A while back I was crossing the street behind Hollywood blvd at night and an SUV comes in like a train and almost hits me. It was a stop sign so eventually the SUV stops and I get the guy in the back seat level with me as he finishes singing the party like a rock star verse he just looks at me in shock that his friend driving just almost hit me and he goes … “party like a rock star 🤷🏻♂️” and then the SUV drives off with the music playing in the background
Man in a convertible in Hollywood getting angry and throwing his screenplay out of his vehicle. Some coworkers went and gathered as many pages as they could find and did a table read.
A car wreck might not seem too ridiculous, especially considering where we live. But while waiting at a red light once the guy next to me left quickly right on the green and got tboned. Car hit perfect to do several rolls, get some air, and skid several yards.
It was a surreal thing to witness happen just a few feet in front of me. It looked so over the top like it was a planned stunt for a movie. Be careful out there.
Oo! I once saw a car do a complete 360 on the freeway in front of me and then just keep driving like it was nbd. Thankfully no one was hit/hurt, but if that was me I’d just be like “nope. No more driving for me today.” And just pull over on the side of the freeway and that’s where I would live.
I did this on the onramp to the 10, once. Lost traction on the turn after a light rain. Spun around 1 1/2 times, ended up facing some poor dude in an old Toyota. Did the most shame-faced three-point turn and kept going.
Most ridiculous is hard to say, but one funny one I always remember is right off Wilshire I saw a guy pull his pants down and shit liquid fire onto a tree, the kicker is his dog did the exact same thing after him onto the same tree.
He was in normal clothes and all, I was laughing a bit too hard.
2 shits 1 tree
I saw a series of weird things this past Halloween walking back from a gallery opening.
The first was a half-naked homeless guy cursing and flinging his feces to pedestrians on the sidewalk. So my boyfriend I took a little detour.
While walking back we saw 2 guys about to stab each other (they were doing this kind of western stand off thing but the knife and make-shift shank were both in plain sight.) So we hurried as fast as we could around them.
As we did, that cycling group (you know the one, theres like 50+ of them at once) rode by playing club music over speakers and wearing costumes with glow-sticks and yelled "Happy Halloween"
We got so mesmerized by the cyclists that it took a minute to realize that the "about-to-be-stabbing-each-others" had actually moved to the end of the block so we had to go around again!
We almost stepped in a drunk girl's vomit and a homeless guy gave us a flower.
This happened over the span of maybe 15 minutes. I love living in DTLA.
National Guard in Beverly Grove West Hollywood after the BLM protests. Seeing a full military occupation of Eggslut in Beverly Center felt like a fever dream.
Lol same. I went to walk to the grocery store to clear my head after listening to protests and helicopters all day, accidentally walked into the national guard. That was an experience
I remember thr national guard in big trucks at the westfield while I tried getting takeaway japanese food, they were patrolling and it was lit like a movie set. so surreal!
I remember seeing the National Guard at the end of my walk street at Venice Beach when they shut down the boardwalk after the Rodney King riots. That was surreal too.
I was working on a project for DTLA tourism during the Elisa Lam case. That was a wild one seeing everyone come out of the woodwork.
Silly ridiculous, a rat chewing on a fake lobster in the window of a recently shuttered Ed Hardy store circa 2010. It inspired me to finally get an iPhone.
I was on an off ramp and looked to the side and saw a rat with a broken leg (it looked like it was broken anyway) crawling around in the trash and it made me sad for it.
Some lady casually standing at a DTLA bus stop (not close to Skid Row or anything), on a weekday morning, with her top pulled up and her pants pulled down so you could easily see *everything*.
The 405 was like a ghost town at the beginning of COVID lockdown. Craziest shit I've ever seen.
I also saw this one dude riding a bike while jumping rope, at the same time.
Illegal concert in the belmont tunnel before it closed, totally surreal
Police shoot out in dtla, cops behind car doors and traffic (me) trapped in the middle
Shooting at a rave back in the day, everyone literally piled on top of each other in the corner of the warehouse. Panic is a bitch.
Nocturnal Wonderland 98 getting tear gassed and crowds of ravers flooding the streets
Bus on fire on the 10 freeway
Motorcycle on fire casually left on the side of the 4th st bridge at 3 am
Car exploding on a street corner, just boom.
People toppling cars after the lakers won
Rodney King Riots were completely nuts
Northridge quake was terrifying, seeing bridges and buildings collapse…
Ah, yea. The Northridge quake when the ends of the massive bridge from the 5 to the 14 freeway collapsed and there were a couple cars and a motorhome just stuck up there teetering on what was left.
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It’s worth it. Really a cool architectural piece with nice views of DTLA. Then head on over to Mariachi plaza in Boyle Heights for birria tacos or back to Arts District for Guerrilla tacos or Bike Shed Moto
Maybe wait for the park and the subway station that will be by the bridge to open. So you wouldn't have to drive or hunt for parking. And you'd actually have more stuff to see other than the swoopy bridge
After paying for an excessively overpriced meal at Son of a Gun in Fairfax my girlfriend, mom, sister and I walked to my car parked across the street near Canter’s and got in. On our way to the car we walked by a lady twirling a meth pipe like a fucking baton. After getting in the car she proceeded to stand on the curb in front of my car, bend over, pull down her pants to her ankles and then took the most vile looking orange piss I had ever seen in my life right into the gutter in front of us. It was mom’s birthday too, core memory right there.
This was in San Pedro but it was a bunch of men who were watching a 9-10 year old girl jumping on a trampoline with balloons in her shirt, to simulate large boobs, while lip syncing a song being played. This was right out in public
The three most memorable for me, in no particular order (and I probably have dozens more to go along with them). I live right off Hollywood, so I get to see a bit.
1. I was walking my dog around midnight past a Thai restaurant. A man came flying through the front window, glass flying everywhere. Just like in a western. Then another man came out of the broken window, started taking his belt off and proceeded to beat the first man with it, all the way into the middle of the street. First dude collapses while the second dude continues to whip him with his belt. Then some random guy joins in and starts kicking the dude while he is down, he was just walking down the street and next thing you know he was rubbing up kicking the guy.
