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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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alphajuliet123 · 03/04/2021 01:35

Also on a bus in far flung Indonesia - when the bus pulled up it had loads of live chickens on the roof rack. And at the stop after ours a man squeezed on with two big pigs.

Same town, different bus - disco lights and super loud rave music. Crazy place.

OhShitShit · 03/04/2021 01:35

A man walking down the road in seven sisters holding a live squirrel by the tail/legs.

A man clearly just using it as his everyday bike, (dressed in normal clothes) falling off a penny farthing on the corner of Homerton High Street.

Walking into my house and finding someone else’s stuff- and someone else’s personage- had moved in while I was on holiday, and they’d left their Chinese takeaway in cartons in the space where my fridge used to be. (Squatters. Was very odd).

A terrapin riding the bloated corpse of a fox down regents canal.

I could go on.

I miss London.

DishingOutDone · 03/04/2021 01:42

A man struggling with a cat spreadeagled across his steering wheel, whilst doing 50mph.

Why are so many of these animal related?

CockneyCutie · 03/04/2021 02:33

Last summer, my 4 year old German Shepherd dog running away from a furious blackbird! She was covered in bits of feather so it looked like there had been a ‘scuffle’ ... and she had lost! Very subdued for several days afterwards😁

LeeluTheNarwhal · 03/04/2021 02:40

A guinea fowl walking down my old street in a town in Scotland.

picknmix1984 · 03/04/2021 03:04

I once saw a pelican eat a pigeon. That was shocking.

I once saw a baby rat and a magpie having a fight outside my closed gp practice. The rat was getting attacked so I stepped in to rescue it. Not sure why really I just couldn't stand by.

OnSecondThoughts · 03/04/2021 03:05

There's a pair of towns or villages somewhere near Hungerford called Upper Bedwyn and Lower Bedwyn. I can't remember which one of them it was, but I once walked through it and it just gave me a creepy feeling, like something wasn't quite right about the place. First there was a house with a huge "mock gravestone" in the front garden with a horrible "epitaph" engraved on it, such as "here lies ghastly Jim, his rotten soul be damned". Further along the street a huge water fountain started up as we walked by it, and then on another street with basement-level rooms there was this man with a shiny bald head and piercing eyes who stared right at us from his window, he looked like something out of the Addams Family!
Thinking back it was all probably nothing, but you know how sometimes little things can add up and give you the creeps about a place. I remember just feeling "I've got to get away from this strange town".

Oh yes, there was also "the three strange dogs" (a separate incident). I'm going to have to think about how to describe that one and come back later (but another person saw it too, it wasn't just in my head).

dustydaffs · 03/04/2021 03:10

A wanking walrus

ivelostmymarbles · 03/04/2021 03:25

Oh gosh these all made me giggle at this time of night. Thanks for the thread op.

Mine are-

A woman shaving her legs on the tube.

A woman set up a mini office on a rush hour train which included her laptop with a floral mouse pad and scanner and printer.

A fight on a number 30 bus years and years ago where a group were fighting each other on the top deck and the driver just stopped the bus. The group was about to run downstairs to get off the bus and the bus driver got out and caught them halfway up the stairs. The group then ran back up stairs shouting "oh shit it's the driver, run back run back" where they were all pushing and shoving each other in all directions and a two of the blokes actually tumbled down the stairs with the driver. Everything felt in slow motion.

A woman pushing a pushchair full of fake dolls on the high st.

A man eating a whole rotisserie chicken on the train.

I commuted a lot in my days and you see all sorts. I'll come back with more when I remember Grin

ivelostmymarbles · 03/04/2021 03:27

A fox crossing the pedestrian lights but actually waited for the lights to turn red. I was on the opposite side waiting for a bus.

ivelostmymarbles · 03/04/2021 03:28

Lights to turn red for the traffic and green for the fox. I guess it was probably waiting for the cars to stop but it made me watch with an open mouth.

1forAll74 · 03/04/2021 03:40

A few years ago, when there seemed to be no rules in one particular Co-op. A man with Two parrots on his shoulder , He was walking around getting his food and stuff,and every time he got something off a shelf, he said, right guys,weetabix next, sugar next beans next, etc, and each time, the parrots said the exact same things,, I think they were the African grey parrots, who are good talkers..so everyone in the shop where laughing their head off,

OnSecondThoughts · 03/04/2021 04:15

So, the three strange dogs...
First, you know when you look out your window at night and you see the shape of an animal in the darkness. After a few seconds you'll realise whether it's a cat or a dog by the way it moves, as dogs/cats have their own way of moving, their whole body language etc. If you saw a dog that was jumping like a kangaroo you'd think "that's all WRONG! What's the matter with it".
So, one day at work I looked out the window to the car park and I saw three dogs, labradors I think. They were walking slowly, purposefully, one behind the other in a line. No tails wagging, not looking from side to side, not getting distracted by anything or being curious about anything, just slowly walking in a line. They walked as if they were three old men in a funeral procession with a coffin in front of them. They weren't on leads and no-one was with them. They just continued their slow, ponderous funeral march in a straight line until they were out of sight. Their whole body language was just so...not dog. I watched them in a daze, and then went into a colleague's room next door and said "did you see that?" She did, and was just as gobsmacked as me. It was just an utterly odd thing to see. My only theory was they might be police sniffer dogs, trained to follow a scent, but I've never seen anything like it on TV. To this day it puzzles me.

