Money: Today, I saw an elderly woman in need of help of crossing a street....

By Anonymous - 28/11/2010 06:02 - United States

Today, I saw an elderly woman in need of help of crossing a street. I helped her across. On the way she just about fell and held onto me to keep from hitting the ground. After she left on her bus I reached for my wallet. It was gone. I had just been robbed by a 70 year old. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/04/2012 01:55 - United States - Darien

Today, I was walking down the street, when a little old lady bumped into me and fell over. I helped her up and she thanked me for being "such a nice young man". It was only an hour later as I was in line at the store that I realized she'd pickpocketed my wallet. FML

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By shifala - 22/01/2015 09:02 - Philippines - Caloocan

Today, I was riding my bike to work in a hurry and hit a pothole. I flew off and hit the ground hard. I was badly shaken, but an old lady came over, checked me out and helped me to my feet. After she left the scene, I realized she'd pickpocketed my wallet while "helping" me. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/07/2009 07:00 - United States

Today, I saw an elderly man struggling to make it across a busy street. I jumped up from my table at Starbucks to help him, leaving my things behind. When I got back to my table feeling good, I found that my coffee had disappeared. So had my wallet. FML

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By No money, mo' problems - 18/06/2013 22:01 - United States

Today, I witnessed an elderly lady getting mugged. I ran over to the guy mugging her and offered him the money in my wallet in return for him leaving her alone. The old lady snatched my money and ran away with the mugger. What the hell just happened? FML

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By Mick - 20/02/2009 08:29 - United States

Today, I saw an elderly man fall in a crosswalk, so I jumped off my bike to help. As I helped him across, the light turned green. I then watched across a 6 lane street as someone stole my bike. FML

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By whyymee - 05/03/2010 07:50 - United States

Today, I helped a "blind" man across the street. He kindly said thank you and patted me on the back. Then, I went into a store and realized my wallet was missing. FML

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By alexo - 23/05/2012 15:52 - United States

Today, I took the bus. The old lady next to me almost fell when the driver stopped, but I managed to catch her. Five minutes later, the same thing happened to me. The old lady tried to help me, but I lost my balance and pulled her skirt down. FML

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By busmanhoe - 14/12/2009 11:19 - Norway

Today, I was sitting on the bus to the gym. I saw that an old woman needed help to get off the bus, so I got up, and helped her off. When I had finally got her down the stairs the bus closed the doors and drove away. I was in the middle of nowhere and the bus drove away with all my things. FML

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By rukus - 16/06/2009 03:25 - Canada

Today, I was was leaving the library when I noticed an elderly woman being mugged. I was about to leave on my bike, but promptly went to help her. After I managed to scare off the mugger, I helped her to her car. As I was heading back to my bike, I notice the mugger riding off on it. FML

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By mazey93 - 09/12/2016 19:14 - United Kingdom - Newport

Today, I passed out on the way to work. Some lucky passerby took this as an opportunity to help themself to my purse. FML

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DocBastard 38

Sunday 28 November 2010 14:19

If I ever meet OP, I'm going to proceed to punch him in the left nut for using "proceeded" twice. It's redundant, excessive, extra, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, and redundant. And it makes you sound like an asshat.

bethan1 4

Sunday 28 November 2010 14:05

No good deed goes unpunished, op.

Comments

PilotWife2008 0

Monday 29 November 2010 5:31

This is why I HATE old women... They take advantage of people who are simply trying to be nice. Old people suck.

doomsauced 0

Monday 29 November 2010 10:30

ydi because you should never trust nor help old people.

chinito 0

Monday 29 November 2010 10:36

there was an fML like this that a person went to go help an old lady (like so) then a person robbed his bike...... so yea. liar.

KittyMack 13

Tuesday 30 November 2010 1:18

Suspicious, but if you consider all the countries our posters come from, there must be hundreds of seniors helped across streets every day, and naturally a few occasions are going to end in someone taking advantage of the good samaritan's distraction.

MisUnFortunate 31

Friday 3 January 2014 22:01

Really, "you're a liar because there's no way more than one person has ever helped a lying old lady across a street?" yeah whatever.

KittyMack 13

Tuesday 30 November 2010 1:51

I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the mugging/conning/panhandling/shoplifting "trade" has a favourite scam and repeats it frequently. I've got a group of meth or crack heads in my city who blanket downtown at night with stories that their car is out of gas and they're from out of town visiting family in the hospital and they left their wallet in the car, and boo hoo hoo. I'd hate to reject someone who actually WAS in that situation so the first time they approached me I asked to see the alleged car... then I realised that was a bad idea, going off alone with 2 of them and one of me. Luckily a total rock-dealer-lookin guy came toward us making an exaggerated shrug, like "WELL?" and I knew for sure they were saving up for some drugs & ditched. Anyway, they run in a casual group, and since then I've been accosted by 3 or 4 at once, and believe me, it's intimidating being surrounded by desperate creeps. They aren't actually "mugging" though, and city council has even tried designing laws to prevent this without seeming discriminatory to honest panhandlers, but so far this "gas money" gang has persisted, for a couple years, maybe even 5 years. There's always a fresh sucker to be found. Got on a tangent there, but my point is that the first time I saw this con, it was a 20ish girl with a 45ish woman of the same race, so I was sorta inclined to believe them as a "family with car trouble" more than if it was two young people. Having an old person in one's gang can be FANTASTIC for con games! It elicits trust more effectively. Maybe the street-crosser has a nondescript accomplice who does the actual grab while the street-crosser "stumbles" to draw attention away from the grabber. So my point is, if there are similar stories, maybe the victim isn't B.S.ing; maybe the crime simply happens more than once. Why the hell wouldn't the scammer repeat it, when it's such a golden plan?