Strange Things You Have Seen In Your Town or City.

[Parasondox]

Yes, I have agreed to tone down the thread making. They can often be annoying, unfunny (duh) and filled with dumbness.

I now walk to work. Well, I walk to the main station from my home that takes about 25mins. While doing so at 5:30 in the morning, strange shit can happen and be witnessed. People hungover, people puking, people shitting, wild animal sex. The norm really.

For me today while walking to work, I saw a man hold up a bus, shouting at the driver about a dead cat next to the bus. I honestly had zero clue what really happened to the cat. It did pass away and I don't know whether the bus driver did hit it or not. It just turned into a major argument.

That was only 1 thing that happened today. What are some strange, unusal and unexplained shit that you have seen in your neighbourhood, town or city?

The Mystery of Humans is a wonderful thing.

 

[DefunctTheory]

There are a weird amount of Confederate Flags around here. A seriously strange amount, especially considering I live in Pennsylvania. One may say 'Well, Gettysburg is a historical town,' and that is true, and there's plenty of Union and Confederate flags in that area. But I'm talking about 'Run up the private flag pole, away from the historical areas, with no US flag to be seen on the property anywhere' Confederate Flags.

It's actually fairly disturbing.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

My dad would probably have better stories to tell since he delivers papers around the same time the OP does.

Me, I'm confused by the number of strange things I see left out on the streets of my city when driving to work down one of the main roads. There's roadkill of course, but I have also seen milk crates, mailboxes, tricycles, and even a cushioned chair just left out there for someone to hit. I guess the last is the next level of an attempt to get rid of it by putting it on the side of the road. With the mailbox, I actually saw a taxi run into it hard enough to knock it off the road and into a parking lot.

 

[Parasondox]

Jeans down, squatted over the drainage and just did a number 2. Hey, if you gotta go, you gotta go.

Night bus journey and someone shat on the upper deck of the bus in one of the seats. I mean... COME ON!!

 

[Bob_McMillan]

When I was a child I once saw a dirty, all nude lady just walking down a busy highway.

Needless to say, I spent many hours of the next few weeks dreaming about it.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Year one of living in Buenos Aires: trans hookers having screamathons right under my apartment window.

 

[Sonmi]

Outside of the occasional bum fight, or drunk individual shitting on the ground, I can't say I've seen many weird things.

Three summers ago, a friend and I stopped at a Tim Hortons at 3 in the morning for a coffee, started a conversation with a homeless man that claimed he could name the winner of every Stanley Cup in the last 40 years, turns out he really could. We bought him coffee, and a French expat started talking to us as well, claiming he was fleeing "European socialism" and then started going on a rant about "everything wrong with Europe", which eventually angered the hockey trivia whiz who then pelted pennies at him until he left the premises.

It was definitively a weird night.

 

[DarthCoercis]

Oh hell, after working for 8 years in a grog shop (alcohol retail store for the non-aussies) I could fill a hundred thread pages on this topic. I think I'll go with this. It was my first day training a new hire, an 18yo girl. I was on my lunch break when I heard her scream at the top of her lungs. I ran out from the back room with a 1L bottle of jim beam in each hand thinking that we're being robbed and that I'm going to have to beat somebody, to discover that 3 completely naked guys had walked into the shop.

I lost my shit laughing, but eventually got enough control over myself to kick the idiots out (no, it's not legal to be naked in public here), but the young woman I was supposed to be training was traumatised enough that she quit the job on the spot.

That's not the weirdest thing I've seen, but I'm only a witness to that story and it belongs to the person actually involved.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I live in St Louis and Ferguson is about 10mins from me. So take your pick.

 

[happyninja42]

I've seen a person driving around in a Mystery Mobile. Fully tricked out, 100% accurate replication of Scooby Doo's Mystery Mobile. I've also seen a guy walking along the side of the street, with a cross over his shoulder (on wheels, way to really struggle there pal), while wearing a crown of thorns. Apparently to "walk as Christ walked" or some such bullshit.

