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

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AlpacaPicnic · 30/03/2014 15:59

Because everyone's got a story! And here is mine...

I was on a bus recently, quite a full bus. A wheelchair in the wheelchair space, one lady with a pram (unfoldable I think) in the buggy space. Bus pulled up at a bus stop, where two ladies are waiting with pushchairs, chatting to each other.

One lady gets on, parks her pushchair into the remaining buggy space. The second lady tries to get on, but the bus driver won't let her as the buggy space is now full. She asks the lady with the pram to get off the bus so she can travel with her friend. 'Pram lady' looks at her askance, and says sorry, but she needs to get home. Both pushchair ladies then proceed to loudly and verbally abuse the pram lady for being selfish and not getting off the bus, so they can travel together.

Everyone else on the bus was stunned into silence, the bus driver throws both pushchair ladies off the bus and drives off. Pushchair ladies stand at bus stop yelling and shaking fists at the receding bus!

I've never known so many bus passengers strike up conversation all at once, making sure the 'pram lady' was ok, and generally saying 'what a pair!'

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ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 30/03/2014 23:03

Oh my BIL told me a great one.

He's a police officer and once went to interview a family - it was a hot summer afternoon and the door of the family home was open.

They sat in the living room talking, and he saw a large Alsatian dog enter the room, sniff and circle round, and then it crouched and shat on the floor.

BIL looked at the family, they looked back at him. Nobody said anything, so he continued the interview thinking bloody hell, that's a bit gross, then made his way to the front door.

As he was about to leave, the interviewee said hesitantly "aren't you going to clear up the mess your dog left?"

They had assumed it was a police dog.

cafecito · 30/03/2014 23:01

AwfulMaureen - I lived in Camberwell once many moons ago - I saw the craziest things along Denmark hill to Camberwell green and coldharbour lane - the number of times I had to call the police for the very bizarrest of reasons (!)

MummyDuckAndDuckling · 30/03/2014 23:00

Couple having sex in the water on a beach in Greece. Water was only just up to their hips and it was very obvious what they were doing, esp as she was holding her bikini bottoms in her hands when he went at her from behind Shock

ImRonBurgandy · 30/03/2014 22:58

I work very close to St James park (London not Newcastle!). I often eat my lunch on a bench looking at the lake with all the tourists.
One day a tourist was feeding her sandwich to the pigeons and ducks. A pelican waddled up and watched for a minute (that's not the weird bit, they live there). She fed another bit of sandwich to a pigeon and the pelican ATE the pigeon!

starsandunicorns · 30/03/2014 22:58

Growing up I lived near a supermarket so lots of times as a young teen was called to rush to get veg etc one day walked to shop had to go through a snicket of one house pavement then a fence the front door of this opended and a man stood naked wanking himself off then walked in the middle of pavement while wanking !! Used to give me jibbers going pass there for ages to the piont I ran fast each time after and never looked at the house

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 30/03/2014 22:55

Also saw a completely naked man strolling along a street in Barcelona. Nobody seemed very bothered.

kitcat83 · 30/03/2014 22:55

Bloody hell Shock

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 30/03/2014 22:55

One of my colleagues had to attend an inquest as a witness but was very cagey about why, despite seeming very upset about it. He kept saying he didn't want to upset anyone else. A few weeks later we were out for drinks and he told us very tearfully that he had seen a man in the street hit by a falling pane of glass and beheaded.

On a lighter note, I came out of the gym once and saw a woman attempting to park her car in a space next to a sort of wooden bin shelter. As she turned the steering wheel she was repeatedly scraping the side of the car against the wooden fencing and corner post and it was making the most awful screeching noise. She was clearly upset so I went over and tried to tell her she was turning the wheel the wrong way, but every time I tried to tell her she turned it further the wrong way. I ended up leaning in through the window and turning the wheel for her. When she got out of the car we inspected the damage which was pretty bad. One of the crèche assistants came out and voiced the opinion that the deep gouges in the side of the car would no doubt "polish out" and we both nodded vigourously Hmm.

Lj8893 · 30/03/2014 22:54

steppemum I feel sick now. That's vile!

Parsley2506 · 30/03/2014 22:53

tapir I get the feeling you mean that last sentence quite literally....

steppemum · 30/03/2014 22:49

The 'blood' in the sink one has reminded me

Friends of ours lived overseas, can't remember which country. They lived on 2 or 3 floor of block of flats, about 5 flats high.
They were having a problem with the drains, not draining away, loo not flushing, filling up and slow to empty. Then they started to get blood in the sink and toilet, and flooding out onto the floor. There was blood and guts and bits of flesh bubbling up and out of the loo.

They banged on neighbour's door, and they were having the same problem. They all went upstairs, knocking on doors as they went.

Got to the top floor and discovered that the guy in the top flat had started a temporary business slaughtering sheep for Eid. Great demand for slaughtering as many people buy a live sheep and want it slaughtered.

He didn't know what to do with the blood and guts and bits not required by his customers, so he was flushing them down the loo, and had blocked the whole system.

notjustamummythankyou · 30/03/2014 22:47

My sister and I had an appointment to view a house for sale. The owner was supposed to be doing the show round.

