Post Your WTF Moments

[Drasiana]

Ever had one of those moments that just made you stop and seriously re-examine your place in reality? I'm not necessarily talking anything paranormal here, but just moments of completely balls-out crazy things you've seen that either defy explanation, or any explanation there is, you don't really want to hear. Here are some of mine.

For a year I lived in a long-term hotel in the scummy part of the city, and saw some really weird stuff living in that area. The homeless people yelling nonsense at 4am became normal. In escalating weirdness:

-I was sitting at the bus stop outside when two cops stride by walking some cuffed dude to the police station. Two dudes with giant cameras were chasing him. Nobody else at the bus stop batted an eye.

-Went to heat up hot dogs in the shared kitchen. Decided not to when I noticed baby cockroaches had infested the microwave.

-Walking to the school I collaborate with one morning, I hear a woman shrieking obscenities and look over to see this midget being roughly arrested by two cops. Feeling like I just witnessed a real-live cartoon, I text my friend about it. His first response is "Oh hey, I know that midget. She keeps trying to sell me crack"

-Last night living there, I'm chilling on my computer in front of the window when I glance out and accidentally look into the apartment across the street from me. The guy that lived there was a habitual nudist and I'd become accustomed to accidentally bearing witness to his schlong flapping in the breeze on occassion but tonight he was nude in the context of a threesome with two women. The weird part was that to spice up the mood, they decided to hang a cowboy hat-wearing mannequin from the ceiling.

I think other weird shit happened here but I'll post when I remember.

BONUS WTF: One night I was playing with my dinosaur toys when I was really young. I had a simple plastic shopping bag full of small plastic dinosaurs when I noticed a tail poking out the side of the bag. I reached into the bag to find the source of the tail, but no horns, tails or feet were poking through, and I couldn't find a hole from the inside. Yet on examining the outside again, there was the dinosaur tail. To this day it bothers me, the only explanation I've come up with is that I was carrying around some kind of dimensional-rift-in-a-bag

So SFO, what weird crap have you seen in your time?

[manthony_Higgs]

The only thing I can remember at the moment that qualifies for this topic happened a little over a year ago.

So me and my mom went out to get our hairs (plural) cut. The mall-salon-place was busy, so we had to go one at a time. I volunteered to got first, so I could hit up the nearby gamestop while she got her hair done. The salon-lady was nice enough, we chatted about how she went to the same high school I was currently attending. "Is Mr. X still working there?" "Yeah, but I never had a class with him." Standard conversational affair.

After getting my do' done, I walked over to the gamestop. It was pretty calm there, just two employees talking about all the pre-order swag they own. I joined in on the conversation, showing off the Metroid Prime Trilogy shirt I was wearing. They thought it was pretty cool. So I bought Infamous 2 and one of those Power-Up Reward cards, mostly for the free subscription to Game Informer. I got that month's issue right away, the cover story was Darksiders 2, and the concept art they used for the cover was absolutely bitching. Satisfied with my haul, I decided to head to the food court to read my magazine in peace.

That's where I saw it.

There was this kid, couldn't be older than 14, carrying some sort of box with it. It was wearing some rather ratty, dirty clothes, and even from halfway across the place, I could tell that it's shoulder-length hair was possibly the nastiest, most greasy hair I've ever seen. It was going from person to person, at a rather fast pace. As it drew closer to me, I could hear what it was asking the people.

"Do you want some donuts?"

I buried my head in the magazine. There was a rather interesting article on the PSN security breach, and I thought to myself "it won't bother me if I'm reading..." over and over, like the little train that could. The footsteps grew closer. The question became louder. Until they came to a stop.

Time slowed down.

"Ddddoooooooo yyyoooouuuuuu wwaaaannnnttt ssssoooooommmmeee dddoooooonnnuuuutttsssss?'

I slowly looked at the source of the androgynous voice. It's clothes were absolutely filthy, and holier that Jesus Christ. The box containing the "donuts" was crumpled, and several of the alleged pastries had bites taken out of them already. But that's not all. The "best" part was it's face. Any sort of detail that could label this thing as a member of one of the two genders, let alone a human being was obscured by greasy hair, a veritable army of zits, and what I can only imagine was a form of herpes, or some other STD.

I looked it straight in it's eyes, or rather, where I thought it's eyes were. All of my courage was funneled into a calm, subtle, yet bold and commanding "Nope." It turned on it's heels, literally, and walked towards the next person in it's horrific date-rape-donut advertising campaign. I buried my head as far as humanly possible into my Game Informer, and didn't look back up until my mom called me, wondering where I was.

