re: What's the scariest thing you've witnessed?

I forgot exactly what year it was, but it was within the last ten, but we were on Bourbon for Lundi Gras. And as it always is, it was jam packed with people. We could barely move.

Suddenly, I hear loud gunshots, and I immediately look, and probably thirty yards away, you can see the dude firing at somebody.

Then a sea of humanity suddenly starts running away from it, and all the doors on all the bars suddenly shut and lock up, so nobody can come in.

I said, "frick Bourbon. I am never coming back here at night again."

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We had always heard stories about Satan worshippers doing their rituals and sacrifices in the park at night 

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lol a little devil worship never hurt no one.

I do have an instance that still gives me the creeps.

One time when I was in my mid teens, was driving back home from my girlfriend's house at 4am.

Well, she lived about 40 miles away and kind of in a remote area with lots of roads off the main highway (which was usually empty it's self) that leads into woods, hunting club land or backwoods land oil production, etc. So, I've always been a fan of just riding around and listening to music, which is what I felt like doing because I was more awake than I wanted to be, and did't feel like going home yet, so I take a longer-way detour.

Now as I'm driving down a back-road that I would hardly ever use, I come up on a car parked on the side of this dark, empty, dirt road with its lights off and a guy walking around it, sorta "scrambling to not be seen". As I pass, on the ground in the ditch beside his car is what looks like rolled up carpet/sheets which looks about a foot wide and about 5 and 1/2 feet long.

So yeah, I think I was seeing someone unload a body. To be out that late, in the middle of nowhere, a lone guy avoiding contact..with that on the ground. I'm a fairly macabre fricker myself, and it really just didn't feel or look right. No one ever reported finding anything, but I mean..if he had any sense, he moved it so his vehicle wouldn't be tied to a corpse.

I still wonder about that.

Saw a car crash one day. A small truck (Ford Ranger I believe) crossed a 4 lane in front of me. I was behind him waiting to cross as well. When he crossed, he pulled right in front of a car going about 60 MPH. It was a perfect t-bone.

The driver of the small truck was not wearing a seatbelt and it ejected him out the window. He flew about 100 feet into traffic and got an over by two other vehicles.

I will never forget how he looked coming out of that window. It was like he was some kind of toy or something. Did not look real.

A Muslim with a knife attacked me in Marseille, France in 1988. I was minding my own business doing laundry. In short, It was a poor decision on his part. However, after he got a slice on me, the arse whooping ensued. The scariest thing though, was his arse getting away and sprinting down an ally. Scary as in, if his arse went and got some buds, I would have been in deep shite. Before people go poli board on this, the Muslim shop owner actually helped me get my shite together and brought me out of the back door before guiding me down an alley to the port. There is no doubt he risked a lot in doing so. 13 stitches later and all is well. Two French Legionaires were killed near that same spot that night. It didn't look like a shithole area but obviously was.

Saw a guy get stabbed on the French Quarter when I was like 13 or 14 walking around with my dad at Mardi Gras.

It was non-life threatening, but I was freaked the frick out.

Got stuck between the cops and a African American in a shootout.

BROKEN ARROW - BROKEN ARROW - BROKEN ARROW ON THE FLIGHT DECK......

Hurricane Katrina and aftermath.

I watched a horrifying first quarter of a football game last weekend. It nearly killed me then and it kept coming back to haunt me in my dreams......