Weird things that happen where you live

[Nietz]

So, just before writing this, I heard some loud screams coming from outside. The screams you hear in horror movies. I instinctively reached for my bat and looked out the window to see what was going on. My first though was that someone was beating the crap out of some kid, but as it turned out, it was just a bunch of kids playing around with a flash-light out on the courtyard. It looked like they were just annoying some tenant on the first floor. This isn't really THAT weird, the kids around here are mental and love nothing more than to cause some mayhem. But the weird thing was the screams, it was actually kinda terrifying. It did sound like someone was in for the beating of their life.

So, I figure, let's hear it escapists. What crazy stories do you have about what happens outside your doorstep?

Heck, I've got millions of stories of all kinds of weird sh*t. That's one of the perks of living in the "projects".

 

[Count Igor]

Aww. No replies. You poor thing.
All I have is a funny/cruel thing that happened right now. (My brain isn't great, as I have the Flu)
I was pretending to be magic to my young neighbour (As she was questioning my powers! The audacity!), so I pointed to a tree and said "Drop".
A leaf dropped.
I pointed to a car that was driving by, and said "Stop"
It stopped and someone got out!
I point to a person walking past and said "Stumble".
He tripped and stumbled a bit.
I then pointed to the neighbour and said "Disappear".
She screamed and ran to hide.

Man I got lucky that day.
I always do things like that, just for the times that it works. Totally worth it.

 

[smearyllama]

There are occasional alien abductions, but beyond that, nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I was talking to a 9 year old kid one Saturday night, at around 11pm, he was tearing about our village on his bike with his older brother, who wanted them to go down to the cricket club to cycle around it (It's slightly outside the village so it's really dark) The kid said he didn't want to go, because he was afraid of the Banshees' down there (I live in Ireland) He told me that they went down to it last week, and he heard a piercing squeal, and something knocked him off his bike, and he freaked out and was so scared because it was really dark and he thought it was a banshee attacking him, but it turned out he had just ran over a cat! I sat on the pavement laughing for about 10 minutes straight when he told me that.

 

[MartianWarMachine]

Every year, on the last tuesday of January, we have a big parade and set fire to a galley.

 

[Nietz]

Every year, we dress up as vikings, consume dangerous amounts of vodka and set fire to a boat.

Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Heh, something like that yeah.
We something similar every other month, but we don't need to dress up and there's more houses here than boats.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

This isn't so weird as it is stupid: at a corporate chain grocer (Jewel) in my town there is a sign on the self-scan/checkout lanes:

To combat under-age drinking we will no longer be accepting the vertical "Under 21" Illinois ID card in the self-checkout lanes for the purchase of alcohol.

Mind you, in Illinois, 21 is the legal drinking age, and due to either Patriot Act/Homeland security bill, only a valid, unexpired, id can be legally used to purchase restricted products including alcohol, porn, & tobacco, hell it is *technically* illegal to carry an expired id after a certain grace period cuz it is considered a fake id then. So the sign is saying that to reduce under age drinking they will stop selling to people who are underage or using invalid id, through the self-checkout lanes, you'll have to see a cashier instead.

 

[i2esol]

Six gunshots outside my window followed by laughter from the apartment below.

 

[MartianWarMachine]

Every year, we dress up as vikings, consume dangerous amounts of vodka and set fire to a boat.

Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Wait a minute...

Do you happen to live on a small group of islands, by any chance?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Every year, we dress up as vikings, consume dangerous amounts of vodka and set fire to a boat.

Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Wait a minute...

Do you happen to live on a small group of islands, by any chance?

Or the 13th Century?

 

[hiphop8004]

come home, see naked baby running across street, 0_0 *went inside*

 

[michiehoward]

At least once I day I catch crackheads skittering up and down of emergency stairs in my building like crabs, discreet, mysterious, yet sticking out like a big fat dude in a dress.

 

[flim.geek.chic]

There are occasional alien abductions, but beyond that, nothing out of the ordinary.

You wouldn't by any chance live in Alaska would you?

 

[MartianWarMachine]

Every year, we dress up as vikings, consume dangerous amounts of vodka and set fire to a boat.

Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Wait a minute...

Do you happen to live on a small group of islands, by any chance?

I do indeed happen to

Yet another island-bound Escapist! That makes... 5 of us!

We must go on an epic quest to discover the others!

 

[smearyllama]

There are occasional alien abductions, but beyond that, nothing out of the ordinary.

You wouldn't by any chance live in Alaska would you?

Nope, we live in the Northern VA. Why do you ask?

 

[flim.geek.chic]

We've got alot of ghost/asylum escapee/monster myth's in the rural neihborhood where I live.
It's creepy Cause I'll catch my Dog Dagobah just staring out into the woods growling muderously. It's nice to know that it could be a bunny... or a Psyhco Pig Lady with a butchers knife.

 

[flim.geek.chic]

There are occasional alien abductions, but beyond that, nothing out of the ordinary.

You wouldn't by any chance live in Alaska would you?

Nope, we live in the Northern VA. Why do you ask?

Oh nothing, I've just heard alot of Abuctions happen there :3. VA wouldve been my next guess though, I live in MD.

 

[smearyllama]

There are occasional alien abductions, but beyond that, nothing out of the ordinary.

You wouldn't by any chance live in Alaska would you?

Nope, we live in the Northern VA. Why do you ask?

Oh nothing, I've just heard alot of Abuctions happen there :3. VA wouldve been my next guess though, I live in MD.

I'm pretty sure I was just joking, but the East Coast is famou-