32 Things People Saw Others Do In Public That Left Them Flabbergasted At How Unhinged It Was
Legendary old Hollywood comedian Buster Keaton had a very specific type of persona - no matter what happened to his character during the film, no matter what ridiculous situations he got into, he always kept a "poker face" of a sort. Well, many of the characters in our selection today are somewhat similar to Buster Keaton...
Today we have the honor of presenting to you a list of three dozen stories that netizens witnessed when someone, while in public, behaved in a completely strange way. Strange - if not stupid. However, it is up to you to decide how stupid it was.
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I was working the front desk at a gym. An older guy swiped his card to check in at the same time as a decent-sized t**d slid out of his shorts and fell to the carpeted floor. He was about to go in to the locker room like nothing happened but I said "Sir?" and pointed at it in shock. He turned around, looked at it, picked it up in his bare hand and kept going in to the locker room like he had just picked up his keys or something.
I looked at the personal trainer next to me and we looked at each other like wtf?
One of our customers violently pooped himself in our computer lab (on an upholstered chair, no less) and got very angry when my supervisor told him he could not, in fact, sit in his poop and finish checking his email. I know illness happens, but I'd have slunk out after the first...uh..nugget.
I worked at public libraries for many years and one of the most random things I’ve seen was turning a corner and seeing a woman hunched over cutting her hair onto the floor. Just…trimming her hair and letting it fall all over the library floor. Checking the ends to make sure they were good…then trimming some more.
All customer service training went out the window as I bellowed “What are you doing!?! NO! JUST…NO!” She had the grace to look ashamed and try and scoop up all her little hair pieces.
LoL We had two teens doing each other's hair in one of the aisles, complete with spray, brush, curling iron, and blow dryer. Had to explain why a plugged-in curling iron probably shouldn't be propped on top of flammable materials.
ehhhh... I have a feeling that you're a man... because a woman knows that a book will not spontaneously catch on fire if a curling iron is resting on it.. heck, we've ALL used books to keep the curling iron off the carpeted floor! LOL
Load More Replies...Homeless people like libraries to stay warm or cool. Some libraries actually have programs to help homeless people. Not all homeless people are jobless. They need a place to go online and find resources. Please don't let our libraries disappear. I loved mine as a kid after school.
I went into a public bathroom (unisex disabled cubicle) and some guy had used the sink/mirror to shave. There was stubble EVERYWHERE. All over the sink. And yet somehow it's only slightly more gross than this.
I was in a supermarket and saw a guy use roll on deodorant and put it back. Then he used aftershave and put it back on the shelf. I told customer service. They did nothing.
She would have picked up the hair. There was not need to frighten her.
When I lived in the US I saw a woman applying deodorant on a subway platform, whilst carrying a conversation with someone who seemed to be travelling with her. Also on the subway in the US (I lived in Boston), I swa a guy in shorts trimming his toenails during his morning commute.
Dude went out of his way to hit my friend's service dog with a cart at Costco. He then proceeded to follow them around the store because he thought it was funny how the dog would get visibly stressed out when he approached with the cart. Piece of s**t was wearing a "Back the Blue" shirt too of course, like sir are you aware you are committing a felony?
That's too quick and too merciful. 50 year sentence working mandatory overtime at an animal shelter, but only allowed to interact with the p*o.
Load More Replies...And then you cornered him in the carpark outside and beat the snot out of him, right? (I'm just going to assume that's what happened to make myself feel better).
They did, I saw. Totally clowned that a****t. He cried and everything.
Load More Replies...I've noticed that people who like to show that they 'back the blue' are also the kind who don't seem to think that laws apply to them, and that they don't have to show common decency (as seen in this post)
They're also the ones who attacked the Capitol and police there.
Load More Replies...Why did you not just standing in front of his cart and block him from approaching your friend?
Some people just need a physical attitude adjustment. There's a lot of people walking around that desperately need it.
Yo, you do NOT wanna f@ck with my dog....I WILL GO TO JAIL to put you in your place MFer
It all started, as often happens, in the AskReddit community, where a couple of days ago the user u/Such_Alternative1975 asked the question: "What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve ever seen someone do in public like it was completely normal?"
