# Strangest thing you ever saw in the city of Chicago **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821 "2014-09-18T14:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/21 "2014-09-19T21:24:39Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Jesus riding the Red Line with his cross. l was going to say the time Jesus got on my bus downtown carrying a big 'ole cross on his shoulder. I didn’t know this was a thing (and it was a pretty unforgettable introduction to The Big City since I was new there), so I’ve learned something new today. Also, Jesus looks a lot like Jeff Lynne. ---
**Author:** ![iljitsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/22 "2014-09-19T21:46:15Z")
A black helicopter left unattended. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/23 "2014-09-19T22:42:19Z")
There used to be a nightclub in Chicago called Medusa’s. We used to park under the L tracks when we’d go there. Medusa’s was a weird place, it didn’t serve alcohol, it opened at midnight and closed at like 7 or 8 am. It attracted some very odd folks. Anyway, one Friday night a friend drove us to medusa’s in his mom’s VW Beetle. When we came out in the morning the side windows were broken out, the stereo was gone, and there were 8 or 9 used condoms and at least 40 beer cans strewn around the inside of the car. I gotta tell you, that made me do a double take and scratch my head. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/24 "2014-09-19T23:05:44Z")
I was riding the bus to Midway one day. A slender gentleman dressed in a sweat suit boarded carrying a large duffel and sat down a couple seats away. On the ensuing trip he proceeded to entirely change his outfit, down to his underwear, for a minidress, fishnet stockings, high heels, wig, etc. and walked off the bus looking like a sexy woman. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/25 "2014-09-20T02:14:04Z")
This happened in 1975. Me and a couple Navy buddies went to Chicago for a day. While riding a bus trying to find the Sears Tower, a young black kid, 12 to 14 years old, stopped and asked if we wanted to buy a watch. He opened his jacket, safety pinned inside were about 8 watches. He wanted anywhere from $5 to $50, depending on the watch. We declined and he was off to pitch his sales routine to the next passenger. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/26 "2014-09-20T11:42:38Z")
After a Grateful Dead concert, I was hanging out with a friend in the 31st street parking lot. About 20 or 30 yards away there was a CPD paddy wagon parked. A young freak jumped onto the back bumper, and started hopping up and down, rocking the vehicle. I tapped my friend on the arm and pointed, saying: “That dude is going to get his ass beat.” The wagons doors flew open, and 2 cops hurried out and chased this guy around the Paddy Wagon like something out of a Marx Bros. comedy, and began to shoot him with a super-soaker. A super-soaker. The guy was drenched. Oh yes, I was not hallucinating. They all had a good laugh, and If I didn’t see it happen, I probably wouldn’t believe it, either. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/27 "2014-09-20T12:53:06Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Might your memory be a little hazy? I think that date was August 13, 1985, and yes Bosley and Wallach got two jacks each ([Cubs' Bosley Hits Two Homers to Help Cubs Defeat Expos](http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-13/sports/sp-1490_1_cubs-reliever)), but for the Yankees at White Sox game nobody got two HRs. Kittle got one, and did Carlton Fisk. For the Yankees, Don Mattingly hit one out ([Box Score for Yankees (3) vs White Sox (4) on August 13, 1985 at Comiskey Park I](http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=198508130CHA)). Nope. Date was August 12, Ciubs won 8-7 in daytime, White Sox lost 10-4 same night. > **[1985 Major League Scores, Standings, Box Scores for Monday, August 12, 1985 |...](https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/index.fcgi?year=1985&month=8&day=12&submit=Submit%2BDate)** > > Get the latest MLB scores and standings for today and historical games on Baseball-Reference.com (Click the scores of each game to see box score and game details.) Normall, the Cubs and Sox schecules to never be home on the same day, but there was usually one day when the Cubs would play the last day of a homestand in the afternoon, and the Sox would start a homestand the same night. I usually drove 500 miles to Chicago for that day of baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/28 "2014-09-20T13:16:48Z")
> [@iljitsch](#): > > A black helicopter left unattended. I saw one. I work at the airport, & there is a firm that does contract repair & maintenance for the Feds, and for others. Sure enough, in the late 90s, there was a helicopter, black, with no ID number on it, in for repairs. I assume that new ID would be painted on, later. So I assume. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/29 "2014-09-20T14:24:16Z")
I saw the Cubs try to win a ball game. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/30 "2014-09-20T18:16:08Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > They have the time the time of their life > I saw a man who danced with his wife. His OWN wife? Not somebody else’s? Well, I never… ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/31 "2014-09-21T03:01:49Z")
My wife remembers a busker (although she didn’t know that word then) from the early 50s, a “Rooster Man” in the West Rogers Park area. He was a skinny old black man with a trained rooster that would dance on street corners. She’d see him on the bus, with the rooster under his arm. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/32 "2014-09-21T06:39:39Z")
During the late 80s, I saw THREE Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles heading east on the Eisenhower Expressway, single file in the same lane with no cars between them. I didn’t even know that more than one Wienermobile existed. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/33 "2014-09-21T11:56:59Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > During the late 80s, I saw THREE Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles heading east on the Eisenhower Expressway, single file in the same lane with no cars between them. I didn’t even know that more than one Wienermobile existed. It’s kinda like the department store Santa Claus. The real one can’t be everywhere at once. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821/34 "2014-09-21T13:33:18Z")
Not the strangest, but probably the funniest thing I’ve seen in Chicago. At an El stop, a Black street performer with no teeth, and no talent either, but with an unshakable committment to the material. Singing at the top of his lungs: “MEEEE-AN MIFFIV! MIFFIV DOENZ, MIFFIV DOENZ, MIFFIV DOENZ…WE GOTTA THEHHH…GOWA-AHHHN” (If you’d do the aural equivalent of a squint, you could tell he was singing [this song](http://youtu.be/n2v98PGBZH4). Of course, all us white people were trying our best to pretend he wasn’t there, while Black people were going past yelling “shut the fuck up!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-thing-you-ever-saw-in-the-city-of-chicago/698821.md?page=1)