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

I watched someone drop their phone at a station onto the tracks. Then look left and right, jump into to the track to pick it up and then ask for a hand getting back up. Yeah, it's just a line where trains run at 100mph between major cities.

Once sat opposite a man on the tube wearing just boxers and caressing a rabbit.

Once sat opposite a man on the tube wearing just boxers and caressing a rabbit.

Northern line by any chance?

@Lonelybattle

One weekend morning a long time ago, before the smoking ban, a friend dropped by for a cuppa and asked if they could light up. I said yes and was looking for an ashtray when my brother, who was living with me at the time, came in. I jokingly said to him 'you wouldn't happen to have an ashtray in your pocket, would you?' He looked at me all WTAF??? and proceeded to pull an enormous red Marlboro ashtray from his coat pocket. He wasn't a smoker either.

Love this one

In Morocco - a rather large sheep on a moped squeezed in between the driver and a young boy.

All three had helmets on. To this day I’m disgusted I didn’t have my phone read to snap a pic.

A man driving a sofa around the Queen's Roundabout in Farnborough.

I remember being at the zoo as a child, looking at a large cage full of monkeys when one of the largest monkeys spotted someone in the crowd of people that he found interesting. The monkey climbed right to the front, eyes fixed on this chap and then summoned all the other monkeys to look at him. It was so funny, and the man scuttled off. I don't know whether the monkey had any awareness of irony or if it was just imitating behaviour it had seen from humans.

One from long ago in Rome. Very tall man driving a small fiat 500 and the top of his head was poking out of the sunroof! I did a double take and he gave me this huge smile which I returned. Felt like we were part of a secret!!

Just walked through the local park, popular with dog walkers, to see a small white kitten being walked on a lead.

All three had helmets on. To this day I’m disgusted I didn’t have my phone read to snap a pic.

This wins the thread for me.

@EggyPegg - many years ago I was staying in Bath. It was a hot summer night and I had the windows open. I drifted awake through a dream in which there were strange whooshing noises, to find a hot air balloon gaining height not far from my window.

Saw this at a Dogs Trust fun day

@OhCaptain yup, have enjoyed this thread immensely, but the only real LOL was the image of a sheep with a helmet on a moped. Brilliant!

@mumoid

I was walking past a securicore van which was parked next to an ATM when suddenly a megaphone level, top volume, damsel in distress voice started shouting from it - ‘Help! Help! I’m under attack!’ There was no one to be seen and the disembodied voice continued for as long as I was in hearing distance. People looked bemused but just carried on with their business...

I've had the same thing but the poor driver was desperately trying to stop it blaring out, he looked so embarrassed

A few years ago but just outside the shopping centre on the pavement next to the steps, an adult pulls their child's pants down and lets her wee all over the pavement. The toilets were just inside up the steps! She looked about 5 and it was going everywhere.

Weirdest thing was everyone just kept on walking but walked around her. Barely anyone raised an eyebrow.

If only they'd made it up the steps.

At a restaurant and the waiter lent the drinks tray on the top of my head as he went to hand them out.

For some reason he was outraged when I lifted my head back, flicked the tray off and stood up. (He wore the drinks)

The old farmer from next door came to ask mum if she thought he should go to hospital as he had a wee accident that he had duct taped up over a tea towel and would be great full if she could have a quick look and stitch up if she thought it needed it.

She looked and went white “oh my fucking god your missing your thumb and a finger.”

“I know. It’s just Wee chainsaw accident. I took my hunting dog to find them but I think he ate them.”

Once he returned from hospital and had the splints off tried to cut down the same tree and it kicked back on sliced his face and was lucky not to lose an eye.
He blamed it on his dog for eating his thumb.

The tree still lives on.

Was it a palm tree?

@growinggreyer

I remember being at the zoo as a child, looking at a large cage full of monkeys when one of the largest monkeys spotted someone in the crowd of people that he found interesting. The monkey climbed right to the front, eyes fixed on this chap and then summoned all the other monkeys to look at him. It was so funny, and the man scuttled off. I don't know whether the monkey had any awareness of irony or if it was just imitating behaviour it had seen from humans.

Love this one. ^

I was Officer of the Watch (OOW) on the bridge of a ship, off the coast of East Anglia heading south toward the Dover Strait. There was thick fog (

@EggyPegg

All three had helmets on. To this day I’m disgusted I didn’t have my phone read to snap a pic.

This wins the thread for me.

It would only win the thread for me if the sheep was reading a map . . .

On holiday in Northumberland about a dozen years ago and visited Wooler. As we parked, an elderly couple (mid-70s) were parking their car near to us - reversing to and fro, trying again and again to get in the space (it wasn't hard, the car park wasn't full). We kind of watched for a couple of minutes whilst we got our kids into coats and buggies and headed off into the town. We had a coffee/cake etc in a tea-shop but there wasn't much else to do there so we headed back to the car-park 35 minutes later and the couple were still trying to park their car...!

A few years later, doing a journey through France to catch a ferry, we drove through a 'zone Industrielle' of a small town in the middle of nowhere, around midday, and saw, essentially, middle-eastern Jesus in robes and barefoot leading a donkey down a footpath by the main road. No farms or historic parks within miles.

Few years ago we were on holiday in Austria and took the cable car up to the platz above the lake where we were staying. As we got off the cable car we saw people setting up to paraglide so we paused to watch them take off. One woman got strapped in, then strapped a dog to her before taking off. Not a small dog either, it was roughly the size of a border collie! He was very calm, every dog I’ve known would have been making a bid for freedom...

SeasickPenguin
"that's a bit bold for buying sprouts"

That made me really laugh

My WTF moment was actually a whole evening and involved a hen party/murder mystery. I was the only sober person there, so that's probably why I was WTF-ing all over the place.

First, during the life drawing class, the model gets 'murdered', and somehow the murder investigation turns into an Ann Summer's style party story line with a priest, a slag, and a flasher.

Again. Not the WTF moment.
That came when the man playing the priest character and my MIL hooked up after he spent the whole evening chatting her up.
They parted ways and I had to corral her into my little citroen saxo to get her home safely.

Then, the next morning, MIL asked me why I thought that a priest had gatecrashed her daughters hen do.

She had not paid attention to the murder mystery at all, and fully believed she had copped off with a fully ordained man of the Lord.

His cross was made of gold plastic and his cassock was made of tearaway Velcro fabric...