Oh, I wish they hadn't done that - because the comments (and there are now over 1.3K of them) have become such a cringe festival that it was damn hard for us to choose stories for you, believe me. But we did it.
A guy used his car key to clean out his ear and then put it into his mouth. Walking out of walmart, naturally.
I was trying to eat breakfast while reading this, and now there's scrambled eggs stuck up my nose. Thanks.
I know you have probably solved the egg issue by now, but if it happens again I suggest you use your keys to dig it out:)
Load More Replies...Why do so many people believe that only Low I.Q. People shop at Wal Mart? Has anyone ever looked at the Forbes Wealthest American people list? Several members of the Walton family are in the top twenty part of the list. trump is #700.
Threw mashed potatoes at the waitress because they had gravy on them.
I'd lay an a*****t charge for that because that's not the only time she threw something at someone.
Mashed potatoes are always better with gravy, especially onion gravy with toad.
It took me a moment or two to realise you meant toad in the hole! Uh, well probably!
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Had a lady light a cigarette in the bank the other day. This was after insisting that the gold $100 bill she tried to give me was real. The, she told my manager to f**k off and that she wasn't the manager. She clearly wasn't well, but it was all wild.
They might've asked or had a sign up asking for people to not smoke in the building.
Load More Replies...Some of the situations described here can be explained by a simple word - alcohol. Or something even stronger and worse. A drunk person's threshold for assessing moral values is greatly reduced, and they are ready to do things that they would never do under any circumstances if they were sober. Moreover, they sometimes sincerely consider what they are doing to be funny or cool.
Alcohol affects people's consciousness in different ways - some fall asleep peacefully after a couple of glasses, while for others, on the contrary, all the fuses in their heads turn off, and their inner trickster wakes up. If you remember the plot of the old comedy The Hangover, you will definitely know what I'm talking about.
Knickers round one ankle, skirt hoiked up at the front, leg up on the sink for easy access hacking away at her pubes with a razor in a supermarket toilet.
We made direct eye contact. I walked right back out of there.
Doesn’t she know that shaving/cutting your pubes will make you itchy AF when they grow back 🤣
Truth! I did it once and once was enough. It did make for an interesting dance when I tried to scratch myself by just rubbing my thighs together. 😂
Load More Replies...I've seen people washing themselves in public toilet but no shavers yet. Maybe she had an emergency date?
N.A.S.T.Y! There weren't any stalls available as she obviously didn't mind improvising?
A guy on the subway peeling and eating a whole raw onion like it was an apple, dead serious.
So fellow Australians, Tony Abbott wasn't the only one to do this
If it was a Vidalia, they're grown to be eaten that way, depending. And they're GOOD.
I see nothing wrong with this, so long as nobody has to smell you afterwards.
I don't anymore but when I was a kid I loved raw potatoes! whenever my mom was making potatoes i begged for raw ones. Same with frozen french fries.
Load More Replies...My 3 year old niece used to love spring onions like that.
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Eat a random pill they found on the floor of the bus. Then take out a beat up iPhone and try to identify what the pill was.
"And the ones that Mother gives you don't do anything at all"
Load More Replies...I was homeless in Billings MT in the early 70s; one couch I surfed on was in a shooting gallery (needle-freaks not gun freaks) - some guys came and asked if anyone knew what the pills they had were - no one knew but they shot them up anyway; they had just knocked over a drugstore.
A separate category of situations is when people think that they aren't seen by anyone else. And then, it must be said, completely unexpected instincts awaken in many of us. For example, to eat food that has fallen on the floor, to throw garbage past the trash can on the street, and even to commit some minor offense. For example, to break traffic rules...
In fact, much of our life is the result of the so-called "social contract" between people, that is, not the absolute truth, but the result of people's agreement to consider it as such. And we, when we're not seen (or we think that we are not seen), involuntarily protest against these "game rules." And then we're surprised to be caught doing something completely unhinged.
Saw a chick go into a sandwich shop while drunk with her friends, and instead of waiting to use the bathroom, just squatted over the mop bucket in the dining room and pissed like it was no big deal in front of a full crowd of strangers. Dinner theater.
A very professional looking woman (think skirt suit and matching shoes) was walking in front of us in Spain. Suddenly she slapped the absolute s**t out of her own face.
