LibraryPedo
This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff
Chino Hills, United States
Paranoid parents
Today, I was yelled at and called a pedophile by a mom for talking to her 5 year-old girl. I work at a library, and she looked like she needed help. This is the third time it's happened. FML
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BadLuckDude12345 14
Wow. Some parents are too over-protective.
Ashamed_Sister 60
Why didn't the mother join her little girl. At this age she surely needs some help in a library.
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Comments (69)
BadLuckDude12345 14
Wow. Some parents are too over-protective.
HKCgrimmjow 15
For sure screaming at someone and berating them as a pedophile is wrong but on the flip side maybe he is a truly creepy character.
SuperKnuckels 6
OP i hope you shushed her for yelling in a library.
Bcfrmkc816 17
There is no flip side. Not defending pedophiles but no one thinks twice about the murderers that are right there out in the open.
BrittMcKayla 8
You can never be too careful when it comes to your babies.
londoner86 13
Erm....OP, maybe you should have gone for the username "notalibrarypaedo" instead. Good luck with that.
awkwardturtl3 3
tell her you work there?
mario2012 18
Uh, I'm pretty sure she's aware of that.
RedPillSucks 33
Maybe she wasn't aware of that. OP might not have been behind an official looking desk when he was helping the little girl. If some random stranger started talking to my daughter, I might be a bit alarmed also. Although I would handle it better than the mother did.
Ashamed_Sister 60
Why didn't the mother join her little girl. At this age she surely needs some help in a library.
MelTheGreat 23
Honestly, I'm just glad a parent still takes their child to the library.
Bcfrmkc816 17
She was probably off flirting with some guy
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
Hide yo wife, hide yo kids... Seriously, there is being careful and there is being plainly paranoid...
Stefanie88 24
It's really sad that people can't just talk to kids like a regular person without being accused of being a pedophile.
slimjim8094 12
And by 'people' you meant 'guys', right?
Megan639 16
Yeah, well most pedophiles are guys, but anyway I would be watching just as closely if it were a woman spending a little too much time with a young boy.
londoner86 13
"cos they rapin everybody up in here" long live Antoine Dobson. and autotune.
fyreangel 6
Could just as easily be a woman and a young girl as well.
buddy51 23
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Mom's instinct, OP... This happening three times suggests there's something you're doing that gives a bad vibe. Do some self examination OP and stop being creepy!!
Bakarra 22
It could just be the way OP looks, it's probable that an attractive man would be less likely to be accused of pedophilia than an unattractive one so you can't blame him for looking a certain way...
buddy51 23
Or the way he leers at the little girls and offers them candy because "they looked hungry" OP is Aqualung!!
whY402Jay 12
Or it could be that you and all mothers with such paranoia watch too much damn Lifetime.
SlapAndTickle 20
I'm pretty sure Buddy is a guy.
AshaaFerreira 22
I think it's safe to assume he wasn't offering candy, but help to a book
SynysterNero 20
While it may well be paranoia you also have to look at how many kids are raped, kidnapped or killed a year so while yes it was wrong to jump to conclusions she at least cares about her child.
RedPillSucks 33
But how many kids were raped/killed in a library? And I love aqualung!!!
buddy51 23
How many is too many??
MissMess 12
#47 that's the exact reason we get stories about children or elderly needing help and not getting it. No ****** wants to get accused or sued. Quite frankly to let your five year old wander out of sight is atrocious and the mother likely over reacted because secretly, she knew that. But FYL OP it really does make you want to bang people's heads against something and see if that knocks some sort of sense into society.
mandy_2480 21
Sounds like a case of mass paranoia. People forget there are still normal people out there who aren't out to stalk their children. Fyl :(
alki_fml 5
If its happened more than once perhaps there's something about your general appearance that makes you look like a sex pest.
sikunt89_fml 16
Lulzzz I love that name "sex pest", I can't stop laughing.
Bcfrmkc816 17
Sex pest= pedo.
mbuck87 19
Thanks, but we knew that
Bakarra 22
Well I hope the girl grows up to be more trusting than her mother...
buddy51 23
So "librarypedo" can have his way with her?
Bakarra 22
Yea obviously cuz he's just gets off when kids ask him where certain books are...
RedPillSucks 33
(to the tune of Aqualung) Sitting in the library stacks.... Waiting for the girls he can attack!
wdd2 5
You gotta love people jumping to conclusions, family is wonderful.
Attica 20
These days, it's like you can't pass by within 10 feet of a child, let innocently speak to one (even when doing your job) without some dumbass parent yelling at you. I understand why people want to be cautious with their children, and they should, but there is a such thing as over-reacting. We're just raising our children to be paranoid, overly-introverted and terrified of the world when making casual conversation with someone we don't know is now equated to speaking to someone with crazy eyes who is brandishing a knife (or their penis, for that matter).
doodlecloud 27
Took the words right out of my mouth. People tend to agree that parents need to be less crazy but not enough people point out the negative affects this behaviour has on the children these parents are actually trying to protect. Crazy parents really need to realise that in trying too hard to protect their kids they actually risk harming them themselves.
thisguy22 33
It's not entirely the parents fault... Some of the blame lies with inept policing/governing considering "stranger danger" and other such slogans intended to inform the populace created a generation of mistrust.
doodlecloud 27
Where I'm from Stranger Danger is more about teaching kids how to be safe around strangers rather than avoiding them altogether. Besides, parents can just ignore all the over-the-top crap. I dunno about you but I will base my parenting on my individual child and circumstances, not on some misused statistics.
Bcfrmkc816 17
Well said. If the person was a murderer then nothing would be sais