What's the Most Bizarre Thing That's Ever Happened to You?

[Teh Smith]

What's the Most Bizarre Thing That's Ever Happened to You?

[jmbstudios]

A helicopter that was hovering near me hit the power lines I was standing under. As sparks were flying and poles were breaking, and the sound of wires whipping I ran for my life. In the aftermath, the pilot set down with no problems (He was only 6 ft off the ground). And everyone on the ground got out in time....

[diego]

1. I was leaving the supermarket and the automatic doors closed on my head. Ouch.

2. I was surrounded in a 7-11 parking lot in Salt Lake City, Utah, by shirtless men fighting with two by fours. They seemed to be having a good time.

3. Police officers came to my door and accused me of calling and intimidating a witness in a murder case, in which a former guitar student was the defendant. One of the detectives looked like Foster Brooks (the comedian who always acted drunk) and the other was an exceptionally hardened looking young woman.

4. I was at the shopping mall with a friend, and two elementary school kids peddled up on their bikes, stopped, and asked: "Hey man, where's the ordeal?"

5. I was standing in the crowd outside of Public Hall in Cleveland waiting for the doors to open for a Johnny Winter show. I thought it was really crowded, so I lifted my feet off the ground to see if I even needed to make an effort to stand up. I didn't.

[billguitar64]

I joined TGP.

[DGDGBD]

When i was 11 or so my mom drove me to get ice cream after a little league game. On the way we drove under a railroad overpass that was next to the ice cream shop. After getting the ice cream, no more than five or ten minutes later, I walked out and saw that a freight train had derailed right there with box cars and tanker cars strewn all around the area including on the street. No one was hurt. Oddly no one heard a sound inside the shop, yet it was within spitting distance from the tracks.

[ducatisteve]

When i was 11 or so my mom drove me to get ice cream after a little league game. On the way we drove under a railroad overpass that was next to the ice cream shop. After getting the ice cream, no more than five or ten minutes later, I walked out and saw that freight train had derailed right there with box cars and tanker cars strewn all around the area including on the street. No one was hurt. Oddly no one heard a sound inside the shop, yet it was within spitting distance from the tracks.

I wish my apartment had that kind of sound insulation.

[Frankee]

I caught two legs off of a 277/480 Y connected load from hand to hand across the chest for about 10 seconds.......it should have blown up my torso or at the very least killed me. I walked away feeling just fine.......even though a far less severe open 277 volt shock to the outer appendages will leave you really sore for a few days.

480 across my internals......scares me to just think about it.

This was a connected load....not an open circuit. :worried

[66fs]

I was installing a lawn irrigation system in the back yard of a newly built house in a development. It was a very windy morning and a sheet of particle board got blown off the roof of an unfinished house next door. It hit me in the back of the neck at about 11am. I got a moderate concussion and though I apparently was coherent and not acting too weird, I ended up at a hospital, got a ct scan, was picked up at the hospital by my wife and her boss, and I didn't regain a functional sense of real time until 7:30 that evening. I still don't remember anything of what happened in that time span and the neurologist said I never would. It was strange to go back for a check up and have the doctor and nurses tell me we met before and they said they knew I didn't remember.

[Chris Scott]

I caught two legs off of a 277/480 Y connected load from hand to hand across the chest for about 10 seconds.......it should have blown up my torso or at the very least killed me. I walked away feeling just fine.......even though a far less severe open 277 volt shock to the outer appendages will leave you really sore for a few days.

480 across my internals......scares me to just think about it.

This was a connected load....not an open circuit. :worried

Get the f--k outta here!!!

Were you touching the ground when this happened?

That's hard to believe, to say the least.

Glad you're alright!

[XKnight]

I was born.

[Virtual Pariah]

Not the most bizarre, but I thought today was fun.
Had a truck in front of me jacknife on the highway. (no injuries, from what I heard)
It was carrying a load of portajohns and they spilled all over.

EPA trucks had to show up to assess the impact.

[Frankee]

Get the f--k outta here!!!

Were you touching the ground when this happened?

That's hard to believe, to say the least.

Glad you're alright!

GTFO is right! That's what everyone said.

Two damaged MCC buckets crushed together by a Pettibone.......the GF took a reading between the points I touched and got 480 between them......the ground was there.....but would have been useless as a saftey measure since it was a high impedance system.....and waaaay in the back of the bucket where it was floating free of the chassis.

Freak accident with an even freakier outcome.......even if it had been at the very minimum of 277, I should have felt like I went 15 rounds with Ali.

[rob2001]

I had two junk cars to get rid of, so I called the scrap guy. This awesomely funny old guy in his upper 60's shows up with a flatbed, 1/2 drunk with a cigar. He takes one car and comes back for the second car. He wasn't quite lined up so he goes to get back in the truck and straighten it out. I'm standing there wondering why the truck isn't moving. About 30 seconds or so go by and I walk around the front of the truck to see the guy laying there and give his "last gasp".

I tried CPR and he was done. I immediately called 911, they came and he was pronounced dead. Total mind blower for me. The cops came and questioned me because when he fell, he hit his head and there was a cut on his forehead. They thought maybe we had an arguement or something. Not the case and that wasn't an issue after I spoke to them.

I talked to his family when they came to get the truck a week later. They said he had a MASSIVE heart attack and there was nothing anyone could have done. They also said he had two previous heart attacks and never changed his ways. That was 15 years ago and it still freaks me out.

[Zero G]

Was out charter fishing off of the Florida Keys. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, and out of nowhere, dark clouds form about a kilometer away and a waterspout comes down. Had to turn the boat around because it was getting close, but after about 15 minutes in the water, the waterspout and clouds dissipated, and it was sunny and clear again as if nothing happened. I wish I could find the pics...

[BuckeyeBrown]

I was driving around 60 mph on the highway when I was passed by a trailer with no truck attached. It was a work trailer for some contractor and it stayed right next to the median and never hit anything before coming to a stop. Lot's of sparks though.

I was in a sales job calling on a farm. I ran into some amish kid working there and introduced myself. "Hi I'm Pat Brown with... is the owner of the farm around?" His eyes got real big and he smiled and gushed "Pat Brown with the chickens?" To this day - No F'n Clue

[HEY!YOU!]

My guitar was delivered by UPS unbroken.

[Midnight Lady]

1. I went to a Psychic Fair with my daughter. I didn't buy the whole psychic thing but it was a mother-daughter outing. She talked me into having my cards read. The gentleman who did it said he hoped I was ready to move. I laughed and said no, that I had nailed all the furniture to the floor and I'd been living in the same house for 10 years and had no plans to move. He quietly shook his head and said, you'd better get the nails out because you're moving and you're moving far.

The next day my then husband came home from work and said "Guess what, we're moving to Australia."

:jo

2. I met this nice American man on an internet message board. I liked him because he made me laugh. Ten years later, I married him. (bizarre but wonderful).

:D

[Da5Id]

Eating dinner at a sushi restaurant in Amsterdam year 2000, when a gunman shot and killed 3 people seated about 10 foot behind me in a mafia style hit job.

[Moominpapa]

2. I was surrounded in a 7-11 parking lot in Salt Lake City, Utah, by shirtless men fighting with two by fours. They seemed to be having a good time.

Everybody has told great stories, no question - but for some reason this is just the funniest one, in all senses.

[Passenger84]

Was sitting in traffic on the 405 in Santa Monica with my windows down, and had a guy yell at me from his car that I looked liked the boyfriend who had just broken up with a girl he knew. He proceeded to yell me her number and said that if I called her, she'd for sure go out with me.

[oslo]

Little bit complicated story, but... I live in Norway in Scandinavia. My sister lived a couple of years in the US with a kind of host father, and when I was 12, I went to visit my sister there in Ventura in California where her and her hostfather lived. great trip and everything, bla bla. Her host father later moved to my town in Norway and I knew him quite well and he was the only guy I knew from the US. He later moved back to the US to a tiny town called Fillmore about 40 min away from Ventura where he used to live.
When I was 17, I became an exchange student and wanted to go to the US. I applied late, so I couldn't really choose which state I was going to end up in. I could have ended up anywhere in the US, and where did I end up?? in a house 5 min away from where I visited in Ventura 5 years before! But my sisters hostfather had of course moved away to Fillmore, before I moved to the US.
Of all the places I could have ended up in in the US, I ended up in the only neighborhood I had been in in the US 5 years before. What makes it a lot weirder, is that, it didn't work out with my hostfamily, so the organization had to find a new home for me. Where did I end up? In Fillmore!!! 5 min away from where my sisters hostdad had moved to! and also in the hostfamily I ended up in, the mother had been my sisters hostdads teacher in College!

