Wierdest thing I’ve ever personally seen : we were on our way to a small town festival in Mid Michigan. The Vermontville Maplefest, which, all by itself has some oddities since it’s a farming community with many Amish folk plus the traditional opening of motorcycle season for the state, so MANY, many biker clubs/orgs agree to meet up there.
Winding country roads, with farm land on either side, often the Amish families will set up road side stands selling baked goods. as we were coming around a corner and over a hill, we saw, to the left, such an Amish bake sale, with a vehicle parked nearby. The vehicle was a schoolbus. and, out of the school bus, approaching the Amish women with their baked goods, were…
about 30 Clowns in full makeup/costumes…
happened about 13 years ago and I still haven’t seen anything stranger since (including the guy this morning who walked along with a book belted to the back of his head)…
if it isn’t ok that I posted this thread that was similar in intent to Homers, please excuse, I’m relatively new here, intend no harm (I would have posted this story to his thread, but that one seemed to have gotten bogged down in the details of HIS story)
Was at the local multiplex; waiting in the lobby for Baglady to come out of the restroom. Happened to look to the right just in time to see a (very cute) young girl pour one of those super-multiplex-sized cokes over her head.
She just tossed her hair and walked out of the theater. It was a very busy lobby and not everybody noticed but you could tell who had seen it by the looks on our faces.
2)When I was at the University of Washington I worked the 6 pm to 12:30am shift at the library. After getting off work I walked about 1.5 miles home. Being out that late you see many strange things. The strangest the time I was walking up 15th towards 40th (for those who know the area) and what should come running down the other side of the street?
A young man (20ish) in full samurai regalia, including a katana (or at least a katana prop). He didn’t seem angry, but he was running very fast. I just stood there and watched him until he went around a corner. I’ve always wondered what the story behind that was.
Unfortunately, I’ve only been around for 19 years so I haven’t seen too many strange things. However, a friend of mine once told me a story of the strangest thing he ever saw. It was a group of little people (P.C. term for dwarfs or midgets) playing volleyball on a tennis court.
Well, the hands-down weirdest thing I’ve ever seen was when I saw “the Mrs. and the carload of kids” drop the “Mr.” off at work–standing on the corner in front of Wal-Mart holding a “Will Work For Food” sign. He had a lawn chair and a lunch box and everything. I’m sorry but I just don’t get it. Why not drop him off at a real job?
Weirdest thing I ever saw was on the morning of my last graduation from Grad School. I was looking out the window of my hotel room and saw an irregular black dot on the horizon. As I watched it slowl grew closer and developed into a very irregular object, just floating and taking its time. By the time it finally passed over the hotel I could see it for what it was – a free-floating balloon in the shape of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It must have been fairly sizeable for me to see it so far away – I’m talking big enough to carry a person big – but there was no gondola and no ropes. There was no balloon festival anywhere nearby, and no other balloons in th sky. This sighting was nowhere near the University, so I don’t think it had anything to do with graduation.
o this day I have no idea where the T. Rex balloon came from, or what it meant.
I was outside on my back porch smoking a ciggarette. I am surrounded br 60-100 year old oak trees. Anyways, I hear some rustling…then a little crack…then a little squeal. And this thing appearing to be a bird at the time falls out of the tree from about 60 ft. up and goes <kerplunk!> on the ground about 10 feet away from me. I’m like WTF!? So I assume it’s dead…whatever it is…so I walk over towards it, and it’s a squirrel. I look way up in the tree and 3 of his buddies are staring down at him. All of a sudden the squirrel jumps back to life, runs away and climbs up a tree. That was interesting.
I ran into a pirate in full regalia real sword, real dagger, in the local grocery store. He bowed, gave me a neclace and said “for you beautiful lady”. Thinking I was having a flashback of some sort I asked the kid stocking the shelves if he had seen the pirate. He had (phew) the pirate was just sort of hanging out, finally a little kid asked him what he was doing and he said he was waiting for the other pirates. After about twenty minutes a car full of pirates pulled up in front of the store and he left. Come back to the Publix, you handsome Buccaneer!
