Flowing Brook Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I live in a very small town in the middle of nowhere. Today I walked in the bank to cash some checks and saw a Man with a cloth pouch with the straps around his neck. Inside was a mouse gray kangaroo! I though I was seeing things so I asked the clerk. Our conversation went something like this: Me: Hi, What's that? Clerk: Looking at me like I had two heads " A kangaroo." Me: I thought that's what it was I just was not expecting to see a kangaroo. What's the story behind that? Clerk: acting like seeing a kangaroo in the bank is a everyday occurrence. stated " I don't know" Again looking at me like there was nothing unusual about a kangaroo in the bank. So I finished my business and was going to walk over and ask if I could pet it. But he (man holding the kangaroo not the kangaroo:) ) was stepping up to do his banking business and I did not want to appear like I was trying to listen in on his personal business so I left. Still wondering why there was a man in the bank with a kangaroo. Not that there is anything wrong with a man in the bank with a kangaroo. Just inquiring minds want to know. I should have waited outside until he came out so my curiosity could be satisfied. Anyone else have any unusual sightings lately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 This isn't recent, but when I first moved to this town, I was driving along, and there were two huge African elephants, (those are the really big ones, not the smaller Asian ones) just standing by the side of the road. Nothing else in sight. Turns out they were going to be used for elephant rides at a local fair a few days later, but at that time they were just a hangin' out there by the road... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 We were driving down some highway in Texas, between Brownwood and Abilene, and saw zebras in a field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTaelon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Does seeing a bobcat and 3 kittens 50 feet from my window count? I did not expect that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 We saw a camel while driving around San Juan island. She liked to hang out with her llama friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I looked out my window once and saw a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit sprinting across my lawn. Yes, it turns out he really was an escaped convict running from the law! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A naked man on the beach in SoCal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrn Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 While stopping at a stop light and who pulls up next to you but an old man on a moped in a banana hammock. :scared: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 There is a guy who walks around campus with a large snake around his neck. I have no idea who he is because I like to turn and go the other way when I see him coming. I can't wait to graduate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um_2_4 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Where should I start.... 2 guys in a large bank parking lot sitting in a car smoking what looked like weed 2 policeman running through our complex with guns drawn with a K9 cop chasing 2 gang members as we were getting out of our garage (and we had company with us :lol: ) a puppy being stolen out of pet shop right in front of me (police took my statement and all, I was 13) a lion cub brought to my dining table while I had dinner (this was overseas of course and wow was she bigger then I expected) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indian summer Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A moose between me and the beach, blocking my way and walking toward me. I thought I was going to be trampled, but thankfully, it turned off the path into the ditch a few feet in front of me. Scared me witless. Those suckers are tall! But there's nothing exotic about a moose, so maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise. I think it was because it was at the beach instead of in the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 2011 was the summer of the cicadas here in north Alabama. We live in a wooded area; my garden beds are 20 years old, so we had millions of 17-year cicadas come up in our yard and our neighborhood. You couldn't walk around without getting hit by by one. They swarmed in the trees and bushes, and their buzzing was so lound it sounded like 20 lawn mowers. Mom and I would talk on the phone, and she could hear them over the phone while I was indoors with the doors and windows shut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 For years there was an old man who rode around downtown on a bicycle wearing a motorcycle helmet...and a speedo. This guy was old. Like...Methusala or something. When I was a kid there was a man who used to put on a big gaudy crown, a fur lined, purple cape and carry a scepter as he walked through the neighborhood. I have no idea what he was about because my parents told me to stay away from him because he was dangerous. (I think he was arrested a few times). I know he cursed out kids in the name of Christ a lot. There was a man on one of those two person bikes and the second rider was a dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TianXiaXueXiao Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I live in a rural, small town in CA. We have a guy who herds turkeys all over town and another guy who is a nomad with two yaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A moose between me and the beach, blocking my way and walking toward me. I thought I was going to be trampled, but thankfully, it turned off the path into the ditch a few feet in front of me. Scared me witless. Those suckers are tall! But there's nothing exotic about a moose, so maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise. You are braver than I. I'd have turned tail and run. A Moose is considered very exotic in FL, AFAIK, so I'd probably freak out if I saw one. Plus, I'm pretty sure they are dangerous. Oh, we had a large, mountain lion come into our yard when I was little. I remember being on the swing set and seeing all these kids pointing behind me. I jumped off the swing and turned around and across the yard, near the tree line was a mountain lion. Everyone was wondering what it was and finally someone yelled out: Ooh, ooh! Its a lion! At the word 'lion' about 34 kids ran into our house screaming our heads off. My parents came out to look and the thing just walked accross our yard, then bounded away. I remember a sheriff came by later to warn us there was a lion in the area and we were like. "Yeah, we know!