7 Weirdest Things I've Seen in America 

Awww...! Sweet story. I'm glad you were there! :-D

Oh my goodness! It’s Make Way for Ducklings in real life! ❤

Sweet!❤❤

That's awww-inspiring! Absolutely wonderful!

Ahh nice that you allowed the to live in your pond.

And they roll cheese wheels down a hill for sport

I was born in Colorado and grew up in San Diego CA. And you need to keep beans on toast outta your mouth. Lol you don't like it fine but it's great lol.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in San Diego CA. And you need to keep beans on toast outta your mouth. Lol you don't like it fine but it's great lol.

Sorry that was supposed to be much more fun and playful then it ended up sounding

Don’t come after our glorious beans on toast. We’ve gone to war for less. I’ll assume you’ve never experienced the joy of having beans on toasted sourdough bread, with a grating of mature cheddar over the top on a cold autumnal day so you’re forgiven

That still happens in the American South.

Also in Boston. People stop their cars and stand beside them. Sometimes they cross themselves.

as someone who has also worked in the resturant industry, i get where youre coming from. ive always thought that if one want to eat at any resturant, you have to work in one during dinner service for an hour or two. if people did that, theyd understand how hard everyone is working in front and back of the house to get food out in a timely manner, and patrons would be less jerks about it.

I noticed that too and Im new to the channel so I didn’t know if he had talked about him in earlier videos. If not he needs to.

Clearly, Brits aren't worried about firearms in Chicago. Chainsaws'll do it.

Welcome to Amurka. Where everyone has a Chainsaw Jim neighbor. I do!

Passed - Passed refers to movement. Past refers to time.

My take away, that must be totally normal where he's from.

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Wow!

Gators are fat, lazy dinos who generally ignore people when they're on land (very different story in the water, though, or when their babies are involved). Crocodiles, on the other hand, are far less tolerant of being used as speed bumps.

Maybe he traveled over to Gainseville because he heard that it's the home of the "Florida Gators!" 😉🐊😜

He must have been in torpor

😂 thank you for sharing!

Your friend should not be feeding the bears.

That is generally considered to be bad practice feeding the bears trains them to create a lot more opportunities for a negative interaction.

Bad choice in feeding the bear but I’m glad y’all didn’t die

A fed bear is a dead bear. Don't feed the bears.

We had a similar incident last summer. We discovered A mother racoon with two babies under our back porch. Not wanting them as permanent residents, I stomped loudly on the floor boards to scare them away. Mom grabbed one of the babies and headed for the nearby woods. Left alone, the remaining little one let out a blood curdling scream that was amazing loud for such a small creature. Thankfully mom shortly returned to cart it off too, and we never saw any of them again.

A group of raccoons is commonly referred to as a mob!!! 🤠👍

Sounds ds like working in any customer service job today..severely understaffed,,,,,. constantly.

1) TRUMP!

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Your example of something weird you've seen, right. Or are you lost?

@@Birdbike719 Weirdest thing in america Trump after trump being elected!

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 How about you run for president

LOL.

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I shudder to think where they would get it from in the kitchen.

@@brianmccarthy5557 from the box in the freezer labeled "Mrs. Pauls".

Don't most restaurants have a menu and are only set up to make items on their menu? Otherwise, they'd have to have endless ingredients ready for anything.

Not to be that guy but, cougars are actually the largest member of the small cat family

Yes, the cougar came in from Milwaukee and passed through my suburb. I think it took the Amtrak "Hiawatha" service between Milwaukee and Chicago . A cougar was hit by a car near hear just last month (October, 2022) on an expressway the other day, and another one was captured a week later in Springfield IL after wandering in from Nebraska.

@@MetroCSN Amazing!

I almost ran into a literal cougar while doing ski patrol in the Rockies.

They are of the genus _Puma_ , not _Panthera._

-To be fair, he probably gets paid better doing this.

Humour*

I'm guessing that they either aren't out and about early or, really, through the night. Coyotes are mostly nocturnal, although you can, and obviously he did, see them during the day. Wait until he sees a groundhog. They are very much acclimating to urban areas.

I live in a major city, but across from a nature preserve. a couple of times a year, when the big engines at the fire station down the block start their sirens, the coyote pups will start howling -- very very cute!

We have coy wolves here on the island. As well as regular coyotes. The population went from about 50 20 years ago to currently over 100. While they are mostly nocturnal we have started seeing them in the daytime. Some people report being followed with their little dogs on a dog walk around dusk. And lately they have adopted wolf behavior and you will see 3 or 4 of them on people security cameras hunting in a pack

Sounds like the racoons where I live. We have coyotes too, but the racoons are far smarter.

