Tell me about the most jaw dropping OMG moment you've ever witnessed...

in London walking between Marylebone and baker street station when I heard horses

about 100, 1 rider to each three or four horses cantering/racing along the road not stopping for traffic or lights or anything

it was about 7am but completely unexpected

apparently that's how they move the horses between barracks

Not as jaw dropping as some of these, but ...

Sitting at a window seat of a bistro one lunchtime, there's a Porsche parked on the other side of the road directly opposite us. Scaffolding was being erected outside the building where the car was parked. One of the scaffolders dropped a full length scaffold pole (from about 3 storeys high) right onto the car, which ended up with a massive dent running from front to back.

Our local pub one New Year's Day. A group of us had all arrived 'early doors' for a hair of the dog and we were sitting at a long table next to the wall. A couple, with a small dog, arrived and sat down opposite us, but after about 10 minutes they moved to another table further away. Another of our group came in and suddenly started hopping around on one foot. When asked what was wrong, he said he'd just trodden in some dog poo. The carpet was dark red with swirly patterns - so the dog poo was difficult to see and none of the rest of us had trodden in it. Friend went outside to clean his shoe and the staff were told about the poo. After it had been cleared up the staff member spoke to the couple with the dog, who swore blind it wasn't their dog. But it was the only dog in the pub at the time.

I was in Subway in Australia (Gold Coast) on holiday a few ago DH and DD. Their was a couple in their early 60s in front of us, the woman had obviously had a few drinks. Anyway the woman needed to go to the toilet, so she let her husband order, she then came back to find that her husband asked them to put ham in sandwich instead of chicken!, she then has a massive go at him and they then start a full blown argument and her DH tries to apologise she's then start ranting about how he never treats her properly and starts swearing at him. Whilst the woman at the counter is saying she could swap them if they want. The woman then walks outside and has a fag! Leaving the husband and everyone else in Subway in disbelief.

Honestly I have never seen anyone row in public like that before, I was gobsmacked.

Vichill that is vile, fortunately am not a fan of squirty cream anyway!

Years ago, in my 20's, getting last tube home from London on the Piccadilly line, it was pretty packed, in the days when part of the tube had double seats which faced each other. I was sitting on one of the double seats. A couple came and sat down opposite me. Both looked like they'd had one too many. She says in a very loud voice, "wonder how many pakis on the tube today" and then looks round the carriage and proceeds to count, "1,2,3," pauses, looks at me and says "4".

I am completely gob smacked and in total shock and for a moment can't say anything. The bloke she's with tells her to be quiet and gives her a paper to read. She holds the paper open so it's covering her and she's muttering to him not to tell her to be quiet. I learn forward pull the paper down so I can see her face and all I can think to say is "what's your problem?".

I'm shaking with rage and shock at this point and she starts howling and saying "leave me alone". The bloke gets up to move away as if he's had enough of her and then she moves away too.

I remember getting off the tube later at my stop and just being so angry and wishing I had pulled the emergency cord so this woman could have been taken off the tube but the disruption that would have caused would have been tough on the rest of the passengers.

Used to have quite a few tube tales from when I lived in London, fortunately most of them positive. Another time, had split up from my first serious boyfriend, was feeling pretty down, waiting on the tube platform, this guy approached me holding a guitar. He said to me that I looked sad but I told him I was fine. He was with a group of friends and got into one carriage and I deliberately got into another. A few seconds after the tube had pulled away, I heard the door between the carriages open and close, couldn't see who was coming as the door was behind me (again was in a four seater section), next thing I know, the bloke from the platform is standing next to me and starts playing his guitar and singing a song to cheer me up. I was mortified! I can't remember what he sang, I just thanked him as we got to the next stop, told him it was my stop (it wasn't) and got off the tube. With hindsight, actually terribly sweet of him, he seemed like a decent enough bloke, he wasn't a busker but I was just very embarrassed as everyone else in the carriage were watching and smirking!

sometimes im guilty of swigging an as yet unbought beverage around a supermarket.
I saw this taken to a new level when spotted a Jim Rolye lookalike walking around Morrisons squirting squirty cream directly into his mouth and then put it back on a shelf.

Oooh iv remebered one! When I was a teenager, a groupof friends and I went to a pavillion on Southend sea front to smoke weed and drink hang out. It was open at the front and had a row of seats along the back wall so you could look out at the sea. It was about 10pm. A man in a suit and a woman walked in and sat down a few seats along from us. We heard them negotiating a price and he handed over money. She promptly got down on her knees and started giving him a blow job right in front of us. We didn't know where to look.

