It can be hard to fess up to mistakes, but ultimately a mature person needs to bite the bullet, face the music and go through the embarrassment they inflicted on themselves. However,some folkscan’t live with this idea and invent complex scenarios where, somehow, it’s not their fault.
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The Catholic church when Sinead O’Connor tore the pope’s picture up on stage. Everything she was making statement about was 100% true.
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Recently there was this dude in a town in Ontario who filed assault charges on his neighbour for spraying him with a water gun. Her story comes out first to the media, saying how she can’t return to work as school support staff until the charges are sorted out, and gives a story about how she was just having a fun water gun fight with the neighbour kids and accidentally sprayed the neighbour while he was mowing his lawn.Week later, his story gets published in the paper. He’s repeatedly received targeted harassment for this neighbour and others, he says likely because he’s the one black guy on the street of a small town, in an interracial marriage, and releases his security camera footage of him just casually cutting his lawn, with the other neighbour actively telling the kid to bring her the water gun while she’s standing behind him, then sprays him directly with it. And the camera also captures the audio of the aftermath where some racial slurs are dropped (also a recurring thing). What’s also funny is that the neighbour claimed that there was some language barrier misunderstanding between them… The guy is straight up Canadian and speaks clearer than most people.
McDonald’s, I guess, in the hot coffee lawsuit. It’s tough describing a massive corporation as a “victim,” but people were definitely on their side until the details of the lawsuit came out.
Bored Pandagot in touch with the netizen who asked this question and they were kind enough to provide some more details. Naturally, we wanted to hear more about what, if anything, prompted them to make the post in the first place. “It was initially to get ideas for a story I was writing.”“I even mentioned it in the thread at the beginning of its life, but people started downvoting me for no reason. (So I deleted that comment.) Reddit loves negativity, the internet lovesnegativity. Most popular r/askreddit posts are either about sex or negative things. I do not.”
Bored Pandagot in touch with the netizen who asked this question and they were kind enough to provide some more details. Naturally, we wanted to hear more about what, if anything, prompted them to make the post in the first place. “It was initially to get ideas for a story I was writing.”
“I even mentioned it in the thread at the beginning of its life, but people started downvoting me for no reason. (So I deleted that comment.) Reddit loves negativity, the internet lovesnegativity. Most popular r/askreddit posts are either about sex or negative things. I do not.”
Susan Smith. She was all over the news begging for the return of her two boys who were toddlers. Stating she had been carjacked. After several days, it was discovered that she had let her car roll into a lake with her babies strapped into their car seats. I’ll never forget hearing it on the radio driving home from work. My children were their age at the time and I had to pull off the road because I couldn’t see through the tears.
When I was in college there was a young woman who claimed she was getting into her car when someone shoved her into the car from behind and attempted to re her in broad daylight. She said they stopped and took off when another car rolled through the parking lot. The story sounded off, so a lot of people were skeptical at first. That led to an outpouring of support, with post-it notes popping up all over the school that said “I believe her”. There was a lot of talk about victim-blaming, and the need for people to support victims.About a week and a half later, after news stations asked to interview her, she recanted her story and admitted that she’d made the whole thing up for attention.What really pissed me off about that situation was that she handed ammunition to the a**s who claim “women make up re accusations all the time”.
We also were curious to hear if they had any favorites. “The one where that guy burned his house down to “save his kids” took me on a mini deep dive. He also had ahorrible recordbefore that. Kind of messed up to call it my “favorite”, more like the one I found most interesting,” they shared.
One famous case is when Lance Armstrong was initially seen as a victim of doping allegations, but later it came out he had been using performance-enhancing d***s all along.
Karen Matthews. Faked her daughters kidnapping not long after Madeline McCann went missing so that she could get money. She hid her inside a bed at a friends house and planned to collect the reward money. People actually felt sorry for her, thinking her daughter was missing and it was a huge police investigation. Ended up in jail for kidnapping, perverting the course of justice and false imprisonment.
“I was expecting to get at least a few more personal-sounding answers. Not celebrity cases that got blown out of proportion. It’s easier to “relate” (I guess) tosmaller thingsthat not many people know about. Plus it would’ve been more inspiring and realistic for what I want my story to sound like.”
Katie Sorensen, the nut job “momfluencer” who claimed a couple was following her through a shopping center, plotting to kidnap her children, supposedly because they were so good looking. Turns out the other couple were just shopping at the same time, did absolutely nothing wrong at all, and she just wanted attention and more followers.
Anna Aayala. She claimed she found a fingertip in a bowl of Wendy’s chili. The press coverage cost the company over 20 million in losses. Turns out the finger came from a co-worker of her husband who lost it in a work accident and she intentionally planted it.
That story about the Vallejo couple where the girlfriend was kidnapped and the police decided the boyfriend did it and everyone shamed him. But then it turned out that the police did a terrible job and it was an actual kidnapper the whole time.
Carolyn Bryant, who told people Emmit Till harassed her and did nothing knowing her husband m***ered him.
