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What is the craziest thing that has happened in your life?

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Speely

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hobdal

Neo Member
Not as crazy/bad as some of the stories here but I work for a tow truck company in the UK and we work for the local police force, so I regularly attend fatal road traffic accidents to take the cars away. It's just crazy seeing the aftermath up close and personal and seeing the bodies being cut out and taken away. Probably worst one was Boxing Day 2015, family of 3 died in a single car rta when it left the road, hit a tree and burst into flames. Kid was around the same age as my own. Really got to me, that one.
 
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kaname-san

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Something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go -- I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... Suddenly, there was intense light all around me -- and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me...?
 
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Forerunner

Member
Out of all the bullshit I've been through being on a helicopter that was about to crash was the worst. The reason why I rank it the worst because you have no control whatsoever of the outcome. It was all up to the pilots, flight engineer, and the pos aircraft. It was minutes of oh I'm probably going to die a violent death. Everyone on the helo was given an award. I hate that award. It pretty much just reminds me I didn't that die that day.
 
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Hallowed

Member
To the people that bother Jim Carrey and call him the asshole. Sounds like the other way around to be honest.

I'd never ever want to be famous if it meant people bugging me every single time I was out doing stuff.
 
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theofficefan99

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JettDash

Junior Member
Hallowed said:
To the people that bother Jim Carrey and call him the asshole. Sounds like the other way around to be honest.

I'd never ever want to be famous if it meant people bugging me every single time I was out doing stuff.
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I would definitely trade anonymity for a lot of money. I can also understand that some people wouldn't.
 
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LookAtMeGo

Member
Plenty of bad and crazy things have happened but one of the crazier things that isnt so bad that happened recently..

Last year they were doing renovations at my work and there were a bunch of contractors there. I went on break and this dude sitting across from me looked really familiar. So we started talking for a bit about work and stuff. He was doing the drywall there. I said I used to do drywall back in the day on the opposite side of the country. He was like "oh yeah, my son does drywall in that city" I was like "oh cool, whats his name?" And he was like "Derek... or no sorry, Aaron, Derek was my son that passed away"

I just looked at him for a minute and was like "Joe? Is that you?" He looked at me like what the fuck!?

I was like "Holy shit Joe! Its me!"

Took him a minute but then he lost his shit. It was my best friend growing ups dad who after my friend had killed himself, he ran away suddenly without saying anything to anyone and nobody had heard from him in about 15 years. People had given him up for dead.

He hugged me and had a good cry and we met up for beers later that day. Just nuts that everyone had given him up for dead and I just bumped into him on my break at work like 7000km away on the other side of the country 15 years later.

I called his other son who is still a good friend of mine and told him about it.

I dont really know if I should have said anything. My friend didnt seem to give a fuck. Actually seemed pretty angry. Cant say I blame him.
 
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Spoiled Milk

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kaname-san said:
Something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go -- I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... Suddenly, there was intense light all around me -- and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me...?
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You pulled an all nighter and drove home during sunrise
 
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Baron Doggystyle von Woof

Member
We were driving in Turkey on an empty highway around 5 in the morning. When suddenly someone hit our car. It was two guys trying to make us stop. My father knew this was going to be a robbery or worse and kept on driving.

One guy in the driver seat pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot if we would not stop. My father still kept on driving of course and they started shooting. This is while we are driving 120km per hour on the highway.

Suddenly they fall behind. However they shot our tire and we had to make a stop after a few km's. The fear of them coming back the following 20min or so was surreal.

We called the police immediately and a nice truck driver passing by stopped to see if we were oke.

Later we found out that the guys crashed their car and escaped on foot. They later found them sleeping in a barn of a farmer who called the police.

They were high on drugs the whole time.
 
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BrhysH

Member
I was working at place that was raided for drugs. Thrown to the ground by Swat.. That was fun I was 20 and my boss rented out a garage. As you can imagine that was my last day.

I also cleaned a Semi and guy sat in for 3 weeks after his death. Not a fun experience also under the same boss...
 
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JustSomeone

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Boy Wander

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Dishwalla said:
Yea but it's also pretty nice to judge me for something that happened over a decade ago. Never said I wasnt an asshole for doing it you know.
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It's crazy in the literal sense though rather than the wacky sense. You're probably very lucky that you didn't kill someone and your life would have been over. Also, you said "at least I can say I did it", which sounds like a boast.
 
