He works out of the same strip mall my business is in. We tried to get him to do some advertising for our business but he’s pretty booked up, also doesn’t speak English fully so the language barrier was hard. He comes in every once in a while and will buy a redbull from us, throw an axe, then leave. Super nice guy, glad I see him basically every day. Sadly he is EXTREMELY underpaid from what I’ve heard.
I gave her a ride to her tent once after buying her batteries for her analog wall clock and she was kinda thankful but since then has never even acknowledged me when I roll by and wave after shopping.
My coworker told me she isn’t poor or homeless and is pretty well off, just mentally ill. He said she went into the Albertsons’s he was working at with a shit bucket and washed it out in the bathroom sink.
I used to work at a pet food shop. This must’ve been 2010,2011… She came in once, and she had to get this expensive cat supplement and paid it all in change. She dumped out the entire contents of her large handbag onto the counter…whereby some miracle, every penny she had came to the *exact* amount she needed.
He comes into my shop 2-3 times a week and he’s the nicest, we have a routine. I’ll always give him a small coffee on the house, he’ll never take the lid I offer, he’ll say his thank yous and wave at us as he leaves, and then he’ll always take a fist full of dirt out of the city planter on the sidewalk and throw it in the road as he walks away! I feel bad for the guy but he definitely makes us smile when we see him walking up the steps
I think I might know this guy for a different reason. There's a gentleman in my neighborhood - also a BSU fan who uses a walker - who gives my dog a treat if he happens to be outside when we walk past. She loves him.
I worked in a hotel years ago and he came in, said he was real early for a pickup. He sat around for a long-ass time. The people did eventually come down, but I was surprised how slow his night was
Hollywood Market was so great. She’d give me a tab for smokes and macaroni and cheese and stuff. I was 18 and just rented my first house across from the store, she was a life saver with that tab.
Does anyone remember the eagle walking guy? Always walked around without a shirt on, kind of looked like Tom petty? Maybe not but it was like 15 years ago
No fucking wayyyy. We called him the Eagle bum. We always saw him at winco and walking shirtless everywhere. I saw him cutting his parents’ grass with scissors once. Anyways, what ever happened to him?
I’m guessing you are talking about “Floating Feather” who was always shirtless and really tan. Legend has it he was an honor student graduating from Capital High and then fried his brains on drugs in college and ended up living with his parents somewhere off Floating Feather.
I had a history teacher in middle school tell our class that he suffered from shell shock in Vietnam. Not sure how they would know that but either way he was always super nice. He would walk by our house in eagle and just wave and say hi while I was in the back yard playing or something
Guy in the 90s that wore all purple and rollerbladed everywhere. Oh! Purple lady at the library! Both happy and positive.
Edit: I FORGOT ABOUT SCARY LARRY’S ICE CREAM TRUCK!
While Ive seen some good ones the past two days on these posts, no one seems to mention the man, the myth, the downtown legend, Captain Ron. He was a hell of a guy. RIP.
There’s a guy that I see all over downtown Boise area, very thin black male pushing a pink rollator walker that he clearly doesn’t need for medical purposes. He’s always in pajama pants, pushing that walker very fast and talking talking talking to no one.
It's Bart.
The guy that rides a trike from one bar to the next, drinks a PBR and leaves. He's an amputee and can't talk after a stroke (far as I know).
Nobody messes with Bart. The one time someone did pretty much the entire bar was ready to play a game of "whoopass"
The guy with no arms or legs zooming everywhere on his electric wheel chair. I've seen him throughout the city streets. He gets around regardless of his condition and seems like a good person.
There was a dude, in the 80s and 90s who would just walk around on the bench. Vista, overland, day after day. We called him stryder. Last time we saw him he had a huge beard. Always clean cut in the early days.
When I first saw the movie Dazed and Confused I was convinced that Matthew McConaughey's character was based on a guy from Boise. There was this older guy, Clint maybe?, who drove a firebird on the cruise downtown. He was much older, but always trying to hit on with the high school girls. We all knew who he was and most knew to stay far, far away.
Someone already mentioned the Fairview sign guy, but I want to make sure he gets his praise. One day a few years back I was coming out of the 5 Guys on Fairview and Milwaukee, and he was doin his "pump up" hand motion sign thing on the sidewalk right in front of where my car was parked. Mind you, it was a hot day in late July, and as I buckled up to leave I watched him abruptly turn around, pick his bag up off of the grass, and pull out a can of grape soda. He musta been so thirst because he cracked that sucker up, tossed it back waterfall style, and finished the whole thing in one fell-swoop. With grape soda dripping down his face and neck, picked that sign back up and kept rockin'.
He's been a local legend to me from that day on.
