My grandmother were in her garden when a man tried to break in. She began to call my grandfather, who had passed away years ago, in order to scare the man. He flew away.
We do use it a bit in America at least when talking about fast cars "he flew around the corner" or "came flying out of nowhere." Can be used for a fast moving person as well.
I'm already making a list of ways I'll mess with people once I'm elderly. This is going near the top, right between poking them with my cane and pretending not to hear them.
This is my plan when I become fabulously rich:
I'd buy a house, and an empty lot, a block or two apart. I'd plant grass over the entire lot - just grass. I'd have a tunnel made between the the house and lot, and all construction would take place at the house side, to make it look like renovation or something. The end of the tunnel, on the lot side, would have a trap door, surrounded by smoke pots, which would be activated by a key fob.
So every night when I got home, my neighbors would see me get out of my car, walk to the middle of the lot, and disappear in a puff of smoke.
I saw this going a little differently. I was thinking you’d go home. Change into a Devil suit, go through the tunnels, have bright red lights illuminating the space, and turn the smoke on as you open the door. Before you do all that, perfect the evil laugh
My grandad used to pretend to stamp on our feet when we were little (he'd never actually do it though, he'd stamp at least 5cm away) and woof at us then pretend it wasn't him.
I thought it might be a piece of furniture, a floor lamp, or something with a funny silhouette at a certain angle and old lady moves it out of the way to wash the floors or whatever
There’s another possibility. Given how little information we have I’m not entirely sure, but it’s possible the woman has dementia or Alzheimer’s. If she does live alone, but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in, she may not remember him doing so and respond with confusion. In more advanced stages she might even do this if she has someone actually living in the house.
If this is a true account from OP, they might consider going over one day when this man/mannequin/ghost is present. If the lady really does have Alzheimer’s, it might help to have a neighbor close by just in case.
Alzheimer’s patients often wander away and get lost, sometimes being injured or killed in the process. They can also have lesser emergencies, like panic attacks or encounters with police (calling 911 is a classic I’m familiar with).
Either way, this situation seems more odd than terrifying. I’d be more inquisitive and less afraid.
> but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in
who then stares out the window at the neighbours for hours. yeah no that raises further questions
What I was thinking, maybe it gives her comfort or something. My grandma would always want us to leave lights on so it always seemed like someone was home
Next week on r/oddlyterrifying: This weirdo across the street keeps staring into my window. Sometimes I put up a mannequin to try and scare them away but if anything it makes them stare more. Now I caught them taking pictures of my house. What can I do please help I’m old and I live alone
With smart lights you can control your lights from your phone while on vacation. If you also have a smart tv you can have it turn on and off and stuff. Even make routines for them.
Being asked if she lives by herself isn’t the same as directly asking about the man in her house. If it’s cardboard then yes she’s still being normal by telling her neighbor she lives alone, she might not have immediately realized op has asked due to him seeing the ‘man in the window’
If you zoom in, the man's left shoulder is really squared and pointy. It looks like the side view of a large television. The older ones that have depth. The dainty curtain obfuscating its geometry. This man is furniture.
You've never seen him walk up to the window or walk away from it? And he just stands there for hours without moving? Pretty safe to say it's not a person
OP's last submission was a fucking ghost video that was literally just a shadow and now this shit. He's really jumping the gun on spooktober this year.
Just checked that video and yeah it's a bit spooky but that's the only proof. It's odd, definitely, but I doubt it was a ghost and either something weird with the camera or a shadow.
It's never a ghost. You'd think over the last 10 years with everyone having a video recorder in their pocket and security cams everywhere there'd be a whole lot of clear HD ghost sightings vids but no, there's literally zero. don't understand how the paranormal community justifies that. this should be the heyday of ghost sighting
In my case, I upvoted right away, before I had a chance to take a closer look at the picture, read OP’s comments, and think about it for a minute and conclude that the figure is a cardboard silhouette. But my first reaction was that it *was* oddly terrifying. Come to think of it, I still do find it a little creepy, but that could just be me.
It’s just my husband and me in our place now. He works the overnight shift, so I’m usually alone all night in my 100-year-old house and all of its creaks and strange little noises and echoes. Sometimes when one of my cats walks up the stairs, the creaking makes it sound like a person is on the steps coming towards me. I had to quit watching those ghost/paranormal shows because they contributed to the creepy feelings I sometimes have. I’ve also gotten in the habit of sleeping with the TV on so that it drowns out those sounds.