I don’t know about the weirdest I’ve ever seen, but here’s a recent weird that I witnessed.
Just down the street from the office they are overhauling an office building. They’ve gutted it completely from the second floor up, and are replacing all the systems and the facing. The upper floors are all shiny reflective glass, but the retail floor is all clear plate-glass windows. They started the facing project by putting up hoarding and dust screening, and were working on the ground floor plates. One bright, sunny day a truck pulled up to the work site with a load of large (app. 6 by 10 or 12 feet), thick, clean, clear plates of glass. Really clear.
It was just at the start of lunch hour, and the sidewalks were getting busy (there are several chipwagons nearby, too.) A pair of workers grabbed a plate, and tried to get it the 8 feet from the back of the truck to the door into the inside of the hoarding. In so doing, they blocked the sidewalk. People on their lunch hour would almost walk into it accidentally, or would walk right up to it and start miming as if it wasn’t there, or as if it was there but they weren’t sure, or would do a little jog around it. The workers couldn’t motion the careless away from it, because that would mean dropping the (expensive) plates. They had to inch along, and it took them probably 10 minutes to move the window into place. They were both nearly peeing laughing anyway, as were passersby up and down the street, because the whole scene looked straight out of Loony Tunes.
How is a pirate unlike corn on the cob? One’s a buccaneer.
:: slaps self ::
I survived a tornado. When the smoke cleared I saw that a single pine needle have been embedded point first, into tempered glass.
I also saw my exwife do the dishes. But it was probably seemed a lot weirder to me than to the other dopers.
Got up one morning, let the dog out and went to get a cup of coffee. Heard the dog barking her fool head off and went back outside. My dog is chasing a 3.5 foot tall bird all around my back yard. My first thought is naturally that I’m still dreaming. Eventually came to the conclusion that it was not a dream. Turns out a Louisiana Night Heron had crash landed in my back yard. I caught the thing and took it to local animal hospital.
Not quite as wierd as some of the other stories (I particularly like the girl dumping coke on her head), but my first look at my dog chasing that bird was hands down the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.
The phone conversation with the gentleman at the animal hospital was pretty surreal too.
(saw a thread entitled “speed records” and it reminded me of this) Not “weird” per se, but damned funny.
I’ve NEVER had a moving violation (knock on formica). Never. My ex (and at the time of the story, we were still married) gets at least one speeding ticker per year.
we were traveling on the highway, I was driving, a tad [smirk] over the speed limit. too late, I saw a wooded area in the median with a drive through it, one of those “authorized vehicle only” things that police like to hide at. Sure enough, as I passed by, a saw a police cruiser, there and it started moving as soon as I passed. well, I’m caught, I know it, my (then) husband is chorteling with pleasure, I start slowing down and pulling over, realize, wait a moment, no lights behind me, pulled over, turned around and saw… the police man had jumped out of his car, popped the hood, 'cause his cruiser was ON FIRE!!! Still have no moving violations. but I don’t take chances like I used to…
I don’t know if it’s really wierd, but I think it’s funny when you see a corvette at a laundromat (sp?). I’m thinking they obviously have money to be able to afford an awesome car like that, yet they don’t own a washing machine? I think, for me, a washing machine would come before purchasing a very expensive sports car.
Yeah… I know the car could be a gift, or perhaps their washing machine is broken… but still… it’s funny.
A friend asked me for some money to chip in on the beer. I told him I was broke (true) and pulled out my wallet to show him.
When I opened my wallet, a moth flew out of it.
I have no idea how a moth got in my wallet. It was something right out of a cartoon. My friend thought (probably still thinks) that I put the moth in there just in case someone asked me for money.
Right. If I was that clever, I wouldn’t have been broke.
