# Unusual things you saw today, or recently anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802 "2015-06-17T23:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/61 "2015-06-25T16:59:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I saw that my neighbors had put a new deer statue on their lawn. Image my response when I thought it moved! > > It did! A beautiful young buck. We both stood very still, looking at each other, until he took off, calmly walking down the street. OK, sometimes I am a little (a lot) slow on the uptake. I was driving on the Kancamagus, which is known for its moose, during a time of year not unusual for moose. STILL I slowed and thought “What is that, a statue in the road people are slowing down and stopping for, probably wondering who left a statue in the road?” :smack: times 1000. The whole day my friend kept pointing out the moose he was seeing along the road and I was oblivious. To this day the only moose I’ve seen was the “statue” in the road. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/62 "2015-06-25T17:25:11Z")
There is a nesting pair of golden eagles along the south fork of the Shenandoah. They were there last year and they’re back this year. My fishing guide is a retired park ranger and he said this is the first pair he’d seen on the Shendoah. I also saw a bald eagle on the river take a squirrel out of a tree, that was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/63 "2015-06-26T08:42:31Z")
Just a couple minutes ago the RAF display team [Red Arrows](http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/) flew over my house in formation then came around again and landed at the nearby Farnborough airport. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/64 "2015-06-26T09:35:23Z")
I saw an owl on the way home last night. That’s not unusual, but this one was sat in the middle of the road, just around a blind bend. It didn’t move, either, even with my car rushing towards it. Fortunately I managed to miss it, but it was close. I’m just imagining the owl nonchalantly standing there as a car went whizzing past just inches away. When I looked in the mirror, it was still standing in the road, looking back at my car. It hadn’t bothered to move an inch. That owl was either awesomely cool or pretty dumb. I’m not sure which. I was half expecting to see owl puree on the road when I went back round this morning, but it was all clear. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/65 "2015-06-26T10:36:47Z")
> [@The\_Angry\_Badger](#): > > I saw an owl on the way home last night. How could you tell where the owl was going? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/66 "2015-06-26T15:20:05Z")
A few days ago, I saw a car that–except for the windows–looked like it had been completely spray painted with flat black paint. The wheel covers and tires, too. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/67 "2015-06-26T17:56:10Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How could you tell where the owl was going? It had on one of [these](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/320248223475046091/). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/68 "2015-06-27T04:45:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How could you tell where the owl was going? He was wearing a homing pigeon costume. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/69 "2015-06-27T10:03:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How could you tell where the owl was going? Note to self: Make sure all your SDMB posts are clear, unambiguous and not open to deliberate misinterpretation by snarky smartasses. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802/70 "2015-06-27T11:29:56Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > The overall store manager of the local HyVee supermarket is always out in the parking lot sweeping up cigarette butts and other trash. You don’t know if she ever found a willing younger man? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-you-saw-today-or-recently-anyway/722802.md?page=3)