A true madlad is a combination of fearlessness & a total lack of common sense & self preservation. Always a contender for either the Darwin Awards or a prison sentence. Something along the lines of going on a bulldozer rampage in protest, booby-trapping a cabin built on land without a permit, ice fishing with dynamite, or attempting to do yoga on the ledge or flag poll of an apartment complex.
Only an absolute madlad like Inspector Zenigata would jump onto a race track during a race in an attempt to arrest a driver.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)