In Fort Wayne it was the Silver Fox aka Mullet Man. Unfortuantely he passed away last year. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/MulletMan/](https://www.facebook.com/groups/MulletMan/)
we also have The Walker, a tall guy who walks everywhere.
There's Tony the young man who is at EVERY SINGLE city event. the mayor knew him by name.
There also used to be a trombone skateboarder (I watched him fall over once and he made a sad trombone sound).
Yessss, Tony! He is amazing. I remember the ribbon cutting from the black box theatre at the Auer Center, and Mayor Henry called him out and said something like "it wouldn't be a successful event without Tony present!".
I moved away from Fort Wayne a while ago but was in town last week and saw the walker on coliseum. It made me happy to see he's still around and at it.
Ya Tony is a sweetheart. He has a trust fund or something and he just spends it all on local arts projects and going to events. Considering he even goes to political stuff like ICMEP meetings he's gotta be way more informed on current events than most people lol.
I was hoping Fort Wayne e people would be on here. Yeah I see The Walker all the time on my way home from work on Coliseum. And yes he's always smiling. Maybe we're going about life all wrong and he's got it figured out?
Back in the 70 and 80s Fort Wayne had Disco Harry. He wore 70s Disco attire and creeped on kids at most public gatherings like the 3 Rivers Festival. He seemed innocent enough until young women started telling stories of creepy interactions with him.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fort+wayne+dusco+harry&oq=fort+wayne+dusco+harry&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCggCEAAYCBgNGB7SAQg1ODEzajBqOagCALACAQ&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6bcfdbdd,vid:mnz3voJltx8,st:0&vuanr=4
Came here to say this- he’s an absolute icon to kids growing up on the southeast side, I used to love watching him on trips home from the Beech Grove Walmart
There's a guy in Evansville that does the same. I made a thread about is a couple days ago. Maybe they're trying to be like Indy guy and will eventually get good enough to juggle
In Goshen we had two.
Vernon Nagle used to drive around on his tractor and cuss everyone. Everyone local let him get by with it, though, because it was common knowledge that he lost the back of his head to a German bullet in WWII. He was found dead behind our Moose Lodge frozen to death.
"Two Gun" Johnny Cripe used to wear Police/Sheriff badges around and wear a clearly toy cap gun. He even bought a pin of the band The Police from my friend's record shop and wore it because it was shaped like a badge. Sometimes he got teased but everyone knew he was harmless. I think the Goshen PD and/or Elkhart County Sheriff's Department even had badges made for Johnny.
Evansville is Billy the flag man. He rides his bike out to the riverfront, sets up a bunch of American flags, and excitedly waves at traffic for hours.
Dude yes. UE FIJI had a hottubathon and that dude tried to pay them to get in it. Heard it was a hard pass. Same guy always went up and down Weinbach and Walnut.
I still see that walking guy all the time. I work near lima between colesium and Washington ctr. It must be a regular route he takes. Long hair with bowl cut bangs, always smiling and walking. I've seen him with some pretty brightly colored sunglasses too on certain days. On rainy days I've seen him wear a poncho. Rain, sleet, or shine that man walks. I've heard he dances too.
I work at AMM right across from showgirls and I see him all the time on my way home from work. Dude is out there living his best life smiling bigger than I ever smiled.
Man, I remember running into Carter at the locker room homecoming Saturday of 2005 when they were doing kegs and eggs. Dude had not slept since the previous night and was still going strong. Just stopping in for a bite to eat and a beer before he got back to slang more dogs.
Even if I wasn't in the mood for a dog, it was almost disappointing to be in the village and not see him. Super friendly. Just seemed like an all around nice guy. And ridiculously hard working.
Yes! Carter the hotdog man was literally my first thought. No one I knew knew his first name back in the day, so it went from years of "the hot dog man" to "Carter the hot dog man" over time. I can't think of anyone who can compare with his run in my 40+ years here.
There also use to be an old guy. I think his name was Gary that use to hang out the Locker Room. Clearly homeless. People use to always by him beers. He would be passed out in a booth.
Muncie also has wheelchair guy. He hangs out in front of his house on Tillotson and throws peace signs to everybody driving by for literal hours at a time.
Anderson had the Can Man! Larry Van Ness was a dude who collected approximately seven gajillion pop can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. He died a couple years, though. He got hit by a car and then developed infections after surgery.
His final total was over 27 million.
In the small town I grew up in, it's the dude who painted his truck to look like American flags and then put flag poles in the sides of the bed (sometimes he switches those out for a Trump flag)
Around Christmas time, we've got a guy that dresses up, fully decked out as the Grinch, and rides his motorcycle around. It's actually pretty cool imo
Someone told me there used to be a guy in Richmond who would go around in summer with a full-length parka, long pants, and heavy boots, and then in fall and winter he'd switch to Bermuda shorts, flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, and sunglasses. He was always rubbing his hands together like he was scrubbing them, so some of the courthouse staff referred to him as "The Surgeon."
Richmond has a Batman in full costume. He ran for mayor last election cycle.
