20+ Public Transit Horrors We Can All Relate To!

By nick hadji 2 years ago

1. Forbidden Readings

When I first arrived in New York City, I got on the subway with my friends and a tough-looking guy with 3 teardrop tattoos, usually indicating you have been in jail or are a gang member. We sit beside him. A look of indescribable anger filled his eyes for a minute. He looks left and right as though he is looking for witnesses.It's a clear coast. We're sweating buckets because we think we're about to be mugged or beaten up. How wrong we were. He nods at us, reaches into his backpack, and pulls out Twilight: New Moon. Evidently, he wanted to make sure he finished the book before going to see the movie.

2. Ruffling Feathers

He was waiting for his train at the train station. As he waited, he ate a bag of chips. He noticed that pigeons were eyeing his chips enviously. Consequently, he threw out a chip. Pigeons immediately flew down and grabbed it. He then threw another chip. After seeing that nothing bad happened to the first couple of pigeons, several more flew down and fought for the chip.

He repeated this several times, each time getting more and more pigeons to fight for the chip. The train arrived, and the doors were opened. Passengers got on, but the man remained seated. It wasn't his train. It was a truly horrifying plan. As the doors were about to close, the man threw the entire bag of chips onto the train.

All of the pigeons, who had been trained by now, rushed into the train car, fighting fiercely for the chips. Train doors closed, and commuters and trapped pigeons were thrown out.

3. Meeting His Eyes

As a small woman traveling alone as a tourist in LA, I was alone. A homeless man got on the bus and stared me down. I was terrified. I decided not to fight him. I knew what to do. I stared at him. We have a staring contest and start laughing at the same time. We're cool now. Across the aisle from him, my friend silently passes out gum.

Although they politely decline, he just holds out until they accept. And chew. Another passenger feels left out. He asks for some. While simultaneously giving gum to everyone else around him but the dude who asked for it, my new friend pulls the same stare down with the dude. The dude gets furious.

Then he digs around in his bedroll. Holds out a tiny live turtle that fits in the palm of his hand. It is a turtle. At that point, I moved to the back of the bus.

4. Crying For Attention

I was riding a city bus to the university I attended. The bus was packed early in the morning, right in the middle of commute time. A woman sat with her son on her lap. The son would cry every now and then, and she would comfort him. Until he yelped more than cried, I thought little of it. It was then that I realized the chilling truth.

She would dig her nails into his arm until he cried, then comfort him. Although I have heard of parents hurting their children for attention or to seem like good parents, I have never seen it myself. As it happened again, a homeless man got up and got in her face. "We all see what you are doing, but I am the only one who doesn't care what other people think.". Cut that out, or I will fix this."

There were too many people afraid of what would happen to help the boy, it took someone more detached. As soon as I find something that doesn't sit right with me, I try to deal with it right away.

5. Self Dental Care!

On my first ride on the max train in Portland, a guy got on the train with a bottle of Listerine in the middle of the day. The Listerine was making him drool all over the place. "You know Sweeeney Todd? Heeee sliitttt!” while he would make a slicing motion across his neck and a kind of a “slackkkkk” noise.

Each time he got on the bus, he repeated this message over and over again. To escape this guy, people kept moving to different spots and changing seats. I sat directly across from him, trying not to make eye contact with him. Eventually, this guy gets on at one of the stops and unknowingly sits right next to him.

Listerine guy immediately goes into his Sweeney Todd routine and starts spitting on him. Afterward, he tries to shake hands with the guy, but you could tell he was just so uncomfortable and didn't know what to do. He shook hands with the guy, and just as he did, the guy sneezed. But that wasn't the worst part. His tooth shot out of his mouth, straight into the guy's face! He looked absolutely disgusted, got up immediately, and went out the next stop.

6. A Ditch In The Bushes

While I was in Holland, me and a few of my military buddies took a bus to Eindhoven. With all the stops, the trip took about an hour and a half. The trip would only take about 30 minutes, so I figured I could make it. My bus driver agreed to wait for me at the next stop after I asked him to do so an hour into the trip.

As we pulled up to the next bus stop, two polite guys were chilling. I couldn't hold it any longer, so I just decided to walk away. Having walked up to the bushes behind the bus terminal, I didn't notice this massive, steep drop off in my path. The time to react was past. Falling into it, I cut my leg and arm a bit, and I get muddy and grassy.

