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To ask your most WTF moments

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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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Watto1 · 03/09/2020 21:12

On a beach in South Wales . There was a film crew filming for American TV up on the cliff top. At the end of the day as we were packing up to leave, about 30 of them strode down to the sea in dressing gowns, stripped off and walked into the sea stark naked. They weren’t even filming it at this point!

EarringsandLipstick · 03/09/2020 21:15

Worst case ever was man giving his wife oral sex on ward trying to bring labour on at the time but now nothing shocks me

You might just win this thread @Thedogscollar 😂😳😂😳 in equal measure!

Athenajm80 · 03/09/2020 21:17

@RoyalChocolat are you in S Wales by any chance? There's a guy exactly like that who walks along Newport Road in Cardiff. I have been told that he has been known to walk all the way to Newport.

PeapodBurgundy · 03/09/2020 21:20

@TenDays I wonder if you live in my street? (or previously in this house, not been here long). Next door to me have a similarly aged son who has given me more than a few grey hairs!

My WTF moment, seeing a woman "driving" down the motor way, a hair clasp in her mouth, both hands twisting her hair into a French Pleat! Fucking idiot! I was a child at the time, and I was horrified even then!

Etinox · 03/09/2020 21:25

I thought long and hard whether to post this, then decided it’s what he wanted.
Enjoy.

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Thisbastardcomputer · 03/09/2020 21:36

Mother queuing to be served in Aunties fruit and veg shop, Auntie says Albert's died, mother leaves queue, goes to newspaper shop next door and buys a death card, posts it to albert's wife. Phone call next day from Albert saying sorry to disappoint you. She didn't wait long enough to find out which Albert it was.

Myself, driving along M62 about 10am on a Sunday morning, 3 naked men walking on hard shoulder with their bits shoved into a empty pint pot, it was November.

HearingMyOwnVoice · 03/09/2020 21:38

@AllTheWhoresOfMalta

Our cats were about six months old and had only recently been allowed out into the garden. One was very cautious and never went beyond the parameters of the fence, but the other was bolder and would leave the garden for maybe half an hour at a time. On his fourth proper say outside he did this and disappeared for ages. Starting to worry I was wandering around shaking the cat biscuits and calling his name. Suddenly he jumped over the fence and onto the roof of the shed- this a still quite small, six month old kitten- with a whole, raw chicken in his mouth. As he jumps off the shed and down onto the fence and onto the lawn, four perfectly round stuffing balls fell out of he chicken.....

..... The cats are old now, but I still often think of that stolen dinner and how there’s someone nearby who tells the story of how they turned around to get the potato peeler out of the drawer and the next thing that they knew, their chicken had disappeared!

This one made me laugh! The stuffing balls....
madmumofteens · 03/09/2020 21:38

On a city break in Paris with friends went downstairs to the toilets and this old man was very loudly masturbating in a chair you could see his head and feet behind the door bizarre! Thought I better tell the staff as families were there they didn't understand what I was saying using my best school girl french so i improvised with hand gestures!! Next thing they ran downstairs and dragged old man out the restaurant he looked less than pleased and glared at me on way past!

HearingMyOwnVoice · 03/09/2020 21:42

@SchadenfreudePersonified One lady had one made to look identical to her grandson when he was a baby (she'd been his F/T carer from birth till he was about three, then his single mum got married and moved to Australia with him). It was heartbreaking - she was obviously quite literally deranged with grief, I do hope she found peace nd came to terms with him being taken to another hemisphere.

I remember that. I seem to recall that they led you to think the child had died and then 'revealed' that they had moved away

Justpickaname · 03/09/2020 21:43

@MagpiePi

Christmas decorations on sale in a HomeBargains shop...yesterday
There's been Christmas cards on sale in my local card shop since the beginning of August
EarringsandLipstick · 03/09/2020 21:45

@Etinox

I thought long and hard whether to post this, then decided it’s what he wanted. Enjoy.
I can't make that out at all? (Except the 'dad' one).
HearingMyOwnVoice · 03/09/2020 21:48

At an exercise class a few years back. Room that we were in was upstairs at a social club. We couldn't leave as in the room downstairs a wake had got a bit out of hand and several police cars had rocked up. Several people arrested. Many more inebriated people all over the place. Sounds funny now but was quite scary at the time.

