"The Whole Store Went Quiet": 35 Public Horror Stories That Are Worse Than Any Horror Movie

A couple slapping the legs of their sunburnt toddler in the queue for the shuttle at Disneyworld because she was crying about her sunburn. That was 11 years ago and my son still talks about how horrified he was.

A parent get so mad at their child's small mistake she punched him in the face. The police were called.

Someone, or most of them anyway being ejected from their car during an accident. Wear your seat belt people.

Watched my best friend d*e on a sidewalk while I was walking to go grab a pizza to bring up to his place, to thank him for letting me crash there while I was sick and my AC was broken. The odds of me being the one to find him were pretty crazy. Went from having a really nice day to, "Ok they've been trying CPR for 5 minutes, I think he's d**d."

The part that really sucked is the cop who showed up kept pestering me about what d***s he took. He didn't do d***s. The cop didn't believe me. He also made me contact his family. At the hospital later, that same cop gave the news that he was d**d and quietly said, "There were no d***s in his system.".

A parent screaming at their kid in public so harshly that the whole store went quiet. The kid looked more embarrassed than scared, which somehow made it worse.

I suppose the sight of the kids drinking from the Bellagio pool while a drunk was relieving himself in it on the far side was disturbing.

We were going to visit my aunt and uncle, and my dad parked the car on the street. As we walked up the sidewalk, we passed a man sitting in his parked car. This guy was *screaming* into his cell phone, just *roaring* at the person on the other end. There was a look of absolute rage on his face, and he was slamming his fist against the wheel. We all murmured about how creepy it was and rushed inside.

A couple of hours later, we left the house…and found the street closed off, swarming with cop cars. There was no way for us to leave. There was crime scene tape surrounding the townhouse next door.

The guy we had seen in the parked car had hung up his phone, gone into his house, and sh*t his wife in front of their kids.

When I was ten I was at a day camp at the public beach in my hometown. My counselor’s boyfriend went for a swim and disappeared. My counselor became very worried and called the police. After about fifteen minutes, they found his body on the bottom of the lake and dragged it out on to the beach in front of all of us. My counselor became hysterical and had a mental breakdown right there.

I once lived on the same block as a popular bar. I got used to drunk people making noise when they left at 2 in the morning. But one morning, it was icy out and two drunk guys had been arguing in the bar. They proceeded to try to slug it out in front of my house, but they kept slipping on the ice and falling and yelling. I opened the window and shouted at them to knock it off. They then turned on me and started banging on the door and dared me to come out and fight them. I just called the police and they were arrested for public nuisance.

A boy about 11 or 12 years old, begging his mom to take them home. She was playing at a video lottery machine and ignoring him.

A few years ago went to Hawaii, we were waiting to go parasailing. Suddenly this little motorboat zooms up to the beach with a lifeless body they'd found in the ocean. They're doing CPR and finding a defibrillator from a local hotel. Took a while but paramedics come. They are working on him the whole time. But then the guy's family shows up. Wife and two teens. Also, it's Thanksgiving. Everyone is so silent then it occurs to the wife he isn't going to make it. She makes that noise, that gutteral grief noise. I took my friend and said let's get out of here, this is about to turn hysterical and we don't want to see any more of this emotional pain. It was so tragic.

It didn't even make the news, btw. There are so many accidents and drownings. Be careful in the ocean, friends.

Driving along minding my own business

a pickup truck, from far outside lane, floors the accelerator, cuts across the 4 lanes of the interstate, and smashes into the center bridge pylons as close to 100 mph. The brake lights never came on.

I didn't stop to render aid as there was already people stopped. But I did call police and rescue. I didn't stop, because the people there couldn't get the doors open, and I could see that the frame of the truck was warped badly. I knew that no one was alive in there, and I didn't need to see another d**d body.

Saw on the news later, father of 2, just got off the phone with his wife, arguing about child custody, decided to k**l himself and all his kids. And he succeeded. Everyone was d**d on impact.

I do not regret not stopping.

I saw a guy, about 6'4" or so, skinny as hell, no shirt, living outside here in a major US city. He was standing amidst all his stuff, and there was a pile of what I can only assume were h****n needles scattered around him. He only had one arm, and I would hazard a guess that he lost that arm because he was sh**ting up and it got infected. I remember a stat my friend told me once, that once that needle goes into your arm, your life expectancy drops to 3 years from that moment.

I saw that guy a few months ago.

2 homeless people doing it in a skip, from my living room window, in Scotland, in the rain.

I was a valet driver at an upscale hotel in the city. We had a shortcut alley we cut through we deemed "S**t Alley" because it was where all the homeless people took s***s. One day, I was running up the s**t alley when I seen a group of homeless people in a pile. When I ran up, they noticed me and I seen them quickly put their pants back on and try and leave as quickly as they could. I noticed an intoxicated female on the ground who didn't know where she was. I called the cops and stayed with her until they got there. I never saw her again but I think about her all the time.

Another time, same alley, I saw two men in a cubby and when I got closer, I seen that it was one homeless dude sh**ting up another homeless dude full of h****n in his a*s.

I hated that job.

A car hit a bicyclist. And drove away!

I was driving on the interstate and a piece of tire came out from under one of the cars in front of me. Then I realized it was a black stuffed animal. Then I had the horrible realization it was in fact a kitten that fell out from under a car. It bounced on the road then ran into the bushes. I took the nearest exit and doubled back to the spot where I saw it. Never found the little guy. 😔 Not sure if it survived we were going like 70 mph. Kittens are super resilient so who knows.

A homeless couple was passed out in the fetal position lying on the ground. The woman had her pants pulled down and had explosive diarrhea. It was a big disgusting rooster tail coming out of her a*s.

That’s just off the top of my head living downtown in a major city.

Pile of human feces on a seat in the subway. I always have manners when I’m getting on and off the train, but that time I literally pushed my way off when we got to the station, because I was a few seconds from throwing up from the smell.

A man jumping in front of an arriving train in a train station. I never forget how calm he laid his neck on the track.