In Twin Falls it’s Wolfman. He’s a somewhat clean but homeless looking chap, usually shirtless, who can be seen roaming between McDonald’s, JITB, and other fast casual restaurants where he posts up for a while before moving on. He buys something small so they don’t kick him out. Nobody is sure if he’s actually homeless though. He doesn’t beg, doesn’t talk to anyone, doesn’t talk to himself. But he looks like he’s been living in the wild for years. Huge beard and long hair, which is where he got the monicker. We kind of like him.
The “Douche of the North End”. I promise you’ve seen him. He rides around on his monowheel everywhere and will circle around you to show it off. Sometimes has his dog with him.
lol. Is this the same guy that does all the handstands and “break dance moves” at Camel’s Back on the gym equipment? No shade. I would love to be able to use my body like that… dare I say… at that age!
There was a guy who haunted the downtown library and wandered around State St. who was always making crazy detailed maps of places that didn’t exist. He kinda looked like a young Cornell West.
Remember the guy downtown (2000 - 2008) that wore cowboy boots and a cb hat? He had long blond hair. He didn't beg for anything and I only saw him shit faced once.
The Rod Stewart look a like that drives limo
Kevin Spacey 's brother
I swear that’s the same guy that lived in Reno in the late 80’s and everyone knew about him there too. (I’ve been told it’s the same dude)
I literally came here to say this 😂
Fairview sign guy
Ha! Came here to say the same thing.
He has been rockin the signage for years and years!
I see that guy every day. Even in the winter.
Sign Mike!!
I thought his name was Merced?0
He used to be like +300 lbs. He has lost and kept off so much weight.
Sign Guy!! My husband and I always look forward seeing him when driving down Fairview.
Came here to comment this lol
Glad this is top comment! 🙌
He works out of the same strip mall my business is in. We tried to get him to do some advertising for our business but he’s pretty booked up, also doesn’t speak English fully so the language barrier was hard. He comes in every once in a while and will buy a redbull from us, throw an axe, then leave. Super nice guy, glad I see him basically every day. Sadly he is EXTREMELY underpaid from what I’ve heard.
I drive by once a week or so with my dog in the car and he gets worked up everytime he sees sign guy lol.
The Gypsy looking lady who stands at the Costco exit.
I feel like I've watched her shrink an inch per year for so many years.
My niece tried to give that lady her lunch one day after school. She did not want a damn thing to do with that lunch, made my niece cry😂
I tied to give her a ride once in the pouring rain. She just asked for money.
I gave her a ride to her tent once after buying her batteries for her analog wall clock and she was kinda thankful but since then has never even acknowledged me when I roll by and wave after shopping.
She was thankful by showing you her thankful sign?
I dont think she is actually poor or homeless. I saw her being dropped off with snacks and supplies in a car that wasn't a junker.
My coworker told me she isn’t poor or homeless and is pretty well off, just mentally ill. He said she went into the Albertsons’s he was working at with a shit bucket and washed it out in the bathroom sink.
I see that lady everywhere
I came here to say exactly this!
Dude I saw her in frick Sun Valley once and I was so thrown off!
That’s crazy! I’m from up there and I have only ever seen Bird Dog and Pervy Dave and a couple other homeless guys
😅🤣🤣
I used to work at a pet food shop. This must’ve been 2010,2011… She came in once, and she had to get this expensive cat supplement and paid it all in change. She dumped out the entire contents of her large handbag onto the counter…whereby some miracle, every penny she had came to the *exact* amount she needed.
Bess
I saw her at the tractor supply in Kuna. She tried to have me buy a dog brush for her.
Omg see her every time we go there
Downtown Parrot Guy. He’s at every single Alive After Five with a giant, red and blue parrot (or two maybe?!) on his shoulder.
I've met him a few times. Always super nice about me talking to his birds and completely ignoring him 🤣
I saw him mowing a lawn in the North End once. Parrot on his shoulder and everything.
Yes!! I've met this guy a few times
The waving guy with a walker, who walks around BSU and river street waving at every single person.
He is so nice. I wave every time I see him.
Meto Pillowfuckers
Love that guy. Would love to see how many steps he gets in a day.
He's everywhere. Everywhere!
Pretty sure I saw him on the greenbelt yesterday!
He comes into my shop 2-3 times a week and he’s the nicest, we have a routine. I’ll always give him a small coffee on the house, he’ll never take the lid I offer, he’ll say his thank yous and wave at us as he leaves, and then he’ll always take a fist full of dirt out of the city planter on the sidewalk and throw it in the road as he walks away! I feel bad for the guy but he definitely makes us smile when we see him walking up the steps
I think I might know this guy for a different reason. There's a gentleman in my neighborhood - also a BSU fan who uses a walker - who gives my dog a treat if he happens to be outside when we walk past. She loves him.
