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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)

Anyone else?

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DancingInTheGarden · 05/04/2021 01:10

These are all magic!

In the middle of a housing estate I saw a woman in a mobility scooter with two Shetland ponies dressed as reindeer with antlers and bells and little scandi type coats.

Bythemillpond · 05/04/2021 03:03

Not really weird but more funny. We were waiting for a train at a station.
Guy holding a folded newspaper gets off the train. As he steps off his arm with the newspaper swings back just as the train doors shut. (I swear if you were trying to recreate the scenario you wouldn’t be able to get the timing just right)
The newspaper gets trapped in the door and the guy shouting “give me my newspaper”tries to pull it out whilst running alongside the train until he runs out of platform.
The train disappeared into the tunnel with half a newspaper sticking out of one of the doors as a very disgruntled man gives up and goes home.

Bythemillpond · 05/04/2021 03:09

Another train one. Dd went to get off a train at a station and slightly nudged a guys foot that was sticking out. She apologised but the guy went into a rage. He ran off the train, head butted the window of the train which broke and then started to headbutt the posters that were stuck on the wall of the station.
Dd went to get a guard who came to find man lay on his back unconscious and bleeding.
Dd left them to it.

WaverleyPirate · 05/04/2021 04:27

Decided to have a look at a church in a local town. It was deserted and I was by myself.

In filed over one hundred men dressed like the Spanish Inquisition. Long robes, headgear etc. They were totally silent and looked terrifying. All sat down in the pews.

On leaving the church I asked one of the Spanish Inquisition in porch whether I had travelled back in time. I had stumbled upon a film set and they had been instructed to be silent as Brad Pitt was filming around corner. They were cast members and church was a convenient place to wait.

It really freaked me out.

WaverleyPirate · 05/04/2021 04:51

Here is a photo of the cast. Film was called The King.

The weirdest thing you've seen.
Ddot · 05/04/2021 06:42

Heavy snow, man skiing down the road to work. He was making good progress too.
Oh and what I find at the bottom of my handbag, always surprises me

Ddot · 05/04/2021 06:53

Oversize
Check you don't have water leakage.

Oversize · 05/04/2021 08:20

Will do Smile

Ddot · 05/04/2021 09:32

Friend of mine woke up to a seagull stood on his bedside table, just looking at him. He lives in a high rise and had left French doors open.

Sweetener12 · 05/04/2021 11:00

A program with AI tool that makes people in old pictures move. Very cringeworthy, it looked like Harry Potter portraits irl but in a creepy way. Thank you very much, Nostalgia, I'll go back to Photoglory, it doesnt scare the hell out of me.

8misskitty8 · 05/04/2021 11:15

All seagull related as I stay in a town that has a beach.

  1. Man in mobility scooter feeding the seagulls, your talking plastic bag full of food. Seagulls covering the man to get fed. He’s well known for doing it.
  2. While waiting at the lights a gull climbed inside a bin and pulled out a chip packet. Loads of other gulls descend on the chip packet and the poor gull who did all the work got nothing. Picked clean in seconds.
  3. Seagull walking with what looked like legs of another bird hanging out it’s mouth.
Namechangedididittoo · 05/04/2021 11:23

Local to where I am we regularly see a shed driving down the road or parked at the supermarket

HeronLanyon · 05/04/2021 11:29

Bloody seagulls.
Walked around 6 miles along strenuous coastal path. Finally reached small beach hut and it was open! Bought last two (large) pasties before they shut. Totally isolated. No one else within a mile at least. Went to sit on rock to scoff.
From NOWHERE a seagull took the bag out of my hands and flew off with it.
I think my mouth had already started dribbling in anticipation of first gorgeous large bite. I was absolutely heartbroken. Had to walk back. Had to dig deep that day. Will never forget seeing him struggling as he flew off (the bag was heavy). Seared on my mind.

sueelleker · 05/04/2021 12:24

@HeronLanyon

Bloody seagulls. Walked around 6 miles along strenuous coastal path. Finally reached small beach hut and it was open! Bought last two (large) pasties before they shut. Totally isolated. No one else within a mile at least. Went to sit on rock to scoff. From NOWHERE a seagull took the bag out of my hands and flew off with it. I think my mouth had already started dribbling in anticipation of first gorgeous large bite. I was absolutely heartbroken. Had to walk back. Had to dig deep that day. Will never forget seeing him struggling as he flew off (the bag was heavy). Seared on my mind.
We were at the Lizard in Cornwall, and I was eating a smoked mackerel salad. There was a seagull on the wall behind me eyeing me up all the time. I was convinced it was going to help itself any minute.
MissTT85 · 05/04/2021 12:37

