Ever had a good deed backfire?

My brother once stopped at a petrol station and as he was going in to make his purchase, he noticed someone coming toward the door with a 12 pack of beer in each hand, so he opened the door for them and they rushed out without saying anything. Seconds later, an employee comes out after them. Turns out the person had just robbed the store. My brother had to wait for the police to come so he could tell them what he saw. He was worried they'd arrest him as an accessory since he held open the door.

Oh, I still laugh whenever I think about it!

Once came out of McDonalds and saw a homeless woman outside so bent down and offered her my meal (full, not touched and in a bag)...... and she spit in my face. To be fair to her it was a quality hock and her aim was impeccable.

Few years ago was working in a shop beside a nightclub, was on the way to work one Sunday at 9am and found a phone on the foot path. Rang "MAM" on the phone to say I'd found her son/daughters phone and they could pick it up from the shop.

She F*cked me out of it for waking her up.

My friend found some dachshunds outside her house, 3 puppies and mam, obviously pets. We were trying to figure out what to do with them, when a friend of ours comes over, she's seen the dogs wandering around outside a house in the neighbourhood. So we take the dogs to that house, and there is a sign for a plumber at the back of the house with a phone number.
. I call the guy and ask ' Sorry, are you the owner of some dachshunds? '
'ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME? YOU CALL ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (It was around 10) TO CHAT TO ME ABOUT MY DOGS? YOU CAN F*CK RIGHT OFF. YOU WOKE ME UP AS WELL YOU BASTARD'
'Ok, I guess you don't want me to give you runaway dogs back? Ok, nighty night'
Woman's voice on the phone ' I'm so sorry for my husband. We'll be back at the house in a few minutes, we're out to dinner now. '

Meanwhile I can hear the guy at the other end screaming abuse at his son for forgetting to lock the dogs in. He wouldn't look at me when they came to get the dogs - he just kept saying how useless the kid was. Funny thing this was the 3rd time the dogs had run away.

Fixed an old lady's light socket when I called to her with a delivery from a supermarket. She phoned the boss after I left and said I stole 20 euro from her house. I was furious for ages after.

Not a good deed but when I was cycle touring in Africa I pulled up off the road into the bushes to stay for the night. A woman suddenly appeared carrying a stack of wood (people generally just appear in the loneliest spots in Africa). She spotted me, I tried to ask in broken French was it alright if I could stay where I was for the night. She screamed as I approached, dropped her wood and legged it off into the distance.

I decided it was best to cycle on and find somewhere else after that.

Maybe the Gardai lost the evidence

Stinicker wrote: »

I found a smart phone once before and it was just by chance I found it really and I opened it and read the text messages as there was some girl and her boyfriend from Wexford down in Killarney for the weekend. I was rushing at the time and I rang the number of the mother and explained I had found the phone lost and I'd give it into the Garda Barracks for them to collect, she told me she'd ring the boyfriend to get them to collect it.

I handed it in and left my contact details and they never even texted me or rang to say thanks. I thought it was the most ungrateful flippant thing I'd ever encountered. At the time I had just gotten my iPhone like a week before and you can imagine my eyes when I found this samsung smartphone in the carpark walking back to my car which was around the same price as my own phone over €600.00.

I felt an obligation to get it back to the owner as I had just lost my trusty Nokia like a week before getting my new iPhone and at the time would have preffered not to have had to buy a new phone at all. It was so ungrateful and pure stinge not to ring and say thanks as the phone was put in an envelope with the girls name (acquired from the Mum) and my own contact details and left into the garda station for them which was a 10 minute drive out of my way (opposite direction) to my route home. If the situation was reversed and I was stupid enough to lose my phone I'd make sure to track down the kind person who returned it and shove a few bob into their hand for being honest.

Just last night I helped a woman whose car had broken down. Was pushing it and slipped on the wet tarmac smashing my nose off the boot. Didn't bleed thankfully but its swollen quite a bit this morning.

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Brego888 wrote: »

It's a sad indictment of our society that any man interacting with kids could possibly be tarred as a paedophile

Well it's a double-edged sword thingy, isn't it?

Very many paedophiles do put themselves into positions where they have access to children, so it's reasonable to be cautious about people in those positions. There's a difference of course between being cautious and jumping to conclusions. As somebody who volunteers to teach a physical sport (karate) to young kids I have to constantly take precautions to ensure that I am never in a position where I am alone with a child. The plain and simple truth is that if ever a child made an accusation, however untrue, there would be a sizeable portion of society who would immediately jump to the conclusion "so that's why Zen is involved in those clubs".

It's a scary thought!

As for a good deed :P

My friends dad many years ago was heading to work on the bus. The bus pulled up just as he got to the stop and there was a woman in front of him struggling to get on the bus with 2 young kiddies and a buggy. He thought to himself he'd give her a hand cos she was lifting the buggy with the baby up, so he picked up the little boy, a fine big child he said. Said fine child then turned around and gave him a mouth full of abuse. Turned out it wasnt a child rather the womans husband who happened to be a dwarf. Said your man feckcd him out of it from a height

Once in Galway, I was sober and just hanging out with my friends while they drank. At the end of the night we were walking past Eyre Square and there was a girl, still remember her name.. Amanda Delaney!!! You f**k. She had blood pouring from her leg and was sat against a window crying. She started stumbling around so my friend and I went up to her to help her. She was hammered and not making any sense and crying at the same time, I said I could drive the car up and bring her to hospital, she kept refusing so we said we couldn't just leave her. I asked her if she had anyone she could call. She said she did but her phone was dead.

I asked her if she knew the number, she gave me the number...I gave the number a call and it was her boyfriend. He was frustrated sounding but as any lad with a mad whore like her, would be. He told me to put him onto her. She talked for a bit yelled and hung up. The guy called back and said to put him onto her again. I did, she screamed at the top of her lungs "F**K OFF" and threw my phone into the ground and smashed it to bits. She didn't say a f'kin thing and took off.


Another time in Galway my friend and I walked by Javas and there was a lad passed out on the ground. My friend wanted us to stop and help, the rest of us were shaky to the idea but agreed. Similar deal, he could barely speak, couldnt tell us where he was staying, he wasn't from the city. We got a number to call, it was some lad he worked with and said thanks to us for taking care of him and he was a good lad, yadda yadda but didn't know where he was staying or who he was with. In the end we brought him to the Garda Station. They shouted at us "this isn't some feckin party!, get out!!", Tried to explain what was going on and some Garda physically pushed me out the door and told us if we didn't leave we'd be arrested. So we stepped outside of the station and one of the lads went into talk to them. And they took the guy in.

I recently sponsored a startup soccer team. The idea was you'd pay to sponsor a player for the season. They would then pick what player at random. I thought it was a cool idea, got excited to think I could track the player through the season. Then they sent me the excel sheet with the names and the sponsors beside them. Every sponsor other than myself and one other guy was a company name or a local politician. The player I got drawn has not featured on the squad. The companies and politicians, of course got the squad players. It's fine, I'm happy I helped the club at the same time, I'm sick of that kind of BS you get in Ireland.

Was working in Smyths Toystore a few years ago, went on my lunch break and saw a kid just outside the door crying his eyes out. Small lad, probably 5 years old or about that. He sprinted out into the parking lot! right in front of cars so I ran out and scooped him up in my arms and brought him back into the store. All the while the kid is kicking, punching and screaming, I put him down and he ran over to a woman who was his mother. She or anybody else seemed to notice or care.