Tell me about the most jaw dropping OMG moment you've ever witnessed...

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Because everyone's got a story! And here is mine...

I was on a bus recently, quite a full bus. A wheelchair in the wheelchair space, one lady with a pram (unfoldable I think) in the buggy space. Bus pulled up at a bus stop, where two ladies are waiting with pushchairs, chatting to each other.

One lady gets on, parks her pushchair into the remaining buggy space. The second lady tries to get on, but the bus driver won't let her as the buggy space is now full. She asks the lady with the pram to get off the bus so she can travel with her friend. 'Pram lady' looks at her askance, and says sorry, but she needs to get home. Both pushchair ladies then proceed to loudly and verbally abuse the pram lady for being selfish and not getting off the bus, so they can travel together.

Everyone else on the bus was stunned into silence, the bus driver throws both pushchair ladies off the bus and drives off. Pushchair ladies stand at bus stop yelling and shaking fists at the receding bus!

I've never known so many bus passengers strike up conversation all at once, making sure the 'pram lady' was ok, and generally saying 'what a pair!'

Another one which was more 'did I just see that?' Than OMG..
On weekend trip down South, camping in a lovely tranquil spot with some friends, woke to the sound of jingling bells. Looked out of the tent to see a large group of Morris Dancers in full kit including clogs wandering towards our area. Being an ex dancer it didn't really phase me until I saw the chap at the back carrying a large drum. Totally naked except for socks and clogs. They greeted us with a cheery 'good morning Ladies' and went on their merry way...

The day I drove down a seedy side street to see a man injecting what I assume was heroin into his leg. He was stood under a street light with his trousers at half mast, presumably because the shops on the larger streets had those blue lights fitted to stop that happening.
I was genuinely shocked and also terribly saddened by it as it seemed such a wretched existence :(

Camberwell Green/Denmark Hill Folk there's a psychiatric hospital opposite King's.

Blue yes...I did attribute my odd sighting to the hospital at the time.

In an all you can eat Chinese once, we didn't realise how rough it was until we went in. Two men in their early 20s come in with 2 girls in their late teens, one of whom is very heavily pregnant. All drunk as skunks except pregnant girl.

Man repeatedly snipes at them all, tearing strips off non-pregnant girl for about 30 minutes until finally pregnant girl snaps. She jumped up and threw her pint of coke out of its glass over her shoulder (all over lady behind her) and smashed it over his head. His head was pouring with blood, there was glass in all the buffet and they are launching themselves at each other.

Chinese waitress comes out of back armed with a butter knife and a side dish and throws them out. She backed them down the stairs pointing this butter knife at them.

I have never been as in my life as it just came out of nowhere and was all over in about 2 minutes.

About 20 years ago I was on holiday in the South of Frnace, having lunch at a harbour. The last thing I expected to see was a Michael clarke Duncan look-alike strolling past, with a guinea pig on his shoulder.

On holiday in Menorca a few years ago, I also did not expect to see a tornado heading straight towards me, over the sea!

I see ferrets on leads fairly often, I thought that was fairly normal.....am I wrong?!

My friend has a couple of Ferrets she regularly walks on a lead. It's something I've always known and is fairly common in these parts.

Never seen a ferret but I've seen someone out with a rabbit on a lead and a harness, that was pretty weird.

A very sad, though surreal one. I was walking down Seven Sisters Road in North London in December 2012 and saw a man come flying out forcibly from the window of the upper deck of a moving bus, the entire window falling with him, and landing really badly on his head on the edge of the pavement. Half the bus got off and passersby tried to help him until the ambulance arrived. Apparently he'd been attacked and kicked so violently he flew backwards through the window.

I completely forgot about it, and we left London shortly after, until there was CCTV footage of it on a Routemasters documentary this year. The perpetrator was found but found not guilty in court, and the victim is paralysed.

