Saturday, March 12, 2005

World Famous Bushman (Bush man?)

You are walking along fisherman's wharf in San Fransisco (yes it is very touristy, but here you are walking), and suddenly you jump back in alarm -- some bush by the sidewalk just jumped out at you... You look back and see that there was no bush in front of that garbage can really... It was a bunch of dense bush branches held up bythis guy who is crouching down and hiding behind these branches. He is disguised as a bush, and when a person walks by they don't see him until... he pushes the bush branches out at the person and gruffly utters "bbaaahhaah!" or some guttural noise. And so the victim jumps aside, scared, and then looking back starts laughing upon realizing that it was just this strange guy pretending to be a bush. (We'd have been bushman victims except we were walking a bit behind someone else it happened to, and so we knew what to expect).

Once you get past the bushman, though, there are people trying to look inconspicious while watching, or videotaping, new victims walking into his trap.

Go to:
http://www.anvari.org/photos/200311h/Bush_Man.html

for a picture, but the picture doesn't show how effective he is in not being noticed by those passing by.

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