30 of the Wildest Events People Have Ever Witnessed

‘I climbed hippie forts and did dabs from the top of a 50-foot pine’
30 of the Wildest Events People Have Ever Witnessed
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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.

imbakingacake 11y ago Edited 11y ago I've told this story before, but, oh well. was a junior in high school. I was walking with a friend to our fourth period class, when we noticed that the campus was littered with flyers. Which is slightly unusual, sure, but nothing too weird, right? It wasn't until a flyer smacked me in the face that we realized that they were falling from the sky. We looked up and, lo and behold, there's a... flying... contraption... thing. Like a lawn chair strapped to a fan with a paragliding sail. And astride it, circling above
arktrark 11y ago about a month ago I was eating at a VERY NICE sushi restaurant in my city (Austin,tx.) and I had to go to the bathroom. I got up and walked in at exactly the same time as a guy at a table across the room, we walked in and there was only 1 urinal so I beconed him to go ahead as a kind gesture. Не thanked me and I leaned against the wall and pulled out my phone to check messages (reddit) and the guy looks at me over his shoulder and says wanna see something
BeerMania 11y ago Car slams on its brakes on a busy 4 lane road. A woman jumps out and reaches into her back seat. Grabs what looks like a giant fake sunflower plant and swings it around her head. It seems like for a minute but perhaps it was only 30 seconds. She throws the sunflower back in and jumps back in the car and speeds off. Me and four other people just stood there in disbelief at the entire sight. Just wtf. - 2.7K ...
scall 11y ago Edited 11y ago I was in Rome walking down one of the main tourist streets - lots of high end fashion stores, mid July, lots of people and right in the middle of this street there's a big scaffolding erected against the side of one of the stores. As me and my family walk under the scaffold there's a big crowd of people ahead of us so the pace is pretty slow. Out of nothing the people ahead of us start coughing, nothing noticeable at first but then it's louder and it's spreading further back. My brother is a
calvinswagg 11y ago It was the first year in college and I joined this club called the chocolate club and I had no idea what it was. The first session, there were like eight people plus the leader, and the leader led us to a graveyard and told us to stand in a circle facing inwards. Не then proceeded to hand us each a chocolate ball and told us that we had to hold it in a specific way with only our middle finger and a our thumb. Не then mumbled some random words and then signaled us to eat
Macadamian88 11y ago Edited 11y ago 5th grade. I forgot the details because it was long ago and it was stupid kid drama, but basically my entire gym class hated my gym teachers. One day, some kid confronts one of the teachers, and actual fight breaks out between the two of them. The rest of the class just goes apeshit. Some join in on the fighting, so in the matter of seconds its a bunch of ~10-11 year olds fighting two screaming adult females, and the rest of class takes it outside to the playground. Once outside, another group of
Rino91 . 11y ago Edited 11y ago I was driving down the highway, just minding my own business. All of the sudden I see a car standing on the emergency lane. The driver, a woman in her 40s or 50s, is standing behind the barrier, passionately playing an accordion and singing. There was no traffic jam or anything, guess she just suddenly felt like she wanted to make some music. On the highway. Alone. Edit: Apparently a car can't stand. - 1.3K ...
t8km3cereal 11y ago Probably not the strangest thing I ever did, but years ago I was part of the Bainbridge Island Pirate Attack. Local singer Jason Webley asked his fans to all dress like pirates and board a specific ferry boat to Bainbridge Island. Turnout was a bit bigger than expected, with a few hundred participants on the boat. We sang sea shanties, screamed obscenities at passing boats, and marched to a public park once we got to the island. This was back in 2002 or so, before flash mobs and pirates were cliche. Proof it happened: http://www.jasonwebley.com/pics misc/pages/pirates.htm 971
FuckingDelicious 11y ago OK, finally a chance to share this one. was in South Africa and planned to go out with a bunch of friends for someone's birthday. When we got to the restaurant, they told us there was a wait of like 20 minutes, but since the place was really small and we were a large group they told us to go wait in the bar next door. Sure, no problem, we'll grab a drink and then head over. So we go to the next door over and immediately think there must have been a mistake. The door seems
yukkykitty 11y ago About twelve years ago, | was friends with a girl who worked in a professional dungeon, (like a brothel, but for bdsm instead of sex.) I was visiting her one day between sessions, and she got called to work early. I stuck around in the break room, and after about 20 minutes, the owner walked in and asked if I could help then out. Seems my friend's client wanted an audience. I'm a pretty big kinkster myself, so I said sure. Walked in to one if the lounge areas with said owner, and plonked down in a
jokester4079 . 11y ago I was at a party with a bunch of friends. There was a girl who was feeling ill so we went upstairs to help her relax. Long story short, it turned into an exorcism and two big guys were needed to prevent her from hurting herself and even they had trouble with it. - Award Share 1.5K ...