No stopping, no change in facial expression either. Smacked herself so hard I had secondhand sting.
Sounds like Tourette. And yes, you can be professional and still have a disability.
Me, too. I don't s*******m as often thanks to my Prozac, but still occasionally slap myself hard enough to leave a mark when I'm really angry or frustrated.
Load More Replies...This is so sad. Slaping the thoughts out of her head maybe. Really bad anxiety
I saw someone pick up dog poop with their bare hand at the dog park and then walk to throw it out in the trash can.
Most ironic part about the whole thing is that there were bags that they could have used right next to the trash can. I wonder about people sometimes.
Oh man, I've got two large-breed dogs and the times when I've accidentally poked through a poop bag whilst picking up after them... yeah, nope. It's only happened a few times and it's enough to make me immediately go wash my hands vigorously all the way up to the elbows. I cannot even fathom just picking up a poopie bare-handed. I have, however, panicked when I've heard one of the cats making that "special sound" and I've run forward and put my cupped hands underneath their faces and caught a hairball bare-handed more than once XD However, touching hairballs and the occasional food-hork somehow doesn't seem as gross as touching actual feces...
People who will clean up after their animals are the best pet owners! Keep on doing it. But have a bag. Please have a bag. You have a bag. You have a bag. And you have a bag. ALL OF YOU have bags! And I'm never going to shake hands again with anybody at the dog park. Or even anybody with a leash anywhere.
Of course, there are situations when smart people just do some completely stupid things. Why does this actually happen? For example, because sometimes "dizziness from success" happens, people acquire irrational confidence in their own infallibility - and even having made a mistake, they try to convince others that it was not a mistake, or that they had actually planned to do it exactly that way.
"When smart people make dumb mistakes, it usually isn’t because of stupidity, ignorance, or apathy," Donalee Markus Ph.D. says in her article on Psychology Today. "They make dumb mistakes because they’ve been seduced by their own success, and the rewards of success help them develop expectations about how things are supposed to be."
Of the stories we’re telling you today, examples like these make up a significant, if not the most significant, share as well.
Used to work in a pub. Had a crazy old lady ask for a half of bitter. Takes the glass, puts it in her handbag and walks out. I was about to go get the glass back when the manager stopped me and said “It’s probably not worth it…”.
My sister has a few glasses the her or her friends have taken from pubs (which I have lectured her about a few times) but I doubt they would have been filled at the time!
I still have a lovely Stella Artois pint glass that a friend brought back to mine from the pub 20 years ago - he presented it as a house warming gift.
Load More Replies...often in the morning before street cleaners have been, you see pub glasses left on window sills doorsteps etc in our town.
Same around here. I've actually still got a pint glass I found dumped somewhere and decided to keep because I am a packrat.
Load More Replies...In Hawaii, at a buffet, we saw a guy eat 3 huge plates of food, filled a 4th plate, then walked out a side entrance complete with knife, fork and serviettes.
I was tutoring a student at a public library in Orlando, and the student was unusually distracted, periodically glancing behind me over my shoulder.
Eventually I asked the student what was up and he told me that a man behind me was watching p**n on one of the library computers behind me. He was a college kid, so I didn't figure that he could be that phased.
When I turned around, what I saw, with absolutely no effort to conceal it, was an old man watching naked, morbidly obese women being aggressively strangled.
I've seen people do that several times at internet cafes. I wish I could be that unbothered.
To be fair, it's probably very rare that someone gets "tentatively strangled". Victim be all: "No no, you're doing it all wrong!"
I once saw a woman in a supermarket queue eating a whole stick of butter like it was an ice cream. I moved to the next queue. .
Betcha her mom thought fats were bad for her. They aren't, and a growing brain needs them. So does the adult brain, brains use fat directly.
Load More Replies...One day you read about people making some kind of candy and disguise it as a stick of butter just to get s reaction from strangers. The next day you read this
Be that as it may, and even if you don’t want to understand the possible reasons why people behave the way they do, I think you’ll find these stories interesting, from the lite odd to the totally cringy. So please feel free to read these stories, and if you’ve ever witnessed something similar too, we're open to your own tales in the comments below!
