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 am so happy you all like my diagram!

Disclaimer: the faces in the photo do not represent us or the man in real life. I definitely don't have ginger hair

I have thoroughly enjoyed everyone's WTF moments.. hope to read some more!

I'm coming straight in with diagram appreciate before I go back and read the thread.

A baby fox followed me home from the train station to my house. It was about a 15 minute walk. Foxy tried to come in, I shut the door stopping him. Foxy then sat outside looking at the front door for ages before leaving. No idea why. l never saw it again.

Waiting patiently in a queue recently we were being held up by an elderly gentleman who was discussing his forthcoming operation with the cashier.. He then proceeded to whip his sock off and wave his foot about for us all to see whereabouts his operation was going to be. Gross! still makes me shudder to think about it.

Gluing a bouncers blooded knuckles back together with my eyelash glue in a nightclub

In Whitby Bay some years ago:

"Muuuuum, is this where the titanic was built?"

I work on the tube.

Saw a woman perform a curly wurly beyond the platform barriers of my station. Pulled down her kecks and did it on the slope. I was on the platform opposite. I yelled and waved and got on the radio to warn the line controller. Ran to where she was, got her back to the safe side of the barrier. "What were you thinking?" I asked.

"Needed a shit," she said, and shuffled upstairs to the ticket hall, where we have a public fucking toilet.

Drove past someone trying to swim in snow, on a pavement of a high street, the snow was only about 2inches thick😂

I decided to make my son laugh by putting my head in a big bin of soft toys in IKEA. I over-balanced and ended up head first in the bin with my feet in the air. My son actually exclaimed "WTF!"

@ladycarlotta

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.

Things you've seen on a moped in Naples is a thread on it's own. Naples in general is bonkers.

Some of these are not really WTF moments, more remarkable or sweet, but nevertheless a great and entertaining thread. I love the lady who arrived at the Swiss care home thinking she was at a historic castle.

Just thought of another one. I used to commute to work really early down the country lanes and into town before the roads became really busy with rush-hour. I did this for a number of years and one summer two really unusual things occurred.

One morning had the promise of a hot day to come and I drove through the quiet suburbs at 6am, window down, smelling the fresh air and blossom, when ahead of me was an elderly gentleman, around late 70's, slim, fit and supple as a 30 year old, roller skating down the centre of the left-hand lane, with shorts, knee pads, elbow pads and helmet. I saw him a few times that summer and after making some enquiries I learned his name was Edward, retired but still going back in odd days to do the family payroll.

The second occasion was taking a stroll out to buy some lunch. On a tree-lined avenue, was a parked estate car, with a rear door open and the boot up too. It was a hot day and as I walked by I could see the rear of the vehicle was kitted out with a mattress, drums of water, food and some low shelving. Clearly the home now for this man. He was sitting up, with an accordion, playing and singing along to sea shanties looking very much like a retired and homeless seaman, which I assumed he was. I always wonder what happened to him.

I was waiting for a bus just off Oxford Street back in the early-mid nineties when a pink tank with a pink papier maché pig drove past. Nobody back home believed me and I've no idea what it was about!

[quote Zaphodsotherhead]@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.[/quote]
aw that's lovely

There appears to be a lot of glue ingested by the subjects of these WTF moments. But hey at least no one was killed or injured. Eccentrics are everywhere lol.

The only WTF I can think of in my sheltered life was a funeral in Kerry in ROI years ago. These funerals are three day events. So on day one we visited the house of the deceased, he was in the "parlour" in his best suit in the coffin. Candles lighting and the usual religious stuff.

One elderly relative went by the coffin, said a prayer, and moved out only for his shirt sleeve to be caught by a candle flame, OMG, he got burned badly and missed the funeral having to go to A+E.

But the coffin and the room the deceased was in survived, and on the ritual went. WTF?

A man once loudly farted continually through a college lecture I attended. He didn’t even attempt to control it and kept lifting his arse of the seat every time he needed to let rip.

Another time I was on the bus coming home from work and saw a man in a shirt, tie and smart trousers running a long the pavement with no shoes and socks on.

The diagram looks like a scene from a 1987 computer game .

I love this thread. I think mine is on the M62, I used to drive between Manchester and Hull a lot of weekends (ahh young love). It was about 10pm on a Friday on a deserted motorway when a massive Mercedes appeared out of the distance on my bloody side! A few police 4x4s then appeared chasing it. I looked at the news the next day and it wasn't mentioned, it was like it never happened. Freaked me the eff out because it was so unexpected.

To confirm, I did not share my lip gloss with the lady who had been entertaining her boyfriend in the night club cubicle, as yes, I'd had a fairly good idea if where her mouth had probably been!!

I think her boyfriend then proceeded to do a post sex pee in the cubicle with the door wide open.

The "blood" gurgling up from the sink is a belter!!!

Heading towards me, to be absolutely clear...

A week or so ago we had a WTF moment when a fox appeared in our living room. The patio doors in the dining room were open and he just strolled in as if he owned the place.

Living in east Germany I have accumulated many WTF stories over the years, mainly involving nudity .

My favourite is when my mum came to visit my inlaws years back. They'd just arrived and we took them out to show them the nearby lake. As we arrived at the lake, four young men pulled up to the shore in a boat, got out, greeted us politely and walked past us into the woods. They were all tall, muscular, tanned and of course stark naked.

On the zoo theme, we visited Colchester Zoo many years ago and saw a mother and daughter sitting on a bench. The daughter, no older than 12, was smoking a cigarette.

My office desk faced a window and one day I looked up and a man dressed all in black with a cape and a white painted face glided past. He was holding one arm up like the Phantom of the Opera.

It was a total WTF, did I really just see that moment. No one else in the office saw it or believed me. The building next door was part of an NHS psychiatric unit so I was used to seeing ‘interesting’ clients come and go but that was the strangest.

Many years ago, I was taking the late train to visit my inlaws. It was Christmas and I had the cat with me, in a cat basket, sitting in an old-fashioned compartment with another woman and a man. An hour into the journey, in a pitch-black and remote area, the woman came back from the loo and said that there was a man in the corridor with a gun.

A few minutes later, the train stopped and the lights went out, so we were sitting in total darkness. An announcement came on the tannoy that we should not look out of the windows. Blue flashing lights appeared. We sat there in silence for a quarter of an hour - the cat did not say anthing either - then suddenly there were shots, and the lights came back on. A voice apologised for the delay and the train started up again.

When I got to my inlaws I told them the story in my awful German and they just shrugged and changed the subject!

I saw someone driving a double bed down the a303 once. I don't know how the man was steering it, he was just laid down on the duvet/pillows wearing goggles with a massive grin on his face

Wtf?! Are you making this up?

I went to a zoo some years ago in Denmark, Aalborg I think it was, where there are no fences between the lions and the public, just a wide moat - 2-3m or so. I had to check that my friends saw it too; couldn't believe it.

Bet no one was stupid enough to throw a bottle at those lions.

Brilliant thread.

Mid-90s. I was in a car driving down the A69 in Northumberland at twilight, glanced up at the top of the grass verge to see the silhouette of a very large catlike animal sitting on top of the stone wall.