Seniors, What is an unusual site from your home window?

I have a 1980 something ( 85 to 88 year) Buick Regal parked right outside our flat. It is black with silver trim and huge chrome wheels.
Not too unusual of a site in the US even though gas is priced high and these cars are gas guzzlers.
I am looking out my window here in Old World Budapest, Hungary.
This car is so out of place parked on the cobble stone St. and with gas( petrol) being at $8. US here these owners must also own a gas station.

I was enjoying looking at it, feeling a bit homesick for the US when I noticed something even more worrying then high gas prices.
Everyone walking past the car is turning their necks to have a peek at it. One guy I noticed actually at first looked like he was going to enter the car,I was sort of hoping to see who would get into that car.
The young dark haired man was rubbing his finger around the drivers side window, putting his eyes up to the glass to look inside the car, then went to the passenger side and looked like he was reaching for car keys from his fanny pack. He only pulled out a cell phone, stood next to the car talking to someone for a few mins. played around the car a bit longer then slowly crossed the St. and walked away.
I am not going to babysit this car all day long but as soon as the real owners show up I may let them know their car was getting a bit too much attention.
looked to me like car thieves were thinking of removing the car.
I have seen many older and some new US cars here in the past. A few weeks ago 2 young guys were driving down my St. in an old 70's Cadillac. I couldn't help myself, I jumped the curb and stick my thumb out like I wanted a ride. They were cool, they slowed down and waved to me.
Is there anything totally out of place in front of your window?

2013-07-31T07:44:46Z

So many interesting answers, it is going to be hard to pick a BA.
After 20 or min. of writing, the young man returned with an older women in her 50's or so, maybe it was his mom.
He was still messing around on the passenger side of the car, the police came by I nticed he gave them his owners papers and they drove on. He was trying hard to get into the car, maybe his car key was bad.
They finally entered the car and drove off.
I had been bothering my husband to get dressed, get some of his tools and walk down the flight of stairs and help the guy get into his car.
My husband just said let him deal with it and continued to watch his movie.
Glad
it wasn't being stolen but it was strange to see such a car and to have so much action going on outside.
Seems I may be turning into a busy body, just watching out that's all...

?2013-07-31T05:29:30Z

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I can't see them, but my husband told me there are two baby kittens in our shed, which I can see from the front window. They are very small and don't have their eyes open yet. The mother is around somewhere, because she keeps moving the kittens around the shed after she knew they had been spotted. I do NOT want to see the kittens as I know darned well I will want to keep them, but I just can't, not with another cat and a dog in our small trailer and the vet bills I already have. I suppose I will have to call the animal shelter when they are ready to be on their own, but it breaks my heart.

I had a 1988 Buick Riviera up until a few years ago, when we both lost our jobs and I had to sell it. That was sad, because it's the best car I've ever owned. I bought it from my former boss' wife and drove it for over 10 years. I still see it around town sometimes and wave at it, lol.

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Anonymous2013-07-31T05:18:46Z

Not at the moment. But, we had a weird incident a few months ago.......

I live in an older neighborhood in the burbs between DFW. The area has been built up for years, the only open spaces consist of parks, and utility easements, around the creeks, etc. Any way, one morning as I got the news paper from the front yard, I noticed a rather large carcass in the yard. I turned out to be a half eaten opossum. Ugh! There are many large oak tree clusters in the area, but I didn't realize they lived so close to me. My plan was to wait till hubby got home to dispose of this mess. (I wasn't going to touch it!)

A bit later, I notice a commotion in the front yard. There were 2 turkey buzzards there, eating away at the carcass. They were huge, wing spans about 5 ft. and ugly as can be. The neighbors all came out to gawk at the sight.

By the time hubby came home, all that was left was a bit of the carcass/bones.

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Laurence2013-07-31T04:58:29Z

I suppose a Roman city wall would be unusual from most house windows, but as mine has been here for two millennia I can hardly look on it with surprise. Between this wall and the road in front of my house is, however, the exit from a municipal car park and sometimes cars come out and turn right, contrary to the traffic flow on this one-way street. Once I even saw a bus do it. A few years ago I got the local council to make their "no entry" sign larger and their directional arrows on the road surface closer to the exit. Errant drivers do sometimes still make the same wrong turn, but it has now become much less usual!

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p2013-07-31T05:56:15Z

Yeah ,Our neighbour Larry.He should have been put into a home years ago but He still drives around on His lawn tractor in His boxer underwear every day.Has already cut the same lawn 4 times this week.Just as bad in the winter when He sits and watches all day long for a snowflake to fall so He can start up the Snow Blower and clean out the driveway a dozen times a day. Last fall.He was raking the leaves and I waved at Him . He waved back .Then He fell out of the tree and broke His arm.Larry is definitely unusual.

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Blank2013-07-31T10:02:18Z

Well, the most unusual sight I've seen out my window this summer was a couple of turkey buzzards.
They were after a gopher I'd trapped and then tossed over the garden fence. We were watching a movie in our bedroom when I heard a commotion outside my bedroom window. Apparently one buzzard had found the gopher and another came in to get a share.

Glad I wasn't thinking that morning. If I'd done my usual and put the corpse in the pile of trash to be burned, we'd never have seen this . I've noticed buzzards on the road here in the desert, but I'd never stopped. They are smarter than the run-over rabbits they go after. They know to stay away from cars.

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