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!'

Reading through these I think the most OMG I have had was on a bus in Birmingham on the way to an early morning lecture. A teenage boy got on with a bunched up carrier bag. He sat at the top at the front and proceeded to stick his head in the bag off and on my whole journey. Being a student I assumed he was hungover and barfing. It wasn't till the end of the ride and we got off my mate (more worldly than me...) explained he was sniffing glue. At about 8.30am. On a bus full of people. I'm still a bit

I'm an awful cunt for:

chocolate
very salty crisps
poncey fancy loose-leaf tea
clothes shopping
procrastinating instead of working like now

I went on a mini break with my oldest friend to somewhere in Scotland. Getting there was a nightmare due to the very high winds and driving rain.
The following morning, we went along to the harbour/shore and sat on the sea wall taking selfies. Just along from us was an object and we began to speculate whether it was a bag of contraband or a ball of clothing washed up - we did not go over to look. (The object was in the background of all our selfies)
Next thing, there were men running past us then the coastguard and police arrived, we were surprised at all the activity and felt it might be polite to move away.
We found out that a tourist who did not know the area had attempted to pitch a tent on a forbidden dangerous area and the wind had picked the tent up then dashed it on the rocks below. I will not say what the object was but I'm sure you can guess.

A young couple with a tiny baby sat on the next table to ds and I in mcds. From earwigging their conversation they had left hospital and come straight for a burger on the bus (baby was in a car seat). The mum tried to give the baby milkshake from the straw. They both seemed confused that it couldn't/ wouldn't take it. It was without doubt one of the saddest things I've ever seen. Ds and I cooed over the baby and I asked if mum was OK.

Oh Marceline that has made me terribly sad too.

oh GentleOtter

Recently saw a bloke one morning, on one of the busiest roads going into town, in Rush hour Traffic, cycling away as if he was in the middle of the countryside, holding a giant Coffee Cup and taking the occasional sip from it, whilst keeping all the Traffic waiting behind him.

My dearly departed and much missed inlaws discovered they were living next door to what they assumed were Swingers. These people would regularly sunbathe naked and sit starkers in their conservatory . In the middle of the night once, my MIL woke up to voices outside and flashes against her window. She looked out of her window to see the woman next door posing naked on the roof of her car whilst her partner took photos on a huge camera. Another couple she'd never seen before were with them, watching fully clothed at the gate in silence. There were a couple of jaw droppers with them, including the time i was in the back garden with my FIL. Luckily he was quite deaf and doing a bit of Gardening. I could hear the woman next door talking on Skype or whatever online. The window was wide open and she was saying things like "So you want to see my tits do you..." I was embarassed just listening and stuck the radio on. FIL was oblivious

I was once waiting to cross a busy road when in my early twenties, when a young man walked up to me and very deliberately gobbed right in my face. I stood there stunned, watching him walk off with his friend, doing the 'pimp/Liam Gallagher' walk.

When i was about 18, on holiday in Malta, i was walking home with a boy who was very nice but not really my type, and wondering how to get rid of him. As we were nearing my hotel we saw a man come out onto his balcony, start swaying a bit (first or second floor i can't remember now) and then fall straight off it. He landed a couple of feet infront of us, flat on his back. He was groaning and drunk. I had to run in to his room and gather a few belongings together for him and then he was taken off in an ambulance. I don't really remember what happened to him after that but i think he may have broken his back.

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That has just reminded me, when I wads working as a holiday rep I got a frantic call in the night from someone who's mate had fallen from a balcony and they were waiting for the ambulance to arrive. They wanted to know if I would come sit with them (it was just those two girls), I came over just as the ambulance had arrived.
She had fallen on her back and was in a pretty bad way. The ambulance men, at first one of them trod on her (her hand), going around her, then they lifted her by the arms and legs onto the trolley, so no support at all for her back. I was .
I had to call her insurance company (long story) and my manager tried to get me to deny that I had seen any of that, tried to get me to agree that I wouldnt mention the shoddy care by the ambulance drivers.

In a chemist in New York a young woman went up one of those very long escalators, with a toddler in a buggy. About half way up the little girl who wasn't strapped in, leaned forward and fell out. She rolled like a rag doll. I saw the whole thing happen in slow motion helpless to do anything about it as I was too far away. It felt like such a long time before anyone pressed the emergency stop button. The little girl was covered in cuts but didn't seem to have any serious injuries remarkably. I was so worried that her long hair was going to be caught up and that she would be scalped. The Mum hadn't even noticed that her daughter had fallen until the escalator stopped. I felt sick and tearful for days afterwards.