When they had finished, he did up his trousers, they both stood up and walked in different directions out of the pavillion without a word. We sat there speechless. They couldn't have been more than 2 meters away the whole time.

People are so minging!

Oh god, just remembered mine and it's another poo one! I was standing outside a shop on Market st in Manchester waiting for a friend as I was eating one of those lovely toffee ice creams from thorntons. Man walks past, White shorts and shit all down his legs! Exactly the same colour as my ice cream, which promptly went in the bin and I e not touched one since! It baffled me though as there's so many quiet back streets and I'll never know why je didn't walk down them!

Another bus related one - on a packed bus about one in the afternoon and two drunk teenage girls get on. They both sat at the back. One of them keeps saying about how she couldn't hold it in anymore - next thing there is a river of piss flowing down the bus. Urgh. Still makes me shudder.

At a poshish restaurant in Bristol.

Two nicely dressed ladies come in with two smartly dressed small children.

They order food and drinks then the little boy who looked about 4 got under the table, put his hands behind his back and round the table leg then called out, "Mummy, can you tie me up now?" One of the women just said, "not now dear" and carried on her conversation with the other woman.

One night I was at work and I heard quite a bit of noise coming from outside. I went to the window and looked down to the street outside where I could see two young women, on the pavement, masterbating and then giving each other oral sex. They were at it for ages.

I was at the airport and went to use the toilets. There a strong smell of poo in the room. As I came out of my cubicle, a lady came out of one of the other cubicles and I could see poo smeared all over the floor. It looked like she'd shat herself - her jeans were covered in poo too. She walked straight out without washing her hands.

Talking outside the barn in the middle if our tiny village (about 20 houses) and this guy walks passed wearing nothing but his boots, rucksack and a hat! We looked at each other and thought wtf!

Saw him on the news later that evening after he had been arrested. I think he was known as the Naked Rambler.

A man on the metro in Athens screaming at the top of his voice (something about Jesus according to my Greek friend) while stubbing out lit cigarrettes on his bare chest. The scars suggested that was a regular occurrence.

Maybe the Jet was meant to re-fuel/feed exhausted Bridlington Gullimots Penguins

I was buying a house.
EA had to write to owner to tell her of viewing as she had no phone and would not otherwise answer the door. So we were expected with a week's notice.

So nice little street in Morden South. Owner opened the door and the place was stacked floor to ceiling with filled black bin bags. It stunk as she had never put her rubbish out. The garden was filled, as were all the rooms, but luckily the kitchen and hall had a path down the middle to walk through. Mould was on the ceiling

All the rooms 'were basically the same' but could not be accessed due to number of bin bags all over the 3 bed house.

The EA said it had 'character' and wanted to know if I wanted to put an offer in!

I know! The stunned silence was eerie.

That poor pilot never lived that one down did he?

Bloody hell thats mad!

I saw a plane fall into the sea once too. Lowestoft air festival about twelve years ago or so. Harrier jump jet hovering a few feet above the sea, pilot accidently stalls it. Was just this really surreal moment of the plane suddenly going quiet, a pilot popping out with a parachute and the plane dropping like a stone into the water. You could actually hear an enormous collective gasp from the hundreds of people watching.

Utterly bizarre. The pilot broke an ankle because he landed on the wing of the plane. The plane was something like a ten million pound write off!

Whoops

Frank

The crowd of people watching him sex up a public telephone...

Seaside town, little girl, about 3 walking down the middle of the road no carer to be seen. I grab her hand and lead her out of the road. We ask little girl where her parent is and she says ice cream. Granny is at ice cream van 5m down the road, and just says "I wondered where she was" when we took her back.

Tapir - I don't get yours? The crowd gave him away?

Waiting to cross Ingram St in Glasgow on a busy Saturday around 5ish when I was about 15.
A wedding car hit a man on a motorbike, chaffeur, groom and best man all jump out to help the guy who is screaming in agony. His leg was perpendicular to the rest of him from about mid way down his thigh, I looked away quickly as it was an awful sight. Groom was hysterical and BM was trying to calm him as chauffeur knelt down beside biker.
My friend grabbed my hand to run across the road as we had to get to the bus station and were runnng late. Lots of grown ups had stopped to help.
30 odd years later, I have always wondered if he was okay, looked a terrible injury and did the couple get married?

Waiting on Waterloo concourse at silly o'clock in the morning for the first train home after an all nighter we saw a chap driving one of the station cleaning vehicles resplendent in a top hat. It was the Sunday morning after Ascot week so he must have found it abandoned. He looked very pleased with himself, high vis jacket, woolly beany hat set off by a grey topper.