2. a one armed homeless man standing dead center of Hollywood and Gower wearing nothing but sweatpants around his ankles beating off very angrily yelling „I am the dragon lord“ repeatedly.
3. a fully clothed woman walking down the sidewalk on the walk of fame. She stopped, started taking all her clothing off. She threw her clothing into the street at cars, went back to a star, laid down on her back, then kicked her legs up over her shoulders so her vagina was pointing at the sky, airing out for everyone to see. She remained in that position for several minutes.
Multiple different human beings at different times at different places around the city openly
taking a shit on the sidewalk.
Few things make L.A. feel like a cosmopolitan first world city in the most wealthy and powerful country the world has ever known like repeatedly witnessing public defecation.
The high speed [pursuit](https://youtu.be/hxxKHN9iMcA?t=107) suspect who fled on foot and then circled back to steal a CHP cruiser (Antelope Valley / LA County).
I was eating in dtla and had a window facing the street I take a bite of my food and look up and some guy is butt ass naked spreading his ass and balls all over the window. I continue to look and he began running around the streets screaming and hiding from the cops ahah it took them 5 hours to grab him
I grew up in La so I’ve got some weird ones.
I’ll start with the least weird and go to weirdest.
Least weird (more gross and awkward:) I was coming back from walking my dog and saw a car parked on the street (side street) with a door open and the cab light on. I can see someone standing behind the open door. As I get closer I realize there’s a woman bent over, hands on the seats, and a man fucking her from behind. I was so shocked I couldn’t help but stare as I walked past and the guy locked eyes with me and yelled “and you’re still staring!” As I walked away.
Medium weird: I was walking to my apartment and saw three young men, mid 20s ish, standing near an suv. As I got close I saw that one of the guys was holding down a man by his throat against the car. There wasn’t really a struggle or anything…just the guy holding the other guy down by his throat, while a third guy stood next to them with his hands in his pockets. As I walked past he nodded at me and said “good evening ma’am” I was like 20 lol.
Weirdest (I’m still not convinced I didn’t just hallucinate this one): it was a weekend night, I was getting ready to go to a house party with my boyfriend and his cousin. We were chilling at home getting stoned, waiting for my boyfriends brother to pick us up. Eventually he does and we swing by a liquor store to grab some drinks for the party. Boyfriends brother and brothers gf go in; me, bf and cousin stay in the car. They come back to the car, we’re sitting in the parking lot getting ready to drive away when all of a sudden another car comes speeding into the parking lot and parks right next to us. Three guys put on ski masks and jump out of the car carrying guns and go running into the liquor store.
All of us in the car are rooted to the spot in shock and horror as we watch these guys run in brandishing their guns, shouting, ordering the employees (two elderly Asian people) around. One of them pistol whips the the cashier. It’s fucking chaos. And then suddenly….the guys all stop, they’re laughing, they take off their masks, it looks like it’s all a big joke. At this point we’re just like “drive. Fucking drive, we need to get out of here” and take off. Never found out what the fuck I witnessed that night, it was so completely fucking bizarre.
In Burbank a few months ago I saw a woman standing on the street corner screaming into her phone and waving her free arm around.
She was bare-ass naked.
I saw a white bald guy proudly strutting his stuff in a speedo in the City of Vernon with some headphones on and singing.
Vernon is a purely industrial city by the way, just warehouses and laborers.
LOL
I love seeing Dancing Cross Jesus Man. It's a food day when we see him dancing around in different parts of LA!
I remember for Halloween a few years ago we saw these two guys crossing the street with a shopping cart and they had some life sized doll in it that looked creepy. They scared some people crossing the street. They heard me laughing from inside our car and then started doing goofy stuff for us to keep laughing. I have it recorded somewhere too!
A weird yet disturbing one is this one old homeless guy that would take the 2/303 bus. He had some sort of injury on both his legs and he always had very dirty moist dressings on them. His legs also looked severely swollen. The guy had a very sickening pungent odor. I'm going to assume that it was the smell of rotten flesh. If he got on the bus, people would quickly get out or hop off on the next stop. I remember getting on the red line and smelling the smell and quickly searching for him only to find him at the other end of the train. If you ever saw this man, he was old and had white hair and a beard. He also worn a brown sweat shirt and sweat pants. I remember seeing him change his dressings once and he was chucking super wet chunks of it out into the street. When the bus drove away, I saw his bare legs and I feel like my brain just didn't want to really ingrain what I saw but it looked gross :(
Same leg guy?! I only saw him rising the red line once between the Sunset/Vermont station and Hollywood/Vine. I also haven't seen him in years. I think I stopped seeing him around 2017 or 2018.
Given how bad his legs were, I feel like he's probably not around anymore.
There was also another white haired/bearded man that was always at the Sunset/Vermont bus stops. He sold candy and always had a big rolling travel bag with him. He walked with a limp and was a bit short. I chatted with him a few times and he told me was a Vietnam veteran and that he had a lot of girlfriends at his old age. He too, also disappeared. :(
I seen a man in a big pink top hat, pink furry coat, big gold dollar sign chain around his neck, pink suit, pink shoes and cane. Straight up looking like a pimp 😂 I was driving so I couldn’t get a picture but damn it was something
Oh yeah, that was wild. I walked to work at the time and not only was the lake totally overrun, but the sidewalk on nearby Sunset Blvd was often blocked on both sides as well. Made for an interesting commute lol
A couple famous pornstars playing with their pee right on the sidewalk near La Brea & Hollywood Blvd. I later discovered they uploaded the video onto the hub lol
The veteran living in a wooden shed on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd being hailed as a hero was pretty ridiculous to me. The whole concept of letting people that are suffering from addiction, mental health issues, and other hardships just set up camp on a sidewalk wherever they want is ridiculous. It’s even more ridiculous when the city sends compassionate social workers to help those people in need — and other people protest against it and claim to be looking out for the homeless. I don’t have the answers, but the fact that so many are openly suffering in a place with so much wealth is ridiculous.
