Crazy people

We have seen and interacted with enough crazy people to rate a blog entry.
The first crazy person was a woman in N’Gandourere. I saw her first when I was on a moto-taxi. She was standing in the center of the road and I thought that she was upset and yelling because someone had driven too close to her as she crossed the road. She was still standing in the center of the road a couple of hours later when Deb and I walked by and yes, she was still yelling.
The next crazy person was a naked man walking around Maroua. We saw him as we left the bus station. Apparently people have tried to give him clothes to wear but he always seems to get rid of them. I guess it would be kind of liberating.
There was another crazy guy in the Maroua market. We tried to ignore him but after a couple of minutes he grabbed at my arm. I jerked it away and yelled “NO” and not only did it startle him but it also startled the vendors around us. I was a bit worried for a bit as all of the vendors stared at me. I wondered if I had just insulted the local pet crazy person but after a few seconds they all started to laugh and then the shooed him away and we continued with our business.
The next crazy guy was the drunk guy in the fishing area of Limbe, but we have already talked about him.
Also in Limbe, we saw one crazy guy twice. The first time was when we were coming out of a local store and he was crossing the road in front of us. There was something about him that caught my attention. If you were to put an old army jacket on him, he could have been cast as the crazy homeless guy for any movie set in any large city. The second time we crossed paths was in the central market. We were moving through the market single file as it is just easier to get through the crowds that way. I was in the lead this time and it wasn’t until we were about 20 feet away from him that Deb told me that he came up behind her, mumbled something and then whipped her on each shoulder with some sort of leafy twig. It kind of freaked her out so we just put some distance between us and him.