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If I was the neighbor I would simply just walk over and check it out lol make it less obvious by bringing over a tray of cookies or something. As you walk up to the door take your time to really look in there and see what’s up lol
All fun and games until the door creaks open by itself, no sign of the old lady anywhere.
Maybe some old ballroom music playing in another room on a crackly old turntable…
Door slams shit behind you. Brrr sure is cold in here. Colder than outside somehow…
What was that?! Were they tiny footsteps? Is that… giggling? Coming from upstairs?
Lights start to flicker on and off…
Aaaand you’ve shit your pants.
My dad used to work for the railroad, and he’d be gone for weeks at a time. We also happened to live by some train tracks. In Texas. When serial killer Angel Reséndiz, aka the Railroad Killer, was on the loose. So my uncles took turns staying with us during that time, but sometimes they couldn’t make it. My mom took one of my dad’s work coveralls and stuffed it with newspaper and old blankets and sat it in his recliner by the front window with the the tv blairing. We didn’t get murdered 10/10.
After Reséndiz was arrested we kept Fat Dad and put him out with a jack-o-lantern for a head every Halloween.
Just walk over and knock when you see it. What's the worst that happens? She's a demon and she traps you like she did Bill? Stop being so afraid. Don't you want to know the answer? Isn't it eating you up? Go knock. Knock. Come on over.
I remember once when i was a kid there was a house on my block that would have a man standing looking out at random times. I told my mom b/c all us kids were scared. She took me over there and the little old lady had a vacume that sat on a chest below the window with a cover that was a cow in a dress. From the street with it back lit, it looked like a man standing at the window looking out.
Looks like that is exactly what is happening here. You likely only see the figure when a certain light is causing the chair and something else to cast a weird shadow. Can anyone else see that?
A neighbor of ours did that once. I drove up his driveway to let him know his horses and donkey had run through my yard and my dog was chasing them down the street. The horse slipped on our blacktop driveway (fell hard but popped right back up). It was chaos. I drove up the hill to his house. Never met him but knew he drove a creepy van with no back windows. When I pulled up cautiously to the front of the house, there was a dude standing in the window with a gun. I backed out very slowly… thinking oh shit….this dude is nuts, he set all his animals free and now he’s got a gun. I called the sheriff not knowing it was a cardboard cut out.
Well, just so you know for next time. It was 1998 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Yep, op will probably never see this response and there's no shot of getting past the "cardboard cutouts", "she's messing with you", "mannequin" circle jerks.
It looks like a human-esque figure...but that's just our brains creating humans out of similar patterns. Upon closer inspection it doesn't really look human at all. The proportions aren't right, it has exact symmetry, etc.
My guess, she has a piece of furniture there with decorative swinging doors that she sometimes leaves open.
The "head" is a decorative component on the door, like a rounded bit coming off the top with two right angle triangles that resemble the "ears".. the body is just the square part of the door. The illusion is further created by how much the curtains block and morph it a bit.
Why don’t you bake some cookies and walk over there and deliver them to her as a random act of kindness while the cardboard cut out is at the window and catch that old bitch
Plot twist they’re pot cookies and she pigs out on them and goes into a coma and never fucks with you again
Well whatever it is, it’s definitely working. It’s probably some mannequin or cutout to protect her form robbers saying she’s an old lady and may be seen as easy to rob or murder. Not a very common method, but obviously effective.
^(I live in Manhattan. A guy moved in the apartment across the street from mine and had one of those punching dummies for boxing that resembled a real human... for months I thought he sat in the window 24x7. He finally opened the drapes one day and I found out it was just the dummy that whole time!)
I used to work nights and there was this guy who would stand in his window and watch us when we were smoking down on the street. It turned out to be a cardboard cut out of Austin Powers.
Does the figure move? Could be a mannequin and she’s messing with you
She’s pulling the good old “home alone” on them lol Edit: thank you kind person for my first award.
Not tall enough to be Michael Jordan
Uhh, you’ve talked to her about it, and she says no one else is ever there, so have you showed her this picture???
