To ask your most WTF moments

[latheritup]

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

I've attached a wonderful diagram. Very proud of it

@BalloonSlayer

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 . . .

This has made me laugh out loud

They came, they visited, they left...

@Dontbugmemalone

I was once walking through a very wide street in town, it was early morning so not that busy (relevant). There was plenty of space for everyone. Out of nowhere, I felt my feet being what I thought was being grabbed strongly, it really hurt and I started to panic. I turned around to see what was happening and someone who was pushing another person in a wheelchair had decided to run me over! My feet were dragged under the wheelchair and I ended up on the ground like a worm. They both just carried on like nothing had happened. If weren't for my relatives almost wetting themselves with laughter witnessing this bizarre incident, I might have thought it was imaginary.

Omg, I have just laughed at this for about 15 minutes, my sides are sore with laughter.. truly wtaf moment 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for cheering up my dull Friday lol

@RoyalChocolat

When I was a teenager, my mother was driving me to town. On the side of the (busy) road, a man was walking. He was carrying a huge wooden cross on his back, it must have been nearly 10ft tall. There was a little wheel at the bottom of the cross, so that he didn't have to drag it.

I think that guy's still around Gloucester - I've certainly seen him on the Oxbode!

I am probably someone’s wtf moment
In London walking down the busy street with my husband,I fell over (start of ms) a lovely suited and booted businessman helped get me up,he must have put his newspaper on floor to help. Only after we’d thanked him and he’d gone did I realise I’d punched his Financial Times

^*pinched

@tillytoodles1

The tigers are behind another fence though, so not that dangerous as he didn't actually go over to them.

Depends on when it was and other fencing used but they would have been able to get a paw through in the fencing we used at the zoo I worked at 20 years ago

I've just remembered another one. A friend was having a 30th birthday pub crawl with the theme of 'super heroes'. She was super girl, I was She-Ra, another friend was Wonder Woman etc. Anyway, Wonder Woman and I live close so decided to get to the first pub together in a taxi. As the taxi pulled up and we got out the police were tasering a rowdy customer at that exact spot, the timing was perfect, it was like we been sent for. The other customers' faces were a picture, we almost felt obliged to help restrain him!

We went on a family trip to the zoo just as zoos reopened after lockdown. There was a woman aged about 65 (not that it matters), bra less. That’d be bra less under a string vest, a string vest with BIG holes. Not only were her nipples on full display they were actually protruding through the holes...and some way down her stomach at that. Each to their own but a zoo, full of kids. WTAF?!

@Picoloangel I wonder if she's from Glastonbury? DH and I still talk about the woman we saw wearing a fishnet (large holes not small ones) body stocking over absolutely nothing there about 15 years ago!

@Aud there can’t be more than one 😱 surely?!

Having been a teacher for 25 years plus, I have a LOT.

My favourite, however, was waiting to cross the road. A van came past, with 'It's Andy the Clown' written on the bonnet. The guy driving it - Andy, I presume - was in full clown get up, including red nose and wig...

On my 30th birthday, ended up as part of a murder investigation, that was a bit of WTF situation.

@managedmis

Was in a restaurant and saw a bloke walk past, rip open a raw packet of pork chops and start eating them

Lived abroad and flatmate had a boyfriend. We all went out in a big gang. I went to bed alone. Woke up next to the boyfriend. He was really pissed and had obviously got in the wrong bed. Told him to bugger off next door to mates room. Next morning I woke up and his watch was next to my bed! On my way to work I threw it in a bin. No way I need to explain to flatmate he'd been in my bedroom, even if it was innocent! Gets home that night, flatmate is saying her boyfs devastated, he's lost his mega expensive watch!

You could have just left it on the side in the kitchen. No need to throw it away.

Saw this on a very busy road, no passengers made me laugh

16 on a school art trip to Paris. We are in a coach driving round the Arc de Triomphe which is completely insane with cars driving from the centre straight across us to their exit without caring that we are in a fucking big coach. I look out the window at a man in a small car next to us. I'm wondering what he has in his hand....then realise he is having a wank! He looks up at the coach and smiles although I'm fairly sure he couldn't see us as we had tinted windows. I yell 'That man is having a wank!' so everyone on the other side of the coach runs over to take a look!

We were in jersey last week and had to stop the car as a family of chickens were crossing the road. The 6 year old thought it was hilarious

@AudTheDeepMinded Like Del and Rodney as Batman and Robin?

@sueelleker, yes exactly! Although what we actually did was slink past as unobtrusively as possible (not very then) to get in to the door. I still pee myself laughing thinking about it now, it was so surreal!

There have been many over the years. However, OP your post reminded me of being in the monkey area at London Zoo. A bloke climbed on the wooden outer fence to get a better photo of the monkeys. As he was leaning over, one of the monkeys (with lightning speed) reached through the bars and grabbed the phone out of his hand. Luckily as he tried to pull the phone through the bars it dropped to the ground. By this time all of the monkeys were very excited and really wanted the phone, they kept pulling at it while the bloke tried to reach it. They got the case off it and ran off to inspect it so the bloke climbed over the outer fence. This caused the monkeys to become very aggressive and try to grab him. He quickly climbed back and eventually retrieved his phone by dragging it closer with a stick.
One more. When DS was 4 we went to Cyprus. It was really hot so we decided to use the indoor pool for a swim to keep out of the sun for a bit. DS said he needed a wee, so DH told him to do it in the pool. Couple of minutes later, there's DS - standing on the side of the pool merrily pissing into it! Thank god we chose the indoor pool because we were the only ones there!

After a few cocktails at a local bar/ restaurant a couple of elderly ladies stood up, flung off their cardis and created a dance floor amongst the diners. Next thing a dwarf jumped on a table and joined in. That was definitely a ‘how many cocktails have I had moment’.

@harls69 ha, similar experience with DS by the side of the road needing a pee 'Yes, do it there by the hedge and be discrete'. I notice a few seconds later he has his BUM in the hedge and is merrily pissing out towards the passing cars. We had a bit of a chat about the meaning of 'discrete' after that.

Mir91

Yep, there is nothing like a real Irish Funeral. They are rarely very sad occasions, a celebration of life well lived, when the deceased has had a good life.

Country folk in Ireland have missed all that during Covid. It was always a time to mingle and gossip and laugh and all that. But that's all gone for the foreseeable now. Thanks for your lovely comment.

tillytoddles

5 keepers have died at Port Lymne and Howletts between 1980 and 2000.

Years ago at work in a kitchen showroom, walked round to find a woman potty training her kid inside one of the display kitchen sinks. As I went to speak to her she then tipped contents into sink and tried to turn on the tap.