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

koumi · 12-06-2017 06:33PM

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 · 12-06-2017 06:37PM

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 · 12-06-2017 06:37PM

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:

12-06-2017 06:41PM

bikubesong wrote: »

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

Glad you stuck by yourself!

micar · 12-06-2017 07:07PM

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 · 12-06-2017 07:26PM

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 · 12-06-2017 07:32PM

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 · 12-06-2017 07:48PM

A doctor once accused me of being a glue sniffer

gimli2112 · 12-06-2017 07:52PM

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 · 12-06-2017 07:59PM

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 · 12-06-2017 08:09PM

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 · 12-06-2017 08:19PM

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 · 12-06-2017 08:27PM

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 · 12-06-2017 08:39PM

Farting

ToddyDoody · 12-06-2017 08:46PM

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 · 12-06-2017 08:47PM

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

12-06-2017 08:49PM

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 · 12-06-2017 09:01PM

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 · 12-06-2017 10:10PM

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 · 12-06-2017 10:19PM

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

back in 2005

jimmycrackcorm · 12-06-2017 10:23PM

The whole of Sheriff street.

A friend living in the inner city told me the story of seeing his motorbike stolen. Went to the guards who suggested taking him for a drive around sheriff street to see if he could identify the thief. As they drive around he notices lots of guys putting up their hoodies and scurrying off and asks the guard what's going on.

Garda says, well, they're all guilty of something, they just don't know which criminal we're looking for...

DMcL1971 · 12-06-2017 10:55PM

Was accused of assault by the Gardai.

Late one night a mate of mine was extremely drunk. He got the bright idea to go to the Garda Station and ask them to give him a lift home. I thought this was a pretty bad idea so I went after him to stop him from getting us both into trouble. I caught up with him in the car park of the Garda station, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and dragged him away. Unfortunately someone happened to be looking out the station window at the time and assumed I was attacking him. A bunch of guards bailed out and grabbed me and dragged me inside.

Luckily I was a lot soberer than my mate and was able to convince them it was just a misunderstanding. The fact that while they were questioning my confused mate he kept trying to get a lift from them helped a lot.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 12-06-2017 11:09PM

was in Galway on the sauce and some girls abused the life out of one of my friends when he tried hitting on them outside supermacs eyre square. basically roared at him to 'fcuk off you fat, ugly whatever'. so i started verbally abusing them! not gonna lie, it wasn't pretty from me either but it was all verbal. three of them were marching towards me roaring abuse and i was backing away giving it back as good as i got it. then one of them jsut stopped for a second as a thought crossed her mind... and she just lay down on the road and said 'he hit me!'. her other friend started laughing but went along with it. i knew i was in big trouble!

so i got the fcuk out of there and into the first taxi. then my friend (who was actually kinda fat!) wanted a slice of pizza! i said just lets the fcuk out of there. while we were arguing, teh biggest bunch of scobes came up to the taxi 'wanting to talk to me' about hitting the girl! i denied it all but they weren't having it. even the nigerian taxi driver was asking me why did i hit a girl! scariest thing was everybody just assuming she was telling the truth and i hit a girl. the scobes blocked the taxi and one managed to open the door and get a punch in on my face but wasn't too bad.

finally the guards showed up and the scobes disappeared. literally i saw the guards from the car and looked back and the lads were gone. anyway, the guard just took my details and said he'd check the CCTV which would prove my innocence. ambulance was called for the girl, it was some joke. it was obvious nothign was wrong with her but protocol was followed and she was shipped off to hospital. i heard nothing from the guards so i assume CCTV cleared me.

so accused of hitting a girl and getting a punch for my troubles!

