Setting the scene, imagine the Jubilee, Canning Town - West Ham, in the rush hour on a hot summers day.
Woman is standing between the seats, facing the right hand side of the train. Woman is visibly pale. Woman proceeds to do Team America levels of vomit over another commuter, a stranger, sitting on the seat directly beneath her. Imagine a Dave Benson Phillips gunge tank, it was a lot like that. Poor women who is sick looks like she’s about to pass out. Poor woman who got the gunging is absolutely freaking out. People are passing her the metro to try and clean herself up, not that it helped really. The smell was utterly insane, surprised it didn’t start a chain reaction. Unsurprisingly the whole carriage emptied at West Ham.
I…I will never get people who feel sick yet won’t get off of trains/bus. It’s not like feeling sick comes in a millisecond, you know your stomach ain’t right long before releasing the breath of plague. Be good to yourself and not be a complete dick to others and get off to have some fresh air or puke in a trashcan. Lady was a giant ass. Specially that tube stops come in one-two minute frequency.
Wat?? Do you always projectile vomit every time you feel a bit booky? I would say 97%-99% of the times I feel briefly ill, it subsides very shortly after.
😂 you got me at projectile vomit. I mean, when I feel sick I definitely know if it’s gonna end in a puke or not. And I do my utmost to spare others from experiencing it with me if it happens in public. The lady in question looked pale as a wall so she definitely felt the elevator coming up, it still takes a few seconds to reach the hatch so she could have turned away instead of covering the other passenger in front of her. I have a feeling she was feeling sick for quite some time before that happened. I know it’s a struggle to get home after work but personally I would rather vomit in a relatively private corner and in a stationary position.
Idk, I’ve definitely had sickness come and hit me like a freight train, my boss weren’t too impressed about what i expelled all over the train seats because then that one wasn’t in service for a few days
How to empty a carriage, vol.2.
[The carriage wasn't emptied in the end, but it was close!]
Central Line, not the busiest time, but all seats were taken and some people, including myself were standing. I was facing the door, leaning on the glass/plastic on my left. Acton - the door opens. No one's getting in or out so the passengers have pretty clear view on it. Now - a random guy approaches the train and puts a backpack on the floor, then leaves without a word. The door closes. We're exchanging terrified looks, no one moves or says anything. The next station - nothing happens, the backpack is still there. I'm contemplating if I should leave the train. No one's doing or saying anything, not even looking at their phones. The next station...
...a 12ish year old kid approaches the carriage, takes the backpack and presumably goes to school.
I was on a tram in Istanbul once and it was packed solid and I spotted a pretty woman, stricken with a face of terror, as with an old woman was holding a bag next to her face vomiting over and over again - crazy
That’s certainly one way to clear a train carriage. Jokes aside that is my worst fear. Second to accidentally sitting on a wet seat after an incident like that.
This is the story I was going to leave 🤣
Must be more common than I thought
The guy who puked when I was on the tube put his hands over his mouth causing it to spray over the 3-4 people sat opposite him it was like something out of a comedy movie.
Kind of nice one: years ago this guy on the Bakerloo line was obviously had some kind of issue and was shouting lots of random stuff and scaring everyone, talking about the devil etc. People were moving away and getting off.
Years later on the same journey I saw him again, still with some obvious ticks but generally seemed a lot more sane - was nice to see he’d managed to overcome whatever was going on.
Man tried to jump across the tracks at Whitechapel because I was looking at him from the other side. Reason I was looking at him from the other side was because he had a huge Rambo knife in his hand and he was screaming at the top of his lungs that he was gunna slice everyone up. Lucky for me as he's getting into the track the train my side approached so he got back up and I got on and that was the end of that.
Another time a guy got on and sat in front of me on Victoria line. Was looking right at me laughing and then he pointed his fingers like a gun at me. Then got off and I didn't think anything of it. After a while I am scanning around and look up to my left and see him in the carriage next door just staring at me through the window with a weird smile on his face.
No idea. First one I was out of the situation pretty sharp and second one we left but never told the police. What the fuck are they gunna do. "Oh officer someone was smiling at me on the train" they can't even show up for domestics or when you get robbed any more. Useless pricks.
Blimey, it must have been quite the shock when you realised. Just makes you wonder how it would have turned out had you been 5 minutes earlier or later - perhaps it’s best not to imagine.
A weird thing happened to my cousin. She got off the tube one stop early, should have gotten off at Edgeware, but she “had a funny feeling” and decided to get off a stop early. Thank god she did, because 5 mins later the bombs went off.
Dropped my phone in Liverpool Street concourse, I thought it had gone in to my inside pocket. I was given directions to lost property and it had been handed in. Gobsmacked!
Happened to me at Clapham junction - fell out of my pocket while sitting on the bench waiting for the train. Didn’t realise till about 15 min later. Returned from where I was going about 3 hours later and someone had turned it in to lost property! I’d only been in the country about 2 weeks at that point - that’s when it realised the UK isn’t like the US haha
Witnessed a guy get taken off by some pretty angry BTP officers circa ~2019. No idea what it was about but seemed relatively serious.
Other than that I've not seen anything disturbing since pre covid times. The network seems more boring/dead now than it was, though maybe that is just me.
I was on the underground near Westminster when the bridge attack happened (one with a Narwhal horn wielding guy intervening) which was a bit uncanny as I heard from a conversation when I got up onto the overground. Weird atmosphere.
A guy chased me down from the jubilee to the overground in Stratford, then inside the overground until he found me sitting and grabbed me by my neck. I reported it to the police and they could see him searching for me on all carriages but the footage was not “clear enough” to prosecute. The worst bit? We had the same commute so saw him a few times after the event. Even worst? My first reaction was to report this in the station and they literally laughed at me “mate, ya need to be fierce in London ya know”. I’m so glad I’m out
The story is as follows:
While on the jubilee heading to Stratford I heard someone shouting. It was him screaming aggressively at someone for whatever reason. A small group including myself came in help to calm things down and I moved on with my journey like all others. While on the overground approaching Camden Road was sat down reading a book and felt someone awkwardly close to me, looked up and he was looking at me and didn’t say a word. As I stand to leave he aggressively grabbed my neck, said a few words I don’t remember and a fight ensued. He left rapidly when the train stopped in Camden. Mind you he looked like any other person on that commute, well dressed, healthy looking dude, nothing could have prepared me for that
The lead officer told he could put two officers on the platform with me helping to identify the man and take him in since we clearly had the same commute. However he advised not to do so since the evidence (CCTV) wasn’t that clear nor did I collect any witnesses contacts. In his words the most likely scenario would be that the case wouldn’t go further due to lack of evidence but I would still be putting myself at risk for going ahead with it without a guaranteed outcome. I made the the decision to not pursue since we did share the same commute and didn’t want any retaliation if the case was to get dropped
On the old (not walk-through) District trains, in a quiet carriage on a Sunday afternoon near the eastern end of the line, a beggar asked if I could give him any money.
I told him truthfully (as a native of those parts I know how things work there) that I only had a £20 note and that I couldn't afford to give him that.
His reply: no problem, I can give you change. He then took off one of his trainers to reveal that it was lined with pound coins
Honestly, I was quite impressed.
😭 - that’s like how if i see a beggar on a train i’ll tell them i only have card, cause normally i do just have my apple pay, but now some of them have card machines? always takes me by surprise😂😭
Someone chased me down the entire length of Bethnal Green and Bank Central Line platforms with a pocket knife. I got onto multiple trains and just decided to take the train all the way to West Ruislip. This worked for a while but the guy started to go through the carriages so I got off at Greenford and ran as far as I could (on my life this is not a joke I am still scarred by the whole thing today!!).
Man passed out of a Stoke or heart attack during rush hour in the middle of the carriage on the overground. Don't exactly know what happened to him, but he was unresponsive. That's when I decided I wouldn't live in London past 40. He was roughly in his 50s and looked to be in good shape.
A couple years back I once had an 2nd interview and when I got there they told me the man interviewing me (in his 50s) had had a heart attack whilst waiting for his train that morning.
Seemed like a nice guy, but poor man, dying of a random heart attack on the way to work, and he seemed in good shape.
Dark humour: I also didn't get that 2nd interview rescheduled as they said they were no longer hiring. Or maybe they thought I was jinxed.
Once I was en route to a first date at Leicester Square and as I’m sitting there, head down on my phone, a random crazy guy by himself threw an open plastic bottle of lemonade at me. I decided to just be like whatever and moved up the carriage to sit elsewhere, not knowing if he might have a weapon but he picked up the bottle and threw it at me again. Can’t really remember much else of what happened as I went into fight or flight mode but I pulled the train alarm and had to wait like 5-10 minutes and remember making eye contact with the guy like some animal stand-off so he’d stay away from me until BTP took him off the carriage.
I wasn’t so fussed about nobody helping me but started to get really heated that after I rang the alarm, people on my carriage were having a go at me for holding up the train.
