29 of the Wildest Stories Past Generations Have Shared

‘My aunt ran away from home in high school and met Patty Hearst’
29 of the Wildest Stories Past Generations Have Shared

In between accidentally changing the default settings on their cell phones and watching reruns of Matlock, people from older generations can share some pretty cool stories. Take, for example, the Redditor whose grandfather told them the story of the time he pulled a knife on Frank Sinatra for being overly cocky. The Redditor says Frank Sinatra was a gentleman afterward, showing that when he wasn’t affiliating with mobsters or cheating on his wives, Sinatra was otherwise a gem. 

Along those lines, here are a bunch of stories provided by previous generations, several of which involve physical violence to famous people.

avalanche175 14y ago My great grandfather met a gentleman at a train station. They were bored so they struck up conversation. Knowing the train was going to take a while the man asked my grandfather if he would like to join him for a drink and dinner. My grandfather being laid back as he was said yes. They talked and laughed for two hours. My grandfather during this realizes he never got the nice gentlemans name so he politely asked him. The man laughed and shaked his hand and says Al Capone.
getstonedplaygames 14y ago My uncle is a command sergeant major in the Army (ret). They filmed 'In the Army Now at his fort. Не spent less than 30 seconds with Pauley Shore before my uncle had him removed from the room.
S-hao 14y ago My gramps was decorated during wwll for saving Ernest hemmingway from his mangled jeep after it hit a land mine. Drove the first jeep into liberated Paris. One of seven men in his unit of over 100 that survived the assault on the beaches of Normandy. Guy has tons of medals.
 14y ago I recall my friend's father telling us about how he was at a party and David Lee Roth was there. When they were out on the balcony, he yelled at him to Jump!
Nellienunu 14y ago My Grandfather (a Mason) was at a community event with his Mason buddies when Rick Perry was campaigning across Texas (for governor). A local reporter for the news was asking the general public about how they felt about Rick Perry. When the reporter got to my Grand-pa, Не said, no joke, I think he is the dumbest fucker | have ever seen in my life! This was on live TV and Rick Perry was not 5 feet away.
mikewazowski333 14y ago Iggy Pop tried to kick my dad in the head.
halfascoolashansolo 14y ago My great grandfather almost got court-martialed for refusing to stand up for/salute Harry Truman.
dalderman 14y ago My great-grandfather used to tend farms for a living. Managed fields, stuff like that. One day he was checking on a field before going home for the day and he found a tent set up in the field, so naturally he approached to find out what was up. A young couple had set up camp in the field and were traveling, they said. So he offered to put them up in the barn for the night so that had some shelter, being the nice guy he is. Everything went smoothly and the next day they were gone.
Jacob19603 14y ago Edited 14y ago My uncle was driving limousines in Nashville. Не was at a urinal stall taking a break when John Wayne walks in an starts pissing at the urinal next to him. My uncle looks over at him and exclaims, It's the Duke!  ( John Wayne's nickname). John Wayne finished pissing, look my uncle dead in the eye and turns around. Не says, no, I'm John Wayne. This is the Duke, as he shakes his cock towards my uncle. Then he put it up and walked away.
rolipoliooo 14y ago My great grandfather owned a pharmacy.(1920's) Не routinely had a police officer come in and take whatever he wanted usually candy soda etc. After he stole from my great grandfather he would head to the back of the shop and take a piss in the utility sink. Needless to say my great grandfather wasn't happy about this. So one day he lined to rim of the utility sink with some acidic chemical, and wouldn't you know the cop came in and did his thing and headed to the backroom. a couple seconds later my great grandfather hears
walnutwhale 14y ago My father saw Miles Davis in concert in Detroit. Не was a huge Miles Davis fan and hadn't seen him in six months - in a pause in a song my dad stood up and screamed I'VE BEEN WAITING 6 MONTHS TO HEAR YOU DO THAT, MILES! and Miles Davis screamed back SHUT THE FUCK UP, WHITE BOY!
burstaneurysm 14y ago My great grandfather pulled a knife on Sinatra. Не was a stagehand working in Chicago and Sinatra was there. This is right as Sinatra started getting big, and he was incredibly cocky and though he owned the theatre. My grandfather and the other stagehands felt differently and one night, they cornered him, my grandfather pulled a knife on him and said Listen, you little shit, this is OUR house, don't forget it. Frank was apparently very cooperative after that. My father (also a stagehand) killed the stagelights on Frank Zappa during a performance. Zappa went on this
