Haha I take it he's famous then. As far as people wanting cash on the streets go, he does give entertainment.

i remember walking down past the "church" one night with a friend, then this old guy came up to us and tryed to tell us how good the trannys are in bed. we tried to walk away, then he stood in front of us giving us directions to where the trannys were. after all that we just laughed and said no thanks. i found it funny lol

yep, everyone knows this guy. he is generally harmless, i've met him and talked to him also on my first trip whilst unawares. i didn't take his tour but my friends give him a few coins and he was on his way. i'm sure i've read on here about him turning nasty on someone? anyone recall? anyway it's not a trip to amsterdam without seeing this scraggly fucker although he doesn't talk to me anymore (not that he would remember me anyway).

i got some stuff to contribute to this thread (which is fantastic by the way, some golden stories) but i'll post em all at once when i get them all together. it'll be mostly extracts from my short trip reports.

Just got back from my first amsterdam trip. Seen alot of things in RLD that i find quite weird. I was standing in the corner of a main canal street waiting my buddy to finish a session with a girl. Since it was my first time he wanted to position me to a place where he thought would be safer considering that it was already 1 am. Right after he headed to his destination, I was first approached by this tall guy who spoke a language i didnt understand. He ended up asking for a smoke in english and i said sorry bro i am out. he started sort of yelling why dont you have money i dont understand why dont you have money. I dont know why i was being so polite instead of telling him to fuck off but instead i cared to explain him that my friend got it and that he'd be out any minute now. He then started yelling again i dont know your friend man i dont know your friend. It was as if he was trying to find a reason to yell. Imagine an overexcited italian way of speaking.Thats how he was. Anyways right after he took off a lady mid 40s came up to me and asked if i was alone. I said yes . She said "poor boy. its bad to feel lonely I understand you" . I said " i said i am alone not lonely". All of a sudden her mood changed and actually gave me the finger and took off. Oh btw 2 drug dealers approached to sell coke but when i replied in turkish they looked at each other and turned away. Finally my favorite was when a group of americans walking down the street stopped beside me for a discussion which i find very weird. One of the girls was sort of begging her boy friend to go and do a session with a girl they have spotted earlier. Saying that she would feel horrible if he didnt. The guy was apparently having second thoughts though.I got little carried away and ended up saying " Hey man.He who hesitates masturbates". I still cant believe why on earth i said something like that but the girl holding her boyfriends hand said " exactly.thats what i've been telling him". He eventually left his phone and other stuff to his girlfriend and started walking.
Well they might all sound pretty usual for RLD but for a first timer i find them quite weird. Not to mention that everything above happened in 15 minutes! Longest 15 minutes of my life.

Yesterday I saw a disabled black guy (he sounded American) on a motorised mobility scooter performing stunts for tourists and locals outside the Bulldog Mack on Oudezijds Voorburgwal. He was actually quite entertaining. He was making jokes, doing slides (skids) and making it go on two wheels.

The strange thing is is that he was doing it for ages (he was already doing it when I walked by, I stopped for about 5 minutes to watch and he was still doing when I carried on walking) and he wasn't asking for money...

It was rather bizarre.

Uh, yes, this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci1bdb6fmNU

He's always in the red light, at least i've always seen him recently.
Best stunt was Oudekennisteeg/Oza on two wheels.

I too have had an encounter with this guy.

He too told us the army story.

At the time, around five years ago, he was short, but he looked very muscely and had an open tracksuit top with full six pac and crazy eyes.

He was trying to give us a tour, and we weren't interested, he followed us for a bit pitching his tour, but we just said no and have a good night, and he fucked off.

I bet if you asked him the question of this topic, he would have some real crazy shit to say!

That's the guy! Bizarre!

Ran into him on damrak almost everyday. He was like " dont try this at home" Lol

yeah ive seen this guy, he was gonna be part of my crazy-shit list when i got around to it haha

i've seen him going down warmoestraat on that thing smacking people with an umbrella, it was so funny.

Some of the weirdest things I've seen in the RLD come from Singel - the curio shop on Lijnbaanssteeg
(click on the image a second time and it gets even bigger)


Where the hell does he find this stuff?

the dogs

Standing at the top of Tromp by the Bulldog, some guy in old women's clothes (think old granny coat and skirt with tights and heels) and a shopping trolley, walks past without a care in the world :)

On OzA, two groups of black guys (presumably dealers) were hurling bricks at each from one side of the canal over to the other.. think it was a saturday night with OzA packed. Weird sight! Must have been a territorial dispute.

German Kim walking out of the kamer and going into Sexyland to buy me water.. in her high heels and catsuit.. with a straight face and in no rush, like she was on a normal trip to the shops. Good times :)

Probably the worst thing i ever saw was a wasted crackhead drop his trousers in the skinny end of Tromp and start shitting!!! He moved on quick after a few people shouted at him!!!

I know there's no kamers at that end for a few metres....but although it was early hours one morning it was still pretty busy!!!!!!

I saw some poor drunken c**t fall into a canal and have to be fished out.

Not weird, really - but I laughed so much I nearly shat.

(I was drunk too - strange drug, alcohol . . . )