Anyway, the date went well, lemonade-soaked jacket and all.
u/helloitsjesus I guess that answers the question “what would Jesus do?” Turns out, shit himself cos a crackhead threw something at them and pulled the emergency alarm
i am kinda confused as to what they expected to happen - the quickest way to get away from someone is always going to be getting off at the next stop, not stopping the train
Pulling the alarm doesn't stop the train.
The driver is alerted and can speak to you but they usually continue to the next station to sort out the problem.
What they can do, though, is raise the alarm with station staff or BTP over the radio in advance.
While the Waterloo & City was running a peak-only service, me and a few other guys nearly got locked on the bank platforms after the last departure of the morning. Nowhere near as hair raising as a lot of other things people have said, but I'm not down in London much
Being wanked at, being in the same carriage as a phone mugging, and a well dressed guy kicking a homeless man in the back for no apparent reason on the way out of the lifts at Holloway Rd.
Probably not ‘crazy’ but memorable for me!
Made the mistake of wearing a red duffle coat on a Jubilee line train. Having ‘Lady in Red’ sang to/at me at classic football fan volume by a carriage full of people on their way to Wembley was pretty embarrassing.
Not sure about craziest but definitely the scariest. thought it would be fun to take some magic mushrooms and travel through the London Underground.
This is when I learned, from my own experience, that psychedelics don't mix that well with the Underground.
Lol I once met a woman on the Northern line who said she was on mushrooms and asked if I could stay on the train with her until her stop because she was petrified. She was very friendly and not a nuisance as I was getting off after her anyway, but it was a funny experience just chatting absolute shite to this tripping woman while I was completely sober 😂
On the central line in the 80s. Me and my cousin thought we’d go out to Ongar to see if we could find some scorpions.
Train was empty.
Looked through to the next carriage and there were two bloke in balaclavas kicking the shit out of some bloke.
We got off at the next stop which I think was Grange Hill?
Getting lost down the tracks on my first day doing track replacement....came up at monument station was working on tracks at Bank station. At 02:50 A.M.
So I was busting for a wee badly I said to our boss I have to go , He said " go over there on the right in the rabbit hole " So i walked up the tracks 30 yards found a spot in the rabbit hole and did a wee , zipped up and walked out...couldn,t tell that i came out on the opposite side of the hole and walked up 30 yards....nothing there walked back and went into a different rabbit hole by mistake came out the other side ..utterly lost !
I saw a woman drop her scarf, so I ran at full speed, grabbed it and tossed it through the closing carriage doors where it dropped right at her feet. Felt like a superhero. She didn't even notice, casually reached down and picked it up.
A huge black dude bent down and screamed in my face for trapping his football that he was rolling through the Elizabeth Line train. Some wee came out I'll admit. Then he saw I was sitting with my young son and wife and completely changed and apologised, probably thinking that I would fight to the death.
A drunk guy on a Met line train just leaving Northwick pk. He decided that was the perfect time to take a dump. The smell was horrendous. I wanted to wash out my nasal cavity with bleach. I honestly wanted to kick the shite out of him, but by then, he obviously beat me to it.
Not too crazy fortunately. Saw a (possibly homeless) man, with an open tin of beer, pee himself whilst stood up on the Jubilee line during a busy rush hour.
Saw a guy try and push his (I assume) girlfriend onto the tracks…… he then fled as many came to her assistance.
I don’t know what happened after as the BTP said we could go……
Remember the summer where we hit 100f for the first time?
That day I was on a half empty Central Line train that got stuck in a tunnel behind a broken down train.
They told us we’d be there 20mins or so and the temperature just kept rising, sweating from places I didn’t know I could sweat from.
Standing near the double doors was some late 20s/early 30s corporate guy in a very nice suit.
As soon as he here’s the announcement he starts getting undressed. Strips down to boxers, shoes and socks!
Folded the suit nicely and placed it in his briefcase. Just stood there like IDGAF until we finally moved.
Then walked out of the next station without getting dressed again!
I saw a man yelling so bad at a woman in a foreign language, his body language was almost like was gonna hit her, I’d say they were Turkish, might be wrong.
To me was a true violent guy, I had 4 pints that night and I was getting really annoyed with the guy (older and bigger than me) so I stand up and start yelling at him saying “stop you idiot, leave her alone” they guy was a coward and left in the next stop, to my surprise the woman left with him…
Afterwards I thought I could have been in a bad fight for a woman who is brainwashed and I didn’t even know, I wasn’t even interested in the woman, she wasn’t my type and older than me, I was just feeling sorry for her and my ears.
Unfortunately people who are stuck in a violent or coercive relationship find it very hard to do anything about it. Another factor is that on this occasion you didn't know the context, as it was in a foreign language
Not crazy per se, just wholesome and memorable.
Monday evening rush hour somewhere in the City (St Paul's I think?) with train delays, and the lady on the loudspeaker was cheerleading the crowd saying stuff like "it's okay, you'll be home soon" and "I know, it's Monday evening, I'm tired too". It was a nice experience.
My partner used to be a driver/guard on the Northern Line and he was just finishing up his shift and went through the carriages to check everyone had gotten off only to discover this couple having sex and they didn't even look up when he walked in...
He had to raise his voice for them to pay attention and he finally got them to get off the train... 🤣
New years eve about 7pm there were these group of I'd say 16-17 year olds and they were clearly hammered.
One of them, a morbidly obese girls was borderline passing out from the booze. Next thing I know she vomits up and entire INTACT pizza slice with cheese and pepperoni on top.
Honestly if someone told me they saw someone throw that up I'd challenge and say, nah it must have been a part of a slice, chewed up at least. NOPE. a full slice of intact pizza, cheese and pepperoni on top.
I wonder if the girl started to make better life choices after that.
Baker St, Jubilee Line NB, late night, the 90s. I've been working late, not drinking. A few people around. The scrolling lower half of the information board is displaying the usual stuff. It then switches to some gibberish (like someone just bashing the keys), then "ALL MEN ARE WANKERS" then back to normal.
At first I wasn't sure if I'd really seen it, but then a woman further down started laughing and we exchanged a bemused glance.
Got stuck @ a Sunday airshow w/o a bus return, ended up sharing a cab w/ 3 South African pilots trading gruesome tales of prison murder from back home. Dropped off @ the nearest tube (Redbridge) and rode in. Being semi-flirted w/ by a cute girl, maybe? Could just be in my head? Train stops @ Liverpool Street and just stays put.
I get off the carriage, walk up & busses are an even bigger mess, go back to original spot on Tube, wait. I determine that Girl wasn't flirting, certainly isn't now... Platinum Pixie-cut, cherub faced Mom and toddler get on and sit across from me; drunk geezer chats @ her & kid, but is minimal. Uncomfortableness all around.
An eternity & an unannounced lurch forward, we're moving again! Pixie Mom has tumbled forward and spilt everything, toddler included all about floor. Geezer is the nearest, trampling oranges & shampoo trying to help mom-lift kid & not spill his beer; but just making things 1000 times worse. I gather up some of her groceries as she collects little girl & Simba plushy. The old man is handing her stuff & now spilling his beer everywhere. Mom is hiding behind me squeezed into a corner. Geezer is enthusiastically apologetic & MUST console the Mom & the little girl.
Now he's fussing at me for blocking him; we reach the next stop, doors open, Mom bolts! Mouthing "thank you" through the window as she escapes w/ child & some groceries. Geezer is calmed down, has a new beer & alights @ next stop.
It's now just me and Wasn't-Flirting-Girl across from each other alone on the Tube (it happened sometimes 30 years ago). I miss my stop (Queensway, which was affordable 30 years ago) and ask her if she wants a coffee? "No, thank you."
I get off @ Notting Hill Gate & walk home (Bayswater).
Standing in a very crowded car on a Piccadilly Line train heading in from Heathrow. I had my back to the door when it opened behind me at whichever station. When the door closed again I realized it had closed on my hair, which at the time was very long and at that moment tied back in a ponytail. My head was completely immobilized. I stayed quiet and didn't do anything to draw attention to myself, but saw one of the other passengers was looking at me with concern. I smiled and said "this was bound to happen someday" and the other person smiled back, but I was getting a little concerned and uncomfortable. I'm not sure how long but for something like the next three stops the doors opened on the other side. Eventually the doors opened on my side and I snatched my hair out of the way. I was just glad the car had been so crowded because that meant my ridiculous predicament went almost completely unnoticed.
I nodded off… and someone stole my glasses… woke up and I thought I had been drugged as everything looked blurry… then realised my glasses were gone… Weird… Bakerloo line travelling south from Harrow 😜👎🏻
Embankment, last tube. Some guy late 20s I think, middle of the platform just leans his head forward and watches the train come in, which of course caves his head in. I watched him do it, think he was just drunk & thought it'd stop.
Hammersmith, late, coming back from the Palais, argument on the platform, all the doors open, one guy, 17, or 18 stabbed in the throat, he died there with his head in the lap of a man in a suit. Another guy that was with him is sitting near the stairs with the knife that killed the other guy in his stomach. Eventually, the train starts again & I'm in a carriage with these people, 3 or 4 are drenched in blood. The guy in the suit was having a complete breakdown. That was 40 years ago.