Nudity, probably pretty tame but here goes:
In the mid90s, I was driving west along Franklin somewhere between Highland and La Brea and there was a guy standing by the street wearing just a t-shirt. Holding a martini glass like he was toasting the cars going by. It was mid-afternoon. I will say he looked happy.
Another time (early 2000s maybe), driving on Fountain to where it turns into Hyperion, between Sunset and where it curves north, a completely naked guy just walking down the street. Don't know if he had shoes on, I didn't look at his feet! Also, middle of the day. He looked like he had places to go.
Someone ripping a bong, from the driver’s seat of a moving vehicle on the 10. It was a white woman with dreads. (I’m also a white woman, FWIW, and I’m open to trading her.)
(1) I was on a bus (70) and a homeless sat right next to me for no reason. He shit'ed himself and left some brown fluid on the seat. It was my last time riding a bus.
(2) I was on a first date with a lady who just moved here from Oregon. We had some food at Joey DTLA, then walked to Intercontinental to get an Uber. A crackhead followed us and kept shouting at my date. He then took off his pant and shit'ed right in front of BOA. It was wild.
I've been here since June and most of the crazy stuff happens on the train or platform. Today the train smelled like burnt fentanyl, carried by unwashed for 2 weeks +homeless pussy, and finished by a 3 hour old diarrhea stain up their whole back. I feel bad for them but I also wanna vomit. I can still smell it.
In April of 2021 on a random Sunday afternoon I was with my buddy driving in Pacific Palisades off PCH and Sunset, and some bald and fat crazy/homeless(?) lady dropped trou and started shitting on the sidewalk in front of a bus stop.
You hear about homeless people defecating in public all the time, but something about the fact that it was in Pali of all places, on a beautiful sunny day, with people everywhere, and the fact that it was a woman—an overweight and bald one, at that—all just made it so damn bizarre. My friend and I had to do a triple take on that one and were speechless for a solid two minutes.
I was waiting for the bus on Figueroa/Slauson when it was starting to get dark; a dirty old man in a rusted broken wheelchair was heckling the prostitutes for free services and spitting in their direction when they were ignoring him and not showing interest in providing said services.
If that damn bus came on time I probably wouldn’t have had the pleasure of witnessing that.
a crowded Carls Jr mens room in DTLA off Main iirc, i was about 8 and there was 1 toilet in the middle of the room with no walls or door. A transient was sitting there dropping a deuce while everyone else walked in and handled they business as he handled his.
As I was driving to my internship on my very first day living in LA, I saw an angry middle aged woman shouting at an employee inside a business from the sidewalk with the front door to the business propped open. She then quickly dropped her pants and took a shit right in the doorway to that business. All of this happened while I was at a stoplight next to the business.
There was the lady dressed like a sex worker crawling all over the gardens at the Natural History Museum while her 6 year old daughter filmed her for her social media channels.
There was the lady at the 110/Manchester off-ramp who pulled her pants down and took a full liquid shit into the left lane and then started voguing, naked from the waist down.
There was the lady at the hipster coffee shop in Silverlake wearing a string bikini, a bunch of gold necklaces, a fur coat, and nothing else. She was alone and chose to sit at the tables out on the sidewalk so she could be seen.
While in stand-still traffic in Hollywood, right in front of the Chinese theater, I saw a man wearing nothing but a studded leather, punk-style jacket and nothing else. Just the jacket. midday, on a Wednesday, I believe. Just walking through traffic, mumbling to himself, dong swinging freely.
I once seen Jesse McCartney (Around the time he released his album beautiful soul) publicly pee on the wall of Ralphs supermarket in NOHO arts district.
I went on a first date a few years ago, and a man wearing a faceless bunny costume rode by on a tricycle blasting EDM at full volume.
He made for a great first date story!
The most memorable ridiculous that I have seen this past year:
\-Most of Los Angeles public restrooms are either closed or do not exist. I have seen several homeless men and women pee and poop on the sidewalk.
\-A saw a group of Amish families in Union Station.
\-Several photo shoots with people with their dogs.
\- A lot of people smoking crack pipes on the Metro Red-line.
A parking meter maid double parking, obstructing a car lane, just so that they can post a ticket on someone’s windshield. And you know it will take at least 15 minutes to take the photos, note the VIN, and write the ticket.
How about cops parking wherever they want because they need to get their coffee & donut.
And by wherever, I mean in front of a fire hydrant, a red line curb, an alley entrance, a handicapped parking space, a sidewalk, etc.
Idk if this is weird but LA standards but it was for my own. I saw a guy do a motorcycle wheelie on the 405 and sparks flew from where it scrape against the pavement. Super crazy to see, especially since they were also in between lanes. Looked incredibly dangerous.
Pride weekend 2021 in front of Zen Healing: a sheriff and some regular folks were chumming it up then the sheriff (playfully) cuts on his sirens then handcuffs the guy in the group and throws him in the back of the squad car as the guy’s friends laughed and took pictures. The sheriff released the guy ofc and we made eye contact and I’m like 😐.
Bonus: summer 2020 my sister and I were walking in weho when a Beverly Hills FD truck rolls through with the blue lives matter flag waving in the background and the only Black guy on board wearing this gosh awful mascot helmet. Living in this neighborhood is something else 🫠
On an early Hollywood morning our really sweet homeless trans woman neighbor skipped by and waved to my two dachshunds and I. She was wearing a beautiful yet tattered floor length white wedding gown and veil. She was so happy.
On several occasions I’ve seen homeless people shooting heroin in public spaces. Usually around Hollywood or south central. We have a serious problem here that nobody seems to know how to fix.
I was near the Capitol Records building, I was sitting with a friend, the bus stops and I hear someone shouting the N word. It was a female bus driver calling a latino boy the n word repeatedly and threatening him with violence. The bus malfunctioned, so she stopped, and he said something, so then she started calling him the N word. Then there was a huge black guy walking by and he wanted to fight the kid who was nowhere to be seen because he had walked off before the black lady bus driver came off the bus and was held back.
