What's the craziest thing you've ever witnessed?

[Lucky]

sh*t, I take everything above back...this one tops all three of those. Lady walks into our newsroom when I was working in Mansfield, OH, holding a can of asparagus. This lady was probably in her 90's, don't know for sure. Says she after she got home from the grocery store, she opened the can of asparagus and found a dead baby bird inside of it. Proceeds to take the top off the can and show us this rotten, 3-inch baby bird nestled on top of the asparagus. GROSS! So I take photos of it, we start talking about doing an article, but our newsroom's managing editor is leery of running the story without confirming the facts with the health department or someone official. But the lady didn't want to take it that far.

We called her a couple weeks later for an update, and she said when she went it to complain, the supermarket gave her a half-dozen coupon for future asparagus purchases and she was fine with that. I kept the photo for sh*ts and giggles but lost it in a hard drive crash a couple years ago.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: joedrake
good story RichardE, good story
tell it to large groups of people

CS gets boring, so things like this become big. And I have no story compared to some here..soooo

 

[LeadMagnet]

Snow mobiler decapetated by a old barbwire fence

 

[dball3]

I know this won't compare to some of the stories, but i was about 16 skippin school and smokin some pot with some hippy friends, and the one kid, a total nature loving , tree huggin hippy fried off his brains, was staring at a robin. He turns to me and he picks up a rock and said watch me hit that robin. Now we were about 20 yards from it and neither of us thought he was going to hit it. He just lobbed it really high in the air and the rock just crushed the bird, I laughed my ass off, i wasn't a hippy , i allways enjoyed death metal, but that poor hippy cried for like 10 minutes LOL

 

[Iron Woode]

here's another:

when I was in elementary school back in 1978, this kid one grade lower decided he wanted to do something different. So he took off all his clothes and started streaking around the area. I was like, WTF? He did that for nearly an hour. Apparently no one cared. This was not at school but just outside of school property. I won't describe the weirdest thing about it though, let's just say he could have given John Holmes a run for his money.

LOL

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
here's another:

when I was in elementary school back in 1978, this kid one grade lower decided he wanted to do something different. So he took off all his clothes and started streaking around the area. I was like, WTF? He did that for nearly an hour. Apparently no one cared. This was not at school but just outside of school property. I won't describe the weirdest thing about it though, let's just say he could have given John Holmes a run for his money.
LOL

The weirdest thing is that in elementary school you could make a comparison to John Holmes.
Did your dad leave his closet unlocked?

 

[Eos]

I was driving by a soccer area (multiple fields) and there was a helicopter about to land. Except it was coming dopwn too quickly and with the nose pointed too high. It basically bounced the rotor and landed normally.

I was driving another time and about 3/4 of a mile ahead, I see a pair of headlights on the opposite side of the road, but off the road a few feet. Behind that car is another set of lights coming toward us. All of a sudden the first car's lights disappear becase it's doing a u-turn into the other faster moving car! The fast moving car flipped a couple times and landed on the roof. Poor little girl was all effed up in the cab... I was called for some attorney's depo a couple weeks later and the girl called to say thanks for holding her hand when she was in shock.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
here's another:

when I was in elementary school back in 1978, this kid one grade lower decided he wanted to do something different. So he took off all his clothes and started streaking around the area. I was like, WTF? He did that for nearly an hour. Apparently no one cared. This was not at school but just outside of school property. I won't describe the weirdest thing about it though, let's just say he could have given John Holmes a run for his money.
LOL

The weirdest thing is that in elementary school you could make a comparison to John Holmes.
Did your dad leave his closet unlocked?

nope.

