What Is the worst thing you've been accused for when you haven't done anything wrong

Fox Hound

So seen this on Reddit today and Just wanted to see if there is any good story's on Boards,

When I was a kid I went to the Local shop, and my Mam bought me a watch, In my excitement I  ran out of the shop ahead of her and the shop keeper chased me out thinking I had stolen it....he absolutely ripped me a knew one and made me feel about two inches tall, I never forgot it to this day, luckily My Mam came out and set him straight,  ...Just wondering has anybody got any better stories out their :-)

minikin

I was once accused by a farmer of running through his fields of wheat.

Hazys

Your ma

Fox Hound

Hazys wrote: »

Your ma

my mother is a saint ;-)

dinorebel

Fox Hound wrote: »

my mother is a saint ;-)

But still a Vixen

stimpson

Fox Hound wrote: »

my mother is a saint ;-)

Are you Wes Mantooth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz4FtlTfkbs

5rtytry56

Accused very seriously by a pair of colleagues of deliberately fecking up the computer network. On a heritage project. Fairly visceral snarky ruthless individuals.

I should have got a solicitor and brought a case of bullying against both of them.

But I was still affected by my poor performance in college -

The same year 2000, my last full time year in college, 3rd Year, Diploma in IT had ended in tears - and I could'nt proceed to the Degree Year, 4th year.

Fast forward to 2017. The only thing now is that I don't have an "Alma Mater" to hark back to and ah sure life goes on.

Kimbot

I've been accused of plenty but the best had to have been when the guards came smashing through my front door on a fine saturday morning at an ungodly hour telling me I have been selling millions worth of guns. Needless to say they got it so very wrong.

Fox Hound

stimpson wrote: »

Fox Hound wrote: »

my mother is a saint ;-)

Are you Wes Mantooth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz4FtlTfkbs

god I love boards

Sabre0001

Nothing too serious.

Was in a shop a couple of years back and not sure if I just went to ATM or bought something, but was walking out the door when someone grabbed me by backpack. Turned around to have a security guard basically checking to see if I'd stolen something. I was a bit in shock, he didn't say much...All very confusing. If I knew then what I know now I could have had a nice money earner on my hands

Collie D

jonnycivic wrote: »

I've been accused of plenty but the best had to have been when the guards came smashing through my front door on a fine saturday morning at an ungodly hour telling me I have been selling millions worth of guns. Needless to say they got it so very wrong.

This needs its own thread. Please continue, Mr. Goldfinger

To Alcohol

Accused of throwing stones on the local farmers milking parlor roof resulting in said farmer getting a kick in his bollix from whichever cow he was attending at the time.

Kimbot

Collie D wrote: »

This needs its own thread. Please continue, Mr. Goldfinger

Shhhhh....... i need my real identity kept secret.

Backstory to this:

Living with an ex of mine sharing an apartment with one other lad. Gotten woken to the guards smashing the door in, they had a warrant "Offenses against the state act". After the scare of having 10-12 armed guards pointing in our faces we got chatting to the Super. He told us that they got an anon tip off pointing them in the direction of our apartment as to a source of guns been sold in dublin. It was all mad really but we got it cleared up thanks to our land lord and the fact they had zero evidence at all even for the search.

Sleepy

I think I was about 8 years old and one Christmas morning my Dad was utterly convinced I'd snuck down earlier in the morning to peek at the presents. Nothing I said would convince him I hadn't. It couldn't have been the first time I'd been accused of something in the wrong but it definitely stands out in my memory as a time when I felt very unfairly treated.

Mooooo

Snoring

DvB

Had a similar incident with AGS a few years back, myself & my wife were relaxing watching TV one night when at about 9pm someone starting banging down the hall door, went out and there was about half a dozen armoured up garda with at least one garda van and 2 cars outside with their lights flashing away... straight away I suspect they copped they had the wrong address but came in anyway... asked me was it my house, I said it was, asked how long I'd lived there, told them about 10 years, they said I couldnt have, then was I sure? Said I was, they calmed down a tad at that stage, up to that point looking like they were expecting to be taking on an armed gang or suchlike... asked a few more questions about lodgers etc, said we'd never had any, then apologised and asked did we know such and such, said we didnt and they mumbled a it & left... weird thing is we live next door to a garda and when we told her a few days later she said she'd look into it for us but i sounded like a clear mistaken address & it wasnt like the garda to make such a monumantal f**k up... never heard anything after & had no garda back so assume they copped it wasnae us up to no good! So a f**k up it was!

