Today, I witnessed a robbery as a teenager ran out of a Walgreens with stolen goods in his hands. The manager was running after him. Trying to be helpful, I pulled forward to block the thief from getting away. The cops showed up and arrested me for hitting a pedestrian. 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, 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 went to the store, but after I'd selected my items, I saw that I'd forgotten my wallet. When I tried to explain to the cashier, he thought that I was trying to steal and called the cops. My roommate had to come to the store to save me. FML
Today, I got lost trying to find the hospital my sister was giving birth in. I stopped at a store to call my mom for directions. A cop pulled up beside me and knocked loudly on my window asking me to get out. The store had been robbed and I am now a suspect. FML
Today, I was accused of shoplifting, after the alarm started beeping as I walked into the store. FML
Today, I was detained by a stubborn cop who swore he saw me sprinting away after shoplifting. I’m missing part of my right foot, and walk with a cane and a limp, I haven’t sprinted anyplace in 12 years. Not even showing him my foot convinced him. I was sat in his car over an hour. FML
Today, I was mugged. I saw a cop car in the aftermath and flagged it down. Unfortunately, when the cops stopped the mugger, he said he'd been running away because I tried to mug him. Apparently the fact that he was "well-dressed" and I wasn't means he was telling the truth. FML
Today, I was at the store when I saw that a cart in the checkout line next to me was starting to roll away and the owner hadn't noticed. I tried to help by reaching out to stop the cart from moving, but when the owner saw me with the cart, she began to hit me for trying to steal her purse. FML
Today, I stopped by the gun store to pick up a new concealed weapon for protection. As I was leaving the store, a man came up behind me, hit me with a crowbar, and stole my gun. FML
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
Today, I had to chase down and tackle a boy (around 11 or 12) at my workplace after I caught him snatching someone's wallet and trying to quickly sneak out with it. Now everyone thinks I have something against children, even after I returned the stranger's wallet and explained that the little brat is a thief. FML
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racerapj 10
GTA Logic - Someone runs into your car, you get 1 wanted level
Ryan_Jaxson 8
The world is ****** up.
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SuperPizzaMan_fml 11
you got some terrible luck. fyl
IceeCreamm 7
No good deed go unpunished!
Onmyzephyr 5
There's no liability if you don't get involved!
iOceanus 18
1) You have*
desoto96 9
27-The fact someone would suggest not to help someone in need or turn your back on a wrong that's being done. All because you don't want any liability? I just lost even more hope for the human race.
jweezy89 4
Next time op, just mind your business. Who cares if this kid got away with thirteen dollars worth of merchandise? Now you're dealing with a more serious crime than the kid commited in the first place.
Onmyzephyr 5
90, the OP's situation in the exactly the reason why I lost faith in humanity. Help someone and it just might bite you in the ass like it happened to OP. I also foresee a big fat law suit in OP's future...
Onmyzephyr 5
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racerapj 10
GTA Logic - Someone runs into your car, you get 1 wanted level
chatoyant_fml 12
Haha! I thought of that too
Inheritance 10
*Takes out cell phone, activates wanted level down cheat* True GTA logic right there.
guy24 9
Gta logic, start to help the cops kill the criminal. They all start to shoot you.
xlord 27
Real life logic, have sex with a hooker than kill her and steal her mon.....I mean Gta logic... (shifty eyes)
tacojauns 45
just saying hitting someone with a car would be consider attempted murder and attempted murder over a retail thief its probably frowned upon.
desoto96 9
86 I would argue that I had control over the vehicle the whole time and was trying to do exactly what I did. Stop the thief, not kill him.
tacojauns 45
So you would be admitting to attempted murder, potentially killing someone over a retail theft is NOT a justifiable reason to potential kill someone, because a retail theft is NOT putting anyone's life in danger.
iRatedxR 2
GTA logic = you try to avoid hitting someone and they jump straight at your car
tjv3 10
Just wait til the robber sues you FYL
Ryan_Jaxson 8
The world is ****** up.
dashizam 10
Naw, just pre-thanksgiving sales. Obviously the cashier just forgot to give them their free gift with purchase.
dashizam 10
Sarcasm.
ucoolgirl31 20
That's an understatement.
evilpokey 11
should of hit him harder at least it would of been worth it
Hiimhaileypotter 53
Should have* Would have*
ise3 10
Nah the question is whether op hit him or the thief ran into the car like an idiot. Both ways thats pretty funny
ichliebekekse 11
You could have explained to the cop. I mean, they don't arrest you without asking any questions.
spoilt_ 15
No, sometimes they make arrests and do not ask questions
ohSNAPyall 27
I think hitting someone with a car would get you arrested even if that someone were attempting to steal an armload of condoms.
alissa222 15
If you're going to steal anything it might as well be condoms. If you can't afford a condom you sure as hell can't afford a child.
Mideoyeo 12
I don't know what it is in Florida but if OP tried to assist the catching of a crimal he still would be arrested or charged. Here in Toronto if you try to do a citizen arrest while being a "normal" citizen you get charged with assault.
seanc722 2
She didnt say she hit him. She could of just cut in front of him and he ran into the car (Which is what I got it as when I read it).
ichliebekekse 11
But to the cops it would have seemed as though she hit him.
Larawk 8
You should have grabbed a blind person stick and hit them right in the face. Plead to the police you were blind and it was all by accident
hurtandabused 7
Driving a car? Really?! Then I hope he'd be arrested for lying on license info!
SApprentice 34
It's actually kind of understandable. If the kid was just stealing then that's a non-violent crime, and OP used a potentially lethal force (the vehicle) to try and stop him. It's not fair, of course, but I can kind of see how it makes sense.
darkmis1 18
Yeah. He also hit him. That's different from blocking him with your car. The timing was bad though and OP seems to have meant well.
iCake 13
OP claims its a robbery, so it's armed theft
Ray9889 8
Doubt he was armed..... Otherwise I doubt the manager would be chasing him
kittytub 12
126, you're telling me whenever my mom said I couldn't fly was a lie?! :O
iCake 13
Then it wouldn't be a robbery, unless the thief used force, to either harm someone
JFurr 9
I don't agree with it, but I think you would have been fine if you didn't hit the kid. If you just would have tried grabbing him, you probably would have been okay. You didn't need to hit him.
Isoldael 27
OP was in a car, and getting out likely would have taken too long. OP just moved his car to block the way and, in the process, hit the thief.
HeartForMusic 23
That was terribly unfair of them. Good on you for trying to help, though.
zoolu6879 0
Nice pic girlie
Pleonasm 36
Maybe it was one of those prank shows where they set up a situation and make a fool out of the unsuspectng public. In that case, giving the thief the people's elbow was not the solution.