inuclear_thundercane, 14y ago My grandma told me this story about my father who grew up in a big house with 7 brothers and 2 sisters. They all played sports and one day they go to school to play lacrosse and when they get there, they realize their dog followed them all the way there. None of them wanted to walk him all the way back home. So then my grandma was in the kitchen and sees outside a taxi pulled up and the dog jumped out. Instead of walk the dog home, they called a taxi and had my grandma
jpow33 . 14y ago My Dad once had to step over a passed-out William S. Burrows in order to get into the club where Tom Waits was playing. Не still has no idea how cool that is.
 14y ago general douglas macarthur told my boyfriend's grandfather to, get the fuck out of the way! during world war I. 4 ...
checkmike 14y ago My dad played Yahtzee with George Thorogood.
remvegas 14y ago A drinking buddy of mine spit in Billy Idol's face at a show in a punk club in London when my buddy was only 8 years old, Billy Idol stopped the show yelled who the fuck just spit in my face my buddy Gordon screamed I did you TWAT and Billy Idol proceeded to jump off stage and try to fight an 8 year old.
emmyshangalang 14y ago My Mum met George Michael in London and called him a wanker. | have so much love for my Mum.
 . 14y ago One of my late grandfather's good friends was a B-24 tailgunner in WWII. Не flew a number of combat missions over Germany and is now quite hard of hearing because being cooped up in a safety-glass pod with two blazing .50 caliber machine guns in between four prop engines for enough time will do that to you. During one mission, however, he noticed a white somewhat triangular object cruising along some distance away, and he recognized a Luftwaffe cross on it. Before he could even turn his guns toward it, it banked right and shot off
snarfbarf 14y ago Bill Clinton grabbed my grandmother's ass at a campaign rally.
semisomna 14y ago My aunt ran away from home in high school and met Patty Hearst while she was with the Symbionese Liberation Army.
That_Baker_Guy 14y ago my grandfather once told me that elvis used to get drunk at the bar he worked at and he had to carry him out back once he passed out. i beleive him we live in Memphis and he grew up in rural MS.
AmiableGuy 14y ago After I told my dad I watched Some Like it Hot. Dad: Remember that hotel they stayed at? (actually the Hotel Coronado in California, not in Florida like it says in the movie) Me: Yeah... Dad: | lived in the bushes in back of that hotel for two weeks.
venividivici98 . 14y ago My great-grandfather (a first-generation Irish immigrant) was a fiddle player in a large band. So they were playing at a club, and some drunk asshole started a fight in the crowd. Somehow, the fight got up to the stage, and my great-grandpa broke his fiddle over some guy's head. Knocked him out cold. They then glued it back together, and the concert continued. TI;dr: My great-grandpa knocked a guy out with a fiddle.
Sealkitten 14y ago My grandad, all five foot nothing of him, had 2 pet tigers. Не was posted to Malaya during the Malayan Emergency as part of his national service, and whilst on patrol one day he and another soldier found the cubs next to the body of the mother (they suspect she was shot by poachers, but the body was left for some reason). Took them back to the camp, raised them, and they became the mascots for the battalion. When they went back to the UK they took the tigers with them, with one going to London Zoo
 14y ago Badassery story here. My Great Uncle who passed away last year was part of an army division that fought at the bulge, and eventually occupied Berlin after WWII. Не told me two really cool stories two years ago; the first was this: I asked him how close the German lines/tanks were to him when he was at the bulge, and he said if he were to get out of his foxhole they were literally 30 yards away, enough that you could hear them at one point (that scared the bejeesus out of me). The story that |
 . 14y ago My grandfather and his mates lived in a small Norwegian agricultural town at the start of WW2, when he was about 15. They frequently stole cabbage from the Germans to cook and eat at gatherings (these were different times, apparently). Also, the only casualty the town had in the war was a cow stepping on a landmine.
Tramm 14y ago Being a 1st gen American I hear a lot of pretty interesting shit.. Grandparents were actually in Louka, Czechoslovakia during WWII and immigrated to Venezuela while waiting for their American citizenship. My grandfather told me a story about a time that him and his father were walking home to their tenement with groceries, on their way, a group of thieves tried to rob them. They're running their asses off and make it to an elevator and as the door is closing one of the crazies chasing them makes it into the door and reaches at my late
conspiracy_thug 14y ago you can clearly hear my mother whistling above the crowd frequently throughout Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive album. this is the only recording of her voice i have left.

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