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

Saw a guy get struck by lighting about 30 feet from me during a weather delay during a baseball game when I was like 12 or 13. He lived but it was one of the scariest things I've ever seen.

Was in traffic stopped behind an ambulance at a red light one afternoon when the back doors opened and a naked lady jumped out and started running across the 6 lanes of highway with a paramedic giving chase. His partner in the back just stuck his head out and started laughing uncontrollably before retreating back inside the ambo. I was like 18 when that happened and laughed so hard my stomach hurt the next day.

Lots more as a former firefighter, but those two stand out as just random things to happen during every day life.

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Tiger. Vietnam.

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I took a Vietnam War class in high school that my teacher had to get permission from the state of Georgia to do. He invited all sorts of different veterans to come in and speak to our class about their different experiences. One guy that came in was in SOG operating out of Laos and Cambodia for the majority of the war. He told us this one story about when they were out in the field one evening and they set up a perimeter of claymore mines to protect their squad. In the middle of the night something tripped two mines and caused quite commotion. They found a dead tiger that had tripped the mines. One of the other guys in SOG was a Navajo Indian who proceeded to skin that tiger right then and there in the jungle and took the skin with him back to their FOB. He ended up taking the skin home with him from Vietnam and displayed it above his fireplace for the rest of his days.

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Navajo Indian who proceeded to skin that tiger right then and there in the jungle and took the skin with him back to their FOB. He ended up taking the skin home with him from Vietnam and displayed it above his fireplace for the rest of his days.

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I have a friend that did something similar while in Vietnam, he and a buddy killed two tigers but the first was too mutilated to salvage, they skinned the second and unbeknownst to them the tiger was infested with some sort of semi microscopic parasite, both of the guys got so sick they had to be airlifted to Saigon and almost died from the infection, my buddy has the the head of the tiger in his office with the same Budweiser can they used to prop the tiger's mouth open for pics right after they shot it, also has a walking stick made out of the tail

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Back at LaTech I saw a guy bounce out of a dumpster after he jumped off the roof of Neilson dorm. GF and I had just returned early from partying. She saw him before he hit and was like "What The Hell???" then I saw him on the bounce and heard it loud and clear through rolled up windows and radio

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Was it the guy from Ellic back in early to mid 80s?

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Wife and I were at a Rangers game and watched left fielder (Hamilton) throw a foul ball toward a tall man and his son. Man slips over the rail and falls but you can’t see it behind the fence. Later, we were talking to an usher and asked if that guy was ok, he said he broke both his arms but he should be ok. On the ride home, postgame announced the man died on the way to the hospital…delayed head injury or something. Really sad story…they put up a statue for him outside the park.

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A few years back the company I work for had a fundraiser raffle. You could buy tickets for $2 and throw them in different bowls for different prizes. The main prize was an iPad and most everyone was throwing all of their tickets into the iPad bowl. As luck would have it, I spent $20 on tickets that day and managed to have my ticket drawn for the iPad (only raffle I've ever won). Awesome day that was to say the least.

The following weekend I woke up, made my coffee and planned to go sit on the front porch to read TD on my fancy new iPad. I was renting a house at the time right off of a highway. The front porch faced the highway and has no rail and about a 2-3 foot drop from the porch to the ground. There were some bushes right off the edge, but not well maintained. The porch was narrow and it is about 4 feet wide from the front door to the edge. Since it was a short-term rental, I didn't have any chairs or furniture on the porch. It was summer time, and the morning was about the only time you could really enjoy the porch before heat and humidity took over.

Anyways, I brewed a pot of coffee, poured my cup and started to collect my belongings. The front door was a combination of a main door plus a screen door with a latch. The screen door was on the outside and the front door was on the inside. I grabbed a wooden chair and set it down with the iPad and coffee mug on the seat to open the front door. I opened the front door and then proceeded to work on the screen door. The screen door would close by itself due to a pnuematic closer, but the latch to keep it propped open was broken. Instead of using common sense and finding a prop to prop open the door to carry things out one by one, I decided to open it with everything in hand.

I grab the coffee mug, iPad and wooden chair and proceed to work on jimmying the door open using the top rail of the chair. The door opened, but somehow I managed to use enough force to slam it open and plunge forward. In an instant, I tripped and barrel rolled over the chair with the iPad and coffee mug flying off the porch. I hit the ground and rolled off the front and landed in the hedge then dropped to ground which was muddy and covered in dew. What was going to be an awesome morning of drinking coffee, reading TD and taking the browns to the super bowl turned into 3 cracked ribs, broken coffee mug, and a scratched up fancy new iPad.

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Wife and I were at a Rangers game and watched left fielder (Hamilton) throw a foul ball toward a tall man and his son. Man slips over the rail and falls but you can’t see it behind the fence. Later, we were talking to an usher and asked if that guy was ok, he said he broke both his arms but he should be ok. On the ride home, postgame announced the man died on the way to the hospital…delayed head injury or something. Really sad story…they put up a statue for him outside the park.

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Crazy shite…saw a similar ordeal during the last season at Turner when the Yankees were in town, A-Rod was up to bat pinch hitting. Guy leaned over the upper deck railing and fell. Hit his head and died on impact. There was a delay in the game but they never said anything and nobody except those who saw it knew what was going on.

Dead body wrapped in blue tarp ; could only see his shoes.
He had been shot in the head and body dumped out of car in neighborhood intersection.

When I was a midshipman at the USNA(Annapolis) we had a tradition called going over the wall. It was a way to show our spirit for football games. Running through the streets of Annapolis and not hurting anybody or anything. It was a rather tame affair. It was usually Friday night just before the game that was being played that week. Army-Navy week 1977 we went over the wall practically every night. One of those nights I was running down a street in Annapolis when I heard a rumbling coming down the street. I turned to see what it was and was shocked to see an F-4 Phantom II jet rumbling down the street and it was gaining on me. There was around a dozen Midshipmen on the wings and fuselage holding on for dear life. I frantically looked around for an alley I could duck into. The nearest alley had a Shore Patrolman in it and he held up his hand and yelled, "Stop". I just pointed to the now very close Jet rumbling down the street. He looked at the Jet. His eyes got as large as saucers. His gaze turned to me. He grabbed me by the shoulders pulling me into the alley just as the Jet rumbled past.

Bancroft Hall has two Jets one on each side of the front door. So the Midshipman had to get the Jet from the front of Bancroft Hall down the stairs, through the gate and down the road. A mean feat no doubt. Now the road was on a hill so the Jet got away from the Midshipmen. Fortunately, there was an incline on the street further down. So no harm came to the Middies or the Jet.

I saw LSU beat Florida when Gerry freakin DiNardo was HC.