My office neighborhood is an eccentric place. I discovered the first oddity, the bizarre sculpture art lining the median in front of our building, on Day One.

A few weeks later, my colleagues started telling inside jokes about a guy who spins and squawks as he runs down the street. You had to see it to believe it — and eventually I did.

Little did I know then that I could have seen it on the Internet. So can you:

Yes, Cedric Givens, the crazy jogger, spins, squawks and runs on busy streets in the heart of the nation’s capital — and drivers pay him no mind as they buzz by in all directions (see more videos here). He’s been doing it for years.

How is Cedric still alive, and why do the police let him do what he does? If jaywalking is a crime, his dangerous hobby has to be illegal. It just goes to show that if you’re eccentric enough, the nanny state will look the other way when you’re acting as crazy as a loon.