At least they only banged on the door & didnt kick the thing in or smash through the windows SAS style!!

Cortina_MK_IV

Being a Man U supporter.

Deise Vu

I was in the back seat of a car with a crowd of lads once when the driver complained about the car behind having full headlights on. I glanced over my shoulder and, sure enough, was dazzled by the bastard. I had my arm across the back window so I, stupidly, started pointing downwards in an attempt to let him know his lights were full on.

In a microcosm of how the luck has fallen in my life, blue lights started flashing about three feet above the full-on headlights. The cops. I was dragged out of the car none too gently and down to the Garda Station. Needless to say the driver wasn't prepared to accept he had been driving with full lights and they were accusing me of flipping the finger at them for the craic. As it happened, they were happy enough to scare the crap out of me and I was let go with a warning. What a ridiculous way to get a court appearance that would have been.

BBDBB

I got a job in a very cheap jewellery shop after my finals, went in on Saturday morning to be met by my boss and her right hand assistant to be told that they had put an extra ten pounds in my wages and as I hadn't reported it I was untrustworthy and therefore instantly dismissed. To say I was stunned was an understatement. Totally confused I went back home.

Id got paid the day before and been given my wage packet. I was meeting my girlfriend at lunchtime and without checking what Id been paid I took out twenty quid to go out that night and then handed the wage packet to her asking her if she would take it to the bank and put it in my account. Which she did, took the money out of the envelope, counted it and made out a counter slip for it, but of course she didn't think to check what the wage slip had said, and whether it corresponded to the amount a she didn't know exactly how much I had taken out, so she queued up and handed it to the bank teller.

So according to them, I "stole" it, without even realising. I went back to them to try to explain what had happened but of course they didn't want to accept my story. I was devastated that my reputation could be tarnished like that. It still rankles to be honest many years later

keano_afc

Got hit from behind by a driver who hilariously accused me of cutting across her. She tried to overtake me and ran out of road and hit me as she pulled in behind me. Went to court, she lied to the (female) judge who believed her. I lost my no claims bonus and had to pay for her self-inflicted damage on her car.

hairyslug

Writing something on a wall about a teacher in secondary school, still has me slightly pissed off. The little **** who did it never owned up, I was hung out to dry and was threatened with expulsion. Wasn't till about 6 years after that I found out who it was.

lawred2

keano_afc wrote: »

Got hit from behind by a driver who hilariously accused me of cutting across her. She tried to overtake me and ran out of road and hit me as she pulled in behind me. Went to court, she lied to the (female) judge who believed her. I lost my no claims bonus and had to pay for her self-inflicted damage on her car.

that doesn't make sense

how were you liable for the actions of a driver behind you?

keano_afc

lawred2 wrote: »

that doesn't make sense

how were you liable for the actions of a driver behind you?

Thats exactly what I asked. Like I said, she told a different version of events and was believed.

lawred2

keano_afc wrote: »

Thats exactly what I asked. Like I said, she told a different version of events and was believed.

you didn't do a little tippy tappy on the brakes?

Lorelli!

When I was about 10, two of my friends saw a neighbour who was about 16 smoking and they knocked into his house and told his mother.

For some reason, he got it into his head that it was me that told on him. I didn't even see him smoking and wouldn't have thought to say anything about it to his mother but he was really quite nasty to me and kept calling me a bitch for about a year any time I'd walk by him. After a while he seemed to forget about it and was friendly then.

redfacedbear

Assault.

A chap, who grew up around the corner from me, got lippy with a local skanger while walking home from the pub and got a bit of a hiding for his trouble.

I never found out the hows or the whys but he ended up making false statements to the Gardaí naming me and 2 friends as the perpetrators (despite us being nowhere near him at the time).

There followed an ugly few months while his friends and family feigned righteous indignation whenever any of us showed our faces about town.