Watched someone on the bus eating ice cream bars, one after the other, out of a box. Finished one box, started another. About half way through that box they paused, rummaged around in their many bags, came out with a needle, and stabbed it into their thigh, and continued eating the ice cream.
I watched a guy eat an entire packet of mini cupcakes washed down with milk on the bus once. The kicker was that he didn't have any teeth, so he gummed down his little feast and left a whole heap of crumbs and other detritus on the floor. And that wasn't even close to the worst thing I've seen someone do on a bus.
This is why I love having my own car. Public transport as a concept is wonderful - it's when you get certain members of the public involved that things go severely downhill.
No interest in the needle. But I could get behind eating two boxes of ice cream bars just because and not caring what anyone thinks.
When I went to uni on the bus, we often had an elderly lady would sit there eating frozen peas. A whole packet would last the 35 minute commute.
Was on the subway and a lady across from me started brushing her teeth and spitting on the floor. She then washed her face with her water bottle.
I saw someone brush their teeth in kitchen at work. Huge multinational company.
Walking down the street in Barcelona and a guy takes his phone out and full on licks the screen to clean it. Whole tongue out using the entire surface, with force, for at least the 3 steps he walked by me !!
P**s in the middle of dollar tree
i didnt actually see the lady do it, a customer let me know about it, but the next day, my manager showed me and my coworkers the security camera footage. she legit just crouched down, pissed, and then got back up and walked away as if nothing happened.
So why was the word -- first use -- cropped, and the second one left alone? Because it was a verb, instead of a noun??
Years ago my mother was in Maxway and they don't have public bathrooms She got mad because they wouldn't let her use their bathroom and took something in the dressing room and peed on the floor & put the shirt back. When she told me I was so mad that I told her what a disgusting pig she was. She could have gone to the restaurant next door. If she ever did that again she never told anybody.
Y'know those plastic dividers the cashiers at the supermarket use to divide your groceries from someone else's? I saw a cashier at Safeway pick one of those up, insert it down inside his shirt to scratch his back, and then put it right back on the conveyor belt in between the groceries as if that was a perfectly normal thing to do. 🤢🤮
I went home and promptly called the manager to report it.
Some homeless woman cascade vomiting on the bus seat in front of her, then asking the bloke she barely missed to fish out her dentures and hand them back to her.
Edited; phrasing.
Our "civilised" societies have majorly abandoned homeless people and they get abuse every day. You do not have the right to judge the behaviour of homeless people. Why should they care about societies standards when society is happy to let them die of exposure under our very noses.
Sorry, I've been really sick and throwing up in the emergency room and nurses ignored it completely. At least hopefully someone helped her.
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To make a very, very long story short, I worked at a ski resort with company housing. I had a super creepy housemate who, over the course of the winter, went progressively more insane. One of the final straws leading up to his firing took place at the childrens bunny hill while I was taking a group of kids to their ski lesson.
I see him sitting outside the shack at the top of the lift, feet resting on the controls, wearing nothing but a speedo, and shaving his head with a pair of clippers.
It was the middle of february, well below freezing, and this man was sitting in a lawnchair in a speedo, shaving his head on the bunny hill.
I said, "jesus christ man! what are you doing!?"
And he calmy replied "well... there was an outlet up here."
He gestured towards the outlet the clippers were plugged into.
The kids are looking at me like, "Who the hell is that guy?"
That was one of the thousands of insane things I saw that man do in public.
Back in early pandemic times I was stuck in a long line at the grocery store and this couple in front of me was ignoring their child.
Everyone is masked up, a bunch of ppl had gloves.
This kid was stuffing cheesy puffs into the keyhole on the grocery cart and then sucking the cheese puff paste out of it. This went on for at least 30 minutes, cheese puff after cheese puff.
No one stopped him.
At the gas station I saw a woman in a wheelchair insert her card into the reader with her mouth and used her tongue to press the number buttons. Initially I was saddened by this (in addition to being horrified), then I noticed that she was accompanied by an able-bodied man who stood and watched it happen.
You are an idiot if you think the solution would be for the disabled person to have to share their PIN with someone else just for you don't get offended watching them struggle. You may not like it but this way gives the disabled person financial independence.