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WhateverItTakes

Banned
There was one night me and my brother were talking to a couple people in a pub, one was talking big game about going to Australia to do some dangerous drilling work for big money. Coincidentally as we left we walked into another mate of ours that doesn't live in our town. Then he and the guy we just met said muted hellos as if they knew eachother. Turns out he was the guy our mate bottled over the head a few months ago.

That was a fun little evening of escalation. Surprised they seemed alright over it. Not particularly crazy as such but I had fun with it.
 
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13ruce

Banned
At 11 years old being raped by teenage "male friends" and i am a male...

Yeah that was no fun i thought it was normal as a kid but as i grew older i knew it was not.

I moved on tho and idc anymore about it.
It probably explains why i was more quiet for some years after i normaly was a up beat child/person due to my adhd after that not anymore for several years.

My mother sister etc don't even know this and i never told em and probably never will....never told it to anybody at all.

I am hetero btw but that experience did hurt my trust in people for some years. Now i am fine tho personally.
 
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Wollan

Member
9/11 was pretty crazy even though I was on another continent (got a phone by a friend while at work after high-school, thought it was a prank until I got home).

Some Somali immigrants gave me a slight beating after stealing my phone.

My sister calling me being hysterical and sharing the news that my brother had a terminal brain tumor. Turns out was not lethal and he successfully removed it (losing hearing on one ear but still totally fine).

Working in Oslo on the day of the July 22nd Breivik massacre.

Getting married in France and holding a 30minute speech including singing (despite being afraid of stages/crowds).
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
- generally living through the 80s under the threat of nuclear war as a teenager wasn’t much fun.

- at university I was semi friendly with this blonde girl who lived in the basement and had biker gang friends. One night I got very drunk and accidentally bumped into her, and she fell into some bikes in the hallway, getting a tiny scratch. Later that night her biker friend came by to look for me and punched me in the face. I ran and hid in a wardrobe upstairs for ages hoping he’d not kill me, until other housemates returned and made him leave.

- at work finishing off a game we were in crunch mode, and the developers had come over from Russia and were basically living in our offices on a diet of pizza. Director of the company came in on one of the last days offering speed to anyone if it’d help get them through the night. It was done out of love :)
 
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UnluckyKate

Member
I died for 4 minutes when I was 20. Heart procedure gone wrong.

A year and a half later, I travelled 10 000 miles in secret to surprise my girlfriend and spend the 2 best weeks of my life with her.
 
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Spectone

Member
Once I went to visit my sister when she lived in Townsville. We went one weekend up north to visit Hinchinbrook island. We were on this charter boat going to the island when heavy fog came down and the captain got stuck on a mudbank out in the water. We waited for ages for another boat to come and rescue us and when it arrived we had to jump out of our boat and wade to the other one because of the mud bank. We didn't really think about it the time but shallow waters off the coast of North Queensland have crocodiles. Years later I read in the newspaper about a croc being caught just south of where we were stuck.

We decided to keep going to the island to see it but we got bitten by sand flies, also back on the mainland our tent leaked. We did however get our money back.
 
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Dishwalla

Banned
Boy Wander said:
It's crazy in the literal sense though rather than the wacky sense. You're probably very lucky that you didn't kill someone and your life would have been over. Also, you said "at least I can say I did it", which sounds like a boast.
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Didn't know there was a distinction, figured crazy was crazy. I mean yeah of course I was lucky to avoid death, either on my part or the part of a total stranger, thank my lucky stars nothing bad resulted from that. Also if I am boasting it's from the position that, even though it was dumb, I did it once and therefore have no need to do something that stupid again. It may not have happened immediately after the event, but between then and now I learned a lesson, to not be that stupid. You could argue that I should never have done it in the first place and that I lacked critical thinking at the time, but like I said that was over a decade ago. It's well in the past, nothing can be done about it now.
 
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vsMIC

Member
suicide of my dad when i was 12

techno in the early 90ies

death of a friend following drug abuse

finishing my bachelor as year's best in my state/course

the digital age

birth of my daughter, now 2 years old
 
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GeordieMark

Member
Craziest thing I've ever been through was giving evidence at a murder trial. It's something I never thought I'd have to do, and I hope I never have to do it again.
 
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kubev

Member
My mom shot and killed her second husband (not my dad) while he slept in 2009. Not necessarily the worst thing that happened that year, but definitely the craziest, considering the fact that I always considered my mom to be the family member who was least likely to kill someone prior to that. And the fact that I'd called her TWO DAYS PRIOR for Mother's Day, and she seemed totally fine.
 
