25 Disgusting Acts People Have Been Spotted Committing In Public

Sickening things people do often stem from a lack of empathy and respect for others. Appalling actions like cruelly mistreating animals or an obvious lack of hygiene can leave a lasting impression of disgust. 

#1

Image source: Dahhhkness, Taylor Deas-Melesh

While I was standing in front of the freezer, trying to decide what kind of ice cream to get, I noticed a foul smell getting stronger and the sounds of a cart getting closer. I look to my left, and this hulking, well over both 6’0” and 30 BMI, creature of indeterminate gender came slowly down the aisle, audibly wheezing and pushing a cart literally *filled* to the brim with every processed food imaginable, staring straight ahead with dead eyes and a gaping mouth. He/she was drinking from an open carton of Half and Half, and as it passed, I could see he/she was wearing what was basically a sweatpant “kilt”, with towels duct-taped around their cankles to sop up visibly oozing diabetes sores. My munchies immediately passed, and I left Walmart without buying anything, for I had seen the dark path it might lead me to.

#2

Image source: SwiftyMcBold, Chris F

When I was a kid, 13-14 probably, me and my group of ‘friends’ (I was good mates with 3, but got on with the other few), were out in the woods and rivers just messing around, and there was a mother duck with a bunch of her cute little fluffy ducklings, they were cute, just minding their own business, then all of a sudden a rock hits the duck right in the neck instantly crippling it, it started flapping around, blood pumping out of its neck and the ducklings were all panicking and I was just devastated, turned around and three of them (the other lads) were in hysterical laughter over it, one of them had thrown the rock full force at the duck, as a laugh. I genuinely didn’t know what to do, the ducklings has all scattered and the duck just floated dead in the water, I just left, went home and in a decade I’ve never been able to get it out of my head.

Edit: thanks for all the support, I legit didn’t think this would blow up to be honest, but it is nice to see how many people actually care about animals and were moved by my story, this was 10 years ago roughly and I don’t speak to any one from the those day. Thanks again.

#3

Image source: MedusaExceptWithCats, Emmeli M

This story is about my aunt, but what she did took place in public, so I think it’s relevant to this thread.

Throughout my childhood, my paternal grandmother lived with my nuclear family and babysat me every day while my parents worked. When I was seven, my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, so my dad took a job that allowed him to work nights so that he would be accessible to me during the day (the incident I’m prefacing took place during summer vacation, and my mother was pregnant, so 24-hour childcare would be required eventually). However, because he needed to get some sleep during the day, he asked my aunt, his sister, to keep an eye on me during the day, which she did inexpensively as she didn’t work and she was inclined to help care for my grandmother as well.

One day, my aunt needed to drive my grandmother to an appointment. Her appointments were frequent, and I was always brought along, which in and of itself was pretty stressful to seven-year-old me as my grandmother’s situation was not well-explained to me and I was often confused and scared.

On our way to the appointment, on a public street with witnesses, a black cat crossed the road in front of my aunt. She had plenty of time to stop (I saw the cat up ahead and wasn’t even concerned as it was so far away), but instead she deliberately sped up a little, struck the cat, and while cackling yelled, “Gotcha!” My grandmother didn’t say anything about it and my parents assumed I misunderstood what had happened. I didn’t misunderstand. I didn’t look out the window to see if anyone on the street noticed or reacted, but that poor cat lost its life and the trauma I was already immersed in became so much more unbearable.

I’m in my mid-twenties now and I haven’t spoken to my aunt in years (she lives a few states away now, which has made avoiding her much easier). I don’t ever intend on speaking to her again.

#4

Image source: anon, joaquincorbalan

Guy on the L in Chicago had his pants around his thighs, no underwear, and was touching himself through his dingy white T-shirt about 18 inches away from this poor woman. She was in a seat shielding herself with her knees up to her chin and her purse against her face.

Two heroes took him by the shoulders and pressed him up against the car door until the next stop, where they pushed him out.

#5

Image source: mavericktrends, Jonnica Hill

I worked at a grocery store when I was 19–20, and I was heading out to my car for my break. It was raining pretty heavily, so I was going to sit in my car and read for a bit. As I exited the store, I noticed something long and lumpy laying in the middle of the parking lot, but it was hard to make out through the rain. A couple people went by it, gave it a quick glance and continued running to their car to get out of the rain.

I approached it and discovered it was an elderly man who had fallen! Everyone had just looked at him and kept walking!! He had a gash on his head and was bleeding, too … I ran back into the store and hollered at my manager to call an ambulance because someone had fallen and needed help. I rushed back out and sat with him until the ambulance came.

