Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

Years ago a guy was high as a kite off his face on something and made his way to a roof of a two storey building. He was shouting and throwing stuff down. The police were there, the next thing he jumps off land on a parked car and tries to run off! Thevpolice have to wrestle him to the ground. It was like something from a film. I'm sure he must have been hurt from the face but didn't feel it at the time

I used to commute daily through Clapham Junction. I used a wheelchair but could manage steps, but relief on other commuters to carry the chair up and down the stairs. It was such a regular thing it was often the same people, but we rarely spoke, people would look at me, I would smile and nod and by the time I got to the top the chair was ready and waiting. It was a great system 😁

One day I was on my way home from work, the height of the evening rush hour. A young man had brought the chair down the steps and I was making my way out when I was violently shoved to the side and a man’s voice said loudly, “See how you like it!”

Wheelchairs don’t move sideways so I was nearly tipped out. Then I heard the man who had carried the wheelchair chair say, “What the hell do you think you are doing?” Next thing I know, shover man is running up the stairs to the next platform, young man plus friends in hot pursuit. Other commuters stopped to make sure I was ok.

A few minutes later the young man came back to check on me and to let me know that station security had the man and were talking to him. I went home.

Still puzzles me! WTF did he think I had done, who the hell shoves a woman in a wheelchair, and in front of so many people?!

Actually I have probably created quite a few WTF moments in my time!

@Lazydaz, she asked if it was my dog although she knew I didn't have a dog as I lived in a flat. She'd also seen the guy approach us.
She is quite out there and a lot of moments with her are wth to be honest!

@Eggsley - No, in a town in Scotland beginning with G - clearly there ARE two of them!

Name changed for this as its quite outing (though I hate that word!).

I was once in Nairobi on a bus trying to get to an event. We got stuck in completely gridlocked traffic at a junction. Frustrated drivers didn't wait in traffic lanes and just queued up side by side until eventually both sides of the multi lane road were blocked with drivers trying to head in the same direction. There was one police officer trying to resolve the situation, and hundreds of cars. Eventually a group of local taxi drivers took it upon themselves to deal with it and started easing the blockage by directing one car at a time. One poor schmuck moved forward a bit without their express permission, and they immediately started shouting at him to reverse, but there was nowhere for him to go because the person behind him had pulled forward. At one point they had his car door open and were shouting and I thought they were going to drag him out. Fortunately they came up with a more pragmatic solution - they lifted his car with him in it, and moved it, leaving him several feet away facing the wrong direction entirely....

I once found a pigeon caught in some fishing wire, I tried to free it but it started to fly away. I still had a hold of the wire at the time so I just looked like some nutter flying a pigeon around in the air like a kite

Getting the bus one morning to work. This man gets on starts Pulling all this food out his bag which stinks to high heaven. Then he pulls out a clear bag of plain spaghetti and just chows down

Then there's the man who gets on the bus with a puppet of kermit the frog and just starts talking to people.

@WeegieWan was the well known high street chemist in a town beginning with N in the midlands? If so, I know the man you mean - if not, that means there's two of them

One friend of mine from school went to Canada for a few months. I knew he was going, though I didn’t know which bit.

He met a fellow Englishman (from the other end of the country) in Canada and got chatting. The 2nd Englishman has been in my tutor group at university. I’ve no idea how the conversation got round to me!

Havering, we say 'clapping' for petting a dog etc in NE England, too.

It is! unim it is a Bristol thing. Generally pronounced 'smoove'.

'Hello lady, can I smoove your skunk?'

I have one from today! Although slightly less WTF and a bit more 'Awwww'

I was taking the kids to a local river to feed some lovely ducks. On the way there a motorbike passed us on the opposite side of the road. The bike had a sidecar attached and inside the sidecar were two Poodley type dogs both wearing helmets and doggles 😍😍

They are still there

I have only ever heard people in Bristol use the word smoothing in this context, i.e. "smoothing the cat".

I assume it's a West Country thing!

Going to visit dd yesterday. DH driving. Needed the fourth exit of the roundabout. Imagine my confusion as sat waiting to exit each separate junction were three silver vans, all with ladders on the roof, drivers window down and all with a young lad in a baseball cap behind the wheel.
Proper inception moment that.

Findyourporpoise I saw a woman feeding a heron a prawn with a chopstick year before last in Hyde Park! Is it a thing?!!

How extraordinary @Confusedandshaken

We live in the U.K.. DS went to university in France . On his first day he was out shopping when a woman he had never met before approached him and asked `'are you Confused's son?' It turned out she was an old family friend of my mums who used to babysit me back in the 60s. She moved to France in the 70s and we never saw her again. She had been browsing mum's FB the day before and saw photos of me and DS with mum, then driven up to Paris for the day and recognised DS in the street.

Can I recommend a couple of WTF stories you can find in YouTube or Netflix?

Three Identical Strangers and Looking for Mike.

Things that happen in Wolverhampton

I was once in the Mander Centre and saw Captain Kirk and Mr Spock walking around.

Driving along and see a man with a huge bird of prey on his arm (about 0.5m from brak to toe). Stopped to ask about it. I can't remember what it was but apparently it liked to go for a walk.

Having my hair cut a man walked into the hairdresser's and said he was being followed by demons. Hairdresser and I look at each other in the mirror and she asked him to go because she couldn't save him, he then went off down the street. We didn't see any demons following him. He was either ill or high and I hope he found some help.