What is the worst thing you have been accused/punished for when you weren't actually the culprit?

[Ectoplasmicz]

I've got a couple. In primary school, I got publically called out and given detention for climbing a tree. I was in the library at the time, but apparently the teachers saw me clearly. Still annoys me, and this is nearly 20 years now.

It's usually the little things that frustrate us after many years.

 

[Strain42]

When I was on a field trip in elementary school I was standing on top of the playground. A kid near me was joking around and was doing the whole "uh-oh, I'm close to the ledge, hope I don't fall" act and was doing the fake wobbling

...but then he actually fell. And because I was standing behind him from the view of the teacher, she assumed I had pushed him. And I totally didn't (I mean I thought about it but...I didn't)

Oh, also my first job at Subway they thought I stole $150 from the register...again...totally didn't.

 

[ace_of_something]

When me and some other officers had to shoot a suspect which left him dead the court of public opinion was that we were racists and should have shot him in the hand and that we were basically licensed murderers. No one seemed to care that the guy just broke his mother's arm, ribs and collar bone before running into the streets naked firing a semi-automatic weapon in to houses as he ran down the block injuring two people.
But we should've aimed for his flailing hand.

 

[Chemical Alia]

The two girls on either side of me were talking during the spelling bee in 6th grade, and all three of us were sent to the principal's office and got detention. I had to walk like a million blocks home in the ice and snow with my violin case because the detention bus dropped me off in the middle of nowhere. I am still not over this, lol.

 

[JaceArveduin]

None, surprisingly, the only time I get accused of anything is when I'm being careless and I get caught.

 

[ace_of_something]

During high school, I was accused of plagiarizing a history report. The ONLY funny part about this being that so was the rest of the class. The ***** of a teacher even had the gall to start crying about all of us cheating, which was BS. I've never cheated on anything school-related in my life.

Afterwards, everyone was called to the vice-principal's office to explain themselves, but not like it helped. It was the c*nt's word against ours, and she was the teacher and we're a bunch of cheating no-goodniks.

The worst part of it all was, in addition to saturday detention and (obviously) an F, I, and everyone accused, received a -100 for the report. That's right, not only did she falsely accuse me of cheating, she went so far as to deduct points from my grade for it. After doing some calculations, I surmised that, at best, I would fail with a very high F.

Needless to say, I ceased caring about that class, never bothering to do the homework, pay attention, or attempt to pass a test. For the rest of that semester, I cursed her name under my breath, and constantly wished for her painful, torturous death. I had to retake the semester the following year.

The only redeeming part? At the end of the year, she had us fill out evaluation reports of the class. I took this opportunity to clearly and in no uncertain terms, insult, deride, and generally say horrible things to her. Do I regret that last part? Never.

Two points I wanna make you specifically say you've never cheated on anything school related. So what HAVE you cheated on?

Secondly, Your school sounds dumb. Though most high schools nowadays EXPEL YOU if they can prove plagiarization.

 

[Zeckt]

Share your stories.

I once got accused of stealing $10,000 from my parents. I didn't even know they had that much cash laying around. I was grounded for a month, and had a lot of my life taken away from me, it was horrible. At the end of the month, my older brother confessed to taking $1000 to pay his rent. But that still left $9000 missing.

Fast forward 6 months, my dog runs into the kitchen holding a big envelope in it's mouth, covered in dirt. My mother opens it and lo and behold, $9000 in cash. Turns out my dog nicked it and buried it in the garden. I was given a portion as an apology for the social torture that was submitted on me.

If I were your parents I would be both overwhelmingly relieved and overwhelmingly ashamed. How very lucky you were for it to be found so that sort of emotional strain no longer continued. They would of never forgot it and would of held it against you for the rest of their lives. Give the dog a bone. Multiple bones

Anyways, mine was when I was a kid going through group homes / foster parents and I was visiting my real uncle who was pretty much the last family I had left and he treated me like a criminal because he assumed I was some delinquent kid. He banned me from going around half the house when I was staying there overnight and locked alot of doors.

Anyways, his REAL delinquent son was visiting went into his bedroom and broke some antique while stealing money to buy himself pot and booze and blamed it on me. 6 months later he found proof it was not me and gradually began to trust me again. Considering the 6 months he hated me I literally had no one care if I would of fallen off the face of the earth which kind of hurt my confidence.

Anyways, fast forward 10 years later. He trusts me completely and thinks of me as family again and admitted he assumed the worst because I was poorly raised and lived in group / foster homes and apologizes even now for shutting me out.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

Share your stories.

I once got accused of stealing $10,000 from my parents. I didn't even know they had that much cash laying around. I was grounded for a month, and had a lot of my life taken away from me, it was horrible. At the end of the month, my older brother confessed to taking $1000 to pay his rent. But that still left $9000 missing.

Fast forward 6 months, my dog runs into the kitchen holding a big envelope in it's mouth, covered in dirt. My mother opens it and lo and behold, $9000 in cash. Turns out my dog nicked it and buried it in the garden. I was given a portion as an apology for the social torture that was submitted on me.

If I were your parents I would be both overwhelmingly relieved and overwhelmingly ashamed. How very lucky you were for it to be found so that sort of emotional strain no longer continued. They would of never forgot it and would of held it against you for the rest of their lives. Give the dog a bone. Multiple bones

My dog got quite a few treats for proving my innocence. I love my dog.

 

[renegade7]

Just a couple weeks ago I was brought into the dean's office. The accusation? Stalking a girl whom I barely knew and had no interest in. She was a classmate I had a crush on a LONG time ago, and apparently she had it in her head from my saying of 'hello' to her in the hallways this one time that I was still somehow obsessed with her and apparently thought I had manipulated my course schedule so we would have gym class together.