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The first time I ever saw a man without clothes, I was about 12 years old walking to the bus stop with my bff and out of the bushes came this man with nothing but a bottle in a brown paper bag! We were definitely not expecting that on a very busy street in Sacramento. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Last month I was driving through town (we live in the middle of the Bible Belt, home to a huge private Baptist University) and there was a man trudging along up a large overpass pulling a massive wooden cross over his shoulder. As in the thing must have been 12/15 foot tall, thick, and HEAVY. Turns out he walks all over the nation (and others!) with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatherwith4 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 One time I saw a man with a pet monkey inside a gas station. (No, he wasn't wearing a yellow hat.) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 While stopping at a stop light and who pulls up next to you but an old man on a moped in a banana hammock. :scared: I had to google " banana hammock" and boy was that an eyeful. :ack2: Yes, I bet you were surprised. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A guy dressed head to toe as Chewbacca just walking on the sidewalk down a major road in the middle of the day. That began our "Never be surprised by anything you see in San Antonio" list. When I was 14 or 15 my mom and I were on the DC Metro and a couple seats ahead of us was a male couple. One of them had the most beautiful make-up I've ever seen on anyone. That was the only feminine thing about him. Full make-up. And then they started making out. Seriously making out. Like very obvious tonsil licking. Seriously, it doesn't matter is you are two guys, two girls, or a guy and a girl. Making out like that in a Metro car with other people sitting around you is just not okay. They got off at DuPont Circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender's green Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 A few years ago we were moving halfway across the country and stopped at a rest area. As I was nursing my 3 month old, we saw a guy walking a pig and a pug in the dog run. A pig and a pug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 One night while driving home from working a very late shift I saw a big cat cross the road, hop up the curb and stand next to an electric utility box. I thought, "wow that is a big cat." The next morning while drinking my coffee, I thought about how bit the cat was and the fact that it was taller than the utility box. While I was in the shower, I thought about how big the cat was. When I had almost finished my second cup of coffee, I realized that the really big cat was a mountain lion. I went over it in my mind a few more times and decided that it really was a lion. I then laughed at my slow thoughts and how long it took me to label it a lion instead of a really big cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Mine pales in comparison, but here it is: Today, in a field, three miniature donkeys of varying colors lined up side by side, watching another donkey, which was watching a pony, all fairly close together. Half hour later, still in same position. I think this time of year equines and bovines brains start baking in the sun and they just stand there, not doing too much. I love this topic! Quite a few years ago when my dh was on his way to work, there was a lunar eclipse at sunrise. He was on a back road and saw two bobcats in a field, one sitting, one lying, watching the eclipse and sunrise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I've seen coyotes, raccoon, and deer in my urban neighborhood. And bald eagles. And owls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuzi Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 My mom needed to drop off something at my HS English teacher's home (she was a teacher herself) and she had me run up to the door so that she could keep the car (and the AC) running (it was the middle of summer). English teacher opens the door in nothing but a Speedo and I was eye to eye with his rather large nipples and moobs. Still scarred from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbbulliv Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I saw a turkey in my front yard this morning. It was big and funny looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icollectkids Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 We saw a coyote in the back yard this morning. :) At our old house we had beavers, turkeys and deer come into our yard. Once I had to call animal control over a horse that was roaming my yard. (and the school bus was about to unload a bunch of kids..) When we lived in Atlanta I used to go grocery shopping at a certain store in a city called 'little 5 points'. It's like the hub for ....flavorful people. ;) This day I was squatting to look at something on the bottom shelf. Someone came and was standing kinda next to me. I glanced over and thought... wow, nice toes...pretty polish, kinda big toes, though. But, then I kept looking.. covered in tattoos...toes, feet..up the leg. They were wearing cargo capris... When I stood up I see more tattoos.. sleeve tattoos.. and a couple on their head... bald... ;) The fingernails matched the toes.. perfectly manicured/pedicured, polished and rounded and the finger nails were kinda long.. It was a man. The polish was like a deep raspberry color. I have nothing against tattoos.. it was just a very weird combo. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Well, I just ended up having to make a last minute run to the grocery store, which was a nightmare of epic proportions...but that is another story. On the way there I pulled over to let an ambulance and fire truck past. When I arrived at the store, they had arrived in the parking lot and were hosing down a flaming old car parked sideways in the lot. Strange enough, but a woman (most likely the owner of the car?!) was screaming obscenities and slapping at two firemen trying to put out the blaze! She was screaming something about them ruining her car and how she was going to sue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Does a man wearing a dog in a front baby carrier (like a Bjorn or ergo) count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 While stopping at a stop light and who pulls up next to you but an old man on a moped in a banana hammock. :scared: Hilarious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How about a lady pushing a cat outside in a baby stroller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom23Boys Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 We saw a horse at a car dealership. It had been traded it for a car. They then sold the horse. This car dealership used to also cut hair and sell snowballs. All at the same time. So, you could get your hair cut, buy a car and enjoy a summer treat all at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How about a lady pushing a cat outside in a baby stroller? Ha! And I've seen a lady pushing a dog in a stroller in walmart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowing Brook Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 Well, I just ended up having to make a last minute run to the grocery store, which was a nightmare of epic proportions...but that is another story. On the way there I pulled over to let an ambulance and fire truck past. When I arrived at the store, they had arrived in the parking lot and were hosing down a flaming old car parked sideways in the lot. Strange enough, but a woman (most likely the owner of the car?!) was screaming obscenities and slapping at two firemen trying to put out the blaze! She was screaming something about them ruining her car and how she was going to sue! A classic case of no good deed goes unpunished. I wonder what the lady thought her car would be worth if the fireman had not come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuzi Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Oh! I just remembered something I saw at the grocery store about 8 years ago: a 60 or70-something year old woman wearing a red bustier, dazy duke shorts, thigh-high red leather stiletto-heel boots, and enough hair spray and make-up to outfit a dozen Ringly Brother's clowns. Just pushing her cart, looking at the cheeses. There were no words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Ha! And I've seen a lady pushing a dog in a stroller in walmartI saw a lady with a dog in a dog stroller at Barnes and Noble a couple weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannie in NJ Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 once at our old house I looked out the window and saw what I thought was a tiger walking at the end of the street. I called dd over and asked her if she saw the tiger. She said, "Mom, it's a Irish Wolfhound, not a tiger." My excuse is that it was before my cataract surgery. When we moved into our new house in Dec. we were told that one of the neighbors owns a huge pig and walks it in the neighborhood. We have yet to see the pig but at another neighbors Christmas party, the pig owning neighbor came over and introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm Mark, the pig guy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowing Brook Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 I did not witness this personally but the lady that gives me piano lessons that is also a pastors wife told me a story about a lady that brought her two dogs in a stroller to church and to her mothers funeral. The dogs were listed in her mothers obituary as her grand dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 These are great! I can't wait to get old. Don't know if I'll go with the Bikini Biker Gal or the Booted Bustier Grocery Lady, but one of them has to be experienced! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Today on the way home from work I stopped off at Tim Horton's to get a coffee, in front of me in the drive thru was 2 college girls on horseback getting what looked like iced caps. Yup, small town living lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I saw a guy walking down the sidewalk in our local small town wearing a watermelon on his head like a superhero helmet with eye cut-outs. He was also wearing a red cape, but I can't remember what else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 A long time ago, at the Piedmont Arts Festival in Atlanta, I saw a guy walking a goat on a leash. I stopped to talk with him, and he said the goat lived inside his house and was housebroken. When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were taking a break outside. The school was on a brick street, not used by cars. All of a sudden a bunch of police (more than a dozen) showed up, chasing a running man. The cops were on foot, with a couple on motorcycles, and