Back when I was at UW in the 1990's I was running around Green Lake in Seattle on the first warm day out of the year (late May) and it was packed. On the big grassy area I saw a college girl wrestling down a college guy and she was kicking his ass. He was trying to win too as their friends were giving him a lot of shit.
She was hot too, I would have hit that.
When you've been running as long as I have, you've seen more crazy things than you can remember. I will tell you about the most convenient thing I've ever seen.
I was out on a Sunday for an over distance run of about 30 miles, I wan attempting this run, at least. The temperature was hot and the air was muggy. Needless to say, I was death marching by about mile 20. At 25 miles, I had an important choice: finish with the last 5 mile loop I had planned, or cut through the woods to my house, cutting the run short at about 26.5 miles. I chose the latter, and boy was I glad.
These woods were popular for hunters. Not the real hunters, mind you. Rather, the guys who would tell their wives they were hunting and then go sit in the woods, drinking beers for 10 hours to escape. As I approached a clearing in the woods, I saw a couple portable chairs, empty, and a cooler.
The cooler was filled. Yup, I made the decision to look inside the cooler. I'm sure many of you, if you've been in this position before, would've done the same. And so it goes that before finishing one of the more notorious death marches of my life, I was able to enjoy a frosty Budweiser, courtesy of the local "hunters." Not crazy, but certainly convenient.
Do you mean the funniest thing I saw while running, or the funniest thing I saw that was running?
I was about a mile and a half into my run, running on the sidewalk, running towards oncoming traffic. It was closer to evening time so there was not many cars on the road. All of a sudden a car driving head on to me swerves into the light pole right in front of me. The car ends up flipping over, my legs turned to cement, from where I was standing I could see the lady hanging upside down. A fire broke out and other people showed up to help her out, I found a water jug and put out the fire. There was food all over the floor, so I was suspecting she was reaching for food and pulled her steering wheel and lost control. Police, Fire, and Medics show up, they get my story, I turn around and run home. The newspaper stated she died at the hospital.
This whole experience really freaked me out and it was a while before I was able to go running again.
My favorite story was when I was waiting at a cross walk. There were several cars in two lines across the street aimed to drive past me when their light turned green. One of the two cars at the front of the lines had a small dog looking out an open back seat window. A pit bull was in a car with open windows a few cars back.
The pit bull jumped out of its own car, ran up to the car with the small dog, and jumped in the open back seat window. The driver freaked. She slammed on the gas pedal while turned looking over her shoulder into the back seat. She made it through the intersection without colliding with crossing traffic. However, she was shreaking and yelling in fear, swerving wildly, and was aimed in my general direction. My first instinct was to climb the nearest thing to me: a light pole. Lucky for me she slammed on the brakes after being slowed down by the curb and never made it closer than ten feet to me, as I was failing miserably to make it one inch up a pole that was seemingly made out of ice and covered in motor oil.
Anyways, the owner of the pit bull got out of their car, chased after the car on foot through the traffic and pulled the pit bull back out of the car through the window it had jumped into. They returned to their car with the pit bull being scolded with many "bad dogs". The light turned green immediately after and they drove through the intersection as the driver of the small dog yelled curses while perched atop the sidewalk. I left my pole and finished my run. Pretty anti-climactic but about half way through the event it seemed like it was going to be quite the story.
I was doing a cool down on a trail and saw a teammate getting it on with some girl. I was able to turn around and leave before they saw me. It was funny when I saw my friend an hour later and asked him if he enjoyed himself on the trail. The look on his face was priceless. I don't think they are going to chose that spot again.
A couple of months ago I was running on a fairly popular trail near where I live. People are ALWAYS running/walking on the trail.
About a quarter of a mile into my run I turn a corner, and I see two women in front of me. One was squatting on the ground while the other woman stood facing her. I run without my glasses, so initially I thought the squatter was wearing really white shorts. Once I got about twenty feet away she realizes that I'm running by, and in one swift movement she jumps from her position and pulls up her shorts at the same time. I ran by like nothing happened.
I ran by a couple of guys "hotboxing" in their car in a parking lot. I could smell the pot smoke a mile away. The inside of the car was so cloudy that I doubt they could even see me. I thought of calling the cops, but figured why ruin their high.
One day about 7 years ago I was running through an abandoned lot and I heard a crow in a tree as I ran by. About 30 seconds later, the crow started flying towards me with something in its mouth. Just as it flew over me it dropped something that almost hit me. It turned out to be an archery arrow and as it fell it penetrated the ground sticking straight up! I still have it too.