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

I don’t think you grasped the point of this thread lol

I was sitting at a traffic light on Lexington HWY in Athens, Georgia once and a Vetter came flying through the intersection, braked hard to avoid tee boning another vehicle and did a 180 up and over a rock wall backwards into a yard. Before that car came to a halt the passenger leapt out and took off....because there were about 100 cop cars coming to a stop all over that intersection....about the time the car stopped completely they opened fire on the driver and shot him a dozen or more times graveyard dead right there. I was in the right hand lane at the light on a 4 lane with a turning lane....so I was the width of the intersection from the action and had about as good a seat as you could ask for. It took all of about 30 seconds but it seemed like it was all slow motion and took a couple of hours. The really astonishing thing was that one of the cops who had fired looked me dead in the eye and motioned for me to proceed to the intersection.....I did so slowly eyes forward and I was the only vehicle allowed through that intersection for about 4 hours. It was a mess. I was on the phone with a customer at the time and about a mile down the road I hear her asking "what happened....did you have a wreck?"....it was unreal, like something from a movie. The runner and the dead man had been in a shootout with the cops and had lead them on a chase through almost all of the south side of Athens...

When I was a kid (third grade), I was waiting at the bus stop and a bus ran over a girl. I still remember the "phlumpf phlumpf" noise as the tires went over her.

It was a Honolulu city bus picking up students. Don't know if she lived or not.

I saw a USMC Skyhawk overrun the runway at Kaneohe and end up in Kaneohe Bay.

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a tweaked out (I assmue) hooker in like 8” heels hobbling and stumbling around the middle of Napoleon avenue at st Charles.

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That was me. I graduated from Loyola.

Every night in the wee hours of the morn I have to go pee. After I pee, I look out my bedroom window to see if there are any ghosts in my backyard. Obviously there are no ghosts, except for that one time.

I was on a flight from Lafayette to Denver once and met a guy who was friends with a girl I knew who was also flying to Denver but on a different airline. I sit with the guy on the plane and he starts acting really strange during the flight. There was a priest, minister of the likes with his white collar sitting across the aisle from us and old boy starts harassing the shite out of him, This continues the entire flight until at some point the priest has enough and starts working this guy over like a religious Mike Tyson while we are taxing after landing. The cops stormed the plane and hauled them both off but not before old boy tells me he has a a substantial sized package of cocaine in his baggage. Not sure the final outcome but I presume it involved jail time.

Been a cop for 27 years. Wouldn't even know where to begin.

Not sure it’s the wildest, but:

I was visiting family out of state one winter and was stopped at a stoplight where a minor highway crossed with a more major highway. I was second in line behind a Jeep Cherokee.

Light turned green and instantly I had the Jeep’s headlights in my eyes. I got out and went over to the driver’s window of the jeep and there was no driver and the jeep looked normal, just turned around and no window.

Looked around and found the driver 20 or 30 feet away, cut up, leaning against the pole holding the light. Turns out a semi tried to beat the light due to ice and snow, spun the jeep a perfect 180, and shot the driver out the window.

I ran over to check on him and all he said was “I’ve been drinking.” I figure drinking may have been what allowed him to fly out through the window without hurting himself worse.

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was at a friend of a friend’s house at a party. A guy I knew and who had hung out with us maybe a dozen times showed up looking distraught. My friend walked over to him and asked him what was wrong, I walked up behind my friend. The guy didn’t say a word, he just pulled out a pistol and shot himself in the head right in front of us. I got sprayed with blood. It really felt like it happened in slow motion.

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Death Before Disco

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Username checks out.

Tied between driving down Airline Hwy in Kenner, seeing a man run our from between some houses, followed by a cop, who promptly tackled him. There was enough time for me to think, "what's that guy running for" before I saw the cop.

Followed by watching a giant reel roll down the 10 FWY in West Texas. Assume it fell off a truck, but it had a police officer with lights on following it so no one would hit it.