the ones on foot had their guns drawn. I told everyone in my group to freeze -- afraid if we moved, we'd get shot by accident. It turned out that the chasee had just robbed a jewelry store. Still, it seems to me that that was potentially a more dangerous situation than the jewelry could have been worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Many years ago, dh and I stopped at a gas station in Idaho. As we were filling up the tank, a Suburban with a couple of kids in the front seat pulled up next to us. The young teen driver hopped out and started pumping gas. Then I noticed the PONY in the back of the Suburban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How about a lady pushing a cat outside in a baby stroller? I saw her (and her cat and stroller) in the drugstore recently. She was using the self-service photo kiosk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Some of these are :smilielol5: . I can't think of anything particularly strange. The only things I can think of are... Many years ago, stopping in the grocery store late at night. The gal in front of me was paying for a pretty large purchase of groceries mostly all in ones. She was chatting w/ the cashier & said where she worked (a local stripper club). All the bag boys that night were in our lane for sure. Alas, they all helped the stripper, so no bag boys around to help with my groceries. :lol: A turkey (?) walking across my driveway the other day. (This is unusual since I live in a suburban area.) I was leaving the house & as I drove slowly up the street to see where it went (out of curiosity), it started jogging right toward my car. I realize turkeys aren't supposed to be the brightest, but I seriously think he (she?) was trying to bang into the side of my car. The closer I got, the faster the turkey ran toward me. A turkey playing chicken with a car? (The turkey won. I stopped. ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myeightkiddies Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Once at Blizzard Beach (water park inside WDW) I was sitting by myself resting while the family did a group water slide. There were other lounge/beach chairs in the area where I was. A Brazilian family came up to the area, dropped a bunch of bags, and proceeded to change from their swimsuits into street clothes. The father - 40ish - stripped naked just a few feet from where I was sitting - literally 3-4 feet from me. He made eye contact and did a polite smile and continued. All the boys, from elementary to teens, did the same. The women mainly just put clothes over their bikinis. When finished they gathered their bags and left as if this is what they do, which it may be. Being very pregnant and having all of the family's bags and items with me, getting up and leaving wasn't an easy option, and asking them to leave wasn't an option as the man was standing there naked. I'm glad they were quick (sort of quick as he had no problem being naked and rummaging through some tote bags for clothes). I had little else to look at beside the bushes next to me and them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Yesterday I saw my three older kids playing nicely together in their room!!!! .... ;p Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cammie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Ok, as a daily occurrence we have cows and bullocks walking in front of us on our way to the bus stop, or standing in the road blocking traffic. (We live in a MAJOR Indian city!) One morning I had 4 monkeys on the patio - I called for the kids - my daughter had seen it on her window and gone back to sleep!! A little too jaded by life in India I guess! We had a caracal caught in a tree in our neighborhood - a dessert lynx. It had been terrifying the night security guards and we were even on the front page of a local paper for "IT corridor has wild cat in neighborhood." One time coming home we crossed this huge parade with men dressed as leopards and they had elephants and camels - no idea what they were doing or where they were going! We routinely watch guys shimmy up the palm trees in the neighborhood with nothing more than a rope and a cutlass. They cut down all the coconuts so they don't fall on people's heads. Sadly I also see trash piles everywhere and educated middle class people throwing their trash on the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indian summer Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 You are braver than I. I'd have turned tail and run. A Moose is considered very exotic in FL, AFAIK, so I'd probably freak out if I saw one. Plus, I'm pretty sure they are dangerous. Oh, we had a large, mountain lion come into our yard when I was little. I remember being on the swing set and seeing all these kids pointing behind me. I jumped off the swing and turned around and across the yard, near the tree line was a mountain lion. Everyone was wondering what it was and finally someone yelled out: Ooh, ooh! Its a lion! At the word 'lion' about 34 kids ran into our house screaming our heads off. My parents came out to look and the thing just walked accross our yard, then bounded away. I remember a sheriff came by later to warn us there was a lion in the area and we were like. "Yeah, we know!" Not brave at all. I was paralyzed with fear and kept repeating,"oh, bleep! what do I do? " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Many years ago, dh and I stopped at a gas station in Idaho. As we were filling up the tank, a Suburban with a couple of kids in the front seat pulled up next to us. The young teen driver hopped out and started pumping gas. Then I noticed the PONY in the back of the Suburban. We've taken our sheep to the fair in the back of the van plenty of times... I guess we sometimes do get strange looks when we stop for gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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