Anonymous
Brighton, Australia
Today, I had the cops called on me for acting suspiciously. I was using a payphone. FML
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anon
Washougal, United States
Today, I rear ended a cop while talking on my cell phone. FML
drunk under 18 teenager
Marrakech, Morocco
Underage boozing
Today, I was hammered, and on my way home I walked into a policeman. My logic was, if I'm on the phone, he can't talk to me, so I pulled my phone out and started speaking. The officer then asked me why I was speaking to my wallet. FML
airborne
United States
Today, I saw someone drive recklessly as if they were drunk. When I called the cops, I got pulled over by another cop for talking on my cell phone. FML
SCdriver
Lexington, United States
No good deed…
Today, I called the cops to let them know that a drunk man was driving dangerously down my road. About an hour later, I was going to the store and got pulled over for speeding by the cop I called. FML
Anonymous
No more yodelling
Today, I was singing in the shower and my neighbor called the police because they thought I was in trouble. FML
Michelle
Netherlands
Today, I went to pay my grandma a visit. She called the cops because she didn't recognize me and thought I was a robber. FML
tramplily
United States
Today, I was driving home and got a phone call from my mom. She called to tell me that there was a cop at the bottom of our hill, and to be careful. I got a ticket for talking on my cell phone while driving. FML
Diane
Toronto, Canada
Classic
Today, I pretended to be on the phone to avoid small talk with someone from my building. I spoke loudly into the phone while walking by them. My phone rang in the middle of my fake conversation. FML
Anonymous
United States
Busted
Today, I was approached by a policeman who asked me if I was the owner of the green Camry. Turns out my parents decided to teach me a lesson for lying where I had been by reporting the car stolen. They also wouldn't answer my one phone call. FML
Anonymous
Boise, United States
Suspicious
Today, I pulled over because my cell phone was ringing, as it's now illegal to use in a car. I finished the call when a motorcycle cop on side of road pulls up behind me and comes over. The reason? "You pulled off the road and it was suspicious, then I ran your plate…" FML
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Welshite 39
There might be a gun in the top, with a mysterious caller/murderer dictating your every movement. I use movies as real-life examples too.
WizzleMan17 11
It's now illegal if you make a call that is not on an iPhone
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gracefs 11
Those still exist?
alycion 38
I thought the same thing. I haven't seen one in years. Maybe it's just the areas I go. But I'd figure a mix of city, tourist, suburb and rural among 5 states, if they were still common, I'd have seen one.
Katiekhalifa_fml 28
We still have them in the city closest to me...
DrownedMyFish 18
They are still around where I live. They come in handy if you need to reach someone and your phone is dead or not in your possession.
LowExpectations 30
You guys are lucky, in my area there are no functioning pay phones. Every time I needed one those damn things were broken or not connected.
SS99_fml 20
We all know that's how all the assassinations and kidnapping a start. All jokes aside, that sucks OP. I'm sorry to hear that
clumsycarolyn 17
Some people just need to mind their own business
mea_iloveskiing 26
I'm at the payphone trying to call home all of my change I spent on you
WellThatSucked89 13
That song... how is he making a call if he has no change after he spent it on some girl? O.o
ThatPlankton 15
He either saved money by switching to Gieco, or he called collect.
Lil_Red777 21
He spent the change calling her.
SkyGuy32 17
#17, it says he tried, not that he succeeded.
juststephhere 23
Maybe they thought you were inappropriately using the pay phone? That really doesn't make sense why they would even say something about it...
littlem91 29
Well, he/she could have been using the payphone to beat somebody to death. It doesn't specify to make a call.
kingdomgirl94 29
Maybe they thought he was pissing in it or something.
jroxs13 4
It's like Futurama. Those are only to be used as toilets now, otherwise, it's suspicious.
gracehi 31
Or for suicide.
LowExpectations 30
Actually, in Futurama pay phones and suicide booths exist together in the future, but people in the future often confuse the two. I always get a laugh when Fry and Bender confuse themselves with the two (with Fry nearly getting killed by the suicide booth and Bender, more than once, is disappointed that a pay phone isn't a suicide booth. ( "What kind of horrible suicide free time is this!?" )).
B4rn3yST1NSON 15
paywhat ? don't they have an iPhone now with a wire sticking out of it for public use ? lol but seriously I'd feel badass in someway or another of cops actually thought I might be a dangerous criminal.
littlem91 29
Don't be stupid, they'd have to use an Android phone to make sure it kept on working.
Mynamewontfi 40
Because criminals are so cool, right?
zebrr 3
What did they do? Not much I believe since it was a false alarm
pwnman 33
Sounds like the guy who called them watches too much movies!
tranced_ 45
maybe you were planning a conspiracy over the payphone dun dun dunnnn!