Page 10 | To ask your most WTF moments

latheritup · 2020-09-03T11:17:17+00:00

We went to the zoo recently and was walking down to the tiger enclosure. We saw a man had jumped over the fence into the greenery to retrieve his glasses that 'fell off' and subsequently the tigers all came to the front of their enclosure. I can't think why he wouldn't ask a zookeeper to safely get them or was he just trying to get the tigers closer for a better pic?! Either way my face was [shock] I've attached a wonderful diagram. Very proud of it [grin]

ShaunaTheSheep · 04/09/2020 08:56

I was staying over at a friend’s house , and was woken up In the small hours by what sounded like cows mooing. Opened the curtains to see a herd of cows ambling down the suburban street.

I thought I’d dreamt it but no, the street was dotted with cow pats in the morning.

sueelleker · 04/09/2020 08:58

@BlueJave @alladinzane that made me laugh - I used to live in China and had several such moments! That reminds me of a story I read once; someone had a lovely garment that had been torn and mended, so they decided to get a replacement made while in China. The finished article was beautiful; complete with fake darn!

sueelleker · 04/09/2020 09:01

@longtimemarried Could have been worse, he could have showed you where the operation was. I had a bunion removed some years ago, and my foot looked quite gruesome for a while afterwards.

SquatBetty · 04/09/2020 09:31

Saw pigeons taking the district line Tube in London years ago. I was sitting by the door and they hopped on at Paddington, pecked around at crumbs on the floor and then hopped off when the doors opened at Edgware Rd.

More recently I was in Llandudno and saw a man wearing an old fashioned soldier/sea captain uniform (black hat, red jacket with gold braid) pushing a pushchair on the promenade and later on the pier with a toy monkey in it and a speaker blasting out music. Am guessing he was a local eccentric - he looked very happy!

rainwaterflow · 04/09/2020 09:32

Yesterday I was standing on the green outside my house and a small boy was throwing a ball around and his animal friend was chasing and catching it.

His animal friend was a wild squirrel.

tarasharp · 04/09/2020 09:48

I wear a partial denture and one of the teeth at the side, but visible when I spoke broke off. Rather than get it repaired I asked the dentist, (different one as had moved town) to make me a new denture. The old one, besides having the missing tooth was also badly fitting. Had all the X-rays, impressions done etc, then the big day arrived, the new denture was ready. Put the new denture in my mouth, handed me a mirror and the new denture had a gap the same as the old one. I said “but there’s a missing tooth”......to which she replied “well your other one was the same”. . She actually couldn’t understand why I was upset.

CharityDingle · 04/09/2020 09:52

I'm trying to think where I saw this at the weekend. A guy standing by the side of a busy road, with fast moving traffic, playing music. Nobody in the traffic would have been able to slow down to hear or enjoy it, but he looked perfectly happy nonetheless.

''Twas kinda sweet, but slightly wtf.

Zaphodsotherhead · 04/09/2020 10:10

We had a...somewhat deranged small cat.

One day I threw out a raw chicken that had been in the fridge for too long and was starting to smell - I popped it outside in the wheelie bin. Didn't bother to wrap it as binmen were coming the next day.

Deranged small cat managed to get into the wheelie bin, drag out the off chicken and devour the entire carcass. It was approximately the same size and weight as him, but he ate the whole thing. He went completely round, curled up under a hay bale and slept for about two days, then came out as if nothing had happened.

I was very WTF about that. I mean - just HOW?!

sueelleker · 04/09/2020 10:11

@tarasharp I hope you didn't pay for it?

BalloonSlayer · 04/09/2020 10:19

Love the thought of the completely round cat.

sashh · 04/09/2020 10:24

Driving down the on road to the M6 toll - a van coming the wrong way and the driver gave me a look as if I was in the wrong.

Sitting in the passenger seat while my boyfriend was driving in a town in Wales, there was some sort of carnival on, we stopped at a traffic light (windows open, no AC) and loads of locals threw chicken bones in the car.

A couple of weeks ago sitting in the garden chatting to my carer, a pigeon just fell out of the sky, hit the shed roof and 'landed' dead on the floor.

We discussed whether it was the start of the apocalypse or the cat had developed psychic powers.

A couple of days later my carer had to remove a pigeon from my bedroom, it was just walking around on my bed.

Onn the M6 I saw a car pulling a small trailer complete with spitfire (the wings had been removed and were also on the trailer).

Sat in the hairdresser's having my hair chopped and a man walked in and asked the hairdresser to stop the demons following him.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 04/09/2020 10:26

I overtook a steam train on the A1 once.
I recently saw a plane at the petrol station.

