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“The Squirrel Won”: 50 Public Moments So Chaotic People Still Can’t Believe They Saw Them
Normally, chaos is reserved for the big screen (or little screen, in the age of short form videos) but every now and then real life has its moments. So someone asked “What’s the most chaotic thing you’ve witnessed in public?” and people shared their most unhinged examples.
From very public crash-outs to just a Rube Goldberg machine of things going wrong, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the best posts and be sure to detail your own wild encounters in the comments down below. While most are quite amusing, there are a handful that are a bit dark, so be warned.
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#1
Saw a full-blown, screaming argument between a guy and a squirrel over a single french fry. The squirrel won.
glowworm2 4 days ago
I fought the squirrel and the squirrel won. I fought the squirrel and the squirrel won.
Birgit M 4 days ago
I lost my fry and it feels so bad. Guess my race is run. It was the best fry that I ever had...
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KatWitch57 3 days ago
So the 3 month (ginger) kitten catches and brings in an adult squirrel. Brings it in up a full set of steps and through 2 cat flaps no less. Then he lets it go. 2 adult people and 13 (yes, I know but ...) cats, all lost while the squirrel performed the "wall-of-death" around the entire house for several hours. You couldn't make it up.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
Just because you've only been violated a little bit doesn't mean you weren't violated and upset about it. And while I totally understand the guy not recovering the fry I'm curious about how the squirrel won the argument.
nottheactualphoto 3 days ago
Squirrel was captain of the debating team. Human was not.
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#2
I was in Seattle and watched a guy in a cab honk at a cyclist. The cyclist then pulled the guy out of his cab and proceeded to beat the [hell] out of him. A few seconds later, like three other cab drivers ran over and kicked the [hell]of the cyclist. Then a homeless guy stole the bike that was laying in the intersection.
It was like 30 seconds of pure madness.
Maartje 4 days ago
hehehe:) I have seen some truly chaotic shite in Seattle and I was there for only 3 days.
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Tommy DePaul 18 hours ago (edited)
And yet, somehow it seems like the debt to Karma was paid in full . . . .
Wonnie-Cookie713 3 days ago
I had to read it 3 times before I could get a grasp of what in the world happened.
Grumpy old man 3 days ago
Sounds like Austin, right around UT. Gregory Gym always stinks of pee
#3
Saw a dude try to chase his own runaway shopping cart down a hill, grab it, miss, spin, and accidentally tackle a random guy who was just walking by.
Both of them went down like bowling pins. the cart kept going. a third guy tried to stop it and slipped. It was like watching a live action slapstick scene with zero music.
Mark Alexander 3 days ago
Needs a couple of guys crossing the street with a plate glass window.
Bill Swallow 3 days ago
And a delivery van full of pies with the rear doors open.
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#4
I wasn’t there but I’ve heard the story a few times.
My mom used to pretty much live in high heels. One day at a busy, fairly nice restaurant, she was sitting with her legs crossed for a bit too long. Her foot went numb. As her group stood up to leave, mom lost her balance, stumbled back, her shoe went flying across the restaurant, and she landed in a random guy’s lap.
Legend has it, he looked at her and said “this isn’t what I ordered”. She had to hobble across the room to get her shoe back.
Bec 4 days ago
I once chipped a bone in my foot because I had been sitting on top of my foot while sitting in a hard chair at school, when I went to stand up and walk away to leave, my foot was still asleep and I bent it funny - had to wear a boot for 4-weeks.
BrownEyedGrrl 3 days ago
I did the exact same thing, but broke 2 bones in my foot. Fun times.
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Ashley Harrold 3 days ago
The only way this story could be better is if that was how their parents met
#5
Has to be an attempted kidnapping in the Orlando (MCO) airport one night. we were walking to our hotel at the airport and heard the most awful scream from about 30 yards away. turned our heads to see a man with a little girl in a stranglehold and waving to onlookers to stay away. thankfully a few brave folks approached while one snuck behind and knocked his legs out from under him. they got him subdued and police arrived seconds later. it felt like it lasted an eternity, but was probably over in under 15 seconds.
Kit Black 3 days ago
And no way of knowing whether that was an actual kidnapping attempt or a dad with a kid having a major tantrum... I'm glad folks stepped in to ensure the kid was ok, but I'd love to know whether the cops arrested the guy, or checked his ID and found her was the father...
Tams21 3 days ago
The child was being held in a stranglehold. Even if she was having a tantrum and the man was her father, it's absolutely the right thing for people to intervene.
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My dog once found some garbage bags with a cut up rotting carcass in it, dumped in the woods.
He went completely feral from the smell and wrestled himself out of his harness and jumped face first into that pile of rotting deliciousness. He was in heaven, rolling around in it, while gorging himself on rotting organs, and every time I tried to approach him he turned into a feral wolf trying to guard it’s bounty.
I wasn’t sure if the remains were human or animal so I called the police but the smell was so overwhelmingly disgusting I kept dryheaving and vomiting while trying to explain to the dispatcher what was happening. She was like ‘wait… your dog found a body and is now eating it?? What is he eating exactly?’ Me dry-heaving: ‘the heart, liver, intestines I dunno!!’ Her, to her colleagues in the background ‘this lady’s dog is eating a body and she keeps vomiting’ Then I heard them giggling in the background.
About twenty minutes later police arrived on the scene to find me still dryheaving and my deliriously happy dog, covered in blood and gore rolling around in a scene out of a horror movie. They could not stifle their laughs! W*f…
They got him out in the end and send us home. Took me three days to get the smell of putrefaction out of him.
Police later called back to tell me it was a sheep carcass. So at least my dog didn’t eat a human.
It was the best day of his life.
ETA: oh yeah so this was in a sort of ditch between a woodsy area and a busy road so a lot of passing cars saw a woman vomiting while a feral blood covered wolf looking dog played with viscera.
Upstaged75 4 days ago
🤣🤣🤣 This is a brilliant description of the event. I'm crying with laughter after reading it.
Beak Hookage 4 days ago
I was walking my dog to a nice tea place and he rolled in a dead kangaroo. I was mortified.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
Dogs LOVE roo carcasses. Had one on my property once, had to keep the dog away from it for weeks before it was gone.
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Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
I know this sounds terribly insensitive, but the cops are well aware that the chances this was a human body were low because we smell slightly different when we purify and most dogs have sensitive noses. So it's experience that made them laugh.
Maartje 4 days ago
You an expert? I am asking this while backing away - slowly-
Load More Replies... moggiemoo 3 days ago
I'm pretty sure even Asda don't have rotting sheep, even in the 'reduced' section.
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roddy 3 days ago
Sounds like something out of a horror film. It says a lot about desensitization that the dispatch team and police thought it was funny. The reason so many police are incredibly insensitive is that being exposed to constant trauma forces them to distance themselves until they are like zombies.
#7
I only heard about this. My parent took her Mastiff puppy to the mall to get X mas photos. The dog was under a year old but @ 100lbs. She sat in front of the drape and had her photo taken.
Once the photo was done, something got her attention and she pushed the drape aside and started running through the mall.
My parent started chasing after her as the dog raced towards Macy's. On the way, the dog spotted a woman with a baby in a stroller. My parent could not catch up with her but yelled at the woman, "She doesn't bite!" The dog licked the baby in the face and took off towards Macys.
