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

In the middle of ten days of strikes. Packed commuter trains and platforms. Train doors about to shut - one woman grabbed another woman, pulled her off and took her place. Doors shut. Everyone on train and platform was

I was once driving on a duel carriageway and a scaffolding pole came off an overtaking van and through my driver's window.

That was quite jaw dropping!

Arf at guillemot.
Dh and a friend of ours went to Scarborough. Walked up to North Beach, stood on cliff, looking out over packed beach. A jet fighter appeared and did a few passes over,nothing too exceptional. It then started flying closer and lower over the sea not too far out. Then did a swooping turn near the castle (lady in there said later she could see in the cockpit) and another lowish pass. Climbs a bit, does a loop and...disappears into the sea. Total silence, everyone on beach just . nothing at all in the paper or on the news.
Walked off totally stunned,past a man walking a bear. (Circus in town, bear liked a paddle, of course)

Yesterday in Claire's Accessories.

Two girls (I think sisters/twins) getting their ears pierced. One girl had already had hers done, and the second girl was in the chair about to have hers pierced. First girl faints.

The shop assistant panics, and phones for security (who apparently don't answer). Mum puts fainted girl into recovery position, but her daughter in the piercing chair starts to cry because she's worried about fainted girl. (I went over and told her she would be OK - by now she was sitting up, but mum looked very stressed)

Then the next girl in the queue to have her ears pierced starts to cry and say she doesn't want her ears pierced. The two ladies with her (I think they were both her grandmothers) both firmly took an arm each and told her she would be fine.

Fainted girl and her family were taken to the back of the shop by the still much flustered shop lady (and a passing security guard I'd dragged in - I'm presuming he is first aid trained) while the two grandmothers escorted their little girl to the ear piercing chair, still crying and protesting.

I wanted to shout you "You are all loons! Leave your little girls ears alone if it causes this much stress. It's supposed to be fun!"

My mind has gone blank after reading these, don't thnk I have seen anything that shocking though.

Animals so sorry that happened to you. What a disgusting woman she was.

Ahahaha at the gulliemot

I was on a bus sitting on one of the long seats next to a woman trying to breastfeed her crying baby who just didn't want to know. In exasperation, the woman said 'right, if you don't want to feed I'll give it to the nice man opposite'. Man sits with look frozen on his face

Some of these are shocking!

Also seen a man jump out of an upstairs window - not the most exciting thing in the thread, but it was a shock as I wasn't expecting it! I was just walking past!

I've seen a woman holding her child over a bin to wee - the bin was in an enclosed space inside a major tourist attraction, & the toilets were less than a metre away with no queues. Why???

@ the penguin from Bridlington beach!!!!

A woman who got on the train with a penguin under her arm which she informed the guard she'd caught it on the beach. This was Bridlington.

Guard informed her it was a gulliemot.

A couple of years ago, I was in the gym one summer's evening looking out of the window on the treadmill. I began to realise that EVERY SINGLE PERSON I could see was in fancy dress. I looked over at my fellow gym-goers and none of them appeared to be freaked out. There were loads and loads of people all in various fancy dress get up.

I left the gym and went to the bus stop, more groups of people in fancy dress. I was beginning to think I had missed a serious city-wide memo and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out WTF was going on.

I got on the bus and lo! There were loads of people in fancy dress. I said to one person "Why are you all in fancy dress?!" and his response...

"Why aren't YOU in fancy dress!?!"

ARGH!

As it turned out, it was a fundraising thing for a massive employer here but it freaked me right out.

Sadly I am the disabled lady in the story and I have never been more mortified in my life.

I am older and more gobby wiser now & would probably give as good as I got these days.

Shudder just remembering it.

DH and I were sitting in a Glasgow city centre restaurant last year, at a window table, one lunchtime.

A man in an Audi tried to park on the street outside the window, reversed into the Volvo behind, pulled forward into the BMW in front, settled in the middle of the space, got out without a glance and walked away.

We were

Ten minutes later he returned, reversed into the Volvo again, pulled out into the road and drove away.

I took his plate, there was no obvious damage on either car but we intended to pop out and tell the other drivers just in case. Unfortunately we had a cocktail or two and when we next remembered to look out both the other cars had changed.

I have never seen such audacity in public though. And he must have had parking sensors.

I can't think of anything. I think most things have lost the shock factor for me. I just expect the worst from everyone now.

Probably the woman who yelled at me "I can open the fucking door for myself".

It wasn't even a white knight gesture of mine. Approaching the door from different sides, she would have pushed it, but I got there a fraction before her, pulled it open, and stepped aside to let her through. I'd have done the same for a bloke approaching.

That was what I got, instead of thanks.

Made me a little apprehensive about opening doors for womenn for a while, but now I realise that she was just ill-mannered.

Quaker, that is RIGHT out of the League of Gentlemen . That's won the thread, I think.

I'm also at the woman in first class in Animals' story. I'm as English and conflict-averse as they come, but even I would have had to say something to her. What a beee-yatch.

Hehe Chosenone, sounds like a standard night out in Plymouth to me ;)

These are brilliant and horrifying :D

I cycled past a couple of guys driving on the old kent road a small van and saw the driver wedge the wheel between his knees freeing his hands up to chop out lines of coke(?)and roll up a note and snort them, handing over the cd case to his mate, all the while steering with his knees !

I went to view an empty house with the estate agent. There was a pain room in the basement and the owner was hanging from an oversized cross on the wall being beaten. Owner was in his late seventies, as was the main doing the whipping.

DS1 told me this.

He was in his car in a long traffic jam on a bridge and a man, in the back seat of the car in front of him, got out of the car ran around the back of the car and got into the other side.

The man was naked.

Standing at the sidelines of Junior footy has been an eye opener. Watching an Under 9s match one father yelled from the sidelines-

'F**KING TAKE HIM OUT SON!!!' whilst encouraging his DS to put a tackle in.

On the nightbus after a night out, a drunken couple got on who had obviously just broken up. Massive shouty argument ensued. The whole bus silent. Can't remember who said what etc but I do remember the girl shouting 'I can get any man I want'! to her ex. At this point everyone tried to look at her subtly and were probably all thinking no, love, you couldn't.