I live in North Wales
and in and around where i live there are a few tramps/winos/crackheads etc.
There’s the man who rides his bicycle up and down the promenade singing continuously for hours on end, The Issue sellers who played the penny whistle in exchange for a friends cake on their birthday, and the CCTV Guy (perhaps more on him in a later post.)
But best of all there is Chris, who is the typical tramp, long scruffy beard dirty clothes etc. Over the years he’s been subject to a number of rumours;
1.) He’s a tramp due to his wife’s death/child’s death
2.) He’s actually a millionaire and just does it all for laughs
3.) He was once a genius, really high paid scientist or something who for some reason left his job and took up a life on the streets
Of course there’s no way to verify this aside from asking him, and due to his fantastic levels of inebriation this is difficult.
Im just wondering as to whether any one else has heard rumours such as this about the tramps around them?

Apologies for length
(Mister Negative Who watches the welshman??, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 21:56, 3 replies)

Define North Wales
If it's the same guy (don't know the name - but Colwyn Bay based), I've heard similar stories.

The best is that he's an artist. Probably the closest to the truth, as I've seen him draw pictures on pieces of paper of naked ladies.

If you don't live in Colwyn Bay, then I'm jealous.
(rhyswynne - on every social network mullarkey known to man, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 22:23, closed)

So im Not alone!
Yeah! spot on, live in colwyn bay and yeah he is an artist his portraits do mainly consist of Naked ladies though, (another rumour that this is his wife...)
(Mister Negative Who watches the welshman??, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 11:31, closed)

Number 2
I think the rumour that a tramp is really a millionare and just doing it because he is mad/enjoys it has been applied to any significant tramp in history. There was a guy who used to tap dance in central Oxford, and everyone used to say he was a millionaire who had gone mad.
(stubbledchin, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:36, closed)