"Catman"

[MickTheChampion]

In my hometown, there is a particularly legendary local eccentric...he is known as "Catman".

See, round about 20/30 years ago (don't quote me on the date) a sugar boat sank on the River Clyde - from this sugar boat emerged a strange foreign man...who somehow believed he was a cat.

Near where I live, there's this little alleyway called Scott's Lane - it's where the Catman lives, I've seen him. He's black with dirt, he eats dead rats and mice and on occassion licks up your spittle.

There's speculation about whether he actually came off the sugar boat or not, but it matters not - there is a crazy man in Scott's Lane who believes he is a cat. Hell, he even get's a mention in our wikipedia article.

Yes - before I had seen him I thought it was just a bullshit local legend too, I mean a Cat man? What the fuck? "Travelling barefooted on his hind legs" "his diet is made up of wild animals he has caught." It all really does sound like utter bullshit - and seeing is believing.

So Mick, why then, did you post a topic about this mythical local resident?

Recently, photographic proof of the "Catman" has made it's way onto the internet. Enjoy...

[HoldenCaulfield]

I can't BELIEVE I forgot to post the picture after typing all that!

[Seanmlr]

wow...wtf is he eating?

[Einsidler]

OMFG, that is freaky. someone photoshop it.

[Psi43]

At 1/23/06 12:10 PM, Mick_el_campeon wrote: I can't BELIEVE I forgot to post the picture after typing all that!

If that's a Catman, why's he dressed up like a human..

[Jonocheese]

Catman is the local hero on fairly odd parents!

[ArthurGhostly]

At 1/23/06 12:13 PM, Jonocheese wrote: Catman is the local hero on fairly odd parents!

Wow, Thanks for that, how old are you?

[JohnnyWang]

Yiffy?

crazy homeless people > all.

[RedeH]

At 1/23/06 12:12 PM, Psi43 wrote: If that's a Catman, why's he dressed up like a human..

If that's a human, why's he dressed up like a Catman..

[Einsidler]

Heres a quick photoshop I whipped up

[MetalArm]

This reminds me of Karl Pilkington talking about the 'mental homeless' on his estate.

'I looked in the pram and it was a bucket with a face drawn on it.'

[MickTheChampion]

At 1/23/06 12:19 PM, -Sean- wrote: This reminds me of Karl Pilkington talking about the 'mental homeless' on his estate.

'I looked in the pram and it was a bucket with a face drawn on it.'

We've got a few local crazies - Catman>all though - Catman is harcore.

[CathaI]

Wow. Pretty sad, but at the same time, a small part of my mind laughs.

[LamboFactor]

I don't know whether i should be wierded out or amazed... Btw that guy looks pretty messed up...

[TheLameSauce]

At 1/23/06 12:11 PM, Seanmlr wrote: wow...wtf is he eating?

youre sins...and theyre giving him canker sores...

[TheAbominableMatt]

At 1/23/06 12:21 PM, Mick_the_champion wrote: We've got a few local crazies - Catman>all though - Catman is harcore.

Pidgeonman>catman

[CathaI]

At 1/23/06 12:27 PM, theabominablematt wrote:

At 1/23/06 12:21 PM, Mick_the_champion wrote: We've got a few local crazies - Catman>all though - Catman is harcore.

Pidgeonman>catman

He so doesn`t!

[threesecondmaniac]

Yeah, My dad knows him (no guys im not talkin the piss outa mick) when he was younger he used to go walk the hills n stuff with his friends and would jump through backs n all that, one time my dad seen him up near the hills near my house then once again near his old childhood home jumping over a (9 foot) fence.. This catman has changed a bit according to my dad and has obviously moved alot of mick has seen him..

[Mr-Pope]

He looks content with life at least.

[Lorek]

I'M A CATMAN!

[ArthurGhostly]

We have a local tramp called; "Dirty Dolly"
She's the closest to a mental person we have.

[MickTheChampion]

I was talking to Dan there (Abnormal) and he thought it was hillarious the way everyone in Greenock treats it as normal, like how in the article it says local residents leave food out for him.

I told him the bus drivers used to leave him scraps from their Fish and Chips and things, and in return he'd leave them a dead moust.

It's like "oh, better leave something for the Cat Man"

[MickTheChampion]

At 1/23/06 12:31 PM, Mick_the_champion wrote: he'd leave them a dead moust.

That should say "dead mouse" - as you can tell I've been forgetting to proof read BEFORE posting...

[BanjoOfImpendingDoom]

wtf is wrong with him...he must feel manly saying "I am CATMAN!" love the photoshoped version

[Einsidler]

At 1/23/06 12:35 PM, BanjoOfImpendingDoom wrote: wtf is wrong with him...he must feel manly saying "I am CATMAN!"

more like meow-meow-meow lol

love the photoshoped version

thanks

[TheAbominableMatt]

wikopedia say:
He has been taken in by social services before for mental illness but he was deemed uncurable and was released.

Matt say:
WHAT?

[MetalArm]

At 1/23/06 12:31 PM, Mick_the_champion wrote: I was talking to Dan there (Abnormal) and he thought it was hillarious the way everyone in Greenock treats it as normal, like how in the article it says local residents leave food out for him.

I told him the bus drivers used to leave him scraps from their Fish and Chips and things, and in return he'd leave them a dead moust.

It's like "oh, better leave something for the Cat Man"

Brilliant.

I can just imagine someone visiting their family up on Greenock and spotting him.

'Holy shit, who the hell's that.'
'Oh that? That's the Cat Man. So what do you want for dinner then?'
'Look, I think we should get some help...'
'Don't worry yourself about it-'
He throws a rat carcass at Cat Man.
'-He'll be happy all day now.'

This should be a sitcom.

[BanjoOfImpendingDoom]

This should be a sitcom.

Catman Adventures FTW

[Darthkillerpawn]

the weirdest thing to think, is when we all are grown to like 40 and we have children and we see that guy still around, itll be a fricken horror movie

[Einsidler]

At 1/23/06 12:36 PM, -Sean- wrote:

This should be a sitcom.

I just hope it comes out in Australia too lol, following other ideas is what aussie tv does best so there would probably be Australian Catman a month later