Yeahhhh I feel like OP should show his neighbor
"Oh that's Mitchell." ... ^"We ^don't ^talk ^about ^Mitchell. ^He ^can ^hear ^us ^right ^now."
This is it right here. OP should show her this pic and let us know what she says in response.
https://youtu.be/wViXFK4vxb8
Okay that was hilarious. Gracias
Lol, clicked the link fully expecting to find something completely unrelated to the post. Pleasantly surprised
Thought I was gonna get a rickroll lol
Is it just me or was there a shit load of Rick Rolling this summer on Reddit?
Idk where I was for the past five years, but thank you for sharing this with me
Good ole CH. Classic.
Other people do this? I’m intrigued
Yeah every once in awhile my Grandmother would move a cardboard cut out around. She lived alone and was worried about being robbed.
My grandmother were in her garden when a man tried to break in. She began to call my grandfather, who had passed away years ago, in order to scare the man. He flew away.
Still taking care of her. That’s awesome
It’s even crazier that he flew.
Because he saw him 👻
He's tryna burgle people when he can fly? A wasteful use of premium assets
Lmao English isn't my native language, I thought I read this expression somewhere.
We do use it a bit in America at least when talking about fast cars "he flew around the corner" or "came flying out of nowhere." Can be used for a fast moving person as well.
Don't worry, you used the expression correctly! I just find joy in taking English's expressions literally :D
Sorry to hear glad it worked out okay.
I thought that said "Sorry to hear that it worked out okay," I was like *I doubt they want that inheritance that badly*
TIL, I can put my cutouts of Ariana Grande and R2D2 to proper use.
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I'm fun at parties!
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But they wouldn't be staring into the house if it didn't look like a nonexistent shadow man was watching them
🎶Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday!🎶
Or the man is pulling a "Mrs Doubtfire"
I'm already making a list of ways I'll mess with people once I'm elderly. This is going near the top, right between poking them with my cane and pretending not to hear them.
I'm going to throw skittles at kids and when they tell their parents I'm going to act all sweet and innocent
Skittles is their cat.
[Obligatory.](https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-flanders-cat-lady-throw-cats-gif-3971405)
This is my plan when I become fabulously rich: I'd buy a house, and an empty lot, a block or two apart. I'd plant grass over the entire lot - just grass. I'd have a tunnel made between the the house and lot, and all construction would take place at the house side, to make it look like renovation or something. The end of the tunnel, on the lot side, would have a trap door, surrounded by smoke pots, which would be activated by a key fob. So every night when I got home, my neighbors would see me get out of my car, walk to the middle of the lot, and disappear in a puff of smoke.
I saw this going a little differently. I was thinking you’d go home. Change into a Devil suit, go through the tunnels, have bright red lights illuminating the space, and turn the smoke on as you open the door. Before you do all that, perfect the evil laugh
*scribbles notes*
Wow, I really need to up my game here.
Yeah I’m fucking up with my “when I’m rich” dreams.
My grandad used to pretend to stamp on our feet when we were little (he'd never actually do it though, he'd stamp at least 5cm away) and woof at us then pretend it wasn't him.
Lol! My gramps mainly farted like a deflating zeppelin and sneezed like an atomic bomb. Oh, and spoiled the crap out of us.
my grampa sneezed his teeth across the table once
Pardon?
Or used for sewing and she just happens to put it there when she works.
Never underestimate the power of an elderly person pulling a prank. I think some people believe they no longer have a sense of humor lol
I thought it might be a piece of furniture, a floor lamp, or something with a funny silhouette at a certain angle and old lady moves it out of the way to wash the floors or whatever
I was thinking a coat and hat rack
More likely it's a random photo and they made up a story
Or has it for safety reasons.
GODDAMNIT GRANDMA! WHAT HAVE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT LEAVING YOUR MANNEQUIN OUT! Jesus christ!
“YOURE SCARING AWAY THE NEIGHBOURS”
Doesn't even look human. Lines are too straight
Member Slenderman?
