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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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Cakeonthefloor · 03/04/2021 08:49

A man catching a seagull with his fishing rod of Brighton Pier. He had to wind it in like a fish. He unhooked it and it flew off.

A normal duck eating a medium sized, living trout. It just grabbed it out the stream and swallowed it whole.

A man climbing on top of the eros statue in picadilly circus while being chased by the police.

LudoBear · 03/04/2021 08:59

Pre covid, a man near me used to walk his giant tortoise to the pub. Saw him few times.. in the same town, you often see a woman walking her cat.

cricketmum84 · 03/04/2021 09:34

@LudoBear

Pre covid, a man near me used to walk his giant tortoise to the pub. Saw him few times.. in the same town, you often see a woman walking her cat.
We walk our cat 😳😳😳
mineofuselessinformation · 03/04/2021 09:41

A monk on a mobility scooter riding through a crowd full pelt.

GameSetMatch · 03/04/2021 10:09

In Tunisia, whole family’s riding on a moped, Dad driving, Mum behind then children holding on where they can!

GameSetMatch · 03/04/2021 10:13

Oh I thought of another, there used to be a guy who took an eagle for a walk on his arm, I thought it was so odd, my dog went ballistic every time we saw him.

Turns out the eagle works at the airport scaring the birds away but it like to go to the local park sometimes so they had to retrieve it.

Ikeatears · 03/04/2021 10:33

The cat man in New York...

The weirdest thing you've seen.
Judashascomeintosomemoney · 03/04/2021 10:37

A dog sitting in a motorcycle sidecar. Wearing goggles.

toffeebutterpopcorn · 03/04/2021 10:38

Saw a man waiting in a queue (nightclub) wearing chaps... nothing underneath them 😱 It wasn’t a pretty sight...

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 03/04/2021 10:40

I was on the DLR with a friend after a slightly tipsy lunch about 15 years ago and I saw Orlando Bloom, that Brazilian football player with the buck teeth and someone else famous who I've now forgotten. They were in the same part of the carriage but not exactly together. I was trying to stare without staring but Orlando saw me and smiled back at me. Either two glasses of wine had made me hallucinate or they were all working for a look-alike agency. They all got off at Canary Wharf and I asked my friend if she'd noticed too but she hadn't even looked at them.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 03/04/2021 10:42

Im sure ive seen stranger but the one that springs to mind was my cat and a crow fighting in my garden over a rabbit, it was so bizarre.

FortunesFavour · 03/04/2021 10:45

At around 5.30am one summer morning I heard a jaunty toot toot and looked at my window to see dozens of horses trotting down my West London street with soldiers (household cavalry?) at either end escorting them. They were having their early morning exercise around the streets before everyone woke up. Thought I was dreaming! Wonderful sight.

EvilEdna1 · 03/04/2021 10:45

A zebra eating a dead pigeon in a zoo.

toffeebutterpopcorn · 03/04/2021 10:46

@FortunesFavour

At around 5.30am one summer morning I heard a jaunty toot toot and looked at my window to see dozens of horses trotting down my West London street with soldiers (household cavalry?) at either end escorting them. They were having their early morning exercise around the streets before everyone woke up. Thought I was dreaming! Wonderful sight.
They used to regularly trot outside our flat - it looked like they were train them as there was always a couple of skittish ones. I haven’t seen them for a while as I’m not leaving for work in the mornings (just the poo!).
FortunesFavour · 03/04/2021 10:50

You lucky thing toffee (although not so much regarding the poo!). I only ever saw them once and it felt v surreal.

Cocolapew · 03/04/2021 10:55

In the French Quarter in New Orleans, a very tall, must have been 6'5" (without heels) bloke dressed in very high shoes and a negligee with a long, down past his kness, scarf. As he draw closer I realised the scarf was actually a massive snake.
Probably a boa 😂

Chocolateismakingmefat · 03/04/2021 11:06

As a dc I went by coach to visit my friend's dgm with her. Every trip a blind man was assisted onto the bus with his cane and dark glasses on. He always sat at the back.
Where he took off his specs and read a book the whole journey!
A man round our way rides a unicycle on the single carriageway roads (60ph cars flying past!)
Also saw a man walking in tortoise en route to his Scotland holiday a few years ago
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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/04/2021 11:17

The three that come to mind...

  • a steam locomotive on the A1 (on the back of a truck)
  • a cat using a zebra crossing. The cars stopped for it.
  • a light aircraft at the petrol station.
Icequeen01 · 03/04/2021 11:18

Driving home from a party one night with DH when a kangaroo hopped out into the road. We stopped the car and it just sat there looking at us. We live in Kent so not an everyday event. Funniest thing was phoning the police "well Officer, we were just driving home from a party and there is this kangaroo in the road" 😂😂

TwoTypesOfStock · 03/04/2021 11:34

Once eating lunch in Thailand. Suddenly, it started raining, mist swept down from the hills behind us and hundreds of frogs (or toads) hopped into the restaurant through the open doors.

Arbadacarba · 03/04/2021 11:44

A masturbating tortoise - it was our family tortoise and he used to do it regularly after his lady companion died. His erect penis would come out of his tail and he'd rub it on the grass until he ejaculated.

He is still alive and must be about 50 years old now - I don't know if he still masturbates, though.

NoseOfJericho · 03/04/2021 11:49

A man wearing a ferret round his shoulders. Smelled him before I saw him though. (I don't mean I went up and sniffed him).

Someone waiting to cross a busy road, wearing a horse's head.

TroysMammy · 03/04/2021 11:53

A man wearing nothing but a pair of trainers, glasses and a rucksack marching down a main road at about 12.30 at night.

NoseOfJericho · 03/04/2021 11:53

A restaurant in Spain, a huge barn type place that served simple spit cooked type food on big platters, rustic.

Place was full, at lunch time, and suddenly everyone cheered and some stood up and clapped. Then they all sat and resumed eating.

The reason - big rats running across the floor.

We just sat there watching, and also continued eating.

TroysMammy · 03/04/2021 11:54

Also an owl sitting in a tree by Costa. His owner was having a coffee outside.

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