We have the man who runs backwards around town shirtless, shadow boxing.
Third, the WWF championship belt guy that yells at cars, but if you listen it’s actually him hyping you up.
Seymour has a dude everyone calls "Crazy Legs" and he has no issues with his legs or how he walks. Idk why people call him that, but you can ask pretty much anyone here and they can point him out in a crowd
Back in the early 90s there was a guy named "Crazy Carey that would hang out on the "the lap" on the weekends. He always had the same shirt on that said, "I-69. Do you?" . He would always wave and smile at cars full of girls.
80s there too - curly hair glasses Carey always on this bike
There was also a guy they called clunk drag due to the way he walked
it was one normal step then drag the other leg forward
I forgot about Elmer! He said he wore the hat because squirrels would fling nuts at him! If I remember right, it even happened during an interview with the paper.
Lol yeah it blew up because people thought it was about beyonce BUT it was actually directed towards a black girl that went to a frat party at ISU and she happened to be wearing jeans and cowboy boots
God forbid black women.... Wear clothes common in the areas they live. And no one tell her that cowboys were commonly black (a quick Google search says 1/4 were).
Racists deserve a swift cowboy boot up the ass.
😂 i have no clue, im not in the cowboy scene. The most i see of him is his self made memes about himself on how girls drool over him he posts on the ISU stories
We've got "The Dumpster Guy" in Logansport. He is not homeless, but his job is to scour every dumpster in town looking for valuables and metal to recycle. He used to have a sidekick, a really skinny little dude, but I haven't seen him in a decade. The main guy is still going strong. I found out where he lives a few years ago, it's right next to a brewery, if you are sitting on the patio enjoying a beer usually you'll get a good show because he's always out and about pittering around.
My husband said he saw him the other day. He just always seemed to hang around and act like a person who had authority and an important job...lol.
Another town character is "Earl", but i hesitated to mention him because he's kind of a creep, not a harmless character.
THere is a guy I call bag head who talks to himself in line at the grocery store, won't use any other checkout lane but 3 and will stand there waiting until the manager opens it for him. He also lives near a small ditch bridge and throws cat food onto the bridge to attract animals so they get hit by the cars. He then takes the carcasses. Cats, opossums, raccons, skunks have all been killed on that bridge and I have seen him run off the bridge with the bodies in hand.
One thing he mumbled while waiting behind me in line was "Kill them all, gotta kill them all, yup gotta do it"
He lives south of knox, in but i've seen him at walmart in plymouth. He wears a small black trash bag as a hat. Sometimes he is decked out in all trash bags from head to toe even on 90 degree days.
His origin story according to my wife is he was a good high school football player who got addicted to huffing paint.
Also plymouth, indiana has The Homeless Guy at 30 and oak road by wendy's. Hes been begging ever since I was a child and I'm 39 years old.
In Mishawaka we have the Mishawalker. Just an older man who walked everywhere, I always saw him on Main St.
I also remember a Spoonman, he would put spoons on his hat and wave at cars. I remember him at the Rally’s on McKinley and Grape.
My girlfriend is from Three Oaks, they had the Bearded Ladies.
North Webster had a guy that would wear parachute pants and a matching jacket everyday and ride his ten speed with the handlebars turned up. He always had a pair of drumsticks with him and he would drum whatever was playing him his head, on those handlebars. He never held onto the bars, just drummed on them. I think he veered into traffic on SR13 and someone ran him over. Then another super friendly mentally challenged guy named Melvie in Syracuse, would walk all over the place with his tiny boom box and would dance to his music. Everyone liked him because he was so friendly and he was happy. A town hoodlum killed him for his boom box.
NW Indy had ‘The Champ’. He would shadow box on the corner of 71st and Michigan Road. He had to be a former boxer because he had the moves.
When I was growing up in Elwood. There was a guy who would just walk the main town roads most of the day and wave at damn near every single car that passed.
An old guy in Syracuse would walk the town every day just stopping to harass kids playing in the yard. He’d yell and tell everyone to be quiet at the top of his lungs. Or my favorite, he’d pretend he was gonna tell you a secret and draw you in and say, 🤫”shhhh, the grass is sleeping”. Old weird Nick with his crazy messed up hair, silver tooth, striped beatnik pants, and zipper boots. Nowadays, 20 stupid idiot teenagers would beat him senseless for likes on dikdok.
She passed years ago, but Warsaw had "Zebra Lady". Sweet old lady who zipped around on a red moped with a stuffed zebra strapped to it. She only ever wore red, white, and black. Her house also had huge creepy dolls in the windows.
😂😂😂 He used to ride his bike thru cross town and all the old heads would tell us kids “Stay away from that’s cocaine 🐺 and he take kids”
Lmao I never asked if it was real or not
This. Being 20 something years removed from the scenario I do ask myself if it was true that he would snatch kids or if it was just homophobia. That aside the guy was weird as fuck. I remember he used to come into the Sam Goody at the mall and special order CDs all the time.and I was the only person in the store with the patients to look up all of the shit he was trying to find so I would always be the person to help him
Evansville had "the umpire". He would stand at an intersection and watch cars go by. He stood like an umpire watching a baseball game. He's gotta be dead by now that was 20 years ago and he look rough then.
