Shocking things you've seen on your commute or at work?

downfader

Clever Pun wrote:

Sicknote wrote:

When I was in the TA some years ago, my friends came back from a weekend on exercise telling me that 12 of them where in a ditch on look out and a car pulls up in front of them, and a couple get out and start having it on the bonnet.
With the 12 of them watching just a few feet away.
They all wanted to get up and clap when they had finished but could not without giving away where they were :shock:

They where the enemy that weekend for someone else.

Kicking myself for missing that one :roll:

perfect opportunity for... "turn around" "over here" "Do you want some candy?" predator style shenanigans

Brother's mate does THE BEST predator monster impression.

iain_j

About a year ago - saw some commotion between two men and a woman on the pavement on the other side of the road. Suddenly there's fists, one of the blokes makes a lunge for the woman, don't think it connected but she staggered back and fell into the road, a passing taxi only just missed her.

Me rolling past gets concerned as do nearby pedestrians. Until

woman picks herself up, starts roaring and launches a one-woman cavalry charge back to the pavement and starts beating the sh!t out of the blokes.

I put my head down, hammered the pedals, and left them to it :P

LazyBoycp

fatandwheezing wrote:

I went to the toilet on the train to discover the current occupant hadn't pressed the lock button. She looked mortified, as the close button didn't do anything till the door had fully opened.

I've had that happen too. To make things even 'better', she then pressed the open button again as soon as the door had closed! :shock: :oops:

iclestu

not on my commute but nonetheless fits in well....

A few months ago i visited Birmingham for the 1st time ever.

I had several hours to kill so went for a wander/window shopping/lunch..

In the space of 2 hours i saw:

2 chinese men with a combined age of about 150 kicking the absolute sh1t out of each other* whilst pedestrians wandered past without giving it a second glance.

a tramp(?) having a shave at a city centre fountain

and a streaker being escorted out of the main shopping centre

What a 1st impression Birmingham!

*any 1-on-1 fights I had witnessed previously either involved a single debilitating wicked punch/kick or descended into grappling, but these guys were standing off each other at arms length trading blows :shock:

mtb-idle

amnezia wrote:

this morning an Addison Lee driver performed a textbook over taking maneuver ..
you don't see that every day!

Hah, I thought it was just me. Most of their drivers really don't care about cyclists do they.

Chicane-UK

I just happened to be stood at a bus stop a fair few years ago when a kid started to cross a busy road, and a woman driving along the road in something like a big old Merc just ploughed into him - right there, right in front of me. He just bounced off the front of it and rolled along the road.

He must have been ok as he started to scream and cry (and they usually say that if they make a noise, they're ok - if they're silent, worry!) - the woman stepped out of the car in absolute shock! I don't know how she didn't see him - it was clear daylight, there wasn't that much traffic around... nightmare!

Also a few months ago, happened upon an accident involving a cyclist - must have only just happened. Again, woman had pulled out across a junction (on a clear dry autumn morning) and a roadie had been coming along the road and had ploughed straight into her passenger side wing and gone over.. more worryingly the cyclist was just a motionless lump in the road with a concerned crowd around him, talking to him, etc... I sat in traffic slightly in shock as I often cycle that way myself and realised I couldn't help or anything so turned around and went on my way. Not nice!

The Running Man

Saw a slim attractive woman walking down London Road in Bath last week wearing a really elegant black pencil skirt, beautiful black patent 6" cuban spikes, BUT (be sure you're sitting down) .......

a purple puffa jacket !! :shock: :shock: :shock:

I mean - really - she can't have any friends can she??

Surely they would have said something??

Porgy

I saw a squashed man under the wheels of a motorway maintenance lorry on Shooters Hill 3 years ago lying in a massive pool of blood. Only for a second but it is still engrained on my memory.

And on the day of the 7/7 bombings I just happened to be passing outside one of the stations involved and saw the dazed looking commuters rushing out of the station and wandering randomly around the enarby streets. At the time I had no idea what was going on.

Another time I saw Evil Demon Jack straw travelling through Lewisham - I was cms away from his fat smug face - just a sheet of bullet proof glass between me and him.

downfader

Porgy wrote:

I saw a squashed man under the wheels of a motorway maintenance lorry on Shooters Hill 3 years ago lying in a massive pool of blood. Only for a second but it is still engrained on my memory.

And on the day of the 7/7 bombings I just happened to be passing outside one of the stations involved and saw the dazed looking commuters rushing out of the station and wandering randomly around the enarby streets. At the time I had no idea what was going on.

Another time I saw Evil Demon Jack straw travelling through Lewisham - I was cms away from his fat smug face - just a sheet of bullet proof glass between me and him.

Just reminded me of two kids I knew as a little lad... one was playing on a pavement, a lorry reversed over her wrapping her around the wheel. Only 6. The driver had been trying to reverse in and change direction back onto the main road.