She ended up running into the fine jewelry section and planted herself next to an old lady (who was not amused).
I still have this photo and love it.
Caffeinated Ape 3 days ago
This is the first time I've seen "actual photo" next to the photo credit! Usually it's the opposite.
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Sly Schlang 2 days ago
What a disgustingly bad schooled dog. If I was parent to the baby getting molested I would strangle the dogs owners with my bare hands.
WayoftheStarPrincess 1 day ago
I must be getting tired. I came halfway through before I realised it wasn't the parent in the photo and that was wildly running around licking babies...
Bewitched One 3 days ago
They said “her” but I guess it could be possible.
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Minding my business driving to work one morning on a two lane road (both lanes going in the same direction) when the vehicle in front of me comes to a dead stop. No red light, no stop sign. Just stopping in the middle of the road. Another vehicle pulls up next to me in the adjacent lane and stops also. The drivers of both vehicles get out all aggressive and start screaming at each other. They look similar enough that I think they may be siblings. It escalates to a physical altercation in front of me. Now mind you this is the morning work commute so there are cars piling up behind me and they are honking and yelling but these two are undeterred. Now a woman gets out of the vehicle that had stopped beside me ans she is trying her best to pull them apart. She looks like she could be their mother further supporting my impression that these are brothers. She gets them pulled apart finally the one dudes shorts are around his ankles and there he is in his drawers and the other guys shirt got ripped off. Dude with the shirt ripped off gets out of the woman's grip and runs to the grassy median and pulls an election sign out of the ground and then starts beating his brother with it.
Ironically enough the elections sign was a "Make America Great Again" sign and i could help but to find that funny.
#9
I was working at a bar downtown and I stepped in to the alley to smoke. I’ll preface and say this was all during some festival happening.
As I’m smoking a girl falls out of a portapotty and lands face first unconscious. So I immediately call 911.
The operator says “see if she’s conscious but DONT try to move her. She might become irate. Just nudge her with your foot and try to to see if she reacts but try and keep a distance”
So I walk up and nudge her with my foot and say “hey, are you breathing?” And she JUMPS up, SCREAMS like a banshee, throws an empty bottle of fireball at my face and takes off running down the alley way. At one point I thought she was going to fall but she just squatted and pissed in the middle of the road. Then she kept running down the road. Screaming the whole way.
I almost laughed when the 911 operator said “Well, did she move?”
Bruce Mardle 3 days ago
"an empty bottle of fireball": sounds like a magic item from Dungeons and Dragons.
Bjørn Langbakk 2 days ago
Baren bør miste lisensen for å ha servert alkohol til en person som er ganske full.
Sven Horlemann 2 days ago
One operator to the other "How was your day?", "Same, old stories. The usual.".
#10
Riding the Paris subway at night when a woman standing near our seat tells two young guys to turn down their boom box. One of the guys smacks her and she gives him a high kick to the head.
Everyone on the whole car stands up as one and starts yelling at the guys. (Except for my partner and I because we can’t follow what is being said and we’re almost in the middle of the fray.).
The guys got off at the next stop. If they hadn’t, we would have!
zububonsai 3 days ago (edited)
Yup, Same as the story my brother witnessed in Leipzig a decade ago in a tram: a packed tram, early evening, near Leipzig's city centre. A VERY well dressed man (like "for the opera") is already sitting. A mother plus child sit down across him. The child starts dangling his feet and repeatedly kicks the man's knee with his dirty shoes. The man, never raising his voice and always staying polite, asks the child to stop. Child continues unfazed. Now the man asks the mother to stop the child from doing this. The mother, proudly: "Mein Kind wird so erzogen, dass es kann machen, was es will." (I teach him that he can do whatever he wants.") The man instantly slaps the mother (!not the child!) in the face, saying, equally unfazed and proud "Ich bin auch so erzogen, dass ich machen kann, was ich will." ("I'm raised exactly this way, I can do as I feel like as well.") People cheered and clapped for the man; and the mother child duo left the tram at the next stop.
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Gregory W 3 days ago
If this happened in the US, no one would have done anything other than record it on their phones. I try to stay inside after 8 pm.
Black Cat 3 days ago
I was just thinking, in many places no one would do anything. Street thugs rely on the bystander effect.
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On holiday in Amsterdam this summer. Hot as hell, lots of people swimming in the River Ij.
Watched a heron scoop up a fat rat, fly off with rat struggling, seagull tries to intercept. Heron drops live rat from 10ft above the water into incredibly crowded swimming spot.
Petra Schaap 3 days ago
if you ever saw the c**p in the rivers and canals you would never swim in it.
#12
I was in graduate school and a hurricane was headed to the coast of Texas, mind you my university was ~200 miles inland. My roommate and I were both from gulf coast Texas and went to the grocery store to procure more beer since it’s likely rain for a day or two where we were.
It was absolute chaos. You would have thought the world was ending. People were fighting over cans of creamed corn, there was no water left in the store, all the canned goods gone, but basically all the other dry goods mostly untouched. Students in a complete panic calling their parents in tears.
We grabbed some beer and snacks, filled up some water pitchers at our apartment just in case and it just rained for a day or two. Never lost power, watched Netflix, drank and ate Oreos.
Glen Ellyn 4 days ago
Sounds like here just before a significant snowfall is forecast. People go crazy as though they'll be snowed in for a week and their cupboard is bare. But here in Minnesota, we have the equipment to get the roads cleared within a day or two, at most. Sure, it may take a little longer in outlying areas, but in town, things are fine. Mileage will vary if high winds are present blowing snow back onto cleared roads, but that's more of a problem in open areas.
V 4 days ago
During COVID our city announced every lockdown just as I was leaving to do our regular groceries. Every. Single. Time. So I had to wade through all the panic buyers just to get the groceries we had actually run out of. The dumbest thing was is our city never had any supply issues on anything, so if people just did their regular shopping then there wouldn't have been any shortages.
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Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
How do you create panic in Washington, DC? You stand on a table and yell "Snowflake!" I have seen buildings empty from this.
Pferdchen 3 days ago
Back in the day, DC had a great newscaster named Jim Vance; his co-anchor was Doreen Gentzler. Jim was known for his strong opinions and the 11:00 (p.m.) news program had higher ratings than the prime time shows that led up to it. But anyway...I recall laughing when Jim said something like "What the h*ll is wrong with people? Something falls out of the sky and they have to get in their cars and try to hit something." 🤣 You might recall him from the YT "News reader cannot stop laughing at model falling over!" video that has 21,000,000 views. In DC's defense: 1) it doesn't get snow all that often yet sometimes gets really slammed; 2) Light snow in DC can be the edge of a blizzard nearby, where a lot of workers live; 3) People don't have a lot of experience driving in snow; 4) It's a pretty hilly area; 5) Schools getting let out early means at least one parent needs to get them or be home for them.
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Jumping Jellyfishes 4 days ago
Back when I had to deal with pre-hurricane buying rushes, grocery stores always ran out of milk and bread first. That always baffled me. What were they planning on making?
Julia Mckinney 4 days ago
If the eggs were also gone then they're making French Toast.
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Jorie 3 days ago
Here in Rhode Island it's bread and milk. A few flakes are predicted and the supermarket is cleaned out. It started with the Blizzard of '78 when about four feet of snow fell, and if you could get to one of the few open store on foot or snowmobile, the prices were gouged. Almost 45 years later and the panic still sets in!