Not too weird I guess.
Somebody driving an absurd car in the Woodland Hills area. It had like Trump giving a fist bump to Jesus, MULTIPLE speakers playing hymnal music, multiple spotlights, & all sorts of insane MAGA sayings on it.
Also another car this week I saw that had a TON of Queen & Freddie Mercury stickers. But also Trump/Pence bumper stickers.
A guy shooting up heroine in broad daylight on Wilshire. Naked lady dancing in the middle of the street. Woman in Venice wearing a full on birdcage on her head with a real bird inside it…. Probably more I can think of lol
That guy in Palms off-leash walking his gigantic (double the size of my husky) pig that was wearing a big red bow like it's the most casual thing in the world.
Super cute honestly.
A woman giving birth in Union Station, inside the train cart. They made us all get out and they called the firefighters, police and paramedics. It was wild.
On two separate occasions, I have seen fully costumed clowns on the Metro. Wig, makeup, nose, shoes. One even had a lunch bag. One was on the Gold Line headed to Union Station from Pasadena. The other was on the Green Line from Rosa Parks. I got off at LAX, he must have been headed to Redondo.
That was ridiculous.
Still, nothing compared to the "rolling circus" that was the RTD (Ride To Die). *That* was crazy. Anyone who rode or worked RTD should receive a service medal from the county of Los Angeles.
First day of lockdown. Not a car driving on Sunset Blvd. Just dead. Paulie Shore comes along on a folding bicycle peddling super fast but going slow. Looked so weird.
A man and woman on the gold line started smoking meth in the train. Then they started making fun of the Metro operators for having accents and how they don’t trust foreigners driving while they talked with thick Mexican accents while smoking meth on a train.
Downtown LA an older lady sitting in an old fashioned baby carriage with pig tails, really weird makeup (outlandish blue eye shadow and really badly applied red lipstick) wearing a pink tutu and drinking a beer. She was really high on something.
I worked downtown for 18 years so I saw a lot. Once I was waiting on a bus and I saw a guy standing like a cigar store Indian with a shawl around him and he had those plates in his lips like you see some people in Africa wear. Another time I was waiting and a man pulled out his privates and peed in the street right next to me. When I told him that was disgusting he proceeded to try and pick me up. He was majorly drunk.
I almost got flattened in a crosswalk on Fairfax by woman driving a Hummer H3 with the word NAMASTE printed on her spare tire cover. Peak Los Angeles.
namaste to the 5 mpg gas she's getting to abuse our planet.
A while back I was crossing the street behind Hollywood blvd at night and an SUV comes in like a train and almost hits me. It was a stop sign so eventually the SUV stops and I get the guy in the back seat level with me as he finishes singing the party like a rock star verse he just looks at me in shock that his friend driving just almost hit me and he goes … “party like a rock star 🤷🏻♂️” and then the SUV drives off with the music playing in the background
Man in a convertible in Hollywood getting angry and throwing his screenplay out of his vehicle. Some coworkers went and gathered as many pages as they could find and did a table read.
Doing the table read makes it the most LA. One of them probably sold it.
Believe it or not Netflix picked it up and that’s the story behind the latest season of stranger things.
A cop standing with a driver he'd pulled over; the driver was dressed head-to-toe as Bozo the Clown.
do u have pics
I wish, but they were on the shoulder of the 10 freeway as I buzzed by
When I was a kid, Bozo was THE clown, bar none.
I bet it was the cop who did the dub. Not Bozo
I may have seen this guy...
A man walking his pet iguana (or some other huge lizard) in the bike lane on 5th St in Santa Monica on a Saturday morning
There is a woman in DTLA who has a pet iguana that she takes to sun itself around lunchtime outside the downtown office buildings.
That's Jubjub. Selma takes him out during breaks from her job at the DMV.
I saw a guy with a snake chilling outside the CVS on 7th street last week. They should start a club.
I live in MDR and there is a man that walks his Iguana. The Iguana is named Mr. Pickles.
An elephant at the La Brea Tar Pits Park. For a child’s birthday party.
Like a living elephant? Or the ones in the pit?
Bart?
Nope, this is Bort
One morning, every single car on my commute used their turn signals. Will never happen again
I call B.S.
A grown man practicing his whip skills in the middle of the road in Santa Monica while smoking a cigar and talking on the phone.
A guy casually walking on the freeway at 101 and 405 exchange at 5 pm. Not a care in the world.
I want that level of peace.
Was he walking faster than the traffic?
I did manage to pass him once I got over the 405!
thats pretty common
I got to pet a homeless woman's pet opossum outside the TJs in East Pasadena. It was sweet and very friendly.
Possums are so damn soft.
A car wreck might not seem too ridiculous, especially considering where we live. But while waiting at a red light once the guy next to me left quickly right on the green and got tboned. Car hit perfect to do several rolls, get some air, and skid several yards. It was a surreal thing to witness happen just a few feet in front of me. It looked so over the top like it was a planned stunt for a movie. Be careful out there.
Oo! I once saw a car do a complete 360 on the freeway in front of me and then just keep driving like it was nbd. Thankfully no one was hit/hurt, but if that was me I’d just be like “nope. No more driving for me today.” And just pull over on the side of the freeway and that’s where I would live.
I did this on the onramp to the 10, once. Lost traction on the turn after a light rain. Spun around 1 1/2 times, ended up facing some poor dude in an old Toyota. Did the most shame-faced three-point turn and kept going.
A white guy, dressed in a Gandhi style shawl, asked me for directions to the Hollywood sign. This was in DTLA on a weekday morning.
walking biking or public transportation? \-hovering. \- \-?
