What's the weirdest thing you've got in a hat?

[jeep caillouet]

...really I love every one, that's you too DR.

[Storm Surge]

cool stuff

I'm jealous... All i ever get besides cash is trash & religious tracts

no need to repeat yourself. we all get trash telling us that we are all going to hell. (i have masters level education in theology and at one time was a cleric)



in less than a year...

i got a picture of a marines son that he carried in Iraq. I still carry it every time I go out to perform. (i do a statue of a soldier.)
-coke (i don't even use asprin)
-a coloring book page
-buffalo nickle
-the obligatory beer. one open, one closed
-$100 US
-a really drunk girl trying to "unzip" my fly (BDU's have buttons)
-a tip from a canadian that had just stiffed stick man
-a dollar from a dog (do you remember your dog tipping me jeep)
-duce of spades (it's a thing with the spec ops)
-a cd filled with pictures of me
-california highway patrolman's badge
-an invitation to perform at the traveling viet nam wall
-ten dollars after an off duty atf agent and former marine kicked me in the balls to see if i would move, thank god for cups
-a hot elephant ear, wish i took a picture of that one
-the card of a psychologist who was doing research into ptsd (i became her lab rat)
-a girl rubbing her naked breasts (note the plurality)
-broken balloons
-a picture with a buddist monk (did i mention i am a statue of a soldier)
-a poppy from a wwii vet on memorial day

[Kate Awesome]

The other day while busking on the street, I got the BEST creepy old-man letter in my hat. It was in an envelope, so I was hoping it would be a stack of 20s (this actually has happened to me before), but sadly, no, no 20s, just a letter. I tend to get a few of them per season, but this one was a bit different because:

a) it was a formal TYPED letter
and
b) the guy didn't speak english very well at all, so he confused the word 'gesture' with 'jester', which makes more sense in my case..

Oh. And he kept calling me "baby girl."
It was AMAZING.

[Devinthejuggler]

Haha, wow, you guys have gotten some weird shit, i hope one day my hat will be that interesting..

-mac burger
-50 million zimbabwe dollars (1 note)
-necklace
-1 dollar us with a phone number on it ( i'm keeping that one)

[h-studios]

We get weird stuff all the time.. Cause we work in Melbourne beer is common. Working around China Town, we find Asians give lots of food.

The weirdest is:
Unused tampon.
A very realistic fake spider. (it was cool because the kids loved it and it scared the crap out of some givers.)
A lollie (candy) that appeared like a hot dog.
Watch batteries, sim cards and mobile batteries.
Smiley face rubber.
Origami cranes.
Full set of keys.
Drivers license.
Gold Ring, (the guy later came back for it.)
Cookies, we get lots of cookies.. although I will never eat them.
Drugs are common.
We work near the casino so we've get chips, got around 10 dollars worth of chips so far.

We have a Satanist fan who donated:
A button to the universe's navel
A key that will open the doors of Elysium
Magical herbs that'll make us walk on clouds. (We assumed it was pot, but it seemed to be something totally unknown.)
5c that will make us rich beyond our dreams, etc etc.

The nicest weird thing was a two paged poem written on the ground by a young man asking why people cant appreciate what we do, putting them down cause their jealous and too stupid to realize the beauty of what we create. (Which is true because another weird donation is people spitting on our work.)

Oh yeah I forgot, we get hair spray and art supplies. (We're famous because we hairspray our work so it lasts a night, apparently its a real show... often earns us an extra $10 to $20)

[Rumpelstiltskin]

In My Hat...

To name a few:

A moldy sprouted spud (potato), shuttlecock, an Engelbert Humperdink ep, kookaburra poo, musk sticks, love letter (signed anonymous), bull ants in a packet of sherbert, Brut 33 deodorant, a girl's g-string (printed with 'I Love You'), fairy floss, tweezers, cheezles, a Jehovah Witness pamphlet, a broken crumpet, slag, ice, a a few snails, half a one cent piece, asparagus, a four'n'twenty meat pie, cheapskates taking out more money than they put in, a holey pair of y-fronts, squashed gherkin, a card from a senator of Poland (he liked my show), used tissues, a cicada in my jester's hat whilst i was wearing it (was annoyingly loud, and freaked me out at first because i didn't know what was going on....i had flaked out lying on the ground during one of my epic shows, so the bugger crawled in without me realizing), a card which i found the other day.....but had kept all these years that says 'The jester is a masked sage who narrates truths from behind his disguise. Those truths told amongst laughter penetrate the darkest corners of your soul'...
also a smelly sock filled with cheeseballs.....etc

[Bob Carr]

Last spring I got an iPod in my hat. The weekend before my minidisc kicked the bucket and in my show I was bitching about it. That weekend a woman put a wrapped box in my hat. In it was a 8Gb iPod complete with bill in case I had problems with it.

[Moira]

Friday night I got an 800mg tablet of ibuprofen in my hat. I do appreciate the thought!

[Storm Surge]

uhh...

a card from a lawyer
a knife

[Guy]

$10,000 usd

[Lee Nelson]

the craziest thing ever

42482Euros.

http://www.karolinafund.com/project/view/139

Yesterday. Thats pretty wierd.

[Evan Young]

everlapse pic collage

A link to some pics of random stuff from my hats. biggest tip ever for me was a check for $250 (not pictured)

https://everlapse.com/c/2h291i