Amanda the Panda 4 days ago
It’s like this every year during cyclone season in FNQ because occasionally the roads get blocked or washed out which causes freight issues. However panic buying is just annoying, selfish and unnecessary.
KatWitch57 3 days ago
OP reeeally needs to have been working at a supermarket check-out in the run-up to and, during, COVID, to see some mad shopping. One woman tried to go through with an entire trolly of sliced bread. Like that was going to last!
Spark 2 days ago
Right. And medicine, headlamp and radio too (with batteries)...
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Growing up in S Florida, this was how people behaved with a hurricane warning with plenty of time to prepare. The news used to broadcast everyone go to home depot for supplies and cause mass chaos for no reason. At least with hurricanes, you do have time to plan ahead unlike say earthquakes and tsunamis.
Caffeinated Ape 3 days ago
"Oh, there's so little left. Creamed eels... corn nog... wadded beef..."
#13
A young Japanese "gothic lolita" girl leading an old (60+) Japanese man, who was dressed in a Sailor Moon outfit, around by a leash. Hankyu Umeda station, Osaka, Japan, 2008. Over a million people a day go through that station, so a lot of people saw this.
Mark Alexander 3 days ago
Frickin' mumble bumpkin "old" snappin' rutabaga 60+ my darned socks.... GET OFF MY LAWN!!
Trashy Panda 3 days ago
lol no self-respecting kinkster would do this. Taking your kink public and inflicting it on strangers is not cool and is not condoned by the community. So, speaking as a kinky person, BIG kink-shame on this guy.
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#14
Middle school science class when someone microwaved a bag of grapes “to see the plasma thing from YouTube.” Fire alarm went off, half the class was screaming, the other half was chanting “SCIENCE” while the teacher tried to explain to the principal that we were not, in fact, trying to burn the school down.
Panda Kicki 4 days ago
Oh, my teacher tried to teach us that the fumes fom gasoline is flammable. He made a little slide, put gasoline in one end, and lit a match. The fumes was indeed fammble, he set his sleeve on fire, knocked over the slide and the curtains went up in flames. School had to be evacuated and pricipal had opinions. When we wasnt afrid to get torched anymore we agreed it was best class ever.
Julia Mckinney 4 days ago
I'm suddenly having a flashback to Thomas Dolby's video "she blinded me with science" (early 80's).
nottheactualphoto 3 days ago
Because of Dolby noise reduction (types A, B and C) I call it "She Blinded Me With Silence."
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Debby Keir 3 days ago
My Chemistry teach cut some phosphorous under the oil it was stored in - it wasn't a clean cut and some 'escaped'. He picked up the bits (with PPE) but missed one, which had gone into an alcove he couldn't see, but which we, the pupils could. Not one of us spoke up, and happily watched till it went up in flames - he finally noticed and had to get the fire extingusher out... Grammar school in the 60's, you make fun where you can....
nottheactualphoto 3 days ago
Yep, we had to make our own fun back in them days.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 3 days ago (edited)
Dave Barry wrote about grape races in the microwave. You need an older microwave that doesn't turn the plate. Anyway, you take a couple, three grapes. Make sure you take a toothpick or something and make an opening on one end of the grape. Take a plate and lightly grease it. Line up the grapes at the edge of the plate with the openings to the edge of the plate and put it in the microwave, shut the door, and turn it on. The microwave heats up the water in the grapes which gets expelled through the hole you made on the end and that propels the grapes forward. First grape to the other side wins.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
A rocket is a rocket is a rocket. Also, pretty much any microwave with a turntable should let you turn off the turntable.
Load More Replies... moggiemoo 3 days ago
Our A' level chemistry teacher (with a doctorate) gassed the class next door. I forget what we made but he put it in the fume cupboard which vented outside and the slight breeze blew it in through their open windows. He was also responsible for a cloud of toxic purple fumes going down a long corridor on Open Day.
Apatheist Account2 2 days ago
You can actually make plasma by microwaving a lit candle...but you shouldn't.
Mark Childers 1 day ago
The old science teacher when I was in school used to constantly blow things up. We'd hear a "boom," and everyone would kinda look up and say "Mr. Easter."
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
I don't have enough for an actual YT channel, but I've go a few sciency things you can do with a microwave. One is heating some water almost to boiling in a sturdy bottle (Nalgene bottles are a good choice), then capping it and heating it a bit more. Take it out of the microwave and carefully uncap it, and it will begin to boil as the pressure drops. Slightly related but more complicated, you can use the heat/pressure relationship to remove the air from a *glass* soda or beer bottle and make a balloon over the top collapse inside and be pressed against the inside of the bottle by air pressure.
#15
A friend on a dare tried to eat a potato bug for $20 and chase it down with a 40 oz of mickeys. He took a bite of the bug, the bug bit him on his tongue. He was basically puking foam from his open mouth with half a potato bug attached to his tongue.
My other friend laughed so hard he fell over a table and knocked himself out. My third friend laughed so hard from all of that he ran into the other room and puked into the bathtub.
all in the span of like 30 seconds.
Edit for anyone wondering: My friends are [jerks], they didn't give him the 20 bucks since he didn't actually eat the bug.
glowworm2 4 days ago
FYI, Mickey's is a malt liquor. I wasn't sure what it was so I looked it up.
pterodactowl 3 days ago
Thanks glowworm2. Over here a Mickey could be anything from ecstacy, to a euphemism for peen.
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Heffalump 4 days ago (edited)
Why would they give him the $20 if he hadn't eaten the bug? Participation prize? He took part in a contest with only one contestant, and lost.
narmowen s. 18 hours ago
Also that pic isn't a potato bug. That's some type of beetle. A potato bug is also known as a Jerusalem cricket.
#16
Walmart, Black Friday, around 2010. They rolled out a pallet of cheap DVD players and it was an actual feeding frenzy. I saw a middle-aged woman literally climb on top of the pile and start throwing the boxes behind her to her husband like she was digging for gold. People were grabbing, yelling, a couple of dudes almost got into a fistfight over a $19 Sanyo. All for a piece of junk that would probably break in six months. The whole scene was just pure, unadulterated consumerist rage. Never again.
StrangeOne 4 days ago
I still remember when cold-hearted, careless people trampled a Walmart employee to death over black Friday. Wonder if anyone was charged or how those people live with themselves to this day.
Deborah B 3 days ago
Those people all firmly believe that the other people in the crowd were at fault, and they, personally, were blameless, if not a victim themselves. It's Karen-itis in crowd form.
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SouthernGal 4 days ago
I’ve never shopped on Black Friday and plan to die able to claim the same.
EmbersAreOut 3 days ago
I went to walmart once on accident because I forgot that i was Black Friday. Made it 10 steps into the store and turned right back out 😭
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Frina 4 days ago
Same in Europe. Americans should keep their b******t for themselves.
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Stygtand 4 days ago
I tried black friday once. It was very peacefull. We came around 6am and the line was fairly big already. People where very chill and small talking. When the store opened. People were let in, in small groups. Because there is a limit to how many people are allowed inside due to fire safety. They had a security guard at the entrance and exit to control the flow. Very anti climactic considering what ive seen on youtube.
