# The Most Disgraceful Thing You've Ever Seen (Especially in Public) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297 "2013-03-18T21:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/301 "2014-04-17T09:38:23Z")
> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > Some of the flats were rented to absentee landlords who sub-let them to… well, lets just say not very nice people. One young couple with a baby moved in and within a week had sold their entire bathroom suite. They spent the rest of their tenancy (about a year) crapping in a bucket and emptying it out of the window. Presumably they didn’t wash at all. No complaints were made because both of them (presumably not the baby, though one never knew in that part of the world) were known to be ‘a bit handy with a blade’. “That part of the world” being…? ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/302 "2014-04-17T17:11:41Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > “That part of the world” being…? Sheerness, Kent, UK. Specifically an area known as Bluetown. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/303 "2014-04-18T08:02:31Z")
I saw these two scruffy guys try to snatch a 5-6 year old girl off the street. One guy grabbed her hand, and the girl ran. Later, his accomplice came up and it looked like they were trying to find another target. I another one: I was going to work and I found a backpack on the sidewalk. I was going to ignore it, because maybe somebody dropped it and would come back soon to pick it up. But, it looked like an elementary school child’s backpack, so I figured I should try to see if there was a name on it or something. I opened it, and immediately I could see it wasn’t for school. There was one book in it, and I opened it because usually schools put their names on the cover. It was a fake book, and inside was what looked like half a kilo of marijuana. I called the police to pick it up. ---
**Author:** ![delsina363](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/304 "2014-04-19T21:06:39Z")
One time, on a public trolley, a lady sitting a few seats up from me, was actually flossing her teeth. There are a lot of things I witnessed more disgraceful than this, including treatment of the poor and elderly, AIDS, etc. but for some reason, over a decade later, I still think of that woman on the trolley, as the grossest thing ever. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/305 "2014-04-19T21:09:16Z")
> [@delsina363](#): > > One time, on a public trolley, a lady sitting a few seats up from me, was actually flossing her teeth. There are a lot of things I witnessed more disgraceful than this, including treatment of the poor and elderly, AIDS, etc. but for some reason, over a decade later, I still think of that woman on the trolley, as the grossest thing ever. :eek: I wonder if that’s better, or worse, than someone clipping their nails, which I’ve seen on buses. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/306 "2014-04-19T22:00:39Z")
Mine was seeing a man yell at his son who was in a wheelchair; he had slammed his sons wheelchair over a bump and the kid fell out and then the dad yelled at him for it being his fault somehow. This was in the really wealthy area I had moved to recently. I literally thought that I was moving to where there was a better class of people so to speak. I reevaluated this assumption after that incident. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/307 "2014-04-20T00:27:58Z")
> [@delsina363](#): > > One time, on a public trolley, a lady sitting a few seats up from me, was actually flossing her teeth. There are a lot of things I witnessed more disgraceful than this, including treatment of the poor and elderly, AIDS, etc. but for some reason, over a decade later, I still think of that woman on the trolley, as the grossest thing ever. :eek: > [@EmilyG](#): > > I wonder if that’s better, or worse, than someone clipping their nails, which I’ve seen on buses. One time on the Skytrain, our overhead mass transit, I watched a farang (Westerner) busily and thoroughly shaving himself with an electric razor. He got out at Sala Daeng Station, the stop for the infamous Patpong red-light district. Guess he wanted to look spiffy for the ladies. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/308 "2014-04-20T03:33:09Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > One time on the Skytrain, our overhead mass transit, I watched a farang (Westerner) busily and thoroughly shaving himself with an electric razor. He got out at Sala Daeng Station, the stop for the infamous Patpong red-light district. Guess he wanted to look spiffy for the ladies. maybe they charge extra for whisker abrasion. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/309 "2014-04-23T22:08:45Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I wonder if that’s better, or worse, than someone clipping their nails, which I’ve seen on buses. Depends if it was finger- or toe-nails ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/310 "2014-04-23T22:10:59Z")
with toe nail fungus. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/311 "2014-04-23T22:13:28Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > the stop for the infamous Patpong red-light district. Guess he wanted to look spiffy for the ladies. ‘Twould be unclassy to ask a woman to pat your pong for money while wearing a five o’ clock shadow. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297/312 "2014-04-23T22:21:29Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Years ago I was driving in the rain, and I saw a flag flying on top of a three- or four story building. It was bad enough that the flag was flying in the rain, but this flag was old and worn, and some of the torn part was wrapped around the halyard (cord). I was disgusted. I should have gone into that building and told them about it. > Any of you ever see anything disgraceful or insulting like that? ☹ Worse is worn t-shirt with American flag on it.I can see nice new t-shirt with American flag on it but not a worn American flag.Where the t-shirt is worn and faded. Or some one wearing a American flag do-rag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgraceful-thing-youve-ever-seen-especially-in-public/653297.md?page=15)