One thing I don't find crazy people to be is funny. There was a homeless guy at my college people called Sombrero Man because he wore a huge sombrero all the time (and being in northeastern US, that's not really something you expect to see). He'd just stand around and ask for change in a very distinctive way, and people found him amusing. People would write about him in the local newspaper and stuff. He was even known at other colleges, because he travelled I guess. He was a minor celebrity. I was on the bus one day and he got on, and then got kicked off a block down the street because he didn't have any money and was trying to use an expired transfer ticket of some sort. It only mad me sad.

At my college there was a homeless guy who'd walk really slowly down the middle of the 6-lane highway, looking at his feet, without talking to anyone. He would also threaten students sometimes, on the rare occassions when he talked. There was another guy who walked around all summer in a dirty trenchcoat with two gigantic wolf-like dogs, not on leashes or anything. People like that should be put somewhere they can be taken care of, if not for their sake then for everyone else's.