The 30 Funniest Things People Overheard in Public

Most attendees at historical reenactments may expect to hear explosions, but during one fateful performance in an Ohio amphitheater, the most dramatic boom of the evening came not from the period-accurate cannons, but from one patron’s ass. 

“During a very quiet scene, a guy three or four rows in front of us leaned to his side and ripped the most thunderous fart I’ve ever heard on the hard plastic seat,” one Redditor recalled of their time at the show. 

Sparking a widespread outbreak of uproarious laughter — and a slap from his wife — the Redditor still had the giggles a decade and a half after the curtain call. “Every few minutes, someone would remember and try to suppress their laughter and it would set everyone else off again,” they recalled.

This audience member is far from the only person who caught wind — pun unavoidable — of some funny stuff while out and about. Here are some other hilarious things folks overheard in public, the wildest of which include angry grandmothers, chainsaw incidents and disappointment about the small stature of pygmy hippos.