If you work odd hours or are otherwise driving or walking through just about any American suburb in the wee hours, you will definitely spot coyotes (and raccoons, amd possums amd barn owls, etc.) They're mostly too smart to come out in the day, but human trash, human pests, and human pets are far too good to pass up. (Also why you should always keep you cats indoors.)

The odd day. Between 3:30-5, I might be up for it 😅

I definitely would! (and I probably couldn't resist a little cheating if necessary.)

In Wisconsin the pigs also get an oreo cookie for winning the race :)

@@cherispitzer7115 that's so Wisconsin, it's almost Canadian! 🙂

@RogerWilco99 I'm sure you're probably right. I had an uncle who raised them. It would never have occurred to him to feed them people food (he was a contemporary of my father's, who was born and raised during the depression).

Jerry Clower.

@@richarddavis6133 Yes, I grew up to listening to h is 8 tracks with my father (who was from Mississippi himself). I later bought CD myself.

Out in the country, we didn't have mortuaries and so it was always customary for the undertaker to do his job and lay your kin out right there at home. Well the church would loan ya folding chairs and you'd have visitation and everything right there but when the nighttime come you had to sit up with the dead because it wasn't right to leave 'em alone. Well, the last time I sat up was '65 when my old arthritic Uncle Fred died. He was 97 and so stooped over the morticians couldn't straighten him out. They used a logging chain to hold him down and covered that all up with a cape and a gown and didn't tell nobody in the family because that's the kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about. Well we were all sitting there; it was 3 in the morning and then there come up a cloud, a-thunder lightning and storming. Well, that lightning flashed and that thunder clapped and that chain around old Uncle Fred went 'snap' and rattled and fell to the floor with a thump and Uncle Fred just sat right up! Well when Uncle Fred sat up, so did everyone there and there came a great parting of the folding chairs. And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said "Oh, I'm headin' out that kitchen door!" I said "Rev, that kitchen ain't got no door in it!" He said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute!" And I ain't never seen so much jumping and shoving before. And then somebody stepped on an old cat's tail. It let out a scream, a screech, a wail and to say the least, that howl didn't help to calm the situation down. And then that lighting flashed and that house went black and I spoke to my feets; I said "Boys, make tracks!" And I went out that screen door lickety split for town! Well I cut through the cemetary, fell in a hole. It was Uncle Fred's grave, and it was dark and cold! Yeah, the town drunk dug it and he dug it too deep and unbeknownst to me, he's still in there asleep and I'm scratchin' and jumpin' tryin' to get out of that hole and he woke up and said: "You might as well come over here and sit down beside me, boy, 'cause you ain't gettin' outta here tonight." But I did!

@@Regolith86 hysterical

@@Regolith86 "Sittin' up with the dead" by Ray Stevens.

The best part of a funeral procession is getting to drive through all the red lights

They do the "pull over out of respect" thing in North Carolina too- it is so frustrating sometimes Btw- I was born and raised Northwest of Chicago near the Wisconsin border

@RogerWilco99 if he robbed a bank he’d pull 40 years.

Funerals are such a weird thing in and of themselves. Most of my family forgo them. We all want to be cremated. No pomp, no ceremony, then dump the ashes somewhere nice. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust but without all the religious and creepy extras, like having people come up and stare at your lifeless body. WEIRD?!

@@bethsmith3421 That's why the Irish all get drunk and shit talk the dead guy.

Sorry for your loss. There are a few out there that I wish I could still be with, thanks for sharing

When I go to work, I am not really loyal to my company but to my co workers. I show upon time or not needlessly call out and come in if needed if it makes my co workers life just a little easier. I hated when other workers were so nonchalant about coming is 30 minutes late of call in to ditch work as if it didn’t matter that those that were there had to work harder.

I grew up in a college town. That's just game night. Be careful kicking any can you see the next day. Sometimes the tear gas doesn't go off when it's thrown, which means it'll pop with the next good jar...

There is a a fresco from Pompeii which shows a brawl between fans of two chariot race teams. There were deaths The then-emperor fixed the problem by banning all such races---for 10 years. Greeks talk. Romans act.

@@nicholashodges201 Hooliganism just seems so alien for someone from Texas. That's the kind of behavior that'll get you *shot* here (and *not* by police).