I just listened to a podcast about a girl Mackenzie Shirilla. Basically she, her boyfriend and another friend were involved in a crash that k**led the boyfriend and the friend.She was a driver and she survived. At first it seemed like maybe there was some fault in the car or that she simply lost control of the vehicle, but as the investigation went on they realized she planned the crash and ran into that wall on purpose. It was a crazy listen!EDIT: Since a lot of you are asking - I listened to it on the Sword and Scale podcast, Episode 274!
Alicia Esteve Head is a Spanish businesswoman who claimed to be a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, under the name Tania Head. She joined the World Trade Center Survivors' Network support group, later becoming its president. Her name was regularly mentioned in media reports of the attacks. In 2007, it was revealed Head’s story was a hoax; she was not in New York City on September 11, 2001, but in reality was attending classes in her native city, Barcelona.
Natalia Grace’s adoptive parents who claimed she was an adult when they adopted her.She was actually a child, not the diabolical mastermind akin to the movie Orphan.
I don’t remember her name, I think it was Sherri Papini, but there was a YouTube video I watched of a girl who faked her own kidnapping, and was trying to play victim. While all the resources were going to finding Sherri, there was a women who was actually kidnapped. She ended up serving jail time.
Bethany Storro was the victim of an acid attack that was racially motivated in Vancouver, Washington.Turns out she maimed herself trying to commit s***ide with acid. She chickened out of drinking it after pouring it on her face, I remember watching an unhinged interview after she was found out. Her reasoning was that all the attention would allow her to tell people about Jesus.
The Roxanne Pallett “punchgate” incident on Celebrity Big Brother. She accused another housemate (Ryan Thomas) of punching her and spent the next couple of days convincing the other participants that this occurred and generally turning the house against him.Don’t get me wrong, it was immediately evident to the audience watching at home that she was a lying POS. But with the housemates, they initially believed her and confronted Ryan and made his time at the house generally unpleasant. All the while, Ryan was in an isolated environment not knowing what his family/the general public were thinking back home… it was actually awful that the producers let it play off for so long.Anywho, next eviction vote comes and iirc the housemates could hear the general public outside chanting Ryan’s name and jeering Roxanne. You could see the penny drop for all of the other housemates. Roxanne soon left of her own accord in disgrace and tried to play the victim card… until it turned out that she had pulled this cp on multiple occasions in private settings with colleagues, etc. Her career is now absolutely well and truly in the toilet. Oh, and Ryan ending up winning the competition.Honestly, watch a video on it. Not usually a fan of cp reality tv but it honestly was like some sort of cruel social experiment that needed to be shut down but wasn’t.
That white racist bh who m*red Emitt Till.
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Dee Dee Blanchard.Was kled and her disabled daughter kidnapped. She was well loved but so there was a lot of shock and sorry for her daughter.Turns out that Dee Dee had been faking her daughter’s disabilities and had been abusing her horribly. The k*er was her daughter’s secret boyfriend.
Christopher Watts. Horrible what he did and to have the audacity to go on the news and lie about wanting his wife and daughters to return, I’m glad he’s rotting away in prison.
Chris Benoit.First off everybody assumed that someone had kled him, his wife and his 8 year old son.Then we discovered it was a double mer-s***de, that took place over 2-3 days, and that his son was in the house with the body of his dead mum for a period of that time, and the Chris with the bodies of both of them, for a while longer.WWE jumped on a memorial episode of Raw, the day after the 3 of them were found. A few days later, they had to “come clean” about what the actual truth was.
That one lady who said some black guys kidnapped then drowned her children only to find them drowned in her car.
Belle Gibson. Claimed she had cancer, claimed she beat it through diet. Claimed to donate $1m to cancer hospital. Didn’t have cancer. Didn’t donate. Lied about everything. Played the victim too. Who knows how many people died following her “advice”.
Ana Julia Quezada.She was dating a divorced man who had an 8 year old son. One day, the kid goes missing and the news started interviewing the parents. She would always stand next to the dad crying and begging the kidnapper that, if they’re watching, to please give back the kid (I remember this very vividly watching the news).Turns out, there was no kidnapping. She’d k**led the kid the very first day of his disappearance and played her part around her boyfriend and the news.People believe she did it out of jealousy and in hopes of convincing her boyfriend to move to her country to get over his kid. Her 4 year old daughter had also died in 1996 in some strange circumstances.
Alex Murdaugh - he garnerered lots of sympathy for the mer of his wife and son, and his attempted mer. When it came out that he’d stolen millions from his legal clients, likely arranged for his wife and son’s deaths and definitely arranged for his own attempted mer, it was…not a good look.Did I mention all the ds? Lots of those.
Many, many Germans, and quite some other Europeans truly believed for many years that Poland had attacked first when WWII began in Europe.
