Wierdest thing You've seen outside?

Down the Amazon River we came across the Bora Indians. Walking around the little village I saw two very strange things....

Vollyball net
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Elmo, I think!
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Crazy Spider
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As I sat in a surplussed Deuce and a half outside Camp Wesley Harris in 1971, I looked out to see what was shaking the crap out of it. A very tall, hairy, man-like creature grabbing the ribs of the canopy and push-pulling to and fro.
 
bowieman said:
Wtf??????????
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Fiddleback said:
I saw two Hatians wollup a shetland pony in the skull with an aluminum bat and push it over, dead as a hammer, into a Delta 88 while a farmer screamed bloody murder at them for "murdering" the pony he sold them.
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Andy...might have been folks from Tonga. Pony is a delicacy.

Literally, 40 years ago, read one of those articles that lodges in your memory, this one from the front page of the "off topic" column of the Wall Street Journal. It described an event much like the one you saw, wherein the seller asked what the folks...big guys...NFL size...wanted the pony for. "My daughter's birthday," was the response. Seller went "awww" or something like that. Made the deal. Walked the little Golden Mane over to the pickup, whereupon on man did the honors with a 2x4. Loaded it up and drove off.

Guy called the cops. They tracked the animal abusers down. They were having a young girl's birthday party, relatives, streamers, cake and candles, the works.

Pony was a treat in their culture. No charges, as I remember.

One of the "hooks" to my remembering was the headline:

"Tongan Chic".


truestory
 
I went looking for water once, on the north-west corner of Scotland. I found a stream, but my water filter had packed up so I followed it up to the source to get it clean.

In the little pool where it was bubbling up, where I had planned to fill my bottles, was half a dead sheep.

A dead sheep is not very unusual, but, just the top half??? It was severed apparently quite cleanly exactly half way, looked to have been that way only a couple of days.

The worrying thing - what had eaten the other half???
 
sodak said:
Probably only 2 people will get this joke from your 2nd picture, but here goes - Winston tastes good - (like) AS a cigarette should!
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Ya gotta be old to remember that one. Heck, ya gotta be old to even remember cigarette commercials on TV in the US.

Stitchawl
 
I saw the biggest mo fo mountain lion on my property in Colorado
It looked like the size of a tiger
I am still afraid of running across it

There is this trail through some tulle stalks
It's like a tunnel
I ran across the mother lode of all antelope skulls and bones
Something big was chowing down

I think there is a bear that lives nearby and he lies in wait along the trail
Either that or it's the mountain lion
I'm too scared to walk through the tulle's on the trail now
 
weirdest thing i've seen was a naked guy and i saw some type of owl swoop down and snatch up a kitten
 
Doesn't look like a bagworm, as they aren't covering the branches in an envelope pattern. There are primitively unsocial species of spiders that are down there.

Bear that spider isn't weird. You just have to know how to rub it right. We have 'em here too.

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How about the weirdest thing that I have heard or sensed, (I will try to keep this brief.) Driving a truck along highway 101 between Forks Wa, and Port Angeles, it's dusk. It's a long stretch of road out in the middle of nowhere.Anyway, I pull the truck over on the berm and go into the tall brush to take a p**s. I get this very weird feeling that someone is watching me and nervously I call out "is there anyone there".( now again, this area is very remote, just off the highway). within a minute something starts to crash thru the brush, making a lot of noise just yards ahead of me. I can't see anything thru the thickness in front, and with racing mind with all senses at full strength I thought that I had startled a possible elk( whatever it was, was very heavy), but I have yet to see a bi-pedeled elk.it was moving heavily footed away on Two Feet! ( i just could feel it under the soles of my feet.)and by now I was running back to my truck to get the hell out of there!. Now I didn't actually see anything, and I have been trained in the scientific thought process,(heavy on biology). I don't believe in(I think) susqautches. But that sense of being observed was the creepiest feeling I have ever experienced in the forrests/wilds.
 
Out at the coast past Forks and La Push this summer, I saw a pure white fawn. The doe had a pair of new fawns, one brown, one white. Very odd to me.
 
Oh! Once, I was out on forest road 72 (I think) past Greenwater, and I drove to the top of this mountain. At the top, there is this completely weird guy sunbathing in a black man-thong. As I reach the peak, he starts sprinting to his old VW van, and I'm about as surprised as he is to find anybody else out there. I flipped a U-turn and gtfo before anything weirder could happen
 
On a mountain trail in Papua New Guinea, I once saw a man wearing half a basketball on his head as a hat.

This summer I had a bald eagle drop a halibut tail on my picnic table.

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2 things in Panama:

1) I saw an indigenous guy paddling a dug out canoe, wearing just a loin cloth.......with a cell phone clipped on his loin cloth.

2) I came across an Ocelot in heat and the thing pissed on me.
 
I saw a squirrel eating a crow once, he was holding the crow's head in his front paws and nom nomming on it, ripping chunks of meat off, and was covered in the bird's blood, like something from a slasher movie. The blood-thirstiest squirrel ever!

I was hiking in Montana once and a stumbled upon a baby moose. I was about 5 feet away. I remember thinking, "oh look, a baby horse- hey wait, that's not a horse!" Suddenly I heard some big crashing coming towards me, fast. I've never run so fast in my life. Luckily, momma moose didn't give chase, she just got between me and the baby and realized I wanted no part of either of them. She sort of bellowed at me, it was very creepy. That thing was freaking HUGE.
 
A friend with early stage hypothermia physically attack me. He was totally bloody minded determined. In a different scenario I think he could have done someone a lasting damage he would have regretted for the rest of his life, albeit short 'cos he couldn't have got himself out. Happily, he found my reasoning direct and irresistible and we fixed it, but I think he'll carry a modicum of shame over that forever. Yeah, strange thing hypothermia.
 
Two Sundays ago I was coming back from a walk in the cornfields and as I walked by a downed log a rabid racoon came for me from about 3' away. Luckily its motor skills were impaired-acted like it was drunk--I screamed like a woman and hit 90 mph in about a stride and a half and didnt slow down until I hit the back porch and grabbed the 870. I went back and the thing came for me again from about 30'.--VERY AGGRESSIVE! Three round of 00 buckshot took care of it but I had so much adrenaline cranking through me I thought I was going to puke.---Had a very aggressive goshawk come for me twice when I got too close to its nesting area in the spring. They ended up closing the trail for the season--KV
 
Yea, it was a coming of age party for the man's son. THe farmer called the cops. They didn't press charges. What did he think was going to happen as they led the pony over to the trunk of the Oldsmobile? I'll tell you, it looked funny as hell with the trunk tied shut and legs sticking out all over the place.
 
I was working on a rocking horse in south Texas. Nearby was a wide drainage ditch where alligators lived. A stray dog moseyed up and tried to cross the drainage ditch. A gator took a swipe at the dog and the dog jumped straight up about 6 feet, made a 90 degree turn in mid air, and landed safely on the bank.
 
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