Southend High Street Owl man.

[Mad Cyril]

What is the story with the bloke who wears Soviet era army surplus gear and sits in Southend high street with a couple of owls which he ferries about in a brightly painted trolley?

Is he the same bloke who used to drink with an owl on his arm in the Half Moon in Rayleigh?

Does he live in old Leigh? There is a house opposite the strand cafe that has a perch with an owl on it in the window and it watches people as they walk by.

 

[SUFC_Al]

afraid I don't know anything about him but owls are meant to sleep during the day...

 

[Mad Cyril]

afraid I don't know anything about him but owls are meant to sleep during the day...

If I was an owl I would rather work the day shift if I was being fed bits of burger and KFC rather than spending my nights looking for mice, voles and shrews.

 

[SUFC_Al]

If I was an owl I would rather work the day shift if I was being fed bits of burger and KFC rather than spending my nights looking for mice, voles and shrews.

I suppose it depends of whether it's an owl with ambitions or not! :p

 

[osymandus]

Far as i know he lives in Rochford , and is partial sighted .
Maybe their guide owls :D

 

[Pubey]

If I was an owl I would rather work the day shift if I was being fed bits of burger and KFC rather than spending my nights looking for mice, voles and shrews.

that would be shrewed of you!

 

[EastStandBlue]

Am i right in thinking he feigned complete blindness until a crowd of people outed him for being a con merchant?

 

[Jay_Shrimper]

Far as i know he lives in Rochford , and is partial sighted .
Maybe their guide owls :D

He lives just up my road, he's partially blind but says he is blind and yes, he takes his owls where-ever he goes, so they must be guide-blind owls.

:finger:

I don't like him, he's a con.

 

[Holy Joe]

He lives just up my road, he's partially blind but says he is blind and yes, he takes his owls where-ever he goes, so they must be guide-blind owls.

:finger:

I don't like him, he's a con.

You can be registered blind and still have some sight.

 

[Pubey]

it's like that supposedly deaf evelyn glennie percussionist woman. behind her i said "everlyn!" and she turned around.... whoops!

just realised that above sentence sounds a bit too much like the Chris Akabusi sex stories!

 

[NZamba Legend]

I'm looking into getting an owl or a dancing bear. A licence to print money.

 

[Tilly hates yellow boots]

What about pervy the clown who works in the high street ?


*sorry to anyone that knows him, that just what he has always been none as to me*

 

[southend_shrimp]

If we are talking about cult figures of southend how are a few of these names to you!

Any of you recall or know the story of "Penny Picker Steve" "Beadle"

 

[Tilly hates yellow boots]

Penny picking Steve is still around and has a repretation with all ages now.

 

[Tilly hates yellow boots]

i reconise the name Beadle....any chance of a discription ?

 

[Davros]

it's like that supposedly deaf evelyn glennie percussionist woman. behind her i said "everlyn!" and she turned around.... whoops!

just realised that above sentence sounds a bit too much like the Chris Akabusi sex stories!

AWOOOGGAA!!!

 

[Mad Cyril]

If we are talking about cult figures of southend how are a few of these names to you!

Any of you recall or know the story of "Penny Picker Steve" "Beadle"

There is the cricket hat man as well.

I saw him outside my sister in laws house. He had got a table and chair out of a skip and was eating fish and chips.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I'm looking into getting an owl or a dancing bear. A licence to print money.

I wonder if it's all business for the owl man.

They look like quite fragile creatures and it wouldn't suprise me if he got through a few a week.

I bet he has to hide the dead ones in skips and wheelie bins so Bill Odie and the RSPCA don't rumble him.

 

[osymandus]

it's like that supposedly deaf evelyn glennie percussionist woman. behind her i said "everlyn!" and she turned around.... whoops!

just realised that above sentence sounds a bit too much like the Chris Akabusi sex stories!

Well could be as shes a percussionist and is very familiar with vibrations (of which sound waves are ) While she couldn't "hear" it she could well have felt it. It being her name and all might be quite easy :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

 

[osymandus]

I wonder if it's all business for the owl man.

They look like quite fragile creatures and it wouldn't suprise me if he got through a few a week.

I bet he has to hide the dead ones in skips and wheelie bins so Bill Odie and the RSPCA don't rumble him.

Stuffs em in pillows you ask me ;) .Watch our for lumpy pillows !!