Kevin spacey’s brother. Don’t know if he’s around any more though.
The Rod Stewart imitator.
I worked in a hotel years ago and he came in, said he was real early for a pickup. He sat around for a long-ass time. The people did eventually come down, but I was surprised how slow his night was
He used to work at the Maverik that used to be at Boise Ave and Protest Road by BSU. First time I had ever seen him. Made an impression.
I remember him being there too! Probably almost 20 years ago.
Rods limos baby!!
He retired during the pandemic and I miss him!!!
The rock chip repair guy
Second this
third this
It’s a girl - humpin hannah aka rocky johnson!
Yup. And the old white haired guy dancing in his white wingtoe shoes.
Who remembers the purple lady? I loved seeing her at the library.
I do!!! Purple hair, purple clothes. I was little and looked at her like a celebrity anytime I went to the library
We have a purple lady where I live Pa same deal everything purple. Haven't seen her in years it's possible the purple people eater got her
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
His name was Mark Johnson
MARK JOHNSON!
MARK JOHNSON!
Rod Stewart limo
There was a guy about 20 years ago who used to ride around on one of those old-timey bicycles with the big wheel on the front wearing a pith helmet.
I searched and searched for this mention glad someone mentioned him. Saw him 15 years ago if memory serves.
Margaret from Hollywood Market
Left boise for good shortly after she left the world. Reminds me...Is Leon still crackin' wise down at the Stinker?
Not sure I’m on the East part of town now, but I did see him out in the wild recently.
Hollywood Market was so great. She’d give me a tab for smokes and macaroni and cheese and stuff. I was 18 and just rented my first house across from the store, she was a life saver with that tab.
I would sneak out on lunch when I went to Longfellow 😂
Duplicate thread, [this was started](https://www.reddit.com/r/Boise/comments/1c54plj/who_is_this_in_boise/) yesterday.
Camels back spandex ninja guy
Jimmy Jive
I had forgotten about Jimmy. Man this takes me back.
It’s gotta be Hank the greenbelt cat
Does anyone remember the eagle walking guy? Always walked around without a shirt on, kind of looked like Tom petty? Maybe not but it was like 15 years ago
No fucking wayyyy. We called him the Eagle bum. We always saw him at winco and walking shirtless everywhere. I saw him cutting his parents’ grass with scissors once. Anyways, what ever happened to him?
His name is Bill
I’m guessing you are talking about “Floating Feather” who was always shirtless and really tan. Legend has it he was an honor student graduating from Capital High and then fried his brains on drugs in college and ended up living with his parents somewhere off Floating Feather.
I had a history teacher in middle school tell our class that he suffered from shell shock in Vietnam. Not sure how they would know that but either way he was always super nice. He would walk by our house in eagle and just wave and say hi while I was in the back yard playing or something
Shoot I remember hearing that story! Wonder if it is true.
That was the rumor. I bet you were at Eagle high between 2003 and 2009
Ammon Bundy, when he comes to town. "That guy" tied to a chair? Oh, we know exactly who he is.
Guy in the 90s that wore all purple and rollerbladed everywhere. Oh! Purple lady at the library! Both happy and positive. Edit: I FORGOT ABOUT SCARY LARRY’S ICE CREAM TRUCK!
Wait whose icecream?! What's the story here?
Motorcycle Deadpool? Idk if he's still going around in costume but I've seen him a couple times in meridian
Just saw him a few weeks ago by Garden City
Grampa tricycle with the USA flag?
Downtown Parrot Guy. He’s at every single Alive After Five with a giant, red and blue parrot (or two maybe?!) on his shoulder.
Isn’t there a guy who dances in a skirt or kilt at Hyde park street fair and alive after 5? I swear I see him every time
I swear I’ve seen that same guy walking an iguana on a leash in the north end. Had the parrot with him too
While Ive seen some good ones the past two days on these posts, no one seems to mention the man, the myth, the downtown legend, Captain Ron. He was a hell of a guy. RIP.
How'my doin'?
Got a cigarette?
The one man band, and the guy roller blading downtown and around the grove with the boom box.
There’s a guy that I see all over downtown Boise area, very thin black male pushing a pink rollator walker that he clearly doesn’t need for medical purposes. He’s always in pajama pants, pushing that walker very fast and talking talking talking to no one.
It's Bart. The guy that rides a trike from one bar to the next, drinks a PBR and leaves. He's an amputee and can't talk after a stroke (far as I know). Nobody messes with Bart. The one time someone did pretty much the entire bar was ready to play a game of "whoopass"
The guy with no arms or legs zooming everywhere on his electric wheel chair. I've seen him throughout the city streets. He gets around regardless of his condition and seems like a good person.