So I get up, do my business, climb out, and jog back to the bus. As I walk back to the bus, I'm covered in blood, mud, grass, and pee. Everyone on the packed bus just looks sympathetically at me like I'm completely stupid and obviously not quite adept at peeing on bushes without getting myself totally messed up.

7. No Food Here!

Atlanta's airport is at the end of one rail line. There was a dejected homeless woman who walked up and down the car repeatedly asking for two dollars to buy food. About two stops away, she walks by another homeless man, who was in some way impaired and was mostly laughing and clapping.

He looks at her and shouts, “There aren't any two-dollar sandwiches at the airport!” and goes back to his own world. The woman slumps into a seat and begins to weep, as the rest of the car drives on in silence.

8. Moisturizing In Public

When I was in the Army stationed out in Hawaii, one hungover morning, I took the bus back to base. I sat next to an old man with wild hair at one of the stops. A few minutes later, he slowly reached into a paper bag and pulled out a container of cottage cheese. He opened the lid and stared inside for a moment. I was expecting the worst...

A head that looked like an octopus was removed. He rubbed his bare forearm against the gray, mottled, and slimy substance. Everyone on the bus stared at him in surprise and disgust. Another minute passed as he stared at his arm, replaced whatever was in the plastic container, and returned it to his bag. Afterward, he never said a word.

9. A Brand-New Eyepatch

After a night out, I took a night bus home at 2 AM. Several guys and one girl boarded the bus and sat right at the back. I was sitting with my friends when one girl started spitting at people sitting closest to her. We did not move because we thought she was just on something. The next thing you know they're all lit up and screaming at the bus driver to let them open the windows.

Everyone on the bus is cautiously watching the kids, hoping they don't do anything stupid. The bus driver doesn't do anything, and everyone is looking around. Eventually, some of them get up and leave. Before I know it, one of the girls has whacked my eye, and I started crying in pain.

My friend gets up and tries to defend me, but the girl runs off the bus and I'm left thinking: where's my emergency eyepatch, and am I going to lose my vision permanently in one eye? Luckily, she only got the tip of my eyelid. However, I still have a scar. She was never found. I had a puffy, swollen eye for weeks.

10. Something Smells…

I was riding the F train on the NYC Subway going from 42nd Street to Queens. Getting off at Queensbridge, this old Asian woman is just sitting there with a plastic bag. I couldn't see what was inside, but I could just tell the way she was holding it was fishy.

The bag starts to flop and the man next to her screams! In broken English, the woman says, "No worries, just my feeesh." She had a live fish in a plastic bag. An actual fish...

11. A Little Too Much

After a night of drinking, I was on the Red Line. A group of girls sat a few seats down from me and my friends. All of them looked pretty rough. When we arrive at a station, one of the girls jumps up, runs out of the door, and starts vomiting. And so it began. As one friend leads her out of the car, another starts puking on the floor.

She runs out to the trash can. The passengers in the car are heading for the exits and the cars on either side. When we get in that car, yet another girl starts puking, so now 3 of the 4 women in this party are hurling into a trash can simultaneously, and their seemingly sober friend looks as if she wants to disappear into thin air.

12. A Grisly Sight

I was sitting in the window seat of BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit, when this homeless man approached me and sat next to me. When I thought he was going to tell me the classic "Woe is me, money will help" story, he simply removed some wrappings from his leg to reveal a wound that was rotting to the bone.

I couldn't believe it was real and he was still walking or...being alive, I guess. I gave him $5 and wished him well. There was nothing else I could do, I do still think about him to this day though...

13. A Holiday Train Car

I expected the train to be crowded, but it wasn't too bad. As the train slowed to a stop at Secaucus station, a mysterious humming sound began to be heard. When I heard the strange sound, my blood ran cold as I looked out the window. Then I realized the "humming" was actually thousands upon thousands of screaming college students.

After bracing myself for impact, I moved into one of the corners and prayed to the God I knew didn't exist. After what felt like 20 minutes of waiting and anticipating the tidal wave of obnoxiousness, the doors opened. With the herd of youth came the stench of early morning shame and regret. In the 15 minutes it took to get from Secaucus to Penn Station, a lot happened.

