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re: What’s the wildest thing you’ve even seen in person
Posted on 5/22/24 at 7:33 pm to VolunGator
Posted on 5/22/24 at 7:33 pm to VolunGator
I had been to lunch with a friend at Bon Ton on Poydras St., we were walking back to the office talking football. I stopped for traffic on St. Charles, he took a step in front of a van and was hit. Lucky SOB was knocked about 25' down St. Charles, he got up cursing because his suit pants were torn, ended up with broken ribs and a broken arm. The van got the worst of it, broken windshield, dented front. Buddy's new nickname, Van Damn.
I saw the 4 women jump from the Rault Center 14th floor in the 1972 fire.
I saw a grain inspector fall off a barge and get swept under it, spent a week searching for his body.
I was in Copley Square in Boston when the bombs went off April 15, 2013.
I was standing on Royal St in 1964 when a tornado spawned by a hurricane lifted the roof of a building a block ahead, placed it whole on Royal St.
Most amazing was seeing a 195' x 35' steel barge leap out of the Miss River like a dolphin. It had been dragged down with a loaded barge that sank, then it flipped over and dumped it's load of coal, now empty, it came up completely out of the water.
I'm old, seen a lot more shite.
I saw the 4 women jump from the Rault Center 14th floor in the 1972 fire.
I saw a grain inspector fall off a barge and get swept under it, spent a week searching for his body.
I was in Copley Square in Boston when the bombs went off April 15, 2013.
I was standing on Royal St in 1964 when a tornado spawned by a hurricane lifted the roof of a building a block ahead, placed it whole on Royal St.
Most amazing was seeing a 195' x 35' steel barge leap out of the Miss River like a dolphin. It had been dragged down with a loaded barge that sank, then it flipped over and dumped it's load of coal, now empty, it came up completely out of the water.
I'm old, seen a lot more shite.
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Posted on 5/22/24 at 7:43 pm to Gee Grenouille
City center of Liverpool a few years ago, beautiful and busy day lot of people about. Then i see a couple of limeys maybe 18 or 19 absolutely beating each other to a bloody pulp right in the middle of an open walkway with shops and whatnot all around. Nobody else even batted an eyelash.
This post was edited on 5/22/24 at 7:50 pm
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:14 pm to kenna bra
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Working as medical staff Endymion ball circa 2007. Got a call about a fall from a float. I figured someone just fell off the last step exiting because they were drunk.
The guy had exited too early and the float took off to finish the route. He fell and got stuck underneath the float. He was drug a good 75 to 100 yards. I arrive to essentially a hemicorpectomy with 2/3 of the remnant chest wall in little pieces along the trail behind the float. The bottom torso isn’t there. I’m looking at lung tissue taking agonal breaths as the lungs expand and contract.
I remember that happening. I think the guy was related to the Bay High football coach.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:17 pm to HidnChaos
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Was that around '85? If it's who you are referring to, he was from Alexandria. Last name Giamanco. He's roommate became mine.
Did the roommate get all A's?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:41 pm to Gee Grenouille
A lower enlisted dude brought 2 hookers as dates to our battalion dining out event.. really formal event.. they were hammered and started booing this 3 star general who was the speaker … this guy became a fricking legend. Can’t remember his name but will never forget that career specialist/E4
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:41 pm to tigernurse
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he next worst thing I’ve been witness to was a 7 year old girl who’d been kidnapped from her home by the babysitters ex bf, she had been raped, shot in the head and left for dead out in the remote woods of north Mississippi out behind an old abandoned shed
I’m from this area and we talk about this case frequently. Somehow the shooter/rapist almost got paroled a couple years ago
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:45 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Too many mushrooms in Lakewood
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:58 pm to Gee Grenouille
Watched a small tornado scoot across my backyard, skin all the branches off of one side of a huge live oak and then pull up about 10 yards from my neighbors house after dropping three pine trees on my out door kitchen and garage. Heard the roar looked out my back door and was transfixed by the whole deal. Craziest part was how it decided to pull itself instead to plowing my neighbors house .
Posted on 5/22/24 at 9:27 pm to tigerbaiter
I was in a Walmart parking lot, minding my own business, as I was about to go inside. A young woman was ahead of me and also going inside. Everything was normal until she began to fidget with both hands at the bottom of her dress. While she was still walking she pulled her thong from underneath her dress tossed it into her purse and kept walking normally into the store. That was pretty crazy!
Posted on 5/22/24 at 9:34 pm to OU812ME2
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put the WATER WIGGLE in his mouth. It got caught and he drowned right in front of me. We were both 3
Found a reference here:
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The majority of the people who were injured using the Water Wiggle were hit with the heavy aluminum nozzle as it whipped around unpredictably. There were two unfortunate fluke accidents that resulted in the deaths of a three-year-old child in 1975 and a four-year-old child in 1978. In both cases, the nozzle of the Water Wiggle became lodged in the youngsters’ mouths, forcing large quantities of water down their throats. Both kids died of drowning even though they were on their lawns.
