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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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FruityPolos · 03/04/2021 00:19

I watched a nature programme on TV about racoons and thought 'I'd love to see a racoon in real life one day'. A few days later I saw someone walking along the street with a racoon on a lead 😳

EggscellentEggplant · 03/04/2021 00:19

A pigeon standing at the side of the road at a crossing, lights change, pigeon crosses in front of my car. He literally waited for the little green man.

Another one pigeon in busy train station, walks with purpose, hops onto train, turns round and looks me dead in the eye while the doors close and off he goes on his way.

I hope its the same pigeon.

Selkiebride · 03/04/2021 00:21

@SingleHandSue

I once saw a sheep in a field with a tyre balanced on top of its head as I went past on the bus. It was a rural service where I was the only passenger so I shouted up to the driver to check he’d seen it too in case I was hallucinating or something.

Also a man in a cafe eating fish and chips just cutting in to the slice of lemon and eating it with his knife and fork like it was a normal thing to do.

How on earth was it balanced on its head? I'm confused
Iampicklerick · 03/04/2021 00:22

I got on a train, sat down, a man outside the train still on the platform placed a bag just inside the doors. Doors closed, he walks off.

I spend the whole stop wondering if I should call the transport police.

At the next stop, the doors open and another man picks up the bag and walks off like nothing has happened.

BringBackDoves · 03/04/2021 00:23

A dead squirrel on a plate on the fridge of a fancy wedding venue

A light-coloured dog with black eyebrows drawn on

DustyMaiden · 03/04/2021 00:25

A donkey in the frozen food shop.

Houseofvelour · 03/04/2021 00:25

I've seen maaaaany weird things in my life but I think one that bothered me more than it should've was a woman eating a bell pepper like it was an apple in a train station 😂

ThePlantsitter · 03/04/2021 00:26

@GlumyGloomer

1, Adrian Edmondson crowd surfing while dressed as a parrot. 2, a giant mechanical elephant in Trafalgar Square. From the days before I had kids and my life was cool Grin
I saw the elephant too! Seems like a different world, doesn't it, where they would close all the roads in central London for a gigantic free puppet show?
Wowcherarestalkingme · 03/04/2021 00:32

Two men in a rowing boat using sticks to paddle across the smallest lake (well pond really). It would have been so much quicker to walk round.

Midlifelady · 03/04/2021 00:32

I was on the subway, either in Paris or New York, and a young guy had a rat on his shoulder. Every once in a while he would open his mouth and the rat drank his saliva. I was transfixed.

BluePeterVag · 03/04/2021 00:33

A man, dressed as a scarecrow, cycling through town. He had one of those fake Halloween crows (that were popular on MN a while back) on the handle bars.

hilariousnamehere · 03/04/2021 00:39

A camel in the back of a pick up truck. On the move - just standing all chilled in the flatbed bit. Not in the UK, obviously!

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 03/04/2021 00:39

6 red double-decker buses driving along a UK Lincolnshire road, in convoy, with the stated destination in the little box thing Baghdad????

MissCherryCakeyBun · 03/04/2021 00:39

I've also seen what we call the Dog-Cat-Rat man, we were visiting the West Coast and stayed in Santa Barbara and saw a man walking down Main Street with a Dog with a coat on with a cat laying in its back and a rat sitting on the cat eating a piece of apple. Nobody turned a hair but us....gawping GrinGrinGrin
Further down the street was a man dressed up like a cross between Jesus and Moses....all loin cloth, crown of thorns and the like but holding large fake " biblical tablets" he was haranguing the passers by in their cars shouting about Jesus and that the end was near & they were all sinners....it was quite surreal. And took some explaining to my fascinated young DD GrinGrinGrin

masterofthechef · 03/04/2021 00:40

2 teens taking rabbits on leashes for a walk in the local park.

naked couple having sex at the top of a scottish munro in the rain

PurpleRainDancer · 03/04/2021 00:41

@DustyMaiden

A donkey in the frozen food shop.
I thought it was Tesco’s caught doing that?Shock
IHaveBrilloHair · 03/04/2021 00:41

Another Indonesian one, (I've been a few times)
I went to a wedding once, there was a big parade which we had to follow in the car to get parked.
Once we got there we were ushered into a side room full of food, we ate loads, then left again and that was it.
There was a Swiss guy with us and the two of us had no idea what had just happenedConfused

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DahliaMacNamara · 03/04/2021 00:43

A French butcher's with stuffed non-edible wildlife in the shop window, Think a fox, a badger, a squirrel. Maybe it's a traditional thing, I dunno. I don't eat meat.

HarrietSchulenberg · 03/04/2021 01:09

The Household Cavalry galloping across the road in front of me, with gun carriages and everything, one December morning. They literally sounded like thunder and the horses' harnesses shone. The riders were in ordinary army greens, not the dress uniforms you see on TV parades, and the traffic had to stop to let them stream past.

3 middle aged nuns giggling and eating ice creams outside Madame Tussauds.

A group of bedouins on camels appear from the desert at sunset and stop at a roadside tent to drink tea.

HarrietSchulenberg · 03/04/2021 01:11

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.

Mintyflesh · 03/04/2021 01:17

I once saw a group of cows in a circle all licking something on the ground. It was a disposable barbecue.

SealSong · 03/04/2021 01:18

Good thread!

Stroller15 · 03/04/2021 01:21

On a Scottish Island, I once saw a cow walking around with a trampoline on top of her.

Susannahmoody · 03/04/2021 01:27

A homeless man eating a raw pork chop. He just ripped open the plastic packaging and took a bite

EvilOnion · 03/04/2021 01:30

A group of running Nuns - full habit and trainers on. We passed them regularly, can't be an easy task!:

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