A fight broke out, 2 people vomited, and 1 girl sobbed uncontrollably. On St. Patrick's Day, in a train car filled with mistakes and pre-hangovers, I finally understood why my parents had been so annoyed with me throughout college. In that cubical of disgust, there was a lot of self-discovery going on.

14. Heading To The Back

Once I was riding the subway in New York City. There was a man in front of me. His beard was quite nice, so I thought that he was homeless. When he started squirming in his seat, he was reading an old magazine. I couldn't figure out what was bothering him. After a few minutes, he glanced around him - the subway was pretty empty; there were maybe five people between us - and then looked back at the magazine. As I rode in the car, I was hit by a stench at the back. He had just relieved himself in his pants.

Everyone near me was gagging because of the smell. When the subway reached my stop, I burst out the doors and took a giant breath of fresh air. I didn't take the subway back.

15. When A Fight Breaks Out

Once, about 40 teenagers got on the train I was riding. A girl maced a boy in the face. Everyone on the train was someone's cousin, and they began fighting and punching each other senselessly.

Meanwhile, passengers were choking everywhere, and tears were streaming down their faces. It was chaos. I didn't even know where to look! It was definitely the most eventful train journey I've had to date anyway!

16. Is This A Curse?

In Dallas, we rode the DART rail to the State Fair of Texas. A high-ranking lunatic kept staring at my one-year-old son and repeating in a low, creepy voice, "He will not take you, but he will take the child.". But he won't take you; he'll take the child.

Needless to say, I grabbed my son and got off at the next stop. I was so creeped out, I ran home and locked my door behind me. I still have nightmares about that day to be honest, it was a surreal experience.

17. Watching Our Backs

Istanbul was my home for a month. As a result, I concluded that some women lean back-to-back to avoid harassment. However, my first encounter as a woman was very strange.

There were only two other women there. Both of them leaned their backs on my back without saying anything. Truth be told, I was quite scared. I've never experienced it in any other city.

18. Crispy…

In San Francisco, I was riding the 43 bus home from high school as I do every day. I was tired this day, so was kind of drifting in and out of sleep. We were sitting next to a pretty normal-looking guy in his mid-thirties. I didn't think anything of him, until...

Halfway through the bus ride, the guy starts muttering to himself and pulls out a lighter. The flame was not brief. As he held the flame to his palm, he didn't even feel it. It smelled like burning bacon and his skin began to blister and char.

19. I Want Off NOW!

At the time, I was sitting at the back of the bus, right next to the emergency door, on the bus going home. As the bus was halfway between two stops, there wasn't much distance between them, when this guy stormed down from the top deck and demanded the driver stop. Because he couldn't stop until the next one, the driver refused.

He slams against the driver's window loudly and storms up to the back of the bus right where I'm sitting, opens the emergency door, and jumps off the bus into the middle of the road while the bus is still moving. I reached out to close the door instead of sitting next to it. We would have been at the bus stop in less than a minute. What a waste of time.

20. That’s Some Sweet Hair!

About a third of the car was full. A young woman in business attire sat across from me, reading the Tribune. I was listening to my iPod. It was just another Tuesday afternoon commute. At a stop, a large group of people board. About half of the car is filled. Another woman in street clothes stood in the midst of the crowd.

She sees the businesswoman and shouts “GIRRRRL, YOU GOT THAT RIHANNA BOB GOIN’ ON, LIKE ELLA, ELLA, EH, EH, EH!”A few people laughed, but the woman she was speaking to just didn't see the funny side. At all. It was kinda awkward.

21. Losing Your Guts

After a particular stop, I noticed my train hadn't started moving again after I left my downtown university. I glanced out the window to my left after looking up from my textbook. I was less than 5 feet from a teenager leaning against a concrete wall on the platform.

He held his stomach, trying to prevent his innards from exploding. As emergency services treated the man in front of the rest of the train, my train was stopped for over an hour. The police asked us all for information. I didn't know what to make of it.

22. Are We There Yet?

On the bus, I saw some DDLG role play. The two were in their mid-30s, heavyset, dressed like they were in middle school, and the lady even had a pacifier. With her baby voice, she kept asking her "daddy" if they were at the park yet.