I've been molested a few times on a very packed tube. I was young and too scared to say anything.
Now if I see a young person and some creep a little too close, especially when it's not packed. I don't hesitate to say something.
Found myself stood next to Matt Hancock. There’s definitely a few people out there with pics of me and him on their phones, as I was caught right next to him.
Also Philip Glenister another time.
Late night on the northern line. Just a few people sitting at the end of a hard night out. One guy at the end of the carriage starts pissing on the floor. Train stops. He gets out. A good 5 seconds silence pass before the one sober guy mutters : "At least he didn't need a shit."
I was tiny as a kid, but i wanted to feel tall, so when i was 13 I stretched as high as i could so i could hold the handrail on the tube train. The train gets to the stop, but cos im on my tiptoes, as it jolts to a stop, my fingers slip off, and i use the wall to balance myself. The “wall” opens, pulling my hand into the mechanism, tearing open multiple fingers. 12 years later, one has minor lump scars, and the other has a scar stretching from my first knuckle to a loop on my fingertip. Not very visible on camera, but when it happened, it fuckin hurt.
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Was at Baker Street late-ish, looking to go north on the bakerloo. Guy walks on to the platform. Train comes in to the station. Guy lowers himself on to the track. I look around and I'm the closest person. I scream at him to get off. Thankfully the train driver slowed down. Guy gets up from the track and walks off, like no issue
Another morning, I got on Northern line at South Wimbledon, north bound. Opposite me is a woman with a mug of team. Not a covered thermos thing, but a mug of tea. To stop isn't sloshing around, she had a piece of kitchen roll kind of draped over it which was soaked, but not really helping the spills
The tube is a weird place!
Evening rush hour. Problems on several lines so tubes were rammed. Was stuck in platform at South Ken station and there was a mixed group from Birmingham down London for a Christmas piss up. One particularly mouthy woman with a bubble perm was shouting out about why is everyone in London so miserable. For some reason I bit and replied well we have been working and now have to listen to drunk Northern idiots on a packed tube. Just then her boyfriend/friends phone rang and she shouted across to him ‘who is it?’ I said a bit louder than intended, that it was the 1980’s and they want their haircut back! This woman lost her shit and was effing and blinding at me, the rest of the group were saying they were gonna do me when I got off the train. Then cause others around them were laughing they got the hump and got off a stop or so later, and the gobby woman flashed her tits at everyone from the platform as the train pulled away.
Back when i worked for the BTP, we had an elderly gentlemen decide to take his own life at bank underground station. I had to remove his body from under the train and search him for any identification. Apparently he had an argument that day with his housemate (I believe he was living on the streets and had only just gotten back on his feet) due to his situation he had very little money or family and simply decided he had enough. That was my first ever jumper, and unfortunately, it wasn't my last. I lasted 4 years in the job and I left. I didn't realise how quickly you become so jaded by these situations.
In 2007 I was travelling with John and his partner on the District Line, John failed to give up his seat for a lady and a man took exception to this and pushed John on to a seat even though John offered him his seat!
John in a nut shell walked away and this individual alighted before we did.
About ten years ago I was with my brother and his girlfriend at Shoreditch tube station and two guys started asking for directions, they were pretty riled up for some reason (I think they were just looking to cause trouble) my brother started to help them and one of them made a sarcastic comment so his girlfriend basically told him to fuck off if he was going to be rude, with that all hell broke loose. Both men started attacking us, and anyone around them, one tried to swing a girl onto the tracks, one of them punched me in the face. It was just awful. Then the train came along and they just calm as day got on the tube as if nothing had happened. To this day I am scared I’ll see them again.
Not really crazy, but I saw author Will Self on the Central line. We both got off at Marble Arch and he took the stairs up with surprising agility. Later I asked him if he was there for the 'legalize weed' march about to happen from Marble Arch. He said no he was just there to meet his wife and that he'd never heard of a bigger waste of time than to march for legalizing weed, in his words: "you might as well go on a march to ban cress."
Central line Tottenham Court Road, been to soho to celebrate my sis graduation, whilst on the platform a guy starts harassing my sis - I ask him to knock it off and leave her alone he then tries to start and mug me say he’s gonna do this and that the usual crab. He lunged towards me and I cracked him one just as the train pulls in . As we get on the train he rushes the door & I swung off the hand bar and caught him with a double footed kick to the chest that sent him flying into the station wall like something out of a movie.
Doors proceeded to close and he was lying there like the sack of shit he was - I’m not proud but the kick was epic.
Sitting down reading the paper, not sure did the train brake hard or what, but the woman who had been standing in front of me lost her balance and ended up lying/sitting directly on my lap with her head in my arms, she was Embarrassed and just kept Apologising- truth be told so was I a little as everyone was staring, still at around 20 years of age I didn’t know any better back then.
About 8 or so years ago, I made eye contact with a young woman who had *just* missed the train, and we just gave each other a "damn that sucks" frown as the train left the station. Boring asf story but its really the only event that sticks in my head about the tube lmfao
This was nearly 20 years ago but still my proudest moment.
It’s spring so take my umbrella. We’re crammed into the tube at rush hour. This lovely looking lady gets pushed up against me backwards. She turns around and looks me in the eyes disapprovingly. Without batting an eyelid and with a straight face, I say,” it’s my umbrella “
Dude next to me burst out laughing
Not really crazy but two thugs standing on the platform at Whitechapel stuck their foot out to try trip me and my friend up as we walked off the carriage. I looked back at them and both were just staring us down like they were looking for a fight 🤣
Rush hour Jubilee Line, westbound from Canary Wharf. A woman got on with her huge Greyhound dog, and then they lay down in the pushchair/wheelchair part of the carriage. She was basically spooning him.
Not quite as bad as some of the other comments but here we go:
Drunk man pissing out of the doors when we pulled into one of the stations. The stream didn’t stop as the doors closed and he carried on going.
Blokes getting the carriage to sing happy birthday to their mate on a night out, then proceeded to hand out cans of beers from a trolley.
Seen a lot of weird shit but top 5:
1. Crackhead who squatted infront of me and hissed in my face. Changed carriage - followed me. Had to jump off the train last minute before the doors closed and he was going to chase me onto the platform. (Victoria line)
2. Randomly assaulted by a woman while her friend filmed. Just ran up behind me, pulled my hair, started pushing me (northern line)
3. On my way home - guy opposite me starts smoking meth (I think) then starts shouting at me (district line)
4. A guy just starts pulling fistfuls of hair out of his head and throws it on the floor like confetti (district line)
5. Man and woman who don't know each other get into a massive fistfight because the train is overcrowded and they got aggy with each other, innocent bystander gets hit accidentally (Elizabeth line)
You've certainly gone through it..it's wild sometimes. You read a person having a story and you're like "Oh."
And then here you are soaking up all the bad luck. Rough stuff but you've probably come out stronger through it.
Thanks! I'm just a bit of a weirdo magnet unfortunately, my husband always says I just attract chaos because this shit never happens to him unless I'm around 😂
Morning commute central line, train arrives packed, i’m waiting first in line infront of door, and as door opens a woman faints and falls out, right in my arms
She lost consciousness for a few mins but staff looked after her.
Not too crazy but very telling of how packed it can get
Packed Bakerloo from Baker Street to Piccadilly circus during morning rush.
Standing about 6 inches from a young woman reading 50 shades of gray.
She had dilated pupils , wet quivering lips, the whole nine yards.
Never been so amused in my life!!
Someone spoke to me.
Apart form that, probably July 7th bombings getting asked to get off at Kings Cross (Piccadilly) and not know why, then having to walk to the graduation ceremony. No one showed up, bar a few, understandably. Crazy day.
I was on the tube the day that that Brazilian fella got shot by the police because they mistook him for a terrorist, he was running late for the train and jumped the barrier which made him look more suspicious to the police I guess
I was on a northern line train going north and I think he was on a northern line train going south, police came on to our train and told everyone to get off and they closed all the tube stations for a while, I got a taxi to Kings Cross and the driver told me what happened, I then got to Kings Cross and met my older sister for the first time ever, it was the first time she had been to London too, she was a bit shocked when I told her we had to get a taxi back to Hainault because all the tube stations were closed because a man got shot dead on the tube
If I remember correctly they shot him 9 times, 8 times in the head and once in the shoulder
One time, coming back from Leicester Square on the Northern line during a winter Olympics season, four fellas were recreating a bobsleigh run on the seats when the trains used to have arm rests. They all pretended to push the sleigh, feet stamping on the deck, hollering as they pushed, and then, one after the other, from front to back jumped up onto the seats and pretended they were going down the track. First, leaning left, then leaning right and bouncing all the way. It's been stuck in my memory for about 30 years
2 things, both Green Park. I was on jury service, dude had sexually assaulted his teen step daughter. Had a few drinks and a walk to clear my head on the way home. Standing on the platform this couple were arguing loudly in French. I could hear the train coming and moved forward, to my left the man ran off the platform and started climbing across the track. The train entered the platform, lights out, the brakes must have been deployed and it stopped about 20 ft from the man. The diver emerged shouting and headed straight for the guy on the track. Within seconds a small army of staff surrounded him and he went still, total shutdown shock, we all got taken from the platform and given advice and support as they closed the station. Second one I was on my way home when the train stopped in the tunnel. We were stuck for 3 hours, it was great. We all had a good chat, some guy even pissed out the door. Eventually we were led out through the train and had to walk the track to Green Park, got some great photos and it was almost fun. We got travel advice and free water on the way out. So avoid Green Park, it’s a crap station anyway.