The Danger of the Water Wiggle
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:03 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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City center of Liverpool a few years ago, beautiful and busy day lot of people about. Then i see a couple of limeys
The proper term for them would be scousers.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:19 pm to iwyLSUiwy
The guy is making this up or it’s from a movie. Nobody walks up to two people and blows their brains out. He’s lying.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:21 pm to SquatchDawg
My takeaway is that if you don’t ride a motorcycle, work on the river, go hiking or ride in a helicopter you can live to a ripe old age.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:31 pm to andouille
That’s a lot of interesting shite dude.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:48 pm to CatfishJohn
In grade school end of the day waiting for bus on the playground, and one of those old school thick steel swing sets collapsed and landed on a kid and killed him. I was about 10-20 feet away. People trying to tend to him and then realized he was dead but still making the appearance I guess for our sakes.
I am not aware of any detrimental effect that it has had on me and don’t feel emotions from it. Not sure if that’s normal or not normal. If anyone has learned insight into that I’d love to hear.
I am not aware of any detrimental effect that it has had on me and don’t feel emotions from it. Not sure if that’s normal or not normal. If anyone has learned insight into that I’d love to hear.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:14 pm to Rex Feral
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During my senior year, I saw Tom Green and Todd Phillips make out on the set of Road Trip. It was my first time thinking these Hollywood people are fricked up.
Kind of a late bloomer eh?
I remember thinking that since like 7th grade. Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:19 pm to Bayou nights
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may regret telling this but many moons ago I was an independent contractor who spliced fiber for different companies, anyway, I was driving through a not so great part of town and saw a big black dog of some kind running down the sidewalk with a hot pink thong on scouts honor, I’ve never understood what was happening there but it probably wasn’t good, I did have another witness with me. Probably one of the hardest laughs I’ve had in my life but still thought poor dog. Plenty others I shouldn’t mention here.
Curious - why would you regret telling this very benign story? It doesn’t appear to reflect negatively on you in any way.
Unless your witness was your buddy, who was blowing you when this happened.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:41 pm to Havoc
One New Years Day not long ago, I drove down to New Orleans to see a friend in town for the Clemson - Alabama bowl game. As got off the Interstate onto Poydras, I saw an RV directly across from the Super Dome burst into flames, billowing black smoke. When the traffic light turned, I got the heck out of there ASAP. It was wild, maybe not the wildest but all I can think of at the moment.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 12:15 am to JackieTreehorn
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Saw a guy die being a drunken buffoon.
Dude you’re overwhelming us with details
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:29 am to andouille
Driving into a small town at night. I hear a weird crackling, a loud pop and bright green light lights up EVERYTHING. This alien green light fills the entire atmosphere, the entire night sky and the clouds, the inside of my truck, everything. At this moment I'm seriously thinking alien invasion or Armageddon. It was straight out of independence day or something. The light goes down, I notice the power's out, I look in my rearview and see green fire coming from a substation. I didn't even notice it there, it had exploded just as I passed.
At the lakehouse, my cousins are trying out the jetski. They coming flying towards the shore at 50 mph, everyone's freaking out and screaming their heads off at them. There is a 30 foot, very steep, like 80 degree unclimbable hill down the lakeshore. There are steps built into the hill going straight to the dock and a boathouse built into the hill right next to them. Beyond the boathouse along the hill shore is brush and trees. But there is a small lane barely wider than the jetski between the brush and the boathouse that is cleared. They hit this lane perfectly, missing the boathouse and the trees by inches all the way up this steep 30 foot hill and land safely on the jetski in our yard, the jetski still upright, them sitting there perfectly fine. The dock extends to the sides at the ends so there's not even a real way to hit that angle coming in from the lake. They are a few inches left or right, or a slightly different angle and they're dead. My Mom swears she saw angels.
At the lakehouse, my cousins are trying out the jetski. They coming flying towards the shore at 50 mph, everyone's freaking out and screaming their heads off at them. There is a 30 foot, very steep, like 80 degree unclimbable hill down the lakeshore. There are steps built into the hill going straight to the dock and a boathouse built into the hill right next to them. Beyond the boathouse along the hill shore is brush and trees. But there is a small lane barely wider than the jetski between the brush and the boathouse that is cleared. They hit this lane perfectly, missing the boathouse and the trees by inches all the way up this steep 30 foot hill and land safely on the jetski in our yard, the jetski still upright, them sitting there perfectly fine. The dock extends to the sides at the ends so there's not even a real way to hit that angle coming in from the lake. They are a few inches left or right, or a slightly different angle and they're dead. My Mom swears she saw angels.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 6:35 am
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