Even worse, she would give her pacifier to her partner, who would slobber on it and put it back in her mouth for her. It was a strange sound. I shiver just thinking about it. Why are people on public transport just a whole different species?!

23. Sudden Celebrity

I got on the bus and sat near the back next to a woman in Los Angeles. A man in a potato sack stood across from us. His eyes had those crazy looks where you can never tell where he was looking, but it seemed like he kept looking at me. As people got up and off the bus, he got closer and closer, until the woman next to me got up and he sat directly next to me.

I shook his hand and said, "You too." He then told me that I was Jesus in my past life, which he knew because he was an archangel. He comforted me by stating that he used to do drugs, but now he is sober, since I looked a little scared.

24. Play A Song!

My husband experienced this years ago, before I knew him. When he gets to the back of the bus, he notices a little bubble of empty seats surrounding a man who looked like he might be homeless and crazy. He sits next to him and they start chatting. This guy only has a trombone case on his lap.

A few minutes later he asks: “Wanna see my trombone?” Husband replies with an emphatic “Sure!” The guy opens up the case and sitting inside is a banana. So without missing a beat, he asked him if he knew any good songs...which made the guy look at him funny and stop talking. Yeah, I'm married to a guy who freaked out a man who plays a banana...and I'm proud of him!

25. In Broad Daylight

In San Francisco, there are a lot of crazy people. I see them ever single day, but this story I'm about to tell really tops them all. I saw the most messed up thing on the way home from work. Despite the fact that it was not late, an obese lady was sitting at the front of the bus taking up several seats with her size, waving a GIANT black "toy," then going at herself with it, in broad daylight, with a lot of kids around.

I think that's my most disturbing story so far. It was just beyond weird, she should actually be in prison. And definitely not around young kids- I wouldn't let my kids get the bus on their own these days. I always have to join them or at least meet them at the other end!

26. Brought To You By…

If you don't see the crazy guy on the bus, you must be him. I hadn't seen crazy in a while, so I grew curious. One day, I saw this guy crossing the street holding an old transistor radio and singing as he came to the bus stop. Okay, I'm not the crazy one today.

Sure enough, he sits next to me on the bus. He's singing as he rides the bus. Then silence returns. Finally, he begins singing again. It continued for the entire trip. But here's the catch. It was battery-less. There was no cover. It was visible. All he did was sing. He was also pausing for a DJ, commercials, or something similar. He also sang very well.

27. A Smoky Bus

A few years back, I was riding a bus through a slightly dodgy area in Edinburgh. There are only a few people on the upstairs deck: me, a teenage boy with headphones on, and an old lady minding her own business. He's probably in his 30s, a total douche in a tracksuit. He wanders off into the darkness.

My nose starts to smell something strange, nothing I could identify, but kind of nice in a chemical way. As she turns around, so do I. Crack pipe guy lights his pipe and makes eye contact with old lady first, saying, "Oh, I'm sorry, hen. Then he proceeds to smoke crack for the rest of the trip.

28. A Dangerous Carrot

Fashionably dressed man came out of the metro in Paris wearing high heels, stockings, and a flowy skirt. After hiking up that skirt, he grabbed a carrot from his bag and proceeded to commit a brutal act of self-violation.

I drew my girlfriend's attention to this act of public self-love, but she wasn't as impressed as I was. I couldn't believe my eyes to be honest- she on the other hand, has probably seen it all before so she didn't even bat an eyelid.

29. An Impromptu Match

While switching lines on the subway, I passed through a group of 30-year-olds that made a lot of noise. All of them pointed at me and said, "YOU!". YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE REFEREE!” and I’m like, “Oh, okay,” so they approach me and give me a whistle and an orange and red card. Then they make two teams and put me in the center of "the field."

I'm asked to count the goals and fouls, and they start playing with a soccer ball they just threw. I was notified after ten minutes of the "match" that it was a double bachelor party. They thanked me for refereeing it and cheered my name. I received a sparkling ring from them, and it was also the most random experience I've ever had.

30. Earning Points

I experienced this in ninth grade. While waiting for the L train at Broadway Junction in Brooklyn, I overheard two kids saying one of them should fight me and push me on the tracks for gang points. Back then, I was a skinny black kid with braids, pretty small. Playing it cool, I clutched my books, ready to slap him if he tried anything.

