Have you ever been falsely accused of anything? (vindictive, boyfriend, husband)

[Diane de Poitiers]

It's happened to me many times before.......one being the time when I was accused of viewing/printing out porn in one of the computer labs at the community college I was attending. I don't recall the exact details, only that someone had printed (or tried to print) photo-shopped porn pics of Hillary Clinton, and apparently another computer lab user said it came from the computer I'd been using. (Not sure exactly why the woman who supervised the computer lab was so quick to believe I was guilty, unless it was because I was in there a lot, and I did print out pictures often)

Anyhow, I just remember that I felt really weird using the school's computer lab after that.

[tangelag]

I was in a Ross store a couple of years ago and there was this family with three kids. They were really out of control and the parents weren't doing anything to keep them in check. The kids started pulling all the decorative pillows off the racks and then stuffing them under the racks. I said, "Hey, don't do that!" As the pillows were now coming into the aisle and tripping me up. The kids ran and told their parents something. The dad, I assume, glared at me and the family stalked up to the customer service area and started talking to the manager. The dad turned to look at me and smirked. Soon after, I had that manager (who, btw, knew me as a regular shopper there) start to follow me around the store. Clearly that man had somehow accused me of something, probably shoplifting, and I was livid.

[Pinkmani]

In 5th grade, the whole class had silent lunch. My teacher told this to the lunch room monitor. When my teacher came to get us from the lunch room, she asked the lunch room monitor who talked, she included me in the group of people that were talking! Was I talking? ABSOLUTELY NOT! However, I was listening to the kids who were talking.

[NVplumber]

I have indeed been falsely accused. On the job. I was being gone after brazenly and viciously. Taking all the heat for co workers screw ups. I was a target because I kicked up a fuss about a director. He made sexual advances to the wrong woman worker. My woman. We both just quit and got out of there. Now if I see this creep on the street, I can beat him senseless and not be in a compromising position at work.

[Caligula1]

Twice that stand out, mostly because there is some humor involved..

At my job once when my paper/chemical product sales rep came in for an order. I used to call this guy Andy the weasel, he had that shifty weasel thing going on.. He put his order forms down and put his product demo stuff on top of his forms. I started to tell him what I needed and he accused me of taking and hiding his order forms.. He's running around looking under and behind stuff in my kitchen, swearing at me turning all shades of red.. I said to him, I have better thing to do then hide your stuff.. He's still going crazy looking, of course failing to look under the crap he brought in to demo, he finally finds his stuff and of course offers no apology and leaves embarrassed..

Another time was when I was younger and I shared an apartment with 2 other guys.. One of the guys had an argument outside with his girlfriend it was loud but non-violent. The girl went home and about 10 minuets or so later the police were at the door.. The cop came in the house asked questions and then insisted he smelled marijuana.. The thing is, none of us smoked pot. There was some excessive back and forth banter with the cop with him insisting and us denying. One Of the guys finally blurted out to the cop that he was "F-ing crazy".. Needless to say this didn't sit so well with the officer..
So another cop comes and finally after talking to his buddy they leave.. I guess the other cop didn't smell any marijuana..

[mainebrokerman]

in school...a girl threw a tape ball at a teacher ,,,,,hit him in the eye the whole class laughed and the teacher sent many of us boys to the principals office,,,one boy confessed who did it,,,but they didnt believe a girl would do this..
they accused me because i was the "ring leader" as they said..

they called my parents we got detention....and crap at home,,,even tho we told the principal who did it.. the principal said "heather would never do this shame on you boys for blaming her" the principal was a woman

[No_Recess]

Have you ever been falsely accused of anything?

Sure, but on the advice of my legal counsel I'm going to stop right there.

[Calvert Hall '62]

10th grade, parochial school presided over by very strict Christian Brothers. One exception was Bro. Gerald (The Gopher) who was sort of out of it stemming from trauma he experienced during WWII at either Bataan or Corregidor. So we occasionally "acted out" in his class.


As he left the room at 3pm and we were at our lockers, some guys would make a hissing sound. One day the Goph had enough and went ballistic, grabbing me, hauling off, and smashing me in the jaw with a big right fist. One of his knuckles literally penetrated to the inside of my mouth. The fact that I was 200 lb. linebacker and he was 150 and skeletal was probably the only reason he didn't drop me.


Twenty-five years later at a reunion, I told the Goph truthfully that Mike ____ did the hiss that particular day. He apologized for "socking me" but didn't seem especially remorseful, probably owing to the fact that I was no stranger to playing the class clown occasionally, and this made up for those past incidents.
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On a more serious note, freshman year in college. I had several recent arguments with mom, like typical 18-year-olds do. One day my bud and I were walking down the street and mom was walking toward us. We didn't see her. It was a busy street and there was a gap in the traffic so bud and I zipped across.


She was more hurt than I had ever seen her, and simply did not believe that we hadn't noticed her approaching us. It was never brought up again and I do suspect that she went to her grave decades later still thinking that we purposely ignored her that day. I regret that later in life I failed to plead my case again.

[michael917]

When I was in college, I got rear-ended on the way home one day, and to my horror realized I'd lost track of my driver's license. The city cop who got called in was extremely unfriendly, and according to him, there was no record of me possessing a license at all. I ended up having to go to court before I was cleared of this.

[silibran]

Once my immediate supervisor made a mistake and blamed me for it, when I most certainly had not made that mistake. I had to find a way to get over it. So I did. Overall, I liked her. But I guess it was hard for her to admit a mistake.