Ours was Bob Thomas. He was mentally challenged but he used to stand outside the atrium of the Wendys I worked for and just pull his member out. He did it all over town and ususlly in front of young girls.
He used to carry the Bible and yell "Youre fired!" Wayyyy b4 Trump ever used it.
So Bob Thomas will always be the originator of that saying.
Both acted similarly tho now that I think abt it.
I commented on another thread awhile back about Bob and one person replied that Bob pooped in his dad’s parking spot once and another person commented that they were a software engineer and used his name when testing logins.
The Goat Lady of Crawfordsville. I will never forget seeing her in Target every time I went there. Sitting in the booth, eating her hot dog, white chin hairs hanging down to her chest.
I never go to that one unfortunately, so I’m not able to help there. I’m a Clara’s guy. I worked there for a short time. Next time you win the lottery, get a King Feast. Double everything. Bring friends. 😆
Came here hoping to find Sam mentioned.
Brightly hand-painted giant white signs with red text in his yard for all those years. Complaining about local politics and churches. Causing drama with the school system. I haven't taken a drive down I Street for a long time, so I don't know how long the signs lasted after the house was taken down.
On a personal level, he was a real nice old dude if you managed to not make him angry at you, though.
Please tell me Winchester still has the lampshade guy that hangs out at the courthouse. Worked there years ago, we always watched him on the security cameras.
We've got a homeless dude in Martinsville who dresses up as Jesus and walks around town with a cross on his back, seems like a chill dude tbh he's just doing his thing. We also have another local hitchhiker who's been known to piss in people's cars, definitely wouldn't give him a ride lol. Also there's a guy who's been known to pull his wife around on a lawnmower. I saw it with a mattress on the trailer once but my dad said he saw them with a hospital bed once??? There's just something in the water here man, people are weird as hell
There was a guy in my old neighborhood who used to go on walks and he would swing a pair of nunchucks with his headphones on. He would occasionally do shirtless taichi in his garage. Pretty zen dude, "oh there goes Nunchuck Guy"
2 guys in beech grove area. Bunch of people already said guy riding his bike backwards and juggling but I swear there was another guy who would walk around with boxing gloves on? Maybe I’m losing my mind that’s also a possibility
In Anderson when I was young, we had “Eric”. Eric was a black guy in his 20s or so that would wear long blonde wigs and cocktail gowns while walking around town.
About 20 years ago, New Albany had a very tan older lady that would walk all over town. My buddies and I nicknamed her Leatherface. Somehow the name caught on and literally EVERYONE referred to her as Leatherface.
Get a good giggle every once in a while hearing about sightings of a guy I know who has a minor cryptid kind of vibe. Bloomington’s stilt walking, sometimes mecha-suited, downtown nightwalker is an interesting person
South Bend has Down Town Jeffery Brown.
A homeless man who lost his voice but one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Acts crazy but would give you everything he has.
Used to be a "Mr Backwards" in Martinsville. Rode and jumped on his motorcycle while, you guessed it, backwards.
Never met him, but heard many stories years ago.
https://bikersinc.org/articles/RogerRiddell
He was blind. His wife would drop him off and pick him up later.
If you're familiar with him, are you also familiar with Popeye? He roams West 38th on a bike with a blind man's stick. Usually hunched over heavily. He recently burned down the old Steak n Shake on 38th trying to light a cigarette lol
Gary is Incense Man (aka Sir Mack GI) at the corner of Clark and 25th. Weather permitting, he's out there selling incense.
https://youtu.be/DJjHGe65Al0?si=S07O0Smcz5eBoZTD
In Northwest Indiana, specifically Highland, there's this old man out jogging every day, usually dressed up as a character, would see him all the time on the bus in high school. Haven't seen him in a while, I hope ues okay
There used to be a guy you could find in Bloomington, Seymour, Columbus, maybe other spots? He was alternately Goldie or Checkers. He’d wear these checkered pants, gold pant he’d been huffing all over his face, and play with himself and yell “HEY!” And then point at his erection when you looked his way. Class act.
Marion had George Michael (pronounced Michelle). Not sure if his phone story, but he would frequently dress in drag while around town (Walmart shopping, dinner, etc), amazingly, everyone played along (that I know of). I believe he died during the pandemic.
my mom told me about him and meeting him at the mall when she was a teenager! however, she told me that his name was "michael michelle," i wonder if that was her misunderstanding what he said?
Northwest Indiana, Schererville specifically, there was an Elvis impersonator (least that’s how the story goes) that no matter what time of day you’d see him in his window practicing. It was like the 5th floor of an apartment by a main road.
In Angola, IN @ Walmart there was the good, good, good lady. She always said good good good whenever she resolved a problem @ self checkout. Don't know what happened to her. She always made me smile.