Scotland sounds like Britain's Florida. A bit colder though.

@@aaronaaronsen3360 Every nation has its "Florida."

Go Vols! Welcome to Tennessee and I hope you truly enjoy your new home.

Mennonites. Similar to Amish, do live in Kentucky and Tennessee. They use electricity, telephones, etc. And drive tractors everywhere.

Omg, the squirrel!

Even weirder, I saw a Mennonite (branch of Amish, I think) in Sam's Club with one of those giant flat carts fully loaded with boxes of TGIF Tater Skins snack chips. And nothing else. I have so many questions ..

Amish and Mennonites are definitely in quite a number of states definitely not just Pennsylvania.

I'm only surprised that didn't happen in Texas.

Coyotes live in dens

​@@glenn6583 ...Which in a city could be in an abandoned building

Near me, there's a family of them that live in a drainage pipe in a park

I live in Anchorage, and am not surprised. They sometimes get Christmas tree lights tangled in their antlers. They eat the trees, so when they’re stripped off the bark, the lights can get tangled in their antlers

@@jentoby73 I live in Juneau. That was something I saw years ago in the Anchorage paper in the news rack at the local grocery store. I do get more than my fair share of black bears in the yard usually trying to get in the trash dumpster. It makes for a big mess. Moose don't like it around here in that there is not the kind of browse they seek.

Thats what I said, man I love going to it

I think you got caught in a David Lynch movie in a parallel universe.

There's actually a whole monastery just outside of Bloomington.

@@brianmccarthy5557 nope, just Bloomington. Most of the town is either medicated or needs to be medicated. The Dali Lama's nephew lives there, so he visits a lot, so there's a monastery. The "locals" are San Francisco/NYC type "liberal", so there's not many that will give permission to hunt. So you see a lot of critters along side the road that aren't typical roadkill. You also don't see many open hunters/gun owners. That WILL cost you your job there. My best advice is to stay far, far away from that place. And if you have a child who wants to go there for IU, you need to slap them until they regain their senses or brains start to leak from their ears. "Locals" is in scarequotes b/c well over 50% of the population are students who *never leave*, if you were born there, you're a "townie" and you spend most of you life trying to GTFO until you finally do.

@@ubernerd83 right next to a golf course. But I'm pretty sure the landhogs in the city council annexed it years ago

@@ubernerd83 Yes, it's just SE of town, on I think Snotty Road. I lived less than a mile from the Tibetan Temple for 3 years while attending IU. This was in the 90's, and I would be considered a townie. Bloomington is NOT what it used to be. I used to say that when I retire, I wanted to live in Bloomington. Not anymore, it's been ruined.

Raccoons are everywhere, like possums and skunks. Unlike coyotes they don't attack humans and are usually friendly neighbors. They usually live in a fairly limited territory and are familiar with the humans there. They are also domesticated animals in some areas. I 've seen them used as home security in New England.

Raccoons are wild animals. They are not domesticated.

@@jamiemoss3633 Not domesticated, but can still make great pets.

@@brianmccarthy5557 Coyotes attacking people is insanely insanely rare. Domesticated dogs attack people more often than coyotes or wolves. lol

The thing about urban areas in the US is that we have lots of wildlife that has gotten really good at living with us, and in the case of much of it that means avoiding us. In my suburban neighborhood I've seen deer, hawks, eagles, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, possums, and even turkeys on occasion. But you very rarely see any of them besides the birds and the squirrels. The successful ones avoid us!

I was in restaurant decades ago when I was informed that the cook was also the waitress. It was a small town that stayed open late and she did a remarkable job of cooking and waiting on tables. My guess is she probably had to do the dishes for some sorry a$$ manager that was too cheap to hire enough people; jerk rod!!!

Then there are the Burma Shave signs where each of four signs you'd pass would be one line of a poem, and the last sign would have Burma Shave on it as if a signature at the bottom.

@@ginnyjollykidd You're right it was Burma Shave not Barbasol. Thanks for catching that.

Yup. I've heard that Wal-Drug is a spectacular business there. No joke.

@@ginnyjollykidd Just went there last year. Some tourist traps transcend to become attractions in and of themselves; Wall Drug is the pinnacle of that category.

I was out for lunch with our church ladies. I told them I'd read waiters hate church groups because they demand so much service and leave lousy tips. Hint, hint. Sure enough, everyone left tiny tips anyhow. I left $30. I like doing random good deeds. I can feel proud of myself for decades off one! (I do more than one each decade ... 😂 )

And the looser was star of the barbeque.