Hollowpoint_Hernande 11y ago Edited 11y ago | was hanging outside of my apartment with my buddy while he was smoking and my neighbor comes out eating a peach. Не was looking over his garden and complaining about the squirrels eating his tomatoes, when he spots a furry devil sitting on a fence about 15 yards away. As he finishes his peach he chucks the pit at the squirrel and freakin nails the sucker right on the noggin. The squirrel has a sort of seizure or stroke and falls off the fence and dies instantly. The best part is my neighbor's
lamUdaman 11y ago Edited 11y ago Sitting in a school cafeteria during lunch, one of the seniors starts clapping for his friend, their table joins, so does the next table. In ten seconds, the entire lunch room of about three hundred people is clapping and cheering in a huge roar for a reason nobody can explain. Then in unison, the entire room just stopped, there was a moment of silence, then everybody burst into laughter. The principal, who was having a conversation during the clapping, looked up in utter confusion when the entire lunchroom laughed at once. Edit: so apparently
BlakeClass - 11y ago | watched my neighbors house burn down. It was surreal. There is no way to describe the magnitude of emotions and shock of seeing something there for seven years and gone in two hours. I can still feel the heat when I close my eyes. It felt like you had a blow dryer in your face even though we were sitting on our deck 100 feet away. I've seen fires on tv. It was nothing like that other than looks. I felt terrible for the family, but from a clinical standpoint, seeing that big of a
jordanrevenge 11y ago My sister and I were driving to Clearwater FL from St. Pete one day and traffic on 19 is always crap with the stoplights. Well the car two ahead of us kind of throw/drops this bundle on the ground. Well the woman in the car in front of us gets out and picks it up, it's a freaking baby. The people in the car that dropped it jump out and take it back, and this is right when the light had changed so basically jump in the car and drive off. It made the local news from
gilamnstr 11y ago Threw a house party in high school. Got out of hand as these things do. Couple extra hundred people showed up; large fight/riot ensued and spilled onto the front lawn and into my neighbors yard. My neighbor was a Sensei, owned a dojo and generally kicked ass. Не emerged from his house in during the brawl wearing a gi and proceeded to break his fence in half with his hands presumably as a warning shot. When that didnt work he just started kicking kid ass, laying out whoever came near the perimeter of his property. It was
ox_ 11y ago I was at a cricket match when this happened. Basically, a fielder threw the ball back to the bowler and it happened to hit a pigeon in midair and stone cold killed it. The weird thing was that he just stood next to it for ages wondering what to do then he eventually picked it up and slung it over the boundary. There were an insane amount of pitch invasions that day. One guy ran on to the pitch and laid on top of it. There were loads of fights in the crowd as well. Including one
Danimal1 11y ago This happened to my sister. It was May 2011, and she was living in DC at the time. She was out at a bar when the death of Osama Bin Laden was announced. She saw on TV that there were crowds gathering at the White House and decided to go. Being a photographer, she wanted to find a place to get some good shots of the crowd. She meets a few people and they start talking and taking pictures. One guy offers to help her up a tree, then joins her to take some more pics. About
benybenyking 11y ago . Edited 11y ago Was walking in the hallways at school with my friend, when a kid walks up behind my friend and whispers to him if only I could cut out your kidneys, kid got suspended 3 weeks later for cutting his mouth like the Joker. Edit: | should probably point out that nothing happened to my friend. Не wasn't the one that cut his own lips. - 146 Award Share ...