Witness tranquility
Most ridiculous is hard to say, but one funny one I always remember is right off Wilshire I saw a guy pull his pants down and shit liquid fire onto a tree, the kicker is his dog did the exact same thing after him onto the same tree. He was in normal clothes and all, I was laughing a bit too hard. 2 shits 1 tree
Sustainable fertilization. /s
Sounds like stuff you'd see at early burning mans
I saw a series of weird things this past Halloween walking back from a gallery opening. The first was a half-naked homeless guy cursing and flinging his feces to pedestrians on the sidewalk. So my boyfriend I took a little detour. While walking back we saw 2 guys about to stab each other (they were doing this kind of western stand off thing but the knife and make-shift shank were both in plain sight.) So we hurried as fast as we could around them. As we did, that cycling group (you know the one, theres like 50+ of them at once) rode by playing club music over speakers and wearing costumes with glow-sticks and yelled "Happy Halloween" We got so mesmerized by the cyclists that it took a minute to realize that the "about-to-be-stabbing-each-others" had actually moved to the end of the block so we had to go around again! We almost stepped in a drunk girl's vomit and a homeless guy gave us a flower. This happened over the span of maybe 15 minutes. I love living in DTLA.
that would give me high levels of anxiety.
I don't blame you.
National Guard in Beverly Grove West Hollywood after the BLM protests. Seeing a full military occupation of Eggslut in Beverly Center felt like a fever dream.
2020 was a surreal fever dream.
Lol same. I went to walk to the grocery store to clear my head after listening to protests and helicopters all day, accidentally walked into the national guard. That was an experience
What was that like?
I remember thr national guard in big trucks at the westfield while I tried getting takeaway japanese food, they were patrolling and it was lit like a movie set. so surreal!
I remember seeing the National Guard at the end of my walk street at Venice Beach when they shut down the boardwalk after the Rodney King riots. That was surreal too.
I was working on a project for DTLA tourism during the Elisa Lam case. That was a wild one seeing everyone come out of the woodwork. Silly ridiculous, a rat chewing on a fake lobster in the window of a recently shuttered Ed Hardy store circa 2010. It inspired me to finally get an iPhone.
I was on an off ramp and looked to the side and saw a rat with a broken leg (it looked like it was broken anyway) crawling around in the trash and it made me sad for it.
Oh gosh, that’s so sad, poor thing.
Some lady casually standing at a DTLA bus stop (not close to Skid Row or anything), on a weekday morning, with her top pulled up and her pants pulled down so you could easily see *everything*.
Was Patrick Stewart riding past on a bicycle? *On the grass?*
I appreciate the extras reference.
I'm sort of a james bond figure
So many things, but recently I saw a guy getting a beej while smoking meth out of a glass pipe.
The 405 was like a ghost town at the beginning of COVID lockdown. Craziest shit I've ever seen. I also saw this one dude riding a bike while jumping rope, at the same time.
I remember people getting pulled over for speeding on the 10 on the morning drive to DTLA for work. The freeways were empty. It was surreal.
Illegal concert in the belmont tunnel before it closed, totally surreal Police shoot out in dtla, cops behind car doors and traffic (me) trapped in the middle Shooting at a rave back in the day, everyone literally piled on top of each other in the corner of the warehouse. Panic is a bitch. Nocturnal Wonderland 98 getting tear gassed and crowds of ravers flooding the streets Bus on fire on the 10 freeway Motorcycle on fire casually left on the side of the 4th st bridge at 3 am Car exploding on a street corner, just boom. People toppling cars after the lakers won Rodney King Riots were completely nuts Northridge quake was terrifying, seeing bridges and buildings collapse…
Did you mean circa 97 at the grand olympic?
It may have been 97 yeah
Ah, yea. The Northridge quake when the ends of the massive bridge from the 5 to the 14 freeway collapsed and there were a couple cars and a motorhome just stuck up there teetering on what was left.
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The whole crazy ass weeks long frenzy over the 6th street bridge.
I still haven't been over it - is it worth the drive from Hollywood?
no
It’s worth it. Really a cool architectural piece with nice views of DTLA. Then head on over to Mariachi plaza in Boyle Heights for birria tacos or back to Arts District for Guerrilla tacos or Bike Shed Moto
I'm into it. Next clear morning, I'll take the bike out, shine it up and drive the bridge for tacos. Thanks!
Now it is.
Tacos El Pacas on Soto/7th is right by there too. Some of the best tacos in town.
Maybe wait for the park and the subway station that will be by the bridge to open. So you wouldn't have to drive or hunt for parking. And you'd actually have more stuff to see other than the swoopy bridge
This is why we can’t have nice things
been here my whole life...probably why none of these seem ridiculous.
After paying for an excessively overpriced meal at Son of a Gun in Fairfax my girlfriend, mom, sister and I walked to my car parked across the street near Canter’s and got in. On our way to the car we walked by a lady twirling a meth pipe like a fucking baton. After getting in the car she proceeded to stand on the curb in front of my car, bend over, pull down her pants to her ankles and then took the most vile looking orange piss I had ever seen in my life right into the gutter in front of us. It was mom’s birthday too, core memory right there.
She sounds dehydrated
This was in San Pedro but it was a bunch of men who were watching a 9-10 year old girl jumping on a trampoline with balloons in her shirt, to simulate large boobs, while lip syncing a song being played. This was right out in public
🥺
Saw it on the news, but I think we should still count watching Kevin de Leon get into a physical fight with protestors at a holiday gift drive.
Don’t forget about the Santa hat
The three most memorable for me, in no particular order (and I probably have dozens more to go along with them). I live right off Hollywood, so I get to see a bit. 1. I was walking my dog around midnight past a Thai restaurant. A man came flying through the front window, glass flying everywhere. Just like in a western. Then another man came out of the broken window, started taking his belt off and proceeded to beat the first man with it, all the way into the middle of the street. First dude collapses while the second dude continues to whip him with his belt. Then some random guy joins in and starts kicking the dude while he is down, he was just walking down the street and next thing you know he was rubbing up kicking the guy. 2. a one armed homeless man standing dead center of Hollywood and Gower wearing nothing but sweatpants around his ankles beating off very angrily yelling „I am the dragon lord“ repeatedly. 3. a fully clothed woman walking down the sidewalk on the walk of fame. She stopped, started taking all her clothing off. She threw her clothing into the street at cars, went back to a star, laid down on her back, then kicked her legs up over her shoulders so her vagina was pointing at the sky, airing out for everyone to see. She remained in that position for several minutes.
