I’ll start. Teenage me driving up the street to hang out with friends at the mall and passed my younger neighbor and his mom. When I got back a couple hours later, the neighbor’s mom was livid - confronting me for the slight. I seriously had no idea wtf she was talking about and I couldn’t convince her otherwise.

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    Yes, as I said in another post I was punched in the face by a policeman who then accused me of having done that to him. He falsified the medical report while I had no marks, he forced a courier to testimony in his favor and has the version confirmed by his partner. The prosecutor believes his story even if I presented evidence in the form of a recording where he admits to hitting me but in self defence (there’s no mention of that in his report) he asks me if I have cameras (just so he can say whatever he wants if I don’t have them), he admits to pushing me (another thing he denies in his report where he says he accompanied me gently in my garden). None of this was taken into consideration. I tried two times and was rejected by the prosecutor who wants to archive my demand. I’m waiting to be condemned for something I didn’t do. I’m a pianist and I’d never use my hands to hit something and I’m disabled and visually impaired. Nothing seems to matter.

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        Thanks but I don’t think there’s a way out of this situation. I have a lawyer who’s working on the case so that’s covered. I always hope the prosecutor or the judge realize the mistake they’re making. Other than that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    I was walking home from work late one evening 20+ years ago when someone in a big pick-up truck pulled up next to me, rolled down their window, and started berating me for “doing drugs and chasing girls”.

    I was not, at the time, doing drugs or chasing girls. I was working an IT job in a tiny New England town, had recently been dumped, and was convinced that I would never date again, oh woe is me. Some server had blown up and I’d been at the office late.

    And for this I get hollered at by some stranger?

    Best I can figure is they mistook me for someone they knew — who, for all I know, was doing drugs and chasing girls.

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      You can’t talk about quantum physics in English, either, not if you want to say anything that makes any sense. The physicists speak in Math.

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    Ahh, I have one story. It’s also kind of my own personal tin-foil-hat conspiracy.

    I was living in a place where you could rent, but it was also a hotel. It had a Rent-a-Car inside, and I was working there. It was exceptional because I was 2 floors away from my job, so no need for commuting.

    Ultimately, and to make this long story short, I decided to leave the company (it was a small company, just my boss, his wife ane me), because one week I started to get paid less than what I was working, they probably thought I wouldn’t notice.

    I immediately started looking for another job, and funnily enough, the hotel - where I lived - was hiring. They basically accepted me after the first interview, I told my boss’ wife that I was leaving the company for the hotel so I gave my two weeks notice.

    Next day, I am driving through the highway with my boss to pick up a customer when he starts SCREAMING at me about going to work for the hotel instead of him. One thing stood out from what he screamed at me:

    “I will make sure that you don’t get that job, or other jobs in the future, and you will never get this job back either, how are you going to live like that now? You just fucked up” - He said

    Now this is the conspiracy/accusation part:

    The hotel needed to do a drug test (they did that to everyone). The day of the drug test, I go to the place, do whatever I had to do, and they just told me to wait for an answer.

    2 weeks goe by - no response. I call and ask, they say they “lost” my tests. Strange, but ok. I went to do another one.

    2 days after the second one, they call me and tell me that the test was positive for weed. Now I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say I’ve never done weed. I have arthritis, so weed is something I sometimes need to handle tha pain and stress, but at that time I was clean for about 5-6 months.

    However, I told them that it’s impossible, that I’ve never done weed, that I didn’t even have money to buy weed. They straight up tell me they don’t care and hang up.

    Exactly 20-30 minutes later, my former (rent a car company) boss -who I hadn’t spoken to for more than a month- calls me, he doesn’t even ask me how I am or anything, he just goes straight for “where you accepted for the job? How did the drug test go?”

