McCanns:Has anyone here been accused?

Question

of a crime or wrongdoing, unjustly, baselessly & without proof?
How did it feel? Did the insinuations & accusations hurt?
Did it ever happen at the time of a personal crisis which meant you had to live thru' 2 nightmares?
Did your friends & family lose...um.. faith in you?
How did you cope?
I'd really like know...

Answer 1

one time, my friend Ricky aka The Big Cheese, gave me drugs and i was like, WOAH man, these are drugs, and so i took them to a cop and he was like WOAH man, those are drugs, and we all lived happily ever after

Answer 2

I was banned in runescape for something I did not do. It was big deal it hurt for about 1 year or so. I was level 115 when I got banned. I found salvation in final fantasy 11 online which I quit 2 years later due to the fact that I did everything in the game I wanted to do. So I gave my items and stuff away and know I am done with online games like that.

Here is my online gaming life.

I went diablo 2 played until I accidentally lost half of my sorcs rare items then I turned to runescape got to level 45 then quit for a bit when I lost all my rune items. Then I played diablo 2 and played getting over 40 hex small charms then I quit when the patch deleted the hacked items , thats when I went back to runescape and made it to level 115 and quit because I was bored then I went back to give a friend some money and got banned along the way. So I found final fantasy 11 a year later and played until I had 4 level 75s. Then I quit it.

Answer 3

well you know what happened to me Faith, not that long ago either. And you know that I have a situation here at home to deal with 24/7.
I used to come here as a means of retaining some social activity because I can't go out as often as I used to, taking all the equipment my daughter rneeds is difficult and not everywhere is accommodating. This was a place I could at least have some contact with people and join in discussions etc.
Suddenly I found I was unwelcome, and put on trial and judged by a handful of people I had never had any contact with at all. it became a bandwagon for people to jump on, I became afraid to log on eventually because some of the posts were so full of spite and hate and downright lies, but because I was copying them all I had to force myself to wade through them and yes it hurt, I felt frustrated, angry, upset. I felt I had to justify myself and my child to people I didn't know and that under normal circumstances I wouldn't even associate with. People that should have known better pointed the finger, I found myself blocked, unable to contact some of them to try and right the wrongs that were being said.
And even now, that it's died down, I feel uneasy around certain people, I leave various questions alone because I know it would take so little for it all to begin again, I spend less time in this category because I don't think I will ever feel able to participate as I used to.
I coped because there were some people, like you, that didn't lose faith, that knew the things that were being said were unjust and unfair, I had lots of e mail support and that helped me.
But you never really get over it, inside there's always that part of you that remains cautious, and you also know that some people will always be 'wary' of you, they like that saying 'no smoke without fire' and they use that to justify the accusations they made that were baseless.

Answer 4

I was going to give a 'work related story' Faith but in answer to Eden, whilst I feel awful for what happened to you, what you have consistently failed to acknowledge is that you did the very same thing to me on here - naming me as a person who harrassed you when I had absolutely nothing to do with it and then refusing to make amends in any way, either by retracting your accusations or apologising personally to me.

Its a very good question Faith and something I to have wondered about. It really stinks to e accused of something you have not done, as you can imagine, it happens at work all the time! The example I was thinking of though relates to my practice teacher who supervised my last placement - what a piece of work she was! She would project all of her wrong doing on to me and twist it to look as though I were at fault! Power dynamics can be a scary thing!

Answer 5

Not like this. I once was picked up walking by my home and taken to the police station to be fingerprinted. Turned out some guy who looked like me was stealing cars from a car dealer and had his prints on some cars they had recovered and a video tape of the suspect. I was cleared in just a few minutes and was shocked to see the tape of the guy who looked like me stealing cars. With out the prints I would have been convicted on the videotape for sure cuz I'd have sworn it wwas me on the tape. I pray they didn't harm that beautiful little girl and hope to see the world owe them an apology, but......

Answer 6

I take your point.
The sad thing is regardless of the outcome of this very sad case, the 'Seed Of Doubt' has now been planted.
Lets all just wait and see instead of this character assignation.

Answer 7

There is something wrong.

Look the Vienna Natascha abduction.
The abducter was a (to the outside) a normal, friendly, hard working, nerd.

Nobody suspected him ...

Think about that

Answer 8

well, haven't been accused by police however I have been frequently accused by my lil sis of eating up all of the lollies