Most unique, amazing, odd thing ever witnessed!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

I was at John Wayne Gacy's execution.

Now there's one for the books. How did you ever end up there, since that is something you intentionally planned to attend, and not just a random happening, like Ben and I experienced?

That is heavy!

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by BobC

Now there's one for the books. How did you ever end up there, since that is something you intentionally planned to attend, and not just a random happening, like Ben and I experienced?

That is heavy!

Well I was young......late teens I believe, maybe 20....and pretty sure we heard it on the radio, and were like we got nothing to do let's go check it out.

So we drove about 45 minutes......and when we got to the main road leading into the prison....it was crazy. The atmosphere that is. Almost like tailgating at a sporting event. Music playing, people partying. Signs, oh lots of signs.....and for both sides. Those for the death penalty and for those against.

There was no violence though. Just party-ers, and I guess you call them protestors.

And it approached midnight, or maybe it was to happen at 11pm, but as the time neared. The nuns etc were praying, and the partiers, and if you had ever been to a White Sox game in the 80's and 90's you knew there song "nah nah nah, nah nah nah, hey hey goodbye"......well that's what the partiers were singing that.....and doing a countdown like it was New Year's Eve.

[steve B]

A couple odd ones.

Didn't see the actual accident, but some of the aftermath.
Near my grandmothers house, like the end of her street, a car ended up on someones front porch.
The strange part, is they'd left a bar right at the end of the street. They had maybe 200ft to speed up, hit the curb, clear a 6-8 ft embankment pass between two big trees and land on the porch without leaving any tire marks on the embankment. And the angle to get between the trees didn't really leave any room for a 70's car unless it went through sideways and got back to horizontal before getting to the porch. I still can't figure out how they could have done it.


And a fun one.

I never bought the "it was a reflection off a bird" explanantion for a frw UFOs until I saw it myself.
Heading north-ish on 128, near the old woburn trade center. and there's a light, very bright coming the other way parallel to the highway about 50-75 feet up. Totally bizarre sight. And as I got closer the angle changed and it was.... a starling. Reflecting the sun very well in the late afternoon light.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by steve B

A couple odd ones.

Didn't see the actual accident, but some of the aftermath.
Near my grandmothers house, like the end of her street, a car ended up on someones front porch.
The strange part, is they'd left a bar right at the end of the street. They had maybe 200ft to speed up, hit the curb, clear a 6-8 ft embankment pass between two big trees and land on the porch without leaving any tire marks on the embankment. And the angle to get between the trees didn't really leave any room for a 70's car unless it went through sideways and got back to horizontal before getting to the porch. I still can't figure out how they could have done it.


And a fun one.

I never bought the "it was a reflection off a bird" explanantion for a frw UFOs until I saw it myself.
Heading north-ish on 128, near the old woburn trade center. and there's a light, very bright coming the other way parallel to the highway about 50-75 feet up. Totally bizarre sight. And as I got closer the angle changed and it was.... a starling. Reflecting the sun very well in the late afternoon light.

Those are cool, especially the car accident you described. I've always found and believed truth generally is stranger than fiction!

[Shoeless Moe]

That is very true.

One time in college, everyone went home for the weekend, must have been a holiday weekend. So I was pretty much the only one in the dorm.

So headed over to the Liquor Store, bought a 30 Pack of Little Kings - them little bottles, but loved that beer.

So I throw on I believe the 7th game of the playoffs between I think the Islanders & Capitals, it was in the late 1980's and I'm wasted watching a triple overtime game. If you appreciate playoff hockey, which is always tremendous, or was in the 80's and 90's I should say.

Remember the Red Wings Avalanche games, tremendous.

Back to the story. So I'm watching this great game, drinking Little Kings, and I flip a coin, pretty sure a Quarter. And God as my witness the coin lands on it's side.

I've never seen that before or since. And no one was there to see it.

[Shoeless Moe]

Just Googled it, here it was.....so it was over Easter weekend.

and it was 4 OTs...damn...

If the Bills - Chiefs game this weekend was the best football game ever, this was the best hockey game ever....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhKZ1IjbzIw

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

That is very true.