HearingMyOwnVoice · 03/09/2020 21:49

@EarringsandLipstick piss off

EarringsandLipstick · 03/09/2020 21:55

[quote HearingMyOwnVoice]@EarringsandLipstick piss off[/quote]
I thought you were directing this at me, and I was like, what have I done?!

Realise you're answering my question about the photo 😂

TokenGinger · 03/09/2020 21:57

@zingally

Maybe about 8 years ago now, I went to a performance of the play 'Warhorse' in London. The seats were arranged some that I was sat up on a bit of a walkway for the actors to move around the audience.

I was sat with my legs crossed, and my hands on my knee, when - mid-show - one of the characters comes out, waving a walking stick around, and crosses the walkway where I'm sitting... As he does so, he clonks me, pretty hard, right across the knuckles with his stick!

The woman next to me looks at me in surprise, "did he just HIT YOU?!" I'm nursing my hand, "Yeah!"

I can't stop laughing at this 😂😂
rosydreams · 03/09/2020 22:01

i was sitting on a brick wall at a convention and a girl in a very short skirt hopped over it next me.No underwear and definitely no hedge trimming .I couldn't tell her =p

stovetopespresso · 03/09/2020 22:01

when my MIL proudly wound up her jack-in-a-box which we all knew a n effing golliwog would pop out of at then end of 'pop goes the weasel'- in front of her newly wed DIL (African). We were all slo mo diving towards it like nooooooo

TenDays · 03/09/2020 22:02

[quote PeapodBurgundy]@TenDays I wonder if you live in my street? (or previously in this house, not been here long). Next door to me have a similarly aged son who has given me more than a few grey hairs!

My WTF moment, seeing a woman "driving" down the motor way, a hair clasp in her mouth, both hands twisting her hair into a French Pleat! Fucking idiot! I was a child at the time, and I was horrified even then![/quote]
Happy to say the window incident was many years ago!

TokenGinger · 03/09/2020 22:04

@Mercedes519

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?

🤣🤣🤣
goose1964 · 03/09/2020 22:05

Memo7 that could have been me, I'm on meds with an unfortunate side effect.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 03/09/2020 22:19

When we were teens, my sisters and I invented a game called Otters. It involved taking a sort of lilo thingy, painting our faces with eyebrow pencil for whiskers and donning goggles, then riding the lilo down the river in our town. Our town was a very naice market town with beautifully manicured banks and the river ran right through the middle, past cafes etc.

I think people just put it down to us being English weirdos.

TrufflePioneer · 03/09/2020 22:22

@stovetopespresso We were all slo mo diving towards it like nooooooo

Probably irreverent but that really made me guffaw

Zanina · 03/09/2020 22:23

My WTF moment was in Mecca. I was walking around the Ka'ba (the Black Cube building) part of the pilgrimage. It was so cramped and i was holding the hand of my elderly MIL trying hard not to lose her. Then all of a sudden a 99 year old lady jumps ontoy back for support (i was lile ok?) And then this old man wacked me on the foot with his walking stick so hard! I just looked at him like wtf and he was about to wack me again! Luckily the old lady on my back grabbed the stick to stop him! When I got back to my hotel I saw the nail of my large toe broken, literally a hole in the middle of the nail!

OP your diagram is just fantastic lol

Zanina · 03/09/2020 22:24

Spelling corrections

*on to my back
*Like

Ugh

FlyingFlamingo · 03/09/2020 22:32

I’ve got loads!

Driving up the M5 after a family holiday when I was in my teens when my dad points at the car he’s overtaking with the keys in the door - she must have had 2 sets, one to open the door and the other in the ignition Confused

I once drove past a Womble doing some ironing on our local museum green - I’ve yet to find anyone else who witnessed it or any reference to it online but I know I saw him!

The pavement outside our local Spar shop (now promoted to a Sainsburys) is quite wide with bollards between the edge of the pavement and the road. We were stopped at the lights opposite and a posh 4x4 inexplicably and slowly mounted the pavement at the corner, continued a few metres, realised they couldn’t go any further due to the bollards so just stopped there. The lights changed unfortunately before we saw the outcome but I often wonder what on earth the driver was thinking!

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