Still rankles 20 years later.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Not me but a friend. New Year's Eve when she was out she got chatting to this absolutely wasted wan, wan was giving out that some randomer had called her 'vapid' earlier in the evening. Friendo wasn't unwasted herself so they had quite an indepth talk about how that wasn't a nice thing to say and where do some people get off insulting strangers etc., cheered the girl up and they parted ways.

Few weeks later she's out, sees the same girl and waves, girl goes "Hey I know you!" thinks about it for a second and goes "You called me VAPID ON NEW YEAR'S EVE!". Just remembered the comment and my friend's face and couldn't be convinced that my friend had actually comforted her rather than made the dig. Took a while to get her to fcuk off apparently.

Godeatsboogers

Ive usually done what ive been accused of

Fox Hound

Frida Delightful Cable wrote: »

Not me but a friend. New Year's Eve when she was out she got chatting to this absolutely wasted wan, wan was giving out that some randomer had called her 'vapid' earlier in the evening. Friendo wasn't unwasted herself so they had quite an indepth talk about how that wasn't a nice thing to say and where do some people get off insulting strangers etc., cheered the girl up and they parted ways.

Few weeks later she's out, sees the same girl and waves, girl goes "Hey I know you!" thinks about it for a second and goes "You called me VAPID ON NEW YEAR'S EVE!". Just remembered the comment and my friend's face and couldn't be convinced that my friend had actually comforted her rather than made the dig. Took a while to get her to fcuk off apparently.

whats "Vapid"? I wouldn't even know it was an insult if someone said it to me....let alone if I was Locked!!lol

_Whimsical_

Fox Hound wrote: »

whats "Vapid"? I wouldn't even know it was an insult if someone said it to me....let alone if I was Locked!!lol

Silly, superficial, empty headed!

Ralf and Florian

hairyslug wrote: »

Writing something on a wall about a teacher in secondary school, still has me slightly pissed off. The little **** who did it never owned up, I was hung out to dry and was threatened with expulsion. Wasn't till about 6 years after that I found out who it was.

The exact same thing happened me in secondary school. I was accused of writing something about a female teacher in the toilets cos I was in there when the prick of a headmaster came in, saw the writing on the wall and accused me of doing it. I was interrogated by him in his office and ended up storming out angrily denying it. Nothing came of it in the end.

koumi

was working as an intern in the hse, found my medical records in a colleagues office and reported it to my manager, was told it was just a clerical error and following it was passed over for the opportunity of employment so decided to contact the data protection commissioner to seek advice. A couple of days later the office I was working in claimed there had been a theft, reporting money stolen from the doctors office and phone stolen from her secretary. I was contacted immediately, whether for finger pointing or just for the sake of informing me they were reporting it and when I asked had they tried tracing phone said they didn't have that service active, asked had they checked security cameras in place, said of all the areas in the building it was the only place without visibility. Claimed a person fitting my description was seen wandering around other areas of building and that there had been reports of thefts there too. While I wasn't accused directly it was made very clear that I was guilty and was provided with a security pass, which I previously didn't have up until that point, in the event of any other security issues. After I left I started receiving anonymous phone calls from a man asking me where the phone is. I did report to the guards after the fact but I've been unemployed ever since and continuously receiving counseling. (for multiple issues as a result of it)

The HSE, covering up abuse and stitching up colleagues since 2005

Reati

Fox Hound wrote: »

So seen this on Reddit today and Just wanted to see if there is any good story's on Boards,

Pretty much how every second post in After hours comes about these days.:rolleyes:

bikubesong

I was working in a retail job when a few quid seemingly went astray from the till. It wasn't much, like a fiver one day, £7.50 the next; a few separate amounts over three or four days. Trouble was I was the store supervisor and in charge of the till 99% of the time. It was a small clothes shop so there was usually only me, one/two sales girls, and a manager in an office.

I wasn't exactly directly accused of taking it but it was heavily implied by my superiors that Occam's razor pointed towards me as the culprit...I was sick about it for weeks, I knew it wasn't me but I couldn't see how anyone else could feasibly have taken it either. I lost sleep and considered leaving the job despite my unwavering faith in my own innocence.

Eventually, someone with better maths skills came along to investigate and it transpired the whole debacle was a miscalculation on my manager's part. :rolleyes:

bikubesong

bikubesong wrote: »

I lost sleep and considered leaving the job despite my unwavering faith in my own innocence.

