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35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
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35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted

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Have you ever encountered a situation where you had to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming? It’s likely safe to assume that most of us have; from the most random events out on the street or cartoon-like happenings at home, some moments couldn’t have felt more absurdly surreal if they were scripted.
Members of the ‘Ask UK’ subreddit recently discussed such instances after the user ‘Confident_Leg2370’ asked them what was the funniest yet most surreal moment they’ve witnessed in their lives. Their answers covered everything from slipping on a banana peel to watching a person walk their pet pig on a leash, and so much more, so we put them on this list for you to enjoy. Scroll down to find more of their unbelievable stories and make sure to upvote your favorites.

#1

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Sat down on the tube and this bloke takes one look at me, whips out an HB and a sketchpad and starts scribbling away, glancing in my direction every few seconds. Whenever I look over he angles it away from me and avoids eye contact. Every time I look away again he's back on the sketchpad.
At Camden Town he stands up and gets off the train. By now I'm just staring at him. He steps onto the platform, turns around so that he's looking square into my eyes with this look of absolute seriousness. Just as the doors are about to close, without breaking eye contact, he raises the sketchpad. It's me, stark naked, under a palm tree, with an absolutely massive c**k.
214points

#2

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Down in England for a friend's wedding, all the big hotels were super expensive so I booked into a b&b. From around dawn, I could hear a quiet voice outside cycling repeatedly through every swear word in the dictionary. I spent the next few hours in and out of sleep trying to make sense of it, when I got packed up and ready to leave I noticed an apiary. Inside was a parrot who looked me straight in the eye and said 'you f*****g bastard'. Mystery solved!
198points

#3

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Me and the Mrs just left the Guinness Factory in Dublin and then a baguette just fell out the sky, landed right in front of us… a baguette 🥖
152points

#4

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
I saw a pelican scoop up a chihuahua in Australia and swallow it. The lead was handing out of it's mouth, whilst a little old , very Australian lady tried to beat it with her purse.
It was very surreal.
145points

#5

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
I legit slipped on banana peel.
When my kid was around 1yo, we went to my parents house. My wife and mom were giving him banana. Peel was on table and he was waving his arms when he saw me and somehow he threw banana peel on ground from table. I didn't saw it. I was walking past the table to get into kitchen and slipped on the peel. I fell down exactly how it happens in cartoons.
131points

#6

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Was in Asda doing some shopping when some lad dressed as a clown zooms past riding one of them tiny little motorbikes, being chased by about 10 members of staff. He tries to go around a corner and down an aisle but because he’s absolutely caning it, he skids and crashes into a shelf. Then he gets up and runs out, leaving the bike behind. What was nearly as surreal was that most of the other shoppers didn’t even seem to notice or care what had happened, people were just stepping through the wreckage casually taking items off the shelf.
Another time I was on a pub crawl, about 7 or 8 pubs in we get to a really rough pub. Bloke comes in wearing a pirate hat with a parrot on his shoulder and orders a drink as the parrot repeatedly shouts ‘c**t’. Nobody says anything. Must be a regular because nobody even batted an eyelid. Bought my drink, went into the beer garden, spot my mates at a table and there’s a Shetland pony stood next to them.
127points

#7

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
I think it was during lockdown, I was feeling rather glum about the whole thing, when suddenly some bloke on a bicycle with about 20 mirrors on it rode past my window with the theme tune from Airwolf cranking out of a speaker and I just died laughing.
He came past every day after that, then just as quickly as he appeared, when lockdown ended I never saw him again.
114points

#8

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Cycling along last week, I saw a vicar park his car, get out and trip over the kerb, falling flat onto his face into the grass verge. He didn't put his arms out, or even register that he was falling, just smoothly transition himself from vertical to horizontal in a perfect arc. It was hilarious.
112points

#9

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Said it before, will say it again.
3 wheeler driving in the middle of a forest, with no driver, playing the X-Files theme tune.
This was 25 years ago now, whoever you are, and however you did it, it was hilarious and I've not forgotten.
110points