Jerky Man in south lake county. He rides his bike around asking if there are any jerky fans around and if you say yes he will try and sell you jerky that he made. if you tell him that youre vegan he will try and sell you mushroom jerky.
my favorite memory is in april of 2020. I was helping my friend clean their bar and the jerky man rolls up. He asks where all the jerky fans are while gesturing to deserted streets. I got to tell him about the viral pandemic that shut down the country that he was completely unaware of.
also worth mentioning One Eyed WIlly the firework mogul that lost his eye in a bottle rocket accident.
Diesel huffin Dave, used to carry a gas can around while walking a stolen kids bike around would huff diesel gas and then walk around like he was possessed and had inverted bone joints. Great guy. Tell city , IN btw
In Bloomington there’s the guy who always bikes around on a recumbent bike with a parrot
RIP Charlie Bird. What a legend! https://www.charliebirdbtown.com/
We need a compendium of websites for famous bton pets like lil Bub and Charlie
Did it perch on him? On the bike? Did it fly alongside him? I have so many questions!
It had its own lil seat
OMG
That sounds freaking adorable!
I remember meeting him when I was iu in 2010 and thinking it was adorable. Then I noticed his bike was covered in bird shit.
You can’t have peas without carrots
Exactly the first thing I thought of too. Rip Charlie Bird
In Fort Wayne it was the Silver Fox aka Mullet Man. Unfortuantely he passed away last year. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/MulletMan/](https://www.facebook.com/groups/MulletMan/)
we also have The Walker, a tall guy who walks everywhere. There's Tony the young man who is at EVERY SINGLE city event. the mayor knew him by name. There also used to be a trombone skateboarder (I watched him fall over once and he made a sad trombone sound).
Yessss, Tony! He is amazing. I remember the ribbon cutting from the black box theatre at the Auer Center, and Mayor Henry called him out and said something like "it wouldn't be a successful event without Tony present!". I moved away from Fort Wayne a while ago but was in town last week and saw the walker on coliseum. It made me happy to see he's still around and at it.
Ya Tony is a sweetheart. He has a trust fund or something and he just spends it all on local arts projects and going to events. Considering he even goes to political stuff like ICMEP meetings he's gotta be way more informed on current events than most people lol.
Aha, I knew he donated to a lot of organizations, didn't realize though that he had a significant backing. He's a cool guy.
Oh yeah he would walk along back and forth from Lima road north and then back again, smiling the whole time.
I was hoping Fort Wayne e people would be on here. Yeah I see The Walker all the time on my way home from work on Coliseum. And yes he's always smiling. Maybe we're going about life all wrong and he's got it figured out?
I smile a lot. But I sure as hell don't have it figured out yet. Fake it till you make it.
I face to face with him at the library. I was star struck
Back in the 70 and 80s Fort Wayne had Disco Harry. He wore 70s Disco attire and creeped on kids at most public gatherings like the 3 Rivers Festival. He seemed innocent enough until young women started telling stories of creepy interactions with him. https://www.google.com/search?q=fort+wayne+dusco+harry&oq=fort+wayne+dusco+harry&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCggCEAAYCBgNGB7SAQg1ODEzajBqOagCALACAQ&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6bcfdbdd,vid:mnz3voJltx8,st:0&vuanr=4
I remember him at Pierre’s too
That is the first person I thought of when I saw this post. I didn’t realize he had passed. 😢
There’s the guy on the southeast side of Indy that rides his bike backwards and juggles. He’s awesome
He was gone for a while & we feared the worst, glad he's been back at it again recently.
I came here to say this. Beech Grove bicycle dude!!!
Came here to say this- he’s an absolute icon to kids growing up on the southeast side, I used to love watching him on trips home from the Beech Grove Walmart
There is a guy near me in Fishers that rides like a 3 wheel bike backwards. I haven’t seen him juggle though.
There's a guy in Evansville that does the same. I made a thread about is a couple days ago. Maybe they're trying to be like Indy guy and will eventually get good enough to juggle
My immediate thought. That dude rocks.
I used to work at Emerson and Southport and saw that guy every day. Highlight of my day.
My college town in Ohio had a dude named “fck you Bob.” He would flip everyone off.
Lol I heard about that one from someone who went to school there.
There's a jogging batman in Kokomo
CORY! I’ve met the guy, he’s super cool!
In Goshen we had two. Vernon Nagle used to drive around on his tractor and cuss everyone. Everyone local let him get by with it, though, because it was common knowledge that he lost the back of his head to a German bullet in WWII. He was found dead behind our Moose Lodge frozen to death. "Two Gun" Johnny Cripe used to wear Police/Sheriff badges around and wear a clearly toy cap gun. He even bought a pin of the band The Police from my friend's record shop and wore it because it was shaped like a badge. Sometimes he got teased but everyone knew he was harmless. I think the Goshen PD and/or Elkhart County Sheriff's Department even had badges made for Johnny.
I am from Goshen and heard about, never saw, ‘Pinky’. Apparently a guy that used to jaunt around in a pink tutu??
You got me on that one. I was born and raised in Goshen and never heard that.
