People's Most Incriminating "It's Not What It Looks Like" Moments

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Eric Lund
Jul 25, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

Mistaken intent and serious misjudgment can be a real monkey on our backs. Sometimes it feels like we're all working just to prove to other people that we're not horrible creeps, thieves or morons. Most times it's easy to not look like a lascivious rabble-rouser. But sometimes you're caught in a vulnerable position bending over to grab a pen cap and there's just no convincing your coworkers that you weren't just trying to smell your boss's chair. What can you do. Here are some times people proved they weren't the dumb one, or for some more foibles, bold and mistaken customers who were at the wrong store.

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    Font - SynchronizedCalamity · 17h - edited 4h e S 3 Driving back to college from my grandmas house, holding my hand up to my ear to hear myself better as I practice for a choral performance a couple days from then. Cop pulls me over, is surprised to see that my phone is actually packed away in the back seat when he asks me to retrieve it. Asks me what the hell I was doing, and I get to awkwardly explain the thought process behind hearing yourself better when holding a hand to your ear. After a l
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    Font - anomalous_cowherd - 16h · edited 7h 6 10 3 3 I was walking along one night with my wife and we bumped hips accidentally. I bumped her again, she bumped me back harder and it escalated from there. For my final victory I timed it just right to knock her into a lamppost so she fell over, laughing. "Whoop whoop" a Police car had come up behind us and only seen the killing blow. She instantly started laughing so hard at the absurdity of it that tears were streaming down her face and they grabb
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    Font - [deleted] · 18h 2 3 3 Getting off of work while I was in college. I worked at the student union. As I was walking I get a campus alert on my phone about a sexual assault that happened I was wearing the exact clothing description minus the shoes, heading the same direction he was last spotted and got stopped by campus police. Never been happier that we call campus police dispatch after closing the building. Yes they caught the guy later.
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    Font - PitatoShoes · 15h S A few years ago, I was walking my dogs and they spotted a squirrel and yanked me off my feet. My glasses broke in the fall, I hit my face and scraped my hand quite badly. Cut to a few days later. God knows why but the wounds have swollen, most of my face is covered in bruises and one eye is black. I went with my brother to the gun range; it was a previously-planned trip but I can only imagine what the owners thought, seeing a battered-up woman come learn to shoot.
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    Organism - Kis_Cica · 19he When I submitted an expense claim for an inflatable doll. NOT a blow up doll, an inflatable person. It was many years ago in the NHS and we were using it in meetings to demonstrate convoluted patient journeys so we could eliminate waste and simplify things. My boss had a sense of humour.
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    Font - zcmini · 18h e2 S 2 In high school, borrowed my parent's van to take my gf on a date. We went out for dinner and then to a friend's for a bonfire. she changed in the van from a skirt/tights to sweatpants in between. Next day my dad pulls me a side and he's holding her tights. I start saying, "it's not what it looks like" but he cuts me off and just goes on about "I want to make sure you guys are being safe" "don't worry I won't tell your mother" etc.
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    Font - appocomaster - 18h 2 3 my manager was working in the office one weekend and had bad eczema. As no one was around he dropped his jeans and started going to town on his thighs. A cleaning lady walked in, took one look at him and walked out again. What makes it worse is on the Monday, his manager wanted to speak to him about a completely unrelated "sensitive issue" - he thought he was getting fired
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    Font - Soft-Problem · 20h When I was visiting my home town, I drove past our old childhood home where I'd grown up. Decided to take some photos of the house for nostalgia's sake. There were a few little kids playing in the front. Perfect: the house is still filled with children's laughter and all that good stuff. Take out my camera: cue an angry bald man rushing out of the house screaming at me for taking photos of his kids, kids bawling, me driving away in a hurry without stopping to explain.
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    Font - ripmerle · 18h I was helping out a female co-worker by giving her a ride home from work everyday. She was going through a divorce and was having car issues with her ex. We both worked the same hours and it was a short distance, so I was happy to help. Anyway, one day she told me that a mouse had gotten into her bedroom, which was over her garage. I told her its probably a simple fix like maybe the mouse came up through a heat vent or small hole somewhere near the floor. I go up to her bed
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    Font - Aliquot126 · 17h e At a concert and some dude flicks his roach into the air when he's done smoking it. The cherry lands right ontop of this girl's head just burning into her hair. I was standing right beside her so I just immediately swatted the burning ember from her hair. She turns around, along with her boyfriend, and are like WTE was that? I tried to explain that someone had thrown a roach into her hair but they really didn't seem to believe me, just thought I was some weirdo who like
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    Font - Faduuba · 17h · edited 16h A co-worker hit my vehicle and rather than go through insurance, I gave him an option to pay in cash to avoid an insurance hit. A couple days later he was paying me in the parking lot at night (night shift workers) and the manager comes out of the office and heads to his car. Came over to see wtf was going on. Totally looked like a drug deal was going down. lol
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    Font - NoMickeyMouseBusines 18h 3 2 E S Invited my friend on a hike, needed to get my bottle from the trunk. Forgot that I had to move some painting supplies earlier. The face "when your tracksuit-wearing Eastern European friend open a trunk lined with garbage bags and rolls plastic wrap and a hatchet in the middle of woods" was priceless but do not recommend. Hard to argue "is no problem, just had to move messy things, do not worry".
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    Font - bozom · 16h Not me, but I heard a story from a health and safety trainer. He goes on the road a lot, up and down the country. One day he's at a petrol station, and goes to grab something out of his boot. As he does this two old people walk past with worried faces. He thinks nothing of it and carry's on his journey. As he's going down the motorway, he noticed a police car a few cars back, again thinking nothing of it. Then an unmarked police car swerved in front of him, and the police car
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    Font - tinkrman - 19h · edited 16h 2e 3 5 & 3 More I brought a hammer to the office to hang a whiteboard. I left it in my laptop bag, and forgot to take it out at home. Days later my boss came up behind me asked "do we have a hammer in the office?". Without thinking, I reached into my bag and and handed him the hammer, still looking at the computer screen. A few seconds later I realized my boss was still standing behind me. I turned around and, he was just standing there staring at the hammer. H
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    Font - tiggers08 - 16h - edited 10h 92 2 2 Theater kid in highshcool, had a scene were i had to tie a girl to a chair with a specific knot so it looked real but could be undone super quick by her just tugging something and it all coming undone. Any way im practicing the knot with her in the class room during an off period so i could get it right. Cue gym teacher walking in to the room to ask theater teacher something and seeing a girl gagged and getting tied to a chiar while we were the only two
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    Organism - Nessi4u · 20h Was playing monopoly with my boyfriend and his friends. All of a sudden his friend yells "No! No, no, no, no! Nooooooo," while looking at me in horror. I then respond "What's the matter," smiling and trying not to laugh at his randomness. He then screams "STOP PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH ME!" After a really awkward 5 seconds he realizes it was my dog nudging him wanting to get his attention.
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