to buy pickled pigs feet and gelatinous liver pudding. I told her she couldn't buy that crap and to buy her kids real food and that I wasn't gonna waste my money on that kind of junk. She said her kids loved pickled pigs feet, and I said I didn't care. She got pissed at me and started yelling at me in the grocery store and people started looking at us weird. I just walked out of the store and she followed me all the way out cussing and yelling at me. I just got on my bike and rode away. I knew her story was crap cause she kept wanting me to just give her money instead of buying stuff at the grocery store.

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 1:13 PM. Reason : what]

11/26/2007 1:13:00 PM

for any greensboro folks

theres a guy i see sometimes (i rarely drive this route) at the corner of markland and battleground here in greensboro (back exit of the target and HT on lawndale). he sits there with a sign that says HOMELESS AND HUNGRY. i went out the back the other day and saw him there. guy in front of me gives him a bag of STEAK&SHAKE and a drink. which he promptly hid behind his sign and kept at it

but i saw him eating fries out of the bag after he realized that i wasnt gonna give him anything and i saw him hiding his food

good times !!1

11/26/2007 1:26:08 PM

there used to be a bum always hanging out in front of manjri aka pi bar, he was pretty damn nice, was always eatin ihop, used to give him money every now and then. One night I was going in to manjri and was talking to him before I went in and asked him if he wanted to go in, he said fuck yea, the bouncer said it was straight, so this homeless dude was in manjri all night bumming (no pun intended) beers off everyone. And of course everyone bought him a beer cause it was like Wed. or something, whatever night dollar beer night was, and he ended up getting shitfaced.

11/26/2007 2:42:32 PM

I will never forget Rufus the bum in Beaufort SC


dude even had a cellie!

11/26/2007 3:12:44 PM

One time I was sitting at the light where Wendy's is on Gorman/Western, and Joseph walked up to our car and
knocked on the window. We looked over and he slowly grinned and motioned for us to roll the window down. He
looked so crazy and we were lucky because the light turned green and we sped off. that dude is HUGE.

Hehe I've seen Albert, he approached me & some friends once yelling "they shot down my helicopter" while hitting his fingers against his arm like he was shooting up heroin...

11/26/2007 3:27:16 PM

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"Hehe I've seen Albert, he approached me & some friends once yelling "they shot down my helicopter" while hitting his fingers against his arm like he was shooting up heroin..."

LOL

11/26/2007 3:28:16 PM

Joseph Anderson FTL

I used to be the front end manager at that food lion, i had to call popo on him dozens of times, once for fornicating on the sidewalk with a girl crackhead!
i actually quit because at the time, i walked to work and back, and he started following me and threatening bodily injury, having gotten angry at me calling the cops all the time.

for those that are wondering, I once talked to him at length...

He says that he is basically in the matrix, and that he is a robot of some sort, and some bad people 9read:goverment officials) are after him.


whatever happened to marcus (hillsborough st area)?

11/26/2007 3:34:05 PM

I think I remember hearing a few years ago that Marcus died.

He was a good guy, the only one of the Hillsborough bums that I ever talked to much when I was there from 99 to 03.

11/26/2007 3:52:54 PM

I live on Maiden Ln where the bums seem to congregate. We refer to the "Trash Can Lady" as "Walrus Lady".

Unless I missed it I don't think any one mentioned Main Thing that stays on Maiden Ln. He got arrested one time for trying to rob the Bell Tower Mart with a brick.

I have not seen this Roadblock bum that someone mention unless Main Thing is going by that name now. He is a big guy but has not been around much since his last arrest.

11/26/2007 4:08:57 PM

I think i've heard "Main Thing" refered to more times as "Showtime" or "magic"

11/26/2007 4:27:02 PM

Weird, I have never heard him refered to as anything else and I have been around Maiden Ln for 5+ years and lived here for over 2 years. But then again his has not been around as much lately so I have not heard much about him.

11/26/2007 4:31:27 PM

Marcus died? That's sad...he was a nice guy. Probably the most personable (and most coherent) of the Hillsborough crowd. I always hoped he'd gotten his life together....

11/26/2007 4:40:33 PM

Roadblocks hands are the size of bowling balls.

11/26/2007 4:42:31 PM

who is the lady in the military jacket who looks like she has never left the NCSU library?

11/26/2007 4:48:37 PM

RIP Marcus. I smoked him up a few times, and generally liked the guy.
what about the old fucker that rummaged through your trash, and stomped cans at 7am?

11/26/2007 5:34:03 PM

We have two guys that do that, one is old and one is fairly young. the young one is the guy that dances at the hookah(sp?) bar and the state fair. I call him "Stomp". He is very nice and takes our trash cans to the road on wednesdays and puts them back on thursdays. I never talk to the older guy though. It would be hilarious if they came to get cans at the same time and fought over them.

11/26/2007 6:30:35 PM

I thought this thread was about ass.

11/26/2007 6:32:13 PM

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"We refer to the "Trash Can Lady" as "Walrus Lady"."

We called her "Mush Mouth" or "Mumbles"

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"I think i've heard "Main Thing" refered to more times as "Showtime" or "magic""

If this is who I'm thinking of, we called him "Sugar to Shit" b/c he used to play college football (or so he said)

11/26/2007 6:47:10 PM

i like that smiley black guy that dances sometimes hes out of his mind

i also like the western blvd street fighter


and the crazy chinese bicycle guy who yells to nobody in particular

11/26/2007 10:30:12 PM

that chinese guy with teh bike is OLD SCHOOL as fuck.