Nik Odongray 4 days ago
You should watch both Black Friday and Thanksgiving. They both do a different take on the Black Friday madness. Both really fun movies.
April Pickett 3 days ago
Black Friday. I worked at a big box store. They advertised "something" at a really big discount. Lots of people standing outside waiting. I was the lucky one who had to open the doors. The store had 2, way in the back of the store.
Rick Murray 3 days ago (edited)
At least when Frenchies riot in the supermarket, it's over the national drûg "Nutella". It was such a fustercluck that the government rapidly brought in legislation that food products can only be discounted a maximum of 33%. 🤦
Colleen Glim 2 days ago
To be fair, that is tasty stuff. Fresh strawberries dipped in Nutella is food of the gods
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Oh walking in San Francisco where a little person dressed in an outfit I can’t even describe came zooming by on a scooter with a humongous blaring sub woofer, followed by a quite large woman who was completely [bare] and shouting to the scooter person. One of the few times I’ve been legitimately speechless.
Janelle Collard 3 days ago
I'm from LA and now live in the BayArea, so, true dat.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 4 days ago
Reminds me of the time my neighbor, who I called "pajama man," was riding his bike up our street (in his PJs, of course). Under his arm he was carrying a na-ked inflated "girlfriend" doll. I have no idea where he was going. It could have been to the house in the next block that had a female mannequin on the porch. Said mannequin was wearing a Kelly green bikini and green Mardi Gras beads. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Laserleader 3 days ago (edited)
New lady in town, probably 350lb+ walked around dressed like a toddler who went to Disney Hot Topic, with giant holes in her pants, tutus and tank tops five sizes too small and colorful hair, and 2 teeth in her head. When she passed me she gave me a huge grin and I had no way to process what I was seeing.
Bec 4 days ago
I watched someone zip by on one of those electric scooters with a baby strapped to their chest!
Colleen Glim 2 days ago
That terrifies me! Those things are bloody dangerous! I broke my shoulder riding one
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 3 days ago
A bit similar to this, I suppose. I found this picture 9next) but have never had a clue about the actual context.
#18
I was leaving a New Year’s Eve party in Boston about 20 years ago with a group of friends. Great night that we were still enjoying despite low single digit temps as we made our way to a spot where we hoped to have better luck finding a taxi.
As we walked, about a block away we heard a lot of commotion and saw about 30 guys in a full scale punch up that flowed in and out of the street. They were evenly matched, and everyone had on very bulky winter gear, which probably explained why they weren’t hurting each other as much as you might expect.
Along the moving perimeter of this scrum were all the female dates of the combatants who weren’t engaging, but we noticed that a sub group of them were huddled and moving together, seeming to be talking about how to put a stop to it.
All of a sudden, with cheetah-like agility, these girls [attack] the other group of girls, but only to steal their vuvuzelas (very long plastic horns that were popular at the time). They then immediately began to attack the opponent group of guys with shots to the face from their newly acquired arsenal, which they were wielding like baseball bats with amazing accuracy. The other girls tried a weak counteroffensive, but were pretty quickly put down by the armed group after several of the women were knocked by David Ortiz level swings.
We watched in astonishment as this actually turned the tide of the main battle, and the losing side ultimately scrambled away with their dates less than five minutes after the successful flanking maneuver, leaving probably $2-3k worth of hats, scarves, gloves and designer shoes in their wake.
EDIT: And yes, as the losing side made their retreat they were most certainly urged along by a hearty vuvuzela victory cadence. I half expected a fife and drum corps dressed in tricorns and breeches to emerge from the alley to join in.
crowpierrot:
Incredible. I would pay money to see this.
Michael Largey 3 days ago
Thanks to the OP for defining "vuvuzela" so early in the story. Hard telling where that word would have sent my mind otherwise.
#19
Years ago I was at work and a tornado just passed by the front window a few hundred feet away. The area was not even remotely known for getting tornadoes, I didn't even know it was possible at all. Upper management didn't let us leave but we did anyway and when the even upperer management learned of it, they fired the guy who tried to keep us there.
Auntriarch 3 days ago
Funny that isn't it. We had a bom scare at work, and the manager wonks said all we had to do was stand on the other side of the room.... Two of us said no thanks let us know when it's safe to return.
Maggie Fulton 3 days ago
I worked at a place that had a b**b scare. We were all out in the parking area while the building was being checked out, and one of the VPs said he didn’t believe there was a b**b and tried to convince us all to go back in and get to work. We did not.
StrangeOne 4 days ago
I can just hear the Upper management using the most corporate, non-chalant, bored tone "Alright, everyone. Calm down and get back to work. It's past. You're fine."
#20
Once in DC, I was walking to a pharmacy and outside it a homeless man and a homeless woman crossed paths. They seemed to be coming from different directions. One of them was carrying a large comforter. Without hesitation, the other grabbed it and a tug of war ensued. There was a lot of screaming. I just sidestepped the whole thing and went to the pharmacy. After I paid and left, I saw them both sitting on the side of the building calmly, peacefully sharing the comforter. It was July.
#21
I've been inside a 30-40 person riot as a Paramedic.
This was in a small rural town in Australia, perhaps 4 cops available. So there was no control.
My understanding is that a fight broke out, someone was knocked out, and we didn't know it was a riot when called. Our notes were sparse, saying it was at one of the local pubs (2 in town), and when we pulled into the centre of town saw the chaos spread out over 2ish blocks, and Police overwhelmed.
A cop told us a block down there was someone unconscious, and my partner and I decided bravado and drove through (weaved) the crowd, pulled up, did a 'rapid trauma assessment', and then a 'rapid extrication' (throw on stretcher, bail). Around the patient was their, very drunk, very hostile, family members.
Loaded into the back, my partner in the back and I jumping in the drivers seat, when the back doors opened and the patients HUGE father (45ish, 6'5", built like a truck) climbs in aggravated. My partner talked him down, got him out of the back, I locked up to whole vehicle and bailed around the corner and a couple of blocks up.
I climbed over the front seats into the back, and started helping the assessment/treatment. Then, the whole ambulance started to shake, and it turns out the family followed in cars, got out, and were all around the vehicle (doors locked).
As a rural ambulance, we have super-geared out high beams, and I turned them on, the people in front scattered like a monster film, and escaped for the small rural hospital.
Pulled up, followed by the family. There is no security here.
We get the patient out the back, push through to the ED, and kicked the whole family out due to drunkenness/behaviour. The ED door was a metal/glass, hinged, door that opens outwards. The huge father started barging the door, shoving it *inwards* on its hinges. We called a 'Code 1' (Paramedics in immediate danger, urgent police needed) and barricaded the door with the stretcher.
Control was confused, as they commented "Aren't you with police? They were at scene?". Explained we were followed, far away from the riot, and the Hospital is being battered in.
Control got in contact with police, a minute or so later 2 cops pulled into the Ambulance bay with guns drawn (a big deal in Australia). One officer held the family at gun point, and the other ran straight for the ED door to secure the hospital, us, and the nursing staff.
Heightened emotions were quelled, the family told to move on, nursing staff were not in a good mental state but persevered. Officers were brought in from closer towns (1-1.5 hours away) to assist in moving on the riot, and the next day was paper work and conversations with Management.
