However, standing at the end of Wall Street, this guy knew how to take advantage of the large number of tourists there. I guess he was making some kind of political statement about the bailouts and he was standing in front of a Brinks armored car. I'm not sure really what the point was. Actually I think the point was to get his picture taken, rather than anything else more meaningful.
So, I took a few of him from the side, so he wouldn't pose for me, but in the end I just couldn't resist letting him turn on the whole personality for me (even though I hate myself for it).
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Hey, don't hate yourself for it. This guy made me remember a kind of crazy man that lived here, in Rio de Janeiro. He named himself as "Profeta Gentileza" (means "Kindness prophet"). He wrote a lot of messages all over the bridges in Rio during years. A huge fire at a circus with a lot of vitims made him crazy. After the fire he left his job and started writing the messages in the walls and bridges of the city. He was a poor and simple man. After his death in 1996, he became famous all over the country. There are books about him. His messages were written in a weird way. Now there are shirts with his messages as a kind of art.
Here a link with a picture of him http://oimpressionista.wordpress.com/museu-virtual-gentileza/
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