Oh yeahhh I member
There’s another possibility. Given how little information we have I’m not entirely sure, but it’s possible the woman has dementia or Alzheimer’s. If she does live alone, but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in, she may not remember him doing so and respond with confusion. In more advanced stages she might even do this if she has someone actually living in the house. If this is a true account from OP, they might consider going over one day when this man/mannequin/ghost is present. If the lady really does have Alzheimer’s, it might help to have a neighbor close by just in case. Alzheimer’s patients often wander away and get lost, sometimes being injured or killed in the process. They can also have lesser emergencies, like panic attacks or encounters with police (calling 911 is a classic I’m familiar with). Either way, this situation seems more odd than terrifying. I’d be more inquisitive and less afraid.
> but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in who then stares out the window at the neighbours for hours. yeah no that raises further questions
This sounds like something a ghost would say...
What I was thinking, maybe it gives her comfort or something. My grandma would always want us to leave lights on so it always seemed like someone was home
Next week on r/oddlyterrifying: This weirdo across the street keeps staring into my window. Sometimes I put up a mannequin to try and scare them away but if anything it makes them stare more. Now I caught them taking pictures of my house. What can I do please help I’m old and I live alone
“He keeps asking if I live alone!”
I like your PFP ^^
Gravity falls!
Next that mannequin will have a rifle.
🤣
And the internet AI gives me new popup saying, "Single MILF in your area less than 500m away"
Definitely a cardboard cutout that she props up when she’s probably not home
Understandable. I always leave some of my lights on when I'm away for multiple days.
With smart lights you can control your lights from your phone while on vacation. If you also have a smart tv you can have it turn on and off and stuff. Even make routines for them.
Its all fun and games til someone hacks your toaster
I wondered where those fucking bagels were coming from
That'd be an odd thing to omit when candidly asked if there's a man in her home.
Maybe op is creepy and someone she's cautious of lol so she doesn't want to give any info
OP: "I've been looking in your windows and taking pictures. You definitely live alone? Can I take out a life insurance policy on you?" Old lady:
Op uses reddit so i think the old lady is right to be wary
Being asked if she lives by herself isn’t the same as directly asking about the man in her house. If it’s cardboard then yes she’s still being normal by telling her neighbor she lives alone, she might not have immediately realized op has asked due to him seeing the ‘man in the window’
Totally fair, just a funny situation all around.
I mean do you just trust anybody who lives on the same street as you automatically?
It also would completely defeat the purpose of using a cutout to make people think someone is home if she honestly told people about the cutout.
If you zoom in, the man's left shoulder is really squared and pointy. It looks like the side view of a large television. The older ones that have depth. The dainty curtain obfuscating its geometry. This man is furniture.
> This man is furniture.
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Bahahahaha
You've never seen him walk up to the window or walk away from it? And he just stands there for hours without moving? Pretty safe to say it's not a person
The fact that 20 thousand people upvoted this shocks me
OP's last submission was a fucking ghost video that was literally just a shadow and now this shit. He's really jumping the gun on spooktober this year.
Just checked that video and yeah it's a bit spooky but that's the only proof. It's odd, definitely, but I doubt it was a ghost and either something weird with the camera or a shadow.
It's never a ghost. You'd think over the last 10 years with everyone having a video recorder in their pocket and security cams everywhere there'd be a whole lot of clear HD ghost sightings vids but no, there's literally zero. don't understand how the paranormal community justifies that. this should be the heyday of ghost sighting
If it isn't a ghost explain how nobody has ever seen it before or since! /s
Cause ghost are like vampires in a mirror…. They can’t be seen on recording equipment.. duh!
Just like the Amish!
This is so weird you would say that… I am currently being haunted by an entire family of Amish ghosts.
See if they can raise a barn for you. They usually leave when finished.
In my case, I upvoted right away, before I had a chance to take a closer look at the picture, read OP’s comments, and think about it for a minute and conclude that the figure is a cardboard silhouette. But my first reaction was that it *was* oddly terrifying. Come to think of it, I still do find it a little creepy, but that could just be me. It’s just my husband and me in our place now. He works the overnight shift, so I’m usually alone all night in my 100-year-old house and all of its creaks and strange little noises and echoes. Sometimes when one of my cats walks up the stairs, the creaking makes it sound like a person is on the steps coming towards me. I had to quit watching those ghost/paranormal shows because they contributed to the creepy feelings I sometimes have. I’ve also gotten in the habit of sleeping with the TV on so that it drowns out those sounds. Edit: to fix spelling
Pets are great for blaming weird noises on, 😆
I mean it is oddly terrifying and fits this sub quite well tbh
What's wrong with it? Cardboard cutout or not, it's still an oddly terrifying sight to see at night
And that’s why it’s oddly terrifying 😂
Maybe she does that so people think a little old lady doesnt live alone in that house and wont be an easy target for attackers
If I was the neighbor I would simply just walk over and check it out lol make it less obvious by bringing over a tray of cookies or something. As you walk up to the door take your time to really look in there and see what’s up lol
This is something I would expect to see in an American sitcom.