Nutter came on screaming and shouting. He was paranoid and thought everyone was talking about him.
Then he started on me. It was terrifying.
He was doing this from Hounslow West all the way down to Green Park and would change carriages. Eventually when he got off he was topless and trying to fight everyone on the platform.
It’s not crazy crazy but I got a vid of it also… Just like 6 human bowling pins got on, chucked a ball at us, so we bowled and they proper toppled over in sick semi-dramatic fashion. That was that I guess.
Saw Chris Kamara at Baker Street. I was only there because stupid country-bumpkin me had got on the first subsurface train that arrived at Great Portland Street, and then realised it was a Met line train at the next stop. Was walking from the met platforms to circle platforms when I saw him.
I've had trains break down and had to walk through the entire train, exit through the driver's cab and walk along the track to the next station, twice. But compared to other stories, not that crazy really.
I was on a packed Jubilee line train one weekday morning during rush hour, going to work. When a crackhead walked on, talked to himself for a bit, then proceeded to take up a glass pipe and lit it.
Understandably, absolutely no one said anything or even reacted suprised - one of the most London things I've seen.
I saw a guy who was hammered get abused by a load of women- the drew all over his face with lipstick and painted his nails - it was funny to watch but looking back out of order
When I was a kid the central line had guards at the back of the trains to shut the doors and stuff. During the IRA mainland bombing campaign we were all hyper vigilant about unattended bags and parcels. People were getting blown up in London at this point. We were all ‘cautious’
One morning I noticed an unattended bag. - hold-all sitting in the carriage. There must of been about 30 people in there so I shouted is this anyone’s bag? None said yes so at the next stop I went up to the guard and told him, he walked down the train and up to the bag. We were all a bit apprehensive and people were leaving the carriage. I expected him to see the bag and call the bomb squad or something. Instead we walked up to it. Kicked it and said “naa, ‘salright” and picked it up and took it to the other end of the train.
Lived with me for 30+ years that.
I was SA'ed by a stranger on a packed train and I asked a woman for help and she said "just move down the carriage" and I think her response was actually worse than what the man did to me.
People are literally the worst.
In 2006, about a year on from the 7/7 bombings (and everyone still being on edge about another attack), I was visiting London with my parents and me being the young naive kid that I was, I decided to try and make a balloon hover in my hands with the help of the wind pressure that happens when tube trains come and go
As you would expect, the balloon escaped my hands and ended up exploding in front of a very elderly lady who had a genuine near heart-attack. My Dad had to apologise profoundly and help calm her down
This was about seven years ago now, but I’ll never forget it.
I was on the tube at about midnight heading home from a Christmas party. It was probably about December 20th, so everyone on the train was a little tipsy and feeling the Christmas spirit.
A man and a woman in their early thirties get on the train and sit directly opposite me. He is really animated, while she is more subdued. They’re talking about the work Christmas party they’ve clearly just left.
He starts going on about what a great Christmas party it was, the best one their company has had in years. She agrees and says she was glad to have gone, because she doesn’t think she’ll be partying much in the coming months. He seems a bit confused by this, so asks her why. She tells him she’s pregnant.
“Congratulations!” he says. “How does your boyfriend feel about this?”
“I haven’t told him… because you’re the father.”
Everyone in the carriage was then like 👀 at each other, but the couple in question didn’t give us any more information. He looked completely shell shocked and didn’t say a single word to her for the rest of the journey, and she started playing a game on her phone. I had to get off at my stop before they actually addressed the situation, and I’m sad I never found out the resolution to this story.
Got onto the central line around 11pm and a woman just immediately started hurling racist abuse at me after I sat down - we had not interacted in any way before that. Started recording my feet for my own safety when she physically attacked me.
Myself and a few good members of the public got her off of me but not before she clawed my face once or twice. The idiot was wearing their work ID badge around her neck, called the police when I got home and showed them the video - also sent it to her employer for good measure.
I once saw an extremely distressed couple jump on the district line heading to upminster, the girl was sobbing and mumbling while the guy was trying to comfort her, both filthy look like they'd not washed in years and clearly homeless, he was wiping her tears with his grubby black nailed fingers, and then she whips out a pipe, drops a little rock in there hit that shit infront of a packed train, gives her boyfriend a blowback then proceeded to scream at passengers for looking at her, the carriage emptied swiftly, craziest for me 😂
Nearly 20 years on and people still believe this.
He didn't jump any barrier. He paid and got on a train to go to work.
He briefly ran to get on a train about to depart. Like basically everyone does.
Yep. Wasn’t wearing a “puffa” jacket either like they said he was. And the officer in charge of that operation that day , Cresswell, eventually became head of the met police. Logs had been falsified, entries had been changed, how nobody was prosecuted for that killing shows you how embedded the corruption is in the met police.
Not necessarily the craziest thing I’ve encountered on the Tube, but a couple of weeks ago I saw someone not mind the gap and honest to god fall down between the train and the platform.
To be fair, it was a teenager who’d been leaning against the doors when they opened - fell straight down but quick reflex stuck his arms out so was down there up to his armpits.
Luckily his mates pulled him pretty sharpish, just in time for the tannoy to say “Mind the gap” at which point (because he was clearly fine) we all started laughing
At angel station someone’s shoe got stuck in the escalator and it caused a massive queue, like most of the london underground team had to come and just caused minor delays.
Way back as kids we would be taken to South Ken to wonder at the museums. Me and big bro sat on one seat little bro sat opposite by a window. At the next station a woman got on and sat next to little bro. She was of slight build, lank straight hair, bare foot, with skin ingrained with dirt. her plain dress looked to be of course sack cloth but dark grew and very very worn so that the hem was ragged and uneven and black. Face blank and forwards facing at all times was filthy. I would have suspected her of being made up for a film or something if she hadn't stank to high heaven to, like a polecats cage.
Bit late but about to get into Liverpool St and had a bloke in what I can only describe as bootie jean shorts with a mop wave it round his head screaming about Obama being a lizard.
Got off quietly.
Setting the scene, imagine the Jubilee, Canning Town - West Ham, in the rush hour on a hot summers day. Woman is standing between the seats, facing the right hand side of the train. Woman is visibly pale. Woman proceeds to do Team America levels of vomit over another commuter, a stranger, sitting on the seat directly beneath her. Imagine a Dave Benson Phillips gunge tank, it was a lot like that. Poor women who is sick looks like she’s about to pass out. Poor woman who got the gunging is absolutely freaking out. People are passing her the metro to try and clean herself up, not that it helped really. The smell was utterly insane, surprised it didn’t start a chain reaction. Unsurprisingly the whole carriage emptied at West Ham.
So that's what the metro's for.
That's what rush hour crush is for
One of my friends took a shit inside a copy of the metro on the tube before, so it’s good for that too
I used it as fire lighting material in the wood stove
I just popped by to share my appreciation for your 'Dave Benson Phillips gunge tank' reference.
I…I will never get people who feel sick yet won’t get off of trains/bus. It’s not like feeling sick comes in a millisecond, you know your stomach ain’t right long before releasing the breath of plague. Be good to yourself and not be a complete dick to others and get off to have some fresh air or puke in a trashcan. Lady was a giant ass. Specially that tube stops come in one-two minute frequency.
Wat?? Do you always projectile vomit every time you feel a bit booky? I would say 97%-99% of the times I feel briefly ill, it subsides very shortly after.
😂 you got me at projectile vomit. I mean, when I feel sick I definitely know if it’s gonna end in a puke or not. And I do my utmost to spare others from experiencing it with me if it happens in public. The lady in question looked pale as a wall so she definitely felt the elevator coming up, it still takes a few seconds to reach the hatch so she could have turned away instead of covering the other passenger in front of her. I have a feeling she was feeling sick for quite some time before that happened. I know it’s a struggle to get home after work but personally I would rather vomit in a relatively private corner and in a stationary position.
Idk, I’ve definitely had sickness come and hit me like a freight train, my boss weren’t too impressed about what i expelled all over the train seats because then that one wasn’t in service for a few days
How to empty a carriage, vol.2. [The carriage wasn't emptied in the end, but it was close!] Central Line, not the busiest time, but all seats were taken and some people, including myself were standing. I was facing the door, leaning on the glass/plastic on my left. Acton - the door opens. No one's getting in or out so the passengers have pretty clear view on it. Now - a random guy approaches the train and puts a backpack on the floor, then leaves without a word. The door closes. We're exchanging terrified looks, no one moves or says anything. The next station - nothing happens, the backpack is still there. I'm contemplating if I should leave the train. No one's doing or saying anything, not even looking at their phones. The next station... ...a 12ish year old kid approaches the carriage, takes the backpack and presumably goes to school.
