We've got a nutter in our local, 50-ish, heavy drinker, looks like a lost member of Status Quo, has many odd 'life experiences' to enlighten you with, has recently been abducted by space-aliens He told us about it...he left the pub...the bright lights...being lifted up by an invisible beam....the period of missing time....coming round in a field near his home with some small cuts on his arms and legs (which he showed us)...

We spoke to some guys that know him though...as it turns out, they were driving home from a call-out, late, in their transit van and saw him staggering home, so they pulled up to give him a lift.
He was so pished that they had to carry him to the van, they put him in the back and started driving but he was getting nauseous, so they stopped by the fields, up the road from his house, and hoofed him out. As they drove away they saw him staggering off drunkenly into the fields

We aren't going to try to tell him...hahahaha

We've got Mad Ramsey. Hes not mad per se, he just sniffs a LOT of glue and does other drugs, shuffles up and down one particular road and mutters indecipherable growlings at anybody who goes near him.

We have a guy that wonders around wearing big ear-phones blasting very loud music and he shouts at the top of his voice all the time.

Turns out he's schizophenric and the music and shouting is to drown out the voices poor guy.

I am the local nutter

In my town you would be lucky to find the local sane person, we have so many nutters, lol. There is old tom, who walks at 1/4 mph and tells all women they cant park.
We have a woman with no control of her face, who drives one of those mobility scooters bloody fast down the centre of the pavement. She must have hospitalised a few ppl.
We have a stereotypical bag lady who sits on the same bench for at least 12 hrs a day, and we have two gypsies who sell big issues outside tescos, and the lil one always seems to follow me.

back home theres womble he used to pick up all the litter and swear at it.. then theres sadie whos weird but we dont know why.. shes a bit tapped as my mum would say..

In London there is a man who has been camped in Parliament Square for over six years. He is quite scruffy and is rarely seen away from his patch opposite Parliament. Now there is protesting but that is taking the biscuit. It is long time since he should have gone home.

awwwwwww i feel bad saying this ... but we've got ''mad jamesy'' that lives in the flats at the bottom of our houses .... its the kids that have labelled him bcoz he shouts out at them from his window when theyre playing, and talks to himself (really loud) when he passes the house

TINKERLOU

I could probably tell the best stories about 'nutters' and I know you're all having fun, but for me I spent years of working and living with either people who have learning disabilities or those with mental illness. So for me, I hate to see so called 'nutters' being wound up and provoked in a community that ought to be trying to understand and support them.

You can't catch a learning disability, but before your life ends you may well have had a spell of mental illness and the statistics for this is rising. Where does eccentricity end and mental illness begins?