In other words, my sister meets someone randomly in the US that she moved in with,
I got placed randomly in the US and ended up in same neighborhood as my sister did, and where I had visited her. The person my sister had moved in with, has moved away. I get moved, and end up in his neighborhood again, So turns out my sisters host dad who became my neighbor, knew my host mom, but they haven't seen each other in 30 years, and did not know they lived a fiew blocks away from each other...:crazyguy

Did you get that? Yeah, I didn't either...

[TwoTubMan]

1976, alone in my car, heading West on I-10 between Houston and San Antonio. There's a car to my left, and I notice that the passenger is gesturing for me to roll down the window. When I do the driver eases the car over until we're almost touching. Passenger holds out his hand and very calmly yells "Two cigarettes, please!" I'm not about to start a debate at 75 MPH, so i hold two Camels out the window. He takes them, and then hands me two cellophane-wrapped peppermints. Transaction completed, the passenger gives me an odd little salute, and they roar off and disappear into the distance. I stopped at the first bar I saw and ordered a drink.

[phoenix 7]

Before I met my wife, she was dating a guy who rented a room in the house I happened to grow up in. His bedroom was my bedroom when I was a kid. My wife slept in my childhood bedroom several times before she met me.

[dantedayjob]

I was on a flight from Atlanta to Denver in '96. Weather got bad and the flight crew was RUNNING through the cabin collecting meal service. I had an off duty hostess sitting next to me, she started looking nervous. Then, as I was looking out the window, the the left wing got struck by lightening, the plane shook like crazy and the girl grabbed my hand with a death grip. I though "oh f**k, stewardess is freaking out, this ain't good". A few seconds later the right wing got hit and the plane shook so hard it jarred my teeth and my back hurt from being slammed into the seat. The pilot came on the intercom and said they were going to try to fly under the weather. Suddenly, you could hear the engines spool up and the pilot put the 767 into a full power dive... We went down 10,000 feet in a VERY short time. When we broke through the cloud cover, the air was clear and the rest of the flight was smooth. The few minutes that it was really hairy had a BUNCH of people finding their religion...

[shane88]

i keep reading "tone" arguments on tgp

[iamdavea]

When I first moved away from home, I lived with an elderly German woman, who was an avid gardener. One day, she came home from shopping, parked her car in the garage, gathered her groceries, and her aorta burst. I found her. After her funeral, I was--for personal reasons--unable to continue living there, though I was welcome to. My girlfriend, who lived down the street with her folks, and who adored the German lady, moved in. The day after she moves in, she phones me and says, "Thanks for the beautiful rose on my pillow--that was so thoughtful." I tell her, "Honey, I didn't leave you a rose--I don't even have a key to the house anymore." She phones the German woman's Son and Daughter-In-Law--the only other people who have a key to the house--and is told "It's a lovely gesture, but we didn't do it." How did it get there? To this day, I can only speculate (cue spooky music).

[Ian Anderson]

I was spending some time in a high rise condo on the beach in North Carolina. Early one morning I went out on the balcony to take in the sights. I was on about the 10th floor. There was a hurricane a few hundred miles off the coast which was causing the surf to be as big as I have ever seen it. The rip currents were fierce.

About 100 yards south, down the beach 2 young boys were playing in the surf. I believe they were 5 and 7 if my memory serves me correctly. I found this peculiar as there were no adults around. In fact there was no one else around except for the lifeguard and 2 young ladies he was talking to. The lifeguard tower was about 50 yards south, or about halfway between myself and the kids.

One of the kids started going under and screaming for help. This got my attention. The lifeguard didnt' notice. I yelled to him, he looked my way, back at the kids and returned his attention to the ladies. My initial reaction was the lifeguard had it under control and the kids were messing around. After a few more frantic cries for help went ignored by the lifeguard, I yelled out to him, as I watched the first kid go under for the last time. I rushed down. This entire situation has been going on for less than a minute. By the time I got down there and across the beach the other boy was gone and the lifeguard was at the scene. Within minutes there was a small group of police officers there and more lifeguards who started searching for the boys.

A crowd gathered as the morning, and the search wore on. About 2 or 3 hours later the older boy washed up. I was there to witness the resuscitation efforts, which were in in vain. I spoke with a reporter about what went on. I mentioned the lackadasical attitude of the life guard and his affection towards the ladies. I think I might have even been on the news that night.

A short time afterwards, I walked down the beach, and I saw the mother approaching toting shopping bags. I knew it was her partially because she was the same race as the kids and she was making a beeline torwards the area completely unaware.

I saw the scene as she met with the authorities and she heard the news.

It was all pretty surreal, I was left with the feelings that I might have been able to help, had I realized the gravity of the situation a moment earlier.

[sws1]

I lost both parents 3 months apart at the age of 21. Not quite as bizarre as some of these other stories, but at the time, it felt beyond unimaginable and surreal.

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

What's the Most Bizarre Thing That's Ever Happened to You?



Someone made a Most Bizarre thread and I posted in it. :dunno





Another time I was with high school friends who were driving around and drinking. The driver was getting really crazy and started racing some other car. We blew a stop sign and skidded across a 4 lane highway and clipped a telephone pole on the other side of the intersection. The driver didn't even know he hit anything, but rather he thought we just bottomed out in the ditch. The back end of the car was messed up! We could have all died very easy that night.... or killed someone else.

[ACfixer]

I was at a "getting high" spot that overlooked the lights of the whole LA basin when I was about 25. I was just getting ready to spark one up when it felt like something bumped into my pickup truck. This was a secluded spot and very unlikely... but I felt it again and decided to get out and look. I noticed it was a little hard to balance and realized we were having a real decent earthquake. I looked out over the valley and saw something I will never forget, the whole valley was heaving and rolling from the force of the earthquake. There are mountains in the valley as well and they rolled with the rest of it. It really put into perspective how much earth we are talking about that's moving here... You could hear a muffled rumble and dogs/coyotes barking in the distance and also see a few electrical transformers blowing up. I was probably about 70 miles from the epicenter, the power of something to move that much earth that far away is beyond comprehension.

Here's the link... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1987_11_24.php

Another bizarre blip on the screen of life: My sister dated Christopher Knight (Peter Brady). We grew up during the Brady years, talk about surreal life seeing Peter Brady in your house.

[rob2001]

I was at a "getting high" spot that overlooked the lights of the whole LA basin when I was about 25. I was just getting ready to spark one up when it felt like something bumped into my pickup truck. This was a secluded spot and very unlikely... but I felt it again and decided to get out and look. I noticed it was a little hard to balance and realized we were having a real decent earthquake. I looked out over the valley and saw something I will never forget, the whole valley was heaving and rolling from the force of the earthquake. There are mountains in the valley as well and they rolled with the rest of it. It really put into perspective how much earth we are talking about that's moving here... You could hear a muffled rumble and dogs/coyotes barking in the distance and also see a few electrical transformers blowing up. I was probably about 70 miles from the epicenter, the power of something to move that much earth that far away is beyond comprehension.

Here's the link... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1987_11_24.php

Another bizarre blip on the screen of life: My sister dated Christopher Knight (Peter Brady). We grew up during the Brady years, talk about surreal life seeing Peter Brady in your house.

The earthquake thing is an awesome story....I mean to the earth move....cool.


Funny, for a second when I read your post, saw "Peter Brady", then "getting high", I thought maybe you rocked the ganga with him! :bong :D

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

I was at a "getting high" spot that overlooked the lights of the whole LA basin when I was about 25. I was just getting ready to spark one up when it felt like something bumped into my pickup truck. This was a secluded spot and very unlikely... but I felt it again and decided to get out and look. I noticed it was a little hard to balance and realized we were having a real decent earthquake. I looked out over the valley and saw something I will never forget, the whole valley was heaving and rolling from the force of the earthquake. There are mountains in the valley as well and they rolled with the rest of it. It really put into perspective how much earth we are talking about that's moving here... You could hear a muffled rumble and dogs/coyotes barking in the distance and also see a few electrical transformers blowing up. I was probably about 70 miles from the epicenter, the power of something to move that much earth that far away is beyond comprehension.

Here's the link... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1987_11_24.php

Another bizarre blip on the screen of life: My sister dated Christopher Knight (Peter Brady). We grew up during the Brady years, talk about surreal life seeing Peter Brady in your house.


:D Pete Brady! Now that is bizarre!

