People Recount Funny & Traumatic Times They Were Wrongly Accused As Kids

There's plenty of injustice in the world. Every day, people are wrongly convicted for crimes they didn't commit. But while adults at least have due process to protect them to a certain extent, children aren't always extended the same respect. In elementary school, it's one kid's word against another, and adults can arbitrarily pick who they believe if they feel like skipping the whole due process thing. 

When comedian @itsnashflynn told a story about how she got in trouble as a kid for an egg-related incident she had no involvement in, the tweet inspired a long thread of similar anecdotes—some hilarious, others kind of upsetting. Keep scrolling for the best stories we collected from the thread.

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    "It wasn't her with the eggs"

    Font - nash flynn @itsnashflynn got called to the principal's office in hs one time and he immediately started giving me a very long, stern monologue about respecting when someone says no. as my confusion was hitting its peak, the receptionist opened the door and said 'hey danny it wasn't her with the eggs' 09:12 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @itsnashflynn
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    Font - nash flynn @itsnashflynn to this day i have zero idea about what any of that was about but they told me i could go home if i wanted so i called my mum and was like 'the principal said i could leave' and she was like 'what did you do' and i was like 'nothing with eggs, at least' 09:12 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @itsnashflynn
  • 03
    Font - nash flynn @itsnashflynn okay in truth i found out much later some dude i worked with at friendlys was trying to make his ex jealous and told her i was going to the prom with him which like ??? ok and so she egged the shit out of his car, including the inside, in the parking lot and signed my name 09:24 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @itsnashflynn
  • 04
    Font - nash flynn @itsnashflynn this was a cool thing that happened to me all bc a guy i barely knew made up a weird story about me to help his sex life, anyway i hope your day sucks roger and you never understand why 12:26 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @itsnashflynn

    A lot can unravel from one little lie. I wonder if Roger ever found out about the consequences of his actions, or if he went through life blissfully unaware of the havoc he caused. 

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    @itsnashflynn's Tweet inspired many more stories

    Font - rick @swartz_rock Replying to @itsnashflynn My identical twin told the vice principal “your attitude smells like shit" in response to him saying "it smells like shit in this locker room" and my twin got written up. All of his friends who were in the room said that it was me who said it" this type of thing happened twice 21:27 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @swartz_rock

    It seems that everyone has a story about a time they were either wrongly accused by an adult for no apparent reason, or blamed for something they didn't do by another kid. 

  • 06

    @gracestanton10 did nothing wrong

    Font - Queen G @gracestanton10 Replying to @itsnashflynn In middle school our mascot (a bird) came to a soccer game. I was fuckin PUMPED. I very excitedly said “flap your wings" & got sent to the principle for harassing the school mascot. Principle: did you say it Me: Uh.... Yea... Principle: *gasp* WHY? Me: cuz it's... a bird? 02:52 · 2/11/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @gracestanton10

    This one is just baffling. What's the harm in expressing some school spirit? 

  • 07

    Yikes

    Font - ciera @fearlessmarvel Replying to @itsnashflynn one time a girl stabbed someone with a pencil and she had to go the nurse but her name and my name were the same and i got written up for it even though i explained that the girl who got stabbed wasnt even in my english class, i cried so much i had to sit out of class. 19:02 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @fearlessmarvel
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    Font - ciera @fearlessmarvel · 19h Replying to @fearlessmarvel and @itsnashflynn anyways, they figured out it was the other girl who did it and not me and they yelled at me for taking the write up like ??? i literally sat in the nurses office for like 20 minutes explaining it wasnt me ??? i hated that school 27 11 3,361 ciera i @fearlessmarvel · 18h when i was called back in to find out it was in fact NOT me the nurse said "sorry i used to work at a prison so i may have been to0 ... harsh" LIKE
    via @fearlessmarvel
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    Where's the due process?

    Font - angie @itblikedattho ... Replying to @itsnashflynn my middle schools police officer once came to get me from class to interrogate me about a fight on a field trip... i wasn't on that field trip and it turns out it was a different Angie but he had such a stern attitude that I felt like I actually had something to do with it 18:22 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @itblikedattho

    Since when is having the same name as the alleged wrongdoer enough to be implicated in a crime?

  • 10

    Dodged a bullet

    Font - queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne ... Replying to @itsnashflynn someone on my sister's cross country team named lauren got her ass kicked by this girl screaming about "stay away from my boyfriend." the boyfriend in question was my bestie. i nearly got my ass kicked but some random lauren did instead. 13:41 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @laurenmpayne

    One Lauren dodged a bullet. Another Lauren had a very unlucky day. 

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  • 11

    Allergies to the rescue

    Font - Arlo o is boosted @Ofdinosand... · 18h ... Replying to @itsnashflynn I remember one time in elementary school someone sprayed perfume all over the bathroom in the girl's gym bathroom and for some reason they thought it was me and then my teacher came in with a note my mom gave her at the beginning of the year about my fragrance allergy. I'm kinda 2 718 Arlo o is boosted @Ofdinosand... · 18h ... glad that they took me out of gym for that though before I went into the bathroom to change out
    via @itsnashflynn
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    Cool parents

    Font - Bubble Wand back to school @jennashairbubb1 Replying to @itsnashflynn my friend and i got caught passing notes in study hall in hs and the principal made copies for our parents. friend's mom came to my mom's work cracking up saying DID YOU GET THAT PHONE CALL LOOK AT THIS PAPER bc we are comedians 20:52 · 2/10/22 · Twitter Web App
    via @jennashairbubb1
  • 13

    Teacher had it out for her

    Font - Ya girl G @My_Lovely_Mind · 16h Replying to @itsnashflynn ... (1/?) One time in 6th grade, we were doing some kind of assignment where we had to use markers. Apparently someone took the ink tube out of one of the markers and smushed it into the carpet, and the next morning my teacher took me aside and told me she knew it was me 2 74 Ya girl G @My_Lovely_Mind · 16h (2/2) Even though of course it wasn't me. I tried to tell her over and over that it wasn't me, but she refused to believe me.
    via @My_Lovely_Mind
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  • 14

    This is just cruel

    Font - :3 @wholesomekenya · 18h Replying to @itsnashflynn •.. ex friend of mine told our kindergarten teacher i scratched her. the dean gave me a long speech abt being nice. i told him i didn't scratch her (i really didnt) but my teacher wouldn't buy it so she kept pressing me to confess til i eventually admitted it just to shut her up 1 149 :3 @wholesomekenya · 17h the teacher ended up isolating me from all the tables into an "island" (a desk that was too big for me while everyone else shared a
    via @wholesomekenya

    This teacher sounds like a real life Miss Trunchbull. Who can treat kids this way unless they really hate kids?

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    No justice

    Font - DaphlnDC @DaphlnDC Replying to @itsnashflynn Seeing a lot of comments which seem to indicate that K-12 schools are hotbeds of due process violations. 19:55 · 2/10/22 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @DaphlnDC

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