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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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Giraffeski · 30/03/2014 22:10

I did see someone driving down the dual carriageway while straightening her hair with a cordless straightening iron.
I nearly crashed as I did a double take!

Parsley2506 · 30/03/2014 22:09

Ach, I meant Iguana! Not chameleon....

Parsley2506 · 30/03/2014 22:08

Another poo one, (who'd have thought there were so many public poo-ers around?)

Spotted chap with his trews around his knees sort of half stood but bent at the waist doing an enormous shit just outside Ping Pong restaurant on the South Bank in London. Put me right off my steamed dumplings that did....

Oh, and a man walking his chameleon in Alton. Only spotted him when it tried to run away from him and he pegged it after it. Have you ever seen a chameleon run? Funniest thing I've ever seen! Just needed the Benny Hill theme....

Giraffeski · 30/03/2014 22:07

Letsgo- this may out me but as a small child I was urinated on by a tiger at the zoo in a similar fashion.
The journey home in the car with me wasn't too pleasant I am told, and it took days to get rid of the smell!

letsgomaths · 30/03/2014 22:05

In a zoo in Paris: lion and lioness in an enclosure, which was raised about three feet off the ground, with a sort of moat in front.

The lion decided he was fed up with being watched, so he turned his back on the crowd... and shot a long jet of urine straight at everybody! People pulled their pushchairs back in horror.

ThePrisonerOfAzkaban · 30/03/2014 22:05

No it wasn't but imagine a turkey man doing a frozen turkey in tescos!

Hoppinggreen · 30/03/2014 22:03

Not funny at all but I saw something I was pretty shocked at yesterday.
A woman with a baby in a sling at the front kangaroo style smoking a fag!
She was turning her face slightly to the side to exhale to be fair.
Definitely judgey pants moment .

Giraffeski · 30/03/2014 22:03

Was this the turkey man?Grin

BigHairyLeggedSpider · 30/03/2014 22:01

Choosenone, I worked in that bar in that Bowling Alley and she was a regular! Along with Birdman....

Twas always a night to remember!

Ploppy16 · 30/03/2014 22:00

Driving back home over the moors a couple of years ago on Bonfire night, pitch dark,weather was awful, it was foggy and we were going really slowly. Out of the fog on the side of the road appeared a dozen or so Druids. Long white robes, the guy in front had a long staff and frankly looked like Gandalf. They appeared to be making their way to a pub on the tops for a nice pint but I almost wet meself...

I was once part of someone else's OMG moment when I helped carry part of a 15 ft giant paper mâché man through a busy city centre. A foot to be precise. We got a few funny looks...

AlpacaPicnic · 30/03/2014 21:51

I knew this would be a great idea for a thread... Everyone's got a story!

But so many sad stories as well as funny ones.

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Lj8893 · 30/03/2014 21:50

Both!!! Grin

GarlicMarchHare · 30/03/2014 21:47

I am fascinated by the Christmas turkey.

Which one? The gobbling racer or the frozen one known as Joanne?

Turkeys everywhere ...

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 30/03/2014 21:47

I saw a car flip over right in front of me once, while I was walking on the pavement.

Like when the twin towers were hit, I bizarrely remember not believing it, like it was a joke or a stunt.

BertieBotts · 30/03/2014 21:47

You untied him Shiny? At 13?? What did your parents say? Grin

Lj8893 · 30/03/2014 21:44

I am fascinated by the Christmas turkey.

GarlicMarchHare · 30/03/2014 21:42

Primadonna - Where on earth do you live? It sounds ... interesting!

GarlicMarchHare · 30/03/2014 21:40

Grin Middlesbrough in those days was a constant source of 'events' Grin

ShinyTurd · 30/03/2014 21:40

On the way home from Spain last year coming through customs I saw a man wearing 6 sombreo's.

When I was about 13, we were driving along a country lane and at the side of the road was a young guy naked apart from his pants tied by his ankles and wrists. I got out, untied him and he ran off.

A man was walking along the high street wearing a mankini in broad daylight.

dawntigga · 30/03/2014 21:39

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GarlicMarchHare · 30/03/2014 21:38

Same location, different pub: this story's thought to be apocryphal, but it happened - I was there. A small group of unusually fit, clean & healthy men came in, wearing Navy-type sweaters. They ordered beer. The one who seemed to be the leader sat in a chair near the door, which as all the regulars knew, 'belonged' to a cross & hard-drinking chap who practically lived in there. He stormed over - someone quickly told the visitor it was 'his' chair and, politely, the visitor stood up. At this point, Cross Bloke was practically in his face, bellowing "Who the fuck do you think you are?"

The visitor replied, "I'm the Crown Prince of Denmark, pleased to meet you."

Cross Bloke riposted "Aye, and I'm the Queen Mother!" and nutted him.

As his helpers picked the semi-conscious visitor up off the floor, they courteously explained that he was, indeed, the prince of Denmark and they thought they should get him back to their ship for medical attention.

Lj8893 · 30/03/2014 21:37

garlic Shock

BertieBotts · 30/03/2014 21:36

MissMarples That sounds very much like something that happened about ten years ago in the sleepy market town where I grew up, fairly close to the police station too. I remember because I was in my GCSE year at the time and some twats we were stuck in a drama group went on and on and on about the incident (which they'd heard about among the thug grapevine, I deduced Angry) - it was awful and made me feel sick and very upset just hearing about it. I wonder if it was the same one :(

melonribena · 30/03/2014 21:36

I went on a church outing at about the age of 12 to a local zoo. My friends and I were wandering through the monkey bit when a little monkey pushed himself up against the glass and started wiggling about. He had a rather large erection!

We started giggling in an embarrassed way when a lady standing nearby spoke loudly to her children who were slightly younger than us, that they were leaving because we were 'encouraging' it!

BlackeyedSusan · 30/03/2014 21:35

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis it definitely made it into the papers in scarborough if it was the one that happend about... 30 years ago.