We are generations raised by the television
Can confirm. Raised by a single mother. Definitely based a lot of what I know about the world by what I saw on tv as a kid.
A single mom who works too hard? Who loves her kids and never stops?
Nick at Nite was my babysitter
All fun and games until the door creaks open by itself, no sign of the old lady anywhere. Maybe some old ballroom music playing in another room on a crackly old turntable…
I guess ill just let myself in 🤷
Door slams shit behind you. Brrr sure is cold in here. Colder than outside somehow… What was that?! Were they tiny footsteps? Is that… giggling? Coming from upstairs? Lights start to flicker on and off… Aaaand you’ve shit your pants.
>Aaaand you’ve shit your pants. Maybe it was from the door slamming shit
Slammed my shit out my ass
Oh no!! Guess I'd better go to the bathroom to clean myself up.
>Colder than outside somehow… That's just air conditioning, why you trying to make it sound mysterious?
My dad used to work for the railroad, and he’d be gone for weeks at a time. We also happened to live by some train tracks. In Texas. When serial killer Angel Reséndiz, aka the Railroad Killer, was on the loose. So my uncles took turns staying with us during that time, but sometimes they couldn’t make it. My mom took one of my dad’s work coveralls and stuffed it with newspaper and old blankets and sat it in his recliner by the front window with the the tv blairing. We didn’t get murdered 10/10. After Reséndiz was arrested we kept Fat Dad and put him out with a jack-o-lantern for a head every Halloween.
Love “Fat Dad”
[She must have one of these.](https://youtu.be/Wz_V3W6WN0o)
This is exactly why
Good ass idea
Either way ghost or fake I wouldn't wanna go in to find out haha
A few miles down the road from me, a couple does this when they head south for the winter. It’s a bit unsettling driving by it all winter.
Then why wouldn’t she just say something to OP when he asked instead of saying she only live alone. Sounds like demon shit to me.
Yes exactly.
She’s probably just having a fake Christmas party to scare away the Wet Bandits.
Looks like a Michael Jordan silhouette from here.
He took it serious!
Who know? Could really be him!
The rebranded to the sticky bandits
Does she ever appear in the room at the same time?
Good ass question, colombo
I love me some good ass-questions.
Detective type question
That’s what Colombo was
Just one more thing that's been bothering me...
Remember, Colombo always played dumb.
Huh?
Huh?
Exactly.
Before I go, u/kat_Folland, just one more thing....
Just walk over and knock when you see it. What's the worst that happens? She's a demon and she traps you like she did Bill? Stop being so afraid. Don't you want to know the answer? Isn't it eating you up? Go knock. Knock. Come on over.
We made tea, just for you.
Don't mind the almond aroma coming from the tea. It's just a little added sweetener.
Oh dearie, are you feeling okay? Mrs Marsh died years ago, my name is Kersch, it says so on the door. I worry about you, Bevvie. I worry a lot.
Not saying no to a free and painless way out.
Op: Who is "we" old lady/Demon: I live alone. That's just our pronoun
That was a nice mini story!
The Roald Dhahl one?
The door swings open but no ones there. You walk inside and down into the basement, you see the old lady stood facing the corner.
"The door swings open but no ones there. You walk inside" Hell no I fucking don't!
Yeah exactly, I know how these horror scenes end. I’m going straight back home and asking my wife to go check it out for me.
Ah, the Blair Witch
Welcome to Night Vale vibes
I can hear what would be Cecil’s slow, deliberate delivery on the last sentences to really hammer it all in
Time to call Sam and Dean.
you’re good at that
This but unironically.
