Don't know if it's the strangest-certainly one of the dumbest, and it too, relates to a ...skunk!
Graduated high school in Oklahoma & my buddy & I were deer hunting on his family's section of land. His woods were so thick with dry leaves that we jumped the fence and were walking, at almost-light-enough-to-see, in his neighbor's pasture so we could cross back over & not make so much noise.
That part of Oklahoma was having a severe rabid skunk problem-for those who aren't aware, if you see a skunk in the daytime, it is almost guaranteed that it's rabid.
So we're halfway to where we want to be when we see this small "stump" start moving, about 50 yards away. We stop dead in our tracks, forget we're deer hunting (we were about 17 at the time) and launch in to a full-blown discussion, at normal volume, of whether we should shoot this skunk, could be rabid, it's not really daytime yet, maybe it's going back to its den, etc. etc.
We decided that since the skunk was moving away from us & it really wasn't daylight, we'd let it go so we didn't spook any deer off.
Decision made, we take...ONE single step forward, and this HUMONGOUS, at least 8-point buck EXPLODES away...deep into my buddy's woods, as we just about jumped out of our boots. He had been standing perfectly still, watching us, from no more than 20 yards away.
After our heart rates slowed down, I looked at my friend, bent over in front of him, and said "You kick me in the butt, then I'll kick you in the butt!"
Sam