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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Comments (142)
bybib 20
I don't see where OP said they actually hit the person. Could it not have been they ran into the car? And the cops were being dumb? I'm sad to admit I have seen it before.
pogue36 5
Being a cop is about making money, it was never about doing the right thing.
bybib 20
For some, not all. I have met a few good cops and a few bad. Unfortunately the bad are remembered and talked about more then the good.
Airman1988 9
Well then they are in the wrong career field, cops don't make that much money respectively in most cities.
annie_nk 23
You could say the same about any profession that pays well. It all depends on the person, not the job.
allmidnighteyes 11
Couldn't you have conferred with the cop and the manager to check the tapes? Most stores like Walgreens and CVS have a camera out front to see where shoplifters go and to monitor shit in the parking lot, so you should have asked them to check the tapes and see what happened.
Liamj774 36
ZOMG i r first !!!!!111!!!!one!!!!!!
MigraineurOfLife 15
What?
ohSNAPyall 27
The arrest was not unfair. Your car is not going to block someone fleeing on foot. He'll run forward a few extra feet and then go around it, unless, of course, you hit him. The manager is not going to starve if someone runs off with $100 worth of crap. Although I'm sure hitting him wasn't intentional, it was negligent. You put people's lives in danger.
Praisethelawd 0
Why would you even involve yourself? Kinda your fault. Fyl you deserve it,
Enslaved 38
"Billy don't be a hero". Your heart was in the right place but your action became a huge liability. If you did hit the thief with your car (I'm guessing it's a car we're talking about) and you accidentally killed him or paralyzed him, then what?
ManInTheMachine 20
OP didn't think they were above the law. They weren't trying to hit the thief, they were trying to block him off, and ACCIDENTALLY hit him in the process. Read the FML again.
pradip 26
Guess the thief was LoL at you
raycj 1
No.
ManInTheMachine 20
Why is everyone saying OP should've minded his own business? Peter Parker did that, and guess what happened? Uncle Ben died. THINK OF UNCLE BEN! You have to sit back and ask yourselves: WWPPD?
Trisha_aus 15
Mhmmm Peter Parker..he can do whatever he wants ;)
SoylentCandycorn 10
Andrew Garfield can do whatever he wants... To me.
annie_nk 23
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought of Uncle Ben.
RedPillSucks 33
Uncle Ben makes the best rice