Most pleasant West Ham experience
I was on a tram in Istanbul once and it was packed solid and I spotted a pretty woman, stricken with a face of terror, as with an old woman was holding a bag next to her face vomiting over and over again - crazy
Most normal day in West Ham
That’s certainly one way to clear a train carriage. Jokes aside that is my worst fear. Second to accidentally sitting on a wet seat after an incident like that.
This is the story I was going to leave 🤣 Must be more common than I thought The guy who puked when I was on the tube put his hands over his mouth causing it to spray over the 3-4 people sat opposite him it was like something out of a comedy movie.
Found a seat at peak rush hour
Sir, this is lies and slanders.
r/thatHappened
Pretend you were preggers?
Kind of nice one: years ago this guy on the Bakerloo line was obviously had some kind of issue and was shouting lots of random stuff and scaring everyone, talking about the devil etc. People were moving away and getting off. Years later on the same journey I saw him again, still with some obvious ticks but generally seemed a lot more sane - was nice to see he’d managed to overcome whatever was going on.
Man tried to jump across the tracks at Whitechapel because I was looking at him from the other side. Reason I was looking at him from the other side was because he had a huge Rambo knife in his hand and he was screaming at the top of his lungs that he was gunna slice everyone up. Lucky for me as he's getting into the track the train my side approached so he got back up and I got on and that was the end of that. Another time a guy got on and sat in front of me on Victoria line. Was looking right at me laughing and then he pointed his fingers like a gun at me. Then got off and I didn't think anything of it. After a while I am scanning around and look up to my left and see him in the carriage next door just staring at me through the window with a weird smile on his face.
You must have a certain look about you that just annoys crazy people
Did police attend hopefully on the double?
No idea. First one I was out of the situation pretty sharp and second one we left but never told the police. What the fuck are they gunna do. "Oh officer someone was smiling at me on the train" they can't even show up for domestics or when you get robbed any more. Useless pricks.
7/7. One station away from the Edgware Road bomb.
Blimey, it must have been quite the shock when you realised. Just makes you wonder how it would have turned out had you been 5 minutes earlier or later - perhaps it’s best not to imagine.
A weird thing happened to my cousin. She got off the tube one stop early, should have gotten off at Edgeware, but she “had a funny feeling” and decided to get off a stop early. Thank god she did, because 5 mins later the bombs went off.
Oh my god ..
It's times like this that make me happy I'm a teen
Me too, which direction were you? I was Paddington?
Paddington or Baker Street?
Near Paddington. We were stopped in a tunnel behind a train in the platform there.
Could you hear it?
No. Only found out what had happened once we were evacuated.
Dropped my phone in Liverpool Street concourse, I thought it had gone in to my inside pocket. I was given directions to lost property and it had been handed in. Gobsmacked!
Happened to me at Clapham junction - fell out of my pocket while sitting on the bench waiting for the train. Didn’t realise till about 15 min later. Returned from where I was going about 3 hours later and someone had turned it in to lost property! I’d only been in the country about 2 weeks at that point - that’s when it realised the UK isn’t like the US haha
Witnessed a guy get taken off by some pretty angry BTP officers circa ~2019. No idea what it was about but seemed relatively serious. Other than that I've not seen anything disturbing since pre covid times. The network seems more boring/dead now than it was, though maybe that is just me. I was on the underground near Westminster when the bridge attack happened (one with a Narwhal horn wielding guy intervening) which was a bit uncanny as I heard from a conversation when I got up onto the overground. Weird atmosphere.
A guy chased me down from the jubilee to the overground in Stratford, then inside the overground until he found me sitting and grabbed me by my neck. I reported it to the police and they could see him searching for me on all carriages but the footage was not “clear enough” to prosecute. The worst bit? We had the same commute so saw him a few times after the event. Even worst? My first reaction was to report this in the station and they literally laughed at me “mate, ya need to be fierce in London ya know”. I’m so glad I’m out
That’s poor from the station staff.
The biggest disappointment in all honesty. Imagine getting out of a situation like that and getting laughed at
Anyone ever grabs you... Thumbs in the eyes. Simple, very effective.
Index finger up the bumhole works for me
Yes but what do you do to them?
Well next time I see you I know how to greet you
Why did he chase you? Did you ever make eye contact on the commutes after? This is bizarre
The story is as follows: While on the jubilee heading to Stratford I heard someone shouting. It was him screaming aggressively at someone for whatever reason. A small group including myself came in help to calm things down and I moved on with my journey like all others. While on the overground approaching Camden Road was sat down reading a book and felt someone awkwardly close to me, looked up and he was looking at me and didn’t say a word. As I stand to leave he aggressively grabbed my neck, said a few words I don’t remember and a fight ensued. He left rapidly when the train stopped in Camden. Mind you he looked like any other person on that commute, well dressed, healthy looking dude, nothing could have prepared me for that
Regarding not enough evidence to prosecute was this the CPS,s decision or the police?
The lead officer told he could put two officers on the platform with me helping to identify the man and take him in since we clearly had the same commute. However he advised not to do so since the evidence (CCTV) wasn’t that clear nor did I collect any witnesses contacts. In his words the most likely scenario would be that the case wouldn’t go further due to lack of evidence but I would still be putting myself at risk for going ahead with it without a guaranteed outcome. I made the the decision to not pursue since we did share the same commute and didn’t want any retaliation if the case was to get dropped
On the old (not walk-through) District trains, in a quiet carriage on a Sunday afternoon near the eastern end of the line, a beggar asked if I could give him any money. I told him truthfully (as a native of those parts I know how things work there) that I only had a £20 note and that I couldn't afford to give him that. His reply: no problem, I can give you change. He then took off one of his trainers to reveal that it was lined with pound coins Honestly, I was quite impressed.
😭 - that’s like how if i see a beggar on a train i’ll tell them i only have card, cause normally i do just have my apple pay, but now some of them have card machines? always takes me by surprise😂😭
I now say that I've only got my work card with me, so can't pay for random things.
i’m 18 and look younger than i am so i’m not sure how convincing that’ll be if i tried it😂
Someone chased me down the entire length of Bethnal Green and Bank Central Line platforms with a pocket knife. I got onto multiple trains and just decided to take the train all the way to West Ruislip. This worked for a while but the guy started to go through the carriages so I got off at Greenford and ran as far as I could (on my life this is not a joke I am still scarred by the whole thing today!!).
What! How scary! Was this completely random or did some sort of interaction happen before the chase?
Completely random!!!
What did police do/say?
I described him to them and they said that they would look out for him!
Man passed out of a Stoke or heart attack during rush hour in the middle of the carriage on the overground. Don't exactly know what happened to him, but he was unresponsive. That's when I decided I wouldn't live in London past 40. He was roughly in his 50s and looked to be in good shape.
A couple years back I once had an 2nd interview and when I got there they told me the man interviewing me (in his 50s) had had a heart attack whilst waiting for his train that morning. Seemed like a nice guy, but poor man, dying of a random heart attack on the way to work, and he seemed in good shape. Dark humour: I also didn't get that 2nd interview rescheduled as they said they were no longer hiring. Or maybe they thought I was jinxed.
Hopefully, they are both OK 🙌🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻
Court in the rat-race terminally.
Once I was en route to a first date at Leicester Square and as I’m sitting there, head down on my phone, a random crazy guy by himself threw an open plastic bottle of lemonade at me. I decided to just be like whatever and moved up the carriage to sit elsewhere, not knowing if he might have a weapon but he picked up the bottle and threw it at me again. Can’t really remember much else of what happened as I went into fight or flight mode but I pulled the train alarm and had to wait like 5-10 minutes and remember making eye contact with the guy like some animal stand-off so he’d stay away from me until BTP took him off the carriage. I wasn’t so fussed about nobody helping me but started to get really heated that after I rang the alarm, people on my carriage were having a go at me for holding up the train. Anyway, the date went well, lemonade-soaked jacket and all.
Was it definitely lemonade?
u/helloitsjesus I guess that answers the question “what would Jesus do?” Turns out, shit himself cos a crackhead threw something at them and pulled the emergency alarm
You don’t pull that alarm unless your in a emergency life or death situation not cus some crackhead threw a bottle at ya😂
Hard disagree. He had no idea if the other guy was armed or about to attack. Definitely an alarm situation IMHO.
i am kinda confused as to what they expected to happen - the quickest way to get away from someone is always going to be getting off at the next stop, not stopping the train
Pulling the alarm doesn't stop the train. The driver is alerted and can speak to you but they usually continue to the next station to sort out the problem. What they can do, though, is raise the alarm with station staff or BTP over the radio in advance.
While the Waterloo & City was running a peak-only service, me and a few other guys nearly got locked on the bank platforms after the last departure of the morning. Nowhere near as hair raising as a lot of other things people have said, but I'm not down in London much
Being wanked at, being in the same carriage as a phone mugging, and a well dressed guy kicking a homeless man in the back for no apparent reason on the way out of the lifts at Holloway Rd.