I didn't compare him to Holmes back then, as I had no clue about that stuff. I am comparing him to Holmes after I learned about him.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: dball3
I know this won't compare to some of the stories, but i was about 16 skippin school and smokin some pot with some hippy friends, and the one kid, a total nature loving , tree huggin hippy fried off his brains, was staring at a robin. He turns to me and he picks up a rock and said watch me hit that robin. Now we were about 20 yards from it and neither of us thought he was going to hit it. He just lobbed it really high in the air and the rock just crushed the bird, I laughed my ass off, i wasn't a hippy , i allways enjoyed death metal, but that poor hippy cried for like 10 minutes LOL

My dad did that except he completely missed the bird, and then the bird flew up into the rock and hit it. Stupid bird.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Ktulu
I remember coming home after school when i was a kid hoping to watch some cartoons. Instead of cartoons there was some crazy stand off on a local freeway. Anyways, the guy had a shotgun or rifle with him and tried to climb over a center divider, unfortunately as he was doing this the gun fired and blew his head off. Those of you in California should know what i'm talking about.

Yeah, I saw that too. It happened on one of the freeways of Los Angeles. The guy tried to set his car on fire with him in it. He chickened out and took off his pants that was on fire. He killed himself on live tv. He blamed the HMOs for his daughter's death.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
It was with the second girl I ever boned in my life.

We was layin there nekkid and she said she wanted me to give her a pearl necklace.
I told her I couldnt afford that.
She laughed and said "not that kind........"
:Q

That isn't even fair

 

[SilentZero]

War

 

[TechnoPro]

I was driving on the highway outside of Boston (128/I95). They were in the midst of some construction so the lanes were regularly repainted and shifted, and both sides of the road were littered with heavy equipment. Traffic slowed down somewhat in this area since the lanes had been tightened and there was no little to no shoulder, only concrete barricades.

I was in the left lane, moving along at a good clip. I notice that several lanes over, in what I thought to be the breakdown lane or possibly the contruction area, a pickup truck was facing the wrong way and was backing up. I said to myself what balls the driver had to be doing this so close to traffic. As I kept driving, the pickup truck kept driving backwards. It was soon apparent that the truck was matching the speed of regular traffic, but in reverse!

I was like WTF? How can anyone accurately drive backwards at 40-50 MPH in a tight line, on a curvy highway? Are they a professional driver? Indeed, it was not possible.

As the highway stopped curving and resumed a straight path, the towtruck pulling this truck revealed itself. I had simply been at an angle and distance that had completely obscured the towtruck for a good 30 seconds. But believe me, the look of shock and awe lasted well longer than that.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: astrocase

3. Seeing true hate in the eyes of a Neo-Nazi and having to deal with it.
4. Seeing true hate in the eyes of a Taliban fighter while in Turkey.

Introduce Number 3 to Number 4 and see if two wrongs make a right.

 

[Aquila76]

LOL TechnoPro. Don't worry there are plenty of horror stories on MA highways.

Back when my wife and I were dating, I was driving late at night from Brockton up 93 to get home for a change. I usually took 95/128 due to traffic, but it was late enough that traffic wasn't an issue. Anyway, I noticed there were no cars on the other side of the highway. I mean ZERO, which never happens on a MA highway. A little while later, I see this bright light coming from ahead. As I get closer to it, there is a car in the center lane of the other side the highway completely in flames. The glass has shattered/melted off, the tires were gone, everything; it was just a huge ball of fire. About 1/4 mile behind all that was an array of Staties and fire trucks keeping the traffic back, waiting for it to burn out I guess. I'm just glad I was going the other way and didn't have to sit in that for however long they were there.

 

[Zontor]

There was a small airport about 1/2 mile away from where I worked. The planes would take off torward our building.
One day I was eating lunch on the 2nd floor and noticed a plane struggling to take off. It hit the fence at the end of the runway, flipped over, and landed in a field.
The plane started smoking and started to burst into flames. I and a lot of others grabbed every fire extinuisher we could find, crossed the street, jumped a barbed wire fence and ran through the field toward the plane.

As we approached the plane the fire had grown quite a bit and I heard someone screaming in the plane. As we got closer we realized that it could explode at any time and trying to put this thing out with our fire extinguishers would be like pissing in the ocean...haunts me to this day.