After he left and things settled down, I felt so angry and disgusted at those two people who just passed him by and left him there, hurt, scared, and shaking, alone. I’ll never know who they were or what their thought process was to justify leaving him like that, but I’d like to say … WTF?! to them.

#6

Image source: anrgybadgerbadger, Tim Mossholder

England Vs Wales Rugby match while at University, I am Welsh and this was a Welsh University. We were watching in the bar and Wales beat England, so everyone was on a high. I decide to go for a pee and see that one of the Urinals has a bucket full of pee underneath it. I mean brimming. I avoid this urinal, like a good boy. An England fan then comes in, angry about the loss. Sees me wearing a Wales rugby shirt, tells me to F off. Then this a*s hat grabs the bucket and throws the whole thing at me, drenching me in the p**s of about 40 different dudes. Ruined the day, ruined the win, very vile, very disgusting.

EDIT: who would have thought that me getting tanked by a bucket of p**s would be my top rated comment!

#7

Image source: TomberryServo, Getty Images

I’m on the rowing team and my boat is rowing under the bridge as usual when these kids on the bridge waited for the right moment that we would pass under and just P**SED ALL OVER US. Our coxswain sort of saw it coming since the kids were aligning themselves with our boat but just fully realized when they started unzipping, by then it was too late to shift course. Our backs face the bridge as we row through so we had no idea what was going on at first, but man their p**s smelled awful and we just had to continue our 90 minute practice in urine soaked clothes. F**k those kids.

Edit: Just to clarify to everyone, jumping in the Christina river is the worst thing you could do. It is just so god d**n polluted we would have smelled worse if we did.

#8

Image source: Luckboy28, Q’AILA

When I was a little kid, there was a guy next door to me that was quite a bit older (probably highschool, whereas I was around 6-8 years old).

I looked up to this guy a lot — at the time, I thought he was really cool.

One day, his pregnant cat was giving birth in his garage, and we were there watching. I was super excited — I was about to see kittens. =D

After the first one was born, my friend picked up the kitten (while the mom-cat hissed bloody murder at him), and he just casually said “Well, we’ve already got a cat” and he proceeds to put the kittens neck into the blades of a pair of scissors.

I lost my f*****g s**t. I’m screaming at the top of my lungs, I’m demanding that he put the kitten down immediately, pleading, everything. He looks genuinely shocked, like he doesn’t understand my objections. I still remember his face — he wasn’t teasing me or trolling, he was legit about to chop the heads off of all the kittens.

Eventually, the other neighbors come running over, and when they hear what the guy was about to do, they couldn’t believe it either. The guy finally put down the kittens, and when the guy’s parents came home, they were appalled, grounded the guy, and let the mom raise the kittens, and found homes for them.

I couldn’t talk for about a week, after all that screaming. Never talked to that guy again. He’s probably off being a psycho somewhere, but at least he didn’t k**l the kittens.

#9

Image source: Inanimate-Sensation, Getty Images

From afar I saw a man put something in another guy’s drink while he was talking to his friends.

I didn’t think he knew the guy so I was appalled that I actually saw that, I walked up to the guy with the drink and told him and the bartender.

The preparator vanished, but it has made me paranoid now about going out.

#10

Image source: its_the_green_che, Thgusstavo Santana

Beat his child in the car parked directly in front of the store with a flip flop. He straight up hit her in the face with it multiple times. She was trying to cover herself so he hit her hands.

He’d reach all the way back and beat the f*****g soul out of her and you could hear her cry in the car. I was like 12 at the time so my sister just told me to go in the store and stop staring.

#11

Image source: anon, Tim Wilson

I saw a drunk guy spits out his phelgem,then afterwards he picked it up and ate it right in front of us

Me and my brother puked so bad from that scene.

#12

Image source: pooisstoredindick, Niloufar Mirhadi

I once saw a woman drop her cigarette into a puddle of p**s, fish it back out and try to light it for a good while with it in her mouth, then when she finally realised it was too soaked through to light properly, she put it back into her carton.

#13

Image source: Maccas75, Ahmed

Someone on the bus kept violently coughing up phlegm into a handkerchief.. Then locked eye contact with me, smiled and proceeded to slowly lick the s**t in the handkerchief.. Without breaking eye contact.

#14

Image source: anon, Dev Asangbam

I saw a man poop his pants at Lowe’s. He was wearing shorts and a solid t**d fell out of the bottom of them. He then picked the t**d up in a panic and put it in his pocket before rushing to the bathroom.

#15

Image source: MrGooglyman, Daniel Hooper 🌊

Did some work at a train station a while ago. One morning the station master called me into the office, where they were reviewing the cctv footage from the night before.
Saw a woman walk up to the drinking fountain, hitch up her dress, straddle the fountain and proceed to wash her v****a right there in the fountain while the other commuters watched on.
Haven’t touched a public fountain since.