I was working out in Campbell CA and we had a 5.7 earthquake. It was like the ground was just moving back and forth and you could see the waves of earth rolling across the parking lot and street! It's not what I thought an earthquake would be like. :dunno

[HoboMan]

I almost drowned while swimming in the ocean. I went unconscious and had an after death experience.
When I woke up I was on the beach. My friend had dragged me to shore.

[harmonicator]

I met Magic Johnson at Magic Mountain in 1986, when I was 10 years old. I was there with my Dad, and Magic happened to be exiting a ride as we were standing in line. I was speechless, but my Dad gave him a high-5.

[severinsteel]

Wow! What was the after death experience like?

I almost drowned while swimming in the ocean. I went unconscious and had an after death experience.
When I woke up I was on the beach. My friend had dragged me to shore.

[CharlieS]

Wow! What was the after death experience like?


:roll

[enharmonic]

Had to drop a deuce in the woods once when I was a kid. Ended up wiping my bum with poison ivy. :cry:

[8Painting]

Picking up dead bodies for a funeral home for two years.

[Hackubus]

Getting locked in the customer lounge at the close of business. (On a Saturday afternoon no less) Came out of the bathroom to the sight of all the employees driving away. This was in the pre cell phone days. Pounded on the windows, waved, hollered....no good. Was just getting ready to settle down to accept my fate, when I spotted a co worker driving around the building & I managed to get her attention. She had a key to the building and let me out.

[lpfella]

Grew up in a small town and rural area. But, I drove 50 miles every two weeks for guitar lessons for maybe a year or so. Would go on Sundays and usually by myself.

At the time had a little Subaru and I was maybe 17 or 16. So, I am driving in the country on some back road and cranking Skid Row. I hear this sound coming up from behind me and I believe it to be a pack of Harley riders. So, I look in my rear view mirror and see nothing so think I check my driver side mirror to see if the pack of bikers is passing me since I saw none of them in my rear view.

I expected to see bikers and it only took a split second for me to be confused since I did not see anything in that mirror either. Right at that time my car started shaking and a shadow cast over the entire car and much of the road around me. Suddenly, a 4 seater plane was flying straight down the road I'm headed down and had just flown over me and I estimate it to only be about 10 yards above my car.

I now know the guy was trying to emergency land on the long, straight stretch of road I was traveling. It couldn't land and I saw it drop a bunch of pieces including the entire bottom half of one wing and then veer off to the left like Styrofoam in the wind. It crashed and the car in front of me stopped. I thought about stopping but at 16 there was no way in hell I was missing my guitar lesson.

Got home that evening and told my dad. He thought I was on drugs and then saw the crash on the news that night.

[Bobbofallenstar]

1) I was riding my bicycle home from the store about 3 years ago and an Orange County Transit Bus failed to stop at a stop sign and broadsided me - sending me about 10-15 feet in the air and into the middle of Main st. I get up, mostly un-hurt and shocked that 1) no cars hit me coming the other way and 2) I'm mostly fine, just banged up. Very lucky just to be alive!

2) Me and my wife are driving to Phoenix for a hockey tournament that I'm playing in. (we live in SoCal) and she's complaining about how we can't go anywhere without bumping into someone I know - we're on the 10 Freeway somewhere in Arizona and a car comes up next to us honking their horn - I look over and it's two friends of mine from a band I know in L.A. My wife looks at me and says "See?"

[HoboMan]

1) I was riding my bicycle home from the store about 3 years ago and an Orange County Transit Bus failed to stop at a stop sign and broadsided me - sending me about 10-15 feet in the air and into the middle of Main st. I get up, mostly un-hurt and shocked that 1) no cars hit me coming the other way and 2) I'm mostly fine, just banged up. Very lucky just to be alive!

2) Me and my wife are driving to Phoenix for a hockey tournament that I'm playing in. (we live in SoCal) and we're having a conversation about how we can't go anywhere without bumping into someone I know - we're on the 10 Freeway somewhere in Arizona and a car comes up next to us honking their horn - I look over and it's two friends of mine from a band I know in L.A. My wife looks at me and says "See?"


Bob, is that you?

[Gargloic]

My guitar was delivered by UPS unbroken.


Sorry but I don't believe you at all :nono

Gargloic

[fetishfrog]

It was the end of tour and we were driving from Chicago back to LA. As we begin the ascent into the Colorado Rockies up I-70, it begins to snow...the other guitar player has never seen snow...he was born out of the country and grew up in Southern CA, so he was a little freaked out.

As we continue along, he notices the bail out ramps for trucks and asks me what they are. I explain it to him and relate a story of when I was 12, I actually saw someone use one coming down the Blue Ridge Mountains in VA. As I finish the story with 'it was really freakin scary', as soon as the word 'scary' leaves my lips, VOOOOOOOOOMMMM, a semi passes us on the right doing M.A.C.H. 4 with every wheel smoking from the brakes having burned up. We see him bail 1/2 mile in one of the escape ramps up the road, gravel and snow flying everywhere. We pulled along side him to see if he was alright and he was on his CB calling for help. We left with a 'well, there you have it'.

[Bobbofallenstar]

Bob, is that you?

Yep. :roll

[trumpus]

This one time, when I was younger, some friends and I decided to go look for some old pirate treasure. Our adventure took us through a series of underground tunnels and required us to answer some riddles. The whole time we were being chased by a family of Italian criminals, but luckily, we were saved by their giant cretan son. In the end, everything worked out...man, we were just a bunch of goonies...

I think Josh Brolin was there too....

[blujaz1]

El Cajon Raceway, mid 1970's, I was watching my Cousin Eddy race his car while standing in the pits near turn 4. His brother Bobby and I are standing against the chain link fence watching a great race when Bobby decided to try to get a better view and walked down the fence line 20 feet to the left, stopped and yelled to me,"you can see better here", so I moved over next to him. Not more than 5 seconds later I saw a yellow flash and felt the fence hit me. It knocked me back a couple of feet but I was still standing. I was the last one standing as everyone to my right had been knocked down by a car with a stuck throttle that drove over the fence. There were several injuries and one fatality. Thanks Bobby!

[Guitar55]

I met Magic Johnson at Magic Mountain in 1986, when I was 10 years old. I was there with my Dad, and Magic happened to be exiting a ride as we were standing in line. I was speechless, but my Dad gave him a high-5.

Magical!!

[re-animator]

a few months ago i was between the legs of a near-stranger with a vibrator, singing "nights in white satin" at performance volume. afterwards we had cereal.

[FiestaRed]

This one time, at band camp, ......

[Baloney]

This was back in 90 or so. Me and 2 friends were at the burger king in the parking lot talking. I said ya if we stay here long enough I bet there will be a wreck in the intersection. 10 minutes later we hear a loud crash and there were 3 cars totaled.

[jetsnation]

I was at an outdoor Neil Young concert and some guy asked me if I wanted to get "sprayed". I was hot so I said yes, of course I got dosed without knowing it. As I was listening to the show I saw this family of two fairly clean
hippie type parents and two little kids with shaggy, but neat enough blond hair. As the show went on the parents started looking like monsters to me and the kids started looking like angels. I started thinking about these kids living a life of traveling around with these filthy hippies,going from concert to concert, and I seriously considered asking the couple if I could adopt the kids. I felt so bad for them I started crying and even left a little early.

I didn't figure out what happened until a couple of months later when I heard about people spraying at Grateful Dead concerts.

[Scott Peterson]

Two years back, coming home from Ontario, Canada, crossing at the Tunnel back to Detroit alone. At the US side, they asked me to shut off my car and remain seated, hands on the wheel. Surrounded by 5-6 Homeland Security guys in full blown tactical gear asked to exit the vehicle and do the spread legged thing across the back hatch. Cuffed. Taken to a security 'holding center' and asked all sort of pointed questions about Florida and have I seen my kids lately (I have two kids, live in Michigan and have been to Disney World with my kids in Orlando... but they were talking about skipping out on my kids, and doing bad things I don't do or ever did).

I was padded down in the cell by three agents, wallet, belt and shoes removed. Uncuffed. Sat in there for 30 minutes alone, felt like 3 hours.

Taken out for fingerprints on a machine reader; it's broke. Shoes returned, cuffed again, walked across the way into a different building past all sorts of folks looking at me with raised eyebrows by 5-6 tactical Homeland Security agents again; more trouble with the fingerprint reader. Supervisor comes down to this basement where I am at now; gets my fingerprints ran, no match.

Turns out someone with my name (this damn name of mine. Geez!) had done some bad things in Florida and was wanted on a felony as a fugitive.

Told that future travel across the border would be an issue.