As a side note we all got 50-60 mosquito bites running through that field - they covered our arms, neck, backs. Never seen anything like it.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: Aquila76
Well, mine are really lame compared to a lot of these, but anyway:

Driving up to Burlington from Waltham on 128 in MA. A black pickup goes flying by me with a bed full of furniture (couch, two chairs, and a table). They were starting to repave this section at the time. When he hits the bump where the grooved pavement ends, the couch flips out of the truckbed and slides across the highway into the left lane. I managed to just get by the couch before it hit the guardrail and blocked the lane (and stopped all the traffic behind me). I called *SP and had to tell the Staties three times that there was a couch blocking the left lane of the highway before they believed me.

My neighbor's cat jumped THROUGH the third story window to catch a bird. I was working on my car under said window and was covered in a rainstorm of glass. Miraculously, the cat managed to land on the metal bulkhead door, which acted kind of like a springboard, and suffered only a broken tooth. The scream from that cat on the way down will haunt me forever, though.

EDIT: Oh, yeah forgot this one. I was about ten, I think. A friend and I were walking back to his house from the corner store when we hear this loud PING! like an iceball hitting a fencepost. We didn't think much of it, because it was winter and there were a bunch of kids playing nearby. All of a sudden, the light pole next to us starts creaking and falls over, completely smashing a car parked under it. It shattered the rear windshield and basically crushed the right side of the car. We both just stood there scared sh!tless. I think that was the first time I ever spoke with a police officer.

Are you from the Waltham area?

I go to Bentley in Waltham.

 

[Schneider879]

My friend snorted Smarties, that was really funny.

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: Aquila76
Well, mine are really lame compared to a lot of these, but anyway:

Driving up to Burlington from Waltham on 128 in MA. A black pickup goes flying by me with a bed full of furniture (couch, two chairs, and a table). They were starting to repave this section at the time. When he hits the bump where the grooved pavement ends, the couch flips out of the truckbed and slides across the highway into the left lane. I managed to just get by the couch before it hit the guardrail and blocked the lane (and stopped all the traffic behind me). I called *SP and had to tell the Staties three times that there was a couch blocking the left lane of the highway before they believed me.

My neighbor's cat jumped THROUGH the third story window to catch a bird. I was working on my car under said window and was covered in a rainstorm of glass. Miraculously, the cat managed to land on the metal bulkhead door, which acted kind of like a springboard, and suffered only a broken tooth. The scream from that cat on the way down will haunt me forever, though.

EDIT: Oh, yeah forgot this one. I was about ten, I think. A friend and I were walking back to his house from the corner store when we hear this loud PING! like an iceball hitting a fencepost. We didn't think much of it, because it was winter and there were a bunch of kids playing nearby. All of a sudden, the light pole next to us starts creaking and falls over, completely smashing a car parked under it. It shattered the rear windshield and basically crushed the right side of the car. We both just stood there scared sh!tless. I think that was the first time I ever spoke with a police officer.

Are you from the Waltham area?

I go to Bentley in Waltham.

Oddly enough, my family immigrated from Perugia, Italy to Waltham back in the 20's. That first account was from when I worked in Waltham, tho. I've lived in Lowell for the last 20 years or so. I don't know why.

 

[hawksballer]

Originally posted by: crab
Watching a friend go through the intersection of Bartram and Island in Philly and T-Bone a lady who blew through a red light.

