Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

Turned out someone with the exact same name as exdh and from the same town HAD gone awol from the army and since exdh didnt quite match the description of the awol person they reluctantly left. They came back about an hour later with the awol persons sergeant, who confirmed exdh was not the same person. It was quite scary but turned out the awol person had burgled his parents house and they heard on the grapevine that a person with the same as exdh's name had moved into a local flat.

About a week later another policeman arrived to arrest exdh, but he when he heard of groans of "oh no not again" he believed us straight away and after ringing the barracks confirmed that DP was not the same person.

Bizarrely after this we told exdh's brother and he said that the shop he worked in had some casual labour and one bloke they employed had the same name as exdh and he thought it was weird, It was the AWOL soldier.

Never had any other problems and never found out what happened to the soldier.

We come from a Catholic family and like a lot of Catholics we pick and choose what parts of the religion to follow. So yes to mass on Sundays, holy communion and a church wedding but also YES to a woman's right to choose, supporting gay marriage and using contraception.

One family friend was very, very traditional and devout and so we were always careful what we said around her and particularly so when any of her three sisters were around because all three of them were nuns and we didn't want to offend them. One day, not long after our wedding, at a big gathering at her house someone asked DH and I would we be having a baby soon. I hesitated before answering and one of the nuns spoke up saying 'Jesus! No way! It's much too soon for that sort of carry on. Youngsters are much better organised nowadays'.

It was so incongruous coming from an elderly lady in a nuns habit and headdress but I was so grateful to her for saying it. The friend and her sisters are all dead now and I miss them.

There's a town in my area where an older man will strike up a conversation with any stranger he can, & swiftly get onto his one obsession (I'm not going to say what it is: it's not obscene or unpleasant, just totally random).

He's known to DH & me as Man, & one of us sometimes has to swerve the other out of his path & then explain why once we're out of earshot. I once sat on a bench he was on & made sure I was at the other end & looking the other way. His disappointment & frustration were palpable.

Sometimes it's funny to watch the unaware get drawn in. At least he's not a danger to anyone - unless it's possible to bore someone to death.

Years ago I was outside a nightclub when this guy came flying down a staircase straight into the path of an oncoming taxi, hit the taxis front then rolled off, got up and walked off. WTF.

That’s hilarious @Noidea2114!

The day we brought eldest son home from hospital after his birth (7 weeks premature) in the 80's so no mobiles.
That afternoon we got a call from the office of the Royal Marines asking where our son was.
I said you have the wrong number but before I could say anything else the bloke talked over me.
Saying he had gone AWOL again and they were sending the military police to arrest him.
He gave my son's full name first unusual and middle, same date of birth just the wrong year.
I finally was able to get a word in and told him that my son was only 7 weeks old.
The next thing the MP were outside banging on the door.
They were gobsmacked when they saw our son in his cradle.
It seemed that the marine who was AWOL had given our address.
We only live in a very small town and there is no one else and has never been some one with that same full name.

@crazycanuck i can't believe it took two fucking days for someone to get that joke.

I love this thread. Some minor WTF ones from me:

• Worked at airport. My colleague and I were stood at our counter watching passengers walk past through the main thoroughfare (? Just a big open hall) when we saw a kid, about 10yrs old, break into a run then launch himself forward so he just slid smoothly on his belly for about 15m... then he calmly got up and carried on walking. Parents walking behind him didn’t even blink.
• On bus going past a police station where a very small group of (what looked like) protesters were stood outside, one playing a full sized didgeridoo.
• There’s a Shit Wig Man in South Manchester, I had the misfortune of sitting a couple rows behind him once and oh my god... It was incredible and so, so awful.
• Used to have hair down past my waist. Once stood waiting at traffic lights near my street when I felt someone stroking my hair - but not indiscreet/gentle stroking, like full-on proper combing fingers through it. I turned around expecting to find it was a mate trying to wind me up but to my absolute shock it was a complete STRANGER, a young guy smiling at me STILL touching my hair and asking if it was all real. I said yes, while slowly moving away, and after we had crossed the road I watched him walk up the street leading to a probation office. I didn’t leave my hair down for a while after that.

