30 of the Wildest Events People Have Ever Witnessed

If I hadn’t watched my high school pep rally devolve into a news-making riot, I wouldn’t have believed the stories about it. The screaming, storming of our gym and reactions of exasperated teachers crowned this moment as the wildest thing I’ve ever witnessed, and I’m not alone in having such a jaw-dropping, unparalleled experience. 

One Redditor’s unprecedented experience also happened in high school. They were on their way to fourth period when they noticed a man flying in “a lawn chair strapped to a fan with a paragliding sail” over their campus. After raining leaflets over school grounds while “screaming about the apocalypse and the Matrix and abortion,” the man’s hand hit the fan of his “DIY flying machine,” chopping off all of his fingers and causing him to crash into a chain-link fence. 

“The football team had to fan out shoulder-to-shoulder later that day to try to find the dude’s severed fingers,” they recalled. 

Other Redditors have detailed the times they had similar surreal experiences, with the craziest including a chocolate club, a baby drop and a masked Britney Spears rave.