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!'

I also saw a weird plane incident when I was about seven and playing in my Auntie's garden one Saturday afternoon with my cousins - it was definitely a Saturday as we used to go every week. They lived on a small holding with no houses nearby, just a busy A road and an industrial estate.

A huge jumbo jet flew right over the garden, it was very, very low. As low as you would expect a plane to be if you were stood at the end of a runway watching them taking off. There were two much smaller planes, possibly fighter jets, either side of it and they were sort of flying in a formation together.

It was bizarre. They didn't live anywhere near an airport, and as far as I know no one else saw it. My cousins are younger that me and don't remember it at all. The only explanations I can think of is that it was some kind of air show passing by, or it was terrorist related and the jet was sign escorted somewhere. This was the late 80's or early 90's so around the time of the Lockerbie bombing so not beyond the realms of possibility.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else saw it as it's always left me puzzled.

In Savers in my town of SE London last year there was a Nigerian man happily doing his shopping who was then stopped by a white man saying 'why are you following me? Everywhere I've been today, you're there' - the Nigerian man attempted to say I'm not doing anything but he wasn't listening to reason and the staff tried to intervene. Eventually they had to threaten this man with calling the police - the funniest thing was the white man had no shopping basket or bags with him so it looked as though it was most likely the white man following the Nigerian man!
Sadly, my best friend witnessed a kidnapping and reported it to the police - very scary gang of Eastern European man bundling a screaming man into the car, she never heard back but doubt the outcome there was good

Am I dreaming it or was there a lovely story on the news a few years back about the sergeant of the cavalry treating the soldiers to an early morning Macdonalds breakfast in a drive through? I'm sure I read somewhere about the horses, out on excercise, all assembled at Macdonalds at about six in the morning?

Will have to google now.

Ooh found it!

I knew I hadn't dreamt it.

Wooden Hindu statues drinking milk.

Mine's not that jaw dropping, but OMG -

standing in long a queue in a park and the lady (loosely used) in front of us poked her finger nail up her child's nose, rummaged and hooked out a bogey, inspected and flicked it, all the while chatting to her friend.

Standing in the baggage reclaim hall waiting for my suitcase to appear on the carousel. Nearby was the lost/found baggage kiosk with tons of suitcases piled up. A young girl was complaining to her mother about needing the loo. Despite the fact that there are loos in the hall, the mother was too concerned about missing her suitcase (evidently nobody had told her they do come back around again) and instructed her DD to 'just go over there.'

So the girl went and crouched in the middle of all the suitcases and peed on the floor I was only young myself at the time so didn't say anything, but I've never forgotten it!

As a wee 'un I used to work on Brighton Pier. My all-time moment was when a guy who was being marched off the pier by a security guard for being drunk and disorderly took off his prosthetic leg and proceeded to chase-hop after the security guard, brandishing his leg like a club. We couldn't move for laughing, the security guard was laughing even as he was running away - he'd have got an almighty smack round the head if he'd been caught!

Sorry I have another poo one. Years ago I used to stay with my Mum and step dad on this rough estate in Essex where their flat was. Some parents were standing outside the shops chatting outside our window with their kids running round the green with some other kids on their own. A little girl went whining to her mum about something (couldn't hear as was on balcony) but mum told her something so off the girl trotted, pulled down her knickers and done a massive shit on the green. She wasn't like overly young to, about 5? Que the group of lads there one of them with a thick scottish accent shouting "oi shit arse" and the woman just completely ignored it like it was normal doing a poo on the green!

yes blue, I know - I am rather more referring to those who had either completely escaped without permission or has nothing to do with the psych hosp. I think I can turn a blind eye to most bizarre things esp when attributable to illness, it's the other ones that were worrying!

In terms of 'can't believe my eyes' things, we were once driving back from somewhere along the M40, stepdad driving and me and DB in the car (we must have been late teens/early 20s so not young children).

A black car zoomed up the fast lane past us, then went across all three lanes of traffic in one go without indicating, onto the hard shoulder then up the grass slope and took off the top, literally flying into the trees. DSD pulled over and we sat there wondering if we really had seen it, a couple of other cars stopped too. DB ran into the trees and the car was there, wedged into them. Remarkably the driver was ok - he's obviously had a fit or something but was conscious and unhurt. I will never get over the thought that he managed to cross all three lanes of a busy motorway without clipping anyone else.

When as an impressionable fifteen year old, our catholic secondary school hit the front page of the News of the World as my French teacher had been found having sex with underage pupils, and posing for obscene photos in front of the blackboard with the music teacher!

Ilove reminded me...
A black shiny carriage, think wedding/funeral pulled by a pair of beautiful black Freesian horses in full show harness complete with black plumes on their heads, at the drive through mcdonalds in our town centre!

ooh the tiger pissing ones remind me, when I was little we used to go to Chester Zoo all the time. One visit there were some horrible boys taunting the tiger, yelling and poking sticks (couldn't get them actually into the cage but making their intentions clear).

The tiger eventually got fed up with them, strolled over, aimed perfectly and pissed all over them. Very satisfying to watch!

