To ask your most WTF moments

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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 once saw Richard E Grant hopping down the street outside my office in central London. That was a bit WTF!

My first genuine example of this is 4 years back when I nipped to Spar on Boxing Day for milk, there were Easter Eggs and other Easter confectionary for sale on the shelves. The second time was when I was 9, my mam sent me to the Chinese takeaway for a pancake roll for my supper and 40 odd naked fellas were sprinting down the main road, I think I may have waved.

@MagpiePi ☺️ I've bought the last of my Christmas presents, cards and wrapping paper today! Guess what I'll be doing this weekend? Yep, wrapping everything up! 😂

Was driving a country road in the snow bringing the kids to school and met my son's best friends brother crawling out the window of an overturned car. Was like any book I'd ever read, the silence (even though all the mothers were around helping), the glass on the ground. I pulled in and left the kids in the car and walked over. He was sitting in one of the mother's cars in shock, smiling. I'll never ever ever forget it.

Also (same year!!) was driving on a one way part of a motorway, doing about 80 and saw people swerving all over the place. A car was speeding up the wrong way. It served around me. I was shaking all the way back to my parents house and terrified driving back that evening. I'm a writer and to this day I want to write either into a book but cant bring myself to do it, I think some things are better left.

Walking past a victorian house to see a woman standing outside on a tiny little ledge about 3-5 cm (on her tiptoes) on the second floor cleaning the windows from the outside while a toddler leaned out the window saying over and over be careful be careful. No ladder, no rope nothing. Similar ledges on nearby houses were all crumbled away. Quite honestly stopped dead in the street and watched but as afraid to say anything as was worried I would startle her and she would fall!

@Squiffany @HollowTalk

It happened in France in the 90s. It might have been him!

@GabsAlot

My cat had killed a bat, which had a baby (still naked) hanging on to her. I took the baby, got advice, and raised it (on goats milk on a paintbrush, fed every four hours). I had to get a special Bat Handling licence in order to keep him! Once he had his fur, he used to hang up against my skin inside my clothes to keep warm.

He went to a bat sactuary in the end because obviously he never learned to hunt. He was adorable.

Coming home in the early hours from a NYE party, snow on the ground and a very frosty air. I drove round the corner to see 2 completely naked man playing tennis on the grass in front of a local pub.

Glanced out of the window after seeing movement in the upstairs window opposite mine. It was a child, about 3 yrs, hanging out of the open window. Raced over the road, hammered on the door which was opened by the mum. Told her about said child, only for her to reply 'oh yeah, she's always doing it'. My suggestions re window locks and my concerns fell on deaf ears. She then yelled upstairs to 'get down from the bleedin' window'. .....This mum works in a childrens nursery!

When I was a teenager I was out riding my horse on the moors one day when I saw a naked guy with a boner lying perfectly still on his back in a tiny clearing in the middle of a clump of gorse bushes, nobody at ground level would have been able to see him and I have no idea how he managed to get in there without cutting himself to shreds!

My oh's brother got married in Crete a few years ago, my oh was his best man, which apparently meant that he had to spend the entire morning before the ceremony sitting in an apartment guarding the grooms hideous gucci shoes. The only people staying in the apartments were the grooms family and mostly female, oh was baffled and very annoyed!

Walked in on my flatmate in the bathroom, sat on the loo having a wee (or maybe a poo..) FACING THE CISTERN!!! WTAF?This was a white British female of 20ish, born and bred in UK and brought up in a suburban semi (in Somerset...is this a West Country thing?!)

😂😂

I had my hair cut in China and, in the absence of Mandarin, I used my hand to indicate a straight line at my jaw for the length of a bob. He cut it perfectly on the side I had shown but left the other side completely untouched.

A neighbour had a son of about 7 who was a bit of handful.

One day in the garden I glanced up and saw Junior standing on the ledge outside a first floor window, apparently trying to climb onto the roof.

After retrieving my sphincter I ran to their front door and told Stepdad, then rushed round the back to try and catch Junior if he fell.

Stepdad ran up the stairs, reached out of the window and grabbed Junior just as he slipped off the sill.

Stepdad was in alone with Junior so only he and I knew what had happened, and I left it to him to tell the boy's mother.
I wonder if he ever did?

Years ago taking my son to primary school one winter morning we saw a man on a penny farthing. He was riding happily around the country lanes we needed to drive through to get to the village school. I thought i was seeing things but son saw it too.

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

My granddaughter was upset to learn that she wouldn't be seeing fish through the windows, but she's 6.

This is outing I've namechanged! I was in a friend's shared flat on a weekend morning and suddenly the kitchen sink, bathroom sink and bath started gurgling and when we looked they has started - apparently - filling with blood! We just stared like goldfish and I remember thinking "all I can do now is wait to wake up, or see if my life actually turns into a horror film". Then the gurgling stopped and the "blood" drained away. Then we remembered friend had put bright red new duvet cover in the washing machine and it had dyed the water which for some reason had bubbled up through the plugholes. But it looked exactly like blood and for a couple of minutes I was in pure W.T.F. mode.

Flying back from the USA we were amused at a woman trying to wedge an enormous piece of 'hand-luggage' into the overhead bin, she was actually swinging on the bin to try and stretch it. She then turned on all the passengers demanding that a gentleman would help a lady, in very unladylike language, one asked her why she hadn't put it into the hold. She was planning on doing all her Yurp trip with just hand-luggage, I almost wanted to follow her round Yurp to see how she coped with Ryanair et al!

A pigeon once nudged my back door open, waddled across the kitchen, hopped in the step into my dining room then ambled towards the front door.

There was nothing I could other than follow it, open the front door and watch it wander down the street.

@alladinzane that made me laugh - I used to live in China and had several such moments!

@dappledsunshine

Everyone looks very happy in your diagram op, no signs of concern at all 🤣

Especially the tigers.

The tigers look very happy indeed!

I think the others are his wife and children (who are cutting the insurance money and thinking "Thank heavens! This will be the last time he shows us up by being a twt", and OP* and her family, relishing the opportunity to post a thread on MN

I was reading all these, enjoying them, but thinking I didn't have a WTF moment to share until I read "I've bought the last of my Christmas presents, cards and wrapping paper today! Guess what I'll be doing this weekend? Yep, wrapping everything up!"

There have been time’s where an idiot has jumped the barrier fence to get closer to the actual fence and have been attacked. I’m sure one lost their arm

*Soubriquet is right - the bars are far enough apart not to impede the view too much, and a tiger or lion "arm" can shoot out with alarming speed and accuracy. I can also recall someone stupid man losing an arm in a similar situation.

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 said "No". God alone knows where she'd had her mouth

Talking of Zoos, I remember visiting Belfast Zoo in the early 90s and there was nothing but a double wire fence between you and the lions. I got a long piece of grass, stuck it through the fence and played with one of them. I'm sure it was more interested in my arm holding it

Walked into a conference and immediately saw a women sitting down legs apart wearing a skirt and no knickers. I don't think she realised she was doing a Sharon Stone

@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!!

You win

I had the toilet thing at work once when a woman came in after me, went into the next cubicle, had a wee and answered her phone. She then proceeded to make arrangements for a funeral while I sat there wondering if it was rude to flush the loo and leave so I sat in silence till she left.

About 11-12 years ago it was very snowy in suburban Manchester and the roads were pretty much impassable for cars, buses we’re cancelled etc. I looked out of the window and saw a guy go past on skis. Also saw a man in a duck costume on a motorcycle go by once.

We also have a penny farthing rider here, and a man who rides a bike with a chihuahua in his pocket (kinda jealous of him).