RE: What's something crazy/unexpected you've experienced?

That is one stunning photograph!

There are so many things in my life that have been a fuck me moment, but thought I would share this one from a "climbing through windows" road trip round Estonia I took a few years back.

Middle of July, the sun was cracking the flagstones it must have been in the upper
80's F, when I spied a roof top of a one storey shack through the trees. off a dirt road I was driving down, (most Estonian roads off the beaten track are as rough as fuck, let me tell you!).

I had to pull up to investigate, the shack was overgrown with weeds and nettles not a visible footpath to the front door which was a jar. Always a good sign.

I entered through what was a kitchen, cobwebs and detritus a plenty, there was a door leading off a short hallway at the back, as is my way of mooching, always start at the top and work back.

A room to my right,an inward opening door with a wooden bar firmly across the frame to prevent it being opened from inside. Why I asked myself. I soon found out, removing the bar and opening the door, the first thing that hit me was the heat blast, the second in the dim light the number of empty alcohol bottles strewn around.

Then the FUCK ME moment, a man, an obese man, sweating, red in the face, encased in a plaster cast completely covering his upper torso and one arm starting to try and stand up, mumbling incoherently, eyes glazed not focussed.

Mine were!

I am too old to run, but I walk quickly, very quickly indeed sometimes. This was one of those times. In fact I think I fucking ran back to the car pedal to the metal and away. Not because of the "prisoner" but if someone returned I could have been locked up with him!!

Discretion is the better part of valour!!

Questions still unanswered, why was he locked in that room from the outside, in such extreme heat, why was he encased in plaster, why the alcohol bottles, and why the fuck didn't I grab some quick snaps!