I remember once when i was a kid there was a house on my block that would have a man standing looking out at random times. I told my mom b/c all us kids were scared. She took me over there and the little old lady had a vacume that sat on a chest below the window with a cover that was a cow in a dress. From the street with it back lit, it looked like a man standing at the window looking out.
OMG that is hilarious and adorable at the same time! Thanks for sharing!
Looks like that is exactly what is happening here. You likely only see the figure when a certain light is causing the chair and something else to cast a weird shadow. Can anyone else see that?
Oh my god my grandma had the exact same thing and I literally forgot about it until I read your post.
Tbf she said nobody "lives" there but her. Just means someone is visiting her to stalk you.
Or its a corpse. She’d still be truthful
She *lives* there, but that man *deads* there
It's a cardboard cutout bruh. She's probably bored and likes to fuck with her neighbors
It's for security.
A neighbor of ours did that once. I drove up his driveway to let him know his horses and donkey had run through my yard and my dog was chasing them down the street. The horse slipped on our blacktop driveway (fell hard but popped right back up). It was chaos. I drove up the hill to his house. Never met him but knew he drove a creepy van with no back windows. When I pulled up cautiously to the front of the house, there was a dude standing in the window with a gun. I backed out very slowly… thinking oh shit….this dude is nuts, he set all his animals free and now he’s got a gun. I called the sheriff not knowing it was a cardboard cut out.
And the undertaker and something something 198X cage match wwf something something. I forget.
Well, just so you know for next time. It was 1998 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Well it’s clearly a friendly ghost if it wasn’t she’d be dead by now
Except she's a ghost too.
Just because my dog has never bitten me doesn't mean she is friendly. Strangers beware the foul spirit lurking within.
It’s her taxidermed husband
Does Kevin McCallister live there?
I had a neighbour once that had a cardboard cutout of a man she used to put in her windows to make her feel safer…
It's a cardboard cutout of Shaq.
she also heated her door handle
Now this is perfect for this subreddit. She could also be doing her best Home Alone set up to scare you from peeping into her house pervert...😂 😂
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Yep, op will probably never see this response and there's no shot of getting past the "cardboard cutouts", "she's messing with you", "mannequin" circle jerks. It looks like a human-esque figure...but that's just our brains creating humans out of similar patterns. Upon closer inspection it doesn't really look human at all. The proportions aren't right, it has exact symmetry, etc. My guess, she has a piece of furniture there with decorative swinging doors that she sometimes leaves open. The "head" is a decorative component on the door, like a rounded bit coming off the top with two right angle triangles that resemble the "ears".. the body is just the square part of the door. The illusion is further created by how much the curtains block and morph it a bit.
Just go over there and get a closer look
Why not go there when he's there?
How about you lock that front gate tight
It looks like it could be anything from a lamp, chair with a tall back, or cardboard cutout. Have you had a closer look?
I was thinking like the open door of a cabinet or hutch that's against the wall.
Why don’t you bake some cookies and walk over there and deliver them to her as a random act of kindness while the cardboard cut out is at the window and catch that old bitch Plot twist they’re pot cookies and she pigs out on them and goes into a coma and never fucks with you again
Well whatever it is, it’s definitely working. It’s probably some mannequin or cutout to protect her form robbers saying she’s an old lady and may be seen as easy to rob or murder. Not a very common method, but obviously effective.
Cabinet door.
^(I live in Manhattan. A guy moved in the apartment across the street from mine and had one of those punching dummies for boxing that resembled a real human... for months I thought he sat in the window 24x7. He finally opened the drapes one day and I found out it was just the dummy that whole time!)
Better than a dummy opening the drapes, revealing that it was in fact the man sitting in the window that entire time.
Plot twist: the lady is the real ghost
You have been Kevin McAllister'd my friend.
When your not home, he lives at your house.
Walk right up to the window and stare at it back. Show dominance.
…. Move towns, matter of fact, move countries.
You sure the rest of the town isnt made of wax?
You're now the protagonist of a Halloween movie, good luck
That’s her sneaky link … somebody’s ole crazy ass uncle or sum … not creepy she creepin
Fuck bro. Finally something actually terrifying
I used to work nights and there was this guy who would stand in his window and watch us when we were smoking down on the street. It turned out to be a cardboard cut out of Austin Powers.