I had never been so thoroughly creeped out before in my life.

[DoctorAllosaurus]

This guy, just this guy: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/29622/always-strapped-2/. The first time I saw him I had to triple take just to make sure I wasn't just seeing things.

[CrypticQuery]

-Walking to the school I collaborate with one morning, I hear a woman shrieking obscenities and look over to see this midget being roughly arrested by two cops. Feeling like I just witnessed a real-live cartoon, I text my friend about it. His first response is "Oh hey, I know that midget. She keeps trying to sell me crack"

Granted, this was the first thing that came to my mind ;

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Living in Queens, NYC provides me with my daily dosage of weird and hilarious occurrences on a constant basis. I was at the recent parade/festival/feast in Little Italy, in Manhattan. Passing through most of the streets and booths, I believe I was between Mulberry and Canal St. when I saw it. Some angry guido dude was yelling at an older Italian vendor about his sausage being frozen or something. The vendor countered by yelling back equally as loud, things like "GETTDAHF*CKOUTTAHEEH", among other obscenities. No one else seemed to take notice, and when the guy left and came back to the vendor with two NYPD officers, they didn't quite seem to know what to do either.

[Fana McCloud]

I was pretty amazed when my cat Seth actually used the ladder on my bunk bed to get to the top bunk instead of just jumping up, though I dunno if that's really "WTF?" worthy. XD

I did make a remark to that effect when one of our other cats, Draco, managed to get into a house that was boarded up directly across from us and started meowling when he couldn't get out. Still dunno how he got in there but we had to pry one of the boards loose to let him out again.

There was also this ethnic guy (I honestly couldn't tell you where from, maybe a former soviet state or something) in a couple of my art related classes who seemed to think he knew better than I did about the subjects at hand, presumably in my mind because I was female and couldn't possibly know anything about subjects I had studied for many years. He also had a color and design sense that threatened to make my eyes bleed and give me epileptic seizures. Think Internet circa the 90's when people thought bright colored backgrounds and Javascript doodads were just the awesomest things ever. I wanted to believe he wasn't representative of his culture but man did it leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Hrm... What else? Well years and years ago some guy who was tripping balls on something tried kicking down our door while he yelled "Help! Help!" Maybe that's less "WTF?" and more just flat out scary though. We got the impression that he thought he was being chased - by what we'll never know because it was obviously all in his head. He did manage to put some nice big cracks in the side of our very heavy wood door though.

[Vy'drach]

Apparently after I joined mlpforums, someone used my username to say some mean things to an artist on there via tumblr or deviantart, which led to an odd conversation with them after I complimented them on their artistic style.

When I heard that someone was using my name for this crap, my reaction was:

Related to this, my Deviantart, FurAffinity, and Tumblr names are Vydrach without the apostrophe, so just in case someone named Vy'drach contacts you (though I'm sure it was someone from the mlpforums doing it), it's not me.

Also, Dras, that midget story is fucking hilarious, and I suggest you post that to fmylife.com

[Thu'um]

hm, my WTF moments are more or less just stories of stupidty about our species.

1: At my middle school we had this one guy who went out and took a piss in the pound out front as traffic passed by.....

2: Once i was talking to this really gehto kid from south atlanta and he told me he was a boxer and kept his knuckles sharp with what he ate.....

3: In the 5th grade this one kid through a girl on the floor and started kicking her, and as the teachers try'd to chase him he ran and jumped over the fence at the back of the feild near school> Swearing at teachers, throwing rocks, and pulling down his pants.....

4: On my bike i was riding home from the beach and this man was sitting on the road wearing only chains.....

5: Random highway in north georgia/tennese and this guy comes out of the woods butt naked...

thats all i can think off

[The Shaper]

Hm.....

Very first time I watched Marble Hornets. It was 12:00 AM, and I had no idea what any of that crap was, so yeah it was pretty freaky. What was worse however, was that the very same night some arse decided to put a mannequin out in the park outside my window. So I looked out it, I'm already scared from the videos, and I see a white mannequin outside my window very late at night.

Needless to say I didn't get any sleep.

[psy_commando]

Well, I'm pretty sure I lived through a lot of wtf moment, but I can't recall them all

Be warned, I wrote a huge wall of text !

1) Well there was one time I was walking my dog with my aunt and her dog. Everything was normal, until we got near an house where there was this huge dog, that we though was attached to a rope or something. Then my dog, being the little hyperactive bastard he is, started barking and growling at the huge dog. The huge dog, immediately responded by barking and running towards us. At our surprise he jumped the pathetic little fence they put around their yard. His owner, who didn't seem to notice what was going to happen, started calling the huge dog, who just ignored her completely.