#10

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Was sitting on a bus in Nth London stuck in traffic,looking out the window. Across the road I see a guy with a white cane making his way along the pavement, everyone giving him space. Coming the other way is another guy with a white cane . In slow motion I see exactly what's going to happen instinctively I shout "look out" (off course they can't hear me, I'm on a bus) everyone on the bus turns ton looks at me thinking im a loon, while I watch these two blind guys walk right into into each other. I still wonder how the following words between them went .
107points

#11

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Saw a traveller with no top on ride a horse with a rope around its neck down to a Greg's opposite a bus stop whilst I was waiting to go to work one morning. He tied the horse to a lamppost. Popped in to Greg's. Came put with bag of x4 sausage rolls. He ate one. Gave the other 3 to the horse and then jumped back on and rode off into the misty morning.
95points

#12

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
During COVID lockdown in the UK, you were only allowed to go out for a short amount of exercise per day to try and curb the infection rates. That is, unless you had a pet that needed walking, in which case you were allowed more time out of your house.
This lead to some interesting interpretations of the word 'pet', and in my town there was a dude who used to walk a fully grown pig. With a collar and a lead.
90points

#13

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
I once saw a dude trying to carry a comically big piece of mdf into the church he was fixing up. I don't know why he thought he could carry it on his own. He was staggering about and trying not to fall over or drop the board. He finally managed to get through the gate and his trousers fell down. It was like a scene from a cheesy '70s sitcom or something.
89points

#14

My partner and I got a lil fluffy Pomeranian in lockdown, and she had an uncanny ability to find bread when we took her for a walk.
One week she’s finding a full slice of bread every time we take her out, she’s tiny so a slice of bread is massive compared to her body. And every time we have to yank it from her mouth and carry on.
On the last day of the week she’s found her slice of bread as usual, so we snatch it from her and turn back around, then turn to look at her a few seconds later and she has a tortilla in her mouth.
89points

#15

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
We were in Wales at a fayre. There was this bloke wandering around with a parrot on his shoulder. A bloke walks up to him and said,
"Excuse me, can you tell me about your parrot?"
Parrot man just looked at him and said,
"What parrot?" And then walked off.
Us and the bloke just stared at each other, all making sure we'd just witnessed the same thing.
88points

#16

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Police stormed the barbershop and arrested my barber mid chop wtf.
We called it the police interception cut 🤣
77points

#17

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
I came across a guy who was unconscious on the pavement at 2am. While I was poking him a man comes along with a bottle of wine in his hand. Looked like a young professional. He just asks in the calmest voice "Is he dead?". I said no, he said "that's a shame". I was like "do you know him?" and he said "no". So I asked him why he wanted him dead and he responded in the same calm voice "because it would be interesting".
Then he started saying "let's rob him". I was like wtf no and he insisted saying "there's no cameras", I'll split the money 50:50 with you. Honestly felt like I was in an episode of Peep Show.
The conclusion of the story is that he claimed it was the wine talking (didn't fully believe him but ok) but to his credit he did wait for an ambulance with me.
73points

#18

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Sitting outside a changing room in a department store, waiting for my wife to try on clothes, an old man sitting opposite me lip synced the whole of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” to me whilst winking and smiling occasionally.
73points

#19

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
In a similar vain, I can remember visiting a small, and rather dull village with my family. For whatever reason, I chose to sit outside a shop while the rest of my family went in. As I was sitting around I watched a Batmobile speed through this rural town followed by two police cars. I had a hard time convincing them it ever happened.
70points

#20

35 People Share The Most Bizarre Situations They've Witnessed That Felt Like They Were Scripted
Riding the Tube up to a Gig in the early 90s and saw a dishevelled looking bloke eating a Tin of Peaches by tipping them in his mouth, the Train lurches and his Glass Eye pops out and lands in the Tin, without a moment of hesitation he reaches in the Tin, fishes out the Eye and wipes it on his Coat then shoves it back in his Eye Socket.
70points
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