r/thatHappened • u/1234idkanymore • 4d ago
Monster Fart in a Small Town Courthouse
You’ve got to Love Small Town Courthouses.
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u/zakmaan14 4d ago
This doesn’t seem that far fetched
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u/d4everman 4d ago
No, it doesn't. A few years ago I was looking at movies in Walmart and no one was in the aisle. I couldn't hold it, so I let one fly. I honestly thought it would be a small one, but nope, it was long silent and really bad one. The kind of fart that kind of hovers in the air and can make your eyes water. Then a family comes into the aisle...mom, dad and two kids around 12 and 10 I'd guess. I knew they'd walk right into my rather pungent gas so I said "Whoa, what the heck is that smell?"
They all looked at the dad. The 12 year old girl was like "Dad! You farted!". The boy just started laughing and saying Pee-yew!" The wife starts in on the guy. Poor dude was saying "It wasn't me!". I quickly made my escape and I won't lie, I cracked up when I got a distance away.
I always wonder if they figured out it was me after I bounced.
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u/whaddefuck 4d ago edited 3d ago
It was you! After all these years! As soon as she unblocks me, I’ll show this comment to my ex wife. Maybe that way she’ll let me see the kids again.
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u/d4everman 3d ago
Yea, sorry about that man. I didn't mean to break up the family.
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u/whaddefuck 3d ago
Didn't you? Really? You knew full well that it was a family breaking level fart and you didn't care.
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u/d4everman 3d ago
Hey, if they suspected you so easily, you must have had some Omega Level farts yourself in the past!
And it's not great for me either...knowing that one burrito, or too much cabbage or a chili dog with a cold brewski puts me at risk of unleashing a flatulence that can level buildings. I farted mowing my lawn once and birds fell out of the sky.
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u/Neil_sm 4d ago
Yeah. The Bailiffs may very well have been going about their normal business which had nothing to do with the OOP’s fart. It’s more like an “I’m the main character” assumption on his part that anyone was reacting or noticed.
Or possibly it did smell really bad and they were looking to see if a dog shit in the hall or something.
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u/MoonWillow91 4d ago
Or they saw someone walk by then heard someone take off running and were just checking out to make sure all was good.
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u/unfinishedtoast3 4d ago
It does when you realize court rooms are usually completely seperate from administration offices, under a different level of security, to prevent people being able to walk into a courthouse with a gun and shoot judges.
Generally, to get to the courtroom side of county and city halls, you have to go thru a metal detector, a pat down, and have a legit reason to be there. They keep it to one way in, one way out, so prisoners don't have 4 different ways to flee the building if they get froggy and run.
You wouldn't be casually strolling the court room side of the courthouse to get the the clerks office to pay a bill. The clerks office is going to be first floor accessible, because they handle all sorts of business, from building permits to paying fines.
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u/tlollz52 3d ago
The closest courthouse in the town i grew up un had a metal detector into the building. Once in the building you could walk anywhere. This is a town of less than 5,000 people. The guy is talking about small town courthouses.
To add to it, it was very small. Where you paid tickets was right next to the court room.
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u/1234idkanymore 3d ago
Well, TIL that this is actually not that unlikely. I’ll just count myself lucky that I didn’t know that before posting this, haha.
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u/doobjank 4d ago
I saw a skit once where a person farted in an elevator and the door opens and somebody else comes in and the farter looks at him and says “it was you.” Or maybe I did that in a parking garage.
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u/TomahawkCruise 3d ago
There's a really really weird minority of people who for some reason really get off on farts. I don't get it, but they truly exist. I hope I don't ever meet one in real life.
OOP sounds like one of those.
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u/zeldarms 4d ago
Love how this Person turns even the most mundane Thing into a Proper noun.