This older man appeared beside me out of nowhere. I JUMPED out of my skin!! The two kids never did anything, but looking back, people in the ghetto do the dumbest things for status.

31. Friends On The Train

As I live in Berlin, I see a lot of strange things on public transportation. However, one thing really freaked me out. It was an elderly man, maybe in his 60s, who had a child sitting on his lap. In the opposite pair of seats, there were some dolls, which I thought was cute, if there was a little kid with him.

I found it strange that the kid had such white skin, while the old man had dark skin. He wasn't holding a child on his lap, but a huge life-sized baby doll. He was surrounded by dolls. In the past, I've also seen people pushing dolls around in prams, but this man sitting with a bunch of dolls on the train really gave me the creeps!

32. Lesser Of Two Evils

A sleeping man suddenly awoke and began touching himself furiously when I was on the 6 train heading into 23rd street station in NYC. While he was doing it, he was making some hilarious faces. Apparently some old dude next to him doesn't care at all, since he prefers to sit rather than stand.

The train emptied at the next station, and everyone went back to the next car. This turned out to be even worse. In that car, a man in a wheelchair had explosive diarrhoea that covered the floor and soaked his clothes. The stench was overwhelming. Train passengers rushed into my car. We were playing musical chairs. In order to avoid having to wait for the next train, most people picked a poison and endured the pain.

33. The Trickle Of Rain

I was on a night train going from Saint Petersburg to Moscow two years ago. I was sitting next to two Russian men. We could tell from their ramblings and conversation that they were father and son-in-law. They had a bunch of large, two-liter soda bottles with them, filled with God knows what.

A quarter of an hour into the 7-hour ride they were buzzed and harassing the girls in the carriage to the point where the train personnel asked us to wear long sleeved shirts and trousers in case the men "lost control.” Around midnight, however, one of my traveling companions awoke because he heard a noise like water trickling.

34. A Cocktail Of Oh No…

One time I was on the Metra to Chicago. Halfway through the ride, a girl in her mid-20s got on. I heard her ask me if she could sit next to me, in her squeaky, speech-impeded voice. Even though I was getting bad vibes from this person, I let her sit next to me because I’m not mean. I see her pull a phone out and dial it. I guess she was calling her doctor’s office or something, because she was asking all these medical questions about her painkiller prescription and about her recent surgery. The girl hangs up and begins rocking in her seat back and forth.

I was feeling more and more uncomfortable with each stop the train made. Halfway through the first phone call, I decided to record using my laptop’s microphone. “Hi, is this poison control? Yeah, I took 800 mgs of Tramadol and 400 mgs of Benadryl by accident. My heart is beating really fast, and I don’t know what to do…I’m on the train right now…No…Don’t stop the train, I’ll just call my mom when I get off.” My stomach dropped.

“I am sorry to eavesdrop, but did you say you took 800 mgs of Tramadol?” She nods. I ask her where she is getting off and she mumbles that she is getting off at Ogilvie, which is the end of the line and is also where I am getting off.

I sit her down and get her some water from the Dunkin Donuts. Then I called 9-1-1, explained to them that this girl I met on the train had a possible overdose and we were at Ogilvie train station. I give them the address, and we waited for the ambulance. We wait, I talk to her a bit until the paramedics come and when they do, I explain to them that she took a massive amount of Tramadol and Benadryl. They take her heart rate, put her on a stretcher, put her in the back of the ambulance, and drive off.

I don’t know what happened to her. I hope she is okay.

35. Missing an Eye

I was riding a quiet bus in LA when a very old woman got on the bus- she was probably in her 80s I'd say. She wore a skin tight sequinned dress (very brave might I add), had crazy white hair, and was carrying groceries.

There is still dried blood on her eye socket (it was making me feel slightly sick) and as she stands next to me (there were open seats), she keeps picking at her eye, and wiping her hand on the grocery bags that were banging into me.

36. That Poor Rabbit

I was riding the last bus home from my friend's house at 1 am. I was so tired but was trying to stay awake as I know there can be some dodgy people on public transport. The bus was empty except for me and the driver until we got to a stop about 15 minutes from my house.