We knocked for what seemed ages before a woman came round the side of the house and silently beckoned us inside. All the curtains were closed and the glazed front door had a blanket covering it so the hall was practically dark on a sunny June afternoon.

We went into the living room and two teenagers were sitting motionless watching TV with the sound turned off. They didnt even look up as we went in.

I've never been round a house so quickly, and when we came to leave we couldn't find anyone. We just let ourselves back out and scarpered!

Its0kToBeMe · 30/03/2014 22:46

Animals Sorry that happened to you. Sad

LadyMetroland · 30/03/2014 22:45

On a bus in south London

Bus stops to let on lady with a toddler and pushchair. The lady gets on first and the child is still on the pavement when the driver shuts the doors and drives off leaving the toddler wailing at the bus stop. EVERYONE starts yelling stop - the bus is only going slowly luckily - and eventually the driver takes notice and stops. Woman gets off and rushes back to collect child and then walks back to the waiting bus and berates the driver. I think she was fairly restrained, then she sits down with kid on her knee.

The driver then takes umbrage at being spoken to like that and says he's not driving the bus any further til the lady gets off. Even though he was 100% in the wrong for being so careless. We sit there for about 20 minutes while different passengers take it in turns to try and talk him down and convince him to carry on driving. Eventually he agrees and we crawl off at snails pace with driver muttering under his breath the whole time!

TapirsCaperWithReindeers · 30/03/2014 22:42

From working in London for the BTP, I vividly remember the man with a phone fetish (before mobiles) who had a 'thing' for sexing up the phones at Kings Cross! He was a sneaky fucker, it was the crowd that gave him away

SaggyAndLucy · 30/03/2014 22:34

I was driving down our local dual carriageway, (main access to quite a large sea port) as a passenger in DPs car. I was fiddling with the radio when dp says "you'll be wanting me to stop then?"...
I looked up in confusion to see a horse in full tack galloping full pelt towards us, into the oncoming traffic. Shock Shock Shock
He did stop, I got out and stopped several large trucks then leapt into the car of a complete stranger who skidded to a halt and shouted "GET IN, WE'LL FOLLOW IT!"
The horse survived and was returned home safely. It took me some time to recover! Confused

NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 30/03/2014 22:25

certainly didn't feel funny at the time but the only time I have ever actually wet myself with fear.
went out for a drink with friend who was a bit of a slapper.
she was dating 2 men at the same time as she couldn't make her mind up.
she had been engagement ring shopping with both of them

so the friday night we went out and they accidentaly met each other was fucking horrid. instead of coming to the conclusion that she was a slapper they decided to fight each other for her.
Proper punching seven bells out of each other in the middle of the street with my friend screeching at them like something out of a soap opera.

I was SO frightened for each of the men who IMO had done nothing wrong aside from having a relationship with my friend.

TooOldForGlitter · 30/03/2014 22:19

It was like something out of a film. The mum was in floods and I wasn't far off.

chosenone · 30/03/2014 22:19

Omg bighairy ...she did it regularly ?? I wondered why most people didn't seem as shocked as me !!! Do tell usabout bjrdman ?

GarlicMarchHare · 30/03/2014 22:15

Gosh, Glitter! I was holding my breath there. Glad he caught it!

Merefin · 30/03/2014 22:14

On a family outing to the beach...spring day everyone walking along all lovely. A man approaches...from a distance he looks like a very big built chap, as he gets closer we can see he's actually very slightly built but has no top on and a massive python wrapped around him! Round his middle and up around his neck.

He walks past like this is entirely normal. Snake looks out to sea, all philosophical like. Bizarre.

Kudzugirl · 30/03/2014 22:14

Not sure if it compares to some of these but we slowly approached and subsequently pulled up at a junction today and saw a woman from the houses opposite run back off the embankment with a big handful of daffodils she had pinched from it. The flowers were planted along the perimeter of a house on a bank Shock. Clearly some Mother got a lovely bunch of Mothers Day flowers from the biggest thieving cheapskate of a daughter going...

TooOldForGlitter · 30/03/2014 22:11

Think I posted this here at the time, can't remember for sure.

Gone out for a walk in winter (think it was last year). Walking along the coastal path, very wide concrete path, steps lead down all the way along the path to the beach, maybe 20 feet down. (google Cleveleys, Lancashire).

Ahead of us saw a couple, a pram and a little boy. Boy had fallen over so theyd stopped to see to him. The strong wind caught the pram and it started rolling toward steps. From the distance we were away I couldnt tell if the boy had been in the pram or if it was a baby pram IYSWIM. Started to shout to the parents but it was so windy they couldn't hear. Started to run and as I got closer I saw it was a tiny babys pram with car seat thing. The pram must have been just a few seconds from going down the steps, literally wheels inches away, before the dad saw/heard me running and screaming and he FLEW to grab pram. Few week old baby girl inside.

Lj8893 · 30/03/2014 22:11

Oh god I remember one, I was quite young at the time.

Went to monkey world with my mum and we were looking at the capuchin (sp?) monkeys, one of them was transfixed on my mum, and came right up to the window and kept sticking his tongue out at her. She was laughing at him and talking to him when we suddenly realised he was rather aroused!

I've never let my mum forget that she turned a monkey on.

LisaMed · 30/03/2014 22:10

I used to vaguely know a lad who walked around with a dead fox on his head.

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