Pot bellied pigs are pets and domestic animals. Very unusual to eat one. Very. The pigs were just having fun. Some pigs are trained to run in pig races and betting, along with prize money, does occur.

@@brianmccarthy5557 I believe Mark Hunter was just being facetious

@@brianmccarthy5557 I believe that in Asia, they're just common farm animals, and sources of meat, which is said to be quite tasty.

...and then, plenty of fresh barbecue! Yum!

PBS has a show that followed the Windy City's coyotes, saw them following people on sidewalks, staying in shadows, following dog walkers, ect. Estimated between 350 and 500 in the city, if I remember correctly.

​@@markrenfrow9873 yes, but do they pay taxes. ;)

I understand hamsters are good eating, too.

I've been there several times and it really is quite something. I'd advise anyone going, to take a jacket or sweatshirt because it's very cool in the caves. It was always very unnerving when the guides turned off their lights due to the suddenness of pitch black and the feeling of being so far underground.

Yes. Mammoth Cave is a constant 58°F, so a nice, insulated coat is advised.

I live there now and yes they are!

"There was usually alcohol involved" explains a lot about this country.

They have bed races annually in Louisville during Derby.

Where i grew up in rural Missouri, there's a small town community picnic involving an outhouse race. Sounds similar to your bed race. I'm guessing the costumes are hilarious?!

Was that Bedford? I'm from Altoona, and I remember seeing something about them on the local news. The Bedford Bed Races.

@@mournblade1066 no, it was Girard, a small town in the northwest corner outside of Erie.

Wow!!🐝🤗❤️

Isn't Colorado pretty famous for its bears? I mean, maybe if you're in downtown Denver or Boulder it might be a rare site, but I've always pictured Colorado as bear country.

That happened to a funeral procession I was in back in 2016. They actually did merge over in front of the car that was two cars in front of the car I was in. Then a minute later they got out of the procession because they arrived at their destination which was something stupid like a laundromat or grocery store. Definitely not something where it mattered if they got there half a minute earlier or not.

In the South this behavior will definitely get you a ticket and possibly arrested.

In a funeral procession for an elderly family member in the 1960s, one of my cousins(not their parent) got t-boned by someone trying cut through . Luckily they weren't hurt.

Yup. Customer service can be a complete nightmare!!! People have no empathy!

It really sounds like he needed to hear a kind word. My heart goes out to him, especially for trying to work though the situation.

I just bought a house a year ago. I brought up the subject of the trees between my yard and the neighbor on the left when I was talking to the neighbor on the right. I like the pine trees. She mentioned that a couple of years ago there were coyotes living there. She said if she walked out at night she would just see their eyes glowing in the dark. Yikes!

Coyotes in the midwest also interbreed with wolves, and the "coywolf" as it's known, does surprisingly well in urban and suburban environments. There's a cool PBS Nature documentary called "Meet the Coywolf", that goes into great detail the way these animals enter cities, navigate through them, hunting and living mostly out of sight, but you can occasionally catch a glimpse of them. It's very fascinating.

@@stormd If you paid attention during the documentary there's a chilling moment the narrator ignores. A young mother is with her toddler and a coywolf is closely observing them from broken cover. Those of us who hunt call that stalking the prey. They attack vulnerable humans. Not surprising that in Democrat cities actual wolves roam the streets and the idiots who vote Democrats into power have no problem with the decay of their waning civilization.

They can and do attack small children and the vunerable elderly, along with drunken and stoned homeless people. They commonly kill cats and smaller or elderly domestic dogs. You find their heads littering the area near their dens. Usually major urban areas don't do anything until somebody important is attacked. Much as what happens with crime. You get what you vote for.

@@stormd That was a cool documentary, I saw it also on PBS.

I did. Seen it in movies, now I know what it's called.

Actually, the one in the refrigerated case was a Subway, I believe, lol

@@LindaC616 A BUFFET!? For me?!🤣

They come down the river.

@@jefferyindorf699 lol, it was the drinks cooler

@@jmcg6189 And along railroad rights of way. Maybe some day they'll find out how beavers end up in Lincoln Park.

