Today, at around 11 p.m., the police made a visit to my house, explaining how my neighbors had thought I was using a universal remote to change their television channels. 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 found out that my parents changed the code on our alarm system while they were out of town. The police could not verify I was their son, despite spending hours trying to get hold of them. They thought it was just another telemarketer. FML
Today, I awoke to the sound of my neighbors attacking my car with a baseball bat accusing me of calling the cops on them. I did call the cops on them, after they screamed at me last night, drunkenly, to call the cops for them because they thought they were being robbed. FML
Today at 10:00 pm, someone rang my doorbell 4 times, while I was sleeping. I thought it was an emergency and I opened the door to my neighbor who just want to ask if I had a blackout at noon. FML
Today, I was singing while unloading my dishwasher. I heard a knock on the door and went to answer it only to find the police telling me they received noise complaints from my neighbors. I live next-door to my parents. FML
Today, the police searched my house because my neighbors thought we were aiming a gun with laser sight at them. We were only getting our daft dog to chase a laser light around; we don't even own any guns. FML
Today, my neighbors called the police and said that they saw, through the window, a suspicious person in my house doing something to my piano. The "suspicious person" was me, in my own house, playing my own piano. FML
Today, I was doing a job for some people on my street cutting their bushes. After I had finished and went to get my pay, I realized I had gone to the wrong house. They called the police. FML
Today, I came back to my appartment to find that I couldn't watch certain channels on my tv. When I called the tv company I found out my parents had put a 'parental block' on all my favorite channels. Im 22 and rent an appartment with my friends. FML
Today, I woke up to NYPD detectives banging on my door with flashlights, looking for some criminal who used to live in my house. Apparently, when they showed the man's mugshot to my neighbors upstairs, for some reason they identified the man as my husband. FML
Today, I awoke to banging at my door. It was my neighbor, accusing me of stealing her mail to spy on her, because apparently she thinks I must be some sort of secret agent. The cops don't believe me when I call, and she won't go away. FML
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annie_nk 23
This warrented police to take action?
unknown_user5566 27
I would hate to be that cop. All I would be thinking is: "**** my life- this is what I went to the police academy for?"
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Comments (89)
Seepie 21
I have actually had this happen to me (the channel chaning bit). Our neighbours had same satelitte box remote frequency as us, they'd change our channel on us. We fixed it by calling our provider and having the remote frequency changed for our receiver. FYL though, some neighbours can be such jerks for no reason at all.
Seepie 21
changing*
annie_nk 23
Glad you had the common sense not to call the police and figure it out on your own.
TurtleSmile 14
Well, did you?
Rosicles 8
Really?
surfbumblonde 7
*sigh*
AnyaS 19
I would say "They meant the other neighbor."
cmac86 24
I wanna live in your town if that's the worst of what is going on.
walmartpaysme 15
Lol. It's definitely better than Little Rock.
zhatred67 5
You should have just closed the door on their face
spazz666 18
Yes because police love getting the door slammed in their face. They usually respond by skipping away through a bed of daffodils right? Or you know, they could break the door down. That might be a tad more likely.
agonydrum 7
Yeah let's be a rude asshole to the poor guy just doing his job
Dillyduzit 23
Were you?
Jinxx7 0
Lol, that's kinda funny. Why would a cop show up to you house for that?
dragonmonkey 9
Dang, when I lived in Mexico, I couldn't even get the police to go to my neighbors' apartment to intervene in a case of domestic violence. In the US, they'll go for anything. I'm not sure which is more f'd up.
benmec 18
Yeah. Could you please stop doing that. It's kind of annoying. Trying to watch my stories here...
spiritfang11237 16
Never! I will always be changing the channel just as it gets to the suspensful part too.
annie_nk 23
Noooo! You have to watch FOX news!
perdix 31
Tell the cop you don't need no stinkin' remote, you change their channels with the power of your brain. Then, go on to say if they don't leave you alone, they'll be watching lots of QVC at full volume.
surfbumblonde 7
Or the 'Using your TiVo/remote' instruction show on a loop. I don't really know what it's called in America, so that's my best guess. It's universally ear-grating though.