Today, I was arrested by the police for sitting in what they thought was a stolen vehicle. After being slammed into the back of a squad car at gunpoint, they realized the car was actually recovered a week ago. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the police finally recovered my stolen car. All it took was a shootout and two people dying. FML
Today, as a joke, I hopped in the front seat of a police cruiser and took a cute selfie while the officer was talking to someone on the sidewalk. A minute later, he dragged me to the ground and arrested me. Um… what? FML
Today, I borrowed a roommate's car to get groceries. I came out to find the car stolen. I called the cops, and the responding officer took the info and drove me home to give the roomie the bad news in person. 15 minutes later, they found the car. I'd parked it on the opposite side of the lot. FML
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
Today, I parked next to a police officer's car in a bad part of town. When I got out, I saw a bag of pot on the ground between the cop's car and mine. When I pointed it out to him, he insisted it was mine and interrogated me to the point of tears. FML
Today, I accidentally rear-ended an undercover police car. FML
Today, I found an empty parking space in a crowded parking lot. When I came back later, a lady and a cop were standing by my car. Her car used to be parked there and got stolen. They think I'm involved. FML
Today, I got a phone call from a detective in response to my stolen car that has been missing since St. Patrick's Day. He told me that he had found my car, but was chuckling the whole time. Turns out, I had parked my car in a different lot. I haven't had it for a week. It was never stolen. FML
Today, my car went missing. My sister constantly asks to borrow it, so I called her and asked if she had it. She swore blind that she didn't, so I called the cops and reported it stolen. They soon caught her driving the stolen vehicle. She blames me and is now telling everyone I set her up to be arrested. FML
Today, someone had put a lock on my bike. While I was trying to saw it off, the police drove by. I was arrested for trying to steal a bike and released four hours later when they figured out that it was actually my bike. FML
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Mirorbo 27
I'm fairly certain you actually can sue for this, darling. Is it me, or are the police getting more and more brutal these days?
cradle6 13
to everyone say that "cops wouldn't do that," BS. Cops can do whatever they want, and then lie about what happened. Their cop buddies will stand behind them. I knew a few people this happened to. And there's no point in suing because it's your word against theirs.
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Comments (129)
RedPillSucks 33
catherine, are you serious? For a car they think is stolen by "who knows whom", I can see them taking reasonable precautions. However, cops will pull their guns without being provoked. You just have to pray they're not trigger happy.
MysteryJoker 5
Maybe if you weren't resisting... you wouldn't of been held at gunpoint...
pandemic_fml 0
I had a gun pulled on me when I got a speeding ticket because my window was frozen shut, and the cop didn't believe me. The second time I got pulled over was for suspicion of dealing drugs. Got a gun pulled on me then too, only when she realized I was just a college student giving a friend a ride, she quickly put the gun away and stammered something about me swerving all over the road. I wasn't. I also got flipped off and almost hit by a cop speeding on the highway. Bad luck, I guess.
BrookeBabe92 0
Wow, I would seriously sue if I were you. Hey, look, I'm a poet and I didn't even know it. :P
MelElyssa 0
Instead of wasting your money and suing, I would go straight to the public. Write to newspapers and TV stations. That will hurt them much more than having to pay you a few thousand dollars of the tax payers money.
skyeyez9 25
Cops do it all the time. Theres a police abuse and brutality article in the paper and internet every week.
runawaybishop 5
why would the cops give a shit about media coverage? So the car was returned and they didn't notice it until after, big deal. This is barely worth an entry on fmylife.
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
66: The car was recovered, not returned, which implies that law enforcement had a big part in finding the car. Thus, they should have updated their records right away, to keep off-duty or unaware cops from "refinding" the car and hassling the owner even further. It was almost surely a ridiculous PD mistake. It also did not warrant the officers' extreme reaction. Going to the media would expose the triggerhappy police policies and have them explained, scrutinized, or amended. Such skittishness could cost an innocent citizen his life and a cop his career/future.
spartan_girl 0
@78: if it was a different department that recovered the car, they might not have communicated it to the department where the police in the FML came from...not excusing their behavior, or disagreeing with anything, I guess, but just pointing out that there are a lot of steps along the way where communication could have failed. Unfortunately, even with all the advanced technology available, police departments (even within a state) don't always have great communication.
runawaybishop 5
#66 what "extreme" reaction? The dude was arrested for a suspected felony - they threw him against the back of the car, then realised the car was recovered already and let him go. Big deal - i do not see how this is worth a court case. An apology from the station maybe - tax payers money wasted on a case? Not a chance. Waste of money and time.
runawaybishop 5
argh, i meant the reply was for #78
mad2physicist 0
Sue them. Of course, you won't win unless you are a minority but do it anyway. And to those who are afraid of cops not being able to do their jobs due to restrictions, I'd rather deal with criminals than cops any day. If I f*ck up a criminal I can claim self-defense, but you can't do that with a cop. Cops are never there to actually prevent a crime. They're a bunch of useless overpaid nanny patrol agents. By the way if this had happened back in the days when we belonged to England, it would have precipitated the overthrow of the entire government.
libertarian 0
yes let's tie up the courts even more with even more frivolous lawsuits. America going to hell.
RedPillSucks 33
Its always frivolous until you're the one getting your ass beaten down by the cops, or getting shot because undercover cops didn't identify themselves first
Taybabe2525 0
yeah I think u can sue them :P it's nit like they have no money
Meru 0
Sue them?