Daisydaisy 4 days ago
There is a lot of PTSD amongst emergency workers because of stuff like this. They are very brave souls
roddy 3 days ago
This is insane behaviour. Rioting in a hospital ER? I hope they were charged.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
Unfortunately there's a lot of mėthamphetamine problems in Australia recently
London Paris 3 days ago
Everyone in Australia nodding their head as we know EXACTLY who is being described here and we can all guesz as to which suburb it is and in which city . . . . . . We know EXACTLY who they are describing here.
#22
Worked at a summer camp up north Michigan. Part of the camp was a horse corral, for teaching kids to go in circles and trail riding and all that. I get shaken awake in the middle of the night by an amorphous black shape that slowly revealed itself to be a fellow counselor. He's whisper yelling that the horses are out the horses are out. They had either not been locked up right that evening or an old latch had finally given up. 12 horses unaccounted for. I hop off my bunk and run outside in my boxers. Myself and the other counselors that have been pulled from our slumber are spread out, silently running around in the moonlight trying to track down each horse. 15 decibel chaos.
The story arrives at a point where I'm on a horse bareback in my underwear, emerging from the thicket to find some other brothers in underwear atop their own recovered steeds in the central cabin area. 15 decibel celebration. We split up again and the story ends with all horses back in the corral and a gang of teenagers climbing the trail back up to the cabins as the sun is greeting us through the trees.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
And drawers can be a very... inconvenient way to ride that hoss, boss.
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Back in the late 90's, I was friends with a house DJ and we went to an after hours club in Vegas. I saw a bald fat man with a white goat on a leash wearing a muumuu and similar hat like Homer in that one Simpon's episode where Homer gained a bunch of weight. This was waaaaaaaaay before that episode ever came out.
Chewie Baron 4 days ago
Your fingers are too fat to dial properly. Please mash the keyboard to order a dialling wand.
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#24
I used to work in a public library. We had a decent number of computers but sometimes, rarely, they would fill up and we couldn't give current users time extensions. Usually this wasn't an issue but one day a young guy somewhere in his mid to late 20s came in wanting to game or whatever. Some librarians get weird about it but I’m not the Computer Police.
Unfortunately, he'd already had a time extension and the computers filled up. So when he asked for more time, we had to tell him no because we had people waiting. He couldn't cope. I can’t even give you a clear play by play because what happened next was straight-up Looney Tunes.
We look up and see him on someone else’s computer. The person had just stepped away to use the bathroom. They'd even left their stuff behind. Even if it hadn't been obvious that they weren't finished, you don't just get on a computer. They have to be logged out so personal files and browsing details can be cleared. Knowing this, he'd still sprinted over and claimed her terminal like he discovered new land. Her personal stuff, documents, emails, and social media were all still open. We told him nope, absolutely not, so he slunk off toward nonfiction like a raccoon caught in the trash.
A few minutes later we spot him again, diving onto another computer before the rightful user could sit down. This happened I don't know how many times. He caught on to us watching him so he began to run away the second one of us would stand up. He'd dash off through the stacks thinking, I don't know, maybe that we'd eventually give up? Probably not thinking at all, honestly.
We finally decided to kick him out of the library. He'd become a full-blown disruption, he was a grown adult who'd had enough chances, and we didn't need him running into other patrons. The problem was, he'd gotten squirrely. If he saw a staff person he recognized, he ran, and we weren't about to literally chase him through the library. That's not even appropriate.
I finally had enough and told the Assistant Director, an older beast of a woman who started her career as AD by getting into such a fantastic row with an unruly patron that she told them, "Let's take this outside". He didn't know who she was, she didn't have her name tag on, so she walked right up to him and calmly said, "Let's have a talk" while gesturing him off to the side.
I don't know what she said to him but he didn't come back.
Laserleader 3 days ago
If the description is appropriate for a man , then it's appropriate for a woman. You're nitpicking non-sexism into sexism. Would a "no longer young woman, without grace" be more appropriate because it uses softer femalesque terms?
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#25
A guy on a segway crashing into a hotdog stand.
Bill Swallow 3 days ago
Like the old gag about "The bagpipes were invented by the Irish, who then gave them to the Scots. The Scots still haven't caught on to the joke..."
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Caiman 94920 3 days ago
Didn't the guy who created the Segway end himself riding one off a cliff?
moggiemoo 3 days ago
No, that was the person who bought the company. The inventor is alive and well.
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My young dog was always chasing squirrels. Finally one day he caught one and bit down on it. The squirrel bit my dog’s lip. Both were crying and screaming . Finally my dog shook his head and the squirrel was let go. My dog never chased anyone squirrel after that.
Callum Young 3 days ago
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
#27
I rounded a corner on a country road and a head to head collision just occurred. The front of one car was on fire, and the other car was off the road in a ditch and completely flattened in the front. The driver of the car on fire was physically okay and walking around with an adrenaline dump, his passenger was on his knees in passenger's seat flooring compartment, squished between the seat and the dash with the car smoldering beneath him.
It was not so much fun dragging him out of there because he had some back and hip injuries, but it happened anyway. The look of panic on his face when he realized he was pinned in there, then the pain of being ripped out of a smoldering car was something I'll probably not forget.
The person in the second car was alive but trapped inside of it and had to be extracted with the jaws of life. It was unexpected and wild to stumble upon. A lot of people stopped, just to sit around and watch.
Keep your eyes on the road out there..not your phones.
Sly Schlang 2 days ago
Folks should stay away if not required for help. Another ones pain, Trauma, struggle to survive is not your entertainment nor for the Internet
#28
Not me, but my uncle had gotten fired and decided to go on a trip. So he went and spent a few days in NYC. On the last day he decided to grab breakfast at a small dinner. While eating his food, he witnessed an airplane crash into a building less than a mile away.
This was September 11, 2001.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
What a tragedy. I hope your uncle is okay. That caused a lot of psychological damage to many who witnessed it.
KatWitch57 3 days ago
Someone might like to remind the White House that, not all wars are started overseas.
#29
I saw a guy on the subway eating a rotisserie chicken like an apple. No bag, no napkins, just vibes.
Snazzy Smurf 4 days ago
When the hunger monster strikes you have to go with it. If you don't you will be the next Snickers commercial.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago
Well, I've heard of worse. Some guy decided to have a 'romatic interlude' with a rotisserie chicken in shopping centre toilets in Nambour in Australia. Used hand sanitizer for lube. At least he was in the toilets....
#30
Saw a plane crash happen less than a mile away from where I was sitting and eating pizza at the time. That was something.
WindySwede 4 days ago
OP "Airshow in AZ in '91 or '92, can't remember precisely when off the top of my head. Stunt pilot went down in the middle of the show in full view of everyone nearby, thankfully he survived with a bunch of broken bones."
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A sword vs knife fight. I was parked, eating a sub sandwich at a city park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I watched two individuals get into an argument, one guy pulled out a sword and the other a knife.
KatWitch57 3 days ago
The reason that Indiana Jones used a gun in that fight, was because Harrison Ford had the squitters, and 'decided' he needed to leave the set, now.
#32
Saw a guy chase a runaway flamingo through a crowded park, total chaos, everyone screaming and cameras out.
