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The weirdest thing you've seen.

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IHaveBrilloHair · 02/04/2021 23:33

I was at Dd's house recently, she opened her freezer and a I could see was lots of little pink mouse tails.
She has a pet snake so they are for him.
I also once sat eating my lunch in Indonesia whilst watching some guys shoving a cow into the back of a bemo (minibus type thing but with no back doors)

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RainbowBrite1 · 04/04/2021 19:36

A man walking around with a cat on his shoulder.
When I used to walk my dog in the local park I'd often see a lady with her dog and when it went for a poo she'd catch it in the poop bag before it hit the grass, she'd stand behind the dog waiting for it to drop, very strange. Still I'd rather that than the dirty devils that don't pick it up.

nopuppiesallowed · 04/04/2021 19:40

Ooh! I forgot. Years ago as we were driving on an autobhan in Germany we saw a car flying over the carriageway. It flipped over and landed upside down on a verge. We screeched to a halt to help. A completely bald woman crawled out of the wreckage, picked up her wig and jammed it back on her head....

Forthisisnt · 04/04/2021 19:40

A boy of about 12 in Laos wanking his dog as our bus went past. Gross!

deste · 04/04/2021 19:43

Two camels sitting down in the back of a small pickup truck in Oman.

Forthisisnt · 04/04/2021 19:45

@Wouldcouldcantwont I would like to see the giant puppets.

I wonder if the satsuma Telegraph man was hoping to attract wildlife with his head food???

pantherrose · 04/04/2021 20:08

I was a courier driver in London many years ago. Sitting in traffic in Brixton, I saw a Rastafarian with Achondroplasia arrive at speed, dreadlocks flying and expertly riding a unicycle. Best I could do was squawk like a lunatic to my colleagues on the van radio, as there were no camera ‘phones then!

Happymum12345 · 04/04/2021 20:13

A middle aged man-very average looking, at a quiet & picturesque village beach in Brittany, wearing a fluorescent mankini.

Alleycat1 · 04/04/2021 20:15

Walking with friends in Dorset and came face to face with an ostrich. Apparently it was an escapee from a local ostrich farm.
Went to a goat race in Guyana and was surprised to see the owners pulling them along on leads, so not really the goats racing.
On holiday in France a met a man out walking with a sheep, donkey, goat and dog. Only the dog was on a lead!

Greenvalleysightseeker · 04/04/2021 20:17

A few years ago on a day trip to Seville at Easter time we walked around a corner to see a group of about 10 people walking towards us dressed in white robes with tall pointy hoods, with only small holes for their eyes looking exactly as I would imagine the KKK to look. My teen DS ran into a nearby shop and I froze to the spot as they walked past us. We walked further into the city and saw more and more of them, some all in black or blue but all fully covered with pointy hats and small eye holes. They were dressed up for the Holy Week Semana Santa de Seville procession. We had no idea! Bloody terrifying.

numberoneson · 04/04/2021 20:21

@HarrietSchulenberg

Oh, I came face to face with Red Rum round the back of a shopping centre. He'd been at a sports shop opening and was waiting for his ride home. That was bizarre for a weekday morning.
Oh, you lucky, lucky person! I would have so loved to have met Red Rum!
OohThatCat · 04/04/2021 20:22

A cat wearing a scarf sitting serenely in the middle of Covent Garden. I know now it was Bob with his owner James after reading A Streetcat Named Bob a couple of years later but at the time I was gobsmacked the cat was both happily wearing a scarf and completely unfazed at the bustle of Cov Garden!

Also got a bus in Vietnam where some guy got on with a large briefcase. Halfway through the journey he opens it and all these wee beaks start peeking out and he starts feeding a load of chicks crammed in the case! This was just after bird flu was a thing in Asia and I remember all the Western tourists on the bust having an absolute meltdown Grin

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 04/04/2021 20:23

A guy walking a bear on Scarborough beach about 40 years ago. The circus was in town and they liked to take it for a paddle.
Same day we saw a fighter jet go down in the sea. ☹️

garden4569 · 04/04/2021 20:24

a ufo

toffeebutterpopcorn · 04/04/2021 20:27

We were getting on the bus just as a person dressed as the yo-yo bear (complete with head and fig leaf) was getting off.

DS always has ‘a thing’ about people in dress up when he was little yelled ‘you are not the yo-yo bear!’ at the poor sod (who must’ve been going to a promo gig).

CrazyNeighbour · 04/04/2021 20:29

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PatsyStone39 · 04/04/2021 20:35

Sailing on the QM2 and there was a family - very "Von Trapp" like. Every day they were dressed oddly, almost like the Amish, but not. The boys in what was like sailor suits with very old fashioned white dresses and headscarf's for the girls. It was like some weird little house on the prairie shit. I googled it when we docked in NY and it pointed to them potentially being part of some cult. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. Australian, I'm sure. I'll have to go Google again!

toffeebutterpopcorn · 04/04/2021 20:41

They weren’t all bleach blonde were they?

2018SoFarSoGreat · 04/04/2021 20:41

Hundreds, literally hundreds, of mostly men in chef's whites, all smoking in the intersection. It was right after the 89 earthquake in San Francisco, and I later learned it was opening day of a huge hotel, which emptied into the street. Dizzied as I was, this made all so much more surreal.

custardbear · 04/04/2021 20:44

I saw a woman peeling and chopping veg on a commuter train - good idea to be honest!

Wild Fruit bats in Cairns - they're massive!

A local man in speedos walking around our local town getting his summer tan, sprawled on high street bench and walking around the coop - he was quite well known for it - he was rather large an about 70 😳 (we live in a rather posh area so lots of 🧐😯🙀 lol

PatsyStone39 · 04/04/2021 20:44

@toffeebutterpopcorn

They weren’t all bleach blonde were they?
Yes! Do you know what/who I am talking about?
Midwife1997 · 04/04/2021 20:48

I once sat opposite a dishevelled bloke on the tube. He had a dirty old canvas rucksack out of which he pulled a whole roast chicken. He proceeded to eat it and dropped the bones on the floor of the carriage. None of us knew where to look for fear of him going off on one.

Midwife

Mary54 · 04/04/2021 20:49

Couple of weird things

Many years ago, woman driving along m4 motorway while breastfeeding a small baby

More recently, man riding a cargo cycle with a boat in the bucket

toffeebutterpopcorn · 04/04/2021 20:49

Depends when it was - they disbanded in the 80s I think:
www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult

nicegirl73 · 04/04/2021 20:50

On holiday in Cyprus a man brought a big black pig to the beach and gave it a bath, I thought that was odd

Harls1969 · 04/04/2021 20:53

@Poorlykitten

Are chickens crossing the road unusual? I live in a village and it’s very common here...😂
Probably not but my kids found it hilarious and were making 'Why did the chicken cross the road' jokes all day