Glad you stuck by yourself!

micar

A few things

In first class. Was asked to do some Maths on the blackboard. It was one of the questions we had for homework. When I got to board, I froze and couldn't remember how to do it. Teacher accused me of getting my parents to do my homework which wasn't true.

In third class, sitting at round tables. Teacher asked the class to quietly read a page of something. I was lip reading what wasn't on the page. Teacher called me up to her desk and accused me of speaking to the person beside me. Kept telling her I wasn't This went on for ages
...yes you were.... No I wasn't . For her to get off my back, I had to admit that I was.

In secondary school, was called out of class and brought down to the biology lab. Brought over to where I sat and point out to me was Ice T scratched into the desk.....sure I hadn't a clue who it was and it wasn't my type of music.

Stan27

I was travelling America alone, when in las vagas I was walking down a side street when a man came up to me with a woman accusing me I stole his phone. Seemly he has tracked me on the woman's phone with the find my I phone app.

I won't lie I was nervous enough, solo traveller and all that, he wanted to search me and my back pack. Half afraid he could put something in it and god knows what could happen. He was very pushy, so I told him to ring the police or casino security, they can search my stuff no problem. After a minute of him not backing off, I said ok as I had nothing in my bag apart from a water bottle, and I let him search the bag ( he searched it aggressively) . When he saw nothing he just walked off.
I said something like maybe he should say sorry, but he didn't care.
On reflection I should have let him call the police it would have made more sense.

Chancer3001

An ethnic minority accused me of calling him a handicap in a nightclub. This was after the nightclubs closed. The only thing that stopped him beating me up was another ethnic minority lady who told him if he was gonna fight somebody that night, to not have it be a small 17 year old.
A nice lad

Hector Bellend

A doctor once accused me of being a glue sniffer

gimli2112

Wrongly accused of trying to burn down my school after putting out the fire. Shouldn't have bothered. Also of breaking into the school shop, I mean I did just not that night.

Yourself isit

BBDBB wrote: »

I got a job in a very cheap jewellery shop after my finals, went in on Saturday morning to be met by my boss and her right hand assistant to be told that they had put an extra ten pounds in my wages and as I hadn't reported it I was untrustworthy and therefore instantly dismissed. To say I was stunned was an understatement. Totally confused I went back home.

Id got paid the day before and been given my wage packet. I was meeting my girlfriend at lunchtime and without checking what Id been paid I took out twenty quid to go out that night and then handed the wage packet to her asking her if she would take it to the bank and put it in my account. Which she did, took the money out of the envelope, counted it and made out a counter slip for it, but of course she didn't think to check what the wage slip had said, and whether it corresponded to the amount a she didn't know exactly how much I had taken out, so she queued up and handed it to the bank teller.

So according to them, I "stole" it, without even realising. I went back to them to try to explain what had happened but of course they didn't want to accept my story. I was devastated that my reputation could be tarnished like that. It still rankles to be honest many years later

Accusations of theft are defamation. Pity you didn't pursue it.

mzungu

A couple of years ago when I was in the army, me and some other guys robbed a bank under orders. We succeeded, but our commanding officer had been murdered in a double cross, ergo, we were unable to prove that we were acting legitimately under orders. The punishment was totally out of order. In 1972, our crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime we didn't commit. We promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, we survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find us, maybe you can hire.....

BBDBB

Yourself isit wrote: »

Accusations of theft are defamation. Pity you didn't pursue it.

I did go to a solicitor for an hours free consultation on my case. He wrote them a letter making a similar point, but nothing ever came of it.

I moved on and put it behind me. Funny that all these years later after it not even crossing my mind that today in writing about it I found myself getting very angry/upset again, silly really it was years ago, a ****ty job which I didn't really enjoy and Ive achieved a lot since then

Diddley Squat

I was about 20 year old - coming home late from work I dropped in the local pub to catch up with my pals.
We watched out the windows as two groups of lads scrapped it out on the street.
Fight was over and the two groups went their separate ways.
Gardai arrived way too late and as we were leaving the pub, started hassling us thinking we were involved. Told us to go straight home (which we were in the process of doing).
On route we stopped into the Esso garage to pick up smokes or whatever , when the gardai come back and pulled in to the garage court.

