Strangest thing to ever happen at your workplace (Page 2)

We had an employee put his car into drove rather than reverse and put a hole in the back wall of the building.  It was an OLD Buick with big steel bumpers, the front of the car wasn't damaged but the hood of the car was dented from all the bricks that fell on it.

We also had two women get into a fist fight over a bounced check and non-payment for a shipment of Tupperware.  

We had a job applicant come in in a small town I was running a shop in.   I talk to him, show him around.  He is kind of tweaky, and I have no intention of hiring him.   He leaves, driving a teal green Camaro convertable.   As he drives away, one of my supervisors rushes out and asks "who is that?"  I read the name off of the application.   She says "that's my car"!

The car was recovered that night from his garage, it was half way through an "extreem makeover" where he was parting it out for his own crashed up Camaro, filing down the vin numbers.

He gets out on bail and comes BACK to check on his application.   I told him simply that his references did not check out.

He wanted to be a driver. 

Holy **** this story just made my day. 

I've worked 25+ years in the restaurant industry, so I've seen my share.

Separated a guy and girl because I saw the guy reach over the table and punch her. He said "it's ok, she's my wife". Then it was time for him to go outside while I waited inside for the cops with her.

Had a guy grab one of the waitresses by the crotch and didn't understand why I was throwing him out for it. 

Off duty cop stopped his own car jacking right in front of me as he shot the suspect through his driver's side window, where the scumbag died instantly.

Had a car miss the turn at the intersection and barrel through the back half of the restaurant right at the end of a busy Friday night. An hour earlier and there would have been quite a few deaths.

Found a female catheter right outside out door in the middle of the day...used.

I've got hundreds...restaurants are a never-ending supply of wackjobs!

Dumbest criminal ever, perhaps?

Thankfully I wasn't working there yet when this happened...

5 dead

One of the guys who was injured I worked a lot with...almost all of the guys who were injured still worked there.  The company treated them pretty well - and give them that day off every year...although I'm not sure I'd want to get shot to get "the royal treatment".

The guy I worked with had a really bad year...when he finally came back to work - shortly after - he basically lit himself on fire.  Not on purpose...although how some of those guys treat the engines when they are running, you might argue it was on purpose.  Even a "cold" engine has 150 deg + fluids.  My (1st) boss there was very cautious - but I tried to listen to him when he said there are 3 rules here - and one was never gone in the cell when the engine was running.

Another guy was "nice" enough to take me on the "shooting tour" where he was able to point out where the bullet holes were.  They actually STILL had a trash can that was hit... (I didn't really want to go on the "tour" but he basically insisted...)

hahahahahaha!  Who would ever ask their co-worker to do something so gross that their spouse said no to??

CONGRATULATIONS!  You've done what hardly anyone else in the world has ever been able to do...  Leave the BFD speechless!  I'm just...  I mean...  The sheer...  DAMN!!!! 

Back in a day, I worked on a construction crew in rural Virginia. A couple of the guys on the crew grew a little pot on the side to supplement their incomes. Back then, in the late summer and early fall the state police and the national guard would fly over the entire county in helicopters looking for the marijuana plants that were ready to harvest, and call in "ground strikes" to sieze and burn the plants (and a whole lot of diesel fuel).

So it came to pass in those days that one of these guys had left some fairly well-grown plants in five gallon buckets in a relative's back yard.

When they heard and saw the helicopters fly over the job site (we were framing a house at the time) they dropped their tool belts right where they were and jumped into a pickup truck (open bed) and took off to retrieve the plants. I was kinda pissed because I was left to do the work by myself. Our boss was at another site that day.

When they returned (and yes, they returned) they told a tale of playing dodge-the-chopper with a truck load of five foot tall pot plants in the back of the truck. They had to toss out the plants into a ditch when the chopper got too close.

I am still in amazement at the amount of luck that some people have. Of course, one of the guys died in a DUI incident a few years later, and the other one is serving 10-20 for cooking meth, so maybe "luck" isn't really the right word.

Thank you.  thank you very much.

Worked as a bank teller during college and I was working at one of our "higher crime" branches when the teller at each end of the teller line was getting robbed at the same time. 

Note to bank robbers:  Don't rob a branch that is already in a high crime area (tend to be more cops in the area) and don't pick a bank where the owner goes out of his way to cater to the cops!

The robbers didn't know each other and both just happened to be robbing us at the same time.  Both got caught as they walked out of the bank.

That's not spooky, that's downright impossible!   I don't think I'll ever see that in my lifetime

One of my employees was an ER nurse for many years and nobody can top the stories of the things she has seen.  I think the ER is by far the most target rich environment for strange happenings.

A manager at a large manufacturing company had a BO problem.  It was brought to his attention by one of his co-workers in private as to not embarrass him.  A week later the employee that talked to the manager started to smell things in his office and thought he was having problems and checked his shoes and asked others if he was smelling bad also.  He was ready to go to the doctor, but at the end of the shift, I found a plastic baggy stapled  under his chair with dog poop in it.

I think all of the ER nurses should start their own thread, because they could probably go on for days!!!!

We had a semi rig left in neutral and coasted away from the dock. There was a forklift half on the truck that dropped five feet to the the ground. The forklift driver didn't even have time to catch his breath because he had to chase the rig down on foot, jump inside, and put the parking brake on.

Same job, night shift; The couple in the house across the street decided to have some fun with the window opened and the lights on. It is obviously on purpose too, they put on quite a show.

2 jobs later, we had a skunk wonder into the plant on night shift. It didn' t spray luckily, just nosed around and left.

I'm sure your right but have you ever been in a 24 hour Walmart at 2:am? All kinds of strange happenings. And then there are the customers.

PS. Don't ask me why I was in Walmart at 2:am. Mostly because I don't remember.

You're posting in my workplace. I don't think I need to say any more.