Same thing happened to me sorta

I am sitting at a stoplight and it turns green. This lady at the front, I was about 4 cars back, heads off across the intersection when BOOM! She get hammered by this other car T-boning her but it was sorta in the rear so she goes off and spins I mean really spins like a top across the rest of the intersection and into this Halloween display that a gas station had at the corner. Pumpkins went flying, scarecrows bounced into the road. When she hit that display she had to have been spinning at 40+ MPH it was like a bomb exploded in that display?.Everyone just sorta sat their in their cars it happened so fast?Then she groggily pushed open her door and stumbled to the ground?.I have witnessed other accidents but this one was so abrupt and happened in a flash it was just wow

 

[CKent]

Doing ~65 in the right lane of a 3 lane highway, very light traffic. Guy in an old boat car (caddy? olds? buick?) is doing ~80 in the middle lane coming up on me, then at an exit he guns it to get past me, cut me off and take the exit. But it's winter and he's in a car that doesn't corner well, so he slid onto the snow-covered grass, still doing ~80, did a 360 and came out of the spin perfectly onto the entrance ramp. He got back on the highway without skipping a beat and was still on it when I got off 15 minutes later, though doing 65 in the right lane.

Diagram

 

[Ramma2]

Few years back, National Guard, Ft. McCoy in Wisconsin. My unit was there for it's yearly rifle qualification. It was the end of the weekend and my unit had finished its qualification and was running the night qualification range at that time. A friend of mine was on the firing line assisting shooters as they qualified. A guardsman from a different unit was in line 50 meters behind the actual shooting position waiting for his turn to advance to the front line to shoot. Instead of waiting for his turn he listened to the tower instructions and started to qualify, only instead of shooting at the 100 meter target from the 50 meter line, he was shooting at the 50 meter target (where people are shooting from the 0 meter line. My friend was shot in the neck and died that night. Worst experience in my life.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: ivol07

Originally posted by: Ktulu
I remember coming home after school when i was a kid hoping to watch some cartoons. Instead of cartoons there was some crazy stand off on a local freeway. Anyways, the guy had a shotgun or rifle with him and tried to climb over a center divider, unfortunately as he was doing this the gun fired and blew his head off. Those of you in California should know what i'm talking about.

I remember this. The guy was actually pissed at his HMO about them not treating his wife right so he decided to stop on the 101 and lay a big banner down to make his statement. Eventually he tries to blow his truck up with him inside but it doesn't really work so him and HIS DOG run out on fire. He then proceeds to take a shotgun and blow his brains out. All on live TV with all cameras zoomed in to the max. I remember this was a big scandal because like you said they interupted cartoons to bring this on. For a while there afterwards they would zoom WAY out on all the high speed chases, not anymore though. I remember thinking....I hope this doesn't make traffic to bad because I've got to go to work. Poor guy. R.I.P.

Michael Douglas in Falling down much?

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
Few years back, National Guard, Ft. McCoy in Wisconsin. My unit was there for it's yearly rifle qualification. It was the end of the weekend and my unit had finished its qualification and was running the night qualification range at that time. A friend of mine was on the firing line assisting shooters as they qualified. A guardsman from a different unit was in line 50 meters behind the actual shooting position waiting for his turn to advance to the front line to shoot. Instead of waiting for his turn he listened to the tower instructions and started to qualify, only instead of shooting at the 100 meter target from the 50 meter line, he was shooting at the 50 meter target (where people are shooting from the 0 meter line. My friend was shot in the neck and died that night. Worst experience in my life.

Did they kick him out or send him to the front lines?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Oh, another one: A few years back, NC had a major snow/ice storm. The power grid was knocked out all over the state, and the roads were covered in so much snow you couldn't drive faster than 25mph without wrecking. My place of work was iffy on whether they were actually going to be open. They had a backup power system, but you only had a few lights on here and there. Anyway, I headed in on the Interstate. There were literally MILES of cars that were wrecked and pulled off to the side of the road. I saw several idiots that somehow were flying down the road at 50+, which was probably the cause of all those wrecks. I found out later that AAA was overwhelmed with tow requests, and took hours to respond to a lot of calls.

My gf had to drive home from work in that. Took her like 2 hours for a drive that's normally 15 minutes. She said there were a lot of dumbasses in RWD trucks & SUV's sliding all over the road 'cuz they don't know how to drive their damn cars.

The problem was every workplace decided to send everyone home at the exact same time.