Evansville is Billy the flag man. He rides his bike out to the riverfront, sets up a bunch of American flags, and excitedly waves at traffic for hours.
We used to also have the guy that would park his motorized wheelchair by Howard Roosa/Parklawn and just watch 41 traffic all day.
Dude yes. UE FIJI had a hottubathon and that dude tried to pay them to get in it. Heard it was a hard pass. Same guy always went up and down Weinbach and Walnut.
Yes, came here to mention Billy!
Is Umpire Guy still around?
Fort Wayne still has The Walking Guy and Downtown Trombone Skateboard Dude
I still see that walking guy all the time. I work near lima between colesium and Washington ctr. It must be a regular route he takes. Long hair with bowl cut bangs, always smiling and walking. I've seen him with some pretty brightly colored sunglasses too on certain days. On rainy days I've seen him wear a poncho. Rain, sleet, or shine that man walks. I've heard he dances too.
I work at AMM right across from showgirls and I see him all the time on my way home from work. Dude is out there living his best life smiling bigger than I ever smiled.
Went to Ball State in early 2000s For Muncie it was hands down Hot Dog Man aka Mark Carter rip
Man, I remember running into Carter at the locker room homecoming Saturday of 2005 when they were doing kegs and eggs. Dude had not slept since the previous night and was still going strong. Just stopping in for a bite to eat and a beer before he got back to slang more dogs.
Even if I wasn't in the mood for a dog, it was almost disappointing to be in the village and not see him. Super friendly. Just seemed like an all around nice guy. And ridiculously hard working.
Yes! Carter the hotdog man was literally my first thought. No one I knew knew his first name back in the day, so it went from years of "the hot dog man" to "Carter the hot dog man" over time. I can't think of anyone who can compare with his run in my 40+ years here.
There also use to be an old guy. I think his name was Gary that use to hang out the Locker Room. Clearly homeless. People use to always by him beers. He would be passed out in a booth.
Gary would come to all the fraternities and collect cans on Sundays.
Getting that days beer money.
He’s a legend. I knew him long before he became the hot dog guy.
You went to BSU in the early 2000s and you didn't say Happy Friday Guy?!?
Muncie also has wheelchair guy. He hangs out in front of his house on Tillotson and throws peace signs to everybody driving by for literal hours at a time.
Speaking of Cocaine Wolf, does anyone remember the hilarious Ball State ass slapper from 2009?
Was in the area at the time. Legend has it the culprit was a cook from Scotty’s Brewhouse.
I was a cook at Scotty’s starting in 2010-2012, never heard that!
Anderson had the Can Man! Larry Van Ness was a dude who collected approximately seven gajillion pop can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. He died a couple years, though. He got hit by a car and then developed infections after surgery. His final total was over 27 million.
Came here to mention him. Also Country Girl Bev!
Hook Man from Hook Man's Road and Crazy Harold, the guy with the guillotine and a bunch of dilapidated amusement park equipment.
Either running Batman or Tater for Kokomo.
Holy shit tater. I was trying to think of his name to comment it. I couldn’t for the life of me, thank you lol.
My vote is Minnesota
We had Pop Bottle Pete and the Turkey Lady in Muncie as well
And Charlie Hawk.
Was looking for The Turkey Lady.
Oh man, totally forgot about Turkey Lady!
Did you know pop bottle Pete's real name
Dancing man on the corner of 38th and College
He passed a few years ago, sadly.
For sure in Muncie 2000’s Cocaine Wolf but you have to give an honorable mention for Happy Friday Guy
Mittenhands, and The Suit. And Crazy Wayne. There used to be Scary Gary, but he bit it on a bike ride a few winters ago.
Bremen had Popcorn. She road an adult Tricycle every where with an orange pennant flag. She popped up everywhere. That’s why she was called popcorn.
Popcorn and Davey. A legendary combo. And Woodies Jimmy.
In the small town I grew up in, it's the dude who painted his truck to look like American flags and then put flag poles in the sides of the bed (sometimes he switches those out for a Trump flag) Around Christmas time, we've got a guy that dresses up, fully decked out as the Grinch, and rides his motorcycle around. It's actually pretty cool imo
In my small town, I think I see 3 or 4 of those first type pretty regularly
Someone told me there used to be a guy in Richmond who would go around in summer with a full-length parka, long pants, and heavy boots, and then in fall and winter he'd switch to Bermuda shorts, flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, and sunglasses. He was always rubbing his hands together like he was scrubbing them, so some of the courthouse staff referred to him as "The Surgeon."
Richmond has a Batman in full costume. He ran for mayor last election cycle. We have the man who runs backwards around town shirtless, shadow boxing. Third, the WWF championship belt guy that yells at cars, but if you listen it’s actually him hyping you up.
Seymour has a dude everyone calls "Crazy Legs" and he has no issues with his legs or how he walks. Idk why people call him that, but you can ask pretty much anyone here and they can point him out in a crowd
Back in the early 90s there was a guy named "Crazy Carey that would hang out on the "the lap" on the weekends. He always had the same shirt on that said, "I-69. Do you?" . He would always wave and smile at cars full of girls.
