What's the strangest thing you've seen somebody do in London?

Saw someone on their mobile at Waterloo being asked for thier ticket by a transport person and telling said transport person, not now, I’m on my mobile.

Seems said transport person wasn’t happy and got the transport police to take over.

not sure of the outcome, I ‘went on my way’.

Posted over 4 years ago by cobo04

I saw an elderly couple and the bloke was wearing a deerstalker.

Posted over 4 years ago by unknown

I saw a chick on the tube talking to people in a high-pitched voice and pretending it was her rucksack.

Posted over 4 years ago by Beagleskin

Picadilly line during rush hour – I saw a girl get on the tube, sit on the floor and proceed to brush her hair, put on make-up (the full deal, starting with moisturiser, then cover-up, powder and so on) then get changed – hats off to her as she mananged to do it all within a few stops and not flash a thing. Not that I was watching that closely, I hasten to add!

Posted over 4 years ago by snuffles

On Friday night I was walking through Soho when a transsexual person with the most extraordinary fake boobs, which appeared to be decorated with toothpaste and were halfway out of their fairly minimal restraints, lunged at me and attempted to jab repeatedly at my own left boob until I ducked out of the way. S/he was saying something too but I didn’t catch it, due to the running-awayness.

That was pretty strange. It was only about 8.30pm too.

Posted over 4 years ago by agox

Bearsac (and Deborah – who’s actually quite cool if you talk to her) are awesome. I often get the same train as Besrsac in the morning – nice chap, recently had a baby bear.

Posted over 4 years ago by pato

I once saw someone being friendly and polite – r*ddy strange for London…

Posted over 4 years ago by Richo

Yesterday a man pulled up in his car beside me and asked if he could take my photo. Which he did and then ran off. That was odd. I’m pretty sure he only took a picture of my boobs too. But really you have to go to SanFransisco if you want to have sustained and quality oddness.

Posted over 4 years ago by TBird

Pato, Bearsac has a baby bear! That is so cool! I didn’t say she and her bear are not cool, I just found it odd she was talking through her bear. I thought it was fabulous. I rushed home and told my boyfriend who proceeded to be sceptical.

That was years ago. And then a couple of months back he was on a tube on his way home from a match, and someone said “Hello Mr Football Man!” and there they were. Bear and lady, talking away at him. So he came home and sheepishly told me. Hee hee.

Their website is awesome. :)

Posted over 4 years ago by Beagleskin

TBird, you mean he took your photo but left you his car? Result.

I once saw a huge crowd of people in Central London try to stop a military-industrial behemoth by waving placards and chanting thousands of miles away from the action, that was pretty mad.

Posted over 4 years ago by Mockernee

Saw a man open the window of a train and, after a little bit of a fiddle, peed out of the window a minute or two south of London Bridge station.

Also saw a girl (not London this, more Reading area), who couldn’t wait and the toilets were occupied squat down between carriages of a FGW train and pee onto the track in full view of everyone who wanted to watch.

Mind you both of them had a smile afterwards, was it relief or embarrasment??

Posted over 4 years ago by cobo04

I saw a crackhead having a fight with a lamppost in Willesden.

The person was swearing at said lamppost to start with and then the lamppost obviously said something that provoked crackhead further, as crackhead started kicking, punching and spitting at lamppost.

I almost wet my pants.

dont do crack kids

Posted over 4 years ago by Babb

Years ago, Ealing Broadway station on an old district line carriage. After work, about 7pm. Train pulls into station. Bloke in a suit and tie waited til everyone else (but me) vacated the train. He stood up and grabbed a dangly hanging-on ‘knob’ thing in each hand – the ones that hung from the ceiling along the aisles. He pulled on them a bit, then took his feet off the floor to see if they’d take his weight. He then checked left and right to see if anyone was watching (er, just me). He then hiked himself up and performed a sort of backwards arial somersault through his arms, supported by dangling from the ‘knob’ things. Like gymnasts do on the ‘rings’, only this was a bloke in a suit and tie doing it very slowly on district line tube carriage.

He dropped to his feet, picked up his briefcase (yes that’s how long ago it was), and walked away looking very pleased with himself.

now thats what i call the london olympics

Posted over 4 years ago by drunkenbridesmaid

Years ago when I worked in Charlotte Street I used to see a filthy wino nutter in a kilt who would very slowly with his hands folded behind his back walk past the restaurant tables which lined the pavement . He would stare for ages at the people eating and then very suddenly from his sporren produce a knife and fork, he would hold them aloft in full view of his now terrified audience and then drop to his knees and frantically start digging the weeds & moss from the bases of the lamposts, he would then stand up quickly put his cutlery away, stick his chest out and proceed slowly to more victims at the next restaurant. I believe he’s now Mayor of London

kilt nutter

Posted over 4 years ago by HotRod

I saw a man at London Euston gratefully accept a copy of London Lite this afternoon.

Posted over 4 years ago by Strawhair

Damn duplicate posts!

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Posted over 4 years ago by bigbunny

In the summer of 2002, I saw a delightfully mad older homeless woman having a grand time ‘riding’ the Oscar Wilde monument … complete with loud cackling, chatter and what bordered on absolute euphoria.

She never bothered anyone or asked for change … so I just watched for a bit.

Cheap but quality entertainment, that!

Allow me to remind you that the proper name of that monument is “A Conversation with Oscar Wilde” ... so perhaps she wasn’t so mad after all … just a bit literal.

homeless nutter oscar wilde adelaide street trafalgar square a conversation with oscar wilde maggi hambling

Posted over 4 years ago by bigbunny

On Thursday night, whilst wondering whether the third successive train back home would be cancelled, a bloke had a go at the lone platform worker trying his best (not very successfully one might add) to try and appease some rather pissed off people.

This guy was fairly abuse/aggressive, so, not entirely understandably, the FCC staff member went back into his office and shut the door. So the guy walked away, then presumably decided that he hadn’t got his full quota of angry/shoutingness for the evening, so came back and started having a go at me. Apparently the reason the train wasn’t there was my fault.

I was a little scared as he was a big bloke and quite agressive to boot, but I think he soon realised that shouting abuse at another customer wasn’t going to help. A few minutes later the police turned up and escorted him off the station, but not before I’d taken a photo of him; which I then decided I should post on the interweb as suitable punishment:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olib/553340542/

Posted over 4 years ago by olib

On Thursday night, whilst wondering whether the third successive train back home would be cancelled…FCC

Typical…FCC are fascists more suited to running a shit eating contest.

Posted over 4 years ago by pato