So at this point I was pretty nervous. My dog is a (Jack) Russell terrier, and my aunt's is a welsh terrier. I doubt they could intimidate that huge Great Dane like dog by themselves. When the huge dog got near, my dog stopped barking and growling, let out a high pitched yelp and put his head between my aunt's legs as if he was scared. The huge dog for some reasons grabbed a flap of skin from the back of my dog. My aunt was completely passive during the whole thing..

So I just exploded and yelled as loud an angry as I could "HEY, NO!!!", with my body crooked forward, my both fist clenched, baring my teeth, staring at his face, looking at him in the eyes. I was just not thinking anymore, I just wanted to beat the crap out that huge bastard, even if It was one huge effing dog. I felt like I was going to literally bite his head off, and strangely felt my jaw muscle "being at the ready" if it makes any sense.. A little more and I was literally foaming at the mouth.

The big dog just stood there, startled, and completely motionless, staring at me in the eyes with his head low. We probably stared at each others like that for about a few seconds, but the time had like slowed down or almost stopped and it felt like a very long time. Its at this point that I noticed what I was doing, and how staring at a dog in the eyes and fighting with a dog isn't all that a good idea. Hopefully after the owner of the big dog got out of her stupor, she called the dog and he just went back to her just like nothing happened. The owner didn't even ask us if the dogs were ok and just retreated in her house. As the danger had passed, I felt like I waked up from a really messed up dream. I began asking myself, wtf just happened, and it took a while to snap out of it after that ... I don't think I've ever been this angry in my whole life

2) We were in Montreal, next to the ONF building. We went there to see my uncle's documentary movie first showing, its a long story.. Anyways, we were all talking on the sidewalk in front of the building, just about to each go our own way. When suddenly this old man with glasses and old worn down clothes walks by my uncle and say something completely unintelligible. it wasnt French, it wasn't English, and wouldn't match most languages I heard before. And he just stood there waiting for an answer. My uncle told him "yes, yes, absolutly" or something like that in French, and he just continued on his way, mumbling to himself. That was a big wtf moment. And my uncle taught me to not go against what messed up people say to avoid trouble..

3) There was also that day I brought our car to the garage because the alternator was dead, and the car was running on the battery. However, we had been using the car for a while with the battery warning light on. So there wasn't much charge left. The garage isn't very far, but there was a lot of traffic, and I caught a lot of red lights. Halfway there, the engine started to sound differently, and the rpm were oscillating a lot.

At about 3/4th of the trip, all my dials on the dashboard were dead all indicating 0 even though the engine was still running, though struggling, and skipping cycles. At this point the car wouldn't accelerate unless I pushed the accelerator all the way to the floor, and even then the car was shaking forward and backward from the inconsistent torque the engine produced. Pressing the brake would make the engine run slower, because of the taillights, even though I doubt a this point they were still working. I also stopped using my flashers since instead of the regular tick sound, it made a strange sound..

A the last stop light before the garage the engine was still running, though it sounded like its about to die !

Finally the light turned green, I put her in first gear, I pushed down to the floor the accelerator. The car shook like it was going to explode, and 1-2 seconds after, gave a big push. I put her on neutral and just let the car roll for the 300 meters left, just in case. People behind me were probably raging at this point..

Now I only had to wait for an opening to turn in the garage's parking lot, and I couldn't use my flasher..

Hopefully, I was able to get in the parking and park the car, and at that point the engine was still running ! It felt bad when I turned it off !

That was a really weird experience ! The biggest wtf I had was when the dials stopped working. o_0

Then a few days later I go back to get the car. And the mechanic tells me that it really was the alternator that died, and that he was really surprised I made it all the way to the garage, since they had to boost the car to move it inside

4) There was also that day I wanted to heat up some "bagel bites" (frozen bite sized bagel pizzas) in the microwave oven. I misread the duration on the box as 11 mins 20 seconds, when in reality it was 1 1/2. When I came back to check on the mini pizzas, I only saw a huge cloud of thick white smoke covering and filling the microwave ! "WTF is that !" pretty much sums it up ! End of story, I didn't eat any bagel bites that day, since all this time in the microwave turned the pizzas into small black charred chucks with a hole in the middle.

5) I was mowing the lawn with our lawnmower, and accidentally pushed it over one of those metal valve controlling the water intake for the house, poking out from the ground. Then there was this horrible horrible sound, and the lawnmower just chocked and spit out a big thick cloud of black smoke. When I pushed the mower away I saw that one side of the valve broke into a few large chunks of metal, or whatever that was made from !

