Most unique, amazing, odd thing ever witnessed!

[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.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by 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.

That is very odd and weird, but also really cool.

[NiceDocter]

I spun my racket before a tennis match to see who serves and it stopped dead on its side! And I spun it hard too..... kind of like that Twilight Zone episode where the quarter landed on its side!

[GasHouseGang]

We used to live in a house located near the top of a hill. Because of its location we had a perfect view of a large area of the city from the backyard. One day I was outside pushing my toddler daughter in a swing on the back patio. All of a sudden there was a loud explosion up in the sky. I looked up and there was a fireball and giant puff of black smoke and I thought, "Why would they be shooting off fireworks during the day?" It was only March and around 5 pm. Suddenly I noticed a wing of a plane spinning in the air near the black smoke and saw another plane heading toward the ground in a corkscrew spin which I watched most of the way to the ground. I stood there in disbelief and then ran inside to tell my wife what I had just witnessed. Later I found out both of the planes were small Cessnas and one had been heading toward landing at our local airport and the other had been descending. Our local airport doesn't have active control and apparently the pilots never saw each other and had a violent collision. There were two people in one plane and a single pilot in the other. Unfortunately, all three were killed in the collision. Ironically, the plane I saw crash into the ground landed on the old condo complex I used to rent and spread wreckage across an 8 block area. Luckily no one on the ground was killed.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

We used to live in a house located near the top of a hill. Because of its location we had a perfect view of a large area of the city from the backyard. One day I was outside pushing my toddler daughter in a swing on the back patio. All of a sudden there was a loud explosion up in the sky. I looked up and there was a fireball and giant puff of black smoke and I thought, "Why would they be shooting off fireworks during the day?" It was only March and around 5 pm. Suddenly I noticed a wing of a plane spinning in the air near the black smoke and saw another plane heading toward the ground in a corkscrew spin which I watched most of the way to the ground. I stood there in disbelief and then ran inside tell my wife what I had just witnessed. Later I found out both of the planes were small Cessnas and one had been heading toward landing at our local airport and the other had been descending. Our local airport doesn't have active control and apparently the pilots never saw each other and had a violent collision. There were two people in one plane and a single pilot in the other. Unfortunately, all three were killed in the collision. Ironically, the plane I saw crash into the ground landed on the old condo complex I used to rent and spread wreckage across an 8 block area. Luckily no one on the ground was killed.

Wow David, that one ranks up there. It is miracle even more people weren't hurt or killed.

[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).

[BobC]

Originally Posted by 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).

Oh wow! I remember being in a bar/restaurant with some people from work and seeing it on TV. That was surreal, can't imagine what that must have looked/felt like in person.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by 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).

I watched the Challenger explosion as a junior in HS. After the fact they put a lot of TVs in our lunch room and everyone was excused from class to go watch it.

I was building a new school building at the edge of town when the Payne Stewart plane flew over us fairly low. It crashed about 70 miles north of us.

I was flying from MSP to AMS. Half way over the northern Atlantic the inside of the plane went black and everything stopped working. You could have heard a pin hit the carpet. Luckily the plane itself stayed flying but the inside electronics never worked correctly on the remaining 4 hours of the flight. That was scary AF.

[sthoemke]

I saw earthquake lights shortly (maybe a minute) before the 1989 Loma Prieta (World Series) earthquake. Then I saw earthquake lights again (at night) during 2014 Napa earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

[Carter08]

To the original OP I also saw the Lincoln assassination video and man was that something else. Couldn’t believe it. Sadly I have never seen anything as crazy as what you saw.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Carter08

To the original OP I also saw the Lincoln assassination video and man was that something else. Couldn’t believe it. Sadly I have never seen anything as crazy as what you saw.

Yes, that video was unreal.

As for my unique experience, I can still remember seeing that guy hitting the car. Being on the far side of the overpass, there's no way he could have seen the car to time his jump to hit it. The odds for what I saw happen are beyond my comprehension. And don't feel sad about not ever seeing something like that. Seeing freak accidents and people getting hurt and dying is not something I would wish on anyone.