by Tyson Brooks
Blog - http://tysonwrites.blogspot.
What do you get when you take a 100ml of oil, a brightly coloured
speedo, a bicycle and a biology teacher?
The super hero of Curitiba!!!!
Year round Nelson Robelo walks and rides his bicycle through the parks
and streets of Curitiba wearing nothing but a Speedo and a lot of oil.
No one knows how he became Oilman or why he does it. Some suggests he
is a little strange in the head while others suggest he is testing a
new magic oil that makes him impervious to hot or cold temperatures.
He himself admits he is comfortable in temperatures down to 7 degrees
in his oil and speedo while he has braved zero on one cold night on
his way home from a day out walking.
Robelo had been christened 419 names before the people of Curitiba
decided to uniformly call him Oilman. Names such as Oil maniac,
Mayonnaise Man, and Greasy Man just didn't make the cut. Regardless he
is now famous. Google him and you can find tv interviews and even a
Wikipedia entry (in Portugese) documenting Curitiba's superhero. Ask a
local who the most famous Curitibano is and they will eagerly tell you
about Oilman. Ask who else it famous from Curitiba and they will
scratch their heads and look puzzled. Were once people used to yell at
him to put his clothes on now people demand he take his clothes off.
Such is the life of a Curitibano celebrity.
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