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

We drove past a guy smoking outside what I assume was his workplace yesterday (he was in uniform)...which would have been fine if it wasn’t the petrol station shop!

I think I’ve told this on here before but about 20 years ago I was on a bus going through countryside.

I glanced in to a field and saw a sheep calmly walking about with a car tyre balanced on its head. Actually balanced on its head, not around its neck or anything.

I was the only passenger on the bus so I had to shout over to the driver to check he’d seen it too.

The other week I witnessed a disagreement between two quite elderly men outside a Sainsbury’s. Lots of arguing, walking away, then walking back with more arguing. Then one challenged the other to a fight on a patch of grass across the road.

Security had thankfully intervened by this point

The funeral in Spain where they raised the hand cranked lift slightly too high for the coffin to slide into the hole in the wall. The 2 cemetry guys decided that it was too much hassle to adjust it properly, so jumped up and down on the platform until it was at the right level!

Years ago, when tbe DSs were small we used to go down to the local paddling pool on the beach. One day there was a young woman playing with her toddler, bending over, dunking the child's feet in the water. It gradually became apparant that her tampon was hanging out because her bikini bottoms were pretty loose. Someone whispered to her and we expected her to whizz off and sort it out. She sat down on tbe edge of the paddling pool, shoved it back in and carried on playing! Cue Mexican wave of dropping jaws around the paddling pool!

When living in Spain, opening my front door to go to work and the rubbish truck had fallen down the unbarricaded/unlit hole in the road. The binmen were sat on the kerb having a smoke as if this happened everyday.
Spain threw up quite a few WTF moments!!! 😂

Driving super early in Portugal to get to the airport. 5 minutes in and we see two people, a man and a women, spooning and sleeping on a footpath in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of Algarve.Normally dressed - didn’t look homeless. No bars around. To this day we talk about this and this was in 2013.

My mum and I were in Monsoon years ago and my mum found a ring she liked. She asked the woman on the checkout if they had it in a different size and the woman said "I'll just have a look in this little room"... and then she opened a drawer. At first I thought she was going to get keys to a stockroom or something, but no, she closed it and said "no, we don't, sorry". WTF. Under my breath to my mum I just blurted out "that's a drawer". Then we both lost it, dashed out of the shop and collapsed laughing outside. To this day it both cracks me up and baffles me. You probably had to be there, but we both agree it's still the funniest thing that has ever happened.

I think this is my favourite MN thread ever!

I came out of a local shop to see an overweight man turn the corner on a swing scooter being pulled by two huskies.

I was in full labour having my 3rd, surrounded by two midwives and my DH, baby had been engaged for a couple of weeks.

Suddenly my stomach started moving like something out of Alien, elbow and knee shapes, long stretch of what looked like a back pushing out against my skin. Movements go on for a while.

We all look at each other. "eh, did he just do what I think he did?" Midwife feels around, yep, he'd completely turned and was now trying to come out bum first.

Before I knew what was what, I'm having an emergency cesarean. Son was 9lb 8oz. Those movements though were something else. Almost wish DH had been filming,

I saw elmo and big bird have a fist fight in NYC

Was in a restaurant and saw a bloke walk past, rip open a raw packet of pork chops and start eating them

Lived abroad and flatmate had a boyfriend. We all went out in a big gang. I went to bed alone. Woke up next to the boyfriend. He was really pissed and had obviously got in the wrong bed. Told him to bugger off next door to mates room. Next morning I woke up and his watch was next to my bed! On my way to work I threw it in a bin. No way I need to explain to flatmate he'd been in my bedroom, even if it was innocent! Gets home that night, flatmate is saying her boyfs devastated, he's lost his mega expensive watch!

I think from the view of other people was a pram with a new born baby and a 2 year old boy hanging on for life but yelling like he is having the time of his life, rushing down a hill heading towards the sea. They might have seen a man running after them, who knows. If they had looked up at the hill they would have seen a 5 year old girl who had decided that she had had enough of her siblings.

This was a story my gran use to tell us about my mum, I can just imagine the looks of WTF, all is well mum and siblings are very close and now laugh about her almost killing them. This was the 1950s so I can imagine the punishment was not nice

Left my handbag in a room at an event and a kind, Scottish gent helped me find it.

Later that night, the entertainment came on and out walked the same gentleman.

It was Ronnie Corbett. I hadn't recognised him.

@UnaCorda

Mine is probably passing this chap when walking home one afternoon.

I was thinking of posting him but you beat me to it!

[quote Athenajm80]@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. [/quote]
I go to shops on Newport Road quite often but have never seen him. Does he normally go out at certain times? I have to see this!!

This thread is brilliant. I’m jealous I didn’t get to see some of these things myself. Here are some of mine, I’m sure I have more but it’s too early for my brain to function properly.

A woman stripping to her underwear to try on a dress on the street outside Next.

A man on a beach in Gran Canaria, sat legs akimbo on a the side of a sun lounger with a towel over his lap. Which did nothing to hide his ENORMOUS PENIS which was literally touching the sand. My friend did an actual double take when I told her to “look but don’t look”.

Once saw a couple shagging theatrically up against a window in the middle of the day in the city centre. Although this was in Amsterdam so not really all that surprising. A camera crew emerged from the building shortly after so I assume they were filming a porno.

Why do all of mine involve naked or semi naked people 🤔

I was watching Coronation Street as a teen and an actress from it who was actually in the scene at the time, walked into my living room and started rolling on the floor playing with our 16st Great Dane.

She'd popped round to see my mum about something and I just sat there gobsmacked. And I actually missed the rest of the episode because I couldn't see the telly around her! It was very bizarre and cool.

I just remembered opening the door to go out one morning and having to squeeze past a toilet that someone had left on our front step.

I live in Yorkshire and had gone for a walk on a Monday night. I usually walk on a Monday night but has tried a different route this particular week, not as rural as usual but through fields and moor. I was with a friend and all of a sudden we both heard bagpipes playing. We stopped and both looked at each other with a ‘do you hear that?’ look. It’s quite a hilly place and looking around we couldn’t see anyone but it sounded good and we wondered if it was someone playing a CD or something even though there were no roads or houses. We continued on our walk and got round a hill to see two 80 something year old men stood there with their bagpipes! when they finished we applauded and they explained that they usually practiced on a Monday night but hadn’t for ages because of lockdown so as things were easing they’d decided to meet up outdoor this time. There was usually a third but he’d was busy that night. It was totally bizarre but also really nice! We haven’t seen or heard them since.

A man with a cockatoo on his head and another one on his shoulder crossing a busy London Street.

A colleague going to a home visit on the bus spied a completely naked man strolling down a road

[quote Hotelhelp]@ravenmum if someone told me not to look out the window it would be the first thing I did![/quote]
Even knowing a man with a gun might be out there?!

UFO

We were in the car...and, well, we saw a UFO fairly close. It was doing an incredible speed, came very close to the ground, changed direction and flew into the sky. No idea to this day what we saw. I googled the area after as I was thinking of reporting it, and it turns out the area is a bit of a hot spot (portsdown hill).

In a Dublin park a few years ago and saw two young girls sat on the grass having a picnic with two rabbits on leads lying next to them sunning themselves.