🤯 INCRÍVEL: 38 Times Journeys On Public Transport Took A Wild Turn 😲
If you commute to work via bus or train, the majority of your rides probably feel like a blur. They’re routine and mundane, and most of the time, that’s a good thing. But according to Sustainable Bus, a whopping 81% of Europeans use public transport on a daily basis, so not every journey can be uneventful.
Redditors have been recalling the wildest things they’ve ever witnessed while traveling via public transit, so we’ve gathered their most entertaining stories below. From wholesome encounters to experiences that might convince you to skip riding the subway altogether, enjoy reading through these tales. And be sure to upvote the ones that inspire you to start looking up from your phone while on the bus!
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A few years back I took public transport to work one Friday so I could meet up with friends after work. I always drive into work and this was the one time I deviated from the norm.
I was waiting for the bus and a man came and stood by me carrying a cardboard box. The box started rustling and suddenly a tiny, furry face popped out the top. I couldn’t hide my delight at seeing a kitten at sad o’clock on the commute and squealed like a little girl. The man asked if I’d like to take the kitten – “it’s a nice cat” he said.
I couldn’t resist and he handed the box to me along with some sachets of cat food and off he went. I boarded the bus and tried to figure out what I was going to do with the kitten once I got to work. I worked in operating theatres at the hospital at the time so that was interesting! Hid her in the staff kitchen until my mom could come and pick her up for me. Still got the little fur face.
I was having a really bad day and decided to leave work early. Midway through subway ride home I’m self-consumed and on the verge of tears when a man gets on with a boombox, a microphone and an unidentifiable black box. He then proceeds to serenade the train with the Michael Jackson song “Black or White.” He starts dancing and holding up the microphone to random passengers to sign the chorus. The next thing you know a sing-along has begun and I can’t stop laughing with the stranger sitting next to me.
For the grand finale he presses a button on the black box and BOOM! Bubble machine – bubbles everywhere.
He got off at the next stop.
I once saw a pigeon standing on the platform for the Chicago L train like he was waiting for the train. The train pulled up and the pigeon (perfectly lined up with the door) got on the train, walked calmly down the center isle to the next door, then got off at the next stop.
To find out how this conversation started in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user WaterInCup, who invited others to share their wildest public transportation stories. They were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and share that they began this thread while sitting in study hall bored.
We were also curious about the strangest things the OP has encountered on public transit. “Weirdest thing is just standard NYC subway n****y and mental illness,” they noted.
And finally we asked what they thought of the responses to their post. “The responses were great. I actually was really pleased by how many people responded,” WaterInCup shared.
Weird, but awesome.
Three 6’6″ transvestites having an animated discussion with a 4 year old girl and her mother on the Subway about makeup… during rush-hour.
After the Rally to Restore Sanity, caught a train to get lunch with some friends. Every car is packed, but the one we get on seems particularly boisterous.
An old man with a bible on his lap is spouting off about gays, and their detrimental effect on society. To cover up his malarkey, a guy in his full fatigues is leading the entire train in whatever song he can think of; ‘Row Your Boat’, ‘Wheels on the Bus’, ’99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. During ’99 Bottles, to keep everyone singing, he starts doing a s******r dance for the old guy, to which the whole car goes crazy. It was loud, cramped, and beautiful. The old fella gets off at the next stop.
As everyone is basking in the afterglow of his perfectly human moment, the guy says rather directly “I ship out to Iraq on Monday.” Silence fills the car.
We happened get off at the same stop he did. Every person who got off with us either shook his hand or gave him a hug.
Hope he came home safe.
I have many tales from Miami MetroRail but this is my favorite: During a busy weekday rush hour a man in a suit boards the train and sits next to me. I think, “Great. A normal person sitting next to me for once.” He’s clean-cut, nothing out of the ordinary. A few minutes into the ride, he opens his briefcase and pulls out half a sandwich. I think, “[darn it]. Wish I had brought a snack.” The man meticulously chews the middle and corners of this sandwich leaving it in the shape of a phone….he then talks on his sandwich phone for the rest of our journey.
I got up to offer am older lady my seat at the bus station, she yelled at me to sit down then proceeded to sit on my lap, it was an odd day.