Given back my wallet, car was clean of any drugs or contraband but all torn asunder from their search with the doggies, given a brochure saying, "Welcome to the USA!"

:messedup

The other 'somewhat' related bizarre thing was waking up one day and turning on the computer to see the headline, "What Do Scott Peterson and OJ have in Common?" and so began the seeming endlessly fascinating tale that has still to this day not stopped. "Your name is.... Scott Peterson? Aren't you that guy that killed his wife and baby?" "Err, no. I'm not the famous one." :messedup :messedup

[gtr777]

Seeing my Grandmother in my living room chair a few years after she past away.... freaked out but I was surprisingly calm as she told me about my aunts wedding (that took place about 30 years earlier) and then she just kind of faded away.....

Also strange was that years ago my Mom kept telling me that every day in the late afternoon she found this really old looking piece of twine on her dresser and then showed me a handful of this really ancient looking twine. she asked if I was messing with her by placing it there which I wasn't. A few days later when I was over there I asked if it was still happening and she told me that it didn't happen yet that day and asked if I would take her to the store. I did and when we returned she asked me to check the dresser. When I did a piece of twine was there....this went on for a month and then stopped....we never did figured out what was happening.

[guitarshaman]

Eating dinner at a sushi restaurant in Amsterdam year 2000, when a gunman shot and killed 3 people seated about 10 foot behind me in a mafia style hit job.

That's crazy! ... and mine's similar.

I was at a show at a bar, and during the break I went outside to get some air. All of the sudden gun shots starting going off and a car came speeding by and crashed into the building across the street. People were scattering like crazy and the guy driving the car got out to run, he was shot and dropped dead after a few steps... then it was the most eerie silence I've ever experienced in my life. Ended up having to stay at the bar until 3am because the parking lot was blocked off as a crime scene.

[Bluedawg]

Received a call at work one day ...

"hello, this is nurse Ratchett (name changed because I don't remember it). I just want to remind you to take three enemas before your surgery tomorrow."

Me .. "Excuse me, what surgery is this?"

Nurse Ratchett .. "Your surgery scheduled for tomorrow."

Me .. "No one told me I had surgery tomorrow."

Nurse Ratchett .. "You're Mr. Davis, right"

Me .. "Yes, but this is the first I've ever heard about having surgery."

Nurse Ratchett .. "Isn't John Davis your father?"

Me .. "No. John Davis is one of my bosses, not my father. I think you have the wrong Davis."

Nurse Ratchett .. "Oh ... I guess I do. Sorry."


I don't often get calls from people telling me to take an enema.

The fun you can have when several people share the same phone number at work.

:thud

[Franklin]

Well here's a few;

1) I was working for a moving company back @ 1992 and we were loading up this Priest and his belongings. He was looking really nervous and after 10 mins or so we figured out why.

This crazy lady comes in screaming "NO!!! Where is he going!!?!?! NO!!!" She through herself at the other two guys yelling "Where is he going!!?!?" Then she yells out for him, I don't remember his name. He was upstairs in the rectory and she was at the bottom of the stairs screaming, crying and carrying on. He eventually came out yelling "Leave me alone! I am going away and you need to leave now"! Then she starts yelling over him and he keeps repeating "LEAVE ME ALONE" for what seems like 20 mins. He threatened to call the police and she eventually left, it lasted about 45 mins overall. She was really jilted by this priest I guess. Very awkward to say the least.

2) Some time in the mid 90s I was at Fort Indian Town Gap in PA with the National Guard. We were out doing a field training exercise on a lunch break when two (I think) A10s touched wings. I remember hearing a hush more than the two wings touching, but as I turned around to look one of the two was exploding into a hill and the other one went spinning over a hill and out of view. I don't remember how close the actually were, it seemed like 1,000 or so yards where the one jet we could see crash. We did not see the other impact over the hill but we did see a mushroom cloud and an explosion. I remember feeling the heat from the explosion and the sound was really intense and there was a black mushroom cloud. We all ran around not knowing what to do. My first instinct was to start running towards the crash site, but we turned to the brass on what to do -which turned out to be "sit still".

One pilot broke an ankle and nothing happened to the other one from what I heard.


3) About two days before 9/11 I saw a jet flying around my area (Waterbury, CT) and doing a lot of banking. I remember thinking how weird that it was, but they must have been filing something. I didn't even recall the jet I saw for about a week, then after a couple weeks I called the FBI tip line.

[Motorhed]

One day I came home from getting some milk to make white russians and there were these 2 guys waiting for me inside. One dunked my head in the toilet asking about some money then the other peed on my rug....

[Scott Peterson]

One day I came home from getting some milk to make white russians and there were these 2 guys waiting for me inside. One dunked my head in the toilet asking about some money then the other peed on my rug....

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! ;) :D :bow

[Motorhed]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! ;) :D :bow


Well, that rug really tied the room together. :bong

[HEY!YOU!]

Sorry but I don't believe you at all :nono

Gargloic

It is in a most bizarre thread.

[Bo Faulkner]

Well here's a few;



3) About two days before 9/11 I saw a jet flying around my area (Waterbury, CT) and doing a lot of banking. I remember thinking how weird that it was, but they must have been filing something. I didn't even recall the jet I saw for about a week, then after a couple weeks I called the FBI tip line.

I have seen a large commercial jet do some really low hard banks over a field where I live (about 60 miles from major airport) It was rather bizarre.

Also on a 9/11 related note I had a small truck for sale back then and got a call from a Arabic man interested in it.. He wanted to buy it on the spot but I told him I needed to drive it for at least one more week. He nervously said that wouldnt work for him because he would be leaving not to return before I could let him have it. Mentioned something in small talks about working at the airport. I joked to one of my employees that he acted like a terrorist. This was about 4 days before 9/11


One a LSD related one... once while tripping with some buddies a couple of miles from my house I looked out his front door to see my horse looking back at me... at first I thought I was tripping but soon realized that indeed our horses had gotten loose and tracked me down

[Grun]

You mean other than running my Veyron into a lake while chasing a pelican with my cell phone?

[VaughnC]

I was about 15 years old sitting on our front porch and, on a perfect clear, sunny summer day, a mini tornado came down the street, went between our & our neighbors houses, tore all the clothes off our close line in our back yard, then it just vanished. It was about 15' in height and about 5' wide. Strangest thing I ever saw.

About 5 years ago I got a glass out of our kitchen cupboard to get something to drink and set it on our kitchen counter. The wife yelled for me to do something so I let the empty glass set until I returned. When I returned to the kitchen, the glass was sitting on the counter where I left it but was broken into about 25 pieces :eek:.

[chrisgraff]

About 5 years ago I got a glass out of our kitchen cupboard to get something to drink and set it on our kitchen counter. The wife yelled for me to do something so I let the empty glass set until I returned. When I returned to the kitchen, the glass was sitting on the counter where I left it but was broken into about 25 pieces :eek:.

Man, does your wife nag with laser-beam precision, or what? :rimshot

[Scott Miller]

Perhaps you know the song "Don't Bogart that Joint?" The part where he goes "Rooooolllllll another one..." So, we were driving along, getting stoned, and that song is on the radio, and we're singing along: "Roooollllll another one" except when the guy sings "Roooolllll" it keeps going and going "RoooOOOOLLlllOOOLLloooLL" getting louder and louder and we're freaking out at which point we suddenly realize it's a police car siren behind us. We pulled over and he zipped past. Of course, we had to...

Rooollll another one...

[louderock]

Flying from San Francisco to Atlanta. Pilot had a heart attack in the air and died. Had to land in Dallas to take him off the plane.

Flew on a flight with a bomb threat. Emergency landing with all the firetrucks and rescue vehicles lining the runway.

Walking into the home of a loved one and finding a suicide note. Going into their room was surreal to say the least. The silence was deafening. They had not succeeded and I called the EMT's. Horrible day.

[mc5nrg]

-Was in Detroit Metro airport early 90s. Went looking for the game room that used to be on the second level. No longer there, but while I was walking around the upper area overlooking the lower main floor, a guy comes out of an office with a big German Shepherd dog, lays down two separate stacks of money on the floor and sprinkles what appears to be cocaine on one of the stacks of cash. The dog goes to the other stack! To top things off, the guy calls the dog by my name.

-Experienced a Devo show in Cleveland before they were famous. If anyone else attended the Devo/ Destroy All Monsters/Styrene Money Band concert, I'd be curious if they can recall a description of the audience which I perceived as extremely strange. Like Todd Browning's Freaks strange.

-Have had several precognitive dreams and have regular and bizarrely predictable instances of street lamp interference.