A man gets on the bus holding an animal-carrying cage, sits next to me, and pulls out a large, fuzzy rabbit from the cage. He puts the rabbit DOWN THE FRONT OF HIS SWEATPANTS and smiles creepily at me until I get off. I RAN home, like sprinted for my life.

37. He Likes Shoes

If you ride the Red Line in Chicago, there is a guy who will ask to look at your shoes. Do not let him. Everyone who had ridden it before will know of his guy, he's on there pretty much every single time I have been on. It creeps me out so much. Why does he want to see my shoes?

He will start licking them. Like actually licking them. One of my friends had his shoes licked, so he asked another friend who was wearing sandals. He obviously has some kind of foot fetish, in particular with dirty shoes. Creep.

38. Was He a Strangler?

I was alone at a bus stop in London one night at about 11 pm when a man in a hoodie and carrying a backpack walked up to the stop. He stood at the opposite end of the stop and stared at me in a creepy manner. As I didn't want to assume he was crazy, but still wary from past experiences of nearly being raped, I pulled out my pepper spray and loaded it. He removed his backpack, took a pair of gloves, a rope, and put them all in one and then began to wrap it up. I was so scared that I stepped off the pavement to run across the street. Luckily, my bus came at that moment, so I jumped aboard and sat down.

While the bus was pulling away I looked out the window at the scary man and he was staring at me intensely, with the rope wrapped around his left hand and his right holding it taut. I called my bf after the experience and he just laughed and said I was lying. The scary man stared at me from the bus window as the bus pulled away, with the rope wrapped around his left hand and his right holding the rope taut. I called my boyfriend after the experience and he laughed and said I was lying.

39. The Apologist

The very first time I rode the bus I was sitting in the back and this crazy old man sat next to me. He was intoxicated and said, "Hey man, I'm sorry, man." I said "For what?" I was so baffled0 why was he apologising to me?

"I killed your people man..back in 'nam. With these hands, man... these FREAKING HANDS." I'm Asian and I was pretty freaked out. He kept saying he was sorry and then when he got to his stop, he said, "TELL YOUR PEOPLE I'M SORRY." Then he stood outside the bus and saluted me.

40. Getting Too Close on the Plane

As I was flying home during the holidays last year, the person next to me kept falling asleep and leaning on my shoulder. I asked the flight attendant if I could move to an empty seat because he had done it 5 or 6 times in an hour after I asked him to stop.

He turns his head and says, "I wasn't falling asleep." So, he was just trying to get close to me. I was just minding my own business trying to get home to my boyfriend, and this creep was trying to dribble on me!!

41. Creepy Guy on the Bus

There was a guy sitting behind me who I thought was weird, but pushed it to the back of my mind. The bus starts moving. A few minutes later I feel something brush my side. Look down. He reached around my seat to touch me. He sat back and muttered an apology. I brushed it off as something odd, continued staring out the window. Minutes later, it happened again.

The bus stops to take on more passengers. Someone sits next to me. I don't look up to see who it is. I turn around and say loudly, "Keep your hands to yourself." Then I get up and move to the frontmost row. The creeper then had his hand on my knee. I shout, "KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS TO YOURSELF!" "I ain't doing anything! It was an accident! He shouted back.

It is heard and seen by another woman nearby. She gets up and starts yelling at the guy. He starts yelling back. Bus driver notices and informs the dude he will get off at the next stop. Creeper is still shouting at that other lady. I like to think she beat his ass. She looked like she could have. The driver made him get off at the next stop.

42. She Sat on His Knee

I'm a little big-boned, and usually sit off the seat on the NYC bus. One day, during rush hour, a woman sits on my knee at the 42nd Street stop. I really didn't know what to do or where to look. Looking back I should have just kicked her off.

As far as I could tell, she was in her late 30s, dressed like she works in a nice office, and sat on my knee. I didn't say anything for two blocks, tried to summon the courage to say something for two more blocks, then she got up and left. No one said a word to us or even looked at us.

43. Left on the Bus

From Ottumwa, Indiana to Iowa City, my bus trip lasted 11 hours. I rode the bus in the back the entire time. At one point, I woke up from a nap and discovered no one was on the bus. There was no driver, no passengers, no luggage except mine. The bus parked in a gas station parking lot, but the gas station was closed. Imagine an old-fashioned gas station at a crossroads in Iowa.

