Local nutters..
Well where do I start? I went to college in Bury St Edmunds, there were a few local nutters but I think that the most prolific was a guy that was known to all as "Chutney" I do not know how he got this name but he is an old guy that walks around with a v neck sweater on - backwards. He also carries a walking stick that he likes to hit random passers by with.
In the Abbey Gardens lives an old boy called Geoffrey, he is no harm to anyone, has loads of money but chooses to live on a park bench with all of his possesions in a waitrose trolley and umpteen plastic bags.
Now we move on to Thetford.. Bobby would have to be my favourite. He is constantly seen walking to the Candy shop to buy himself "20 superkings" The rumours are that he is a paedophile that has been released back into the community but nobody can confirm this. The man spends half of his day sitting on a wall, his voice is kinda half american half retarded. Our favourite thing used to be to ask him the time, "threeeeeee fordy tooooooo" he would boom in his slow drone, it was great.
Another weird guy was the one that Always wore those black shades that block out the light from all angles, he would wear a crisp white shirt, trousers, doc martins and a leather jacket. When shopping he always produced a wadge of twenties then went and got his taxi. The guy is huge, must be about 6'6" and can "get a bit angry" according to a few taxi drivers.
Last but not least is "Dippy Derek" this one is not right really but it has to be said. He is a very intelligent man, used to be a pilot but somewhere along the line he had a car crash and was left quadraspazzed, so now he walks around pushing his wheelchair shaking his angry fist and dribbling. Sometimes he even parks his wheelchair at the side of the roads and flips the bird to passers by.
(sHo0sH, Fri 17 Sep 2004, 18:02, Reply)