11/26/2007 10:32:14 PM

What about the guy around hills st. that always ask for a ride because his car broke down? ask for a ride back to the belltower area, like oberlin?

always ask "you aint afraid of black people are ya"



and Camo lady, next time I am in the library and I see her I swear i will give her a paper that says brentroad.com on it...shes always on some forum laughing and falling asleep...altho she has her own headphones...red hair...skinny as hell.


Dreads is pretty funny, he is always in the HESS when i am there and hitting on the cashiers..altho my food lion peeps say he is annoying

Walrus lady is always in Tompkins at a certain dudes office, I think he may help her with speech and stuff...I can never figure out why she is in there really but shes tried to get me many times on hills. st

i just always tell them that all i use is credit card and have no cash

all of them seem to hang out under that tree on hills st. right before the vet school at the off ramp from 440...they congregate there and theres always one with a sign

11/26/2007 10:49:28 PM

how come no one has done a "locally famous buns" parody?

11/26/2007 10:50:04 PM

I was on a date waiting for a table soon after Porters had opened, it was going to be ~20 minutes so we walked down to the fiddler. I put a 5 in his case and asked for some folk type music. He stopped with the Bach and played several standards while we waited. It was awesome.


Trash Can Lady finally stopped asking me for money.

11/26/2007 11:13:50 PM

the bums are getting smarter with their schemes


I actually almost believed one guy

he had a moes outfit and a cellphone and looked decently clean and asked for some money for a fix a flat kit


then there was another guy that was like

hello , i would shake your hand but my hands are greasy

See this part here it belongs to my carburetor i need a new piece that fits onto this one to fix my car. All I need is 3.67 and Im going to catch the bus to autozone. I didnt believe him because he was dirty and it was midnight.

11/26/2007 11:18:55 PM

I was totally about to mention Main Thing, but I'm glad somebody got that covered.

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"He got arrested one time for trying to rob the Bell Tower Mart with a brick."

LMAO

Has anybody ever met Roundie? He always hangs out at the Bell Mart, but this was a while ago so I don't know if he's still there. He would always ask me for blunts. I think I met this Marcus guy once. Sucks he's dead.

11/26/2007 11:32:26 PM

i saw marcus ~ a year ago, come to think of it. whomever said he died years* ago was incorrect.
I saw him at least last winter.

eventually they are going to start using force, and we are gonna have to pick them off, with teh sniper rifle new orleans style

[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 9:06 AM. Reason : rifle]

11/27/2007 9:05:21 AM

Quote :

"of all the places to beg at, why a public university?"

It's been my observation, that it seems the more liberal the university, the more homeless you'll find around the campus. It's a bit ironic.

There are tons around Harvard.

11/27/2007 9:23:49 AM

i hate bums. I'm not going to give them a dime of the money that I EARN through WORK just so they can sit on their asses and drink 40's all day.

and look, talking to them is dangerous. they have all types of diseases and are unpredictable. they need to be locked up away from the public.

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"there's an enormous black guy who patrols Maiden Lane and the BT Mart. He calls himself Roadblock. When you try to walk by him he says, " Roadblock Roadblock, gotta pay duh toll!" Then you have to give him money to pass"

yeah funny if i would give him a god damn thing.

11/27/2007 9:30:35 AM

has a bum ever told you that he'll pay you back tomorrow

11/27/2007 10:06:08 AM

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"of all the places to beg at, why a public university?"

Because those of us in the rest of Raleigh won't give them $ .02

11/27/2007 10:06:28 AM

Anybody know what the deal is with the really skinny guy who looks like he's half cross dressing? The dude wears loose jeans cut offs that pretty much expose his balls. He has long hair, long nails, and usually walks down Hillsborough barefoot. He looks like a crispy old hippee.

I saw him in Pantana's pool hall about a year ago sitting at the bar with some dude. They were making rude comments towards the hot bartender chick.

11/27/2007 10:09:25 AM

Crazy Western Bum told me and my friends that his name was Satan. One time I was at Big Lots and he came in and asked the cashier if he could have some plastic bags. She asked him why and he said "The ants aren't respecting me"

And yeah I have to throw a shoutout to the Asian bike guy that hangs out near ES King Village and Wang's Tailor.

11/27/2007 11:28:15 AM

^
yeah that Asian guy just stands on the corner of Western and Gorman w/ his bike, talking to the air for hours on end

11/27/2007 11:39:33 AM

CAMO LADY


i'd tap that.

11/27/2007 12:20:20 PM

i hate it when bums trash the streets.

when you're getting off 440 on hillsborough driving from the wake forest side, take a look under the big tree inbetween the ramp and the bridge, you'll see a shit ton of plastic non-sense scattered everywhere.

i hate that.

11/27/2007 12:23:12 PM

one time that asian guy bought a 6 pack of beer and a cabbage in front of me in line at foodlion. I could never figure out what meal he was planning on making.

11/27/2007 2:13:54 PM

i didn't read this whole thread so i'm sure someone has talked about the black guy that hung around hillsborough st...specifically around the wolf mart. he used to come up to our house when i lived on bagwell. we called him 'donkey clown usa'. at first he was ok cuz he appeared drugged up and we'd drink pbr with him and let him regale us with his stories of how he was part of the universe and was michael jordan's dad and something about spiritual doors...o yeah and he talked to god (not in the prayer since, more like two cans with some string talk). after a while he seemed to be faking the crackhead act cuz he told the same stupid story each time. so my roommate started cracking bottles of beer and filling them with toilet water and sealing them back up. donkey clown drank a lot of our toilet water.

11/27/2007 4:19:19 PM

^ Where did you live on Bagwell? I was in 15 for a year and am moving back that way from downtown after xmas.

11/27/2007 4:23:05 PM

^^You're a fucking asshole

11/27/2007 4:24:23 PM