They are in every city, and everyone has their 'favourite' crazy person, their amusing and bizarre traits, that slightly scary glint in the eyes and the tell tale unruly hair. Got to love them (whilst also feeling a tad concerned about their well being) and so I have decided in this entry to inform you all of the regular insano characters that can be sought around Hk.

Railway Rubbish Collector: BINBAG BOB:
Railway stations do seem to be a breeding ground for some of the less stable minded individuals that colour our world and my local stop is no exception. Same time each morning you could bet money on the appearance of binbag bob. To the lesser trained eye BBB could actually look like an unkempt station staff member with his mobile bin, and collection of binbags. He seems to have quite an attraction for collecting random pieces of rubbish from inside the bin. If it was food scraps for example I could maybe understand the (all be it desparate) logic to the exercise.. but upon inspection it does appear to be most unexplainable... wrappers, old newspapers, empty coffee cups etc. I have not yet discounted the possibility that he could be some sort of elaborate artist collecting refuge ot make a giant montage of our urban decay... but most likely he is quite simply an insano.

Fashion Inspired: PATCH:
This guy sits on the mid levels escalator in Central with a pair of patchwork overalls on (which in my opinion are faaaaar too warm for the summer months) and a couple of plastic bags full to the brim of fabric scraps.. and a needle and thread. Patch seems to spend his entire day (for I have walked past at many different times on many different days and he is always there) darning fabric patches onto his already heavily constructed attire! For which reason I am not quite sure but everytime I pass him the urge to go over and ask is becoming stronger. Only problem with that is that I never encourage making friends with insanos where possible, amusing it may be for a short while but ultimately probably best avoided.

Heres a thought... do you think that if more people actually talked to insanoes they would be less mental or they are insanoes regardless??

Also, I wonder... why if patch spends his entire day and night sewing, he insists on doing it to just his overalls, Im sure he could by now have produced many collections of assorted clothing.

Street Repairs: SZ.GOLLUM
On the street up the way from our office sits and old chinese man next to a small box permanantly fixed to the wall/pavement. I believe he does shoe repairs, although I have never seen this in action.
Size Zero Gollum is always sat on the floor huddled against his box (usually topless, not sure why) hunched over looking painfully skinny and frail. Im not sure that offically I could classify SZ Gollum as an insano per se, but I also would not classify it as particuarly normal behaviour either.

Top of the list: Carrier Bag Crazy
Smack bang in the middle of central district a regular insano can be found revelling in their extreme mentalness. This crazy person ties 100s of carrier bags around themselves forming a giant spacesuit type affair and then rolls around on the pavement asking for cash from passer bys. To be honest, Im sure that there are more effective marketing techniques, and I wonder at which point CBC decided it would be a great idea to cover themselves in plastic bags??!

Keeping my radar on alert for any further additions to the world of insanoes out here, and will be certain to report on these people who, for a number of reasons, make life a little more interesting.

Much Love
Tx