True, but surely they would prefer to use a stick or something?
Load More Replies...Omg, that stock picture, it took me forever to realize it was a magnifying glass, I thought this person had an abnormally large mouth and no nose. 😭😳
Watched a man peeling a banana on an early morning commuter public bus. As he peeled it, it broke, and most of it fell onto the floor. It even rolled. He looked around (didn't see me watching him) and then picked it up and ate it. OFF THE FLOOR OF A BUS.
Two people smacking each other with umbrellas in a fight. This happened at the university I used to attend.
At least I got morning entertainment before a dull lecture.
Doesn't seem that strange for uni students... In fact, I am picturing at least one of my friends who could have done it!
I watched a woman walk completely naked down the street from a bus window. A moment later a cop car comes careening around the corner and the bus driver points and tells them the direction she went in. Apparently she wasn’t a first time offender.
People out of their heads on some types of d***s (LSD for one) quite often feel incredibly hot so strip off to cool down.
I had a dear friend was schizophrenic who did this. She couldn’t help it. RIP my lovely friend. 😢
I lived near a nursing home and caught a few old naked people as they absconded. I had a towel at the front door for a while until they fixed the lock.
Alzheimer's or maybe even sleep walking. I hope I never do this as I sleep naked too. (One reason why I don't take that one sleeping pill).
does it even matter if she was threatening anyone? public nudity is a crime.
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Clean her whole car with baby wipes in front of a Ross. Windshield, tires, everything. There was a car wash across the street.
they were probably car wipes, they are literally meant for this. Exactly the same type of pack.
Not everything is because of d***s mate
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I saw a guy try and return a pair of trousers in a shop that had s**t stains on the butt. The poor store clerk didnt know what to do. I suspect it was his kink or something.. maybe?
The shop had shít stains on the butt? Why do people find it so difficult to correctly construct a sentence? EDIT: FFS! Dearest downvoters, please tell me how "..in a shop that had s**t stains on the butt" makes sense.
Some people in the world don't have English as their first language?
Load More Replies...Given the customers I get, is it any wonder I have s**t stains on my butt? Regards form T. Shop
"in a shop'" is a prepositional phrase explaining where he was while returning the pants...its really not that hard.
In isolation, yes, it makes sense, but add the rest of the sentence for the full context and you get '..try and return a pair of trousers in a shop with shít stains on the bútt'. The correct construction would be 'I saw a guy in a shop who was trying to return a pair of trousers with shít stains on the bútt'. It really isn't that hard at all.
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Sitting in the deli/bakery seating of a grocery store having a coffee and donut when a man sits next to us with a grocery bag and he takes out a giant steak still in the packaging that he clearly just bought, and pulls out a small bottle of seasoning salt from his coat pocket and proceeds to eat the whole raw steak with his hands making sure to salt every bite. It was absolutely foul.
Just a raw steak sounds a bit excessive but to eat raw meat or fish is not uncommon (steak tartare, Carpaccio, Filet Americain, Sushi, Dutch Herring). If it is dangerous really depends on what part of the world you are in I guess....
I've eaten bites of raw steak before (usually to gross out family members) but never in public D:
Long ago and far away, I had a Lebanese friend and I got a taste of raw kibbeh. This was long before I had ever heard of e-coli and this one was made with ground beef. I tell you it was delicious but due to e-coli concerns I have never had it again. Believe me cooked kibbeh is not the same.
My cat eats kibbeh and bits. (I'm sorry everyone. That was uncalled for.)
Load More Replies...I saw a guy in a restaurant eat a raw steak with a raw egg on top. Salmonella on a plate. 🤢
Someone at the airport who looked not homeless grabbed an empty plastic bottle from the recycling bin, walked to the water fountain, filled it up and drank from it.
One time at an airport I noticed my car starting to overheat, and checking the engine I saw it was low on water (turns out the radiator was busted, very expensive repair later on) In a pinch, I grabbed an empty bottle on the trash and filled it up in the bathroom, only to notice the judging eyes of a cashier on the store right in front of the source trashcan. "Mate, the way they overcharge us on everything here, I prefer to try my luck with literal garbage!". It was a bit mean in retrospect, but when in hell, hug the devil!