6) There was also this time in 1997, during the huge ice storms. We were going to meet some friends at the local fast-food restaurant. It was dark, and it wasn't raining anymore, the whole trip felt very eerie. It was quiet, the only thing you'd hear is transformer blowing up in the distance, and electrical buzz and sparks, and there were broken trees covered in ice everywhere. There was nobody anywhere on the whole trip, no cars, no pedestrians, nothing, and the street lights were all out of power. It looked like some post-apocalyptic nightmare..

7) Anytime I discover weird glitches in games.

Well, you're pretty good if you read through all that ! I got a little carried away..

Its really too bad because there are some really better ones I can't remember anymore. :(

[tupelocase]

Hmm.. All I can think of in detail is an incident which occured the first year Macbooks were implemented into our school. A fellow classmate, who shall remain unnamed, afflicted with aspergers had a prank played on him. Another student placed, I kid you not, 40 Gigabytes of porn onto his laptop, which was of course detected quite fast and he was brought in. After the whole debacle ended, which had involved parents and threats of suspension, he came storming out of the main office and proceeded to yell at the top of his lungs tonthe main courtyard of the school, "I can't believe they would accuse me of having porn on my school laptop! THAT'S WHAT MY HOME COMPUTER IS FOR!"

Cue three years of jokes and references

[russiandog38]

All my WTF moments seem to happen when im sleeping. But here we go...

1)When I was in fifth grade always kept my closet door closed. Well one night I woke up at exactly 3am.When I looked at my closet i saw it creep open a little bit. Somehow i just drifted back off to sleep. In morning my closet was still open.

2) It was the first time I ever slept over my friend Georges house (this was also in fifth grade) . The way his house is set up his both the rooms upstairs are on the right side. His room is the farthest ,then the geust room comes before with a bathroom connecting the two. I woke up the bext day to the sound of snoring. Since i was still half asleep, I thought nothing of it and rolled over.Thats when i realized someone was in my bed. We both sat up, looked at each other and yelled what the heck at the same time. I learned that day that my friend tends to sleep walk.

3)This was just after I had bought my two gerbils. I fed them and then headed off to bed. I woke up and felt some pressure on my chest, so I opened my eyes to see what it was. Staring at me was one of my gerbils, but being half asleep, I dismissed it as a dream. Then I realized I was awake, and that my gerbil had some how got out and was now sitting on my chest. To this day I dont know how it got out, but it did.

Well thats all the WTF moments I can think of right now.

[Gestalt]

Everyday i sign in.

Also,

Elderly people are really serious about their bingo, man. Got, real intense while i was hosting a game today. Insults flying everywhere. Its kinda scary sometimes. Its just a game guys. Just a game.

[Sideways]

I've had some experiences with the supernatural. I swear some of my old houses have been haunted.

[Drasiana]

That gerbil story reminds me of the time I was woken up by someone rapidly slapping my face only to find my cat sitting on my chest trying to wake me up to let her out of my room. That was a definite lolwut.

WTF that happened the other day: I was sitting on my parents' porch when this magpie flew up and sat on the gutter above me. I said hello to him and he replied with a soft "wark". The conversation of "hello" "wark" "hello" "wark" continued on for a little bit before the magpie flew off into the forest.

Then, from the woods, I heard a very distinct avian "HARRO. HARRO. HARRO." Almost forgot magpies were mimics.

I've had some experiences with the supernatural. I swear some of my old houses have been haunted.

We should revive my old topic about it I'm sure if we asked a mod it'll be alright considering there aren't really any other ghost story topics?

[Anti Brony Security Ltd]

When I was at a zoo at one point, me and my mates were just walking along. But then in the garden I see what appears to be a really nice plant, so I walk right up to it. The 'plant' then proceeded to make a really loud cry, because it was in fact a peacock. Good God. So then I jump about a metre up, in full view of everyone within a hundred metre radius.

[Fana McCloud]

So I just remembered another fun thing:

Last semester in ceramics some moron put glaze on GREENWARE (that's unfired clay for the uninitiated), something that you DON'T do. Their stuff exploded in the kiln, ruining practically all the other pieces on that shelf and they were warned not to do it again. Guess what? They did it again. The instructor told him/her to drop the class - he/she gave him attitude over it, so he's like "okay, I'll just fail you instead."

I wonder how the minds of such people work, how they can be so selfish and stupid yanno.