Before DH and I were married we had a holiday in Bali. We had been travelling around and returned to Kuta the morning after the 2002 bombings. We hadn't heard so were completely unprepared. It was the most eerie, sad and terrifying thing I've ever seen. We had seperate flights out of Bali, DH went about 12 hours before me so I spent the night after the bombings alone in a hotel room. It's a very surreal feeling to have been so close to such an awful event

Hypo - I had a similar experience, though not anywhere near as close to the scene as you were, which must have been awful.

I did a year out before uni in 2001 - 8 months slogging my guts out in a warehouse to fund 2 months travelling around Peru. In early September, I'd gone on a trip into the Amazon. Went in on the 9th, came back on the 11th. No power, radio, or anything like that. We got to the local airport, and though our flight was delayed, there was no explanation why. It wasn't until we got back to Cusco in the late afternoon/early evening that we found out about what had happened. So weird and eerie, to walk into that scale of an event without any warning. One of the girls I was travelling with was from New York. We spent the evening in an internet cafe, making sure she could contact her family and trying to comfort her.

Transferring back through JFK a few weeks later was also, understandably, a strange experience.

Two little things, being picked up and shaken by the uniform for telling a man the supermarket had run out of cream (pre-christmas rush) and him screaming that we couldn't run out of cream what kind of shop were we? When he stopped screaming I suggested that he might want to put me down so the nice security guards behind him could have a chat.

He did come in after christmas to apologise, first time he had been left to do the holiday shop alone with family coming to them and totally stressed.

Second sitting in a mother care feeding room bring when a couple come in with a baby thats about 1 month old and two macdonalds meals. Mother proceeds to empty milk out of bottle fill with fanta and feed to baby cooing about how much she liked it. When the bottle was empty tried to bf and wondered why the baby didn't want it, massive fuss when baby threw up (q screaming about best designer labels) scream at father who refuses to hold baby in case she ruins his labels. Then proceeded to try and feed baby chips to quieten her down and coke, though this time warmed in the bottle warmer. Luckily a couple of mums suggested that babies that age couldn't have fizzy drinks esp coke and defiantly not solids. The parents left still bickering about what they could feed the baby....poor kid.

Actually just remembered my favourite.

Massive que for the ladies toilets in a Swiss services as three coaches had pulled in together. We saw three nuns take one look at the very long que and walk into the mens. Couple of blokes hurried out pretty quick.

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis if the jet crash at Scarborough happened in 1983,I was there that day too.
The pilot died .
Report of the incident here

I am totally at these stories of newborn babies being fed milkshake and fanta, FFS! It's not hard is it, they drink MILK of some kind?? I mean why empty the milk out to feed something else? It makes no sense!

And now I discover there's 2 pages on this thread.....

I think you can put it back to 1000 Kahuna if you want to.

Thank you, thank you, thank you bertie

I've just remembered a recent one. Had gone to tesco and was on the travelator with dh. Dh hears me say "erm no...no no no no!" And all I can see is this toddler with a car trolley heading on to the travelator. Problem is, I'm not far enough up to stop or shout and going the other way is too far too. So the child pushes it on to the travelator and it doesn't lock like normal trolleys and the child takes off and lands very fast at the bottom smashing into the stand with hot cross buns. It was very lucky he didn't hit anyone.

You can hear him crying loudly at the bottom and we reach the top and I'm looking about for any adults with him, when an older guy in his 50's approaches and says loudly, "How did you get down there!" Had to hold dh back from saying anything.

When dtds were 12, I was called urgently up the street by one of their friends as dtd2 had gone a purler - a faceplant - onto the pavement. She was huddled on some steps being looked after by a neighbour, blood on her face. She looked up at me and said 'my teeth are gone'.

And they were. Her two top front teeth were just jagged stumps.

Took three days (it happened on a Saturday morning) to get them rebuilt, on NHS.

Alpaca
When I was 18 mths old I stood on the edge of a washing-up bowl in the garden, which flipped up and smacked me in the mouth. I spent the first few years of my life without front teeth - got fed up of hearing 'all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth'
Times have thankfully changed!

Grooves what's a travelator?

Groovee what's a travelator? Similar to a escalator but it's all flat and the trolley's wheels normally click on like a magnet to stop it rolling. But the car one didn't click on and raced the child right down to the bottom at a fast speed.

ok like an airport walkway almost but ascending/descending.

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