-Ate a family dinner in a log cabin in Upper Michigan while a microburst storm blew through and knocked down 30 or 40 tall jack pine around our camp- none of which hit the cabin, two outbuildings or several cars parked outside. We really didn't fully understand what happened til the downpour ended, about the same time dinner was finished, and we could finally see out the windows and step outside for the full reality to sink in.

[Franklin]

I have seen a large commercial jet do some really low hard banks over a field where I live (about 60 miles from major airport) It was rather bizarre.



That's what this jet was doing. It was so bizarre that people were standing looking and pointing. I remember thinking if they are filming a movie shouldn't there be another jet or helicopter in the area?

Before I left the house I was wondering why the hell military jets were flying around for @ 20 mins before I left the house.

[Dave LaP]

Got screened for a blood test once when I was having some symptoms that could be something very serious.

I get a call from the blood testing place.

Nurse: Mr. L this is Ms so n so from the lab. I'm afraid I have some bad news about your blood test.

Me (starting to have an out of body experience): What is it?

Nurse: Believe be Mr. L. one of the worst parts of my job is telling people this. I'm really sorry.

Me (now i really do feel like I'm watching myself in a movie. I feel the room start to waver and spin slightly: Please tell me what is going on?

Nurse: Please understand that I'm really very sorry to have to tell you this.

Me: What? What?!

Nurse: I dropped your blood sample. The test tube broke and I'm going to have to ask you to come in to have your blood sample taken again.

[arthur rotfeld]

In grad school I was at a professor's house taking private lessons in score reading and chorale harmonization. We always got along very well....

We were done with our lesson and had a smoke. He puts on the Brahms 3rd and sits down at the kitchen table and starts taking out photos he had clipped from the newspaper, quickly and neatly arranging them in rows. He loudly stated that, these people were "all f***ed up, and if I had a picture of you, it go right here!"

I got real paranoid and figured that he was going to cut me up next, so I bailed. Got a B in the class.

[abadiemet]

While working in Baton Rouge I went into a KFC for lunch.

The KFC had music pumped in and B.T. Express's "Do It 'Til You're Satisfied" began playing while I was standing in line to order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OrwZICTcic&feature=related

Every person in KFC (KFC workers behind the counter, people standing in line, people eating) started dancing.

Not simply swaying to the music - getting down - showing their best moves.

Twilight Zone moment - if I had not been stunned into amazement I would have joined in.

[stratman34]

I was in a local sports bar after work with a couple of friends. I was underage, but they served food (and my friend snuck me a beer). In the middle of the dining area, a scuffle breaks out. Next thing I know, they are rolling on the floor and a lady screams loudly. About two minutes later cops pour in from both entrances and lock the place down. (As I'm sneaking my beer under the table)

Turns out, one of the guys in the fight pulled a knife and stabbed the other guy in the throat. The person doing the stabbing was a local family practitioner. Yeah, an MD got pissed off and stabbed a guy because he spilt a drink on him or something.

-------------------------

In my high school days, I passed a couple dudes in a truck on a dirt road because I believed they had slowed down and wanted me to pass. I was wrong. After a 2 mile chase I busted a right onto the highway and was shifting gears like mad, while they just straddled the road sitting there. After a few seconds, I hear a clunk, and see them tear a** the other way on the highway. I kick it in neutral and roll to a stop (didn't want them to see my brakelights). I hop out, and sure enough there is a bullet hole in the back of my mustang on the drivers side right above the taillight. I was doin 80+ when it hit the car and was a good distance away. It hit mere inches below coming through the back glass and hitting me in the back. I busted hump back to a phone (was pre-cell phone days, nearest phone was 3 miles away). They got arrested, but never served a day, and never fixed my car either. Turns out they were drunk ex-marines, guess that got them off.

When we finally got around to fixing the car, we pulled the pot metal piece off and the bullet fell out on the ground. I still have it.

[ImmortalSix]

I was on campus at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre),

Listening to gunshots for a while, then protecting-in-place for a while; watching the building I was in on CNN, seeing a body count slowly rise on the ticker.

When S.W.A.T. knocked on the door to get us out, I nearly jumped out of my skin.

[Doug H]

Okay, it's in the mid-60's, I'm probably 7 or 8 years old. We go to pick my mom up at some church retreat she went to for the week. It's dark on a Friday night way out in the country. We're leaving the place and pull out on the road and then stop at a stop sign. All of a sudden, the sky lights up like the sun's coming up, very bright. I can see houses down the road I didn't even know were there. The sky is red-orange, looks like sunrise and all the streetlights are still on giving it an eerie look. We look up in the sky and there's a giant bright red fireball streaking across. Everything was lit up like that for several minutes. The tops of the trees turned red as it flew by them. When we got home we checked the 11:00 news and they reported a giant fireball meteor that flew across 3 or 4 states. We went back the next day to see if we could find any pieces but didn't see anything.

I just remember the shiver that went up my spine when the sky lit up. It was pretty bizarre...

[enocaster]

Maybe not the most bizarre, but a few stories reminded me of an incident:

I spent an incredibly glorious summer in college living off student loans (no job) playing guitar and partying full time. My buddies and I closed the bar at 4am literally 6-7 days a week. One night it all caught up with me and I got deliriously tired, bid my friends adieu and dragged myself home from the bar at 11pm. The next day I find out that 20 minutes after I left the police showed up at the bar and locked everyone in until the middle of the night because some guy had was running around our very small town with a semi-automatic rifle, shooting haphazardly. Town was a surreal site with half the buildings riddled with bullet-holes, including one that went through a friends apartment wall. The only injury was a cop who was grazed in the hand. I'm sure the bar owners didn't mind everyone locked in for the night!

[buddaman71]

This didn't happen to me, but pretty crazy. This is the story as related to me and my dad:

My dad's former boss went to the Fed Credit Union in the Murrah building that was blown up in the OKC Bombing in 1995. He pulled up to the 5 min parking spot right in front of the building and went in to make his deposit. Came out, got in his car, drove about a half a block, turned right and saw a bright flash followed by the huge explosion. The high rise Regency Tower building he had just turned at shielded him and saved his life. Force still blew his car across the street. He said the sound of the glass raining down on the roof of his car seemed to last forever and he said it was literally like Armageddon. He had no idea what had happened.

His deposit slip said 8:58 AM. Bomb went off at 9:02. Considering the time to walk to his car, get in, pull out and drive a block, he literally missed being killed by seconds. It just wasn't his time. Since hearing that story, I have often thought about how every single seemingly meaningless decision we make affects our fate. If ONE more person had been in front of him in line, he would have been vaporized. If he'd missed ONE red light on the way, he would have been dust. After the reports came out, he stated clearly remembering the Ryder truck as he parked and thinking to himself that it was odd to see it at that time of day in the crowded downtown area.

PS: My brother was working in a high rise about 7 miles to the north of the bombing site. He said that the blast shook their building and many thought something had exploded in their basement. It was an enormous explosion that measured a 3.0 on the Richter scale 16 miles away in Norman, OK. Just devastating.

[Austinrocks]

Most bizarre was after playing a gig for a christian youth group at TCU, they had no alcohol or dancing during the gig and used our PA for prayers during the breaks, when the gig ended about midnight some of the guys started depancing their dates in the ailse, the rest of the girls started stripping down naked for their dates who were wearing suits and ties, there were at least 50 naked girls there just talking to their dates and female friends all naked as god make them with their clothes stacked neatly next to them. We were tearing down, never will forget the bass play who was the band leader with the biggest eyes I ever saw mouthing "DO NOT STARE" with his amp on his shoulder. Really had to work at not disturbing the scene, they were the whole time as we were breaking down. Never wanted a repeat gig so bad, and never got one.

[Honga Man]

Have you heard the saying "it's a small world"? Here's an example:

I dated a girl for five years in my 20s. It was serious - we talked of marriage and even lived together for the last year. Along the way, we took a trip to New England and while there we visited my aunt & uncle.

Some time later, we broke up and I've never seen or talked to her again. But, I know she got married.

How do I know? It seems my ex-girlfriend's new husband took her to meet his aunt and uncle. She had met them before when she was there with me.

See, I'm related to my uncle by blood (he's my mother's brother) and my ex-girlfriend married a guy who is related to my aunt by blood. The two of us have never met but we share an aunt and uncle.

I can only imagine how strange it must have been for her to go meet these people who live thousands of miles away and discover she had been there before.

