Crazy Is As Crazy Does
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If you haven’t realized it yet, I love crazy people. Crazies are a great source for hours of entertainment. So it is with great pleasure that I bring to you, Richard Martin the “Crazy Sign Guy”.
Now this isn’t “Crazy Sign Guy” like someone you’d find at Shea Stadium (god rest his soul). No, this 71 year old former transit worker is a spiteful super at 278 91st St in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Richard’s main beef with his tenants revolves around their perceived lack of ability in the field of garbage disposal. I could go into more detail, but I’ll let the signs speak for themselves.
For some reason, people are taking issue with CSG’s methods for keeping his building tidy. Not me. I love this shit.
First, I love the fact that he plasters these signs on the front door of the building for all to see. What better way to get the folks in your building to get their act together than public humiliation?
And the empty threat to chain the garbage down in the hall of the building — classic. He’s very serious about it, so you better watch out.
Mostly I love this crazy man and his crazy signs because it makes me appreciate how good I have it in my building. Garbage goes in the aptly named garbage room, and it’s not there the next time I drop off a load (not like that, you dirty bastard). The super actually does his job and although I may have accidentally put a non-recyclable in with the bottles and cans, never have I come home to find my garbage chained down in my hallway.
But that was just an empty threat, right? You betcha. I mean look, he already gave them their last warning and now he’s just very serious. CSG has a bad poker face.
But you have to give him props for calling the residents of 278 91st St retards. Clearly once you’ve reached 70, normal laws of political correctness no longer apply. I say more power to ya Dick, more power to ya.
But wait, there’s more. Oh, so much more. The Beehive Hairdresser lives near the Crazy Super and has been chronicling his signage since last September.
Apparently Richard is rather notorious in Bay Ridge. Once again Beehive fills out the details of this story by telling us that the Crazy Super is known to carry a knife and, get this, has been seen wearing a padded bra on multiple occasions.
Other facts — his Pekinese, Pretty Girl, craps all over the block. Richard doesn’t clean up after her — unless of course it’s in front of his building, in which case he’ll pick it up with a napkin and hurl it into the street. Best part, his response to reporters — “You caught me, I take the dog doo-doo and I just toss it in the street.” Not to mention the instant classic, “I may be a hypocrite, but I’m going to be 72 in five months so I just don’t really give a [expletive]”.
What is not to like about this guy? He even gets into the holiday spirit when people mess with his Christmas decorations.
To the guy who ripped his Christmas decorations down, I’m not sure if that was such a good idea. Richard Martin may be 71, but he IS known to carry a knife. Alternatively he may just paper cut you to death with all those signs.
[Crazy Super Signs - BeehiveHairdresser]
[Right in Bay Ridge Goes Viral with Trash Talk - Right in Bay Ridge]
[Crazy Old Bay Ridge Man Sparks Tabloid Frenzy - Gawker]
[Big stink as News busts cranky super tossing poop in street - NY Daily News]
Photos courtesy of NY Daily News, Right in Bay Ridge and BeehiveHairdresser.
