Wild (but true) Stories!

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Have you ever heard something so wild that there was no way in hell it had actually happened... except it did?

In the late 80s, the accounting department from the Oakland Athletics (a Major League Baseball team) was thrown in a complete panic because the books were off by one million dollars.

Naturally, they did everything in their power to track this anomaly to its source.

The issue? Legendary outfielder Rickey Henderson, who was given a performance bonus for tearing the league in fucking half and, far from cashing it in, decided to frame it and hung it up on his apartment.

I fucking love Rickey xD

Your turn!

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Oda answered some kids fan mail on how he draws women and he answered by this small and easy method

 

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Oda answered some kids fan mail on how he draws women and he answered by this small and easy method
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I think that many hentai artists born that day

 

[Graw]

One time when I was a kid I accidentally peed on a bear in the forest. Like a real, live bear.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

One time when I was a kid I accidentally peed on a bear in the forest. Like a real, live bear.

How did you managed to survive?

 

[Tenshishi]

One thing I've always found fascinating in storytelling is the "we knew what we'd do the whole time" lie: it makes your writing team look like geniuses when they can capitalize on some seemingly innocuous thread later, so you'll rarely see anyone admit that they stumbled onto a great story bend entirely as a fluke... Except Bob Forward and Larry DiTillo, writers of Transformers Beast Wars, who openly admit as much in interviews. The way network television worked at the time (especially for youth programming), they never knew if a decision would be approved, or even sometimes whether the show would be getting another season... So the fact they were able to reflect on events from prior seasons at all, let alone the prior Generation 1 series, was never in the cards from the start - they didn't even know for sure that the planet the cast landed on in the first episode was going to be Earth! And they openly admit that.

I think that attests to their strength as writers better than the usual lying method - it shows a willingness to experiment and do what's best for the show in the moment, as well as a genuine passion for aspects of the existing story that they really didn't need to demonstrate at all. It's efforts like this that separate well-loved classic franchises from stupid relabeled toy robots.

 

[Graw]

How did you managed to survive?

I didn't even realize it was there until I'd turned around and was already walking away. I was on a hike with my dad and uncle. I'd gone to some bushes to piss, as I was coming back my uncle started yelling about a bear. There was a cub kind of walking around in the area in front of us. Then suddenly the bushes I'd just pissed on started shaking and a big ole mama bear came trotting out towards the cub and we just left pretty quickly. Bears are usually pretty chill as long as they don't feel threatened. I've seen lots of bears. I ran into a big one last week when I was out with my dog.

 

[lestagio]

The Dancing Plague of 1518 has always been a wild story to me. Someone started dancing in the street uncontrollably, and a whole bunch of people joined them and no one could stop. A whole bunch of people collapsed and died from exhaustion and heart attacks. When I first read the story online many years ago, I thought it was fake, but it's pretty well documented.

The theories are basically along the lines of mass hysteria, hallucinations from mold, or mass psychological illness. Whatever happened, it is eerie as hell. Just a whole bunch of people started dancing uncontrollably until they died. Just randomly at one point in mass. Very very odd.