One time in college, everyone went home for the weekend, must have been a holiday weekend. So I was pretty much the only one in the dorm.

So headed over to the Liquor Store, bought a 30 Pack of Little Kings - them little bottles, but loved that beer.

So I throw on I believe the 7th game of the playoffs between I think the Islanders & Capitals, it was in the late 1980's and I'm wasted watching a triple overtime game. If you appreciate playoff hockey, which is always tremendous, or was in the 80's and 90's I should say.

Remember the Red Wings Avalanche games, tremendous.

Back to the story. So I'm watching this great game, drinking Little Kings, and I flip a coin, pretty a Quarter. And God as my witness the coin lands on it's side.

I've never seen that before or since. And no one was there to see it.

That is cool, never seen a coin do that.

Your story reminded me of High School story. A friend and I were getting a buzz on in his parents basement watching TV. We are talking and laughing and all of a sudden a 1 foot lightning bolt appeared and made the lightning boom. It was about 15 foot in front of us. It didn't start from anything and never hit anything, just in the middle of the room. We went dead silent and gave each other a weird look. After a little silence he said did you see that as both of us was in disbelief.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

That is very true.

One time in college, everyone went home for the weekend, must have been a holiday weekend. So I was pretty much the only one in the dorm.

So headed over to the Liquor Store, bought a 30 Pack of Little Kings - them little bottles, but loved that beer.

So I throw on I believe the 7th game of the playoffs between I think the Islanders & Capitals, it was in the late 1980's and I'm wasted watching a triple overtime game. If you appreciate playoff hockey, which is always tremendous, or was in the 80's and 90's I should say.

Remember the Red Wings Avalanche games, tremendous.

Back to the story. So I'm watching this great game, drinking Little Kings, and I flip a coin, pretty sure a Quarter. And God as my witness the coin lands on it's side.

I've never seen that before or since. And no one was there to see it.

That is crazy! But are you sure you weren't so smashed that you were really prone on the ground and laying on your side, so that when you looked at the coin actually laying flat on the ground from your angle, it looked like it was standing on edge!

Just kidding! LOL Great story.

[steve B]

Very recent weirdness.

The world seems determined to hand me nearly worthless collectibles, maybe it's my destiny?

In fall, was moving some leaves, and found a 1920's? maybe older small vaseline bottle. chipped, and not worth much complete. But it was in the leaves on the sidewalk, had been there a while, and had spent some time at least partly buried.
It "could" have rolled out of my lawn and off the 10" tall curb somehow, but it was right next to the gate, a high traffic area with no washouts.

despite being from the 1880s out neighborhood just isn't the sort of place people walk along with droppable antique bottles.


Then a couple weeks ago, I go to pick up my daughter from school. Right near where I usually stand and wait I see something with that "look and see what I am" look about it. And..... It's a 2 year old HS football ticket stub from the next town over. And it's been there a couple days from the look of it which puts it having been there before trash day when it maybe could have blown out of a barrel being dumped.


I sort of can't wait/dread what the next thing will be.
And yes, I've kept them both. the bottle is cool, and ..... maybe I'm being equipped for some bizarro zomie apocalypse or something.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

That is very true.

One time in college, everyone went home for the weekend, must have been a holiday weekend. So I was pretty much the only one in the dorm.

So headed over to the Liquor Store, bought a 30 Pack of Little Kings - them little bottles, but loved that beer.

So I throw on I believe the 7th game of the playoffs between I think the Islanders & Capitals, it was in the late 1980's and I'm wasted watching a triple overtime game. If you appreciate playoff hockey, which is always tremendous, or was in the 80's and 90's I should say.

Remember the Red Wings Avalanche games, tremendous.

Back to the story. So I'm watching this great game, drinking Little Kings, and I flip a coin, pretty sure a Quarter. And God as my witness the coin lands on it's side.

I've never seen that before or since. And no one was there to see it.

I seem to remember one of the announcers had his necktie around his head, Rambo-style, in the fifth intermission. I watched the whole game. It was classic.

[swarmee]

I watched the Challenger explode from the playground of my elementary school in DeLeon Springs, FL. Back then it was common for us to go out and watch launches. Not after that one (which just commemorated 35 years a few days ago).