Clicked for the funny name, stayed for the absolutely wild life story. It just gets crazier the more I read.
Also I feel like the person who made the joke Star Wars name “Glup Shitto” was inspired by this guy.
Definitely read till the very end.
He wore red outfits, typically red suits, to ward off evil spirits, and his home featured red walls and red living room carpet.
I’da thunk evil spirits would like the color red…
Absolute legend.
He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters’ coffee and shined their shoes, and at 10 he first snuck onto a fire truck that was answering a call.
I don’t get it
Just a wet fart of a sentence.
Here’s the same paragraph from a mental floss article:
“He used to hang around the old No. 1 fire department on Greene Street all the time and the firemen started calling him ‘the little bum,’” one friend told The Miami Herald in 1976. “He was always bumming things—asking for favors, like little kids do.”
That makes a lot more sense, thank you