I spent around 15 minutes wondering, "What the heck?" Eventually a car showed up, and the new driver jumped on board and apologized for oversleeping. That was my twilight zone moment.

44. He Was Selling Meat

Late at night, as I waited for the bus, a guy in a trenchcoat approached me and whispered, "Psst... want some meat?" Initially, I thought he was going to flash me, but before I could react, he opened his trench coat to reveal... meat.

Actual meat, in styrofoam packages, in his trench coat pockets! Ground beef, chicken... all kinds of meat. I didn't even know what to say. I mumbled something about being a vegetarian and ran to a nearby convenience store. ... I actually think it would have been less creepy if he had flashed me.

45. The Syringe on the Bus

As one of my friends was getting on the tram, a guy pushed her out of the way and sat where she was going to sit. He winced as he sat and stood up with a dirty syringe sticking out of his hip. It looked like he was going to pass out.

He passed out just as he was about to get off the tram. The whole tram gasped and sat still in their seats. Nobody seemed to move, so I got my phone out and dialled 911. I went over to the man and sat with him until a paramedic arrived. He survived but it was scary to see!

46. A
Trunk Threat

I could not get into a general chemistry course at my university, so I took it at a local community college after my courses at university. The days we had lab, class ended at 11:45 pm, so I would take the train home after class.

I got on the train and stood in the middle standing section, so that I wouldn't disturb the characters. A guy gets on at the next stop and stands across from me. I ignored him, even though he kept looking at me. As I looked up to check the next stop, he said, "You can fit in my trunk." I immediately got off the train with the next large group and called my boyfriend for pickup.

47. Almost Mugged

When I was first living in a city, I was waiting for a bus late at night when two homeless-looking fellows approached me in the bus shelter. They asked if I had any change. I told them I didn't (which was true). One of the guys pulled out a knife and said, "That's cool, we can hit up an ATM".

"So this is how I die," I thought as I figured they would be upset if they dragged me down the block, and I didn't get anything out of it (I had $2.80 in my account). As it happened, a group of other people walked into the bus shelter at that moment, and the guy quickly put the knife away, "Ha ha, just kidding, man!" and they ran off. Then my bus arrived and I got on.

48. A Creepy Confession

I used to ride the bus to work every day back in 2000. I'm a friendly and outgoing person, so I chatted with passengers on the bus every day. One guy was there most days, so we talked a lot. He always had something wrong with him. There was a real delay between when I said something and when his brain registered it.

In a conversation one day, the guy mentioned that he had made some mistakes in the past, but that God had forgiven him. He then tells me, in all seriousness, "I bombed a couple of abortion clinics." I calmly replied... something. My stop came shortly thereafter. Needless to say, I began taking an earlier bus.

49. With a Chainsaw

We were on a bus in the countryside of Hungary, travelling to the town where my grandfather is from. In the last city before ours, a very drunk, not too well-off man got on with a shopping bag. When he sits down on the very last seat, we see a shopping bag containing an old chainsaw, with no covering around it.

Then he gets out his phone and begins to shout in Hungarian to a person on the other end.. We could just picture him taking out his chain saw on the bus, and going crazy. Scariest 20 minutes ever.

50. Blood on the Bench

A while back, I was living in Sydney, Australia, taking the train, and a lovely gentleman who sounded like he was from Eastern Europe struck up a conversation with me and the person I was with. Halfway through our conversation, I completely stopped talking and stared up at his head at what looked like dried blood streaks, and a dried bloody handprint that was thick enough at one point to drip down the wall.

As the streaks were right above his seat, the man was leaning against the bottom portion of one of them - the benches were flush with the wall. As for the man, he didn't notice any blood, and was confused at my silence. I think he thought I was being rude, or that I couldn't understand his accent, but either way, I had gone silent and was not paying attention, so the guy I was with took over the conversation for me.

I showed my buddy the streaks and hand print after the man got off at the next stop. We later discovered that it was blood all over one of the walls of the train car, and the poor guy had rubbed his head all over it, and I was too shocked to say anything at the time.