Mollymalone123 · 03/04/2021 07:23

I saw a man riding his bike with his pet parrot on his shoulder- he was going quite fast too 😂 went for a walk and saw a man dressed as a court jester talking on his mobile phone in a field 😂 took a photo of that one! Quite often see two identical twins in their car with a few sheep on the back seat 😂 tbf I’ve seen a few sheep in cars round here ( rural Devon)

Mollymalone123 · 03/04/2021 07:27

I forgot this one! Went to drawer bedroom curtains- it was New Year’s Eve years ago- looked up and saw Batman and Robin chasing after a car- it was just like seeing Delboy and Rodney 😂 from that Obly fools and horses episode- they caught up with the car and jumped- it was hilarious- keep playing the theme tune in mhh the head whenever I think of it.My bf also saw a random white peacock strutting ahead of her on a housing estate and just walked off and disappeared. A driver stopped her and said ‘did you see that?’ 😂

Onedropbeat · 03/04/2021 07:59

@OnSecondThoughts

There's a pair of towns or villages somewhere near Hungerford called Upper Bedwyn and Lower Bedwyn. I can't remember which one of them it was, but I once walked through it and it just gave me a creepy feeling, like something wasn't quite right about the place. First there was a house with a huge "mock gravestone" in the front garden with a horrible "epitaph" engraved on it, such as "here lies ghastly Jim, his rotten soul be damned". Further along the street a huge water fountain started up as we walked by it, and then on another street with basement-level rooms there was this man with a shiny bald head and piercing eyes who stared right at us from his window, he looked like something out of the Addams Family! Thinking back it was all probably nothing, but you know how sometimes little things can add up and give you the creeps about a place. I remember just feeling "I've got to get away from this strange town".

Oh yes, there was also "the three strange dogs" (a separate incident). I'm going to have to think about how to describe that one and come back later (but another person saw it too, it wasn't just in my head).

It sounds like the local stonemasons of great Bedwyn were know for their unusual / amusing inscriptions on gravestones

www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Great%20Bedwyn/Great%20Bedwyn%20-%20Lloyds,%20Monumental%20Sculptors.pdf

cricketmum84 · 03/04/2021 08:02

A woman on Skegness seafront pushing a buggy. It had a massive rabbit in it!

whoknows2 · 03/04/2021 08:16

I once saw a seagull swallow a gammon steak whole and then it couldn't take off to fly because it was too heavy. Kept crashing!

Also, a monkey at the zoo having a good time with its hand then eating the end result.

Speach · 03/04/2021 08:16

A squirrel on a bin eating a slice of pizza at centre parcs 😂

Alakazam8 · 03/04/2021 08:18

At a train station on way to a ski village in South Korea. We had to change trains in the smallest, sleepiest village and had a little time to look round.
We were waiting to get tickets for onward journey I think. In front of us were two Ajummas (sp) (which is how older ladies are described there, think it means something like Grandma and is a term of respect, they were always treated with utmost respect by younger people) they were around 70/80 at a guess.
They had been talking quite loudly which isn’t unusual but suddenly began a full on fight, screaming, slapping, hair pulling and rolling on the floor. Had to be separated by station staff!

ShipshapeShore · 03/04/2021 08:28

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.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 03/04/2021 08:33

I live in Cambridge and we used to have an eccentric character called Snowy Farr. He would stand in the city centre wearing a weird uniform and he had a top hat. Around the brim of the hat he had three white mice, and a cat whish sat on too of the hat. He played a one man band set up, and whilst he played the mice would run around the brim of the hat. He would occasionally pick up a mouse and pop iy into his mouth for a few seconds with the tail hanging out, and then return it to the hat.

He collected money for Guide Dogs and donated thousands of pounds. When he died, the City Council had a statue of him put in the market square.

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ShouldHaveCouldHaveWouldHave · 03/04/2021 08:37

There’s a man round my way who rides a Penny Farthing, see him a lot.

Saw a man on a normal bike once who had on a short skirt and suspenders which isn’t that unusual I suppose but it was in Gerrards Cross! This sort of thing is not common in GX.

And a man at about 2am in London running full pelt alongside the Thames, dressed as a superhero.

Heatherjayne1972 · 03/04/2021 08:41

There’s Clearly quite a number of parrot owners who take their birds out and about
I saw our local ‘man with a parrot on his shoulder’ in b+m not long ago

CongealedCrags · 03/04/2021 08:42

A creme egg car. Like, a car in the shape and colour of a massive creme egg.

A baby in church with drawn on eyebrows.

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