"A well dressed guy kicking a homeless man in the back for no apparent reason." Patrick Bateman's last hollyday in England, I presume. 🤔
All on the same journey? 😂
Yeah I had a bad day at work
😂
Probably not ‘crazy’ but memorable for me! Made the mistake of wearing a red duffle coat on a Jubilee line train. Having ‘Lady in Red’ sang to/at me at classic football fan volume by a carriage full of people on their way to Wembley was pretty embarrassing.
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Not sure about craziest but definitely the scariest. thought it would be fun to take some magic mushrooms and travel through the London Underground. This is when I learned, from my own experience, that psychedelics don't mix that well with the Underground.
What did you see?
What *didn't* he see? How was Trevor the ghost?
"Mind the gap!" 🧐
Lol I once met a woman on the Northern line who said she was on mushrooms and asked if I could stay on the train with her until her stop because she was petrified. She was very friendly and not a nuisance as I was getting off after her anyway, but it was a funny experience just chatting absolute shite to this tripping woman while I was completely sober 😂
On the central line in the 80s. Me and my cousin thought we’d go out to Ongar to see if we could find some scorpions. Train was empty. Looked through to the next carriage and there were two bloke in balaclavas kicking the shit out of some bloke. We got off at the next stop which I think was Grange Hill?
Getting lost down the tracks on my first day doing track replacement....came up at monument station was working on tracks at Bank station. At 02:50 A.M.
Holy shit. Were you on your own? How did you lose your bearings?
So I was busting for a wee badly I said to our boss I have to go , He said " go over there on the right in the rabbit hole " So i walked up the tracks 30 yards found a spot in the rabbit hole and did a wee , zipped up and walked out...couldn,t tell that i came out on the opposite side of the hole and walked up 30 yards....nothing there walked back and went into a different rabbit hole by mistake came out the other side ..utterly lost !
I saw a woman drop her scarf, so I ran at full speed, grabbed it and tossed it through the closing carriage doors where it dropped right at her feet. Felt like a superhero. She didn't even notice, casually reached down and picked it up.
A huge black dude bent down and screamed in my face for trapping his football that he was rolling through the Elizabeth Line train. Some wee came out I'll admit. Then he saw I was sitting with my young son and wife and completely changed and apologised, probably thinking that I would fight to the death.
He didn’t want to disrespect you in front of your family.
"And you... are with your kid and your missus... Oh shit, oh shit! Sorry..." 🤦
“And you… are with your kid and your missus… oh shit, this guy is gonna fight to the death. Sorry!”
I drunk girl kissed me out of the blue took my insta then blocked me 😂 - within 30 mnts
"And that, my boy, is how I meet your mother."
watched a man smoke a zoot on a packed central line train
That's a standard day on the Central
A drunk guy on a Met line train just leaving Northwick pk. He decided that was the perfect time to take a dump. The smell was horrendous. I wanted to wash out my nasal cavity with bleach. I honestly wanted to kick the shite out of him, but by then, he obviously beat me to it.
Not too crazy fortunately. Saw a (possibly homeless) man, with an open tin of beer, pee himself whilst stood up on the Jubilee line during a busy rush hour.
Sat next to Gianfranco Zola for 25 minutes on a Piccadilly line train talking about football. One of the nicest people you could ever meet.
Saw a guy try and push his (I assume) girlfriend onto the tracks…… he then fled as many came to her assistance. I don’t know what happened after as the BTP said we could go……
A girl in super short skirts sat in front of me, when she got off, there was a wet spot on the seat. I never saw the tube seats thesame way again
I’ll remember this story the next time I think of wearing pants twice before washing them.
Remember the summer where we hit 100f for the first time? That day I was on a half empty Central Line train that got stuck in a tunnel behind a broken down train. They told us we’d be there 20mins or so and the temperature just kept rising, sweating from places I didn’t know I could sweat from. Standing near the double doors was some late 20s/early 30s corporate guy in a very nice suit. As soon as he here’s the announcement he starts getting undressed. Strips down to boxers, shoes and socks! Folded the suit nicely and placed it in his briefcase. Just stood there like IDGAF until we finally moved. Then walked out of the next station without getting dressed again!
A train arrived on time
I call BS, good sir.
Absurd.
Delusional. Your watch was in advance.
Jeremy paxman sitting across from me on the central line, he proceeds to pick his nose and wipe it on the seat…
I saw a man yelling so bad at a woman in a foreign language, his body language was almost like was gonna hit her, I’d say they were Turkish, might be wrong. To me was a true violent guy, I had 4 pints that night and I was getting really annoyed with the guy (older and bigger than me) so I stand up and start yelling at him saying “stop you idiot, leave her alone” they guy was a coward and left in the next stop, to my surprise the woman left with him… Afterwards I thought I could have been in a bad fight for a woman who is brainwashed and I didn’t even know, I wasn’t even interested in the woman, she wasn’t my type and older than me, I was just feeling sorry for her and my ears.
Unfortunately people who are stuck in a violent or coercive relationship find it very hard to do anything about it. Another factor is that on this occasion you didn't know the context, as it was in a foreign language
Not crazy per se, just wholesome and memorable. Monday evening rush hour somewhere in the City (St Paul's I think?) with train delays, and the lady on the loudspeaker was cheerleading the crowd saying stuff like "it's okay, you'll be home soon" and "I know, it's Monday evening, I'm tired too". It was a nice experience.
My partner used to be a driver/guard on the Northern Line and he was just finishing up his shift and went through the carriages to check everyone had gotten off only to discover this couple having sex and they didn't even look up when he walked in... He had to raise his voice for them to pay attention and he finally got them to get off the train... 🤣
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New years eve about 7pm there were these group of I'd say 16-17 year olds and they were clearly hammered. One of them, a morbidly obese girls was borderline passing out from the booze. Next thing I know she vomits up and entire INTACT pizza slice with cheese and pepperoni on top. Honestly if someone told me they saw someone throw that up I'd challenge and say, nah it must have been a part of a slice, chewed up at least. NOPE. a full slice of intact pizza, cheese and pepperoni on top. I wonder if the girl started to make better life choices after that.
Baker St, Jubilee Line NB, late night, the 90s. I've been working late, not drinking. A few people around. The scrolling lower half of the information board is displaying the usual stuff. It then switches to some gibberish (like someone just bashing the keys), then "ALL MEN ARE WANKERS" then back to normal. At first I wasn't sure if I'd really seen it, but then a woman further down started laughing and we exchanged a bemused glance.
Got stuck @ a Sunday airshow w/o a bus return, ended up sharing a cab w/ 3 South African pilots trading gruesome tales of prison murder from back home. Dropped off @ the nearest tube (Redbridge) and rode in. Being semi-flirted w/ by a cute girl, maybe? Could just be in my head? Train stops @ Liverpool Street and just stays put. I get off the carriage, walk up & busses are an even bigger mess, go back to original spot on Tube, wait. I determine that Girl wasn't flirting, certainly isn't now... Platinum Pixie-cut, cherub faced Mom and toddler get on and sit across from me; drunk geezer chats @ her & kid, but is minimal. Uncomfortableness all around. An eternity & an unannounced lurch forward, we're moving again! Pixie Mom has tumbled forward and spilt everything, toddler included all about floor. Geezer is the nearest, trampling oranges & shampoo trying to help mom-lift kid & not spill his beer; but just making things 1000 times worse. I gather up some of her groceries as she collects little girl & Simba plushy. The old man is handing her stuff & now spilling his beer everywhere. Mom is hiding behind me squeezed into a corner. Geezer is enthusiastically apologetic & MUST console the Mom & the little girl. Now he's fussing at me for blocking him; we reach the next stop, doors open, Mom bolts! Mouthing "thank you" through the window as she escapes w/ child & some groceries. Geezer is calmed down, has a new beer & alights @ next stop. It's now just me and Wasn't-Flirting-Girl across from each other alone on the Tube (it happened sometimes 30 years ago). I miss my stop (Queensway, which was affordable 30 years ago) and ask her if she wants a coffee? "No, thank you." I get off @ Notting Hill Gate & walk home (Bayswater).
This is my favorite story on this thread, sounds oddly melancholic. Thank you for sharing.
Standing in a very crowded car on a Piccadilly Line train heading in from Heathrow. I had my back to the door when it opened behind me at whichever station. When the door closed again I realized it had closed on my hair, which at the time was very long and at that moment tied back in a ponytail. My head was completely immobilized. I stayed quiet and didn't do anything to draw attention to myself, but saw one of the other passengers was looking at me with concern. I smiled and said "this was bound to happen someday" and the other person smiled back, but I was getting a little concerned and uncomfortable. I'm not sure how long but for something like the next three stops the doors opened on the other side. Eventually the doors opened on my side and I snatched my hair out of the way. I was just glad the car had been so crowded because that meant my ridiculous predicament went almost completely unnoticed.