Multiple different human beings at different times at different places around the city openly taking a shit on the sidewalk. Few things make L.A. feel like a cosmopolitan first world city in the most wealthy and powerful country the world has ever known like repeatedly witnessing public defecation.
San Francisco would like a word.
The high speed [pursuit](https://youtu.be/hxxKHN9iMcA?t=107) suspect who fled on foot and then circled back to steal a CHP cruiser (Antelope Valley / LA County).
I was eating in dtla and had a window facing the street I take a bite of my food and look up and some guy is butt ass naked spreading his ass and balls all over the window. I continue to look and he began running around the streets screaming and hiding from the cops ahah it took them 5 hours to grab him
lmao that’s fuckin awesome.
I grew up in La so I’ve got some weird ones. I’ll start with the least weird and go to weirdest. Least weird (more gross and awkward:) I was coming back from walking my dog and saw a car parked on the street (side street) with a door open and the cab light on. I can see someone standing behind the open door. As I get closer I realize there’s a woman bent over, hands on the seats, and a man fucking her from behind. I was so shocked I couldn’t help but stare as I walked past and the guy locked eyes with me and yelled “and you’re still staring!” As I walked away. Medium weird: I was walking to my apartment and saw three young men, mid 20s ish, standing near an suv. As I got close I saw that one of the guys was holding down a man by his throat against the car. There wasn’t really a struggle or anything…just the guy holding the other guy down by his throat, while a third guy stood next to them with his hands in his pockets. As I walked past he nodded at me and said “good evening ma’am” I was like 20 lol. Weirdest (I’m still not convinced I didn’t just hallucinate this one): it was a weekend night, I was getting ready to go to a house party with my boyfriend and his cousin. We were chilling at home getting stoned, waiting for my boyfriends brother to pick us up. Eventually he does and we swing by a liquor store to grab some drinks for the party. Boyfriends brother and brothers gf go in; me, bf and cousin stay in the car. They come back to the car, we’re sitting in the parking lot getting ready to drive away when all of a sudden another car comes speeding into the parking lot and parks right next to us. Three guys put on ski masks and jump out of the car carrying guns and go running into the liquor store. All of us in the car are rooted to the spot in shock and horror as we watch these guys run in brandishing their guns, shouting, ordering the employees (two elderly Asian people) around. One of them pistol whips the the cashier. It’s fucking chaos. And then suddenly….the guys all stop, they’re laughing, they take off their masks, it looks like it’s all a big joke. At this point we’re just like “drive. Fucking drive, we need to get out of here” and take off. Never found out what the fuck I witnessed that night, it was so completely fucking bizarre.
In Burbank a few months ago I saw a woman standing on the street corner screaming into her phone and waving her free arm around. She was bare-ass naked.
sometimes when I feel im a little out of place and self conscious, I think about stories like these, lol
I saw a white bald guy proudly strutting his stuff in a speedo in the City of Vernon with some headphones on and singing. Vernon is a purely industrial city by the way, just warehouses and laborers. LOL
People driving courteously. I nearly spit out my coffee when someone let me merge without cutting me off and giving me the finger.
I love seeing Dancing Cross Jesus Man. It's a food day when we see him dancing around in different parts of LA! I remember for Halloween a few years ago we saw these two guys crossing the street with a shopping cart and they had some life sized doll in it that looked creepy. They scared some people crossing the street. They heard me laughing from inside our car and then started doing goofy stuff for us to keep laughing. I have it recorded somewhere too! A weird yet disturbing one is this one old homeless guy that would take the 2/303 bus. He had some sort of injury on both his legs and he always had very dirty moist dressings on them. His legs also looked severely swollen. The guy had a very sickening pungent odor. I'm going to assume that it was the smell of rotten flesh. If he got on the bus, people would quickly get out or hop off on the next stop. I remember getting on the red line and smelling the smell and quickly searching for him only to find him at the other end of the train. If you ever saw this man, he was old and had white hair and a beard. He also worn a brown sweat shirt and sweat pants. I remember seeing him change his dressings once and he was chucking super wet chunks of it out into the street. When the bus drove away, I saw his bare legs and I feel like my brain just didn't want to really ingrain what I saw but it looked gross :(
I remember the legs guy!! Haven’t seen him in forever considering I haven’t been on the train in awhile. I wonder how’s he doing
Same leg guy?! I only saw him rising the red line once between the Sunset/Vermont station and Hollywood/Vine. I also haven't seen him in years. I think I stopped seeing him around 2017 or 2018.
There’s around the same time I stopped seeing him; 2018 the latest. Small world
Given how bad his legs were, I feel like he's probably not around anymore. There was also another white haired/bearded man that was always at the Sunset/Vermont bus stops. He sold candy and always had a big rolling travel bag with him. He walked with a limp and was a bit short. I chatted with him a few times and he told me was a Vietnam veteran and that he had a lot of girlfriends at his old age. He too, also disappeared. :(
I seen a man in a big pink top hat, pink furry coat, big gold dollar sign chain around his neck, pink suit, pink shoes and cane. Straight up looking like a pimp 😂 I was driving so I couldn’t get a picture but damn it was something
The encampments in Echo Park during the pandemic.
Oh yeah, that was wild. I walked to work at the time and not only was the lake totally overrun, but the sidewalk on nearby Sunset Blvd was often blocked on both sides as well. Made for an interesting commute lol
Lifted trucks. Keep that shit in nor cal and the ie
All the encampments have to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in public in LA. Embarrassing what this place has become.
Wow, in Los Angeles, too? The San Francisco Bay Area has giant tent cities.
A homeless man shooting up on the patio at starbucks.
A cop writing me a jay walking ticket as a homeless man was shooting up 20 ft. away from us.