I'm sure there's some other weird stuff I'm just forgetting, but those 2 come to mind at the moment.

 

[DanielBrown]

Well, my most traumatic experience in my city(Stockholm) was during a Pride festival ~10 years ago. Went with some friends who were gay/bi and I was prepared for weird stuff, but nothing could have prepared me from seeing two fat adult men, 50 years or older, wearing nothing but diapers and baby bonnets, all oiled up, doing a hard core make out session in the grass.
I'm all for equal rights and whatnot, but seriously. Keep that shit in your bedroom.

Other than that... eh, I don't know. A few weeks ago I saw a fox who took one look at me and bolted. Last week I saw a hedgehog casually strolling down the road and this morning I saw a deer a few meters away from me, eating leaves and chilling while keeping an eye focused on me. While I drove away I saw another deer eating someones hedge, not giving a fuck.
Perhaps not that strange to some, but there aren't any forest close to where I live. Only houses and roads, so it feels a bit unusual seeing more wild life here than I've ever seen in the... wild.
I have high hopes in seeing a moose stomping by soon.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The only ones I can thing off are the "local" attractions over here (you have to lived there to get it)-

There is this guy whose always in a fancy dress like Darth Vader, a pirate, Native Indian and yesterday a regee sort of person who always have a pram with a toy monkey sitting on it and he played loud music as he walked across the main street.

An old guy who wear bright clothing and aswell a luminating vest on a bike as he ride along the moterway.

Just to be clear, they are not mentally handicap and they simply enjoyed what they're doing. Well ok the second could be off the head abit but he's doing no harm. Heck I even liked the first guy I've mention cos he awalys brighting up my day at boring work. He even got married last year and his wife even joined alongside him in fancy dress aswell from time to time!

 

[Recusant]

Perhaps not "weird" in the sense that many other have meant, amusing nonetheless- back in 2010, I was living in Highwood, Illinois, a town that once held the Guinness world record for highest number of bars per square mile (it might still, I don't know). Given its location, it makes a great deal of sense that there are so many bars, but it means that much of the town is very active in the nightlife industry, and if you head out in the early mornings, it's not at all uncommon to not see anyone out and about.

So one day, I'm out walking at seven AM, appreciating the solitude, when I see a guy standing down at the end of the street. He's not crossing the road, and is periodically looking around; it seems he's waiting for someone. As I approach, I notice he's wearing a Ghostbusters shirt, and after I realize this, I see him take his cell phone out. And I think "No, it can't be, he's just checking the time", but sure enough, he starts dialing it. Not scrolling through a contact list, but actually punching in a number. Some things are too perfect to resist. As I reach speaking distance and he pauses in dialing to nod at me, I say "Who're you gonna call?". He stares blankly at me for a second before saying "My friend".

That was the moment that made me think we need to restrict the ownership of certain shirts.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I once had a badger run along a 6 foot high wall alongside me at night on the way back from work in the previous seaside town...for about 30 ft ahead, it ran faster and the wall was getting higher as the grassy bank beside it sloped up. Once the badger had got to the 12ft end part where it curved around to face me in an empty car park cul-de-sac shape...the badger was poking out a bush facing me but looking down at the concrete floor, and it must have had a sudden panic from me getting closer then, because it just threw itself off this 12ft high brick wall only to land flat on its' back with a mighty "thud" (they are physically dense animals)...It didn't move after that and I honestly thought I had made a badger commit suicide. But as I approached all guilt-ridden, contemplating the many options of body disposal and suicide note forging, it leapt up and dashed off into shadowed bushes. Suffice to say I almost shat myself at that point.

As for people doing weird stuff, that happens far too regularly to list, working in a hospital and care home, while spending time in a mental health ward and sheltered housing, while having a very questionable choice of past friends and lifestyles have paved the way to too many a story.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Well I was once walking down one of the downtown alleys here, I saw a turd, a very large human turd, on a plate with a knife and fork.