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megatronium

Member
Too many to list. Felony DUI and 2 yrs prison, seeing step dad's suicide, rape by babysitter, branded into gang... There's much more.
 
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tonysidaway

Member
This thread has become rather dark. I don't want to show disrespect for those who here record their terrible suffering, but I think we should also feel able to record the brighter things.

First, the eradication of smallpox. A deadly disease that killed over a third of those infected and left most of the survivors with disfiguring scars, smallpox was estimated to have killed two million people as recently as 1967. It was completely wiped out by a global campaign of vaccination, and there have been no recorded cases in the last 40 years.

Second, the sexual revolution. When I was a young man it was illegal for me to have sex with another man until we were both 21 and then only behind a locked door, though I could have sex with a woman as long as both of us were over 16 (and no need to put a lock on the bedroom door). Over the past 20 years the age of consent has been equalised and in the past 5 marriage has also been equalised. That's an amazing and wonderful change for millions of people.
 
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ffejeromdiks

Banned
I never really made many friends online, but there were two friends I met over a decade ago via vidya gaems, and the three of us were super tight, best friends for about 13+ years

We were close enough to meet up multiple times over the years, each of us talking turns driving to their respected state, no easy endeavor given the distances.

For whatever reason though, one committed suicide, and very recently the other died from cancer. I've felt a profound sense of emptiness ever since, and I've never really been sure how to deal with it.
 
Astral Dog

Astral Dog

Member
kubev said:
My mom shot and killed her second husband (not my dad) while he slept in 2009. Not necessarily the worst thing that happened that year, but definitely the craziest, considering the fact that I always considered my mom to be the family member who was least likely to kill someone prior to that. And the fact that I'd called her TWO DAYS PRIOR for Mother's Day, and she seemed totally fine.
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What happened to your mom? o_O
ffejeromdiks said:
For whatever reason though, one committed suicide, and very recently the other died from cancer. I've felt a profound sense of emptiness ever since, and I've never really been sure how to deal with it.
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Im sorry loosing two best friends like that, life sucks
 
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kubev

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Sub Boss said:
What happened to your mom? o_O
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After? She's serving a 65-year prison sentence. It was considered to be premeditated, since she'd purchased a freezer prior to killing him. She left the body in the garage for a couple of days. She couldn't fit him into the freezer, and she was considering dismembering his corpse with an axe to fit him in there. Thankfully, she stopped short of that prior to turning herself in, but yeah, she confessed to all of it.
 
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gamz

Member
kubev said:
After? She's serving a 65-year prison sentence. It was considered to be premeditated, since she'd purchased a freezer prior to killing him. She left the body in the garage for a couple of days. She couldn't fit him into the freezer, and she was considering dismembering his corpse with an axe to fit him in there. Thankfully, she stopped short of that prior to turning herself in, but yeah, she confessed to all of it.
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Holy shit dude!

Jesus! Do you still talk to her and/or see her?
 
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kubev

Member
gamz said:
Holy shit dude!

Jesus! Do you still talk to her and/or see her?
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I did for a while, but I really ceased to get anything out of it. It's basically like talking to someone I don't really even know, and her opinion of some of my other family members is so damaged at this point. Her second husband was really controlling (not unlike my dad when they were married), apparently, and I feel like he filled her head with a lot of bogus information about other members of my family. I'm sure that it'll come off as callous, but it's not worthwhile for me to deal with someone like that right now. Plus, I live in California, and she's in Texas. I know nobody in Texas, and I have too much going on to take a trip to Texas for the sole purpose of a prison visit that I have absolutely no desire to undertake.

What's funny is how I heard about it (and how anyone in the family found out about it, for that matter). Apparently, my younger brother's wife was researching our family's ancestry and Googled my mom's name, which ended up returning results that contained information about the shooting. My younger brother told my older brother (who actually died later on in 2009 - yes, 2009 was a terrible year for my family) about it, and my older brother told my dad, who called me and told me about it while I was getting ready for work.
 
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talkingood

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Man, mine is so tame (and kind of corny) compared to everyone else's. I'll probably also sound totally crazy.

A woman I didn't know asked to sit down across from me while I was on break at my job at a local cafe when I was still in university. I immediately "recognized" her as the woman I was going to marry. It was like she was familiar to me but still a complete stranger. I knew we would get married and have children. I can't explain it, it wasn't like I was just imagining that I wanted to do all of these things, it was like I was seeing them and experiencing them in a very abstract way. It was knowledge I had that I couldn't possibly possess.

