Strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?

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Weeing doesn't count! Far too common.

I just came out of Asda and walked by a car with a woman chucking back scoops of Cow and Gate powder!

I thought in my head that can't be right, maybe she's suspicious parenting and testing to see if it's okay.

Saw her doing the same again when I drove off. Just taking scoops and eating them!

What's the strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?

A man running across the streets of Manchester in his underpants holding his clothes and a cat on a lead.. this was very early evening and he looked panicked?!

Oh and a woman came into where I worked years ago with a glove laid on top her head saying “ignore me I’m simply a passenger”

I might be one of these strange people.

I regularly walk around with my cat perched on my shoulder. In my defence, she follows me on the walk to DDs nursery and then is usually so saddened by the loss of her favorite person for the day that she decides she can't walk, climbs up me, and perches mournfully until we get home.

A number of cars have definitely slowed down as they pass me... I think it doesn't help that I'm quite short and she is large and fluffy and ginger

@StormInAGinGlass

Oh and a woman came into where I worked years ago with a glove laid on top her head saying “ignore me I’m simply a passenger”

What 🤣🤣

As PP said ive also seen a woman pushing a pram around my local area with two dolls in, she’s middle aged and it does feel very sad.

I saw someone light a disposable barbecue on the beach at Robin Hoods Bay as the tide was coming in once. People were already coming up off the beach & onto the wall & rocks at the top of the beach, ice cream van had packed up & gone to the access road to leave for the day, etc.

This man, followed by his partner & a couple of kids, lit it up, burgers, sausages etc. His GF didn’t seem to be in favour of the operation but He Knew What He Was Doing. A few people spotted what was going on… the tide crept in. He pulled the tray back a couple of times. People started to comment. Eventually he was sitting on the rocks & couldn’t pull it back any further. The sea lapped at the foil but didn’t put it out yet. His GF & kids had long since abandoned him by this point. People were openly cheering him on, by now he was swearing. Eventually the waves claimed it, floated it out a little way with a few of the coals still lit & some of the meat still on, but a wave soon flipped it over & the fish got an unexpected surprise lunch.

They always have a notice by the slipway with the latest tide times.

@Houseofvelour yeah that was an odd one I worked in retail at the time, we thought we had seen it all

Yorkshire terrier in a denim jacket being pushed on a shopping trolley around fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco

I have family in Liverpool and when I used to visit there was an old man of about 80 who would rollerblade through the small town centre. He would almost knock you over and was quite a fiesty old menace. Just gone to google him in hopes of a photo and found he was banned from doing it but returned!

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rollerblading-pensioner-who-banned-town-12569285

not sure where the word small came from, was just a town centre :)

I didn't see it myself, but my FIL encountered a local 'character' sleeping overnight in the charity clothes bank when he went to donate some old clothes. I suppose, if you're going to do that, it's a much wiser choice than the bottle bank!

Also, dear old Frank Robinson who used to hop around with a big grin on his face and bash at play his kiddy's toy xylophone in Nottingham city centre every day. There's a commemorative stone to him there, now that he's no longer with us.

A woman at the next table in a cafe ordering spaghetti and pouring it straight into her handbag when it arrived.

Last week saw a man with what looked like a small dog in a dog jacket on his knee ( he was sitting outside an organic shop)… turns out the animal wasn’t a dog but a teeny tiny goat they looked very happy and cosy together !

Loads of weirdos in Manchester it seems!
I saw a woman in the Trafford Center pushing a pram with a reborn doll in it a couple of weeks ago, like it was a totally normal thing to do.
We have a guy locally who rides a unicycle everywhere, he also stupidly rides it down the dual carriageway and he’s caused a few near misses.
I work in retail, I could go on all day about the crazy things I see.

You said no weeing, but I once was sat in a beer garden and a man at the table next to us was sitting down, pulled out his penis and proceeded to aim his pee into his mouth and around his face. Was a dare apparently! My DH knows him through his friend who is mouth pissers brother, and says he has form for gross stunts like that after a few drinks.

Also so someone pushing a monkey around in clothes and a trolley in a shopping mall - that wasn't in the UK though, unsurprisingly.

A man with a parrot on his shoulder walking towards his car. The parrot was a bit squawky and seemed rattled and then the guy says “you can just stop it RIGHT NOW. We’re already heading back because of YOUR behaviour”. They were like an angry old married couple.

Another one here for wanking. It was some weirdo in the local park a few years back within view of children playing aswell. Said weirdo was reported to the police. I don't think police bothered to come out though at the time as he was seen doing the same again a couple of weeks later.

@Mybestusername

A woman driver stopped at traffic lights, playing a penny whistle

was this in northern ireland by any chance?

@Brollypackedforscottishholiday

A woman wearing a tartan dress in a wheelchair sporting a huge ginger beard...

The wheelchair had a beard??

Not me but my Mum once saw a pig half leaning out of an upstairs bedroom window of big house local to her. It was just looking around and looked quite at ease. It was in Wales.

I think some people might have considered seeing me and my DP driving down the bypass with a sheep in the back of our VW golf a bit weird. A lot of the drivers overtaking us certainly did a double take.

I am very intrigued by the man taking his enormous python for a walk around a city centre.

We used to live near a man who had x country skis with wheels on. You'd see him wearing lycra, snow goggles, and speeding along the B roads at a fantastic speed early in the morning

he's got a competitor!

As a kid in south London we lived in a block of flats. Regularly saw a man in a Wild West hat riding a piebald horse. Like out of a western movie only deep in the heart of a really built up area of Tulse Hill.

I am very intrigued by the man taking his enormous python for a walk around a city centre.

One of my teachers at secondary school used to have a pet python. He had an old suitcase (with air holes in it), into which he used to put the python and transport it when necessary, strapped on to a rack on the back of his motorbike. Once, the straps came loose and he realised that everybody was staring at him open-mouthed, he looked backwards and saw the python rising up out of the open suitcase as if it were being charmed

@greenflamingo

A man with a parrot on his shoulder walking towards his car. The parrot was a bit squawky and seemed rattled and then the guy says “you can just stop it RIGHT NOW. We’re already heading back because of YOUR behaviour”. They were like an angry old married couple.