I'm not hallucinating!

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 04/09/2020 10:28

ILast summer as I watched the guns/artillery pieces being loaded on to flatbeds, I did think they could give a few people a bit of a shock as they drove across Europe (Germany to Salisbury).

ShaunaTheSheep · 04/09/2020 10:39

I was driving alongside the river in Richmond and ran over a fish

MrsCattywampus · 04/09/2020 10:53

So many old men hitting things with sticks! I was once at an outdoor table at a cafe in the Yorkshire dales, very lovely and bucolic. The garden had a drystone wall around it and at one point a random duck from the stream nearby hopped up and stood on the wall. Not a problem! But a raging old man with a walking stick got up spluttering and went over and brandished the stick at the duck, attempting to twat it one until it quickly flew away, shouting "Gerraway with yer! Gerroff!" as if it was a dangerous dog attacking us or something.

My granddad used to go for a walk every day and angrily hit nettles with his stick in a completely pointless way.

I wonder if it's just a need some old men have!

Serenity45 · 04/09/2020 10:59

Slightly hung over many years ago walking to the shop for Sunday snacks...cue a unicyclist going past on a very busy main road in Birmingham. Honestly thought I'd been spiked or something it was so random

Hoppinggreen · 04/09/2020 11:09

Last week I was crossing the road and passed a man wearing a red MAG hat and a tshirt with a photo of Trump on it and something about “making Liberals cry”.
We are in Yorkshire

OscarWildesCat · 04/09/2020 11:21

Guy came into my work the other day wearing what looked like a sort of mesh oxygen tank on his back with padded straps, as he got closer, I realised it was a cage, complete with huge African grey parrot in in, I said to him, confused, “is that a parrot in your bag?”, he looked at me like I was mad and said, “yeah?” like it was completely normal to walk around with a parrot in a cage strapped to your back!.

GabsAlot · 04/09/2020 11:46

@SquatBetty

Saw pigeons taking the district line Tube in London years ago. I was sitting by the door and they hopped on at Paddington, pecked around at crumbs on the floor and then hopped off when the doors opened at Edgware Rd.

More recently I was in Llandudno and saw a man wearing an old fashioned soldier/sea captain uniform (black hat, red jacket with gold braid) pushing a pushchair on the promenade and later on the pier with a toy monkey in it and a speaker blasting out music. Am guessing he was a local eccentric - he looked very happy!

i used to live in london that happened quite alot i also saw a cat once

InvincibleInvisibility · 04/09/2020 11:53

In an office in a very built up business area joined to Paris: looked out the window to see a load of sheep grazing on the lawn. Next bit of lawn down had goats... then a sheep escaped and a man chased it down the pavement.

Very WTF until a colleague explained it was an environmentally friendly way of cutting the grass. Have seen it many times now and still do a double-take.

Elledouble · 04/09/2020 11:55

@SquatBetty

Saw pigeons taking the district line Tube in London years ago. I was sitting by the door and they hopped on at Paddington, pecked around at crumbs on the floor and then hopped off when the doors opened at Edgware Rd.

More recently I was in Llandudno and saw a man wearing an old fashioned soldier/sea captain uniform (black hat, red jacket with gold braid) pushing a pushchair on the promenade and later on the pier with a toy monkey in it and a speaker blasting out music. Am guessing he was a local eccentric - he looked very happy!

SquatBetty you have encountered the Monkey Man! He moved from near where I live in Birmingham but still pops up occasionally to make people smile. A bit of a local legend!

Pet8 · 04/09/2020 12:28

A having a conversation with a toaster on the bus

BalloonSlayer · 04/09/2020 12:54

Driving over the south downs, pretty deserted roads, DH burst out laughing as the car that had just gone past was driven by a clown.

What really made us laugh was imagining if we had had some collision, and saying "well we were just driving along minding our own business when some clown pulled out of a junction . . ."

sallyshirt · 04/09/2020 13:06

@Lollyneenah

Attended a scene recently (ambulance) where during a brawl;

Lad 1 had managed to stab himself with the knife he was brandishing at Lad 2.
Lad 2 had broken his own leg attempting to kick Lad 1.
Their joint girlfriend (!) Was stood between the two of them trying to comfort both 😂

That is amazing!

PanamaPattie · 04/09/2020 13:17

Walking through Piccadilly, I observed a gentleman just a few yards ahead of me, pause, shake his right trouser leg to allow two fat turds to roll into the gutter. He then carried on walking. 🤢