So yea, there's my batshit girl/ false accusation story

 

[Racecarlock]

I'm a casual console gamer who likes halo. So, pretty much every week on this forum I get blamed for destroying and stagnating the entire gaming industry.

 

[geK0]

I got accused of calling my co-worker the n-word... I forget what I actually said, but it was NOT that; none the less, I was lectured by my boss and shunned by my co-workers for a while.
total BS!

 

[geK0]

I'm a casual console gamer who likes halo. So, pretty much every week on this forum I get blamed for destroying and stagnating the entire gaming industry.

OMG that was you?!?

way to go jerk!

 

[Cabo Setek]

-Snip-

Two points I wanna make you specifically say you've never cheated on anything school related. So what HAVE you cheated on?

Secondly, Your school sounds dumb. Though most high schools nowadays EXPEL YOU if they can prove plagiarization.

The only things I've cheated on or in are video games. And not in anything like multiplayer. Cheat codes and the like. And . . maybe I . . . occasionally screwed over my players whenever I GM a tabletop rpg session.

 

[Farseer Lolotea]

Hubby and I were the subjects of a massive smear campaign by his wacko ex-roommate. As in, this douche went all over several towns and talked shit about us.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

When me and some other officers had to shoot a suspect which left him dead the court of public opinion was that we were racists and should have shot him in the hand and that we were basically licensed murderers. No one seemed to care that the guy just broke his mother's arm, ribs and collar bone before running into the streets naked firing a semi-automatic weapon in to houses as he ran down the block injuring two people.
But we should've aimed for his flailing hand.

I just love it when people who weren't there and don't have LEO training armchair quarterback the actions of officers in the field who are dealing with a dangerous and armed person.

For what it's worth, you have my sympathy.

OT: The only thing I've been ever been falsely accused of, that I can recall, is being gay back in high school. Not true in the slightest. But because I kept to myself, people thought I was gay.

 

[PinkiePyro]

sort of it didn't work for the liers
I was the weird loner kid back in elementary school and this gang of kids decided they hated me for it so one recess they beat me up and tied me to a goal post (I managed to slip free the moment they left)
then when I told a adult they tried to say I had started the whole thing. it didn't work though as this wasn't the first time they had harassed me not to mention the staff knew I was wasnt one to start fights (I was more likely to start crying than anything)
later they changed their tune and tried to blame it all on a middle-schooler by that time everyone knew they did it though

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

I got accused of rape.

Some lass apparently woke up in my room, and couldn't remember the night before, and pointed my house out to the cops.

Turns out my room is nothing like she described, I was on security camera at work at the time (worked in a nightclub) and other mitigating factors.

 

[kayo of the Well]

There was this one kid in primary school who bullied me for 2 years straight - that is to say, every other day, y'know. Frequently enough to have serious implications etc. When I say bullied, I don't mean the kind where this one gigantic kid with daddy issues and his cronies stalk you about, just a little shit of a kid who would follow me around annoyingly me relentlessly. Every time, and I mean every time I would retaliate in the slightest, he would howl for the nearest teacher, and then tell the longest mo'fockin' tales anyone could concoct. This one time, this. one. time. you guys, he punched me real hard in the stomach (it may have been the arm, or somewhere else, but goddamn it hurt), for no good reason whatsoever. Being a young whelp at that time, my natural response was to burst into tears, dropping to the ground. WHEN THE GODDAMN TEACHER CAME OVER HE DROPPED TO THE GROUND AS WELL AND TOLD HER I HIT HIM FIRST. GODDAMN MAN. I still know the guy. It's too inconvenient to that particular group of friends to not be friends with him, even though he's more or less the same as he always was and most of us dislike him.

Oh, and more recently (I believe a couple of years ago) this fellow who I used to go to primary school with began to accost me for seemingly no reason. I would generally hang out in the town near my secondary school with a bunch of friends, a town which he also would frequently. There were a few times when he just came up to me being menacing and wouldn't leave - and keep in mind, you guys, this kid grew twice the size he was in primary school, a real mean mo'focker, with one of those exceptionally detestable faces that beg to be slapped. He eventually began to accuse me of having stolen his bike some years ago. I seriously cannot even. His argues were to the sum of "oi... where's my bike?" etc. He had cronies, and they'd stand around with their duckfaces and incestuous countenances sneering like they'd just seen a mouse explode or something. That fucking guy. One of the very few I would genuinely consider an 'enemy', as childish as it may seem.

 

[ace_of_something]

-Snip-

Two points I wanna make you specifically say you've never cheated on anything school related. So what HAVE you cheated on?

Secondly, Your school sounds dumb. Though most high schools nowadays EXPEL YOU if they can prove plagiarization.

The only things I've cheated on or in are video games. And not in anything like multiplayer. Cheat codes and the like. And . . maybe I . . . occasionally screwed over my players whenever I GM a tabletop rpg session.

If you can't call out/catch the GM bending or breaking the rules you deserve what's coming to you.
We have a saying in my group of the GM doesn't catch you cheating and realizes it later you can shout "it's too late! It's part of the canon now!" This is of course for minor things or bullshitting your way out of a situation. Out and out cheating isn't as much fun.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Once I was out walking, I was passing a young man with a few of his friends when he accidentally cut the cheese. He attempted to pass the blame onto me as I was an elderly gypsy woman. This offended me greatly and I was forced to place a hex on the young man, a hex that damned him for eternity to always be the one... who dealt it.