[JoeB63]

Two (not that bizarre) things that happened when I was working as a waiter at one of the big Catskill Mountains hotels (yes, just like Dirty Dancing) in summers in the early 80s:

I lived on the hotel grounds in a very, very crappy dorm-type building for all the summer help and the year-rounders (most of whom were illegal aliens) who worked in the dining room.

One morning I was awoken by loud knocking on my door. When I opened the door there were two large men wearing dark suits standing there. They said they were from the BCI (Bureau of Criminal Investigations) and then they started sternly asking me questions, like: Where were you yesterday? What were you doing between the hours of ...? Can anyone verify your whereabouts? Now, I had just woken up, so I was kind of blurry-headed, and I hadn't worked the day before, and I had been just sort of bumming around, so I couldn't think of the right answers to their questions, which made me very nervous. They were starting to get angry that I wasn't giving them clear answers. Anyway, I eventually answered all of their questions and they went away. I then found out that the guy who lived in the room across from me was found dead in his car, which had been set on fire, and he had a bullet hole through his head. It turned out that he did it to himself.

Same place, different day: I'm woken up to the sound of someone screaming "IMMIGRATION!! IMMIGRATION!" Then I hear loud running footsteps in the hallway. I opened my door and saw most of my coworkers running out of the building -- several were pulling on their pants as they ran. More yelling, more running and then it was quiet. I got dressed and walked over to the dinning room to serve breakfast. On a normal day I would have served breakfast to about 30 people. That day I served breakfast to 250 people in about 1 hour. All the illegal guys ran into the woods to hide. Several were caught and got deported, the rest were all back in time to serve dinner.

[Franklin]

One night around 2-3am I got a call from some drunk guy. When I pick up he says "Who the *&^% is this?!". So I say "Excuse me? You must have the wrong #"

"Who the *&^% is this?!"
"Dude, you have the wrong#"
"Don't I&^*& with me, who the *&^% is this?!"

So I hang up. He calls back.
"Dude, you have the wrong#. Don't call back"
"*^% you man, I know why you are there. I'm gonna *&%$n kill you!!"
Me again; "Look, you have the wrong # and before you do anything stupid try calling home or wherever again but do not hit redial. You have the wrong #"
He was quiet for a second, then started ranting again. I hung up hoping he didn't plan to hurt anyone.

[flume]

Most bizarre was after playing a gig for a christian youth group at TCU, they had no alcohol or dancing during the gig and used our PA for prayers during the breaks, when the gig ended about midnight some of the guys started depancing their dates in the ailse, the rest of the girls started stripping down naked for their dates who were wearing suits and ties, there were at least 50 naked girls there just talking to their dates and female friends all naked as god make them with their clothes stacked neatly next to them. We were tearing down, never will forget the bass play who was the band leader with the biggest eyes I ever saw mouthing "DO NOT STARE" with his amp on his shoulder. Really had to work at not disturbing the scene, they were the whole time as we were breaking down. Never wanted a repeat gig so bad, and never got one.

F'rizzle? This is too good to believe...but I want to.

[teleman1]

My girl friend & I were making Salsa. She cut up a small Jalepeno by hand and threw it in. We put it in the fridge and proceeded to the bedroom for a session. About 10 minutes deep into the session, I started to feel a slow building warmth on my Juevos.
I asked her do you feel anything funny down there as her hands were carressing. Within about a minute, I jumped off, screaming. Me Juevos were on fire. I jumped in the shower and had my crotch area accepting ice cold water and still burning. Then we did some baking soda. Cooking and preparing is such a bitch sometimes. And never let your girlfriend chop peppers and give you affection. They don't work well together!

[Austinrocks]

F'rizzle? This is too good to believe...but I want to.


I thought it might be one of my dirty old man dreams as well. I was working with our sound man a couple years ago, and he brought it up as we reminencing about the various band adventurer we had shared. He was looking at the father of a couple high school daughters getting ready to go to college.

[flume]

I thought it might be one of my dirty old man dreams as well. I was working with our sound man a couple years ago, and he brought it up as we reminencing about the various band adventurer we had shared. He was looking at the father of a couple high school daughters getting ready to go to college.

Just the visual of a bunch of naked girls calmly talking to their dates at TCU is so perfectly warped...it's priceless.:thud

[teleman1]

I was 7 years old and in a Drug store next to Hughes markert in North Hollywood. THis was near the bank where it went national news from a robberry which killed a couple of cops and they had poweful weapons.

Anyhow I separated from my Mom looking for toys. I found something I liked and went off to find Mom. I did my 7 year old routine where I run my hands over her body pleading for her to buy me this thing. "Please Ma, come on Ma, I want this". The Women looks down at me and says "son, I'm not your Mother"! I was mortified! She had on the same dress or a similar dress and I came at her while she was looking the other way.

[teleman1]

Next door where this indcident happened above, we were shopping at Hughes Market. All of a sudden we hear screams and see people running. They must of thought a Bear walked in. But it was our Standard Poodle. We tended to let his hair grow out and his hair was brown. He jumped out the the front vent ofour car. It was so small we couldn't figure it out unless someone was trying to steal him, which would have been bad for them; he had a temper.

[blakegrif]

Me and a friend were on our way to a concert in my truck, and he looked at me and said, "You ever hit a deer before". Not even 1/2 a second later... BANG!!!! I hit one. It didn't do any damage to my truck, but the deer didn't make it. It was probably a sign that we should've stayed home. We were on the way to a Staind concert.... :facepalm

[phoenix 7]

My girl friend & I were making Salsa. She cut up a small Jalepeno by hand and threw it in. We put it in the fridge and proceeded to the bedroom for a session. About 10 minutes deep into the session, I started to feel a slow building warmth on my Juevos.
I asked her do you feel anything funny down there as her hands were carressing. Within about a minute, I jumped off, screaming. Me Juevos were on fire. I jumped in the shower and had my crotch area accepting ice cold water and still burning. Then we did some baking soda. Cooking and preparing is such a bitch sometimes. And never let your girlfriend chop peppers and give you affection. They don't work well together!

Ha ha! My wife accidentally did this to me once too! My junk was ON FIRE!! :cry:

[Austinrocks]

Just the visual of a bunch of naked girls calmly talking to their dates at TCU is so perfectly warped...it's priceless.:thud

being there was even better believe me, tearing down the gear was so much fun.

[flume]

It's absolutely surreal...and gets my vote for best of this thread!:crazy

[DGDGBD]

I was about 15 years old sitting on our front porch and, on a perfect clear, sunny summer day, a mini tornado came down the street, went between our & our neighbors houses, tore all the clothes off our close line in our back yard, then it just vanished. It was about 15' in height and about 5' wide. Strangest thing I ever saw.
Tasmanian Devil perhaps?

[Turbozag]

I was paddling my kayak around Lake Natoma near Sacramento when I heard screaming and saw some thrashing in the water. Thinking someone was drowning I paddled over quickly. For some reason a woman had rode her horse into the lake, and for some reason this horse didn't know how to swim. It was kicking its legs wildly so I couldn't do anything to help. I watched for about 10 minutes until it drown with the woman yelling at me the entire time. After it died I tied it my kayak, pulled it and her to the shore, wished her well and left.

Sorry, but.... Are you an Eloy?

Maybe a rope to throw around it's head.......?

:eek:

[stratbred]

In the late 1990s I was driving around in the woods, maybe 5 miles from a paved road, definately the middle of no where type place; desolate, very wooded, no people anywhere, imagine the set of Blair Witch Project. I come to a shack in the middle of the forest, maybe half the size of a typical shed, and carefully do a u turn around it to head back. Sure enough, an old woman, visibly dirty; leaves in her hair, mud all over her, not unlike swamp thing, comes flying out of this shack.

She leaps in front of the car waiving and screaming like she was on fire. I crack the window as I coast by and she says, "Can I help you?" in a tone that you'd expect from a cocktail waitress. I answer, "No, just leaving." She says, "Ok bye." And that was it. I drove home.

[TeeVee]

Reversing a screw out of some timber with a cordless drill (no eye protection - however felt relatively safe using a drill with only a phillips head bit), bit end breaks off and lodges in the corner of my eye (corner near nose) at a very fast pace. Taken to doctor, who removes it with tweezers. No noticable damage. Wore an eye patch for a few days to give the eye a rest but was fine after that.

