Butterfly collecting because you have to kill one to collect it.
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Trainspotting is up there.
I knew someone at school who was into bus spotting because "train spotting was boring"
My American brain refuses to believe this is a real hobby.
we are real thank you very much
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I live near a river that has a lot of freighters that go through it. Boat watching is pretty common here. And there are a handful of people who watch for the different trucks that go over the bridge there (literally thousands go over every day).
True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.
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Making murder porn your personality. There are people being killed and it's people's hobby to get a boner over the killer or digging through their personal life.
People who watch airplanes land and take off
Eh, not that wild, folks used to do train and ship spotting, so planes are okay too.
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I don’t remember his name, but there was a guy who collected sex dolls. He had like over a hundred of them. I think his wife left him because of it. I wanna say I saw him on My Strange Addiction, but I don’t remember.
Edit: I looked it up and it’s not the guy from My Strange Addiction. He “married” a doll, but I think he just had the one. I don’t know where I saw about the other guy.
My friends grandpa ~~breads~~ breeds pigeons, he does nothing with them after tho.
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Collecting plastic lawn chairs.
Bryan Ropar has forgotten more about plastic chairs than you know about anything.
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Real estate. Apparently you buy like a house and then find people that need a place to live and let them live there for a fee that not only covers the price of the house but also whatever extra due to something called the "market". Then you wind up with a free house and extra money! It's crazy!