An older man wearing a dress and a hat with tiny american flags on toothpicks attatched to it.
it was a frilly pink dress and no, he wasn’t trying to look like a woman.
he looked like a 50+ year old man in a pink dress.
on the plus side, he was quiet and didn’t cause any trouble.
i would rather sit next to him than the cr**kheads who rode the bus.
Girl, maybe mid-twenties on a Friday night, blacked out – all black clothes, jet black hair, black eye shadow, black nail polish, etc. She’s just standing there holding onto a pole and all of the sudden a mouse or rat crawls out from her bust and crawls up to her shoulder. She gives the thing a kiss and it runs back down and up her shirt sleeve.
One time while riding the bus home from school a little later than usual, I sat down and almost immediately a man came up to me and just took my right shoe off and walked away. It happened really quickly so I didn’t have time to react, but the person sitting next to me informed me that he rode the bus everyday at this hour and that he would return the shoe shortly. Thought it was rather odd.
As the doors on the Metro are closing, I notice this 30-something year old suit guy sprinting towards the train. He full on dives headfirst into the train, his feet passing through just before the doors closed Indiana Jones style. He stands up, dusts himself off, and says “Whoa… thought I was gonna miss that one” to which the entire train just bursts out laughing. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen after taking the D.C. Red line for nearly a decade.
I went to the Imbolc festival a few years ago in Marsden, a village up on the moors in West Yorkshire. We caught the train to avoid trying to find parking. As usual it was fabulous – with parades, fire spinners, the fight between Jack Frost and the Green Man and various musicians including a mariachi marching band (from Barnsley, I believe).
We saw the mariachi band (still in full costume) on the overcrowded platform – they were catching the same train as us out of Marsden after the event – and we ended up in the same carriage where they entertained everyone with renditions of Seven Nation Army, Pigbag and Hey Baby. The train was literally bouncing with people dancing and singing. Best journey ever.
Every once in a while I see this guy on the bus and he’s the most [intense] biker looking guy fully equipped with a zz top beard and everything. But he carries a neon green purse. And he struts with it. Like I mean he owns it.
Once, I was sitting across from a guy eating out of a small hagen daaz ice cream container. He didn’t have a spoon, and was using his thumb. After each thumb of ice cream, he’d let it melt in his mouth and then spit it on the floor. Everyone switched to another train car at the next station.
On the bus, a high homeless lady started doing assisted flips (using the hand straps on either side of the bus) while freestyle rapping about how young people should love each other more. There was a couple who clearly liked each other, but weren’t at the stage that they had admitted it yet. She kept telling them to hold hands, and composed them some personalized beat poetry.
Halloween at 1am, some guy dressed as Borat gets on the bus, hits on all the girls in typical Borat style, and then passes out in the corner.
Vancouver buses and skytrains can be pretty odd sometimes.
A weird homeless man wanted to sell me a UFO. I was thinking “How bad could this be? It’s probably a bunch of bicycle parts arranged into a disk.” But instead, he pulled out a Frisbee made of tinfoil. H**l, for five bucks it was worth it.
I was taking the train from the Bronx down to Coney Island and we had a pigeon that rode the whole way.
It just chilled out under a seat and when we got to the last stop it hopped off the train and flew off.
Pretty smart actually, it’s a five mile flight.
Sitting on the Red Line and the lady across from me is eating something out of a cardboard box. No big deal, until she finishes whatever is in it and then starts tearing off bits of the box an casually eating the pieces.
I was riding on the TTC subway (Toronto Transit Commission for all you non-Canadians), one day and across from me I noticed that there was this Asian man sitting with a live chicken in an opaque white plastic bag. I didn’t see much except for the chickens’ claws and this guy was trying to calm the chicken down as he put it underneath this seat because it kept clucking every time the train lurched. At the next stop this young woman goes to sit down beside him and she accidentally kicks the poor chicken and you just hear a big “BAKAWK!” and it startled her, and the guy said “No, no it’s ok, it’s just a chicken” and the look on her face was a priceless “[why?]?”.
You see some really strange things happen on the TTC.
Late night, rural train station waiting for a delayed train home. I saw a bloke looking out of sorts, had a chat with him and managed to persuade him not to throw himself in front ot the train and helped him phone a mate to come and pick him up and take him somewhere safe. Turns out he had some big money problems and I made him promise me and his mate to go and get some support in getting it sorted.