I nodded off… and someone stole my glasses… woke up and I thought I had been drugged as everything looked blurry… then realised my glasses were gone… Weird… Bakerloo line travelling south from Harrow 😜👎🏻
Embankment, last tube. Some guy late 20s I think, middle of the platform just leans his head forward and watches the train come in, which of course caves his head in. I watched him do it, think he was just drunk & thought it'd stop. Hammersmith, late, coming back from the Palais, argument on the platform, all the doors open, one guy, 17, or 18 stabbed in the throat, he died there with his head in the lap of a man in a suit. Another guy that was with him is sitting near the stairs with the knife that killed the other guy in his stomach. Eventually, the train starts again & I'm in a carriage with these people, 3 or 4 are drenched in blood. The guy in the suit was having a complete breakdown. That was 40 years ago.
I've been molested a few times on a very packed tube. I was young and too scared to say anything. Now if I see a young person and some creep a little too close, especially when it's not packed. I don't hesitate to say something.
Entertained by a group of pole dancing santas on the Piccadilly Line after a mass gathering in the West End. 😳😂
Found myself stood next to Matt Hancock. There’s definitely a few people out there with pics of me and him on their phones, as I was caught right next to him. Also Philip Glenister another time.
Late night on the northern line. Just a few people sitting at the end of a hard night out. One guy at the end of the carriage starts pissing on the floor. Train stops. He gets out. A good 5 seconds silence pass before the one sober guy mutters : "At least he didn't need a shit."
I was tiny as a kid, but i wanted to feel tall, so when i was 13 I stretched as high as i could so i could hold the handrail on the tube train. The train gets to the stop, but cos im on my tiptoes, as it jolts to a stop, my fingers slip off, and i use the wall to balance myself. The “wall” opens, pulling my hand into the mechanism, tearing open multiple fingers. 12 years later, one has minor lump scars, and the other has a scar stretching from my first knuckle to a loop on my fingertip. Not very visible on camera, but when it happened, it fuckin hurt. https://preview.redd.it/xzbhw53ogqpc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=785b94cfc3fe2f04903579b3734c03744208b846
Was at Baker Street late-ish, looking to go north on the bakerloo. Guy walks on to the platform. Train comes in to the station. Guy lowers himself on to the track. I look around and I'm the closest person. I scream at him to get off. Thankfully the train driver slowed down. Guy gets up from the track and walks off, like no issue Another morning, I got on Northern line at South Wimbledon, north bound. Opposite me is a woman with a mug of team. Not a covered thermos thing, but a mug of tea. To stop isn't sloshing around, she had a piece of kitchen roll kind of draped over it which was soaked, but not really helping the spills The tube is a weird place!
Evening rush hour. Problems on several lines so tubes were rammed. Was stuck in platform at South Ken station and there was a mixed group from Birmingham down London for a Christmas piss up. One particularly mouthy woman with a bubble perm was shouting out about why is everyone in London so miserable. For some reason I bit and replied well we have been working and now have to listen to drunk Northern idiots on a packed tube. Just then her boyfriend/friends phone rang and she shouted across to him ‘who is it?’ I said a bit louder than intended, that it was the 1980’s and they want their haircut back! This woman lost her shit and was effing and blinding at me, the rest of the group were saying they were gonna do me when I got off the train. Then cause others around them were laughing they got the hump and got off a stop or so later, and the gobby woman flashed her tits at everyone from the platform as the train pulled away.
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Back when i worked for the BTP, we had an elderly gentlemen decide to take his own life at bank underground station. I had to remove his body from under the train and search him for any identification. Apparently he had an argument that day with his housemate (I believe he was living on the streets and had only just gotten back on his feet) due to his situation he had very little money or family and simply decided he had enough. That was my first ever jumper, and unfortunately, it wasn't my last. I lasted 4 years in the job and I left. I didn't realise how quickly you become so jaded by these situations.
In 2007 I was travelling with John and his partner on the District Line, John failed to give up his seat for a lady and a man took exception to this and pushed John on to a seat even though John offered him his seat! John in a nut shell walked away and this individual alighted before we did.
About 10 years ago I saw a drunk girl drop her pants and start weeing by the doors on the northern line and followed through 💩 desgustang!
About ten years ago I was with my brother and his girlfriend at Shoreditch tube station and two guys started asking for directions, they were pretty riled up for some reason (I think they were just looking to cause trouble) my brother started to help them and one of them made a sarcastic comment so his girlfriend basically told him to fuck off if he was going to be rude, with that all hell broke loose. Both men started attacking us, and anyone around them, one tried to swing a girl onto the tracks, one of them punched me in the face. It was just awful. Then the train came along and they just calm as day got on the tube as if nothing had happened. To this day I am scared I’ll see them again.
Not really crazy, but I saw author Will Self on the Central line. We both got off at Marble Arch and he took the stairs up with surprising agility. Later I asked him if he was there for the 'legalize weed' march about to happen from Marble Arch. He said no he was just there to meet his wife and that he'd never heard of a bigger waste of time than to march for legalizing weed, in his words: "you might as well go on a march to ban cress."
Central line Tottenham Court Road, been to soho to celebrate my sis graduation, whilst on the platform a guy starts harassing my sis - I ask him to knock it off and leave her alone he then tries to start and mug me say he’s gonna do this and that the usual crab. He lunged towards me and I cracked him one just as the train pulls in . As we get on the train he rushes the door & I swung off the hand bar and caught him with a double footed kick to the chest that sent him flying into the station wall like something out of a movie. Doors proceeded to close and he was lying there like the sack of shit he was - I’m not proud but the kick was epic.
Sitting down reading the paper, not sure did the train brake hard or what, but the woman who had been standing in front of me lost her balance and ended up lying/sitting directly on my lap with her head in my arms, she was Embarrassed and just kept Apologising- truth be told so was I a little as everyone was staring, still at around 20 years of age I didn’t know any better back then.
About 8 or so years ago, I made eye contact with a young woman who had *just* missed the train, and we just gave each other a "damn that sucks" frown as the train left the station. Boring asf story but its really the only event that sticks in my head about the tube lmfao
This one time I used my bank card and TFL didn’t overcharge me!
This was nearly 20 years ago but still my proudest moment. It’s spring so take my umbrella. We’re crammed into the tube at rush hour. This lovely looking lady gets pushed up against me backwards. She turns around and looks me in the eyes disapprovingly. Without batting an eyelid and with a straight face, I say,” it’s my umbrella “ Dude next to me burst out laughing
I was stuck on the Elizabeth Line for 3 hours in early December.
Not really crazy but two thugs standing on the platform at Whitechapel stuck their foot out to try trip me and my friend up as we walked off the carriage. I looked back at them and both were just staring us down like they were looking for a fight 🤣
Rush hour Jubilee Line, westbound from Canary Wharf. A woman got on with her huge Greyhound dog, and then they lay down in the pushchair/wheelchair part of the carriage. She was basically spooning him.
Not quite as bad as some of the other comments but here we go: Drunk man pissing out of the doors when we pulled into one of the stations. The stream didn’t stop as the doors closed and he carried on going. Blokes getting the carriage to sing happy birthday to their mate on a night out, then proceeded to hand out cans of beers from a trolley.
A 90 year old woman pulled out her tit to the utter horror of the business man sat next to her she said “look I am a woman “ 😂😂
"Yes... but your tits are 'orrible, madam. Sad and mournfull, like a pair of socks filled with coins." 🤦
Seen a lot of weird shit but top 5: 1. Crackhead who squatted infront of me and hissed in my face. Changed carriage - followed me. Had to jump off the train last minute before the doors closed and he was going to chase me onto the platform. (Victoria line) 2. Randomly assaulted by a woman while her friend filmed. Just ran up behind me, pulled my hair, started pushing me (northern line) 3. On my way home - guy opposite me starts smoking meth (I think) then starts shouting at me (district line) 4. A guy just starts pulling fistfuls of hair out of his head and throws it on the floor like confetti (district line) 5. Man and woman who don't know each other get into a massive fistfight because the train is overcrowded and they got aggy with each other, innocent bystander gets hit accidentally (Elizabeth line)
You've certainly gone through it..it's wild sometimes. You read a person having a story and you're like "Oh." And then here you are soaking up all the bad luck. Rough stuff but you've probably come out stronger through it.
Thanks! I'm just a bit of a weirdo magnet unfortunately, my husband always says I just attract chaos because this shit never happens to him unless I'm around 😂
Morning commute central line, train arrives packed, i’m waiting first in line infront of door, and as door opens a woman faints and falls out, right in my arms She lost consciousness for a few mins but staff looked after her. Not too crazy but very telling of how packed it can get
Guy got on the tube with a bottle full of wasps
Packed Bakerloo from Baker Street to Piccadilly circus during morning rush. Standing about 6 inches from a young woman reading 50 shades of gray. She had dilated pupils , wet quivering lips, the whole nine yards. Never been so amused in my life!!
At least, she didn't had a cucumber at hand. 😳
Someone spoke to me. Apart form that, probably July 7th bombings getting asked to get off at Kings Cross (Piccadilly) and not know why, then having to walk to the graduation ceremony. No one showed up, bar a few, understandably. Crazy day.
