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

I saw 2 guys fighting at Sonic

Was driving on a freeway in Houston when I hear a loud pop from behind me on the left side. I pull my foot off the gas and see a jeep fly by me...then swerve and spin slowly. At one point, it was facing me about 50 feet in front of me. I can still remember the wide-eyed female driver staring right at me. Before I can hit it, it keeps going on its path and ends up hitting the embankment on the other side of the shoulder.

I didn't stop but it seems like the loud pop was one of her tires blowing which caused her to lose control. If I wouldn't have taken my foot off the gas, I am pretty sure I would have hit her head on.

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Another time, I was driving on a different Houston freeway and one of those big round bales of hay fell off a truck in front of me. It exploded right when I drove through it. Everything got pitch black for a split second...I'm just glad the truck didn't slam on the brakes.

I witnessed two motorcycle accidents and came upon the aftermath of another. Not nice at all.

I was right behind a guy who had a car pull out in front of him in Port Allen going North on LA 1. We had just went through a green light at Court Street and at the next entrance onto LA1 a lady pulled right out in front of the guy.

All he could do was stand on the pegs. As the bike hit the car he flew head first ( actually head first) into the side of the car on side of the top and his body kept going and he flipped over that car and tumbled lifelessly down the pavement on the other side of the car. There was absolutely nothing he could have done to avoid that car.

It happened in the blink of an eye. I stopped and began to get out of my car and heard a girl screaming and running to the guy's body crying out his name followed quickly by other people. There was obviously nothing I could add to the situation so I went on about my way. I never found out who that was.

Another dude had a flat on the front going about 65 merging onto I-110 North. He couldn't steer and went straight into the guardrail and flew into the air with his body spinning violently like a helicopter and landed on the guardrail and bounced on it grotesquely several times.

I stopped and ran up to him and he was still conscious and told me he had a flat. I heard sirens coming and people were congregating so I backed off and left. There had to be someone there that could help him more than I could.

The third one was on the pavement all broken up after he had someone pull out on him just like the guy in PA. I was just a little kid on my bicycle for that one.

Needless to say although I love motorcycles and think they're really cool I have absolutely no desire to get out on the road with 3 ton vehicles and more especially now with people so distracted by their electronic devices.

No fricking way.

Tiger. Vietnam.

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I witnessed two motorcycle accidents and came upon the aftermath of another. Not nice at all.

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Honestly, I don't want to read your story after reading this opening.

A friend of mine who worked fire and rescue for years told me a story about responding to the scene of a motorcycle wreck. He said he went to pick up the rider's helmet, but it wasn't just the helmet.

When I was a kid, a family friend died in his house by overdose. No one knew for about a week, so you can maybe imagine the smell and scene we walked in on when we went to check on him. I've never forgotten it.

I saw a man fist fight an emu in a Family Dollar parking lot on a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of 98.

Absolutely the wildest thing I’ve ever seen. Apparently the emu had escaped from a farm and made its way to the Family Dollar. Some random guy decided the best way to subdue it was to attempt to kick some emu arse. The emu didn’t back down but the dude landed a body blow and it ran across the highway into a soybean field and chilled for a bit before running into the wood line.
As far as I know the emu is still at large.

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.

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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 on.

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So what happened? Did he die?

Also, living in Boston in 2008, riding the train and looking out window, butt neked black homeless dude squatting against the McDonalds in Allston area. But not shite coming out. - instead a jet spray of what looked like clear water. Optically, a mindfrick.