Started By
Message

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

Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:41 pm to
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
37605 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:41 pm to
quote:

Worked in a warehouse and wrapped thick cable around large spools at high speed. A coworker got a piece of shirt stuck as a spool wound. He was turned into mush getting wrapped around the spool in a few seconds.
Annnd.... this post on page 2 is as far as I made it.

We used to hang out at this beach on Oahu right across from an airfield that would take skydivers up all day and they would land in a field next to the airstrip. One of the reasons we liked this beach was to watch the skydivers come in and land maybe 200 yards away. Anyways, we noticed one of them coming in fast one time and you can guess the rest.
Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
8288 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:46 pm to
quote:

I was talking on the phone with my parents as a 20 year old intern in DC, and I saw a guy who was entirely too well dressed to be homeless pull down his pants and start masturbating in the entrance next to a major research hospital and a metro stop.


So, you saw Jeffry Toobin.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
120306 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:57 pm to
Growing up, our next door neighbor had two daughters. I was 8 or 9 years old. The younger daughter had graduated HS a few weeks earlier and her parents went of vacation to Florida and she didn't want to go so they were fine with it, but just asked her to have her best friend come stay with her.

During the time me and my dad were in the front yard and we heard a noise that sounded like someone slamming the hood of a car shut. We looked to see where it came from and then forgot about it. About a min later the best friend comes out in full panic, crying, breaking down yelling "she shoot herself". I followed my dad to their house where I saw her body slumped over with blood pouring from her head. My dad took off to tell my mom to call 911. She was still breathing, but the bullet went through her head. They put her on a machine long enough for her parents to drive back from Florida to give them the okay to take her off the machine. As soon as they took her off, she died. That whole experience was wild and stayed with me for a long time.

There is some more to the story as to why she did it, actually they don't really know.. but year
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
Member since Jan 2014
6385 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 2:58 pm to
I've seen some wild shite.

First to mind though was middle of the night in the wilds of Del Rio Texas I got up and walked out the tent to take a piss at like 3AM. I noticed a massive light in the sky. Was obviously a meteor, right up till a split second later it became a bolide and blew the hell up in the atmosphere. It was bigger than the moon and lit up everything like daylight.

Just last summer I was pissing in my back yard in Benton looking out around Mike Johnson's house when I spot a plane that the lights didn't look exactly right but no biggy, didn't think anything else about it till I looked back and it was in the same spot. It had not moved. Flashing red, white, green and blue. One big light doing that mind you. So now I'm thinking this has to be a drone. Still no noise. And it's kinda wobbling back and forth kinda randomly as it appears to be moving North east. And that's when I saw the weird part. Below this thing for about a second or two at the most there's a dim blue ball of light that looks like it's headed towards the 'plane' light, and as it gets close, a blue arc of light sparks from the plane to the blue ball of light and it winks out of existence.

That happened so fast I didn't believe it. Then it happened again from below it in a different direction. Dim ball of blue light getting brighter as it gets closer then WHAM lightning arcs from the big light to the little one and it's gone. The 'plane' was still there and now it's wobbling around a little more going east to west but it's obviously moving away from me. Low cloud cover the whole time and this thing stayed below them the entire time. I watched it for almost ten minutes till it went over the horizon. And it got weirder than that because I could barely focus on the thing and by the next morning, I had forgotten it completely. But I had taken a pic and a video. Both of which suck. It just looks like airplane lights flashing. But the still shows a ball of colored light with a triangle around it on blowup. I have no idea what that was.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
15740 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:00 pm to
quote:

My old lab and I were about half asleep in a layout blind one morning after setting decoys on the Pecos River. All of a sudden she started growling like she meant it and was staring over my shoulder. This dog has growled maybe 5 times in 7 years so I was surprised, thinking she had seen a road runner....she hates a damned road runner. When I glanced over my shoulder there was a mountain lion about 10 yards from us..



there are folks who live in areas with "high" populations that go their entire lives without seeing one. You lucky dawg. They're friggin awesome.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
23759 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:16 pm to
(no message)
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 3:29 pm
Posted by Corriente Kid
Central Texas
Member since Aug 2021
683 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:22 pm to
2 Things:

1) Was working offshore drilling for Marine and was on a workboat unloading supplies. The cargo was incorrectly labeled and weighed much more than stated. The crane and crane operator both came of the platform and plunged about 60-100' into the gulf. The crane operator lived but broke his back. That was my very first week working on the rig.

2) When I was in the 6th grade in Arlington Texas, one of my friends asked me and another friend to come hang out at her house on a Friday while her mom was gone. We didn't go an found out the next day that her, her siblings, and another friend were all murdered.
Posted by VOLhalla
Knoxville
Member since Feb 2011
5019 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:12 pm to
Wife and I saw UFOs at the beach in South Carolina about ten years ago. It was dusk and they were lights in the sky that blinked in unison. Started as a horizontal line off four lights. They’d blink several times then they changed to a vertical line. Then they made a square. Then diamond. Then triangle (not sure what happened with the fourth light). Then they suddenly shot away - it looked like in Star Wars when they jump to hyperspace where the point of light drags into a line. Like that but that happened very quickly.

We stood there stunned until two jets flew over us hauling arse in the direction of where the lights were.