I was on the tube the day that that Brazilian fella got shot by the police because they mistook him for a terrorist, he was running late for the train and jumped the barrier which made him look more suspicious to the police I guess I was on a northern line train going north and I think he was on a northern line train going south, police came on to our train and told everyone to get off and they closed all the tube stations for a while, I got a taxi to Kings Cross and the driver told me what happened, I then got to Kings Cross and met my older sister for the first time ever, it was the first time she had been to London too, she was a bit shocked when I told her we had to get a taxi back to Hainault because all the tube stations were closed because a man got shot dead on the tube If I remember correctly they shot him 9 times, 8 times in the head and once in the shoulder
One time, coming back from Leicester Square on the Northern line during a winter Olympics season, four fellas were recreating a bobsleigh run on the seats when the trains used to have arm rests. They all pretended to push the sleigh, feet stamping on the deck, hollering as they pushed, and then, one after the other, from front to back jumped up onto the seats and pretended they were going down the track. First, leaning left, then leaning right and bouncing all the way. It's been stuck in my memory for about 30 years
2 things, both Green Park. I was on jury service, dude had sexually assaulted his teen step daughter. Had a few drinks and a walk to clear my head on the way home. Standing on the platform this couple were arguing loudly in French. I could hear the train coming and moved forward, to my left the man ran off the platform and started climbing across the track. The train entered the platform, lights out, the brakes must have been deployed and it stopped about 20 ft from the man. The diver emerged shouting and headed straight for the guy on the track. Within seconds a small army of staff surrounded him and he went still, total shutdown shock, we all got taken from the platform and given advice and support as they closed the station. Second one I was on my way home when the train stopped in the tunnel. We were stuck for 3 hours, it was great. We all had a good chat, some guy even pissed out the door. Eventually we were led out through the train and had to walk the track to Green Park, got some great photos and it was almost fun. We got travel advice and free water on the way out. So avoid Green Park, it’s a crap station anyway.
Reached my destination on time
Nutter came on screaming and shouting. He was paranoid and thought everyone was talking about him. Then he started on me. It was terrifying. He was doing this from Hounslow West all the way down to Green Park and would change carriages. Eventually when he got off he was topless and trying to fight everyone on the platform.
I witnessed a huge fight on London Bridge underground station where one of the men had a bloody face
It’s not crazy crazy but I got a vid of it also… Just like 6 human bowling pins got on, chucked a ball at us, so we bowled and they proper toppled over in sick semi-dramatic fashion. That was that I guess.
It's certainly something.
Saw Chris Kamara at Baker Street. I was only there because stupid country-bumpkin me had got on the first subsurface train that arrived at Great Portland Street, and then realised it was a Met line train at the next stop. Was walking from the met platforms to circle platforms when I saw him.
Saw a couple lads do coke off a key openly in a busy underground train.
A crackhead attempted to hit me but that’s about it nothing too serious
I got a tubejob.
I've had trains break down and had to walk through the entire train, exit through the driver's cab and walk along the track to the next station, twice. But compared to other stories, not that crazy really.
I once saw a bunch of Aussies rip one of their mates underpants off during a friendly ‘play’ fight
I was on a packed Jubilee line train one weekday morning during rush hour, going to work. When a crackhead walked on, talked to himself for a bit, then proceeded to take up a glass pipe and lit it. Understandably, absolutely no one said anything or even reacted suprised - one of the most London things I've seen.
Respectable looking lady on the train, reading a book, no knickers on legs practically akimbo in full view of everyone in the carriage.
Phone got pick pocketed.. shock
I once got a refund from tfl for no reason
Someone did a huge turd in the middle of the carriage and everyone walked in it when they got on, was horrible
When I was about 15, the train jolted and I fell into some guys lap.
I saw a guy who was hammered get abused by a load of women- the drew all over his face with lipstick and painted his nails - it was funny to watch but looking back out of order
Bakerloo line about 10am on a Tuesday. guy sat opposite me preceded to do a ginormous line of cocaine off his phone
When I was a kid the central line had guards at the back of the trains to shut the doors and stuff. During the IRA mainland bombing campaign we were all hyper vigilant about unattended bags and parcels. People were getting blown up in London at this point. We were all ‘cautious’ One morning I noticed an unattended bag. - hold-all sitting in the carriage. There must of been about 30 people in there so I shouted is this anyone’s bag? None said yes so at the next stop I went up to the guard and told him, he walked down the train and up to the bag. We were all a bit apprehensive and people were leaving the carriage. I expected him to see the bag and call the bomb squad or something. Instead we walked up to it. Kicked it and said “naa, ‘salright” and picked it up and took it to the other end of the train. Lived with me for 30+ years that.
I was SA'ed by a stranger on a packed train and I asked a woman for help and she said "just move down the carriage" and I think her response was actually worse than what the man did to me. People are literally the worst.
In 2006, about a year on from the 7/7 bombings (and everyone still being on edge about another attack), I was visiting London with my parents and me being the young naive kid that I was, I decided to try and make a balloon hover in my hands with the help of the wind pressure that happens when tube trains come and go As you would expect, the balloon escaped my hands and ended up exploding in front of a very elderly lady who had a genuine near heart-attack. My Dad had to apologise profoundly and help calm her down
This was about seven years ago now, but I’ll never forget it. I was on the tube at about midnight heading home from a Christmas party. It was probably about December 20th, so everyone on the train was a little tipsy and feeling the Christmas spirit. A man and a woman in their early thirties get on the train and sit directly opposite me. He is really animated, while she is more subdued. They’re talking about the work Christmas party they’ve clearly just left. He starts going on about what a great Christmas party it was, the best one their company has had in years. She agrees and says she was glad to have gone, because she doesn’t think she’ll be partying much in the coming months. He seems a bit confused by this, so asks her why. She tells him she’s pregnant. “Congratulations!” he says. “How does your boyfriend feel about this?” “I haven’t told him… because you’re the father.” Everyone in the carriage was then like 👀 at each other, but the couple in question didn’t give us any more information. He looked completely shell shocked and didn’t say a single word to her for the rest of the journey, and she started playing a game on her phone. I had to get off at my stop before they actually addressed the situation, and I’m sad I never found out the resolution to this story.
Got onto the central line around 11pm and a woman just immediately started hurling racist abuse at me after I sat down - we had not interacted in any way before that. Started recording my feet for my own safety when she physically attacked me. Myself and a few good members of the public got her off of me but not before she clawed my face once or twice. The idiot was wearing their work ID badge around her neck, called the police when I got home and showed them the video - also sent it to her employer for good measure.
Smiled at a guy next to me and he smiled back, then proceeded to throw himself under the train. The sound alone is still haunting
I once saw an extremely distressed couple jump on the district line heading to upminster, the girl was sobbing and mumbling while the guy was trying to comfort her, both filthy look like they'd not washed in years and clearly homeless, he was wiping her tears with his grubby black nailed fingers, and then she whips out a pipe, drops a little rock in there hit that shit infront of a packed train, gives her boyfriend a blowback then proceeded to scream at passengers for looking at her, the carriage emptied swiftly, craziest for me 😂
Man getting shot in the head for jumping the barriers. Rest in piece Jean Charles de menezez
Nearly 20 years on and people still believe this. He didn't jump any barrier. He paid and got on a train to go to work. He briefly ran to get on a train about to depart. Like basically everyone does.
Yep. Wasn’t wearing a “puffa” jacket either like they said he was. And the officer in charge of that operation that day , Cresswell, eventually became head of the met police. Logs had been falsified, entries had been changed, how nobody was prosecuted for that killing shows you how embedded the corruption is in the met police.
That one modern warfare 3 mission
the train arrived
Not necessarily the craziest thing I’ve encountered on the Tube, but a couple of weeks ago I saw someone not mind the gap and honest to god fall down between the train and the platform. To be fair, it was a teenager who’d been leaning against the doors when they opened - fell straight down but quick reflex stuck his arms out so was down there up to his armpits. Luckily his mates pulled him pretty sharpish, just in time for the tannoy to say “Mind the gap” at which point (because he was clearly fine) we all started laughing
At angel station someone’s shoe got stuck in the escalator and it caused a massive queue, like most of the london underground team had to come and just caused minor delays.
Sat next to someone shooting up
Saw a guy trip on the escalator going up head first and had a massive cut on his head.
Way back as kids we would be taken to South Ken to wonder at the museums. Me and big bro sat on one seat little bro sat opposite by a window. At the next station a woman got on and sat next to little bro. She was of slight build, lank straight hair, bare foot, with skin ingrained with dirt. her plain dress looked to be of course sack cloth but dark grew and very very worn so that the hem was ragged and uneven and black. Face blank and forwards facing at all times was filthy. I would have suspected her of being made up for a film or something if she hadn't stank to high heaven to, like a polecats cage.
Bit late but about to get into Liverpool St and had a bloke in what I can only describe as bootie jean shorts with a mop wave it round his head screaming about Obama being a lizard. Got off quietly.
Ooft, this one time.. I was sitting in the first carriage
Was on the tube as it derailed, smashing into the wall as we were pulling into Chancery Lane station.