THIS you have to see to believe. A few months ago I noticed what is probably the oddest and strangest homeless display in Los Angeles, if not the entire country. There is an old man and woman who park themselves in front of an abandoned theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The woman is in a wheelchair and the man pushes her around. I don't know if they are married, dating, friends, relatives, or what - but clearly they are a pair. They each have a puppet they hold, ones that a ventriloquist would use in a stage act. The mouths move, the heads turn, and the eyes blink. Usually the female puppet has some long wig on, which looks really fake. As people walk by the homeless couple operate the puppets so they watch you walk down the sidewalk and ask for money. It's really freaky if you ask me! They look like one of those puppets that comes to life in a bad horror movie and chases you with a butcher knife. I have to hand it to the man and woman, they are creative and people do notice them. I do wonder what their story is and how they got to that point in their life. They sit there from dawn to dusk with those puppets asking for money, almost every day. Like everyone else, I pretend they are not there and walk by. But sometimes I want to stop and talk with them. I think I am actually a little intimidated by how crazy they appear to be. Well, that's Hollywood for you!
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