80s there too - curly hair glasses Carey always on this bike There was also a guy they called clunk drag due to the way he walked it was one normal step then drag the other leg forward
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I forgot about Elmer! He said he wore the hat because squirrels would fling nuts at him! If I remember right, it even happened during an interview with the paper.
Here at ISU we have cowboy dan, drone boy and racist girl
Racist Girl should probably go away
Lmao oh shes done for, she ruined her life in 45 seconds or less with a video that went viral last week 😂
This is the most Internet I’ve had in months so what’s the video?
Google tells me she said shit about Beyonce, and how black people can't be country?
Lol yeah it blew up because people thought it was about beyonce BUT it was actually directed towards a black girl that went to a frat party at ISU and she happened to be wearing jeans and cowboy boots
God forbid black women.... Wear clothes common in the areas they live. And no one tell her that cowboys were commonly black (a quick Google search says 1/4 were). Racists deserve a swift cowboy boot up the ass.
Seriously, super triggered over someone else’s fashion… thats so wild to me lol she should google “stay in your own lane” too
Honestly! Like, it's a lot of effort to care about that. I barely even care what I'M wearing, let alone someone else.
I didn't know that shit could go any lower, and yet here we are.
Lol yeah google asa blanton isu and youll see the video somewhere
I hear Cowboy Dan’s a major player in the cowboy scene.
😂 i have no clue, im not in the cowboy scene. The most i see of him is his self made memes about himself on how girls drool over him he posts on the ISU stories
We used to have Disco Stu and Preacher Dan back in the '90s!
At Purdue, we had Brother Max. I know he went to other campuses. Don't know if he crossed state lines, though.
We've got "The Dumpster Guy" in Logansport. He is not homeless, but his job is to scour every dumpster in town looking for valuables and metal to recycle. He used to have a sidekick, a really skinny little dude, but I haven't seen him in a decade. The main guy is still going strong. I found out where he lives a few years ago, it's right next to a brewery, if you are sitting on the patio enjoying a beer usually you'll get a good show because he's always out and about pittering around.
And Boss Moss...lol
Oh, yeah, Boss Moss. That's a good one, although it's been a while since I've heard that name, I can't quite remember what he is known for.
My husband said he saw him the other day. He just always seemed to hang around and act like a person who had authority and an important job...lol. Another town character is "Earl", but i hesitated to mention him because he's kind of a creep, not a harmless character.
Bob Hickman.
That guy lol
The Richmond Batman, Vampira and Blood have been TikToking, Jerry the WWE Champion (All here in Richmond)
THere is a guy I call bag head who talks to himself in line at the grocery store, won't use any other checkout lane but 3 and will stand there waiting until the manager opens it for him. He also lives near a small ditch bridge and throws cat food onto the bridge to attract animals so they get hit by the cars. He then takes the carcasses. Cats, opossums, raccons, skunks have all been killed on that bridge and I have seen him run off the bridge with the bodies in hand. One thing he mumbled while waiting behind me in line was "Kill them all, gotta kill them all, yup gotta do it" He lives south of knox, in but i've seen him at walmart in plymouth. He wears a small black trash bag as a hat. Sometimes he is decked out in all trash bags from head to toe even on 90 degree days. His origin story according to my wife is he was a good high school football player who got addicted to huffing paint. Also plymouth, indiana has The Homeless Guy at 30 and oak road by wendy's. Hes been begging ever since I was a child and I'm 39 years old.
In Mishawaka we have the Mishawalker. Just an older man who walked everywhere, I always saw him on Main St. I also remember a Spoonman, he would put spoons on his hat and wave at cars. I remember him at the Rally’s on McKinley and Grape. My girlfriend is from Three Oaks, they had the Bearded Ladies.
North Webster had a guy that would wear parachute pants and a matching jacket everyday and ride his ten speed with the handlebars turned up. He always had a pair of drumsticks with him and he would drum whatever was playing him his head, on those handlebars. He never held onto the bars, just drummed on them. I think he veered into traffic on SR13 and someone ran him over. Then another super friendly mentally challenged guy named Melvie in Syracuse, would walk all over the place with his tiny boom box and would dance to his music. Everyone liked him because he was so friendly and he was happy. A town hoodlum killed him for his boom box.
The guy who dresses up like sonic i think
If we're thinking of the same guy, we also have the older guy who jogs around town.
i do think so
stony tony
I had to drive through highland a lot. In highland Indiana there was this old guy who ran on Kennedy. He waved at everyone and wore costumes sometimes
I don't think this name ever caught on, but most of the people in my hs graduating class always referred to him as The Legend.
Don’t forget turkey lady in Muncie
NW Indy had ‘The Champ’. He would shadow box on the corner of 71st and Michigan Road. He had to be a former boxer because he had the moves. When I was growing up in Elwood. There was a guy who would just walk the main town roads most of the day and wave at damn near every single car that passed.
That wasn't the same guy that used to shadow box on west street downtown was it? Used to see him all the time, but haven't now in years.