I once saw a girl sneeze in a shoe shop, and cornflakes* came out of her nose, suspended in two long strings of clear snot, that hung from her nostrils, until she snorted and the whole lot shot back up and in again.

*I can't verify that they were cornflakes, but that's exactly what they looked like to me.

Shamelessly place marking. Love this thread!

Can we clear some things up around cloud seeding?

It is possible. You fly above a cloud and drop something like sand or salt or chemicals and it makes the raindrops group together enough so that they fall.

But

1. it is really hard to predict how and when it will rain, it is an inexact science. Get it wrong and you might make it worse! At best it clears the current clouds from above your town.
2. It doesn't really work for rain associated with weather fronts, which is most of the rain in the UK. This is because the weather front constantly makes more clouds and rain. The action of the wind circling and rising up and through another layer of air makes a constant supply of new clouds and rain. So if a good low-pressure area is coming in on your wedding day, it is extremely unlikely that you would be able to seed the clouds with the right timing to get the rain to fall and no more rain to accumulate and fall later.
3. It is incredibly expensive to do
4. The people who get rained on because you seeded the clouds might have something to say about it, and sue you because their event/day etc got spoilt. Rain doesn't fall on just your house!
5. People might would definitely object to getting sand/salt/chemicals sprayed over them

also, that link to the Lymington floods, even if there had been cloud seeding going on, the floods were due to a mix of factors, including the fact that the ground was already saturated. The volume and timing of the rain were just more than is likely in a cloud seeding experiment.

@mam0918
She was really drunk. I also went to a comedy show where a drunk guy threw up on the row in front.

NC as mine is outing as I’ve told a lot of people.

Summer 2007 and me my friend were both pregnant, she was very near her due date and we decided to go for a walk one afternoon before the school run to see if we could get things moving for her. We live in a small village, a few shops, quite rural. We’d didn’t go far, just a couple of miles into the next village and then back to ours where we sat on a bench on the village square before school pick up.

There were a few people walking around, noticed a man looking in a window of one of the shops but thought nothing of it. All of a sudden these two dark saloon cars come speeding along, flashing lights, all full of men who jump out, shove these hats on and start pointing guns and shouting at this man, ‘hands up’, ‘get on the floor’ etc, they grab him and are gone.

We just sat there like, WTF? Nothing like this ever happens here! There was never any report in newspaper of anyone being apprehended, no one ever knew anything, all very random.

[quote GabsAlot]@CrazyCatsAndKittens thats really not good for the cat to eat as its main food will make it ill[/quote]
Tell me about it, but if you say anything she gets upset because in her mind it's not her fault. Then she gets stressed because people are attacking her and no body understands how hard it is for her. She's right. I don't get it. I think generally speaking after a few days, the cat will have forgotten about the Dreamies and will happily eat normal cat food.

i have to admit, when we stopped working together, I deleted her from Facebook.

Oh actually, I know somebody that called their daughter Linda, but didn’t want her to get called lin, so she named the next daughter lin???? Not understanding her logic AT ALL. The next one had a mundane name and eventually changed it to something totally bizarre and made up. They’re an odd family

Mines rubbish but I finally have something to add, I was driving along once and saw a man and tied himself a tight rope and was just walking along it all casual 🤦🏻‍♀️

Years ago in my old house I was sitting at a table in the study upstairs, idly staring out a window which overlooked the car park of a block of flats next door. It was a quiet afternoon. A nervous-looking man came out to his car, opened the boot and started shuffling stuff about. Then he quickly looked around to make sure no one was about, then got inside the boot and closed it behind him! About 10 minutes passed then he got out again, pretended to shuffle stuff about a bit more and then went back indoors.