Skimebo 11y ago When I was maybe 13 or 14, my friend and | were walking down a street not to far from my house. It was a fairly long street and took a good10 minutes to walk from one end to the other. When we were about half way I started to hear a quite hum. Like that of a motor. It gradually got louder and I turned to my friend and he looked at me like he heard it just as confused. We looked around and turned around to see in the distance the outline of an obese
FawkesFire13 11y ago A friend and I were hanging out at the mall when suddenly a dude dressed like Gandalf the Gray appeared out of nowhere and said: we must take the Ring to Mordor! Welp, look, I'm a huge Tolkien fan, I love random shit, so I looked at my friend, she nodded, we went with Gandalf. We traipsed thru the mall with him, slowly gathering six more people who were willing to play along. Gandalf assigned each of us a name matching the members of the Fellowship. I was Pippin. My friend was Merry. Eventually Gandalf leads us
klinonx 11y ago I went out to the middle of the woods in Montana with some buddies of mine. We setup camp, crack open some beers, and decide to go exploring down the road. We walk for about a half hour, and then we start seeing an unusually large number of people camping. Another forty minutes, and we're in the heart of a nest of ten thousand hippies. Just hanging out. In the middle of the woods. That week was easily the most surreal of my life. I climbed hippie forts and did dabs from the top of a 50
dinowerebunny 11y ago | went to the local Denny's with my gal pals after going to a shadow cast of Rocky Horror Picture show. We were all dressed up, corsets, fishnets, platform go-go boots, and I was wearing a bright orange feather wig. We were sitting there, eating pancakes and stuff, when this tall, lanky, disheveled homeless man walks up to our table. Не sits down next to me without any sort of greeting, turns to me and asks, Are you a bird? I said yes. Не then proceeds to take the ketchup and spray it all over the table,
PeriodicTrend 11y ago Several years go I agreed to drive a friend to a Flaming Lips concert. I knew nothing about them but trusted my friends' musical taste. During the opening band my friend positioned himself at the stage while I wandered aimlessly towards the back of the standing room. From the corner of my eye some guy is peering at me from within a room where there are props and lights and some such stuff. It wasn't too long before I got suspicious and was about to relocate when he motions me to him. It was crowded and wasn't
. 11y ago Pulled up behind a car with the license plate UNARMED at a drive-through ATM. Foot comes out the driver's side window with ATM card held between toes. Foot proceeds to work the touch-screen and enter/retract the card, then just drives away. Dafuq. 38 Award Share ... + 5 more replies
Mono726 11y ago | saw a goose fly into a transformer on some power line and burst into a swift fiery explosion, ending in the goose smacking the pavement and the other two geese the first one was flying with wander around the block. 25 Award Share ... + 2 more replies
11y ago I was walking home nice and tipsy at like 2 AM. Residential neighborhood, upscale suburb. Little girl, bout six years old, just hanging out on the street by herself. I was like... um... yo, little girl, you a spooky ghost? Called the cops and they came. Turns out a lot of shit can go on behind closed doors in suburbia, her parents were on drugs and literally didn't give a fuck about where she was. I know that sounds really tame, but imagine being a little wasted in the middle of the night in a total white-bread
boldra 11y ago Sitting on a bench with three friends in the park one night. It's about 10:30 pm, and it's dark. There had been a thunderstorm earlier, and there are leaves and small branches everywhere. We're about 70m from an outdoor stage, which is lit, and we had been too engrossed in our conversation to notice that four girls have sat down in a circle on the stage, but now we start watching them silently, since they clearly haven't noticed us. We watch them light a very small fire and start to chant and sway. We're snickering at the
fracasfish 11y ago Years ago I was driving and stopped at a red light. A woman gets out of the car behind me and comes up to my window. She says I know you have been following me all night! She then reaches in and takes my glasses off my face. She says if you want these back you know where to find me! I sat there, stunned. She got back in her car, went around me and drove away. I tried to chase her but I couldn't see. 15 Award Share ... + 1 more reply
WhatTheFruit 11y ago Didn't happen to me but my girlfriend's neighbor's house went up in flames but when the firetruck came, it never stopped. It drove straight through the house and completely destroyed everything. Brakes just didnt work at the wrong time. - 3.5K ...

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