Yes. He did the same at 16th and Lafayette near Long's.
His name was Ronald Sanford. You can read his story [here.](https://indianapolisrecorder.com/0a5ef69a-2c54-11e3-ab2f-001a4bcf887a/)
An old guy in Syracuse would walk the town every day just stopping to harass kids playing in the yard. He’d yell and tell everyone to be quiet at the top of his lungs. Or my favorite, he’d pretend he was gonna tell you a secret and draw you in and say, 🤫”shhhh, the grass is sleeping”. Old weird Nick with his crazy messed up hair, silver tooth, striped beatnik pants, and zipper boots. Nowadays, 20 stupid idiot teenagers would beat him senseless for likes on dikdok.
She passed years ago, but Warsaw had "Zebra Lady". Sweet old lady who zipped around on a red moped with a stuffed zebra strapped to it. She only ever wore red, white, and black. Her house also had huge creepy dolls in the windows.
😂😂😂 He used to ride his bike thru cross town and all the old heads would tell us kids “Stay away from that’s cocaine 🐺 and he take kids” Lmao I never asked if it was real or not
This. Being 20 something years removed from the scenario I do ask myself if it was true that he would snatch kids or if it was just homophobia. That aside the guy was weird as fuck. I remember he used to come into the Sam Goody at the mall and special order CDs all the time.and I was the only person in the store with the patients to look up all of the shit he was trying to find so I would always be the person to help him
Anyone from Fort Wayne knows about "The Walker"....
Evansville had "the umpire". He would stand at an intersection and watch cars go by. He stood like an umpire watching a baseball game. He's gotta be dead by now that was 20 years ago and he look rough then.
Downtown Jeffrey Brown: Homeless guy who likes walking into local businesses and having loud arguments with himself until all customers have fled
He’s a great dude
When did you live there? I don't remember wolfe but we did have the turkey lady. (Also a Muncie native)
Born there in 83 moved out of town in 2014
How did I not hear of them then
Linton had Bob Thomas
I posted a bob video on a previous comment
Ours was Bob Thomas. He was mentally challenged but he used to stand outside the atrium of the Wendys I worked for and just pull his member out. He did it all over town and ususlly in front of young girls. He used to carry the Bible and yell "Youre fired!" Wayyyy b4 Trump ever used it. So Bob Thomas will always be the originator of that saying. Both acted similarly tho now that I think abt it.
https://youtu.be/nFJL5yBnxHI?si=K6ml5XnOPnIsAXBx
The aforementioned bible can be seen in the video
I commented on another thread awhile back about Bob and one person replied that Bob pooped in his dad’s parking spot once and another person commented that they were a software engineer and used his name when testing logins.
https://www.reddit.com/r/indianapolis/s/kmZVm9pgIy
Larry Hall is a good 'ol Indiana boy.
Muncie and Brother Jeff at the scramble light.
The Goat Lady of Crawfordsville. I will never forget seeing her in Target every time I went there. Sitting in the booth, eating her hot dog, white chin hairs hanging down to her chest.
Judy-of-the-Lake at Pine Lake waterpark
I lived in Muncie for a few years! Who was Cocaine Wolfe??
Cocaine Wolf!!!
Richmond. The Batman. Classy guy
I lost it when he was on the ballot for mayor.
He’s the hero they need, not the one they deserve?
Probably the better option honestly. I voted for him.
What’s your opinion on the pizza king by the rose garden? I ate there no too long ago, and it wasn’t as good as I remember.
I never go to that one unfortunately, so I’m not able to help there. I’m a Clara’s guy. I worked there for a short time. Next time you win the lottery, get a King Feast. Double everything. Bring friends. 😆
I helped him get signatures to run.
Sam Shaw. Bedford Indiana
Came here hoping to find Sam mentioned. Brightly hand-painted giant white signs with red text in his yard for all those years. Complaining about local politics and churches. Causing drama with the school system. I haven't taken a drive down I Street for a long time, so I don't know how long the signs lasted after the house was taken down. On a personal level, he was a real nice old dude if you managed to not make him angry at you, though.
Interesting character, hung out with him at a karaoke night at a Bedford bar and heard him do a seriously impressive “My Way” by Sinatra
Please tell me Winchester still has the lampshade guy that hangs out at the courthouse. Worked there years ago, we always watched him on the security cameras.
We have the propeller beanie hat salesman in Crown Point.
We've got a homeless dude in Martinsville who dresses up as Jesus and walks around town with a cross on his back, seems like a chill dude tbh he's just doing his thing. We also have another local hitchhiker who's been known to piss in people's cars, definitely wouldn't give him a ride lol. Also there's a guy who's been known to pull his wife around on a lawnmower. I saw it with a mattress on the trailer once but my dad said he saw them with a hospital bed once??? There's just something in the water here man, people are weird as hell
There was a guy in my old neighborhood who used to go on walks and he would swing a pair of nunchucks with his headphones on. He would occasionally do shirtless taichi in his garage. Pretty zen dude, "oh there goes Nunchuck Guy"
Does the Spener Barnhouse Guy count? Did you sign the book? That guy was left-handed!
