Not really ridiculous in terms of outright nonsensical, but it felt absolutely ridiculous to me.
In my teens attended a college which held practicals etc. The students were mostly poor, from a poor area, and struggled hard. We were trying to better our lives through education and learning a trade.
For the particularly poor teens that were struggling for basic bus fares to attend the college, a lady came in to help us (think support for applying for help with costs etc, iirc) and also help us talk about what was going on at home that was making it difficult for us to attend etc - most of us were underprivileged.
The lady set up in a small room and we were given times to pop in and see her. My time came, pretty early on to her getting there. She was outwardly absolutely lovely and helpful. Midway through, she excused herself to nip to the loo. She came back, we carried on/finished up, I got back to my practical work.
I was then approached by the lead instructor whom told me the lady had reported her purse had gone missing, and the lady had said she noticed it sometime after she had seen me. I obviously denied it, as I hadn't taken it. I asked if she had seen other students, and therefore was the instructor asking them too, or just me. The instructor said that the lady didn't think anyone else had the opportunity, it must have been me, as I was the only student she left alone in the room whilst she nipped to the loo. I offered to empty my handbag and pockets right there, which was met with a 'no, need for that'.
Went back to the group of girls, and we went to the theory session. All sat round a big desk. Lead instructor comes in, repeats the problem. At that point I stated infront of everyone I'd been accused by the lady first, and proceeded to tip my bag upside down on the desk. All the girls were horrified and got quite angry, as they knew, and said as much, Ahardone would NEVER do that. I imagine this was loud enough for the lady to hear from another room. We asked if she checked her car, and whether she was sure she hadn't left it at home, and the instructor responded that they had asked the lady this and she'd said yes, she was sure.
We all got quite upset by being accused of this, all of us were hard up, but would never take anything that didn't belong to us - they were deep down a good group of girls that just had it hard.
It turns out the woman did find her purse, she'd left it at home. She never came back. And there was no apology.
She came to help a group of poor, disadvantaged teen girls trying to get out of hardship, and instead falsely accused them of stealing her purse and money, and didn't have the strength of character to even offer an apology in passing to the instructor (who confirmed she had found her purse in the end). It felt hideous that someone looked at me and thought I looked the type to do it.
Next time we were offered assistance, we all swiftly refused. We learned our lesson fast.