Man wears shed on his head — but not because of the coronavirus
He’s shedding light on his alternative lifestyle.
UK citizens might’ve imagined it was an especially creative anti-coronavirus measure when a man arrived at a Bristol shop recently wearing a shed on his head that blasts techno music, flashes disco lights and spouts fire. Identified by some media outlets as Michael Shedworth, the man prefers to bill himself simply as “Mr. Shedworth,” and claims this is merely his “way of life.”
“This is my life,” the block-headed individual told Big Jubba’s “Yak Shak” music podcast in his first ever interview, which he conducted, fittingly enough, while sporting his bizarre head covering.
During the baffling discussion, Mr. Shedworth claims that the shed is actually his head, that his parents were sheds, that his head sprouted the flame-shooting chimney from a lump when he was 13 and the blaring house music (heyo) “emanates” from him naturally. We guess in Bristol, the home lives in you.
Even his hat’s glossy exterior “happens with a shed’s journey into adulthood,” says the depot-domed soul, who has been an increasingly noticeable fixture in his town — and online — for several years now, Bristol Live reports.
The man has been photographed in various parts of the city in recent years, including while shopping at his local Aldi grocery store. His true identity, however, remains a secret.
However, the home-body insists that he doesn’t have his shed in the clouds. “I feel like I need to make it clear I’m not just some kind of attention seeker trying to live out some weird alternate reality,” he says. “There’s a lot of prejudice against people of my sort in the world.”
Unsurprisingly, identifying as a storage unit has presented Mr. Shedworth with problems in the past.
In an uproarious incident in 2015, the human hermit crab uploaded a clip of him getting kicked out of a job interview for violating the dress code.
“It’s just the unwanted attention sometimes that these things bring,” says Shedworth, who admits he “doesn’t really like humans.”
“People just can’t look past the shed sometimes,” he says.