#33
Late 90's, Long Beach California. At the local dive bar outside smoking a cig, it was about 1am and getting busy. About 15 people outside and a guy starts pointing at people a yelling "you're the one!" He the starts swinging at people, then he pulls nail clippers out and starts thrusting the file at people screaming "you're the one!" A couple guys clock him and it doesn't phase him. 10 cops show up, it takes 5 to take him down, the hog tied him and put the bite/spit mask on him.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 days ago
As a lifelong resident of Southern California, I can confirm that there are still areas of Long Beach where things like this happen on the regular XD
SkyBlueandBlack 3 days ago
Lived in Long Beach for a couple years at the end of the 90s. Can confirm.
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#34
Two septuagenarian men in safari gear getting into a physical fight with a pair of twenty-something women in the parking lot of a Midwestern renaissance fair.
#35
Two people getting into a fist fight in the parking lot outside my university. A fist fight in-and-of itself isn't too chaotic. The car crash that ensued on the street because the driver slowed down to watch the fight? That was wild.
KatWitch57 3 days ago (edited)
You are so not going to believe I saw this but ... : Exiting the Black Dog in Lewisham, two guys get into a fight. Neither are exactly sober: Guy 1 swings at guy 2, misses and falls over the bonnet of a parked car, heaves himself to his feet. Guy 2 swings at guy 1, misses and actually punches the car. Guy 1 has his second swing; trips over guy 2 and (on his way down) hits his head on the bonnet of the car. 2 ambulances. 2 broken wrists, 1 possible concussion, and two charges of criminal damage because the owner of the Merc, outside the club was 'less' than happy. The late 1970s were wild.
Caffeinated Ape 3 days ago
Definitely sounds like it belongs on this list!
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The 1999 "Battle in Seattle", a huge protest downtown against the WTO meeting. Anti World Trade Organization.
Complete pandemonium that lasted for days. I worked in a highrise and had to walk from my place to downtown since the area was cordoned off by police on horseback.
No public transportation, so I wore hiking boots and jeans to walk a mile to the highrise where my law firm was located.
Kelly Scott 3 days ago (edited)
I transferred to Seattle for my job in 2000. I was talking to the manager of where I was to work and he was telling me all about that riot that year. I then got to tell him all about Cinco de Mayo in San Jose this year where people were rioting and the whole downtown area was in a s*******m (that was the year they finally banned selling alcohol at Cinco de Mayo). The manager listened to me and then said, "Sounds like you'll do all right here."
Bartlet for world domination 3 days ago
Isn't a mile like a fifteen-minute walk? Law firms do require some impractical footwear, don't they.
#37
I was apart of an “Exercise” (Exercise- simulated what if scenarios for response) of an unauthorized entry to a flight line ……. 🤦♂️(sigh) …….Dude was called to a response for this and he drove on the flightline where the individual was last spotted. Near that individual was a stationed F-16, upon arrival he put the truck he was driving in neutral and what was meant to be on park, at this time he was on foot chasing the individual all while the truck was still moving and which then crashes into the pointy tip of the F-16 causing millions of dollars worth of damage 💀…..that’s not even the worst part lol. He had a partner with him as well sitting in the passenger seat and she couldn’t get out in time and the tippy part almost punctured her. Let’s just say that was a educational night for everyone 😂.
Snazzy Smurf 4 days ago
She couldn't put the truck in park? Military exercises were always "fun".
KatWitch57 3 days ago
IF this is true, no-one with this level of illiteracy should be in any position of authority or superiority in an armed situation. Nor should they be allowed to work in a mixed gender position.
Colleen Glim 2 days ago
So it wasn’t just me that found this hella hard to read?
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Watching a guy have a heart attack/stroke at all- you-can-eat buffet. In front of his wife. Paramedics trying to bring him back to life. Awful stuff.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
Worked in restaurant and I fell in the food alley, hurting my leg pretty badly. Paramedics called and had to wheel me through the dining room as I was laying on the gurney. It was all done pretty quickly, but my boss said a few tables complained that their dinner was "ruined" and asked for total refunds. Some idiots are so opportunistic.
#39
A [bare] guy at a gas station yelling for help while people in white coats and cops try to grab him while he yells “i know my freedoms!” Help me!
They took his clothes away because he kept escaping.
nottheactualphoto 2 days ago
We will all be scarred for life if we see the N-word.
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Someone threw a watermelon down the stairs at someone in my library.
Barbara Wilcock 4 days ago
Many years ago someone threw a melon off a tall car park. Nearly k****d someone
#41
This isn't too bad, but it sort of changed my life path. I was in a British Literature class in college and these two guys are arguing about Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". They stand up and start squaring up, getting ready for a fist fight. The professor calmed them down.
I decided that I couldn't be an English major any more. I just wasn't that passionate about it!
I ended up dropping out of school and working in a lab for years and years.
#42
I was coming out of a movie theater as a kid and saw a vehicle run a red light in front of me, hit a Jeep (if I remember correctly) and then speed through the movie theater parking lot after the hit and run while other movie goers tried to stop them.
The Jeep caught fire and some other bystander rushed to get the driver out of the vehicle as it very quickly was engulfed in flames. The whole time I stood there slack-jawed. Completely unreal experience to witness after just coming out of the theater.
#43
I watched a full on riot happen in a hotel lobby in Vegas.
I was at a music festival that got canceled the afternoon it was supposed to start. Several of the bands performing ended up booking super last minute shows at extremely weird venues. 3 of the bands ended up performing a show in the lobby of a hotel on the strip.
The hotel clearly had no idea how famous these bands were and were super pissed when they had a massive crowd in their lobby. The crowd was thirsty and still cranky about the festival getting canceled and eventually the crowd broke out into an all out brawl that the hotel security struggled to contain.
#44
Someone riding a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle while people were screaming and trying to stop them. Absolute chaos.
#45
Guy ran into the eye doctor's while it was raining, slipped, fell, and skid on his stomach halfway across the room.
When he was done he just laid on the floor. Everyone, including me, was too in shock to ask if he was okay so we all just stared at him for a while.
Then he got up. Then left through the door he fell in from.
#46
Was in Queens visiting some family. Me and my brother were standing outside the house smoking a cigarette, we hear yelling and look down the street. We see 2 young dudes maybe early 20's arguing over a bottle of rum. Me and my brother look at each other and we're thinking the same thing, [something] crazy about to happen. We walk inside for 30 seconds, come back outside, and we see one of the guys take a knife and slash his own chest open from left shoulder to right lower ribs. He ended up collapsing in the middle of the street. I heard he actually survived.
#47
People making sweet love in the mud, at a waterlogged music festival. No care about the crowds of people passing by.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
Height of the free love era. A friend of ours played there and wrote a song about the experience - Candles in the Rain. Sounds gross to me, too. Not just the open s*x, but the d***s, the rain, the mud, the lack of port-a-pots, the stink - but she said it was magical. Guess it was a "you had to be there" kinda thing.
Multa Nocte 3 days ago (edited)
Melanie? This is one of my favourite songs ever!
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John Leavitt 3 days ago
I saw this pretty frequently at festivals in the late 60s and early 70s.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
🎶Why don't we do it in the road🎶 judging by the other comments here, because people will be disgusted. Sadly.
KatWitch57 3 days ago
I think it's amazing that people have been believing this since 1963. Do we still have a lot of people who actually believe what they see in the media?