I recently saw a family of coyotes outwit a group of bumbling animal control people. The mother and her cubs ran these guys around in the middle of the street for like 5 minutes, then slipped through a fence and gave the guys a very smug look. One guy even threw down his net in the "why did I even get out of bed today!?" manner.

I was walking on the walk way by the river once, some how ended up with a huge number of ducks happily marching along behind me, quacking away.

I was walking in my area one day and saw a pigeon flying at about head level, but that's not what grabbed my attention. It was the raven coming down on the pigeon that got my attention. Right in midair the raven flew just slightly over the pigeon snapping the head right off the pigeon with it's beak.

Finally, about new years once, I saw a guy in a Batman costume booking it as hard as he could. Hot on his heels was a guy in a Spiderman costume with a book in one hand, a pen in the other, shouting: "Wait! Batman! I need your autograph!"

Oh and we have a Halloween Zombie bar crawl in my town, that resulted in me witnessing 3 guys in really good zombie costumes and make up, all pissing on a single, rather small potted plant.

 

[soren7550]

In Park Slope, there's a disturbingly high number of middle aged people that ride Razor scooters around.

(granted, more than zero is a disturbingly high number, but we have a lot more than that sadly)

 

[Evil Moo]

Not too long ago there was a burnt out husk of a caravan that appeared on my route to work. It was sitting there at the side of the road for just over a week before disappearing again, leaving only a blackened area of ground and a few left over drops of melted fibreglass. That's about as exciting as this place gets I think.

 

[DementedSheep]

The Mormon missionaries in full suits ridding around in groups on segways always makes me chuckle
There use to be a mentally ill guy who would wander around with large cross on his back screaming about Jesus but I don't know what happened to him. He probably got admitted and with any luck he's better now.
I've seen a naked guy get out of his truck and go to the dairy, then promptly sprint back to his truck when this wasn't well received (did he forget he was naked?).
I saw a guy in purple one of these

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dripping with gold chains and looking he like stuffed a sock in his crotch just lounging by the public pools.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

I live in a shithole of a town, so we get just about whatever you can imagine.

Out bathroom is pretty well used as a place for people to do heroin even since we "opened" it up for public use rather than it being for employees only.

One time someone was already using our restroom so some lady decided it was socially acceptable to go outside of our building, drop her pants, lean on the wall and squat down for a piss. We stopped her just before she started and naturally threatened to call the authorities.

If you ever come to Pennsylvania in the US, don't come anywhere near a town named Chambersburg. The intelligence of our population?

Well, there have been SEVERAL occasions where we would close the store for the night in front of a person, tell them directly to their face we were closed, and then as we pulled away from the parking lot the exact same person would either A. Try to open the door anyway (one that has no knob since it's an automated door), or B. Ram through the door because they, and I quote, "Thought it wasn't working and needed to be pushed open."

It's also the same town where there was a computer chair on the side of the street with a sign explicitly saying "Free, Please Take" on it, and as I was preparing to take it an older woman came out and screamed at me to leave it alone because I didn't look "Like I was actually going to use it properly." The hell does that matter how I use it if you're giving it away?! What does that even mean?!

 

[Phasmal]

Well, my city is kind of weird, but also kind of boring. These are some of the things I have seen that are perhaps out of the ordinary:

- A guy in a blue sequinned fedora, he tipped it at me.

- A guy holding a large My Little Pony plushie under one arm and sending withering glares to anyone who made eye contact.

- A guy casually walking around wearing a furry dog tail.

- Christians standing on boxes with signs saying 'Evolution is a lie' and screaming at passers by.

- Oh, and I don't know how weird this is but it really perplexed my dad when he visited me, in our city there is a person who is paid to stand around with a sign pointing to where McDonalds is. I doubt it's that unusual, but my dad couldn't get over the fact that that is their 'actual job?!?!?'.

There's also famously a guy who plays guitar in a bin, and another guy who runs around dressed as Batman, but I haven't seen either of them, just heard about them.