#16

Image source: thewiremother, Sara Cervera

I was at a pretty busy movie theater and I watched a guy coming out of the bathroom with a large soda in one hand and a plate of pretzel bites in the other. He pulls the door open and hip checks it to keep it open. A single pretzel bite falls off the tray onto the highly trafficked men’s room floor. Like right in that line of sticky footprints that forms in a really busy restroom. Just picked that thing up and popped it right in his mouth. Might as well just lick all the urinals at that point. It was only one little nugget of food. Let it go, man, let it go.

#17

Image source: felixorlando84, Fa Barboza

When I was a bank teller, I had a guy stare at me straight in the eyes while he pulled a long string of thick snot from his nose into his mouth. (I’m gagging just typing this out.)

I saw a homeless woman lying on the ground in front of a store front – Downtown Chicago, during rush hour – a*s faced to the street with a huge pool of s**t behind her.

#18

Image source: anon, Afif Ramdhasuma

Not sure if this counts as public, but I was at a party with some people from my high school, we all graduated a year or two before.

Anyway, we found out that a guy was cheating on his girlfriend at this party and the girl’s best friend started drunkenly going off. She is known for her crazy antics, but I watched this girl scream, go off, “you’re a f*****g a*****e!” type stuff.

This is very r/thathappened -esque part. She just kept screaming and screaming, people are holding her back. Then she proceeded to unzip her jeans, took out her bloody tampon, and threw it at his face.

#19

Image source: Kermit-Batman, Danie Franco

Does a nursing home count as public? I once had a resident come screaming up the hallway, completely starkers, chewing a brown washer (that’s a flannel/cloth). She’d scream, then take a bite on this washer.

It took three of us to help her as she was so angry. As you may have guessed, that was faeces on the washer and her mouth was full of it. She was so angry, and would attempt to throw herself forwards and take lunging bites at us. Her room was a poonami… it was just all round horrid.

The lady herself had dementia, so I had no blame towards her, though she was always on edge or quick with anger. It’s a weird area in aged care, as silly as it may sound, opinions are divided on helping a resident that has faeces everywhere. Do we honour their choice of saying no despite the mess, or do we intervene/force that person into getting cleaned.

This lady I like to think we helped as best we could, but far out… I now always carry a spare change of clothes and couldn’t get my appetite back for a couple of days after that! Of all the poop I’ve seen, that had to be the worst one!

None of the other residents really cared haha, they’re pretty non judgmental most of the time!

#20

Image source: little_wing__, towfiqu98

Knew a dude in high school who would sit in class and spend ages scratching all of his dandruff off onto his desk, then pat it neatly into a pile, check around to see that nobody was looking, and chow down on the pile, one pinchful at a time. He also regularly used his nose as a mid-face snack dispenser.

Update: just for interest’s sake, the same guy reached out to me years later out of absolutely nowhere asking me on a date. His qualifiers were that he’s “very tall now” and “earns lots of money”. I politely declined xD.

#21

Image source: anon, RDNE Stock project

Not exactly vile but gross as hell. I took chinese food back to the restaurant the next day because it was hard as rock when it arrived. As I waited for the person to give me my change back I saw someone in the back open the bag and start eating my day old rock hard teriyaki chicken.

#22

Image source: RonaldTheGiraffe, Jon Tyson

I saw a drunk man in London place his bare pizza slice on top of a public bin, pause and then eat a bite before putting it back down and then repeating until he had eaten it all.
The bin tops in London tend to be covered in garbage juice and bird s**t. He was also using his hands to prop himself up on the bin using the rim.
I took a photo of him and he chased me for quite some time until a closing bar let me in to escape out of the back when a taxi came by.

#23

Image source: ratsandfoxbats, Kaboompics.com

1. I used to work in a really bad part of town and one afternoon driving home from work I saw some random guy, most likely hopped up on d***s, stick his hand down his throat and vomit all over the sidewalk next to our car.

2. During Christmas time some lady straight up changed her baby ON THE TABLE in the foodcourt of the mall. Didn’t wipe it down or anything. Told the custodial crew, they didn’t do anything.

#24

Image source: anon, Getty Images

My ex boss used to eat on video calls and then floss her teeth with her hair that was still attached to her head, in full sight of all of us. And then would tuck said hair(s) behind her ear and continue with the meeting.

#25

Image source: thiscouldbemassive, Justus Menke

I saw a guy licking the bar codes on the empty soda cans he was trying to feed to the recycling machine. Every time it rejected one (because the barcode was too filthy to read) he just stuck his tongue out and went to town. God only knows the crud he was licking off. I later saw him fishing through trash cans to find more cans to deposit.