#48
A car pulling out in front of a couple riding a motorcycle, causing them to hit her driver's side head on. They both flew off, flipping over her car like ragdolls. The woman landed mostly on her back, while the dude landed breaking both his legs. Screaming ensued, with the guy yelling and cussing at the driver as he was trying to stand up and couldn't. The woman was screaming and crying but not able to move. Neither were wearing helmets as it wasn't the law. The speed limit on that road was 40mph.
Aimee Miller 4 days ago
Pulling out in front of a motorcycle is also dumb
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Grocery store before a blizzard and they suddenly shut down all the self-checkout lanes, presumably due to thefts. People who had been in line for 15-30 min and we had to get back in longer lines and some lost their s**t. I left because it was getting so volatile.
Rick Murray 3 days ago (edited)
Shop run by dícks. You close the line after the current people who are there, or yeah, I think people are perfectly entitled to be less than amused.
LB 3 days ago
Depends on how much is being stolen, I'd say? What if it's 50%? 75%?
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#50
In Delhi I saw a man being robbed of his belongings. The victim was defecating on the street while the robber reached for the wallet.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
I can believe all of this, having been there several times while travelling in India.
Der Kommissar 3 days ago
One of the cool things about India is that if you have the runs and drop trou, no one gives you a second glance.
Betty Spaghetti 3 days ago
You and I have verrry different definitions of “cool things”…
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Tweeker riding a bike thru a 7-lane intersection looking down, doesn't stop as the light turned red. Almost makes it all the way across but the last car next to the turn lane on the other side did not see him and hits him. Was the first time I have ever seen somene "rag-dolled". Probabaly went atleast 30 ft in the air and almost landed on the median. Meanwhile I am on the opposite side from where he crossed the red light, just frozen, dudes not moving. Longest light of my life, another person went over to help. Either the person was going to take off his coat to cushion their head or just cover their face completely because the guy was for sure [gone]. NOPE! dude pops right up, limping but was able to cross back over and out of the way.
#52
When I was a college student, a friend and I decided to go to the first Obama inauguration in DC. Like most people, we couldn't get tickets to the ceremony proper so we went to the National Mall where they had a couple of big screens broadcasting the whole thing. After the ceremony, we left. And so did everyone else.
I've never seen that many people.
You couldn't really move as an individual person; you just had to follow/ work your way through your crowd of 100s of people moving vaguely in the same direction until you could break off and join the next herd of people going in another direction.
At one point, one of our crowds just... stops moving forward. 100s of people trying very much to advance, but they literally cannot. Just walls and walls of people in every direction and all we can do is move towards one another.
A few people try to push, but luckily cooler heads prevail. Eventually, some people in very official looking uniforms start to direct the human traffic. But it still takes a good long while before my friend and I can move on. It was scary and confusing at the time, but over the years I've come to realize how dangerous that situation actually was. It's the closest I've ever come to being in a crowd crush and I'd like to never do it again.
Still wasn't as bad as the free cans of Red Bull Energy Coffee we had that morning, though.
Beak Hookage 4 days ago
(You can bet Trump is still Big Mad about the fact that barely anyone showed up to HIS inauguration). True story, some psycho Neo-N a z i was planning to set off a dirty b0mb there that day and his plan was foiled when his battered wife had finally had enough and put a bullet in his head after he started taking an unwholesome interest in their daughter. Her name was Amber and she was ultimately acquitted amid massive public support.
Bartlet for world domination 3 days ago (edited)
Wow, true story indeed, although the FBI report suggested he may have been preparing components for a dirty b**b (b00b anyone?), but there was no evidence he had an imminent plan to detonate one at Obama’s inauguration.
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#53
Worked at a car dealership in NJ during hurricane sandy. New cars come with a full tank of gas. No dealership I have worked at has it’s on gas pump, instead they have a contract with a local station. After sandy every station with gas (and a generator to power the pumps) had a multi mile long line. Everyone was stressed because they didn’t know when the station would run out of gas. The dealership sent us to fill up a bunch of cars. The cops opened up the line and we got right in. The amount of people getting out of their cars, yelling, honking, etc. despite police presence was impressive. We got out of there before anything went down but that was a tinderbox situation. Something would have happened if we were 10 minutes later when they did run out of gas. People were not happy.
Bartlet for world domination 3 days ago
I don't understand. Why would police give priority to essentially unused cars in a hurricane?
#54
This is random and weird but it was so wild and we parked ourselves in the lobby because we needed to see the ending. We were checking out of a Comfort inn and some Karen type started yelling at the desk clerk. The elevator was out of order and her mother could not get down the stairs unaided. The woman went ballistic- saying they had an appointment( on a Sunday) with an attorney for a parole hearing. Sus, but whatever. Karen kept throwing a fit- the elevator was broken and the clerk could do nothing. They ended up calling paramedics to get the mom down the stairs. It was such a show. She made no sense, and she truly thought the louder and crazier she became that it would help.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
Depending on when this happened, the hotel actually had a responsibility to have a plan in store for issues like this. An evacuation chair at minimum. At least they called paramedics.
Rick Murray 3 days ago
In a nursing home when we had to do a full fire evac, who put the heavy oldies onto multiple blankets and bumped them down the stairs. Following that, we had long discussions with management about putting heavy dependents upstairs. [normally they would use the lift, but we're not allowed to use the lift to evac in case the power fails and traps people in there]
#55
A moving fight. Lived on the 4th floor and looked out of the window after hearing some commotion. A group of 12-15 people were walking down the street, yelling at one another, every few seconds a couple/few individuals would break off and throw hands then rejoin the rest of the group as it moved. Could not tell who was on what side or what they were beefing about but watched them go at least 2 blocks like that.
#56
A plane crash. This was chaotic because of the circumstance but I was blown away at how efficient the emergency crews were.
It was a single engine two seater taking off from a local airport. It had mechanical failure and crashed nose first into the intersection on the corner. It was only blind luck that the intersection was clear.
My eyes saw the plane nose dive into the ground and break up. It took about 5 very long seconds for my brain to catch up and realize it wasn’t a car accident and that those were wings on the ground.
Everyone stopped their cars. Someone came running out from the auto garage on the corner and looked for the pilot. The man told all us waiting that it was a lost cause and airport emergency services were there in minutes.
I still work next to that airport and I think of the crash often. RIP Mr. Pilot.
#57
A team of horses pulling a carriage tour in downtown Charleston got spooked, reared, and tried to climb over a sedan with a family inside, trampling the trunk of the car with their hooves, spooking another carriage full of tourists that took off past us on the sidewalk at full speed with terrified passengers clinging to the carriage. Multiple cars damaged.
#58
A teenager stealing a phone and then some motorcycle guys followed him and punch him in the face and kicked his stomach and then they called the police and the teenager started vomiting.
#59
Worked security at a bar near Fenway Park in Boston on New Years Eve around 2006. Wasn't the usual spot I worked at, but the Fenway joint was the same owner, so I got sent there. Because they were understaffed, the friggen' place didn't have coat-check. It was just one long rack in their downstairs area. So one person would grab a coat, realize it wasn't theirs, discard it (usually onto the floor), repeat, etc. So at the end of the night many drunk, cold, and belligerent 20-somethings go to grab their coats and find that nobody's stuff was where they left it. People immediately got pissed off, fights broke out, etc. I basically just abandoned my post.