In Florida on honeymoon. Staying in a relative's holiday house in a residential beach town. Neighbours come over to say hi and we go over to their house for a drink. Lovely middle aged couple, having a lovely chat. I ask whether they are originally from the town and the wife replies that they are from Connecticut and moved there a few years ago. Husband adds "yes we love it down here because there are no blacks"
We made our excuses and left and avoided them for the rest of the holiday but I have always been annoyed that I didn't say anything :(

And a plane one...
poo picking in my paddock on a gorgeous summer afternoon. A spitfire appears overhead and starts enjoying itself, dipping in and out of the clouds, rolling, turning and putting on a great display complete with that fabulous Merlin engine roar that spitfire make.
suddenly, the plane cuts it's engines and goes into a real fast dive, drops behind the tree lined and completely disappears.
Was going too fast and too sleep to land, there's no engine sounds, no crash or explosion, he just dips out of sight and doesn't reappear! I was rather there was nobody else there to discuss it either. to this day I have no idea where he went!

Ooo, just thought of another one. A car stopped at the junction of Cricklewood Broadway while the lights were red: windows were open and loud shouting coming from within. Suddenly the driver flung his door open, jumped out, ran to the back door on his side, flung it open, yanked the guy sitting there towards him, punched him smartly in the face 3 times, slammed the door shut, jumped back into the driving seat and drove off!

Just yesterday I popped to the shops, this supermarket has a queuing system where there is one line for everyone to queue in and then the open till will call you. So we are all standing in the queue and all the way along is the shelf laden with chocolates and sweets (you get the idea). This couple were in front of me, the man was ahead and she was lingering looking at the slabs of chocolates. At the top of his voice he shouts at her "put that chocolate down, you are not having it so just stop it" . Ah man I felt so bad for that women.

When I was a student, I worked part time in a large shop. There was a young woman (20 ish) who started at the same time as me. She must have been clean and presentable at the interview, but she seemed to have stopped washing after her first day. She had greasy hair hanging in strings around her face, always had smelly grubby uniform, and you'd see her write on the back of her hand and it would still be there days later. She also had horrendous acne around her hairline, which I know usually isn't linked to cleanliness, but in her case, I'd presume it was caused by her lack of hair/skin washing.

I was sitting in the staff room, reading a paper and eating my lunch when I happened to glance over at her. She was distractedly, whilst also reading, prodding a spot on her forehead. As she kneaded at it (and I watched in horror), it popped onto her fingers. She gave it a good squeeze to get some more out. She then examined her fingers, then licked the pus off them.

I nearly threw up. I told one of my colleagues what had happened in absolute disgust, and he told the manager, who sacked her that same day. She'd already had written warnings for lack of cleanliness, so it was a 'final straw' incident. I felt pretty bad, because something was obviously not right with her, but it was vile.

Oh I just remembered another one, which is much funnier than my last one....

Years back when dh and I had just met I had an old VW Beetle. Dh at the time had long hair, which is blonde. We had been on a night out and I was driving home and dh in passenger seat. We stopped at lights and this car pulls up with two blokes inside. Driver winds down window and shouts, "fancy a shag ladies". To which DH turns and glares out the window at them. Only then did the bloke realize dh was in fact a he not a she, they just sped off on the red light. I laugh about this all the time

I was wandering around the local animal park (now long closed) when I saw a young chimpanzee sneaking through a window and walking down the path. I heard the Keeper shout "Oi you, get back in here" to which the chimp duly turned around and went back in.

Just remembered a weird one.

I was on a plane coming back from Cyprus about 20 years ago. The plane was delayed taking off and everyone was tense and grumpy. The man sat next to me was particularly grumpy and a bit agitated (I was sat in the aisle seat, he was next to me in the middle seat) but I thought nothing of it. He was about 25, huge big bloke, looked really tough.

As the plane eventually took off he started whimpering and pushing the seat in front of him with his hands, then finally shouting and screaming "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! WE'RE GOING TO CRASH AND DIE IN A FIREBALL! FUCKING HELL, FUCKING HELL, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"

He was absolutely terrified. I had no idea what to do, but he was staring at me in utter panic with tears streaming down his face. So I held out my hand and he took it. We sat there for about 5 minutes, total strangers with him screaming away and sobbing.

When it became clear we were safely airborne, he calmed down and said "sorry about that" and was absolutely calm the rest of the flight.

There is a. Like who walks his pot bellied pig near where my friend lives. First time I saw them I giggled all the way to hers.

I was about 39 weeks pregnant and my brothers band were playing in a pub local to my house.

DH & I walked there up the hill and I sat down while he got us a drink. I'm
not opposed to the occasional glass of wine in pregnancy but I was thirsty and having apple juice.

The woman on the table next to us was about 60 and kept making comments, muttering to herself. Like 'shouldn't be here', 'drinking drinking' and even an 'I might have to perform surgery'

My DH thought it was hilarious until we decided to leave about half ten and she walked all the way down the hill behind us muttering.

I was pretty terrified at the time!

Seeing a woman doing a poo at the big roundabout at Elephant & Castle, 7am on Christmas Day, 2006.