Norfolk Nutters.
I remember back when I was growing up that the fair city of Norwich had this one guy nicknamed 'marigold.' Marigold was this black gentleman who lived at the local David Rice clinic, and on warm sunny days, venture out onto the ring road and start to direct traffic, while wearing yellow washing up gloves. I think he was actually run over in the end.

The other famous Norwich weirdo, was the one that my friends and I named 'vibrating man'. His rise to fame and stardom was almost meteoric. We first noticed him, many years ago, playing the mouth organ outside of Jarolds Dept Store, and vibrating, almost occillating in a very bizarre manner, not at all in time with the eldrich screech coming from his musical instrument. He became a regular feature during those years, and then vanished for a couple of months, only to return further down the high-street, this time, armed with not only a mouth oprgan, but also a small elderly ghetto blaster and a sock puppet. This sock puppet was exactly that. A sock. No eyes, mouth decor etc, just a sock. He still vibrated. I can only assume, that he was promoted in whatever heirachy this underworld has, to a better pitch with which to scare children. When we we 14, and feeling particularly brave, we gave him a dime bar, instead of cash, and laughed nervously as he ate it, wrapper and all.
( bennyhillslovechild, Thu 16 Sep 2004, 16:16, Reply)