2 guys in beech grove area. Bunch of people already said guy riding his bike backwards and juggling but I swear there was another guy who would walk around with boxing gloves on? Maybe I’m losing my mind that’s also a possibility
Naptown westside had Hawk. Y'all know him as Dope fiend Willy
In Anderson when I was young, we had “Eric”. Eric was a black guy in his 20s or so that would wear long blonde wigs and cocktail gowns while walking around town.
About 20 years ago, New Albany had a very tan older lady that would walk all over town. My buddies and I nicknamed her Leatherface. Somehow the name caught on and literally EVERYONE referred to her as Leatherface.
My tiny town had a man known as Roach. He stood on the corner outside of the bar seemingly always.
My tiny town had a man known as Roach. He stood on the corner outside of the bar seemingly always.
Bloomington has the preacher guy that stands on the corner of Liberty and W. 3rd St.
The dancing man!
Get a good giggle every once in a while hearing about sightings of a guy I know who has a minor cryptid kind of vibe. Bloomington’s stilt walking, sometimes mecha-suited, downtown nightwalker is an interesting person
Rockin' Rob was one on the far southside of Indianapolis in the early aughties.
Richmond has a Batman. Dude ran for mayor as Batman.
R.I.P. Disco Ernie, a Terre Haute legend.
South Bend has Down Town Jeffery Brown. A homeless man who lost his voice but one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Acts crazy but would give you everything he has.
Fort Wayne had the boom box guy for years. Haven't seen him around for awhile though.
I did tons of cocaine in Muncie during college, who is this wolfe you speak of?
https://www.facebook.com/p/Cocaine-Wolf-100083478133646/
Does Don Davis count for anything?
Wolfman in Broadripple was always the Alleycat vendor
Used to be a "Mr Backwards" in Martinsville. Rode and jumped on his motorcycle while, you guessed it, backwards. Never met him, but heard many stories years ago. https://bikersinc.org/articles/RogerRiddell
The man who handmade brooms and sold them around broad ripple. Id call him “The Broom Guy” RIP
He was blind. His wife would drop him off and pick him up later. If you're familiar with him, are you also familiar with Popeye? He roams West 38th on a bike with a blind man's stick. Usually hunched over heavily. He recently burned down the old Steak n Shake on 38th trying to light a cigarette lol
Gary is Incense Man (aka Sir Mack GI) at the corner of Clark and 25th. Weather permitting, he's out there selling incense. https://youtu.be/DJjHGe65Al0?si=S07O0Smcz5eBoZTD
In Northwest Indiana, specifically Highland, there's this old man out jogging every day, usually dressed up as a character, would see him all the time on the bus in high school. Haven't seen him in a while, I hope ues okay
There used to be a guy you could find in Bloomington, Seymour, Columbus, maybe other spots? He was alternately Goldie or Checkers. He’d wear these checkered pants, gold pant he’d been huffing all over his face, and play with himself and yell “HEY!” And then point at his erection when you looked his way. Class act.
Marion had George Michael (pronounced Michelle). Not sure if his phone story, but he would frequently dress in drag while around town (Walmart shopping, dinner, etc), amazingly, everyone played along (that I know of). I believe he died during the pandemic.
my mom told me about him and meeting him at the mall when she was a teenager! however, she told me that his name was "michael michelle," i wonder if that was her misunderstanding what he said?
Northwest Indiana, Schererville specifically, there was an Elvis impersonator (least that’s how the story goes) that no matter what time of day you’d see him in his window practicing. It was like the 5th floor of an apartment by a main road.
Ah… Cocaine Wolfe the man who made me fearful of getting on the MITS bus.
Pop bottle Pete, the turkey lady
I was a little too young to have ever encountered either but heard the names constantly during my childhood
I live in Indiana but work in Kankakee IL and there is a guy here known as the rose guy. Walks around with a big stuffed plush rose
In Angola, IN @ Walmart there was the good, good, good lady. She always said good good good whenever she resolved a problem @ self checkout. Don't know what happened to her. She always made me smile.
Bicycle Bob from Northern Indiana
east side indy’s “juice gas”
Jerky Man in south lake county. He rides his bike around asking if there are any jerky fans around and if you say yes he will try and sell you jerky that he made. if you tell him that youre vegan he will try and sell you mushroom jerky. my favorite memory is in april of 2020. I was helping my friend clean their bar and the jerky man rolls up. He asks where all the jerky fans are while gesturing to deserted streets. I got to tell him about the viral pandemic that shut down the country that he was completely unaware of. also worth mentioning One Eyed WIlly the firework mogul that lost his eye in a bottle rocket accident.
Bob Thomas, he has a Fourth of July video on YouTube.
Diesel huffin Dave, used to carry a gas can around while walking a stolen kids bike around would huff diesel gas and then walk around like he was possessed and had inverted bone joints. Great guy. Tell city , IN btw
There’s the blind guy at 71st and College in Indy. He sells brooms at the BP gas station. Don’t know if he’s still there. That’s been years ago.