Reminded by another post. A friend of a friend once told in low tones at a dinner party how she had seen a supernatural vision of riders and horses looming soundlessly out of the mist at dawn on Oxford St. I did consider leaving her to her delusions, and not point out that the Household Cavalry regularly exercises its horses at 7 or 7.30 in the area, but I started getting annoyed at the way she was embellishing it - saying they were dressed in 19th c clothes, and the horses hooves made no noise, and they suddenly disappeared. I could have saved my breath. She refused to believe me, and said that what she saw was definitely ghostly.

I know several people who have leads for their rabbits too! I used to have one for my rabbit but only used it in the garden, he loved it!!!

Travelling by bus through the city centre and an old lady of about 80 got on wearing a nike tracksuit with an old style ghetto blaster on her shoulder - it was playing 'Rambling Rose' full blast.

The funniest part though was the driver who just said 'thanks love' after she had shown her bus pass - just as though it was an everyday thing.

I'm remembering another one.. When I was I think just turned twenty I was admitted for a few nights to hospital. I was allowed to leave the ward freely on the last day, and went to the shop a couple of times for something to eat.

The hospital I was in is huge, absolutely massive. It's built in such a way that if you start at one end you can complete a full circuit using different corridors. It's about a miles walk.

To lengthen my walks to the shop I did half this circuit. One time I ended up sort of following a pair of nurses. One was pushing a wheelchair, the other pushing a cart.

We had to stop for lifts at the end of the walk to get back to wards. It was then I realised nurse one had a man in the wheelchair, who was ventilated with tracheostomy, looked wholly unaware of his surroundings, on all sorts of drips and drains etc.

The nurse behind him was carrying a crash cart with oxygen and defib etc.

The whole time they had been talking to the guy as if everything was completely normal, asking him what he thought of the new wall murals, if he could see the seagulls.

I was shocked at how ill he was and at the fact that they were taking him for a walk - their treatment of him, from what I could see, was just lovely.

I've seen many a man in garish nightclub-esque drag. Check.
Many a man in regular women's clothing complete with wigs and makeup. Check.
To see a large and burly man sporting a traditional and sparkly wedding type saree outfit complete with matching sequinned scarf. Mmmm, not so much! He was fiddling around with nail polish to as I went past. Ha!

A man sitting on a bench on a busy street stroking a Guinea Pig. Saw them twice more after that.

Mine is an awful one.
It was the local carnival fun day when I was a kid and one of the events was a stuntman whose trick was to dive off a massive tower and land on a pile of mattresses.
He missed the mattresses. An ambulance came.
Luckily he survived but was very seriously injured.

I saw someone walking a small pig in an inner city suburb of Melbourne, once. Nearly fell off my bike.

Our gardener when I was a child had a pet pig. He used to take it shopping with him on a lead and it waited for him outside shops.
Perfectly normal IMO

Nothing compared to these,but I was very when a man on a bus,quite obviously a drug addict, deliberately sneezed in the face of another passenger. It was disgusting. He was about a foot away from him at the time.

Also I saw a very near miss when a two year old boy suddenly bolted while walking along with his mother,who was pushing a pram. He was heading towards a very busy road,and ran across. She let go of the pram to run after him,the pavement was sloped and the pram continued onto the road,and started to turn then tip. The driver was just able to brake in time,or both the baby in the pram and the toddler would have been hit. That still shakes me u. I was on the opposite side so couldn't get there in time to do anything about it.

A horrible one was sitting on a bus in Glasgow city centre,and looking out the window,seeing a woman run right out in front of the bus i Was on.

I can still picture her very clearly,and I had maybe one or two seconds to see her and realise that it was impossible for the driver to avoid her. It felt much longer though,and I costed my eyes,not wanting to see the inevitable. I couldn't ignore though the very audible thud as the bus hit her.

Getting off that bus to go around to see how she was awful. I knew I had to,but I didn't know what I'd see.

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It's so annoying when you are on the bus behind them