It was the closest thing to a supernatural experience I've had since I left the church when I was younger.

We were married in 7 months and we now have 3 children. I absolutely adore her and we are almost never apart.
 
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Africanus

Member
Going back to Nigeria to bury my father last winter only to have the following forces conspiring or acting in the events surrounding it.

1. Conniving family members (brothers and sisters) from my father's side attempting to take over his property there and steal the body and the funeral.
2. Army soldiers siding with no. 1.
3. Police men siding with our side. (Minus the 2 my father's family illegally coerced over)
4. Hired mercenaries.
5. Hired village boys of about 20 years old. Armed with knives.
5. Local village people of my father's village siding with no 1.
6. My dead father's own actions mostly taken at the detriment of our family (no will, supporting his family over my mother)

It was quite the strange December and as soon as it was done, I had to take a flight alone back to DC to start second semester of freshman year like nothing happened.
 
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ThoseDeafMutes

Member
School trip in the first or second year of high school. We were going camping on an island a few hours out of the city. When the ferry arrived, there were beached whales all up the coast of the island and we spent more or less the entire first day as a class helping out the locals and tourists who were there with the rescue operations.
 
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vsMIC

Member
vaudevillain said:
Man, mine is so tame (and kind of corny) compared to everyone else's. I'll probably also sound totally crazy.

A woman I didn't know asked to sit down across from me while I was on break at my job at a local cafe when I was still in university. I immediately "recognized" her as the woman I was going to marry. It was like she was familiar to me but still a complete stranger. I knew we would get married and have children. I can't explain it, it wasn't like I was just imagining that I wanted to do all of these things, it was like I was seeing them and experiencing them in a very abstract way. It was knowledge I had that I couldn't possibly possess.

It was the closest thing to a supernatural experience I've had since I left the church when I was younger.

We were married in 7 months and we now have 3 children. I absolutely adore her and we are almost never apart.
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i love such stories!

mine is similar, just at a supermarket and yet only one 1 kid.
 
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Dishwalla

Banned
Another crazy thing that I experienced that involved a speeding vehicle was when I needed an escort while in transit in Djibouti. Some Marine picked us up in a US Government owned Ford Explorer Sport Trac, threw our bags into the bed, and since he was afraid of the truck being ambushed, we sped through Djibouti City doing in excess of 80 mph not stopping for anything, all the while people were standing in the middle of the road. Guy was swerving left and right to avoid people, flew around a Toyota van that was acting as a bus that was crammed with people(also had no windows), and went around a couple round-a-bouts on damn near two wheels. Also saw half decomposed dead bodies and tons of brightly colored plastic bags that we were told were full of drugs sitting on the side of the roads.
 
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Dan1984uk

Banned
vaudevillain said:
Man, mine is so tame (and kind of corny) compared to everyone else's. I'll probably also sound totally crazy.

A woman I didn't know asked to sit down across from me while I was on break at my job at a local cafe when I was still in university. I immediately "recognized" her as the woman I was going to marry. It was like she was familiar to me but still a complete stranger. I knew we would get married and have children. I can't explain it, it wasn't like I was just imagining that I wanted to do all of these things, it was like I was seeing them and experiencing them in a very abstract way. It was knowledge I had that I couldn't possibly possess.

It was the closest thing to a supernatural experience I've had since I left the church when I was younger.

We were married in 7 months and we now have 3 children. I absolutely adore her and we are almost never apart.
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That's beautiful.
 
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gamz

Member
vaudevillain said:
Man, mine is so tame (and kind of corny) compared to everyone else's. I'll probably also sound totally crazy.

A woman I didn't know asked to sit down across from me while I was on break at my job at a local cafe when I was still in university. I immediately "recognized" her as the woman I was going to marry. It was like she was familiar to me but still a complete stranger. I knew we would get married and have children. I can't explain it, it wasn't like I was just imagining that I wanted to do all of these things, it was like I was seeing them and experiencing them in a very abstract way. It was knowledge I had that I couldn't possibly possess.

It was the closest thing to a supernatural experience I've had since I left the church when I was younger.

We were married in 7 months and we now have 3 children. I absolutely adore her and we are almost never apart.
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Wonderful and gave me chills.

Always a sucker for a good love story.
 
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