    Now, call me crazy but…

    1. I didn’t tell him I was doing a drug test, and if the hotel had told him, they still woul’t have known when I did the drug test.
    2. How did he manage to call me exactly the day I got the results, almost at the same time?
    3. I called the hotel after that call and they told me that they hadn’t even received a call from the drug test place to tell them that it has been positive. That basically I was the one notifying them. However, they said that since it was positive, I couldn’t get the job regardless, no exception.

    At the end, I figured I was fighting a losing battle and searched for other jobs. 2 weeks later COVID-19 hit and the rent-a-car had to close, so that was good news for me.

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    More recent than the other posters here.

    I had a job interview for a huge company that I was super excited about. I had applied to an entry-level job position, and they even contacted me and told me that my profile would match a non-entry position more closely, so my process was transferred. I was nervous, but excited!

    The interview was remote, which was not usual (this was pre-pandemic! Around 2018 I believe). Once they arrived, I was surprised that they didn’t want cameras on; it was a fully audio-based interview. Whatever, I thought, I’ll just do the interview anyway.

    It didn’t go very well, as I was just a silly kid straight out of university with no interviewing experience, but I thought it wasn’t catastrophic or anything. I still do. They asked me a couple of questions about my industry that I had no idea about unfortunately. I still tried to answer as best as I could, but I could tell my answers were not the ones they wanted. The dude was nice anyway and told me “that’s OK” whenever I didn’t know an answer.

    A couple of days after the interview, I get a call from a very nice HR lady and she said “unfortunately you were not selected for this position, but feel free to apply for other positions in our company!”. I was a bit sad but wanted to make use of this as a learning experience, so I asked “do you have information as to why I was not selected?” or something to that effect.

    She said: "let me see… It says here they were not looking for someone with your profile…

    … Oh! Also, you were googling the answers to questions you didn’t know, as we heard you typing"

    This broke me. I had done no such thing! I started trying to tell her that was not true (and that if it were, I would have gotten the answers right!). But I quickly realized that it was a losing battle. They had made their decision, and I was just wasting their time. If only they had turned on the camera I could have evidence that was not true. But I decided not to further sully my reputation and just said “Thank you for your time, I hope to talk to you again”.

    Since I did not get that job, I applied to and was accepted into a PhD programme so I guess that was a pretty important moment in my life. I am about to finish my PhD and that company is one of my options afterward, so I sometimes wonder if they still have that lie on file.

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      TL;DR: I got a remote job interview, they refused to turn on the camera, then told me after the interview that I was googling the answers to questions I didn’t know, which I wasn’t. But without a camera I had no way of proving it.

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    When I was 13 walking home from school the day after a snow day I was berated by a driver that accused me of throwing a snowball at his car. I had done no such thing (that day). I mean message received, I don’t think I’ve thrown a snowball at a car since, but it wasn’t me. A few years later I realized it was probably nick.

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    I have a really good memory. I can recall whole conversations from 10 years ago.

    Its so frustrating when people say one thing but do another. They love claiming that I’m making stuff up and “I didn’t say that”

    I learned to record every important conversation years ago…

    Though they still say that I faked the recordings, etc if something comes up.

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        Oh for sure. It’s like I’m held to a higher standard. I can never say “I don’t recall” to get put of trouble like the politicians do…

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      I think you need to learn more about how memory works. Unless you actually have a photographic memory (which is incredibly rare), you do not remember everything perfectly.

      A lot people have difficulty accepting this though, so you’re not alone.

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        Its not perfect at all. I’m only hyper good at conversations.

        I’m super bad with names and faces. I feel face blind sometimes. I see it as a trade off.

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    I don’t even know where to start with this, it’s happened so many times. Although I’m sure everyone has at some point in their lives. I mean the whole point of being framed is you can’t prove your innocence. I will say though, it feels even worse when there actually has been proof of my innocence but the people who want to say I did something had such strong willpower that they were able to ignore the proof on a collective level and continue to accuse me of the thing I just proved my innocence about.

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    My bf is convinced I have/had feelings for some other guys. Keeps pressing the issue and “Why can’t you just admit it?”. I can’t admit something that isn’t true…