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!'

At uni we, a flat of girls, lived in halls next to a flat of barely housetrained guys. Our tea towels kept going missing, and one day we found them all... in their large walk in cleaning cupboard, with a pile of wank mags.. yes they had a 'wank cupboard' and were wanking into our tea towels. And no, we don't want them back thank you very much.

Speaking of seeing 'odd things' or maybe not remembering them well....When I was younger (probably about 10-11), I remember me and my brothers gazing out of the window while my mum and dad were getting
ready to go out (they had a date night every Friday and my nan would come over and babysit), and seeing it was a full moon, but and I am sure I didnt imagine this, you know sometimes the moon seems really low/close, t was like that, but it looked really low, like it seemed to be hanging over half the street, you could almost see the craters/spots on it. It was amazing.
Also (I was obsessed with looking at the night sky), I remember again being small (about 7 maybe), and my brother lifted me on to the counter top in the kitchen to look at 'aliens' he had seen out the window, I was scared and when I looked up I saw flashes of orange darting in the sky, just for a few moments. I was really scared.

When I was living in Camden I had a flat near some very interesting people. I remember a particular couple, a man and a woman possibly (i was never sure), both about 7ft tall and the female of the pair had bright orange dreadlocks and the male had lime green. They were dressed head to toe in black leather and pvc in the heat of June and topped off their ensembles with world war 2 gas masks. They had just come back from shopping at Sainsburys and were carrying their bags for life with baguettes and stuff sticking out of them.

My dad was convinced they were satanists.

Even satanists can see the benefit of Nectar Points enormouse

My biggest OMG moment was watching 9.11.

I was working at a college. One of the teachers ran into the staff room and said 'you need to see this' - showed the story unfolding online. I was very, very scared and wondered if it was the end of the world.

I can't image how utterly terrified New Yorkers must have been.

Last week, walking down London Road in Leicester. Dad, Mum and 2 children, a girl of about 4 and a smaller boy. Mum and Dad are both carrying cans of something.

Girl is carrying a brown teddy. Dad steps in something - not sure what it was, so Dad takes her teddy and wipes his shoe with it. Girl is upset and crying. I said to the Dad it was a disgusting thing to do, he told me to 'shut the fuck up'.

I called 101 to report it but I doubt they will find them.

Now that you mention it minifingers, I was watching live on Sky News at work when the second plane crashed into the towers. Up until then we'd all assumed it was an accident. I do remember panicking that Bush was going to start WW3 over it. I lived and worked near Heathrow when it happened and it was a very worrying time.

When I worked in a neonatal unit a few years ago a young father was in with his wife visiting their 2 day old daughter. They were staying in the hospital. As they went to leave to go to their bedroom the father asked me did I have condoms!!!!!

Coming home in the early hours of a New Years day some years ago now, all was silent!
Until I drove around a corner to see two men, totally naked, playing tennis on the grass outside a local pub!!!

Quite surreal.

And it was freezing that night!

My friend who is a retired midwife said a couple of times she had to tactfully intervene in an amorous situation.........on the post-natal ward.

I am so astonished by all the stories on this thread.

NoMoreMarbles - that reminds me of a few things I saw whilst working a big Leeds nightclub.

There was a corner that appeared a little out the way (but still just off the main dance floor) and was in the view of one of the cctv cameras. Regularly used to see couples going at it there.

However worst was the student tequila night - clearing up afterwards you really needed gloves as there were often actual pint glasses full of sick - and once some lad at the bar opened his mouth to order and projectile vommed, with liberal splashing of the poor girl who was serving him. I hated working that night, only one we had st John's ambulance on site for.

Shopping with dh and the dd's a few years ago I saw a load of people running ahead of me then a crowd of people gathered round someone. I thought it was someone who had collapsed. Turned out, someone had jumped from the 4 th. poor dh hear him landing and was really upset for sometime. Still doesn't like going to that part of the mall.

Minifingers, I also remember watching it as it unfolded.

The first plane had gone in, and we were al OMG how could this happen.

Then the horrible moment where the second plane went in, and everybody realised it wasn't and accident, but an attack.

The people on top floors jumping out of windows, and one waving a handkerchief.

The firemen going in to save people, then dying when it all collapsed.

It was truly the most shocking thing I have ever seen on TV

On the Northern line last year, train about to leave the station, the beeps go - and a couple come running towards the door with a pushchair. The man shout 'quick!' and the woman shoves the pushchair onto the train and the doors close ON THE PUSHCHAIR. Everyone on the train gasped but luckily it was a sturdy pushchair and the toddler in it was fine. The parents didn't seem bothered at all, on the contrary they were quite chuffed to have got the train.

Two Swiss stories:

DW and I were walking up to Blumlisalphutte above Kandersteg when we hear excited laughter, and a couple come leaping down the snowfield. Below the knees they're wearing gaiters and boots, they've got ski poles and rucksacks. He's in speedos, she's in a bikini. Fair enough. Then the clag comes down and it starts snowing so we turn back. Two turns of the path, and there they are. The boots are still on, nothing else is, and she's keeping his ears warm. So we crouch shivering behind a rock until the gladsome cries have finished.

Three days later in the packed train up to Jungfraujoch, the two women opposite get kitted up for ice climbing by stripping to their knickers. Being British, I murmur "entschuldigen sie, bitte" while staring at the ceiling. "Keine problem, danke" says one. DW makes an odd noise, which she tell me later was caused by by a nipple in the eye.

When I was 18 I lived in St Tropez for a year. One evening a friend and I had gone to the local bar for a drink and a man started talking to us. When my friend went to the toilet, this man held open his jacket and showed me a knife in his inside pocket whilst saying nothing but looking at me and smiling. It was proper OMG!

My friend came back and I told her very quickly in English (so he wouldn't understand) what had happened. We pretended to go to the toilet together and the person behind the bar let us go out the back. We ran all the way back to our houses. We were terrified but had to pretend that everything was ok. We never saw him again.

I saw a lady pit her suitcases and pushchair on a train and was just about to get on herself when the doors closed and the train started moving

however luckily someone raised the alarm and the train stopped 200 yards up the line , poor lady was in tears

Thank you all for sharing some awesome stories and for putting this in classics!
My second classics thread! I'm so proud... I'd like to thank the academy, my parents...

Fili that's terrifying!

We accidentally parked by the nudist beach on holiday in the south of France once so walked through it to get to the main beach. On the way we saw a middle aged man who had worked out a rather ingenious place to keep his keys. Attached to his Prince Albert

Perhaps he had the Prince Albert fitted specifically in order to have somewhere to put his keys .

Not as funny as a lot of these but...

Was on holiday in Cornwall a few years ago and decided to take the girls to the zoo. We took a picnic and when it was lunch time sat to eat. My eldest (then 3) was about to take a bite of a wagon wheel (her favorite) when this massive guillemot (well, i think it was anyway) swoops down, snatches it out of her hand and flies back up again... a stunned silence ran round the table while her bottom lip wobbles and her eyes fill up with tears, me and DP look at each other waiting for the inevitable wail of heartbreak, holding our breath and then she says "Can I get my face painted now?"

i was woken up by lots of splashing one night and feeling really puzzled about it so i looked out my window and saw my neighbours having sex in their kids paddling pool