Today, I heard a baby crying while I was walking down the street. I walked around until I found it. In a dumpster. I immediately called the cops, completely freaking out. When the cops came, they pulled the baby out of the dumpster. It was a plastic baby doll. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my class got baby dolls for the week to teach us how to be good parents. After school, I went to the store with my mom with the baby doll. When I got home, I realized that I left the baby doll in a shopping cart. FML
Today, I was found out when I was a baby, I was abandoned in a dumpster. FML
Today, I saw a lady with a stroller in the park. She stopped at the water fountain and got a drink, then left without her baby. I ran to the stroller and started rolling it after her. Two grown men attacked me, accusing me of trying to steal said baby. Turns out it was a baby doll. FML
Today, I found a baby in a cradle on my doorstep. I was shocked that someone would do this, so I picked it up and uncovered the baby. It was actually a rudimentary stink bomb that went off in my face when I uncovered it. FML
Today, I saw a shady looking customer carrying a very suspicious looking baby stroller with a blanket on top of it. Thinking they were shoplifting, I stopped them before they walked out of the store and snatched it. The attachable car seat came off and there really was a baby in there. A real live crying baby. FML
Today, I passed a car, and heard a baby crying in the back seat. It was hot and no one was around. All the doors were locked so I broke it with a rock, cutting my arm and setting the alarm off. Only to find out that it was a realistic baby doll. I have to get 7 stitches and pay for the window. FML
Today, I was babysitting to make a few extra dollars. While changing one of the kid's diapers, I turned around to find the other kid gone. I turned back around frantically, only to get poop flung at my face. I guess I found him. FML
Today, when I went to pick my kid up from daycare, I found out that he had run away. The rest of my afternoon consisted of me screaming his name, looking for him. I then returned to the daycare center. He thought it would be funny if he hid in the trash. FML
Today, I was babysitting a 5 year old boy. When I was on the phone with my mom, he called 911 and started to cry. When I got off the phone the police were at the door. It turns out that the "emergency" was that the VCR was not working. FML
Today, it was an unusually hot day and I saw one of my friends walking down the street carrying a large bag. I stopped and asked if he needed a ride. When he got in, I noticed a horrible stench. He then told me he'd just been dumpster diving. FML
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Aelaena 6
You should have looked inside because if there really was a baby I would have went straight in, not wait for the cops.
redbluegreen 41
You should've checked mate, but your heart's in the right place. I think. If it was a real baby, it could've died between the time you heard it and the time the police came in.
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thatswasup 0
I don't think that the polices job is to get a baby out a dumpster, right? Btw any normal person would just jump in, just saying.
CourtneyDanielle_fml 9
Well, what if it had of been a real baby? You did the right thing. Alot of people would have just ignored it. In grade 8 my class had to take home one of those doll thingers that cried, and you had to stick a certian key in its back to get it to stop crying, it looked so real. When I was at the mall, people thought I was a parent at age 13 because the thing started crying.. Dolls can look and sound real.
Evilbeagle 0
It's pretty amazing that people are slamming you for this because if you had ignored it and it had been real, it would have made you a jackass of epic proportions. Going into a dumpster to save a crying baby is also not incredibly smart because you have no idea if it is injured or if moving the rubbish would have killed it. Then that would have been on your head for the rest of your life. Leave the removal to the people getting paid to take care of that sort of thing. You did the right thing, and who cares that it was a doll in the end. Probably a good thing it was because anyone that would abandon a baby in a dumpster deserves to be shot.
sarahbella123 0
Hahaha that happened on punk'd once. It was hilarious! Except the "baby" was locked in a car on a really hot day. ;)
yourlifecansuck 0
That sucks did cops arrest you?
blackwidowtaco 31
Wtf?
doglover1294 0
Well it's good u cared
MADISAYSYDI 0
Haha, I can totally picture some high school kid getting pissed at his stupid Parenting class doll and throwing it in the trash and stalking off. Hilarious, but did you even bother to look in the dumpster?
Jwolfe 0
Lol.
wellchit 0
I don't think its an fml or ydi mainly because you did what you thought was right and in the end you discovered that it was nothing more than a fake doll, had it been a real baby you wouldn't have wrote this, do you feel awkward because you secretly hoped it was a real baby and you could be labeled as a hero for a day?
dancing_bear 0
I do agree that trying to fish it out yourself could have been dangerous as it might have been injured. Perhaps you should have the lid off the dustbin to make sure it didn't suffocate, and then you'd have seen it was a doll (unless maybe it was hidden under the rubbish?) But whatever. Your heart is in the right place. A lot of people would have just walked past. I think you can actually feel pretty good about yourself in this situation. I'd like to have you around in a real emergency.