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

[AlpacaPicnic]

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!'

[AnimalsAreMyFriends]

Sadly I am the disabled lady in the story and I have never been more mortified in my life.

I am older and more gobby wiser now & would probably give as good as I got these days.

Shudder just remembering it.

[JuniperJones]

A couple of years ago, I was in the gym one summer's evening looking out of the window on the treadmill. I began to realise that EVERY SINGLE PERSON I could see was in fancy dress. I looked over at my fellow gym-goers and none of them appeared to be freaked out. There were loads and loads of people all in various fancy dress get up.

I left the gym and went to the bus stop, more groups of people in fancy dress. I was beginning to think I had missed a serious city-wide memo and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out WTF was going on.

I got on the bus and lo! There were loads of people in fancy dress. I said to one person "Why are you all in fancy dress?!" and his response...

"Why aren't YOU in fancy dress!?!"

ARGH!

As it turned out, it was a fundraising thing for a massive employer here but it freaked me right out.

[VivaLeBeaver]

A woman who got on the train with a penguin under her arm which she informed the guard she'd caught it on the beach. This was Bridlington.



Guard informed her it was a gulliemot.

[AnimalsAreMyFriends]

@ the penguin from Bridlington beach!!!!

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I've seen a woman holding her child over a bin to wee - the bin was in an enclosed space inside a major tourist attraction, & the toilets were less than a metre away with no queues. Why???

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Also seen a man jump out of an upstairs window - not the most exciting thing in the thread, but it was a shock as I wasn't expecting it! I was just walking past!

[CharlieWoo]

Some of these are shocking!

[SilverOldie]

I was on a bus sitting on one of the long seats next to a woman trying to breastfeed her crying baby who just didn't want to know. In exasperation, the woman said 'right, if you don't want to feed I'll give it to the nice man opposite'. Man sits with look frozen on his face

[Ledare]

Ahahaha at the gulliemot

[NachoAddict]

My mind has gone blank after reading these, don't thnk I have seen anything that shocking though.

Animals so sorry that happened to you. What a disgusting woman she was.

[LynetteScavo]

Yesterday in Claire's Accessories.

Two girls (I think sisters/twins) getting their ears pierced. One girl had already had hers done, and the second girl was in the chair about to have hers pierced. First girl faints.

The shop assistant panics, and phones for security (who apparently don't answer). Mum puts fainted girl into recovery position, but her daughter in the piercing chair starts to cry because she's worried about fainted girl. (I went over and told her she would be OK - by now she was sitting up, but mum looked very stressed)

Then the next girl in the queue to have her ears pierced starts to cry and say she doesn't want her ears pierced. The two ladies with her (I think they were both her grandmothers) both firmly took an arm each and told her she would be fine.

Fainted girl and her family were taken to the back of the shop by the still much flustered shop lady (and a passing security guard I'd dragged in - I'm presuming he is first aid trained) while the two grandmothers escorted their little girl to the ear piercing chair, still crying and protesting.

I wanted to shout you "You are all loons! Leave your little girls ears alone if it causes this much stress. It's supposed to be fun!"

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

Arf at guillemot.
Dh and a friend of ours went to Scarborough. Walked up to North Beach, stood on cliff, looking out over packed beach. A jet fighter appeared and did a few passes over,nothing too exceptional. It then started flying closer and lower over the sea not too far out. Then did a swooping turn near the castle (lady in there said later she could see in the cockpit) and another lowish pass. Climbs a bit, does a loop and...disappears into the sea. Total silence, everyone on beach just . nothing at all in the paper or on the news.
Walked off totally stunned,past a man walking a bear. (Circus in town, bear liked a paddle, of course)

[VivaLeBeaver]

I was once driving on a duel carriageway and a scaffolding pole came off an overtaking van and through my driver's window.

That was quite jaw dropping!

[SizzlesSit]

In the middle of ten days of strikes. Packed commuter trains and platforms. Train doors about to shut - one woman grabbed another woman, pulled her off and took her place. Doors shut. Everyone on train and platform was

[VivaLeBeaver]

What happened to the plane? Had it crashed or just went out of sight?

[OnlyLovers]

Animals, I'm so angry for you!

at the Bridlington 'penguin' though. How on earth did she catch a guillemot?

[HarderThanYouThink]

A woman who lives on my road got absolutely steaming drunk, walked down our road, stopped, pulled her pants down, pissed, and walked off.

Anyway about an hour earlier im in the back garden having a fag when i hear a commotion, so i go to have a nosey, the drunk woman (who is in her 60's) has tried to climb into the field behind our row of houses and had got her cardigan and hair tangled in the barbed wire, screaming and shouting at other neighbours who are trying to help her out, the farmer who owns the field turned up and called the police.

I was like this at the whole thing!

[HarderThanYouThink]

*an hour later

[giveadogabonio]

This is a really horrible one :(

Very drunk lady used to come in the pub we worked in and chat to the landlord. I think he had been sympathetic to her when she came in from the bus stop outside once or twice.

Anyway, she obviously had a drink problem and used to come rolling in very very drunk. One time she was SO drunk and had missed her last bus home.

Landlord took her home, I went too, as I think he wanted to cover his back as it were.

Pulled up outside her house and her DH came out to the front of the house, she got out of the car and he hooked her round the neck with a walking stick and dragged her into the house :(

[giveadogabonio]

Another grim one from the same pub.

A rough looking guy aged around mid-50s came into the bar at lunchtime. He was with a girl who didn't speak English, around 17 years old. I don't know how they had come to be in each other's company, she seemed to be under the impression he was just buying her lunch.

When he was at the bar he was saying all sorts of obscene things about what he was going to do to her, and she was utterly, utterly oblivious. She wanted a soft drink and he was trying to get me to put alcohol in it.

When they left I ran upstairs and got my friend out of the kitchen. We followed them down the street and into the supermarket they disappeared into. We waited til he walked down an aisle to look for something and accosted her, basically communicating that he was a dodgy fucker and didn't have good intentions and got her to come back to the pub with us leaving the weirdo behind.

[BertieBotts]

Mine was probably the time I asked my boss at the time if I could be trained in testing electrical items. He looked heavily suspicious and then said, outright, "I'm not being funny, but I like my girls to stay on tills."

[LisaMed]

I went to see Dracula the Ballet (really great) and a lot of the audience were dressed up. Someone behind me in a long Victorian dress dropped their programme and I handed it back to her. Except 'her' was a 'him'. Don't get me wrong, whatever floats your boat but it made me blink.

So did the person on the bus dressed as a green elf. DH told me he probably worked at the elf service. He got his coat.

[Snatchoo]

My mind has gone blank at things I've seen, but the most horrifying thing I've ever heard was when a friend was having a meal with her partner (both women) and two men went into the restaurant just to verbally and physically abuse them. As in, holding one of them by the throat up against the wall for having the audacity to be gay.

Thankfully they were both caught and jailed but that was no thanks to the restaurant staff who did nothing till the men ran out

[Xfirefly]

Gosh what is it with poo in such public places!? I can add to this..someone had a poo in the sauna where I work. just pooed and left it there for the poor assistant to find.

Also, had people have sex in the jacuzzi...grim

[RavenRose]

A good few years ago while a student a group of us had gone to a bit of a dive as the beer was cheap. Went to the loo and there's a women, skirt hitched up around her waist peeing away with the loo door wide open.

My drink addled brain picked up that something wasn't quite right. As she finished all I heard was "ah fuck, forgot me knickers". She then pulled her pee soaked knickers off, wrung them out in the sink and tried to dry them with hand drier. Except she could barely stand so asked me to help. I was pretty pissed myself but not that pissed