One young Guard comes up from behind me and smashes me over the head with his torch , no reason for it. Full force wallop.
I get arrested for drunk and disorderly but I have only drank one pint.

I suspect the sergeant has a word with the young gaurd and tells him that was unnecessary and to sort it out.
I get put into the interview room and he says I am being charged for D + Disorderly.
I request a breathalyzer or a blood test and he refuses.

I then tell him that he in fact assaulted me and that my friend who works in the garage will have the CCTV of the incident. (Me bluffing - I didnt know the guy in the garage)

He pauses.....then offers to drop the charges providing I drop the assault complaint..... I declined.

I never went ahead with the complaint as I just wanted to forget about it , then I get a summons delivered a while later stating that I am being charged in Dun Laoghaire District court.

I went in , no solicitor and willing to defend myself.
The Guard never showed up and I heard he was no longer in the force.

Judge threw it out.

Wesser

Farting

ToddyDoody

Myself and a friend were accused of lighting a house on fire - I think we were around 8 at the time. We were put on traffic duty to divert people away from the road block but a farmer ignored us and got caught for a few hours. Eventually he figured us little bastards probably lit the fcuking thing.

ArnoldJRimmer

Was reversing out of a space in a multi story car park early in the morning and a guy came right up behind me and started beeping his horn. Wouldn't fcuk off and give me very little room to maneuver, so I ended up having to go up to the next level of the park as he was blocking where I could turn to exit. Next thing the fcuker follows me up and keeps beeping his horn.

I stopped and got out of the car to see what the problem is. He started shouting that I reversed into his car and asked what was I going to do about it. Now I looked at the front of his car which has clearly been bashed in quite severely. I looked at the back of mine which doesn't even have a scratch. And obviously I didn't feel any impact when I was reversing.

I calmly took out my phone and started taking photo's of both cars while asking yer man to call the cops immediately. Sarcastically apologised for hitting his car and said I was looking forward to seeing the security footage of my bad driving. He started muttering that it was ok, and that he over-reacted, no need for cops, blah-dee-blah, then jumped back into his car and drove off. So more of a really stupid thing I was accused of more than the worst

368100

Stealing money from my older sister that she was saving for her wedding, think it was about €500. Happened years ago and long forgotten but ive always suspected it was my younger sister. I was no angel at the time so that's why I got blame but I remember being gutted getting blame for something I didnt do.

ButtersSuki

When I was in University I went to the local pub one night where (I'm not making this up) the front part of the pub only allowed 4th year students to mix with the locals (all 1st-3rd years had to stay in the back). This was possibly my 2nd time in this hallowed section of the pub which didn't really bother me as at the time I didn't drink and wasn't really a pub-type person anyway. Long story short I'm sitting there and this middle-aged man I didn't recognise comes up to me screaming in my face "Where's the picture? Where's the picture?", and accuses me of having stolen a picture from the wall (which had pictures of local GAA players and teams going back decades). I had no idea what he was talking about, and was totally thrown by his aggressiveness - I can still picture him to this day (over 20 years later) screaming at me. This went on for about 2 minutes (which at the time felt like a much longer period of time I can assure you) during which I felt like the entire pub was looking at me judgingly. No matter what i said to assure him I had no idea what he was talking about it just got worse and worse. He was eventually taken away by two men back to a different table but stared at me the whole night like he was going to attack me - it was very intimidating. Turns out he's the local parish priest (I had no idea as I wasn't a mass go-er) and had a bit of a problem with drink. At the time however, it was quite upsetting.

Hannibal_Smith

micar wrote: »

A few things

In first class. Was asked to do some Maths on the blackboard. It was one of the questions we had for homework. When I got to board, I froze and couldn't remember how to do it. Teacher accused me of getting my parents to do my homework which wasn't true.

You should count yourself lucky you had parents who could help. The other week I 'helped' my son with his maths homework. Gave him a proper telling off for not reading the question properly and getting the answer wrong. I showed him how to work it out 'properly'. Erased his answer and replaced it with mine. Turned out, his answer was right and mine was wrong :pac: When he tried to explain it to his teacher she wouldn't believe him :eek:

Serves him right for ratting me out :mad:

fargo_coyle

using a taser on a guy who assaulted me on my own property

back in 2005