To quote labradorian “I don’t know about the weirdest I’ve ever seen, but here’s a recent weird that I witnessed.”
BF and I were driving down route 128 on Tuesday, and we passed an animal dead along the side of the road.
I looked strangely at BF, because it could not possibly have been what it looked like to me.
BF looked at strangely at me, because he had thought the same thing… that the dead animal along the side
of the road looked a helluva lot like a small chimpanzee.
This is Massachusetts, fer chrissakes. If it had been an opossum or a raccoon, we never would hae thought
twice about it, but a simian-looking creature? Very very weird.
I seen some damn weird shit in my life but the other day I surfed to Ripley’s or America’s Weirdest Shit or some dammned thing and watched the story of a woman who adopts pets. Not a problem. She has a cat (pregnant, which is germain to the story) and a female basset hound who has never had pups. She adopts three orphan baby squirrels and bottle feeds them and one day one is missing. The cat had dragged the squirrel off, not to eat it but to nurse it along side her own kittens. The kicker was the basset hound starts lactating and nurses the kittens and squirrels too. If that’s not a sign of the end times I don’t know what is. I think I saw that in an old Bloom County strip.
Well, this isn’t something I SAW, but it still bugs me…
I went to our local produce place to get an eggplant to try a new recipe. I couldn’t find any so I asked a stockboy where they were. He said he’d have to get one from the back because some guy just came in and bought an entire case of eggplant. Nothing else, just eggplant. I said “What does one do with an entire case of eggplant” He had no idea. I mean, that’s a shitload of babaghanoush. To this day I still wonder what the hell that guy needed all that eggplant for.
Speaking of basset hounds, we have one, and are supporters of breed rescue. One of the “clients” has a basset hound/bloodhound mix. It looks 100% basset hound except it’s on tall legs. If you’re used to seeing the regular ones, this is a bizarre sight indeed.
Announcement comes on over PA: “We’re experiencing some technical difficulties with the baggage carosel, please stand by.”
So we’re waiting around.
All of a sudden, the baggage carosel starts to move. The first thing to pop up from underneath is not a suitcase, or a duffel bag, or a box, it’s…a person.
The maintainence worker who was fixing the thing just rode it on outa there. Weird thing indeed.
friedo, that type of thing happened to me too. I was waiting for an elevator, on the 4th floor. The doors opened , and the top of the elevator was level with the door – there was a maintenance man riding on top! We just looked at each other until the doors closed. He never said a word. Very weird.
This is probably cheating, since some friends of mine and I were directly responsible, but:
Back when I was in high school growing up in Missouri, three buddies and I were fooling around in a local drug store when the manager came out and told us to cool it or beat it (this is obviously an abbreviated version). Anyway, we were pissed, so one of my friends went out to his truck and got some fishing line. He tied one end to his bumper and brought the spool into the store (there was a door leading out directly into the parking lot). He wound the line up and down the aisles and tied the other end to one of those plastic patio chairs. Then he went back out to his truck (while the rest of us stayed in the store) and started his engine. When he took off, the chair suddenly jumped up and started banging up and down the store’s aisles, knocking things around as the manager, who had been oblivious to what was going on before, stood by and watched in horror and amazement…he couldn’t see the fishing line, only this chair flying around his store. Eventually, just as the chair went shooting out the door, my buddy cut the line and the chair simply tumbled out into the parking lot.
My friends and I were doubled up with laughter as the whole thing unfolded. It was hilarious.
I kid you not - Many years ago when I was a young guy off school for the summer I had a weekend off from my job in the bush. I grabbed my pack and headed into town. I stayed in an old fleabag hotel, not skid row but definitely a dive. I was walking back to my room late one night and, as I walked down the hall I glanced into an open room door. There were two stout older men, fully dressed, sitting on the bed facing the door. Sitting between them was a woman in bra and panties and they were pouring ketchup and mustard over her head. Her head and shoulders were pretty much covered in the stuff.