Ian and Angela Diaz. The story appeared on 60 minutes.In short, Ian (who was a Deputy U.S. Marshall) claimed that his ex Michelle Hadley was posting re fantasy adverts on Craigslist in an attempt to get Angela red. Eventually, Michelle ended up arrested and sat in jail for 88 days as police investigated the matter. It was during that investigation that they realized things didn’t add up.It was all a ploy to frame Michelle as part of a twisted plot to get her to walk away from a condo she had purchased with Ian. At first it was assumed or implied Angela alone was responsible and she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. However, five years later Ian was found guilty for his participation in the plot and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Tracie Andrews immediately came to mind. She swore up and down her boyfriend was k**led in a road rage incident. This was the 90s in the UK. The police put together a press conference to appeal for information, but it was designed to catch Tracie out. She told the story wrong because she couldn’t remember her lies.Tracie had stabbed him 42 times.
Coco Berthmann and Amanda Riley. Both became D-list celebrities as “victimhood influencers.” Both faked cancer diagnoses, then targeted religious institutions, non-profit organizations and/or gullible people to “raise funds for their treatment,” made a ton of money, and eventually got caught. Coco’s story also included a number of highly questionable claims about being abused.My gf put on the podcasts about each of them on a long road trip, and I was the classic bf who initially scoffed but was quickly pulled in. What started as “once you go to sleep I’m putting on something else” turned into me binge-listening while she slept in the passenger seat LOL.
I dont remember the details of the case and can’t find it on a search, but heres the details i do remember.There was a guy who had an argument with an Uber/taxi driver when his wife complained about him. They were basically harassing each other back and forth.Then, the Uber driver ended up dead in that man’s apartment. He claimed self-defense, saying the guy broke in and was trying to attack him and his wife. Guy was being praised as a home defender and for protecting his family.Turns out he sent a note to the driver to come to his house so they can work things out. When the driver got there, the guy invited him in and shot him.The whole thing was staged, and everyone believed it and praised him for k**ling another person, basically stroking his ego. Then it came out as premeditated and everyone was shocked.
Babis Anagnostopoulos. 33 year old Babis m****red his 19 year old wife, Caroline Crouch, and tried to claim it was burglars who had done it. The truth came out after the evidence contradicted his story and he was forced to confess.
That Kuwaiti girl who told about how Iraqi soliders entered the hospital and threw babies out in the street .
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As we decode personal tales of misjudgment and learn from them, it’s reminiscent of how cultural icons are reassessed over time. Just like the playful comparison made between the old and new versions of a famous pop star, scrutinizing our own past mistakes often leads to unexpected insights.
My ex girlfriend who has BPD. She attacked me in my own house. My neighbor called the cops and when they arrived she wanted to act like I was the one who attacked her. I was taken to jail, my guns were seized, etc. While I was in jail for like 12 hours, I received a protective order where she filled out MY address as HER address. So, for like 4 days, I couldn’t even go to my own home. We got that straightened out at the next hearing for an extended order though. When court finally came around about a year later, I had video footage (security cameras ftw) of her attacking me. The case was immediately dropped, I got my guns back, and got the charge (Second Degree Assault) expunged from my record. Last I heard, she moved to Florida which is awesome because it’s far away from me.She lied to me countless times. She cheated on me at least once. She stole from me at least once. She attempted s***ide after I had fallen asleep, with her idea being that I would wake up the next day with her dead body lying next to me in bed. But the worst thing was her having me thrown in jail after brutally attacking me. If I would not have had that camera installed, I would have lost my guns permanently, I would have lost my security clearance. I would have lost my job, etc.She came very close to ruining my entire life in about 4 months time. She was pure evil.
Corey Harris.Corey got arrested for driving with a suspended license. Corey insisted it was a mistake and that his license was not expired. Due to Covid, non-serious court situations like this were handled over zoom. So Corey called into his court hearing… while driving. His court hearing about a suspended license. So Corey was arrested and charged… again.. for committing the same crime… again.Now Corey’s thought process was that it was a mistake and his license wasn’t actually suspended so this was okay. Which… makes sense, but it’s still not a great look, and more importantly, still illegal.So everyone had a good laugh at Corey for being so dumb. But then it came out that Corey was correct. His license was not suspended. So his initial arrest, and all the ridicule he faced. Turns out he was right the whole time. Everyone owed him an apology.Except.It came out that Corey’s license was not suspended. Because he never had a driver’s license in the first place. The 46 year old man had been driving for 30 years, completely without any sort of drivers license.
John Bobbitt. He continued to abuse others after having his little w***y chopped off.
The Menendez brothers.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.There were a variety of perspectives that painted both of them as the victim. If you paid attention to the case and didn’t have a stake in who was “right”, then what came out was that they’re both terrible, toxic people that treated both each other and people around them like c**p. Johnny Depp won the court case, but through the course of it, it became abundantly clear that he was incredibly abusive in his personal life and many people on his “side” painted it as reactive abuse but it’s incredibly difficult to look at the facts and try to say either of them wasn’t heavily contributing to their horrible relationship.
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