[Fishin'Musician]

Wife and I were thumbing through her late father's 1965 high school yearbook one day when she points out this woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to me. I mean REALLY looks like she could be my sister! Next time we were at her mother's house we mention it and ask her if she knew the woman. (Her mother and father were high school sweethearts) Her mother gets this twisted look and demands to know what her father had told her about the woman. As it turns out, the woman in the photo was one of her mothers (former) good friends whom her father had cheated on her with and had gotten pregnant back in the day. The girl moved away during her senior year and eventually gave the baby boy up for adoption. Being adopted myself, I ask her mother if she knew where she moved to, and as it turns out it was to San Francisco, the same town I was born in. In 1965, the same year I was born. My wife was convinced we had to get DNA tests done based on this odd set of coincidences. So we did. That was when I found out I was married to my sister.

[Austinrocks]

It's absolutely surreal...and gets my vote for best of this thread!:crazy


Surreal is a good word for it, I have another story about a Santana and chicago story, posted it before but you might enjoy it.

I have to tell the story of my first Santana Concert. It was in June of 1974, Carlos and John McLaughlin had done the Love, Devotion and Surrender album, and Carlos had converted to John's beliefs. This was an open seating. I wanted to see Santana and my girlfriend wanted to see Chicago, so it was a date. The place opened at 11 and the concert started at noon. We were sitting 10 feet in front of the stage, a little to the left. Carlos comes out dressed in white with a Lau of white flowers around his neck and ask the crowd for a moment of silence and if we gave him that he would play as long as we wanted him to, and he played for 6 hours that day.
So Carlos starts playing and it is Jam, with players come on and off stage, there were few recognizable songs, Black Magic woman sung by Buddy Miles, the drummer/singer for Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies and Buddy sang a couple songs from the Band of Gypsies album. He also played drums and guitar. And people would come on stage and leave, Carlos did a percussion jam with his percussion group.
Anyway about 3 hours into the concert there is girl with dark curly hair in a halter top and cut offs and tennis shoes and socks, who decided she only needed wear her tennis shoes and socks and nothing else and she is dancing. She was about 5 feet to my right, I tried not to look but my girl friend pointed her out, so I HAD TO LOOK. SO I DID and the girl looked really nice in her tennis shoes and socks, my girl friend kept commenting that she could never do that. Anyway my girl friend and I are watching the girl dance. All of a sudden the music stops. I looked up and everybody in the stadium was wathing the girl in the tennis shoes and socks.
Carlos and the band left the stage, so we are all chanting Carlos Carlos, and one of the band members came out said that if we wanted Carlos to come out the girl should put on her cloths. So the guy sitting next to me wraps the girl in a blanket and she puts on her clothes and Carlos played for another three hours, and Carlos said that it was time for chicago to come and play for us.
So Chicago sets up and starts playing, as soon as they start the girl is on the stage, she climbed up the front of the stage wearing her tennis shoes and socks, and a smile. two guys security guys come out and grab the girl and are taking her off stage wrapped in a blanket. James Pankow the horn player stops them and tells them to let her dance. So they let her dance, and she danced the whole Chicago concert.
The band had a lot of fun with her, the horn player would play and come and play with them the trombone player ticklling her a s s with the slide the sax play was really having fun, and she was playing air instruments, air flute, air drums air bass, air guitar. She would get tired and sit down on stage, the guy next to me had brought her cloths up and she would put them for a minute or two and lose them. She was all over Robert Lamm when he was playing color my world and she would lead us all in clapping when the songs were over.
The only one on stage that did not get into her was Terry Kath the guitar player, he would go into a solo and she would play air gutiar with him and he would turn around and look at the speakers. He would be singing and she would come up to sing with him and he would push her away. I suspect his old lady was back stage.
Anyway chicago played for about 3 hours and left the stage and the girl led us in a chant for an encore, the band played 12 encores, the last one was an hour long jam on 25 or 6 to 4, they said they had already played past midnight which was not allowed and left with the girl.

[re-animator]

almost forgot this... it was kind of recent.

on the night before i moved to new york... my last night in sandy, i get a call from a girl i went on a few dates with several years ago (we were just kids) and hadn't talked to in years. It turns out her and a bona-fide ex gf of mine (one who tore out my heart, took a dump on it, wiped it off and then vomited on it) were now best friends. Of course for some reason they wanted to see ME that night. it was late.


luckily i had better things to do.

[Road King]

Back in the 80s we were playing a bar in Galveston on Halloween night. Around midnight and during the skimpiest costume contest all hell breaks loose. Half the bar is on the dance floor stripping naked. Some guy is running back and forth in front of the stage jerking off. There was an older lady (around 70 I suppose) dancing naked in front of me. Glass starts flying all over the place, so we vacate the stage to take refuge in the managers office. I sneek off to the bathroom and find our bass player there having broken a glass and trying to slash his wrists. We try to get him some medical help and they end up taking his belligerent self to jail. I get in a fight with a guy dressed like the Incredible Hulk. Back in the managers office there are several very tall girls and one has cut her foot on the broken glass. Our light man is trying to help her out with some medical attention when we begin to notice the very large adam's apples on these chicks. Turns out all 8 or so of them are transvestites. So I took of with the bass players girlfriend and afterward went and bailed him out of jail. Average night all in all.

[anathema]

great thread, would read again...

[getbent]

Wife and I were thumbing through her late father's 1965 high school yearbook one day when she points out this woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to me. I mean REALLY looks like she could be my sister! Next time we were at her mother's house we mention it and ask her if she knew the woman. (Her mother and father were high school sweethearts) Her mother gets this twisted look and demands to know what her father had told her about the woman. As it turns out, the woman in the photo was one of her mothers (former) good friends whom her father had cheated on her with and had gotten pregnant back in the day. The girl moved away during her senior year and eventually gave the baby boy up for adoption. Being adopted myself, I ask her mother if she knew where she moved to, and as it turns out it was to San Francisco, the same town I was born in. In 1965, the same year I was born. My wife was convinced we had to get DNA tests done based on this odd set of coincidences. So we did. That was when I found out I was married to my sister.

c'mon paul harvey.. take us to page 2

[daveg777]

In 1975 my Dad was stationed at Loring AFB Maine. One night I was taking trash out to the community dumpster and I look up to see this HUGE reddish-orange fireball moving above the tree-line about 100 yards in front of me. I was just frozen in my tracks. After it flew off, I ran back inside as fast as I could. My Mom had to open the back door as I was so freaked out I could work the knob. Upon seeing my pale white expression, she asked what was wrong and I told her. She gave me a hug and I headed upstairs for a VERY long and sleppless night.

In 1999 I was looking up Loring AFB on the web and bam! A story popped up about the " Loring AFB sightings" Of course I was beyond shock as I SEEMED to have seen what other had. This on other man links about this deal http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/750000c.shtml or this one http://www.rense.com/general70/speaks.htm

Kind weird to read about something like this 25 years after the fact, still have no idea what I saw but it wasn't swamp gas or The Northern Lights... :bong


Dave

[Blueser]

In the early 1994, I was working for Chase Manhattan Bank, and I was on the shuttle bus sitting up front(literally next to the driver) coming from Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge to the Metro Tech facility in Brooklyn. Just as we were getting to the span of the bridge, the bus stopped short and we almost hit a car in front of us. The guy in that car was a radical Muslim who pulled out a gun, and proceeded to fire into another shuttle bus beside him that was filled with Jewish children.

I could not believe what was happening, and quite honestly, I was too shocked to be scared. I could just remember seeing those poor children freaking out as the gunman continued to shoot at them. If I remember correctly, at least two children died that day!

The very next morning, the police were at my desk waiting for me to arrive at work (I imagine the shuttle driver must have identified me as a witness) so they could question me.

I ended up testifying in court against the gunman, who ended up being sentenced to life in prison. What a F%&$ing coward! It still makes me sick to think that this freak had to take his anger out on defenseless children. I hope he rots in hell!

Here are some links to the news story:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/nyregion/brooklyn-bridge-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-hasidim.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79270839.html

[severinsteel]

Wife and I were thumbing through her late father's 1965 high school yearbook one day when she points out this woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to me. I mean REALLY looks like she could be my sister! Next time we were at her mother's house we mention it and ask her if she knew the woman. (Her mother and father were high school sweethearts) Her mother gets this twisted look and demands to know what her father had told her about the woman. As it turns out, the woman in the photo was one of her mothers (former) good friends whom her father had cheated on her with and had gotten pregnant back in the day. The girl moved away during her senior year and eventually gave the baby boy up for adoption. Being adopted myself, I ask her mother if she knew where she moved to, and as it turns out it was to San Francisco, the same town I was born in. In 1965, the same year I was born. My wife was convinced we had to get DNA tests done based on this odd set of coincidences. So we did. That was when I found out I was married to my sister.

Holy crap man, is this for real!?

