Today, someone was getting beat up by 6 guys. When I tried to help, they had a swing at me as well. The cops came when I was enthusiastically defending myself. They got away, I got arrested. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got bailed out of jail. I was there because I saw a girl being hit by her boyfriend. I rushed over to help only to have her hit me repeatedly. The cops came and she blamed her bruises on me. The boyfriend corroborated her story. FML
Today, I saw a woman being mugged. I ran up to help and pushed the guy off of her. She then punched me in the face and called the cops because she was, "just living out a fantasy" and I'm, "a lunatic for trying to help." FML
Today, someone tried to mug me. I panicked and ran. As they chased me with their knife out, I heard a slip and a shout behind me but kept running. Six blocks later I was spotted, arrested, and held for questioning by the police. The mugger fell, stabbed themselves, and told a cop that I did it. FML
Today, I'm recovering from being pepper-sprayed, beat with a baton and Tased, and arrested for assault. I'm a bouncer and was trying to remove a drunk asshole from the bar when the police showed up. FML
Today, I was not yet wearing my bouncer uniform when a fight broke out at a club. I intervened, only to have the cops who showed up tase me because they thought I was part of it. FML
Today, I got questioned by the police. Last night I was at a party when a bully of a kid who happened to be an aspiring MMA coach and local fighter was picking on me, stole my alcohol and threw me out of the party. I heard he got stabbed by someone else he was picking on after I left. The police insist it was me. FML
Today, my friend was waiting outside the store while I bought a newspaper. Through the window, I saw two guys getting physical with him, so I went outside and they took off. I muttered, "Yeah, I thought so." They then turned around and beat the crap out of us. FML
Today, I was brutally tackled and detained by a group of people until the police arrived, because I fit the description of a wanted criminal who was featured on the news. This isn't the first time this has happened, and no style change I've tried has been able to avert it. FML
Today, I decided to be responsible and call a cab to take my drunk ass home from the bar. As I climbed into the cab, I was quickly pulled back out and had the shit beaten out of me by a group of drunk guys who thought they needed the ride more. The police soon arrived and arrested us all. FML
Today, a customer at work became violent and started hitting me and my coworker. Not wanting him to get the shit beat out of us, I used a move that pinned the guy on the ground. The police came and he was arrested. I was then fired for assaulting a customer. FML
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CitrusGirl 0
I'm sure the guy you were trying to help will speak for you.
amerwin 3
haha.. I bet you were dressed in a green leotard and announced "I'm kickass" before jumping in to help.
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Comments (64)
Cinn_fml 23
You should have been more careful about how you tried to help. Joining in the fight might not have been the best solution, calling the cops from a safer distance might have been more advisable. Especially since you 'enthusiastically' joined in, which suggests you might have looked like you were enjoying yourself when the cops arrived.
riseofabreakings 0
Well who doesn't enjoy a good fight, I know I do, but maybe it's just me...
Cinn_fml 23
There is that, I never said what he did was wrong. Just maybe from the point of view of the cops it wasn't the best way of going about it. There is also what's known as 'appropriate response' maybe it's possible the OP went over that?
VoodooGypsy 2
My iPhone says OP is in the Netherlands. Their laws involving self defense and helping somebody in need are probably different. Also the way cops charge people is no doubt different too.
Cinn_fml 23
VoodooGypsy - Yes, the FML says that the OP is from the Netherlands. However, I imagine they have some form of self-defence laws. If the OP would automatically get arrested for fighting (even if they were helping someone else) then he should have known that. Chaos - Well there is that, but the OP did join the fight out of his own free will. Yes, he did it to help someone else, but he knew what he was getting into.
mintcar 10
Just try to explain.
lollipopXx 0
well that just effing sucks! but you should try to explain the situation..
airforce987 20
No offense, but you kind of deserved it. By "enthusiastically defending yourself" it gave the police the impression that your trying to get out of it. The best thing to do would have been to tell them calmy when they asked for the story and let them restrain the 6 guys. I bet the person you helped would have spoken for you though. Idk why they didn't
ashurbanipal 0
he was defending himself from the six dudes, you idiot. not the cops.
itsgabriellee 4
63- No, you are the idiot, Sir. The commented above had it correct. OP was "enthusiastically defending himself" from the six people, which gave the police, who arrested him and asked for his story, the impression elsewise. You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
ohgodwtf 0
Defending yourself. Don't be enthuseastic about it... Only gets worse.
funzcpl 0
the same thing happened to me a few years ago. some chick broke the windshield out of my BMW then a few months later had the gorilla balls to come to my house so I beat that ass in MY own yard and got arrested! then SHE pressed charges. I knew she busted my window but couldn't PROVE it. but the police SAW me throwing hay makers! it sucked!
cruzer555 1
I woulda ran her over with said BMW...
Mikki4321 0
Yeah, that's exactly the same. Beating up a woman in your frontyard, helping some guy who is being beat up by six other guys, so he won't get killed... No difference at all!
CallMeHush 1
Not a ninja.
jaaaz 3
hahaha enthusiastically defending yourself
5upernova 3
I hope that the man who was being beaten up was still conscious by the time the cops came, and he is well aware of the fact that you were not one of the men who was beating him up.
Howljerk 0
Damn.