3.10.2008

I Called 911 for the First Time!

I mean, there's really nothing to this story. Some crazy dude wearing ear phones was shouting and running in circles at a busy intersection. I called 911 because I did not want it on my conscience if he got brained by a semi . The operator said that guy was responsible for more 911 calls than anyone else in the city. So at least I got to walk past a local celebrity.

So, not as much fun as my drunken 311 adventure when the operator hung up on me. But it's still two calls that have basically gone unheeded.

UPDATE: And here he is in all of his spandexed glory:

21 comments:

  1. Yes! That's The Crazy Running Guy. As far as I can tell he always manages to get out of the intersection at the very last possible legal moment.

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  2. I have definitely seen him hopping backwards in circles shouting during non-legal moments.

    He's a DC character like the tiny Amy Winehouse-looking lady shouting things in some non-English language from her tent on the whitehouse lawn or "the Vatican hides child molesters!" guy.

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  3. I think I heard an interview with that guy on WAMU's Metro Connection a year or two ago. He's a retired metro employee who apparently didn't have any better ideas of what do do with himself and his big, fat pension.

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  4. I see that guy a lot at Pennsylvania and 17th.

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  5. Yep. I used to see him all the time when I was a street cop. He is actually a nice guy, a little crazy, but he is pro police......
    I can't believe he runs backwards lol

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  6. I swear the "Vatican Hides Pedophiles" guy lives under the Monroe Street bridge by the Brookland-CUA metro station.

    Although I saw him outside the Naval Observatory over the summer...seemed outside of his territory.

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  7. i don't know about calling 911rusty, maybe you should have let darwin take this one.

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  8. Rusty, I think you way overreacted by calling the authorities over this guy. The dude is just very happy, perhaps likely high on endorphins from his jog. I guess some people are just jovial and animated to the point that it makes other, more reserved individuals uncomfortable. I wish this happy jogger guy was the worst I saw in my neighborhood, Mt. Pleasant. There, we have a strange elderly man who walks up and down Park Road NW daily. The poor guy has to be 80, uses a walker/cane and screams like a banshee (like at least twice as loud as happy jogger dude). Sometimes he’s spouting obscenities at some unseen entity, sometimes he yells out as if he’s in severe pain. He always acts crazier than a shit house rat, that’s for sure. It really unnerves me when I encounter him. It’s like I have equal sympathy for and fear of him. Let the jogger be happy, you Nazis!

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  9. DC Dude -- he's not just happily walking along. It really looks like he's going to get hit.

    The other guy, in Mt. Pleasant, if he's the guy I'm familiar with, walks on the sidewalk. This crazy jogger dude bounces backwards, with headphones on, through traffic.

    I don't think the problem is that Rusty is "too reserved" -- the man pooped in a park like a bear for goodness sake.

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  10. Next time you see him, ask him if he knows Brenda. I miss her screaming racial slurs and painting the sidewalk in her own filth.

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  11. oh that's just runner man...he's at my office's intersection all the time. one of the better people who do their thing in chinatown...

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  12. that guy has been at it forever...i left DC 3 years ago and I remember that dude.

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  13. Speaking of DC characters...what's Compliment Man up to? Haven't seen him the last few times I've been up to Adams Morgan. He helped me get a cab on New Year's Eve on year. Nice guy.

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  14. I see that guy "warming up" on the steps of the masonic temple on 16th street all the time. I always notice him and the old guy who wears a trenchcoat and fedora and colors on fake sideburns with a sharpie marker....

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  15. Dude

    Totally witnessed him running in circles up in Chinatown last week while munching on a lunchtime burger (Bacon Cheddar, thank you!) in the window of Fuddruckers

    speaking of other DC characters? I haven't seen the Union Station tattooed face lady in some time. Is she still around?

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  16. he's the only truly sane person in this city

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  17. Can we get some DC love for not having elected Spitzer? I'll take what we can get!!

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  18. Il ratto - The Vatican hides pedophiles dude practically lives outside the Naval Observatory. The Vatican embassy is right there. I've lived in DC for 6 years and he's there almost every day.

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  19. ooooh! who can't wait for the pope to arrive and the vatican hides pedophiles guy to shit himself with glee and attempt a confrontation?!

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  20. This dude just enjoys his workout... no harm in that. If he chooses to make it dangerous so be it.

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  21. Saw tatooed face lady at Union Station on last Friday. Freaked me out!

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