Then a mate of mine who was about 8 at the time was walking home from school when a 4x4 driver (Landys were quite rare back then in these parts) drove through a puddle. Mate was splashed in the eyes with muddy water and stumbled into the road only to be hit by the next car. Thankfully he survived.

Thankfully I never personally saw either incident.

Headhuunter

fatandwheezing wrote:

I went to the toilet on the train to discover the current occupant hadn't pressed the lock button. She looked mortified, as the close button didn't do anything till the door had fully opened.

LOL! I've always thought that would be horrifying! Those big automatic sliding doors that open in trains revealing the entire inside of the cubicle to anyone standing outside by the train door are lethal! As you say, they open slowly and won'tc close til they've fully opened!

chaley

If we're trading grim stories,

I was about 19 and had just popped into toys r us in woking, coming out a bit later and there was a loud thud and a strange sort of noise a bit like a beach ball going down, I look around and see nothing, not until I look down about 10 foot behind me is a bloke laying in the path with a stream of blood coming out of every where! Turned out later his wife had left him, she works in the store and it was about her knocking off time, he'd jumped off the multi story. Some people I ask you, he could have broken my nieces christmas present. I still hear the noise sometimes

Chaley

wgwarburton

Headhuunter wrote:

LOL! I've always thought that would be horrifying! Those big automatic sliding doors that open in trains revealing the entire inside of the cubicle ...

I wash & change on the train on the way to work. I could deal with a door incident but have this niggling concern that the train will need to be evacuated at the point where I'm changing into clean under-wear!
Funny the things that you worry about! :-)
Cheers,
W.

rich_e

Headhuunter wrote:

fatandwheezing wrote:

I went to the toilet on the train to discover the current occupant hadn't pressed the lock button. She looked mortified, as the close button didn't do anything till the door had fully opened.

LOL! I've always thought that would be horrifying! Those big automatic sliding doors that open in trains revealing the entire inside of the cubicle to anyone standing outside by the train door are lethal! As you say, they open slowly and won'tc close til they've fully opened!

Haha!

I remember when I was quite young, and was on a family holiday with some friends and were were taking a train journey somewhere in Wales. The train had push button doors, which was pretty new at the time, and was quite cool. The toilet was actually a really big section, near to one of the exits, taking up about a quater of a carrage, I assume also to allow disabled people access.

As we were queing to get off the train, we were stood near the toilet, with the big button glowing green 'unocuppied'. My Mum and friends Mum asked how it worked, so I explained, then innocently pressed the button. So the door slowly glides open (as the early ones seem slow to todays ones). Everyone including my family is obviously now looking in as we are all slowly revealed a woman sat, oblivious on the toilet, having failed to lock it!

After a few seconds, she suddenly spots us all peering in, and then has to do a weird squat, shuffle thing with her tights around her ankles to get across to the door to press the lock button!

I'm sure it was probably the most embarrasing moment of her life... but then, she didn't lock the door!

iain_j

LOL at the train toilet door stories - I hate using them - you can't even check it IS actually locked because the "open" button on the inside will open it regardless!

It wasn't on a commute, but on a bike ride near Telford I stopped on a bridge over the M54 and spotted a van stopped on the hard shoulder, jacked up, and a bloke lying on his back, working underneath. As I watched he was shuffling about, and ended up lying with his legs over the white line, ie. sticking out into the inside lane of the motorway, and completely oblivious to it. I had no chance of shouting to him because of the traffic noise.

I upped and left; I didn't fancy waiting round to see what happened :shock:

redvee

Been on the receiving end of a loo door opening on the train. Let's just say that I forgot to lock the door on an old train and the door was opened as my jeans were undone by the other, female, person in the toilet with me. Luckily as I was side on to the door nothing was seen/shown to the carriage.

Wallace1492

This has been seen in a shop window on Maryhill Road, maybe one of the most shocking things imaginable (if you live in Maryhill)

Coriander

Wallace1492 wrote:

This has been seen in a shop window on Maryhill Road, maybe one of the most shocking things imaginable (if you live in Maryhill)

What's Buckfast?

Wallace1492

Coriander wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

This has been seen in a shop window on Maryhill Road, maybe one of the most shocking things imaginable (if you live in Maryhill)

What's Buckfast?

All you will ever need to know about Buckfast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

I do like the phrase "Wreck the Hoose Juice"
It is the lubrication of choice for the neds of Glasgow.

always_tyred

My mother lives about 2 miles from the Abbey.

They know not what havoc they wreak.

itboffin

Always Tyred wrote:

My mother lives about 2 miles from the Abbey.

They know not what havoc they wreak.

Oh they know, I have a cycling book somewhere were the author visited the abbey and asked them about their target audience, he was asked to leave NOW

Ignorance is bliss, so says the church

oscarbudgie

Back to grim stories - I once saw a young girl, looked about 19 or 20, kill herself under a tube at High St Ken. Just sat on the rails while the train went over her.