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latheritup · 03/09/2020 12:17

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

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DemiBourbon · 03/09/2020 14:47

@AllPlayedOut I just had an actual physical reaction to that! Horrific!

joeysapple · 03/09/2020 14:49

@weneedboujiecocktails

I was once driving a convertible and going down a really narrow road very slowly, an elderly man hit me on the head with his walking stick. To this day I still laugh and think WTF. Was he thinking!!
This has absolutely KILLED. ME. 🤣
Mochudhu · 03/09/2020 14:50

A one-legged man riding a bicycle, one hand on handlebars and the other using his crutch to push the offside pedal. I thought it was rather ingenious.

A man dressed as a giraffe just strolling down the street in the middle of the day. Turned out to be this guy.
pandce.proboards.com/thread/90108/man-dresses-giraffe-good-deeds

I passed an older man walking his dog and chatting away to it - only there was no dog. It seemed to make him happy anyway.

whoknows2 · 03/09/2020 14:51

Just back from the pharmacy. Queuing outside as it's one customer at a time inside the shop - the man in front of me pulls down his mask, covers one nostril with his finger and blows hard out the other nostril, spraying his snot all over the pavement. 🤢

DillonPanthersTexas · 03/09/2020 14:54

Mia1415

Overheard something similar on a eurostar train when two women were discussing the journey.

"will we get to see any fish"

"I don't know, we will probably scare them off when we enter the sea, we are going quite fast"

"It's night time anyway so we probably won't see anything even if they were out there"

Took me a moment to wonder what the hell they were talking about before I realised they though the train just ran along the sea bed.

joeysapple · 03/09/2020 14:54

This is outing to anyone who knows me...

I was at a seaside town with my mum and my son. There was a man in a wheelchair struggling to get over a hump in the road. People were just walking past and ignoring him and I was horrified. I walked over to him and asked if he'd like some help. He said yes, could I push him over there, gesturing to the top of a massive hill. So I started to push him up the hill, then realised he absolutely stunk of alcohol and stale wee. He was muttering under his breath and I said "pardon?" And he replied "I'm going to fucking kill her!". He was getting me to push him to the top of the hill where his equally drunk girlfriend was, who he'd just had a massive argument with. I got him to the top of the hill and ran away fast.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 03/09/2020 14:55

It was fudge and my cat stole and ate it on new years eve and spent the night crying and shitting in the garden.

This is the best sentence that has ever been written on this site. I laughed like a small child!

I think the most "wtf" moment was being on holiday with my parents in Italy as a teen and my brother and I walked through a park where a man stood, watching the flowers quietly. As we walked closer he opened his coat and underneath was stark naked and instead of ignoring him, my Mum went over and started to berate him in the most English of ways til he closed his coat, lowered his head and trotted off home. I've never laughed so much in my life as I did at that middle-aged Laura-Ashley-loving old gal giving him a bollocking while his knob looked directly at her.

sorrymrjackson · 03/09/2020 15:01

@Notlostjustexploring

Hearing a couple quite loudly shagging in a nightclub toilet cubicle.

I managed to keep a straight face when she came out to wash her hands and proceeded to make small talk with me, and when she asked if she could borrow my lip gloss.

I hope you turned around and said, 'not if your mouth has been around his cock'
DillonPanthersTexas · 03/09/2020 15:01

Love the severed heads on sticks OP Grin

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/09/2020 15:04

On Tuesday I was driving along a country lane. Saw a cyclist ahead. Nothing coming the other way, so pulled over to the opposite side of road. As I started to pull level I thought he looked a bit wobbly. As I overtook I saw the reason why... He was taking a selfie, with both hands in front of his head.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 03/09/2020 15:08

I used to live next to a homeless shelter.

Woke up to a racket one night, looked out the window and half a dozen guys from the shelter were sitting and singing the Club biscuits advert jingle in really loud operatic voices, harmonising and everything.