Kimbot · 13-06-2017 11:29AM

georgiecasey wrote: »

was in Galway on the sauce and some girls abused the life out of one of my friends when he tried hitting on them outside supermacs eyre square. basically roared at him to 'fcuk off you fat, ugly whatever'. so i started verbally abusing them! not gonna lie, it wasn't pretty from me either but it was all verbal. three of them were marching towards me roaring abuse and i was backing away giving it back as good as i got it. then one of them jsut stopped for a second as a thought crossed her mind... and she just lay down on the road and said 'he hit me!'. her other friend started laughing but went along with it. i knew i was in big trouble!

so i got the fcuk out of there and into the first taxi. then my friend (who was actually kinda fat!) wanted a slice of pizza! i said just lets the fcuk out of there. while we were arguing, teh biggest bunch of scobes came up to the taxi 'wanting to talk to me' about hitting the girl! i denied it all but they weren't having it. even the nigerian taxi driver was asking me why did i hit a girl! scariest thing was everybody just assuming she was telling the truth and i hit a girl. the scobes blocked the taxi and one managed to open the door and get a punch in on my face but wasn't too bad.

finally the guards showed up and the scobes disappeared. literally i saw the guards from the car and looked back and the lads were gone. anyway, the guard just took my details and said he'd check the CCTV which would prove my innocence. ambulance was called for the girl, it was some joke. it was obvious nothign was wrong with her but protocol was followed and she was shipped off to hospital. i heard nothing from the guards so i assume CCTV cleared me.

so accused of hitting a girl and getting a punch for my troubles!

This hardly happened the weekend of the races about 5/6 years ago?

Daledge · 13-06-2017 11:36AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

This hardly happened the weekend of the races about 5/6 years ago?

It happens quite a bit.

Being a young lad from Galway I probably know one or two of these unsavoury characters.

fizzypish · 13-06-2017 11:45AM

Strange one but it stuck with me. I was chatting to a girl outside school among a group of friends. Was still learning the ropes of how to talk to women so I generally tried to think hard about what I said. Unfortunately, while thinking about my words I looked like I was staring at her breasts. I have many times stared at this ladys breasts but not on this occasion and never in such a blatant neanderthalesque way. Anyway, long story short everyone said that I was staring at. I defended myself until a good mate said quietly that it looked like I was.

Widdershins · 13-06-2017 11:54AM

georgiecasey wrote: »

was in Galway on the sauce and some girls abused the life out of one of my friends when he tried hitting on them outside supermacs eyre square. basically roared at him to 'fcuk off you fat, ugly whatever'. so i started verbally abusing them! not gonna lie, it wasn't pretty from me either but it was all verbal. three of them were marching towards me roaring abuse and i was backing away giving it back as good as i got it. then one of them jsut stopped for a second as a thought crossed her mind... and she just lay down on the road and said 'he hit me!'. her other friend started laughing but went along with it. i knew i was in big trouble!

so i got the fcuk out of there and into the first taxi. then my friend (who was actually kinda fat!) wanted a slice of pizza! i said just lets the fcuk out of there. while we were arguing, teh biggest bunch of scobes came up to the taxi 'wanting to talk to me' about hitting the girl! i denied it all but they weren't having it. even the nigerian taxi driver was asking me why did i hit a girl! scariest thing was everybody just assuming she was telling the truth and i hit a girl. the scobes blocked the taxi and one managed to open the door and get a punch in on my face but wasn't too bad.

finally the guards showed up and the scobes disappeared. literally i saw the guards from the car and looked back and the lads were gone. anyway, the guard just took my details and said he'd check the CCTV which would prove my innocence. ambulance was called for the girl, it was some joke. it was obvious nothign was wrong with her but protocol was followed and she was shipped off to hospital. i heard nothing from the guards so i assume CCTV cleared me.

so accused of hitting a girl and getting a punch for my troubles!

That's mad. Also the fact that they take someone in an ambulance for something so minor (I know it was a non existent injury in her case)

thegills · 13-06-2017 12:01PM

As a teenager I walked by a neighbours house just after some young lads had done a knick-knack. Neighbour ran out, thought it was me and punched me in the face

Glenster · 13-06-2017 12:03PM

Not caring enough when being told a sob story.

Fox Hound · 13-06-2017 12:10PM

thegills wrote: »

As a teenager I walked by a neighbours house just after some young lads had done a knick-knack. Neighbour ran out, thought it was me and punched me in the face

Your lucky it wasn't Facekicker's house!!

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

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