It was bound to happen…Richard Martin, the man behind the crazy/cranky super signs has hit youtube.  This week two youtube videos landed in our inbox. 

Enjoy ‘Pretty Girl’ riding the pony!  fyi Martin is the dude in blue who walks in and out of the store.

In this second video he can be heard “Couple of weeks ago…”

Should you want to go through his sign catolog of hate, you can read them here.

It’s been roughly six months since the author of the crazy super signs was fired from his job as super of a neighborhood building. 

The replacement super has been able to get the garbage out to the curb without much problems, the lights to the building have been on and the 70-something year old former super who was full of rage hasn’t been tossed out into the streets. 

While his signs have ceased for the most, he’s still up to the old antics that the community has known him for over the past many years. 

Just yesterday Girlfriend caught him enjoying an impromptu photo op for his “fans”, or at the very least a couple of kids who when they grow up will have tales to tell of the wacky old man who looked as though he always wore a padded bra and definitely wore one glove (just like Michael Jackson) most of the time and used to have his dog ride a quarter machine pony for kicks.   

He was telling the kids to get closer so that they could get a better shot – and he wasn’t even asking for two bucks per picture!

Does this mean that the Crazy Super has gone soft?

Nope, he’s just allowing his crank to be focused in more constructive ways.

Just last week I watched him berate a man who decided to park his car at a fire hydrant while he went across the street to eat cupcakes with the excuse of “I can’t park it in front of the church!”

Martin went on and on and on for several minutes pointing out the dangers of parking at a fire hydrant while the driver was off eating cupcakes until finally the driver got back in his car and drove off to find a legal parking spot before going inside for cupcakes - well done Richard Martin, I commend you!

The other day I walked past the apartment building that has the crazy super signs and saw the first new one in a couple of months – he was fired and had been keeping his magic markers in his pockets of late, but he couldn’t let this “careless” rolled up and folded nicely for the garbage pick up rug go by without adding his two cents.

“TO TENANT WHO PUT OUT ThIS RUG.  COMMON SENCE WOULD BE TO TIE IT UP SO SANITATION CAN PICK IT UP EASY I GUESS IT IS TOO MUCH FOR YOUR BRAINS”

Which I believe is just his way of saying, “Hey, thanks for rolling up your rug and folding it up nicely for the garbage pick up.  Keep up the good work!”

Even though our favorite crazy super lost his job he still loves putting up “helpful” notes for people.  I found this gentle reminder hanging on the front door Friday evening, and it is addressed to the new and MUCH BETTER super who puts garbage out properly and even sorts the recyclables without complaint or bigoted remarks.

If the author of this note was only as so kind with the way he wrote the scores of notes to his tenants he might still have a job – the note was ripped down come Sunday.

Just before the calendar turned to 2009 the new super that took over for the crazy super posted his very first sign.

At least I assume that the new super placed the sign up and the actual owner didn’t trek on down to post it.

Anyway, you’ll notice that it is VERY MUCH the opposite of the old crazy super before him.  It’s typed up, signed “Management”, and there isn’t a threat written in it – not even thinly veiled threat!

Oddly enough, as I took that photo I felt the earth beneath me was frozen…yes…yes indeed….hell has frozen over!