# WTF -- things you don't see every day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357 "2009-11-29T18:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/41 "2009-12-05T02:45:16Z")
> [@A.Selene](#): > > The most recent WTF moment I’ve had was last summer. I was waiting on a street corner for the lights to change so I could cross the street. As I waited, a car pulled up slowly and took a right, curling along the corner I was standing on. I didn’t get a look at the driver, but saw the passenger clearly for a few seconds; it was enough to make my heart skip a beat. The passenger’s skin was a pale yellow, and seemed very moist. Their head was covered in gauze, as was their right arm. The passenger had rested (her, his?) head against the window and was slumped over, seemingly quite limp. My guess was some kind of burn victim, or some terrible skin condition. The hospital is only about a mile away, but I sure as hell would have been driving faster had my passenger looked like that! sometimes faster is not good … if you are in pain, bumpy rides and bouncing is excruciating. Slow and gentle is best! First abdominal laparoscopy the drive home was excruciating, passenger seat in a sports car. Very stiff ride, bumpy road home. It felt like someone was trying to peel off my shoulder blades with a butter knife every time my torso moved or got jolted. ---
**Author:** ![Staale\_Nordlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Staale\_Nordlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staale_Nordlie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/42 "2009-12-05T04:50:46Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > I had to work yesterday – woe is me-- after work I stopped by a favorite bar for a beer. I looked across the street to see three people leaving a building and they proceeded to walk across the street toward my location.. in slow motion… They were all dressed in black skirts, black shirts, and well black everything except for white face makeup. This was one guy and two girls. Improv Everywhere? Or inspired by them? Sounds like the kind of thing they’d do. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NLOhBttxA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NLOhBttxA) (slow motion shopping) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo) (frozen Grand Central Station) ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/43 "2009-12-06T06:35:43Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > When I was 16 years old a friend and I were hitchhiking back into Saratoga, NY. We were picked up by a one-armed man driving a stick shift. No kidding. > > OK, OK… he did have a complete right (shift) arm, but his left arm ended below the shoulder (he didn’t have a left elbow). I had a next door neighbor years ago who was missing his right arm from the elbow down. He drove an old 5-speed Datsun. Most of the time he had a wooden prosthetic arm with the “hook” at the end and used it to shift the car, but one day I took a ride with him somewhere and he didn’t have his arm on and he was able to drive the car with no problem reaching over with his left hand to shift. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/44 "2009-12-06T16:51:49Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > When I was 16 years old a friend and I were hitchhiking back into Saratoga, NY. We were picked up by a one-armed man driving a stick shift. No kidding. > > OK, OK… he did have a complete right (shift) arm, but his left arm ended below the shoulder (he didn’t have a left elbow). Back when I drove figure eight race cars, one of the other drivers had just one arm and drove a stick shift car. He had lost his right arm in an accident. He had modified the shifter so he could reach it with his left hand. In the years I drove race cars, I also competed against a guy with no legs (he drove with his prothsetic legs and a parapalegic, he drove with hand controls. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/45 "2009-12-06T22:03:11Z")
I looked out my office window last week and saw Santa riding a Segway down the street. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/46 "2009-12-07T02:54:37Z")
[A man walking down the street in a bikini](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432994) ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/47 "2009-12-07T03:02:04Z")
It was Halloween, 1997… Maybe I should stop there. 🙂 I rented an Elvis costume and entered a Halloween contest. Everybody had relatively average costumes like mine, but one was huge, there were probably at least 3 people working it. It was a dragon, about 15-20 feet tall, and 30-40 feet long, with flashing eyes and it actually breathed smoke. That’s not the unusual thing though. The dragon costume won first place ($5k) easily. 2nd place (3k) was also very tall. It was a 20 foot penis, and it also–breathed–something. The penis costume guy would jump up and down rubbing his shaft and then pull a pair of strings that released confetti. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/48 "2009-12-07T19:05:02Z")
> [@Staale\_Nordlie](#): > > Improv Everywhere? Or inspired by them? Sounds like the kind of thing they’d do. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NLOhBttxA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NLOhBttxA) (slow motion shopping) > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo) (frozen Grand Central Station) It briefly crossed my mind that it might be some kind of performance art, but I don’t think that is what these people were doing. They were just plain weird. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/49 "2009-12-07T19:29:42Z")
Last week I was driving in downtown Cleveland and saw a solitary bicycle chained up to a signpost. Strapped to it were at least eight bicycle helmets. The streets were otherwise deserted. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/50 "2009-12-07T21:09:20Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Last week I was driving in downtown Cleveland and saw a solitary bicycle chained up to a signpost. Strapped to it were at least eight bicycle helmets. The streets were otherwise deserted. I was not aware that Cerberus could ride a bike. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/51 "2009-12-07T22:51:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I was not aware that Cerberus could ride a bike. He does the doggy pedal. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357/52 "2009-12-08T00:27:47Z")
From the local news tonight: > [@](#): > > A Charlotte couple has been arrested for selling moonshine from a day-care center operated by the wife, state law enforcement agents say. > > Young children were in the center while the moonshine was being sold, agents also say. > > N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement agents say they arrested Gwendolyn Brown Johnson, 57, and her husband, Artis Lejuine Johnson, 64, last Friday at Parkview Community Center, a day-care center on Pryor Street, off Tuckaseegee Road. > > Also arrested, agents say, was a Catawba County man who was accused by authorities of supplying the liquor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-things-you-dont-see-every-day/519357.md?page=2)