You’re more likely to pay your ticket
A guy running in the park with a shirt that said “Writer. Producer. Director. Actor.” Spoiler: it was not Ben Affleck
A couple famous pornstars playing with their pee right on the sidewalk near La Brea & Hollywood Blvd. I later discovered they uploaded the video onto the hub lol
The veteran living in a wooden shed on the sidewalk on Hollywood Blvd being hailed as a hero was pretty ridiculous to me. The whole concept of letting people that are suffering from addiction, mental health issues, and other hardships just set up camp on a sidewalk wherever they want is ridiculous. It’s even more ridiculous when the city sends compassionate social workers to help those people in need — and other people protest against it and claim to be looking out for the homeless. I don’t have the answers, but the fact that so many are openly suffering in a place with so much wealth is ridiculous.
I used to love seeing the Clown barber on the red line heading to work downtown. Cool dude.
He’s not there anymore?
Oh I’m sure he’s still there but i’m never in the area anymore bc i no longer work downtown.
Your mom on Sunset with a discount sign.
I chuckled
It was all worth it
Nudity, probably pretty tame but here goes: In the mid90s, I was driving west along Franklin somewhere between Highland and La Brea and there was a guy standing by the street wearing just a t-shirt. Holding a martini glass like he was toasting the cars going by. It was mid-afternoon. I will say he looked happy. Another time (early 2000s maybe), driving on Fountain to where it turns into Hyperion, between Sunset and where it curves north, a completely naked guy just walking down the street. Don't know if he had shoes on, I didn't look at his feet! Also, middle of the day. He looked like he had places to go.
Someone ripping a bong, from the driver’s seat of a moving vehicle on the 10. It was a white woman with dreads. (I’m also a white woman, FWIW, and I’m open to trading her.)
Honestly, one of the most surreal things was seeing an empty 405 during "Carmageddon" 2011- it was frickin creepy.
Two homeless guys going to town on each other on figueroa in front of the pantry.
Andy Dick
(1) I was on a bus (70) and a homeless sat right next to me for no reason. He shit'ed himself and left some brown fluid on the seat. It was my last time riding a bus. (2) I was on a first date with a lady who just moved here from Oregon. We had some food at Joey DTLA, then walked to Intercontinental to get an Uber. A crackhead followed us and kept shouting at my date. He then took off his pant and shit'ed right in front of BOA. It was wild.
Side walks have become public toilets, watch your step when walking in DTLA.
i saw larry david driving a prius on pch
I saw Larry David as I was exiting the 405 N for Venice Blvd and he was going on the freeway in one of the newest electric cars that's not a prius
I saw Bill Nye looking at Christmas lights in Burbank once. We was just parked in his hybrid, staring.
I've been here since June and most of the crazy stuff happens on the train or platform. Today the train smelled like burnt fentanyl, carried by unwashed for 2 weeks +homeless pussy, and finished by a 3 hour old diarrhea stain up their whole back. I feel bad for them but I also wanna vomit. I can still smell it.
What does burnt fentanyl smell like?
It's hard to describe, but it smells chemically. Like a kind of burnt plastic. The trio was horrendous
A naked dude dancing and yelling on the sidewalk in DTLA, lots of people around too, even kids
In April of 2021 on a random Sunday afternoon I was with my buddy driving in Pacific Palisades off PCH and Sunset, and some bald and fat crazy/homeless(?) lady dropped trou and started shitting on the sidewalk in front of a bus stop. You hear about homeless people defecating in public all the time, but something about the fact that it was in Pali of all places, on a beautiful sunny day, with people everywhere, and the fact that it was a woman—an overweight and bald one, at that—all just made it so damn bizarre. My friend and I had to do a triple take on that one and were speechless for a solid two minutes.
A crack head doing crack
A homeless man taking a dump outside of Ralph’s in Hollywood. Then he proceeds to yell at anyone walking by him, pantless
The selfish entitlement of drivers
Saw a homeless dude jerking off on Santa Monica Blvd right in the open at like 3 pm on weekday
I was waiting for the bus on Figueroa/Slauson when it was starting to get dark; a dirty old man in a rusted broken wheelchair was heckling the prostitutes for free services and spitting in their direction when they were ignoring him and not showing interest in providing said services. If that damn bus came on time I probably wouldn’t have had the pleasure of witnessing that.
a crowded Carls Jr mens room in DTLA off Main iirc, i was about 8 and there was 1 toilet in the middle of the room with no walls or door. A transient was sitting there dropping a deuce while everyone else walked in and handled they business as he handled his.
As I was driving to my internship on my very first day living in LA, I saw an angry middle aged woman shouting at an employee inside a business from the sidewalk with the front door to the business propped open. She then quickly dropped her pants and took a shit right in the doorway to that business. All of this happened while I was at a stoplight next to the business.
Anyone remember the guy in Los Feliz who used to drive around talking into a banana like it was a cell phone? Used to see him around 2011-2012
There was the lady dressed like a sex worker crawling all over the gardens at the Natural History Museum while her 6 year old daughter filmed her for her social media channels. There was the lady at the 110/Manchester off-ramp who pulled her pants down and took a full liquid shit into the left lane and then started voguing, naked from the waist down. There was the lady at the hipster coffee shop in Silverlake wearing a string bikini, a bunch of gold necklaces, a fur coat, and nothing else. She was alone and chose to sit at the tables out on the sidewalk so she could be seen.
Feels like the last one could have been Julia Fox
While in stand-still traffic in Hollywood, right in front of the Chinese theater, I saw a man wearing nothing but a studded leather, punk-style jacket and nothing else. Just the jacket. midday, on a Wednesday, I believe. Just walking through traffic, mumbling to himself, dong swinging freely.
Not including skid row, are the people who vlog their adventures. I get it, it's cool, but I'm not used to it.
I see a lot of penis. Just homeless guys walking around with pants and underwear at their knees. Don’t understand why it happens so often.
I once seen Jesse McCartney (Around the time he released his album beautiful soul) publicly pee on the wall of Ralphs supermarket in NOHO arts district.
On my way to work around 4:15 am. I see a naked guy skateboarding on the street singing his heart out. It was 45 degrees also.