I’d love to say I was being selfless and a compassionate member of society, but I’m going to be honest with you reddit, more than once during that encounter, I found myself thinking, ‘if he does do it then the train is going to be delayed even more and I’ll never get home.’
No idea what happened to him, but I do genuinely hope with all of my heart that he got his life back on track and is happy now.
I was in the back of a [bus] in Laos and a nice old lady got on carrying a burlap sack which she tossed down the aisle to the back of the bus and sat down in front. The bag was next to me and as we rode on, I noticed it moving a bit [and] then heard a hiss. I yelled up front to ask what the sack contained – I was answered promptly with the international sign for snake.
The bag had two live cobras in it, and the fact I was upset about it may have been the funniest thing anyone had seen in years.
I once got on a crowded subway car and noticed that somehow there was still an empty seat left. I was tired, so I sat down without thinking about it. After a little while I noticed that I was getting odd looks from all around. When I looked up, I saw that there was a blood-soaked used maxi pad stuck to the ceiling, directly over my head.
My boyfriend and I were headed to go see the Nutcracker in Boston when a very large woman starts taking her shoes off. We look over out of curiosity and then off come her pants! I couldn’t help but stare because I was thinking “[why?] is going on right now, there is a woman in her underwear” when out of the corner of my eye I see like 6 other people in the car doing the same thing! This group of pantsless weirdos got off at the next stop and rubbed their a**es against the windows of the train. I still don’t understand what happened.
On a bus through Camberwell years ago, my friends and I were sat parallel to a woman quietly singing to and stroking the head of broccoli in her lap.
May seem tame, but I sat beside a lady who read her book upside down for 15 minutes straight. Turned pages and everything.
I once saw an argument escalate until one guy stabbed the other with the smallest blade on the smallest Swiss army knife I’ve ever seen. Best part was the guy that got stabbed telling everyone not to worry because he deserved it and they were settling an argument. They got off the bus together and walked off in the same direction so who knows.
I got serenaded on a train once by an [old man] playing the didgeridoo. He also kept calling me Moyra. That’s not my name.
On a separate occasion, I got asked to be someone’s baby mama in exchange for a laptop. I declined. I already have a laptop.
Once on a subway, there was a guy looking nervously around the car in his seat, then he shouted, “I’m goin back to da future!” And stuck his head and arms inside his shirt for the whole rest of the way until I got off at my stop.
I was standing in a crowded bus minding my own business, when I feel something wet on my right shoe. I look up and see a small boy peeing onto my shoe, the mom just looks at me and directs the stream of [urine] elsewhere. Oh well, at least I got my shoes cleaned.
When I studied abroad in Quito, Ecuador a man sitting in front of me on a bus had a big white chicken sitting on his lap which he proceeded to pet throughout the ride.
Sitting on the bus the guy in the back row was cutting his toe nails with clipper. He was putting the clippings onto a tissue than was spread on this girlfriends lap who was sat next to him.
Worst thing was a homeless guy giving himself a bath with 2 bottles of water. He stripped down to his tighty unwhities to do so and people were staring but trying to avoid eye contact. Also, he used a somewhat dirty kitchen sponge.
Some guy threw up in a empty 2 litre soda bottle. Then looked at the terrified girl next to him and asked if she wanted some. He called her a c**t when she said no and he took a swig of it.
He was pretty scabby and slurring, f****d up on something.
Standing on the platform, waiting for the subway, I saw a man take a pineapple, and start digging into it with his fingers. Once he got to the sweet, yellow, good stuff, he just started flinging it at passerby. I don’t think any of it made it into his mouth. He was just standing there, throwing bits of pineapple at people.
I was on a packed bus returning home from work. Barely any standing room left. Was on my phone when I looked down and saw a creeping puddle slowly reaching the front of the bus. I decided to track it to it’s origin.
It happened to be a guy in the middle of the bus, standing with a pack of people, p**sing his pants nonchalantly. Everyone started yelling at the guy to stop [annoying] . He decides to clean up his mess, he grabs a couple newspapers and works the puddle on his hands and knees, trying to soaking it up.
With his legs and hands covered in p**s, he starts hitting on this terrified girl who looked she was 13. He happened to be in his 40 or 50’s.
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