What's the most ridiculous thing you've even been accused of?

[NavyPombear]

Just that really, Something so obviously nonsense that you couldn't believe anyone would take it seriously.

For me without doubt, it was when my parents thought I'd robbed a bank.
I was 17 and at school at the time of the robbery......

To this day I'm not entirely convinced they believe I wasn't involved 🙄

Ex husband once accused me of staring at a man all night across the room in a bar, couldn't take my eyes off him apparently, and I made it blatantly obvious I fancied him, was smiling at him anytime he looked over too. Massive strop about it.

I took great delight in reminding him that I'd gone out that night without my contact lenses in as id ran out, and I'm so short sighted anything past a short distance away would have been a fuzzy blur to me

A new manager took an instant dislike to me. He called me into his office and accused me of being aggressive. He'd never witnessed me being aggressive, but knew I was, because I spoke fast.

I was accused of stealing 2 hogshead of bitter from a pub I worked in .
One hogshead holds 25 lts ( give or take a bit ) of beer

Think about that that , have you ever had a bit to much milk in your fridge so you have to lay a bottle down most people buy milk in 2 lt bottles.

Now think about that 25 lt x 2 , apparently I stole them
I do not drive .

I had to prove I didn't steal them !

I had a really nasty friends growing up and once it had snowed and I met up with her and two other friends to go sledging. I’d brought two sledges (someone else brought one sledge) and she accused me that - I’d always had 3 sledges and that I purposely hadn’t brought the third to leave someone out, very blatantly in front of my other two friends.

I’ve always only ever had two sledges. I have one sibling. So why on earth would my parents have bought three. Must be a good 16 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

My mum said it was my fault that she wasn’t looking where she was going as she reversed her car into a brick wall. I wasn’t in the car, in fact I was nowhere near as I was rushing around doing last minute things as I was getting married the next day.

Likewise her blaming me for her leaving her handbag in the front of the car and it was my fault that her car got broken into and the bag was stolen. I wasn’t even in the same country at the time.

These stories are absolutely appalling!! 😮If you read them in a book or they were storylines on a TV show you'd roll your eyes at how far fetched they are! It's scary that this stuff actually happens!

For me it was being accused of stealing when nannying for a family. Their best jewels? Nope. An envelope of cash? Nope. A basket of bloody plastic toy cars belonging to their 3 year old!! I got the 'We think it's best you don't come back' spiel and all. I still feel bitter about it! The thing is, they must have turned up somewhere eventually, so a quick message of apology would have been nice, but no. Human beings really are batshit.

Cheating during a game of "keeper of the keys", aged six, where I was blindfolded and had to point at somebody creeping up to grab keys. I managed to catch out lots of people, and they thought I must have been peeping, but I really couldn't see a thing: I just had good directional hearing!

I’m so sorry. That sounds really tough.

My lovely step siblings were threatening to contest my DM's will and I was accused of working for the solicitors and influencing their late DF's will.

To be fair I did work in the building the solicitors are now in - but for a chartered accountant!

Last summer my dad informed me that it was my fault he'd had to sell his lovely two seater sports car. Mum, my younger sisters and my partner were pissing themselves laughing. I pointed out it was partly his fault that I was born, and certainly not mine.

Why didn't one of your parents defend you? I'd wipe the floor with any school staff who treated my DD like that, that's bullying

I once shared an office with a director and 2 other people. Anyone could answer an incoming call. I answered the phone one day, call for the director (sat on opposite side of the office - totally relevant) so I transferred them through and carried on with my work.

The minute the director finished the call he started shouting and it took me a few seconds to realise he was shouting at me.

My crime?

... "I heard you google the name of that company - you have no right to do that"

... ummm. OK. I did what?

And even if I did (which I had no interest in, or even had a millisecond thought to do so) how on earth would you HEAR me specifically open Google and type it in. It was so bizarre I started laughing. He went absolutely nuts.

My colleague sat next to me stood up for me to confirm I did no such thing and he calmed down - not without warning me that if i ever did do that I would be in trouble. You can imagine my face! I refused to answer the phone after that day.

Total power hungry weirdo 😅

I was accused of refusing to attend not one, but four return to work meetings by a HR Officer. I didn’t even refuse once, let alone four times!

I asked her to prove it, but of course, she couldn’t 🙄

I was driving slowly through a village in the pouring rain. The car in front of me was driving too fast, hit a massive puddle and absolutely drenched some people walking on the path.

I stopped at a red light and a man came over hammering on my passenger side window. Thinking there'd been an accident I wound down my window only to have a tirade of abuse hurled at me... a whole lecture about my irresponsible driving, how I'd soaked the people on the path and I needed to learn how to drive, blah, blah, blah. He wouldn't stop yelling. Wouldn't listen that it wasn't me... so I just wound up the window and drove away... bizarre.

accused by a friend of having a long-term affair with a married man. because I was single and apparently there was no way I was actually single so there was obviously something sus going on that I didn't want people to know about.

I was in fact single.

That happened to me, too. I was calling my brother in the SE and the woman lived in the NE. The two men had different names. I felt really sorry for her, though. She didn't sound paranoid, just really sad.

Theft of money 🤮😢
Worked in a well known sandwich shop and done stock and count of money on Tuesdays.

All the stock, two tills, money out the safe used fir floats & main safe which only got opened in a Tuesday & all the money from cash drops through the week had been put in for example when too many nites in till, the overflow when cashing up at end of night was over amount of float and always got put in with a receipt. Added all the money in the shop up, set float in tills, done top (float) safe then bottom safe and all the money matched the receipts there was no spare receipts and no missing or left over money added it all on the system and kept coming out £550 down it was nowhere to be found but all the receipts for cash drops added. God's hone comes in next morning with fresh head extra early to find area manager, franchise owner and police already there. Was asked to leave, give key back and told I was under investigation. Gets a call few hours later saying its fine, the system wasn't working right and the main till wasn't polling info from till 2 can I come back and do the close? Ermm no I could not. Never gotten over it

Same here.

We've never gotten over the false allegation and the repercussions, years later.

You were reported to the police for voting remain?!

Loads.
People are weird. My main thought in all of them was 'what would I do that for?!'

Racism
Arson
Graffiti
Stealing

And as another poster said, it all started at primary when I was accused of talking during a 2 minute silence. Massive punishment , I was banished to a back room for a week for my insolence. I'm convinced it gave me a bad name. I never did any of the things. Someone gave me too much change in a shop once and I handed it back. I'm a soppy soft idiot.

Following a Science lesson my very studious and a bit goody goody friend and myself got hauled into the Head mistresses Office and accused of carving some sort of writing into the wooden bench we were sitting at.
We had been doing experiments with a sunset burner and categorically did not do the deed. My friend wouldn't have done it in a million years and I certainly didn't either. The HM clearly didn't believe us as the Science assistant was adamant it must have been us. I'm still seething 50 years later.

You can charge an electric vehicle from an ordinary socket in the UK - but I think it can be dangerous in countries where the electricity is at a lower voltage (eg. 110V vs. 240V) because the house wiring can heat up enough to cause fires.

I charge mine on my normal socket? If you have the right cable then of course you can! It just takes longer

This is so sad! X

No wonder so many of us have trauma responses!