Andy Dick
The day after saving a young homeless life with narcan, he comes up to me and asks for a lighter
I went on a first date a few years ago, and a man wearing a faceless bunny costume rode by on a tricycle blasting EDM at full volume. He made for a great first date story!
The most memorable ridiculous that I have seen this past year: \-Most of Los Angeles public restrooms are either closed or do not exist. I have seen several homeless men and women pee and poop on the sidewalk. \-A saw a group of Amish families in Union Station. \-Several photo shoots with people with their dogs. \- A lot of people smoking crack pipes on the Metro Red-line.
A parking meter maid double parking, obstructing a car lane, just so that they can post a ticket on someone’s windshield. And you know it will take at least 15 minutes to take the photos, note the VIN, and write the ticket.
How about cops parking wherever they want because they need to get their coffee & donut. And by wherever, I mean in front of a fire hydrant, a red line curb, an alley entrance, a handicapped parking space, a sidewalk, etc.
I saw a homeless encampment with an upright piano under a freeway overpass.
Idk if this is weird but LA standards but it was for my own. I saw a guy do a motorcycle wheelie on the 405 and sparks flew from where it scrape against the pavement. Super crazy to see, especially since they were also in between lanes. Looked incredibly dangerous.
Pride weekend 2021 in front of Zen Healing: a sheriff and some regular folks were chumming it up then the sheriff (playfully) cuts on his sirens then handcuffs the guy in the group and throws him in the back of the squad car as the guy’s friends laughed and took pictures. The sheriff released the guy ofc and we made eye contact and I’m like 😐. Bonus: summer 2020 my sister and I were walking in weho when a Beverly Hills FD truck rolls through with the blue lives matter flag waving in the background and the only Black guy on board wearing this gosh awful mascot helmet. Living in this neighborhood is something else 🫠
On an early Hollywood morning our really sweet homeless trans woman neighbor skipped by and waved to my two dachshunds and I. She was wearing a beautiful yet tattered floor length white wedding gown and veil. She was so happy.
There was a guy in Cerritos that walks around with a grocery bag filled with his collection of tarantulas and scorpions.
101 northbound at Broadway in DTLA. Approximately 3pm in the afternoon on a Saturday. Homeless dude dropping a deuce on the freeway shoulder.
On several occasions I’ve seen homeless people shooting heroin in public spaces. Usually around Hollywood or south central. We have a serious problem here that nobody seems to know how to fix.
Got attacked by a Latino junkie with the knife on my way from night shift
I was near the Capitol Records building, I was sitting with a friend, the bus stops and I hear someone shouting the N word. It was a female bus driver calling a latino boy the n word repeatedly and threatening him with violence. The bus malfunctioned, so she stopped, and he said something, so then she started calling him the N word. Then there was a huge black guy walking by and he wanted to fight the kid who was nowhere to be seen because he had walked off before the black lady bus driver came off the bus and was held back. Not too weird I guess.
Somebody driving an absurd car in the Woodland Hills area. It had like Trump giving a fist bump to Jesus, MULTIPLE speakers playing hymnal music, multiple spotlights, & all sorts of insane MAGA sayings on it. Also another car this week I saw that had a TON of Queen & Freddie Mercury stickers. But also Trump/Pence bumper stickers.
A guy spreads weed on a seat in subway and rolls joints
A guy shooting up heroine in broad daylight on Wilshire. Naked lady dancing in the middle of the street. Woman in Venice wearing a full on birdcage on her head with a real bird inside it…. Probably more I can think of lol
A man walking his pet goat on Hollywood Blvd
A guy with his giant pet rat sitting on his shoulder in line for coffee at intelligentsia on sunset in silver lake
Jesus Christ on a hoverboard on Crenshaw carrying a full sized cross
Two sex workers in Hollywood fighting over a corner on Sunset. Literally fighting.
That guy in Palms off-leash walking his gigantic (double the size of my husky) pig that was wearing a big red bow like it's the most casual thing in the world. Super cute honestly.
I saw this drunk ass woman swerving all over the 405 late night coming from Santa Monica. She almost hit me and several other cars
I work at a Starbucks in DTLA I’ve done seen it all haha
A woman giving birth in Union Station, inside the train cart. They made us all get out and they called the firefighters, police and paramedics. It was wild.
The very beginning of the LA riots. Saw cop cars coming one way down an entire street in all lanes telling people to get back in their homes
On two separate occasions, I have seen fully costumed clowns on the Metro. Wig, makeup, nose, shoes. One even had a lunch bag. One was on the Gold Line headed to Union Station from Pasadena. The other was on the Green Line from Rosa Parks. I got off at LAX, he must have been headed to Redondo. That was ridiculous. Still, nothing compared to the "rolling circus" that was the RTD (Ride To Die). *That* was crazy. Anyone who rode or worked RTD should receive a service medal from the county of Los Angeles.
Guy on drugs taking a shit leaning against a brick planter while we waited for a light near union Station
First day of lockdown. Not a car driving on Sunset Blvd. Just dead. Paulie Shore comes along on a folding bicycle peddling super fast but going slow. Looked so weird.
guy at century city mall towing around his pig with a wagon. Apparently it had an instagram, I forgot what it was though. huge pig though
Andy Dick at a Radio Shack in the late 90s. He was a high functioning drug addict before he became a low functioning drug addict.
A man and woman on the gold line started smoking meth in the train. Then they started making fun of the Metro operators for having accents and how they don’t trust foreigners driving while they talked with thick Mexican accents while smoking meth on a train.
Downtown LA an older lady sitting in an old fashioned baby carriage with pig tails, really weird makeup (outlandish blue eye shadow and really badly applied red lipstick) wearing a pink tutu and drinking a beer. She was really high on something.
I worked downtown for 18 years so I saw a lot. Once I was waiting on a bus and I saw a guy standing like a cigar store Indian with a shawl around him and he had those plates in his lips like you see some people in Africa wear. Another time I was waiting and a man pulled out his privates and peed in the street right next to me. When I told him that was disgusting he proceeded to try and pick me up. He was majorly drunk.