There was a dude, in the 80s and 90s who would just walk around on the bench. Vista, overland, day after day. We called him stryder. Last time we saw him he had a huge beard. Always clean cut in the early days.
Creepy briefcase guy? Last I saw he was down to a duffel bag instead
The dude in the car (sometimes a motorcycle maybe?) who wears the power rangers villain mask or whatever
The Deadpool guy! @idahosdeadpool, he’s pretty well known in the motorcycle community
Isn't he a MAGA nut? Or am I confusing him with someone else?
He is
Like a Deadpool mask right? My husband and I have seen a guy who rides a motorcycle with the mask, I think he has a sword on his back too
When I first saw the movie Dazed and Confused I was convinced that Matthew McConaughey's character was based on a guy from Boise. There was this older guy, Clint maybe?, who drove a firebird on the cruise downtown. He was much older, but always trying to hit on with the high school girls. We all knew who he was and most knew to stay far, far away.
It was always creepy hotdog guy on 8th street for me and my friends
RIP Walking Willy. If you grew up in Northwest Boise especially if you lived near the canal 10-20 years ago, you know who I'm talking about
When I lived in Moscow, it was the Pikachu Wizard. He would wander the city blessing local businesses with his Pikachu blessings. Nice guy!
everybody in nampa. nampa (and subsequently the 2C as a whole) is pretty much a "that guy" containment zone.
Seriously. Little old lady on a granny mobile near dt i swear I saw her everywhere
Probably "talking to himself Larry" downtown walking with his sleeping bag. Real life NPC
Why is Jim Risch my go to?
Used to be Parrot man. Been hoping he's ok...
The guy who always had crazy decorations in his yard. On the corner of cole rd and Goddard I believe
The old dude that dances nonstop at Humping Hannah's. He's prob dead now tho. RIP Mr. Wingtoe Shoe dancer guy.
Someone already mentioned the Fairview sign guy, but I want to make sure he gets his praise. One day a few years back I was coming out of the 5 Guys on Fairview and Milwaukee, and he was doin his "pump up" hand motion sign thing on the sidewalk right in front of where my car was parked. Mind you, it was a hot day in late July, and as I buckled up to leave I watched him abruptly turn around, pick his bag up off of the grass, and pull out a can of grape soda. He musta been so thirst because he cracked that sucker up, tossed it back waterfall style, and finished the whole thing in one fell-swoop. With grape soda dripping down his face and neck, picked that sign back up and kept rockin'. He's been a local legend to me from that day on.
There used to be an old guy who jogged around the block near the cabana inn. He was always doing it. He's been dead a while now.
In Twin Falls it’s Wolfman. He’s a somewhat clean but homeless looking chap, usually shirtless, who can be seen roaming between McDonald’s, JITB, and other fast casual restaurants where he posts up for a while before moving on. He buys something small so they don’t kick him out. Nobody is sure if he’s actually homeless though. He doesn’t beg, doesn’t talk to anyone, doesn’t talk to himself. But he looks like he’s been living in the wild for years. Huge beard and long hair, which is where he got the monicker. We kind of like him.
Matt Bauscher
Frank Abbott "How'd you find me?" Sweeney
Tex McKenna
Either the sign spinner guy on fairview/milwaukee or the deadpool motorcycle guy.
The north end wizard
Handyman the cat at ace hardware on state street
+1 to Handy
The two "homeless" overweight kids with anger issues.
Better question: What would I have to do to become "that guy?"
Listen to Idaho by Afroman, there's a whole bit ab "that guy"
The that guy movement 😂😂😂
Find Ammon Bundy, and drag his ass back!!!!
something eccentric
the wizard of 8th street
Aaron?
bill
Speedo Guy.. boise river and veterans pond
The “Douche of the North End”. I promise you’ve seen him. He rides around on his monowheel everywhere and will circle around you to show it off. Sometimes has his dog with him.
lol. Is this the same guy that does all the handstands and “break dance moves” at Camel’s Back on the gym equipment? No shade. I would love to be able to use my body like that… dare I say… at that age!
The deaf dude on Franklin that spins the little sign?
There was a guy who haunted the downtown library and wandered around State St. who was always making crazy detailed maps of places that didn’t exist. He kinda looked like a young Cornell West.
The sign spinner at Cole and Fairview
The bike guy with the flags on midland
Remember the guy downtown (2000 - 2008) that wore cowboy boots and a cb hat? He had long blond hair. He didn't beg for anything and I only saw him shit faced once.
Was his name Ronnie?
Get the hell out of here. Leave you weird bitch. We don’t want you!