Bartlet for world domination 3 days ago
And this is why I carry a very cheap lightweight wire lock when I go out - no matter what happens, my coat will in some way be attached to the rack.
#60
On Halloween many years ago, I saw a teen that had to be between 15-17 run up to a child that had to be around 5-6, punched them in the face, grabbed their bag of candy and bolted. I dunno if the teen got caught. I hope he did. Everyone was more quick to check to make sure the child was alright. Who the [hell] does that to a little kid in front of multiple people out and about? That was just crazy to me.
Robert Trebor 4 days ago
It was called "the kinchin lay" in Oliver Twist's day. Just arsk the Artful dodger.
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Maya_D 4 days ago
Perfectly normal and acceptable usage of “that”, it’s used that way all the time.
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Just kids running around the restaurant. Thought of putting my foot out to trip the kid, but I ain't that bad.
#63
The racial riots in the South during the 70's, when I was in middle school. No one was prepared for them.
Mike F 4 days ago
Well, they spent a century pouring gasoline on the flames so the part about being "unprepared" is laughable.
Roni Stone 3 days ago
Yeah, my partner has told me many times about the race riots at her high school in Florida. Coming and going while the police/guard were holding guns after the situations were taken seriously.
#64
I once pulled up to a stop light and saw two car loads of girls in club dresses and heels having a brawl in the street. One girl had her weave ripped out, another had her dress pulled all the way up. Heels everywhere. Light turns green and they scurry to grab their items jump back night car and take off.
#65
Just recently I witnessed a guy get pepper sprayed while riding my local light rail system. As a result, the guy was in massive pain and refused to leave the train (even at the request of transit staff) until paramedics arrived. Many people were agitated and annoyed at the guy because of his refusal to leave.
The train was held up for ~20 minutes as a result of the incident. I was on my way to class and I was late for it as a result, though I told my professor about the incident and he understood.
#66
Older woman in stained, miss-matched clothes, clearly out of it, eating a bag of pickles with this sharp dressed younger man, rubbing himself on her and kissing her on the metro bus in Bratislava.
#67
Imagine a 4 lane highway with a left and right exit at about the same point. I am in one of the middle lanes, and about 100 feet from where you could no longer enter either of the off ramps. Before me I see a UHaul box truck blast across all four lanes from the left exit to the right. Fully perpendicular to traffic. This person realized at the last possible second they were heading the wrong way, and despite having no hope of reaching the correct ramp, fully committed despite the danger.
And they made it all the way across this highway with nary a scratch. Until they were in the grass of the opposite ramp. This being a box truck, they weren't able to reorient when they reached their destination. So the driver overshot and again landed in the on coming traffic of the other exit ramp. They proceed to get t-boned by an F250. Which then forced the UHaul into the exit sign and ripping it off it's supports.
#68
Just yesterday I was out walking and I right as I greeted a guy walking his dog, the dog weaseled out of his leash and flipped him over. He got right back up and kept calling for it.
#69
Karens, like, plural. Four of them arguing with one cashier at once!
#71
The arrival of the Dutch version of Santa Claus many years ago in my hometown. Dutch people come in two flavours: those who parent and those who don't. The latter group will push their kids past the kids of the first group, teaching them that cutting in line and pushing totally works. When the initially well behaved kids of the first group catch wind of this, all bets are off. There will just be a cloud of dust with grasping hands sticking out of it, demanding candy and raising a level of shrieking that will split your eardrums.
Parents will hold cigarettes on kids' eye level to enforce personal space, telling other parents to stop whining about kids being kids while yelling at Santa and his helpers to not forget their candy while other parents try to reign in their kids, who are now beyond recall.
My very pregnant sister with a toddler in a pushchair was almost pressed into delivering against a crowd control barrier. The main culprit was a man arriving late with his kid who did not understand the simple instruction of "stop pushing" and who kept yelling "my son did not get anything yet!". My 4yo daughter was dragged backwards by her hair by his son as he watched and nodded.
We elbowed our way out and told the kids Santa had sent his candy for them to our homes. It was bad before when my sons were younger, but the share of people who have the experience that [bad] behaviour pays off has risen to critical mass apparently. Never again.
Sara Frazer 4 days ago
Oh trust me, regardless of geographical location there are ALWAYS people who parent or do not.
#72
Was sitting in a window seat at a restaurant watching an obviously drunk driver fishtailing down the road while towing a fishing boat.. right in front of the restaurant the trailer swung wide and hit a car waiting at the traffic light, the boat flew off the trailer did a complete 180° in the air and landed on the opposite side of the street while the driver kept going.. someone flagged him down about 1/2 mile away.. dude pulled a U turn in the middle of a busy road, hit 3 cars, one that was towing jet skis, and parked on the curb next to his boat. He then proceeded to start picking up the coolers and beer and fishing poles and tossing them in the boat like "oops I dropped this".. he was so obliterated he had no idea what happened.. all of this happened in the span of about 2 minutes.. it was wild..
#73
Years ago, heading home from Lincoln, Nebraska to Minneapolis. Boarding one very small commercial jet -- looked like a flying cigar -- one seat on each side of the aisle, maybe ten rows. We're mostly on board and look out to see the last passenger working to get up the little stairs. She's HUGE, and we all had to press ourselves to the windows to make space for her passage. You guessed it, last seat in the back. Anyway, her boarding took the plane past its tipping point. The front wheel rose up 'til the tail hit the tarmac. Cabin was so tilted up, no one could leave their seat. Ground crew worked to pull us back down. Everyone had to get off to check for damage. When we reboarded, it was just me and a couple others. Lady was no longer there. The rest of the passengers bailed while we were still on the ground.
#74
I was walking my malamute on a busy street close to a school when he all of a sudden dove into a bush and jumped back out with a sick rabbit between his jaws. He proceeded to shake it and it made horrible piercing squeaky sounds, then he put his paws on it and ripped out it’s intestines. All the while parents with young kids were passing by in cars and on bikes. Oh lord the screaming… the amount of kids my dog traumatised that day 🤦♀️.
Cee Cee 4 days ago
You can try but I bet you lose and probably get bitten in the process. Guessing you don't own dogs.
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Rose the Cook 4 days ago
Many years ago in Australia a big department store used to hold Bargain Sales in their basement. Old ladies used to often come to blows over items and I saw two actually tear a jacket in half. Only ever went once with my then MIL who was responsible for the torn jacket.
Beak Hookage 4 days ago
Decided I was going to have a quiet day, with just one brief outing to buy something for dinner. BAM, a motorbike crashed right in front of me. And I mean like less than half a meter away. Right under my nose. (I was on foot). Nobody got hurt, but I did help the guy move his bike off the road afterwards. Never mind quiet!
Rose the Cook 4 days ago
Many years ago in Australia a big department store used to hold Bargain Sales in their basement. Old ladies used to often come to blows over items and I saw two actually tear a jacket in half. Only ever went once with my then MIL who was responsible for the torn jacket.
Beak Hookage 4 days ago
Decided I was going to have a quiet day, with just one brief outing to buy something for dinner. BAM, a motorbike crashed right in front of me. And I mean like less than half a meter away. Right under my nose. (I was on foot). Nobody got hurt, but I did help the guy move his bike off the road afterwards. Never mind quiet!
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