Airport water is expensive. Actually, airport anything is expensive.
Reuse trumps recycling - this person is an environmental hero.
I was having a conversation with a homeless man when another homeless man walked up, didn't say a single word, pulled a bottle of vodka out of his trench coat and handed it to the man I was speaking to. The man I was speaking to proceeded to open the bottle, start chugging it, choke, and spit it all over me. He gave me a "my bad" look and walked away. I stood there stunned and then a lady that watched the whole thing called the police and the guy got arrested. It was so strange and really gross.
Sometimes spitting on someone can be counted as a*****t or battery.
Load More Replies...Calling the police on a homeless person for something minor like this is pure class. Hope she was really proud of herself.
Because the police would need to talk to the victim to understand what happened and if it was a crime. Then the homeless guy is arrested and the victim is looped into the process and what happens next until the victim withdraws charges or the homeless guy is convicted or pleads guilty. Where I'm from, you recieve notices in the mail when the perpetrator is about to or definitely is being released from prison. So how many ways would you like to know how the victim knew the homeless guy got arrested?
Load More Replies...During the winter in Canada, I witnessed a man at the top of an outdoor public staircase blow his nose into his hand. He then tried to shake the mess off his hand onto the ground and then he proceeded to grip the handrail all the way down the stairs. Reinforces why I'm a germaphobe. You never know what's been done to something in public!
I was once parking my car, and I saw guy walking out of pub. He stopped in front of lawn, put his finger down his throat, vomited and then went back to pub.
When I was 12 yo I saw a normal looking family man traveling with his family (wife and 2 kids, about 3 to 6 yo.) In the same train wagon I was. They were sharing some snacks and soda, and suddenly the man just took a tiny bottle with withe powder, proceeded to put some powder on his hand and sniffed it. Just like that, in front of everyone. That was the first and only time I saw someone using illegal substances on public
It could've been snuff, which is still used and that's how you use it. It could've also been headache powder, which you also snort. There are a few things that it could've been but yeah, go ahead and assume it was illegal.
Load More Replies...I live in a seaside town. Early one evening I took my daughters to the beach to play for a while after school. Opposite the beach there was a fish and chip takeaway. A car with 5 guys, all I would say in their late teens/early 20s, pulled up outside the takeaway. For a couple of minutes they just sat in the car, then the three who were sat in the back suddenly got out and started fighting with each other. Then they shook hands and got back in the car. A couple of minutes later all five of them got out and fought with each other. Then they all got back in the car, sat there for a few minutes and then drove off. To this day I wish I'd filmed it because it was just so bizarre. There was no shouting or yelling, just scuffling.
During the winter in Canada, I witnessed a man at the top of an outdoor public staircase blow his nose into his hand. He then tried to shake the mess off his hand onto the ground and then he proceeded to grip the handrail all the way down the stairs. Reinforces why I'm a germaphobe. You never know what's been done to something in public!
I was once parking my car, and I saw guy walking out of pub. He stopped in front of lawn, put his finger down his throat, vomited and then went back to pub.
When I was 12 yo I saw a normal looking family man traveling with his family (wife and 2 kids, about 3 to 6 yo.) In the same train wagon I was. They were sharing some snacks and soda, and suddenly the man just took a tiny bottle with withe powder, proceeded to put some powder on his hand and sniffed it. Just like that, in front of everyone. That was the first and only time I saw someone using illegal substances on public
It could've been snuff, which is still used and that's how you use it. It could've also been headache powder, which you also snort. There are a few things that it could've been but yeah, go ahead and assume it was illegal.
Load More Replies...I live in a seaside town. Early one evening I took my daughters to the beach to play for a while after school. Opposite the beach there was a fish and chip takeaway. A car with 5 guys, all I would say in their late teens/early 20s, pulled up outside the takeaway. For a couple of minutes they just sat in the car, then the three who were sat in the back suddenly got out and started fighting with each other. Then they shook hands and got back in the car. A couple of minutes later all five of them got out and fought with each other. Then they all got back in the car, sat there for a few minutes and then drove off. To this day I wish I'd filmed it because it was just so bizarre. There was no shouting or yelling, just scuffling.
