re: What’s the wildest thing you’ve even seen in person

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.