If you LIIIIIIKE a lot of chocolate on your biscuit Grin

30daysoflight · 03/09/2020 15:10

Club biscuit singers, bloody brilliant

SweatyBetty20 · 03/09/2020 15:17

A live pig on the back of a moped in Cuba, wedged between two flat pieces of wood like a live bacon sandwich squealing like his life depended on it.

Shell-suited father and son walking past my house on a Sunday morning playing the bagpipes. I live on the edge of a country part and like to think the mum just said "don't even start with those things in the house this morning".

Three young men trying to cram a badly wrapped corpse (and themselves) into a moto-tuck-tuck just outside Varanasi in India. The person sat next to me said, "what the fuck did I just see?!"

RoyalChocolat · 03/09/2020 15:21

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.

PinkMonkeyBird · 03/09/2020 15:23

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

I used to live next to a homeless shelter.

Woke up to a racket one night, looked out the window and half a dozen guys from the shelter were sitting and singing the Club biscuits advert jingle in really loud operatic voices, harmonising and everything.

If you LIIIIIIKE a lot of chocolate on your biscuit Grin

Grin that's hilarious!!
Etinox · 03/09/2020 15:23

Awesome thread and pic OP

My most WTF moment was overhearing a mother with screaming toddler in a buggy asking to see the manager as a goat had bitten toddlers hand. She wanted to know what their procedures and risk assessments were. Toddlers hand looked like something in a butcher's window. Poor woman was in shock and I was doing a car seats/ numbers/ A&E calculation to offer help before I noticed she had a rather hapless and similarly shell shocked partner- I did suggest they should get to hospital asap

Bakeittothelimit · 03/09/2020 15:24

Last week I saw someone reversing towards me on the motorway because he had missed his junction to turn off.

Regretsandregrets · 03/09/2020 15:25

I can sympathise with the man looking for his glasses in the lion's enclosure.I am sure his glasses were really expensive and had cost him an arm and a leg!!

PenCreed · 03/09/2020 15:30

@Etinox

Awesome thread and pic OP

My most WTF moment was overhearing a mother with screaming toddler in a buggy asking to see the manager as a goat had bitten toddlers hand. She wanted to know what their procedures and risk assessments were. Toddlers hand looked like something in a butcher's window. Poor woman was in shock and I was doing a car seats/ numbers/ A&E calculation to offer help before I noticed she had a rather hapless and similarly shell shocked partner- I did suggest they should get to hospital asap

This has reminded me of an old accident book I saw for a children's zoo. A mongoose bit a child, and in the box for "person responsible" the member of staff had written: "Mongoose?"
Mercedes519 · 03/09/2020 15:32

I was walking along the road and a pigeon flew up in front of a bald bloke. He, without missing a beat, punched it. Pigeon fluttered off seemingly unhurt. Man walk on without any change to his facial expression.

There was that moment of - did I really just see that?

FunorFitness · 03/09/2020 15:34

A man on a unicycle with his cat on a lead.

SedentaryCat · 03/09/2020 15:34

Someone on a bike cycing the wrong way down the dual carriageway.

I once drove round a corner into a village in Somerset and there was a car on its roof. No idea how/why it was just there in the middle of the road...

Jux · 03/09/2020 15:35

latheritup fantastic diagram! Excellent work, gold star and 100%

ladycarlotta · 03/09/2020 15:36

Not quite wtf, just very pleasing - once in Naples I saw a man in a string vest riding a moped down an old bumpy street with a little boy hanging on behind. They saw a dog, and stopped to feed it a load of sausages they had. It felt like a film from the 50s.

Tanith · 03/09/2020 15:39

Watching a man trimming his hedge with a chain saw while we were at the park. He was using a rickety step ladder and was standing on one leg, stretching to reach with one hand as far as he could.

I collected the baby blankets together, just in case I had to staunch the blood if he fell off or mis-reached Shock

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