Reported seeing a Bedouin force-feed his animal an entire Kur of grain: Shabbat 155b
Rav Yirmiyah miDifti was upset by a man who passed in front of him without a head-covering; Rava explained that the man could have been from Mata Machsaya, where they were so used to scholars that they were numb to them: Kiddushin 33a