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

During the day standing at a busy bus stop in edinburgh city centre when a tall fat man wearing nothing but what I could describe as a candy thong with a marshmallow on a straw walk up to woman sitting down. He cocked his leg up and she ate the marshmallow. There must be a backstory such as a hen or prank but it was a wtf.

@ShaunaTheSheep

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.

Happens regularly where I live (not my photo). We also get horses too (also not my photo)

A woman delving through the dog poo bin opening all the bags and emptying on the floor. She was not wearing gloves

That woman opening the dog poo bags had obviously lost her ring and didn't dare go home without it!

@Enchantmentz sounds more like a sub/dominatrix thing

The tweedy ladies digging up the garden remind me of when I returned home from a period of time away i look out the window into our garden around 6 am to see a lady with a dog open our gate, usher it into our garden for him to do a poo and then take him away again.

The next morning we were waiting for her. Her morning did not go as she expected, believe me.

There are a LOT of horses fly-grazed up here. Tethered by the neck and moved every day onto various verges and roundabouts. Not legal. And also quite scary when the tether snaps and you're driving past, assuming the horse is fixed, only to find it wandering down the road in front of your car...

Are you inthe North East Zaphod? I ask because I am, and the bloomin' things are tethered or sometimes hobbled anywhere there is a yard of grass - and that includes traffic islands, and as you say, narrow verges and roundabouts.

@rainwaterflow

His name is monkey man and yes he patrols llandudno with his boom box and a monkey in a pram and has many many costumes
He got married a few years back and pretty much the whole town went to his wedding.
We love him here

@SchadenfreudePersonified

North Yorkshire. Not so bad up round us (bordering the moors) but around Malton and York it can be awful.

@AstiniMartini - tell us more!

My life is one big WTF moment.

On holiday sunbathing (pre children 🤣) . A couple placed a baby no more than 6 months into a rubber ring, stand looking at it for a second chatting. Collected their cigarettes and strolled towards the bar..ok.. sailed straight past it and walked out of the complex... couldn’t take my eyes of this poor baby bobbing around the pool. I couldn’t cope& had to get in and hold the bloody thing.they strolled back 45 MINS later had been to the shop . They couldn’t understand why I was so angry 🤯

When we were in Edinburgh recently we were walking past the university (I think) so a really beautiful building anyway. That was on one side of the road and a really good photo opportunity. On the other side, behind some railings, was a remote controlled lawn mower (like a robo vac) just doing its own thing and mowing the grass. Honestly, that thing drew a MASSIVE crowd with everyone ignoring the beautiful architecture and fawning over the lawnmower and taking pictures and videos! Was very funny.

When I was a kid we once found a young lad who had been stripped naked and hog tied at the side of the road 😬 This was done by his so called ‘mates’ who had just left him there. My mum let me out of the car to untie him and we took him home. He was only about 18 bless him.

At university, looking out of the front window and watching my housemate walk straight past our house (she is a bit of a space cadet!). She got a good 100 metres down the road before she realised and sheepishly came back. On the way back from lectures in broad daylight. Not pissed or anything!

Driving in the dark alone through a village. I saw something walking/moving along the left hand pavement, and my brain just couldn't make sense of the info my eyes were giving it - it was something lowish to the ground, about the height of a small dog, but about 7 foot long. For a moment I thought it was a crocodile (!) until my brain finally worked out it was a peacock walking down the street with its tail down behind it. For those few moments it scared me half to death!

@sashh

My WTF moment might be reading upthread that someone told their four year old to wee in a pool??!

The last time I went swimming a mum and little girl were getting out of the pool when the little girl said, "Oh mummy, not had a wee yet" got back into the pool and squatted in the shallow bit.

Mine was in Uruguay, where they drink mate out of these cups with a sort of straw in them.

Understatement of the year.

Any street you walk down in Uruguay there will be someone with a flask making mate or drinking it. People have beautifully decorated leather bags specially made to hold a thermos and 2 mate 'cups' because it's better shared than not.

And the metal 'straws' (bombilla) come in numerous different shapes.

Yerba mate is a serious drink in Uruguay.

Sorry about the oversimplification. Sill, even there seeing the guy do the whole thing on a moped was wtf...

This thread has shown me that I’m not very surprisable, at least about nudity.

When I encountered a completely naked cyclist when going for a run in the forest near my home, my only thought was ‘I hope he’s wearing sunblock’.

Saw a fox cub on a lead at a market in Greater London many years ago.

My greatest one was about ten years ago. I lived in a tall, round building in a valley in the middle of nowhere. The RAF often used the valley as a training route (and flew lower / closer to the building than they probably should have done).

This day I happened to look out my window and this fighter jet was mere yards away. It had obviously flown tightly round the building and straightened up at my window, but honestly, if it had done the route in reverse of probably have had a heart attack. It was bad enough just seeing the back of the plane.

The jet one at the window reminds me of the time a hot air balloon sailed right past my first floor flat window, very up close and personal.

I was living in Bath, and balloons regularly take off from the large park that was near my house, but this one started to lose altitude quickly. It sailed past my window and landed in a tree next to the river that ran by my house.

Seeing a bloke walking down the sea front with a lizard on his shoulder had me WTF but it's relatively normal compared to most of these!

@jrb123

When I lived in Europe I used to go every week to a ‘snuffel market’, a sort of indoor car boot sale with hundreds of stalls, in a huge exhibition hall. One day, coming down the aisle towards me, was a woman in a nightie lying in a hospital bed, complete with drip attached to her arm, being pushed along by another woman. A treat for a dying patient? But the nearest hospital was some distance away, and how did they get the bed to the market hall?

Not sure if this has been answered. The dutch ambulance service has volunteers who take dying patients on their last wish trip. FIL was taken to a soccer game ith DH and his sister. Really lovely of them to do this.

In Rethymnon in Crete in August a few years back, 40 degree heat and the town is full of fur coat shops open 24 hours a day

Not mine but my sister's wtf moment:

East Croydon. Before they built the bridge there used to be tunnels and over the tunnel part were quite a few benches. Anyway, it was rush hour, loads of people about and a smartly dressed man, between the sets of benches, lays out a broadsheet, takes off his trousers, hangs them on one of the benches, shits on the newspaper from a standing position, wipes using prepared paper, puts his trousers back on, wraps up his shit and puts it in a bin and gets onto the East grinstead train

Driving through the peak district really late one night and I stopped to offer some people a lift, which I never do, but it was dark and the roads were treacherous for pedestrians

They jumped in, we chatted as I drove them to the nearest town. All good

About a month later I'm in London and I was at a party and someone said "here meet my friend" and it was one of the people I'd given a lift to

I will never know how this happened, but when I was in primary school I was asked by a supply teacher in the Midlands if my grandparents still lived in Kendal. No they didn't and they moved from there a long time before I was born. How in the blazes did he know??? I wish I had asked him but I was only eight and didn't think to.