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Hello and welcome ladies and gentleman to Tuesdays Question which is, What Is The Funniest Or Most Outrageous Public Act You've Ever Witnessed? I watched a video on You Tube the other day of a woman dancing around a strippers pole at a fair. You could see people in the background walking by and staring unsure of what to do because it was so out of context and I guess she was acting a little bizarre.

Anyway, What funny or outrageous act have you witnessed in broad daylight? I wrote the funniest thing I've ever seen below, and I can't wait to hear all of your experiences. I will post your comments tomorrow with a link to your blog. Have fun, and thanks for being such great sports every week.

What's The Most Outrageous Public Act You've Ever Witnessed?
Read mine below



There were several lakes surrounding the university campus where I went to school years ago; therefore students were often accompanied by "duck beggar" families who followed them on their way to class, quaking away for their daily breakfast.

It was annoying, because they were loud and sometimes downright aggressive if you didn’t have something for them to eat. So it's not surprising that the funniest thing I've ever witnessed in public involved a family of ducks. One morning, while sitting by a duck commune, I was reading over my notes before a class, when I overheard a human couple arguing in front of a duck couple. Then the arguing couple and a gander's squawking began to blend together in an aggressive chorus loud enough to wake every creature within miles of the lake, in addition to the surrounding areas.

I felt sorry for the ducks, because this family wasn't following anyone. These ducks were minding their own business, trying to feed their ducklings breakfast and send them to duck school, when these people showed up and disturbed their morning. Therefore, daddy duck got a little perturbed by the human couples apparent rudeness and decided to let them have it. When the man realized he was being challenged, he put his hands in the air as if he were giving himself up for arrest, but Mr. Gander wasn’t having it, and continued to advance upon the guy.

Everyone around the lake, including me, started laughing while this poor man kept shouting for our help and backing away from his attacker. While the rest of the duck family squawked, the guy shouted and raised his fists as if demanding a fair fight from the creature…who continued his advance until he chased the guy down the sidewalk.

It was the funniest thing I believe I’ve ever witnessed, so funny that the memory of it makes me laugh as if it were yesterday.
Although, the best part of this story is yet to come. Later that afternoon, when I was in another class in the same building, I heard the same squawking, only this time I was in the inside of a classroom. There were two double doors at the entrance of a three hundred seat classroom with theater style seats. We could hear someone shouting “let go of me, ouch, let go of me” followed by more squawking, and honking, until the doors to the classroom flew open and both a new man and the same daddy duck burst inside the classroom. The man ran up the row of seats with daddy duck in hot pursuit nipping at his ankles... Finally someone latched onto both man and duck and the situation came to a screeching halt, leaving an entire classroom of students in hysterics from laughter.


That was the funniest act I've ever witnessed in public, what is yours?