We have gone in the last 20 years from having 50 here on the island to > 100. About 4 years back, a friend of a friend from Perú was visiting me for July 4th. As we left the house which was an old brick mansion divided into apartments, we walked across the expansive lawn. All of a sudden, I saw a Coyote coming toward us on the diagonal. I shouted to 2 ladies who were walking in the street "heads up! Coyote! " They responded with "there's another one here in the bushes " and pointed at my right. That 1 emerged from the bushes, and the 2 of them Criss- crossed back-and-forth across the lawn in front of us, searching for squirrels and rabbits. On the way home after the fireworks, my friend was scared because it was dark. She kept asking "are they aggressive?" 🤣🤣 on the day she left as we went onto the bridge to the continent at 5:00 in the morning, in the cloverleaf on ramp there sat 1 of the biggest coyotes I have ever seen, just chillin', getting ready to start his day

@@LindaC616 They love using the centers of on and off ramp greenery for dens. It's such an unusual adaptation, but makes sense because roadkill means free breakfast delivered to their doorstep on the regular.

@ANPC 5493 true. And we're overdeveloped here, anyway. They go into the nearby cemeteries. Some of ours are coywolves. Very large, and increasingly, we are seeing them hunting in packs...

I'm shocked that there would be enough people that know how to drive a Model T to even make this plausible.

Oh that's beautiful!

Well at least the bulletproof vest on fire wasn't IN the road.

Someone brought a flamethrower to a gun fight

Same

State law in GA to pull over for a funeral procession.

I was always taught to pull over & stop for a funeral procession - first , to allow all the cars in the procession to stay together & second , out of respect because that is the final time anyone on earth will stop to honor / acknowledge the deceased .

@@litz13 yes I'm in GA and we pull over. It is the least anyone could do. I don't feel put out by it. I've only seen a procession a few times though. It doesn't happen with all funerals.

@@litz13 In Texas as well. I think that it's as much for traffic safety (there is always a police escort) as it is for respect.

Lol, shocked enough to say "well, no sh#$"?🤣🤣

I wonder what he would have thought about the Cannabis billboards they have in states were it is legal.

The ones by O'Hare are mostly for hair loss treatments.

It seems there are fewer billboards in Texas than in the 70’s

@@ronjohnson5070 they are slowly disappearing. Locally, I used to laugh at one in a town half an hour north of me. There's an avenue running through that has a speed max of 45mph, gets a lit of traffic for that reason, people can "bypass" the town, where speed limit is 25mph. There was a billboard that advertised "Swords! Daggers! Knives! Incense..." 😆

I grew up mostly in the northeast and had never heard of taking photos of the body (except like in Victorian times). Then once I was visiting my relatives in Georgia and they took out the old photos. Mixed in were all these photos of dead bodies. I was shocked it was just commonplace for them. They were like “oh that’s Aunt Bernice and this is Grandma Anne.” But then I only recently learned that open casket funerals don’t happen in Britain. Like Lawrence, this guy was saying how weird it is. And being American I guess, I see no problem with it and am surprised people look at us that way.

Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing any when I was growing up. Miss living there

When did they get banned? I’m from there and go back to visit often. Pretty sure I’ve seen them. 🤔

@@jodimurphy8440 like I said, some towns allow billboards. You won't see them along highways. Some personal homes may have a small personal sign of somekind, but not commercial. Its been that way a long time. I live in Willamette Valley.

I-84 through Ontario definitely has them. You can see them from the freeway for sure.

Vermont, where I grew up, also banned billboards on highways. They would interrupt the view of the natural beauty of the state, especially in the fall. 🍁🍂

I was amazed at how tiny the rabbits are in the California desert. My niece said "they don't get big here. They don't have anything to eat and cars ran over them before they got too big."" I used to love to watch her dog bound out into the yard every time we opened the door, chasing off the family of quail that was eating Lord knows what in the dirt that was their yard

I was going to mention these are my favorite billboards!

YEP! That is typical NC!

As a North Carolinian, can confirm.

Depends on the funeral. My father knew that he was going to die, and specified that he did not want anyone to cry. He said he wanted his fellow firemen to have a beer party for him. So they did!! My mother rented the town hall and they had a double kegger

I am from the same generation. Every year when my family and I, well part of my family and I, drove up North in Michigan, we would look for certain billboards along the way. Some of them had rhymes on them. One in particular that sticks in my memory is "fatty, fatty, run for your life! here comes skinny with a butcher knife!!" I don't recall what product it was advertising

Learning to read via billboards works great until you get to the GA/FL state line on I-75 and your parents have to answer your questions about why all the girls are XXX on all the signs.

@@LindaC616 50s kid. Reminds me of the Burma Shave ads

Having a family get together after a death with food and drink is normal for many of us. I'm shocked when people don't.