[severinsteel]

Ok, so this may not seem too bizarre but it is cool! About five or so years ago, I walked into my local used music store and ended walking out with a Boss Chorus pedal. It turned out to be a MIJ Boss CE 2 and It was only $40 which is a freaking good deal. Anyway, I had only been back to that store a handful of times since I got the CE 2. So around six months ago, I go back to the same used music store. I had this thought like, man, wouldn't it be cool to find another CE 2 for $40. I walk in, and there it is. Another Boss CE 2 MIJ for $40. Pretty sweet!

[getbent]

Ok, so this may not seem too bizarre but it is cool! About five or so years ago, I walked into my local used music store and ended walking out with a Boss Chorus pedal. It turned out to be a MIJ Boss CE 2 and It was only $40 which is a freaking good deal. Anyway, I had only been back to that store a handful of times since I got the CE 2. So around six months ago, I go back to the same used music store. I had this thought like, man, wouldn't it be cool to find another CE 2 for $40. I walk in, and there it is. Another Boss CE 2 MIJ for $40. Pretty sweet!

were they sisters?

[Chris Taylor]

I have a bullet fragment from a .22 in my main Strat. Thats what you get playing in Wyoming! I have to dig up that picture, even though the whole thing really set me on edge!

[flume]

Surreal is a good word for it, I have another story about a Santana and chicago story, posted it before but you might enjoy it.

I have to tell the story of my first Santana Concert. It was in June of 1974, Carlos and John McLaughlin had done the Love, Devotion and Surrender album, and Carlos had converted to John's beliefs. This was an open seating. I wanted to see Santana and my girlfriend wanted to see Chicago, so it was a date. The place opened at 11 and the concert started at noon. We were sitting 10 feet in front of the stage, a little to the left. Carlos comes out dressed in white with a Lau of white flowers around his neck and ask the crowd for a moment of silence and if we gave him that he would play as long as we wanted him to, and he played for 6 hours that day.
So Carlos starts playing and it is Jam, with players come on and off stage, there were few recognizable songs, Black Magic woman sung by Buddy Miles, the drummer/singer for Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies and Buddy sang a couple songs from the Band of Gypsies album. He also played drums and guitar. And people would come on stage and leave, Carlos did a percussion jam with his percussion group.
Anyway about 3 hours into the concert there is girl with dark curly hair in a halter top and cut offs and tennis shoes and socks, who decided she only needed wear her tennis shoes and socks and nothing else and she is dancing. She was about 5 feet to my right, I tried not to look but my girl friend pointed her out, so I HAD TO LOOK. SO I DID and the girl looked really nice in her tennis shoes and socks, my girl friend kept commenting that she could never do that. Anyway my girl friend and I are watching the girl dance. All of a sudden the music stops. I looked up and everybody in the stadium was wathing the girl in the tennis shoes and socks.
Carlos and the band left the stage, so we are all chanting Carlos Carlos, and one of the band members came out said that if we wanted Carlos to come out the girl should put on her cloths. So the guy sitting next to me wraps the girl in a blanket and she puts on her clothes and Carlos played for another three hours, and Carlos said that it was time for chicago to come and play for us.
So Chicago sets up and starts playing, as soon as they start the girl is on the stage, she climbed up the front of the stage wearing her tennis shoes and socks, and a smile. two guys security guys come out and grab the girl and are taking her off stage wrapped in a blanket. James Pankow the horn player stops them and tells them to let her dance. So they let her dance, and she danced the whole Chicago concert.
The band had a lot of fun with her, the horn player would play and come and play with them the trombone player ticklling her a s s with the slide the sax play was really having fun, and she was playing air instruments, air flute, air drums air bass, air guitar. She would get tired and sit down on stage, the guy next to me had brought her cloths up and she would put them for a minute or two and lose them. She was all over Robert Lamm when he was playing color my world and she would lead us all in clapping when the songs were over.
The only one on stage that did not get into her was Terry Kath the guitar player, he would go into a solo and she would play air gutiar with him and he would turn around and look at the speakers. He would be singing and she would come up to sing with him and he would push her away. I suspect his old lady was back stage.
Anyway chicago played for about 3 hours and left the stage and the girl led us in a chant for an encore, the band played 12 encores, the last one was an hour long jam on 25 or 6 to 4, they said they had already played past midnight which was not allowed and left with the girl.


This is great. We need more nudity at concerts, not less. These days this kind of free spirit would be immediately apprehended and incarcerated. You got to see it celebrated.

The core truth is: nudity=good. Full stop.

[Bluedawg]

This sort of happened to me ... or at least my coworker ..


We were working late one night on some hands on IT stuff at a US Army installation in Heidelberg, Germany (Campbell Barracks).

We finish our work and load up our cars. On the way back home (Worms) I stop in our office in Mannheim and drop off my work stuff. I figured I would see my coworker there putting his tools and things back in the office, but he never showed up.

The next morning he tells me this story ....

He got back to our offices in Mannheim and realized he had left his tool box back on the sidewalk outside of the communications center where we were working.

He heads back to Heidelberg and finds that the Army installation has been shut down by the Millitary Police (MP). At first he doesn't think anything of it, just a normal drill or something, but then he begins to think.

He goes up to the gate and asks the MP on duty if the shutdown has anything to do with a briefcase (his toolbox) on the sidewalk by the comms center. The MP makes a call and then says "Come with me, sir."

Once inside the installation the MPs start asking him all kinds of questions about him and his toolbox. They talk to him for a bit then go off and talk with other MPs ... then repeat the process a few times.

After a few minutes of this he hears "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"

and then BOOOOOMMM!


They blew up his toolbox.


:jo

[calebwebb]

Well I got mugged once in Chicago. I had a grand total of $.17. The mugger got flustered that some white dude was that broke. He ended up giving me $5 for lunch. Was the most flustered I ever saw a guy.

[Bluedawg]

This is great. We need more nudity at concerts, not less. These days this kind of free spirit would be immediately apprehended and incarcerated. You got to see it celebrated.

The core truth is: nudity=good. Full stop.

You first ...

:p

[mrotenberry]

I was about 7 years old in the local Safeway grocery store with my mom when I noticed 3 guys walking in with long coats and halloween-type masks (I thought they were just being funny). Mom is in the check out lane and I was just walking around the door ready to leave.

They pulled out shotguns, rounded every one in the entire store up (as I ran back to my mom in check out), made them lay face down and robbed both patrons and the store. Me and my mom were instructed to stay put and keep standing up at the register so everything looked normal. I do remember her putting her arm around me and squeezing as tight as she could while the guy emptied the register right in front of me. Dont think they ever caught them.

Pretty bizarre to me as a kid.

[It's Time!]

I stepped in a fresh pile of dog $h!t 10 minutes before my wedding and I was very upset :jo

[Stratofuzz]

I dont know if it's the most bizzare in my life, but it seems applicable for this forum-

Was at a flea market in Las Vegas and I find a Tascam Porta One cassette multi-track studio for sale. No where to plug it in to see if it works, so the owner sells it for $50. I get it home, it works! Cool. The guy I'm taking lessons from suggests that he records some tracks that aI can practice against. He plugs into teh back and says, "You know what you got here?" I said "Yea a $50 home studio". Well that and look at the serial number-0000001. It's the very first one made. Now, to the best of my knowledge that's the first Tascam home studio too. So I beleive I bought the very first Porta Studio ever made for $50!

Was Tascam the first company to make a self contained (mixer and tape recorder) home studio?

[Stacatto]

1. Car on other side of highway starts flipping end over end, and sideways-every way in median, and stops on its side with the passenger door down. Five seconds later, an ambulance stops and calls out, "is anyone else in the car?" The driver had been ejected, and had walked up to the car and started gently beating his fist against the wreck's drivers door. The driver was standing and not-responsive.

2. Secret Service-jerk guarding Mr. Bush in October, 2000 (month before election) was herding people into an aircraft hanger to check ID's. He said, "Follow Me" like he was GOD!
I like to remember him as Mr. Personality (Not).

3. I've witnessed three different plane crashes from the ground (one was training, one landing in very high winds, and one fatal during National Air Races in Reno).

[Bobbofallenstar]

I was playing a show in New Hampshire a number of years ago and there was a couple on stage left standing towards the front. She had a loose type of dress on and she's standing so that the folks behind her and to the side can't see what's going on but all of us on stage got a helluva show from her not wearing any underwear and the boyfriends hands.

We played about 5 songs with this going on, I can remember looking over at the bass player and he and I just cracking up and no one in the audience knew what we were laughing at.