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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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numberoneson · 04/04/2021 20:56

Mine was many years ago on a single track road near Fort William, with a deep drop on the left side ... loads of trees, with dozens of large dead fish lying on their branches. Took a few moments to see that there was also an overturned van stuck in branches further down: local fish man had gone off the road.

PatsyStone39 · 04/04/2021 20:58

[quote toffeebutterpopcorn]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[/quote]
It was 2010 but I wonder if it was connected as "The Family" rings a bell.

They definitely weren't Amish. But the blonde thing did make me wonder if they were Dutch/German. They were the weirdest family.

lissie123 · 04/04/2021 20:59

A baby stoat running across our lawn. A bird of prey swoop down and attack and kill a pigeon also on the lawn.

HeronLanyon · 04/04/2021 20:59

This thread is great !

2018SoFarSoGreat · 04/04/2021 21:06

That space shuttle riding on a jumbo jet flew right over my head, so low and close I could only get this picture. I waited for hours with binoculars trained on the far distance, only to have it appear over my head.

San Francisco area.

The weirdest thing you've seen.
Babyiwantabump · 04/04/2021 21:07

A man riding a unicycle along the road at rush hour like he was on his normal commute

PatsyStone39 · 04/04/2021 21:09

I'm googling and I think it may have been a family from the Bruderhof religious "cult". Apparently there's a community of them in East Sussex. Who knew.

HeronLanyon · 04/04/2021 21:13

2018 I love that !

I was once silent with binocs trained on young barn owls a field away when one of the adults who’d been hunting dropped a dead rabbit on me - hit my shoulder (it hurt). Out of nowhere right overhead. Grin yours slightly different !

Isaidnomorecrisps · 04/04/2021 21:38

@Iampicklerick
Funny - years ago I was sitting on St Paul’s (Cathedral) steps having lunch and watched two youngish grey-suited chaps cross by each other. One had a rolled up newspaper under his arm. He seamlessly passed it to the other man as they crossed and neither acknowledged the other.
It was nicely executed and so strange, time sort of slowed down as I watched it, then they were gone. Fab!

bmush · 04/04/2021 21:43

I saw a chimpanzee at a zoo shit into its hand. then eat it

LunaNorth · 04/04/2021 21:52

A woman sitting in rush hour traffic on the York outer ring road, using eyelash curlers while looking into a magnifying mirror she had wedged into her steering wheel.

Yes, she was driving at the same time.

Nickersnackersnockers · 04/04/2021 22:07

I was once playing pool in a pub when the back door behind the table opened and a horse walked in, around the table and back out of the same door.

I should probably mention there were some travellers who had set up camp on the land behind the pub at the time.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 04/04/2021 22:18

There used to be a lady in my nearest big town who drove around on her electric wheelchair with an actual full-grown sheep on her lap. She'd been carrying him around when she went out shopping since he was a wee lamb and saw no reason to stop.

bex35 · 04/04/2021 22:20

@ShipshapeShore

Two people dressed as beefeaters strutting down Llandudno pier to a Queen song they had playing. They were also pushing a toy monkey in a pushchair.
🤣🤣 I have seen this a couple of years ago! Forgot all about it.
Puzzledandpissedoff · 04/04/2021 22:28

Chap in a Beijing restaurant who'd ordered something with eggs, which came still in their shells ... he ate them shell and all, and the hideous crunching is with me to this day

Guy in a San Diego parking lot who cut us up and stormed out of his car with a face like thunder. I worried that he was angry and possibly armed, but instead of having a go at us he harangued his car, viciously and at length, for the mistake it had made Confused

Nitpickpicnic · 04/04/2021 22:57

Sitting on a beach, in summer, on an island. Midday. Two kangaroos came nonchalantly along the beach, tuned right next to my chair and went into the water. Bobbed about, up to their necks for a while, occasionally taking sips of seawater. Came out after about 15 mins and walked (not hopped) back where they’d come from. I did catch the last bit on camera, too surprised to think to do it earlier!

Admittedly it was in Australia. But usually they stay far from humans and aren’t known to love seawater- for bathing or drinking! Usually not active in the daytime, either.

mamaandbabas · 04/04/2021 23:13

Whilst on bus, a drunk man shaking black balls of shit out of the leg of his jeans.

Seagulls eating a pile of sick.

Dullardmullard · 04/04/2021 23:15

Long time ago.

Enclosure full of monkeys not sure what kind. One of the males grab this woman’s hand through the mesh (re enforced later) put her hand on his erect willie screeching at her. She snatched her away. Said monkey proceeded to Wank himself off and throw his jizz in her hair screeching whilst doing so.

Keeper comes out “not again” seemingly this male fancied human females not monkey females. Very bizarre.

Again years ago I came across the naked rambler in The Highlands he was always getting arrested. Kept telling the cops it was his right to be free meaning naked.

Oversize · 04/04/2021 23:19

Not the weirdest thing but I did see a weird thing this evening. There was a slug in my shower tray and as I sat on the loo and looked at it, another one squeezed itself in between the tile grout and the sealant. There can only have been a pinhole to squeeze through.
So Many Questions!

2klightyears · 04/04/2021 23:21

Worked in LA for two summers as a student on J1 visa in the 90s. I worked at a theme park, which was very stressful and demanding. The house next door to where I was staying was used from time to time for porno shoots. Over a few weeks We Got to know some of the team, it really was “ work” for them. Turned me off this produced porn for life.

Crikeymalikey · 04/04/2021 23:30

Not really weird, more funny, but a businessman walking along in his full suit pulling a small wheeled suitcase and when going up a kirb the case part fell off the handle and he continued along carrying just the handle behind him another 30 meters or so before he’d noticed! 🤣 might not be so funny written down but in the moment it was so funny and I still chuckle about it now when I remember over 10 years on!

Lupinhere37 · 04/04/2021 23:37

@CongealedCrags I saw one of those Cream Egg cars. I wanted one for ages afterwards. Then we went to Cadbury World on a day trip and they had several. Think they were for staff to zip around in. Still think it’s the best car I’ve ever seen!

Gingernaut · 04/04/2021 23:46

@Lupinhere37, I saw a couple of egg cars around, before I went to Cadbury World and saw a small car park of them.

All the giant Creme and Mini Eggs were a surreal sight

Mamanyt · 04/04/2021 23:51

Two ducklings nursing on a mama cat who had adopted them. I've often wondered what poor mama cat did when they started to swim. I'll bet she was appalled!

DoveOfPiss · 05/04/2021 01:00

A seagull taking a bag of Quavers off the shelf of the shop in Birmingham New Street station, walking out with them then popping the bag with its beak and scoffing them Grin shop staff didn't bat an eyelid!! Me and my friend were Shock