An old woman on a mobility scooter racing my 5 year old up the street. The old woman would not let her win, I could not stop laughing.

yogi1 · 05/04/2021 12:43

@SisterAgatha
Similar to yours but I was at a festival for the weekend sleeping in my car. Can in front a really good looking woman with the perfect figure stripped naked whilst her boyfriend stood in top of their van pouring water over her so she could have a sort of shower. There was a lot of spectators as you can imagine!

GabsAlot · 05/04/2021 12:51

ive seen scooby doo van a few times looks nice-london is full of weirdos i reguarly saw people with petson the tube cats dogs parrots ferrets-you dont even reigster them after a while

LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 13:12

A house on a flat bed truck being moved

It's not an uncommon sight in NZ, but the first time I saw it 😳😳😳

Ddot · 05/04/2021 13:54

I once saw a Caterpillar dancing inside my cabbage, turned out it wasn't dancing at all. A wasp was eating it alive. 🤢

Chicchicchicchiclana · 05/04/2021 14:26

Walking home from the pub in Balham one night close to Christmas with my then boyfriend.

There was a man walking along in front of us, suit, briefcase, well dressed, weaving around like he was drunk and eating a pizza.

Only he wasn't eating it with his hands. He kept walking, in one hand he had the briefcase, in the other hand he had the pizza box and he was trying to eat it by face-diving into it. He was literally putting his face in the box and trying to bite chunks off the pizza.

He'd obviously gone to the office Christmas party, got pissed, was on his way home late and feeling guilty, so thought he'd try to sober up by eating as he walked.

It was hilarious! I'll never forget him. I can only imagine the scene when he got home to his wife.

Ddot · 05/04/2021 14:31

At allotment crows sitting on neighbours roof, screaming at something, feathers standing on end to make themselves look bigger. I went to see what all the fuss was over. I opened my gate to be confronted with the biggest bird I've ever seen. I backed away and closed the gate. Then I heard someone calling it from the other side of the hedge. Turned out it was a buzzard being exercised. (Little bit of poo came out)

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IHaveBrilloHair · 05/04/2021 15:05

@latteLoverLovesLattes.
I've never seen that, but I have seen empty housing plots where a house just suddenly appears on them, in Australia though, not NZ.

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IHaveBrilloHair · 05/04/2021 15:07

Oh, and once I saw I saw a monkey steal shampoo, actually the whole bag it was in, the bag was mine and I was carrying it!
Vicious little twat it was.

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Elderflower14 · 05/04/2021 15:28

I've told this story before on here. It was actually what my late DH saw.. He was driving me home from my shift at work. It was after midnight and I fell straight asleep. He turned off the main road and onto a side road. The next thing I knew he had slammed the brakes on which woke me up with a jump. He was sheet white and wide eyed. He announced in an alarmed voice that he had seen the ghost of a Russian Hussar..
I didn't improve matters by bursting out laughing. What he had actually seen was a lady known locally as Mad Mary. (not my choice of name!)
Mary had had a mental breakdown after the death of her husband. She had three outfits. The Russian one, A boy scouts outfit and a long white lollypop ladies coat and a sailors hat.
DH had caught her in the car lights standing in a farm drive!

cricketmum84 · 05/04/2021 16:36

@HeronLanyon

Bloody seagulls. Walked around 6 miles along strenuous coastal path. Finally reached small beach hut and it was open! Bought last two (large) pasties before they shut. Totally isolated. No one else within a mile at least. Went to sit on rock to scoff. From NOWHERE a seagull took the bag out of my hands and flew off with it. I think my mouth had already started dribbling in anticipation of first gorgeous large bite. I was absolutely heartbroken. Had to walk back. Had to dig deep that day. Will never forget seeing him struggling as he flew off (the bag was heavy). Seared on my mind.
A seagull once swooped and took a whole bag of fresh hot doughnuts from me on Scarborough beach. I can laugh now but I was devastated at the time!