We went back to the house to ask her family (who were on the deck facing the ocean) f they had seen anything and they hadn’t. Then a man in the family in the house next to us (decks were probably 10 feet apart) interrupted me to say that they saw the same thing. About four adults and a couple kids all looking like they’d seen a ghost.
Posted by concrete_tiger
Member since May 2020
7477 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:20 pm to
Little “town” near my family farm in south GA has a 90 degree turn on a US highway. They have since increased the banking on it, but before that we had semis running off the road or flipping with regularity.

Once, we had a watermelon truck and a Wiley Sanders truck full of Miller Lite flip.

Quickest cleanup in the history of truck accidents.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
120306 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:36 pm to
quote:

In the process with this kid bleeding out and us trying to tube him, he was cursing all of us out.


This is why I could have never been a doctor or worked in the ER.. Although I know he is all shot up and isn't in his right mind, I would want to just stop working on him and tell him to save himself.
Posted by SuperOcean
Member since Jun 2022
4585 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:49 pm to
I lived behind a cheap interstate motel...we could talk all day about things

But the easiest to type

Getting ready for a little league
Game... Standing in the front yard, look over across the street... See a completely naked man dragging a completely naked woman...by the hair ..caveman style from one hotel room to another. There is another man... Naked, knocked out drapped across the bed where she was. My mother walks out ..sees this and just Said " get in the car... That ain't our business"


Funny one .. During a hurricane, the hotel would get packed with people waiting it out in a secure structure... Watched one dude walk out side in 100+ mph winds to get something from his car...he opens an umbrella and instantly it was 40 yds down wind


Saw lots of cars come and go an hour later ( by the time I could finish cutting the yard). You bring champagne and roses to a dump motel...hmm

People OD 'd

Found remnants of 8mm porn ( while sorting through hotel trash cans to get aluminum cans)

Saw life flight get run into by a car.... That no one was driving

Woke up one morning and saw about a dozen cars missing wheels and batteries

My parents house was broken into 7 or 8 times... Had a car stolen out of the front yard

Usual stuff

I did get to sit in Ms Budweiser - the racing boat

I could also go on about things seen at dirt tracks and other places

I oddly enough have seen 3 different couples having sex on the hood of a car. ..one was on the hood of a police car

This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 4:51 pm
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
25198 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:56 pm to
Saw a water spout at Daytona Beach from about 30 or so feet away. Tore up the boat docks and sheet metal stalls dropping some over a mile and a half away.

I was 11 years old and crawled under a car when the docks started coming apart.
Posted by Allyn McKeen
Key West, FL
Member since Jun 2012
4657 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 5:12 pm to


I witnessed the Seongsu Bridge collapse in Seoul in 1994. We were headed from my hotel in Gangnam to a Samsung memory design office when it happened. (7:38 am) A bus couldn't stop in time, teetered on the edge, then fell and landed upside down on the bridge section that landed in the river. I really didn't see much other than the bus that was coming towards us and then disappeared. What I remember most was everyone running up to the edge to look down, and I was thinking that we needed to get the frick off of that bridge. 32 people died. 29 of them were on the bus.
Posted by DoctorWorm
Member since Jul 2021
1533 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 6:18 pm to
saw a donut shaped ufo. thing was hovering in place but real wobbly. looked like a giant inner tube you float on. stayed in position for a few minutes looking unstable. all of a sudden this thing hauls arse in one direction and was gone.
Posted by RonLaFlamme
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2016
1858 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 6:40 pm to
Didn’t you bring that story here when it happened? I know I’ve heard it before.


Just realized this is a bump of an old thread. I spend too much time on here lol
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 6:43 pm
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
30966 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 6:49 pm to
You don't really want to know.
Even reading your question made me think about it, and I'm gonna lose sleep for a few nights.
I have some unfinished business that I've been avoiding and I don't even know why.
Really, I do know why. I want his girls to know how much he loved them, because he told me and I would love to tell them, but I don't want to get into explaining specifics about everything and I'm afraid that's how it would be.
It's nightmare stuff. Their Dad was Superman.

I think I need to explain, I didn't know their Dad.
What happened to him, just happened to be in front of me.
I just ran to try and help. I can't believe a man fought to live as much as him.
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 10:19 pm
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
41663 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 6:55 pm to
2nd vehicle on the scene of a head on collision
Heard female voices screaming in agony from a F150 in flames that had busted through a guard rail
Driver (later to learn drunk) of vehicle crossing center line laying in the road
His vehicle pieces everywhere
Screaming voices stopped - mother, daughter, and granddaughter all dead

This made me stop drinking - haven't had a drop since 1999
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
31340 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 7:37 pm to
quote:

after he jumped off the roof of Neilson dorm.




Damn. I stayed in Neilson for 2 years back in 02-04, good times
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104411 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 7:39 pm to
Grizzly bears fighting.
Posted by namvet6566
Member since Oct 2012
7789 posts
Posted on 5/21/24 at 8:44 pm to


Body Bags

6 - 8 foot creatures you will not see except in Vietnam

Jump to page
Page First 11 12 13 14 15 ... 18
Jump to page
first pageprev pagePage 13 of 18Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram