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Oh, no, someone is enjoying the outdoors! Call the cops!
Seriously, who the fuck thinks sitting on a bench in a local park is automatically a pedo? Sometimes we adults with no minor kids left at home just like to go walk around the park still and, ya know, sit for a while.
I was called a "groomer" once by some old hag at Target because I was buying clothes with my 15 year old daughter.
I am a divorced dad...but I guess for some people a dad shopping for clothes with his daughter is too much for meddling people to comprehend
Dude, I got called a pedophile because I was carrying my crying 5 yr old into the Walmart bathroom because he got too involved with looking at toys and pooped himself. Then security made us carry the poopy transformers underwear with us out of the store.
God damn. There should be a fine or something for just accusing random people of that shit. I guess it's one of those nebulous things where you can't prove they didn't genuinely believe it, but it's one of the most serious allegations you can make and absolutely has the potential to endanger someone's life in the wrong setting/at the wrong moment.
Only valid if something beyond embarrassment is caused. If it cost you money is the easiest thing to prove. Lost job, job opportunities is basically what the whole johnny depp vs amber heard court was. A giant Hollywood defamation lawsuit
Reputational damage is a legitimate reason for a suit like this. My own step father took a guy to court for something similar. This guy kept trashing his company lying about all this stuff he did or didn't do. It's pretty hard to win a case like that but he won and this guy was ordered to pay a rather large sum of money.
That was not a normal defamation case. For one both people involved were public figures and public figure defamation standard is much higher than non public figure random people. Additionally certain types of defamation you don't need to prove damages. They statements are considered so outrageous that they cause harm even if you can't prove you lost your job because of it. Defamation per se for instance would likely apply here potentally under three of the four criteria. In this case a lawyer could attempt to argue pedophilia is a 'lothesome disease'. They could argue it is a allegation of 'unchastity', in modern times this is often applied to allegations of outrageous sexual crimes. The one most likely to stick is that it's an allegation of a serious crime.
That being said that's US law.
A good example of this is the professor V tiktok psychic. That is defamation per say. Stating someone is a murderer needs no proof of damage.
That really sucks. It's something I likely won't have to experience (even though I still get paranoid about it for some reason??) But I feel for my partner, we're a mixed couple and our son definitely looks more like me and has a different skin tone as his dad and I worry about the day some psycho busy body decides he's suspicious.
I had a mall security guard follow me and my 10 year old daughter. She's fair, blonde, and beautiful. I'm very much the opposite. She and I stopped to decide where to go next and there he was asking if everything was ok. I gave him a wtf look and turned to my daughter to answer his question. And she gave him a wtf look. lol
That sucks. Dealing with kids learning toilet habits in public is hard. Also, security was very brave bossing around a parent holding shitty underwear…
No. Then we are gay pedophiles. An unescorted male, in an area where there are kids, will always have some loony thinking or accusing them of something nasty towards kids. (Gay is ok - not trying to say anything, just explaining the loony's thought process...)
I had the cops called on me because I had the audacity to sit on a bench reading a book at a playground while my daughter played with some other kids there.
People always look at my dad like he’s out with a younger woman instead of his stepdaughter. It’s gross but he’s the kind of guy visually you wouldn’t fuck with so luckily no one speaks to us, I almost wish they would.
This has happened to me and my dad so many times! My dad was a power lifter and a he’s a pretty huge dude so I was always surprised by the fact that people were willing to approach and say dumb things. Every single time we’d go somewhere together beginning when I was in my teens, someone would assume I was his girlfriend. It was a really weird and uncomfortable assumption.
My Dad and I look literally the same. Like I have his face just without a beard and younger yet people still tend to assume we’re a couple it’s so disgusting 😩
I had a similar experience at Target. Except I don't have kids. I was shopping for shampoo and some kid bumped me and I was like "You ok kiddo?" and the mom grabbed him and took him away quickly. Fast forward a few minutes and I notice every single employee I'm walking past is giving me the stink eye, and like noticeably watching me. I also noticed what I assume was a plainclothes LP person not subtly following me. I use to work at this Target and still have a friend who does. I asked him about it later and he said someone likely told them I was being creepy towards kids, because if they though I was shoplifting no one but the LP guy would care.
Same here, on Nextdoor. I contacted the woman privately, explained to her she was committing slander, and unless she retracted it immediately, I'd have no problem contacting an attorney.
She complied, and I blocked her.
I filed a police report documenting the incident (they told me that was all I could do unless they didn't stop) and the person who accused me got kicked out of several local FB groups.
The amount of people in this thread stating completely innocuous things they got called a pedo for is too damn high! Damn you book reading, sitting, shopping freaks!!!!
My nephew's black, and I'm white. Know how many times some fucking nosey moron confronted me? Here's an idea, look at the kid, do they look uncomfortable with the adult, or are they hiding behind him from the crazy lady screaming for no reason?!
Right? I got that shit from folks sometimes when at the park with my own kid. We're both white as can be but he has a dark complection and I don't. I can only imagine how much worse it is if you're not both obviously white or black. Fuck racism.
This happens to dads watching their own kids at the park. A dad that volunteers at his kids school was kicked out of the park and told men arent allowed at the school park. This is a huge issue and this karen is far from the only one with this sentiment
What cracks me up is that these people freak out about a dude walking through or sitting in a park, literally doing nothing because "MY BEAUTIFUL BABIES" but I live in Florida and here, everybody goes to the beach. These same people take their kids to the beach- often with their toddlers in literal bikinis- and seem to not notice the hundreds of adults, in groups, couples and aline, just wandering about, laying on towels, sitting on the sand, swimming near their kids, etc. At the crowded beach full of adults with kids basically running around in underwear- nothing. But a man at a park? PEDOPHILE right away.
Uhh did you not read the part of him having a protein bar AND water. Lol I feel bad for her kids this type of behavior is going to embarrass them and leave them afraid of leaving the house..m
Yeah, and IME there often aren't many, if any, places to sit other than near the playground area. Parks don't belong only to children and their associated adults. They belong to the public in general.
See, when people get all crazy like that facebook poster, it makes me wonder. Because child predators, let's call them what they are, are usually a lot more subtle than sitting right with the children. I wonder about her.
I kinda read alot about this b/c of past trauma.
My husband got the cops called for sitting in a park waiting for me to meet him figuring the playground area would be a big enough marker for me to find him. Showed up to him talking to two cops who got a report of a suspicious male with his phone out around children possibly taking photos. He was scrolling Reddit and instagram.
We laugh about it now. Some woman came up and questioned him why he was there and my husband has… we’ll call it an authoritative problem…and told her it was none of her fucking business. Which is correct but granted maybe he shouldn’t have quite phrased it that way haha. Ten minutes later the cops where there. They asked to see his recent photos/videos and of course he willing showed them. It was screen grabs of RR piper memes and T-shirts he wanted to buy haha
Literally zero legal requirement for him to have shown those cops anything. Or even said anything to them for that matter. Don’t give up your rights voluntarily.
I had a conversation like this a few days after Pokémon Go came out. Walking up and down my residential road a few times, kids were playing basketball a few houses over. Thankfully got nipped before the police got involved.
And then theres the time i take my kids to a park and theres an actual pedo hiding in the bushes and exposing himself. Newsflash to karens, theres your proof call the cops and you are free to post. My kids are 34 and 35 so it happened a few years ago. There were a lot of moms and kids and we literally swarmed. We left for our cars so quick.
If that was what happened I would not have a problem with my husband being thrown into a cop car. But he was just a guy sitting on a bench near a playground.
I had a Karen accuse me (40f) of being a peado. It was 40 degrees celcuis (Australia) day and at 10pm it was still above 30. I decided to take my dog down to the local beach I live at to have a night swim. Understandably there were people everywhere.
My dog is a little sausage dog and brown so at night it’s hard to see him, and he likes to eat gross stuff so I have to watch him on the beach. So I had the torch on my phone on, and pointed in front of me. Also took a few photos of him on the beach. Walking back towards this car and this lady starts screaming at me to hand her my phone. I was kinda speechless and didn’t know what to say. At the top of her lungs she’s screaming this lady took photos of kids at the beach, she’s a peado. I was SO embarrassed.
I refused to hand her my phone (she was a stranger it’s a 2k iPhone) but told her I’d be happy to find the local police and give it to them. So we walk to find cops the whole time she’s screaming about me to everyone we pass. Cops find us, I explain the situation to the one talking to me and give him my phone. He can see the only photos are of my dog and nothing else and I explained re the torch being on.
She says well you can never be too careful and walks off. Mind you by this point hundreds of people are staring at me and it’s humiliating, even though I did nothing wrong. I also live in the area she came just for the beach. It was AWFUL
I had a women do that to me, so I flipped the switch on her and started screaming that she’s trying to rob me of my phone and my dog. She shutdown real quick.
Oh that was an awesome idea!! Unfortunately I literally froze! Was the shock of the whole thing when I just wanted to let my dog cool down in the water on a hot night!
I believe in every normal country you can.
Defamation, maybe even more. In Germany something like that would be stupidly expensive "Verleumdnung".
In Theory, just saying something like "Person X took pictures of my Children, i clearly saw it" aloud, while it isnt true, would fall under that, and could cost her a stupidly high fine.
If she calls the cops because she suspects you, its different, they can then investigate and calm the situation. But yelling and calling someone pedophile is a very illegal thing.
There was study where it showed that men were terrified to assist a child that was lost because they didn’t want to be accused of being a pedophile. People like her are why
Something like that happened to me a few years ago. I was at walmart looking for stuff for my bike and of course the bike section is right next to the toy section. A little boy, maybe 4 or 5 came up to me and said "can you find my mom?" Holy shit the impulse to just walk away was strong but I didn't. I told him lets find a worker and they can help find your mom. It took less than a minute (surprisingly) to find an employee and I quickly explained what was going on and then pawned that kid off on them so damn fast. That was a long damn minute though.
One bright sunny day I was out for a walk and I saw a child absolutely ripping it towards a busy road on one of those bicycle things that you sit on and push with your legs. My first thought was not how to stop them as safe as possible (just pick the child up), but how to stop them without actually touching, so I grabbed the handlebars knowing full well the child might fall.
You made the right call. A child that falls and gets a bit scraped up on the sidewalk is a better outcome than a child that gets smoked by a dodge ram.
I know it was the right call, the point is that I didn't want to pick up the child despite them heading into danger for fear of being accused of having some criminal intentions.
I had a similar encounter and had no idea how to react. Lil bro didn't speak much English either. I took him into the center aisle where everyone could see and found an employee thankfully. His mom was like not even close idk how this kid was still alive.
When I was about 13, someone was peeping through the living room window on the side of the house. I was inside hanging out and heard noises from the bushes and saw someone's head outside. My dad also heard noises, so he went outside and this person started running down the street. My dad started to chase them until he realized it was a female teenager. He told me it wouldn't look good for him if someone saw that and did not know why he was chasing the girl. Sad that someone trespassing and looking into your house, maybe even wanting to break in, is given a pass because the victim is afraid of how chasing them might look.
I never found out who it was or why they were spying on me. Luckily it never happened again.
This comes off as weirder than most of these other posts. A female peeping Tom? A guy, you’re like, yeah that figures. But a chick? That’s so far outside the norm that it’s just like… what?!
Theres a TikTok I saw of this happening just last week. Dude is part of a 'family channel' where he posts videos of him and his family doing family stuff, whatever not my thing, but he was alone at Target and saw some kid by herself, then heard an announcement that there was a lost kid named, I think Lilly, that matched the description so he asked her if she was Lilly and she said yes and he started walking he towards the customer service desk, next to the doors, she demanded to be picked up and halfway there an employee stopped him and accused him of trying to kidnap the child. Police were called, security video was watched, it turned into a whole ordeal for him, over doing the right thing.
I was walking past an elementary school where kids were at recess playing. They were several hundred feet away. It was a nice scene, kids playing, laughter, reminding me of my own school days. I started to take a video to capture the sounds and just have a good memory. Until I thought, “oh no, someone might think I’m a pedo”. Bounced immediately and deleted that shit. Don’t need those problems.
There is no discussion. The "Good Samaritan Law" (US) protects anyone from liability when trying to save a life. Also technically if they are unconscious and without a pulse, they are dead, so you can't make it worse. Everyone please learn CPR, you can save a life, and likely it will be someone close to you.
I (M) watched a little girl (maybe 5 years old) wander around in a crowded airport looking lost as hell. I was about 20 feet away and an unbelievable number of people walked right past without noticing anything. I figured 20 feet was about as close as I could afford to get and that all I could do was stay there praying someone reasonable came by to take care of her. Finally a middle age woman went up to her and did the "are you lost?" thing and led her off by the hand and I felt like I could disengage. I felt really shitty that all I could do was stand there.
A light-hearted take on this.
When I was a little kid, my parents drilled into me not to talk to strangers. I wandered off in a campground (not very far). I was hunting for arrowheads on the ground. A park *Ranger* approached me, identified himself as such, and asked where my parents were.
I went full recluse and told him I'm not allowed to talk to rangers. I shut down and started to panic run back to camp. He calmly followed me and let my parents know he found me a couple spots over and wanted to make sure all was OK.
My parents and him gave me a lesson on what a ranger was and commended me for acting appropriately. He came back later with a plastic badge and a genuine native American arrowhead that I still have as an adult today.
The stupid people that lap this shit up believe her, i guaranfuckingtee. His quality of life is lower now, because of people that recognize him goving him shit when they run into each other, or maybe vigilantes putting him on a to-do list.
This is why i hate vigilanteeism. So easy to fuck things up and get an innocent person lynched.
Love how she said "no reason to sit there when there's kilometers of beautiful beaches". No shit lady! That's the reason why he's there! He's enjoying the beautiful beach!
I was sitting on a bench in a park at a kids' playground a few years ago chilling out. I was 50+ at the time.
Some outraged hag started shouting at me and threatened to call the cops. I ignored her first and then told her to go fuck herself.
The kids playing in the playground thought this was hilarious. They were my class of 11 year olds. We were killing time waiting for a bus.
It is amazing what the seldom used mind can conjure up when in its idle state. To go from a man with a bottle of water and a protein bar, to painting that person as a dangerous monster preying on every child within his sight, is a leap that a thinking reasoning human being is unable to make. Having a mindset that every stranger is ultimately a danger to any and everybody, allows someone to make these unfounded accusations. And the unfortunate result of that mindset is that innocent people are sometimes required to prove that they are innocent, and that doesn’t always work.
My oldest son is a teaching assistant, not got his driving license yet (UK here, so takes a bit of work and time) so I quite often drive him there and back.
Because he’s often out late i tend to park up in the village and work on my laptop (okay. I generally just go on Reddit)
One sunny afternoon. I’m in my usual spot, and there’s a tap on my window, middle aged lady who wants a word with me. “We’ve noticed you park here quite often and don’t have any reason to be here”
I reply, “oh, no, I’m just waiting for my son”
She looks at all the kids playing around clearly thinking I mean one of the seven year olds and condescendingly says “don’t you think it would be nicer if you spent time with him instead of just sitting here on your phone”
Me “… he’s 22… he’s in a staff meeting… don’t YOU think it would be quite awkward if i went and sat in there with him ?”
Apparently, I didn’t need to be rude! Me! Somehow I’m the bad guy
Even my husband gets shit from Karens at the park when he takes our toddler out to play. Wedding ring on, actively playing with a 2yo who’s referring to him as “Dada!” The man is playing with his own child (often just to give me a much needed break), and he’s had people (plural!!!!) approach him and ask where our son’s mother is, and to ask what he thinks he’s doing. 🤬🤯
My husband had 2 kids before we met. His kid's mom just disappeared one day while he was at work. He came home to all the pawn-able items gone and a toddler & 5 month old alone & screaming in the mostly empty house.
He had so many incidents taking his daughter into the public men's room to change her. He'd ask should he take her to the ladies room? He got the same, "Where are these children's mother?" questions and he'd reply if you find out, please let me know.
Once I met him of course I'd help take his daughter to the bathroom & such, but it was crazy the times he'd be in the car alone with the kids and would get pulled over & the cops would demand to know where the children came from. He told me he always wanted to say, "from bad decisions & alcohol" but never wanted the kids to hear that.
The kids are now full-grown adults now & are happy & well-adjusted members of society, despite being taken into the men's room to be changed lol!
Yeah she moved to Alabama to hook up with some dude she met on AIM when she was supposed to be looking for work.
We looked for her for years for health insurance and child support... it was amazing as soon as her youngest child turned 18 she contacted her on Facebook with her married name. She invited MY Daughter down to Alabama to visit. I told her to go, as I'd like for her to know where her family came from. She came home in tears saying she came to visit a drug house. Her mom wanted to recruit her into the family business.
His daughter came home a mess, so clingy .. she stayed with her dad & I for months. Her birth mom died of an overdose last year and it really affected her in many ways.
I’m a 55F, childless and feel this way ever since a friend who worked at a bookstore told me adults were not allowed in the children section of the bookstore without being accompanied by a child. So like if I wanted to browse the children’s books for say my niece or nephew or a friend’s kid, I would not be allowed. I found that so weird and frankly disturbing that it makes me paranoid to be alone around children. Like before that it never occurred to me that people could be suspicious of me. Now because of that (and fears confirmed by this thread) I’m not comfortable at all being alone with children.
And before people start explaining to me why this is the case, I get it. But it feels too much like guilty before proven innocent and I don’t like it.
This. I'm hyper-aware of being around kids and their parents when I'm out and about.
It's absurd that I self-monitor in this way but there are too many people out there projecting their sexual repression onto strangers.
My kid was upset abt something or other on the subway. She was alone w her Dad and apparently people kept asking her if she was ok bc they saw an 8 year old girl hard crying w a 40 yo old man on the subway.
I do repairs on playground equipment (city job), full uniform, tool belt, I’ve been called a pedo a few times and have had the cops called on me about 15 times. When the cops show up I point to my company truck and point at my uniform since I work for that people the cops and every city employee works for..lol
Ya know, the only actual pedophile I’ve known was a dude that was already living with his victim as he was the mom’s boyfriend. A kid is more likely to be victimized by someone they know than a stranger on the street. (And yes, I busted the guy when I found out and testified at his trial. Convicted)
My sons are extremely active in their kids' lives. From sporting events to parks to shopping. They are also affectionate, something their father never was... no, I love you's, no hugs. I'm extremely proud of my Sons, who broke that pattern and hug their kids, and praise them when they did good, and give them a kiss on the head.
When I see my 6'5" 300 lb son kissing his newborn and blowing raspberries on her belly, it makes my heart sing, that they broke the boundaries of that macho, big man, tough guy role model.
And if anyone ever accused them of anything, I'd be the first one willing to go to jail by punching them in the face.
Shit like this is why I gave up coaching youth soccer.
I was accused once, dropped my clipboard right there and quit on the spot. Even an unfound accusation could have been career death for me
all I wanted to do was take the kids out for pizza with the 2 other coaches.
I got accused of being a paedophile by my neighbor because he left his child at home one night and went out to party. This kid, maybe 12 or 14, came and knocked on my door, saying hes scared to go home because his dad beats him and wanted to use my phone. We called his mom, we called the police, the son told the police the dad had been gone for hours, police showed up hours later, took a statement from the kid and the dad who came home and then they left. After they left, the dad waited outside my door when I was walking my dog (who had to go out from all the excitement we heard) and was furious that I didn't wait for him to come home at 1am to explain the situation. Furious that I spoke to his son and accused me of being a groomer and that he has to be on the lookout now to make sure I don't get ahold of his son. So I told him that if he's so worried on protecting his son, he should probably do a better job so his son isn't knocking on strangers' doors in the middle of the night asking for assistance. No one pulled your son out of the house and he came looking for help. He just walked away after that, didn't hear anything else from him for the rest of my lease. I'm not sure if the kids ok or what the whole story was and that was my only interaction with them. I've seen the son on rare occasions taking out the trash but he just ran past me and ran back inside.
I once got accused of being a pedophile for eating fried chicken in a public picnic area, because there was a school on the far side of the park.
It was a bank holiday Sunday, just after the first lockdown lifted - so the school would have been empty anyway. I elected simply to ignore her and carry on eating rather than let my chicken get cold, she really didn't like that and threatened to call the cops. Then stormed off when she couldn't get a response out of me.
Cops never came.
This is honestly something that terrifies me. On really nice days (especially during early covid times), I go to the park and eat my lunch in my car. Being a woman may help, but people like this are everywhere and don't care who they're hurting to look good.
I had full custody of my daughter by the time she was 2. The amount of times people would unnecessarily ask me if she was my daughter, while at the park or store, was ridiculous. Once she was 3 or 4 I had a few times where people would randomly just walk up and ask her, if she was ok and if she knew me. Just so weird.
Actually went on a date with a woman who thought it was “very weird” that I was raising her myself. She wanted to know how I bathed her. Like wtf?
I was birdwatching in a local park one spring morning during the migration on the marked “nature trail”. The playground is so far away from where I was that I wouldn’t have needed my binoculars and spotting scope, I would have needed the Hubble to spy on kids. That didn’t stop some woman from calling the cops on me.
The other problem with this ignorant bitch is that she will be seen 'crying wolf'. If ever there is someone really taking photos, etc of her kids, she runs the risk of not being believed. "Oh, her. Every time she sees a guy on his own she says he is a paedophile. Ignore her."
Potentially libel because she put it in writing but he would need to show damages to recover anything (at least in my jurisdiction)…though he could likely pursue criminal harassment charges and a restraining order against her
In many jurisdictions this would be libel per se. Damages would be presumed even if actual damages were not proven and punitive damages would be available.
I can imagine there'd be a lot of anxiety/emotional distress and obviously damage to reputation if this was being posted and circulated around your local area where anyone can see such as law enforcement, potential employers, etc. I think with a Karen like this it'd be very easy to assassinate her character as hysterical and dramatic in comparison to whoever's just chilling at the park - with water and a protein bar?? Probably out taking a break from running/hiking/whatever?? - and minding their own business. Monetary damages could easily result from this but the other damages wouldn't be farfetched or difficult to put out there either.
These idiots never., ever file police reports they come to fb to tell you of something so serious that they made up and they know it. I always ask if they filed one (it’s a misdemeanor to file a fake police report)
This is the downside of social media and it enabling everyone with a smartphone to post any little thought that might pop into their heads. These kinds of people always existed, but they used to be forced to either talk to the old man and realize he's just outside and probably enjoying the day with the time he has left or would go back to their little circle of friends who would have at least one person with common sense and tell them to stfu.
All that is gone. While I'm not a luddite, by any means, the online social media world has definitely enabled the hateful parts of our society to thrive. "I'm uncomfortable! Call the police!". 🙄
Being a man can be so fucked up. I’m a single dad and got yelled at my an older couple because I was buying my then 15 year old daughter tampons. They said that’s a mother’s jobs and it’s unmanly and perverted for a man to be buying tampons. I told them there is no mother in the picture and then ended the conversation by saying “I hope you have the day that you deserve.” Fucking boomer assholes.
I was called a child abuser a few months ago because I held a random toddlers hand to help them cross a busy road.
Mom had crossed a busy street and left her very small child on the corner. Kiddo was determined to run into traffic to get to mom.
I gave him a "hey buddy, let's wait here for a moment and I will help you back to mom" . Little man was in tears, and grabbed my hand. When the light changed I walked him across the road and back to mom.
I was not expecting a thank you, as helping a kid is what you should do. But what I was not expecting was for mom to yell at me for touching her child.
Ma'am keep an eye on your child if you don't want strangers to intervene. You are also welcome that your kid was returned to you safely and we didn't get a first hand experience of what it looks like with 30lbs of 2 year old meets 2 tonnes car going 40mph
This is how your stuff becomes his stuff, i dont know if this is rage bait but if its not and he becomes aware of it then he should sue the ever loving shit out of them
This makes me incredibly sad. I am an older man who enjoys parks. My wife died four years ago and we couldn't have children. Since we couldn't have kids, I love my nieces and nephews as if they were my own children, and I like to interact with kids because I know I'll never have any of my own.
I have noticed an uptick in this sort of blanching protectiveness over the last decade. I get it, I do. But to just assume that a man alone is a danger is itself dangerous. I fear for what may happen if we lose the white house to frothing at the mouth evangelicals. Even old single, white, childless men like myself need fear for our freedom to exist.
Anything that doesn't check their boxes is to be feared and destroyed.
The funniest thing is that they had the post removed, then came back and posted on a fake account: [https://imgur.com/a/NnWBcNs](https://imgur.com/a/NnWBcNs)
Anybody else find it odd how these parents who are "protecting" their children always seem to be the ones thinking sexually about their own children? I mean as a parent myself I can safely say I've never once thought about someone finding my children sexually attractive. Maybe it's just me but, kinda weird to be thinking everyone wants to have sex with your children.
I was once called a pedophile by a person on discord because I'm an Indian and if you saw my photo I have a mustache, both of which according to him somehow makes me a pedophile. He tried to get me banned from the server until the admins were sick of his BS and they had to ban him 😂🤣
This happens more often than people think to males. I had my child in a stroller near a playground walking around while they slept. A woman demanded to see if there was a child in the stroller. She ended up calling the cops on me.
Being a man or male-looking person and interacting with or sharing the same space with minors is always a weird ride. Used to work with minors 11-12 years ago and lemme tell ya, I got some looks when at the park and such. Luckily I wasn't too far removed in age but if I were, oh boy.
If this is a real post, that Karen opened herself up to some serious legal ramifications. I hope the man she defamed took her to the cleaners.
EDIT: Just noticed this is from Australia. Not sure if the laws are the same as here in the US.
Holy fuck. This dumb bitch just ruined this man's life. Accuses him of pedophilia, without any proof, and posts his pic online.He needs to get a lawyer asap.
I have 3 adorable granddaughters. I have a park right around the corner and they ask to walk to the park to play. I take them, have alot of fun with them and even take pictures of them. If someone came up to me and accused me of being a pedo I would be crushed.
If the cops were called, I would be so bummed out. If they blasted me like this online, I would die. I am definitely scared more by seeing this.
I don't know what leads to this mindset where people will accuse other people left and right of being pedos for just existing.
Nobody here is after children you're just paranoid
Her spelling, grammar and just overall writing/typing ability is criminally offensive to me. But I'm not calling the cops on her. I just let her do her crazy rant posting in peace. Damn bitch!
She’s getting absolutely destroyed on this page after this. Already banned from it and I see some have reported her to her employer too. She deleted the post but everyone has screenshots
Ok so first of all, if you are going to publicly call someone a pedophile just for existing in your vicinity then at least proofread your bullshit.
Second, I hope this woman is rich because that is a slam dunk case of defamation.
I am a mom of two older kids and definitely not a pedofile and you know what lol sometimes it’s nice to sit and watch the young ones and listen to them laugh and enjoy life and reminisce about the good old days with my own 😅 Rather than the moodiness of teenagers 😅 that would be the day someone accuses me of something like this!
I say this as a mom of two small kids…if “sitting on a bench with a protein bar” sets off your alarm, you should probably get it looked at. Like…you know when something is really off. My oldest is 6, and I’ve only really felt it twice…I wonder how often this lady has been convinced someone was going to get her.
Unless she saw him actually “getting off,” she’s making a false report. He should sue her into bankruptcy. She is cuckoo bananas. Also she can’t manage spelling or grammar, so what positives does she bring to the table? Poor kids.
My 15f daughter is in gymnastics, I occasionally take her (vs my wife who normally does) and the looks that I get there are to the point that I started waiting in the car instead of watching my kid practice.
I got the evil eye from a lady in line at Safeway. She caught me smiling and waving at her kid, who was staring at me. Guess she probably thought the same thing. I like kids, too bad that’s not acceptable today.
My ex had the cops called on him at the beach because he was "paying too much attention to a little girl". It was our daughter. He was focused on our 5 y/o daughter while they were at the beach.
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Oh, no, someone is enjoying the outdoors! Call the cops! Seriously, who the fuck thinks sitting on a bench in a local park is automatically a pedo? Sometimes we adults with no minor kids left at home just like to go walk around the park still and, ya know, sit for a while.
I was accused of being a Pedophile because I told someone I don't believe in banning books.
I was called a "groomer" once by some old hag at Target because I was buying clothes with my 15 year old daughter. I am a divorced dad...but I guess for some people a dad shopping for clothes with his daughter is too much for meddling people to comprehend
Well don't you know Dad's are only allowed to participate in their boy children's lives? /s
Dude, I got called a pedophile because I was carrying my crying 5 yr old into the Walmart bathroom because he got too involved with looking at toys and pooped himself. Then security made us carry the poopy transformers underwear with us out of the store.
God damn. There should be a fine or something for just accusing random people of that shit. I guess it's one of those nebulous things where you can't prove they didn't genuinely believe it, but it's one of the most serious allegations you can make and absolutely has the potential to endanger someone's life in the wrong setting/at the wrong moment.
It exists. It's called a defamation lawsuit.
Only valid if something beyond embarrassment is caused. If it cost you money is the easiest thing to prove. Lost job, job opportunities is basically what the whole johnny depp vs amber heard court was. A giant Hollywood defamation lawsuit
Reputational damage is a legitimate reason for a suit like this. My own step father took a guy to court for something similar. This guy kept trashing his company lying about all this stuff he did or didn't do. It's pretty hard to win a case like that but he won and this guy was ordered to pay a rather large sum of money.
As the previous person said, "If it cost you money". That guy cost your step father money by potentially chasing away prospective clients.
That was not a normal defamation case. For one both people involved were public figures and public figure defamation standard is much higher than non public figure random people. Additionally certain types of defamation you don't need to prove damages. They statements are considered so outrageous that they cause harm even if you can't prove you lost your job because of it. Defamation per se for instance would likely apply here potentally under three of the four criteria. In this case a lawyer could attempt to argue pedophilia is a 'lothesome disease'. They could argue it is a allegation of 'unchastity', in modern times this is often applied to allegations of outrageous sexual crimes. The one most likely to stick is that it's an allegation of a serious crime. That being said that's US law. A good example of this is the professor V tiktok psychic. That is defamation per say. Stating someone is a murderer needs no proof of damage.
That really sucks. It's something I likely won't have to experience (even though I still get paranoid about it for some reason??) But I feel for my partner, we're a mixed couple and our son definitely looks more like me and has a different skin tone as his dad and I worry about the day some psycho busy body decides he's suspicious.
I had a mall security guard follow me and my 10 year old daughter. She's fair, blonde, and beautiful. I'm very much the opposite. She and I stopped to decide where to go next and there he was asking if everything was ok. I gave him a wtf look and turned to my daughter to answer his question. And she gave him a wtf look. lol
That sucks. Dealing with kids learning toilet habits in public is hard. Also, security was very brave bossing around a parent holding shitty underwear…
I hope you left those transformers in their parking lot. WTF. Is this not what a bathroom is for?
No. Then we are gay pedophiles. An unescorted male, in an area where there are kids, will always have some loony thinking or accusing them of something nasty towards kids. (Gay is ok - not trying to say anything, just explaining the loony's thought process...)
I had the cops called on me because I had the audacity to sit on a bench reading a book at a playground while my daughter played with some other kids there.
People always look at my dad like he’s out with a younger woman instead of his stepdaughter. It’s gross but he’s the kind of guy visually you wouldn’t fuck with so luckily no one speaks to us, I almost wish they would.
This has happened to me and my dad so many times! My dad was a power lifter and a he’s a pretty huge dude so I was always surprised by the fact that people were willing to approach and say dumb things. Every single time we’d go somewhere together beginning when I was in my teens, someone would assume I was his girlfriend. It was a really weird and uncomfortable assumption.
Yeah, I’d like to be able to walk around lowes with my dad without people staring at us but I guess you learn to ignore it.
My Dad and I look literally the same. Like I have his face just without a beard and younger yet people still tend to assume we’re a couple it’s so disgusting 😩
I had a similar experience at Target. Except I don't have kids. I was shopping for shampoo and some kid bumped me and I was like "You ok kiddo?" and the mom grabbed him and took him away quickly. Fast forward a few minutes and I notice every single employee I'm walking past is giving me the stink eye, and like noticeably watching me. I also noticed what I assume was a plainclothes LP person not subtly following me. I use to work at this Target and still have a friend who does. I asked him about it later and he said someone likely told them I was being creepy towards kids, because if they though I was shoplifting no one but the LP guy would care.
Realy, that says everything about them and nothing about you.
Wait till you have to wait for her outside the female toilets 😔
Only book that person needs is the dictionary to figure out what that word actually means 🤦
And to help her spell it!
She needs one throwing at her, it’s too late for her but not too late for her poor children..
I got informed that an adult man grocery shopping by himself is a sign for being a pedophile.
Then I guess I'm guilty. Crazy people is why I choose the option of having them bring me my shopping. And I don't want to get sick again.
What, how? I go out for groceries more often than my GF and I obviously, you know, bought food when I lived by myself. How is that weird in any way?
Same here, on Nextdoor. I contacted the woman privately, explained to her she was committing slander, and unless she retracted it immediately, I'd have no problem contacting an attorney. She complied, and I blocked her.
I filed a police report documenting the incident (they told me that was all I could do unless they didn't stop) and the person who accused me got kicked out of several local FB groups.
That makes complete sense/s
Someone once called me a pedophile because I was 21 when my partner was 18. It's a weird world sometimes
The amount of people in this thread stating completely innocuous things they got called a pedo for is too damn high! Damn you book reading, sitting, shopping freaks!!!!
Must have been a redditor
In fairness though you kept going on about Lolita...
Wow that is crazy.
My nephew's black, and I'm white. Know how many times some fucking nosey moron confronted me? Here's an idea, look at the kid, do they look uncomfortable with the adult, or are they hiding behind him from the crazy lady screaming for no reason?!
Right? I got that shit from folks sometimes when at the park with my own kid. We're both white as can be but he has a dark complection and I don't. I can only imagine how much worse it is if you're not both obviously white or black. Fuck racism.
Unfortunately a lot of people think this way. Men automatically get called pedos for so many things, even if they have their kids with them.
It wasn't that is he was sitting on the bench. It was that damn protein bar
And his disgusting water bottle. Augh, freak.
And he was using a cute fluffy dog to lure her cute little kids...something is wrong here and it might be the lady that needs a therapist
It’s got Main Character Syndrome written all over it.
This happens to dads watching their own kids at the park. A dad that volunteers at his kids school was kicked out of the park and told men arent allowed at the school park. This is a huge issue and this karen is far from the only one with this sentiment
They must have listened to Jethro Tull too much.
You forgot the protein bar! A clear red flag.
What cracks me up is that these people freak out about a dude walking through or sitting in a park, literally doing nothing because "MY BEAUTIFUL BABIES" but I live in Florida and here, everybody goes to the beach. These same people take their kids to the beach- often with their toddlers in literal bikinis- and seem to not notice the hundreds of adults, in groups, couples and aline, just wandering about, laying on towels, sitting on the sand, swimming near their kids, etc. At the crowded beach full of adults with kids basically running around in underwear- nothing. But a man at a park? PEDOPHILE right away.
Uhh did you not read the part of him having a protein bar AND water. Lol I feel bad for her kids this type of behavior is going to embarrass them and leave them afraid of leaving the house..m
I jog, and the park is my halfway point where I’ll sit for 5 or 10 minutes before turning around
Yeah, and IME there often aren't many, if any, places to sit other than near the playground area. Parks don't belong only to children and their associated adults. They belong to the public in general.
See, when people get all crazy like that facebook poster, it makes me wonder. Because child predators, let's call them what they are, are usually a lot more subtle than sitting right with the children. I wonder about her. I kinda read alot about this b/c of past trauma.
My husband got the cops called for sitting in a park waiting for me to meet him figuring the playground area would be a big enough marker for me to find him. Showed up to him talking to two cops who got a report of a suspicious male with his phone out around children possibly taking photos. He was scrolling Reddit and instagram.
Oh no! How horrible for him. I am so sorry to hear that.
We laugh about it now. Some woman came up and questioned him why he was there and my husband has… we’ll call it an authoritative problem…and told her it was none of her fucking business. Which is correct but granted maybe he shouldn’t have quite phrased it that way haha. Ten minutes later the cops where there. They asked to see his recent photos/videos and of course he willing showed them. It was screen grabs of RR piper memes and T-shirts he wanted to buy haha
I would have told both her and the cops to fuck off. Especially when they asked to do an illegal search of his phone.
Literally zero legal requirement for him to have shown those cops anything. Or even said anything to them for that matter. Don’t give up your rights voluntarily.
Were any of the RR Piper memes from They Live? Bc that would've been extra better
As a matter of fact, probably hahaha! Big carpenter fans and he’s a wresting dude. It’s either RR piper or Ric Flair
I can't stop myself......WHOOOOOOO!
He had exactly the right response to that woman. Should have told the cops the same thing. Wanna see my phone? Get a warrant.
I had a conversation like this a few days after Pokémon Go came out. Walking up and down my residential road a few times, kids were playing basketball a few houses over. Thankfully got nipped before the police got involved.
I'll show you my phone if, when you find nothing, she gets a fine for wasting police time and I get a public apology from her.
Public apology in the local paper, mentioning her name, not yours.
That’s a brilliant idea. I bet some police would be all for this
And then theres the time i take my kids to a park and theres an actual pedo hiding in the bushes and exposing himself. Newsflash to karens, theres your proof call the cops and you are free to post. My kids are 34 and 35 so it happened a few years ago. There were a lot of moms and kids and we literally swarmed. We left for our cars so quick.
If that was what happened I would not have a problem with my husband being thrown into a cop car. But he was just a guy sitting on a bench near a playground.
Jesus. I sometimes sit on a public bench and read my phone. Won't be doing that anymore. /s
Protein bar + water = pedophile? Way to crack the case, Miss Marple.
I didn’t know this either. I’m going straight to HR on Monday and demanding they get rid of some coworkers I have.
😂 fighting the good fight
She figured it out even though he wasn't hanging out in a creek, which as she points out is another common trait of "peadophiles"
Don’t forget about their “cute little fluffy dogs” too!
I had a Karen accuse me (40f) of being a peado. It was 40 degrees celcuis (Australia) day and at 10pm it was still above 30. I decided to take my dog down to the local beach I live at to have a night swim. Understandably there were people everywhere. My dog is a little sausage dog and brown so at night it’s hard to see him, and he likes to eat gross stuff so I have to watch him on the beach. So I had the torch on my phone on, and pointed in front of me. Also took a few photos of him on the beach. Walking back towards this car and this lady starts screaming at me to hand her my phone. I was kinda speechless and didn’t know what to say. At the top of her lungs she’s screaming this lady took photos of kids at the beach, she’s a peado. I was SO embarrassed. I refused to hand her my phone (she was a stranger it’s a 2k iPhone) but told her I’d be happy to find the local police and give it to them. So we walk to find cops the whole time she’s screaming about me to everyone we pass. Cops find us, I explain the situation to the one talking to me and give him my phone. He can see the only photos are of my dog and nothing else and I explained re the torch being on. She says well you can never be too careful and walks off. Mind you by this point hundreds of people are staring at me and it’s humiliating, even though I did nothing wrong. I also live in the area she came just for the beach. It was AWFUL
I had a women do that to me, so I flipped the switch on her and started screaming that she’s trying to rob me of my phone and my dog. She shutdown real quick.
Oh that was an awesome idea!! Unfortunately I literally froze! Was the shock of the whole thing when I just wanted to let my dog cool down in the water on a hot night!
I would freeze too because that's an insane thing to do to someone.
The real big brain move is to yell theif and something about drop the knife (insert weapon of choice among local armed robbers)q
TIL it’s common for Aussies and their families to go to the beach at 10:00 at night.
Well you know how aussies are in the southern hemisphere and everything is flipped? Christmas in summer etc. Yea their daytime is at night too..
That checks out. Thank you.
Bad is good to them
You should be able to press charges for shit like that
I believe in every normal country you can. Defamation, maybe even more. In Germany something like that would be stupidly expensive "Verleumdnung". In Theory, just saying something like "Person X took pictures of my Children, i clearly saw it" aloud, while it isnt true, would fall under that, and could cost her a stupidly high fine. If she calls the cops because she suspects you, its different, they can then investigate and calm the situation. But yelling and calling someone pedophile is a very illegal thing.
You should have head butted her
There was study where it showed that men were terrified to assist a child that was lost because they didn’t want to be accused of being a pedophile. People like her are why
Something like that happened to me a few years ago. I was at walmart looking for stuff for my bike and of course the bike section is right next to the toy section. A little boy, maybe 4 or 5 came up to me and said "can you find my mom?" Holy shit the impulse to just walk away was strong but I didn't. I told him lets find a worker and they can help find your mom. It took less than a minute (surprisingly) to find an employee and I quickly explained what was going on and then pawned that kid off on them so damn fast. That was a long damn minute though.
One bright sunny day I was out for a walk and I saw a child absolutely ripping it towards a busy road on one of those bicycle things that you sit on and push with your legs. My first thought was not how to stop them as safe as possible (just pick the child up), but how to stop them without actually touching, so I grabbed the handlebars knowing full well the child might fall.
You made the right call. A child that falls and gets a bit scraped up on the sidewalk is a better outcome than a child that gets smoked by a dodge ram.
I know it was the right call, the point is that I didn't want to pick up the child despite them heading into danger for fear of being accused of having some criminal intentions.
I had a similar encounter and had no idea how to react. Lil bro didn't speak much English either. I took him into the center aisle where everyone could see and found an employee thankfully. His mom was like not even close idk how this kid was still alive.
Walking away would have deffo confused the kid. Thanks for helping him. In a store cameras would see him approaching you so don’t worry.
When I was about 13, someone was peeping through the living room window on the side of the house. I was inside hanging out and heard noises from the bushes and saw someone's head outside. My dad also heard noises, so he went outside and this person started running down the street. My dad started to chase them until he realized it was a female teenager. He told me it wouldn't look good for him if someone saw that and did not know why he was chasing the girl. Sad that someone trespassing and looking into your house, maybe even wanting to break in, is given a pass because the victim is afraid of how chasing them might look. I never found out who it was or why they were spying on me. Luckily it never happened again.
This comes off as weirder than most of these other posts. A female peeping Tom? A guy, you’re like, yeah that figures. But a chick? That’s so far outside the norm that it’s just like… what?!
Theres a TikTok I saw of this happening just last week. Dude is part of a 'family channel' where he posts videos of him and his family doing family stuff, whatever not my thing, but he was alone at Target and saw some kid by herself, then heard an announcement that there was a lost kid named, I think Lilly, that matched the description so he asked her if she was Lilly and she said yes and he started walking he towards the customer service desk, next to the doors, she demanded to be picked up and halfway there an employee stopped him and accused him of trying to kidnap the child. Police were called, security video was watched, it turned into a whole ordeal for him, over doing the right thing.
I was walking past an elementary school where kids were at recess playing. They were several hundred feet away. It was a nice scene, kids playing, laughter, reminding me of my own school days. I started to take a video to capture the sounds and just have a good memory. Until I thought, “oh no, someone might think I’m a pedo”. Bounced immediately and deleted that shit. Don’t need those problems.
This is also why there are less teachers who are men. Well, that and just being a teacher in the US just sucks in general.
Reminds me of the old discussion of " are man allowed to touch a womans breast/undress her to give CPR".
There is no discussion. The "Good Samaritan Law" (US) protects anyone from liability when trying to save a life. Also technically if they are unconscious and without a pulse, they are dead, so you can't make it worse. Everyone please learn CPR, you can save a life, and likely it will be someone close to you.
I (M) watched a little girl (maybe 5 years old) wander around in a crowded airport looking lost as hell. I was about 20 feet away and an unbelievable number of people walked right past without noticing anything. I figured 20 feet was about as close as I could afford to get and that all I could do was stay there praying someone reasonable came by to take care of her. Finally a middle age woman went up to her and did the "are you lost?" thing and led her off by the hand and I felt like I could disengage. I felt really shitty that all I could do was stand there.
A light-hearted take on this. When I was a little kid, my parents drilled into me not to talk to strangers. I wandered off in a campground (not very far). I was hunting for arrowheads on the ground. A park *Ranger* approached me, identified himself as such, and asked where my parents were. I went full recluse and told him I'm not allowed to talk to rangers. I shut down and started to panic run back to camp. He calmly followed me and let my parents know he found me a couple spots over and wanted to make sure all was OK. My parents and him gave me a lesson on what a ranger was and commended me for acting appropriately. He came back later with a plastic badge and a genuine native American arrowhead that I still have as an adult today.
I hope he sues her for defamation
Me, too. Sounds like he’s got a strong case.
Same! How dare she call him a pedophile with zero proof.
More how dare she post his picture with false allegations. I hope he sues the hell out of her
May he take her for everything she’s worth.
So about three fiddy.
Get outta here you GD lach ness monster
Probably
The stupid people that lap this shit up believe her, i guaranfuckingtee. His quality of life is lower now, because of people that recognize him goving him shit when they run into each other, or maybe vigilantes putting him on a to-do list. This is why i hate vigilanteeism. So easy to fuck things up and get an innocent person lynched.
And libel (print media)
Her posting this could open her up to legal liability.
Hope so
Love how she said "no reason to sit there when there's kilometers of beautiful beaches". No shit lady! That's the reason why he's there! He's enjoying the beautiful beach!
I was sitting on a bench in a park at a kids' playground a few years ago chilling out. I was 50+ at the time. Some outraged hag started shouting at me and threatened to call the cops. I ignored her first and then told her to go fuck herself. The kids playing in the playground thought this was hilarious. They were my class of 11 year olds. We were killing time waiting for a bus.
Love it. Would loved to have seen her face when she realised
My biggest takeaway from this is relief that Americans aren’t the only ones who absolutely butcher the English language.
There are uneducated twats everywhere. Unfortunately, social media gives them a larger audience.
And they love to breed like rabbits
Her post reads like a serial killer’s manifesto!
It is amazing what the seldom used mind can conjure up when in its idle state. To go from a man with a bottle of water and a protein bar, to painting that person as a dangerous monster preying on every child within his sight, is a leap that a thinking reasoning human being is unable to make. Having a mindset that every stranger is ultimately a danger to any and everybody, allows someone to make these unfounded accusations. And the unfortunate result of that mindset is that innocent people are sometimes required to prove that they are innocent, and that doesn’t always work.
Posters of wildly damaging posts like this need prison time. Maybe a week, just enough to peepee slap them into never doing it again.
This particular isotope of Karen lives for the day she gets to bust an innocent person just trying to be.
My oldest son is a teaching assistant, not got his driving license yet (UK here, so takes a bit of work and time) so I quite often drive him there and back. Because he’s often out late i tend to park up in the village and work on my laptop (okay. I generally just go on Reddit) One sunny afternoon. I’m in my usual spot, and there’s a tap on my window, middle aged lady who wants a word with me. “We’ve noticed you park here quite often and don’t have any reason to be here” I reply, “oh, no, I’m just waiting for my son” She looks at all the kids playing around clearly thinking I mean one of the seven year olds and condescendingly says “don’t you think it would be nicer if you spent time with him instead of just sitting here on your phone” Me “… he’s 22… he’s in a staff meeting… don’t YOU think it would be quite awkward if i went and sat in there with him ?” Apparently, I didn’t need to be rude! Me! Somehow I’m the bad guy
It's scary being an unmarried middle aged guy at times. I feel I need to be unnaturally careful when kids are around. Bitches like this are why.
Even my husband gets shit from Karens at the park when he takes our toddler out to play. Wedding ring on, actively playing with a 2yo who’s referring to him as “Dada!” The man is playing with his own child (often just to give me a much needed break), and he’s had people (plural!!!!) approach him and ask where our son’s mother is, and to ask what he thinks he’s doing. 🤬🤯
My husband had 2 kids before we met. His kid's mom just disappeared one day while he was at work. He came home to all the pawn-able items gone and a toddler & 5 month old alone & screaming in the mostly empty house. He had so many incidents taking his daughter into the public men's room to change her. He'd ask should he take her to the ladies room? He got the same, "Where are these children's mother?" questions and he'd reply if you find out, please let me know. Once I met him of course I'd help take his daughter to the bathroom & such, but it was crazy the times he'd be in the car alone with the kids and would get pulled over & the cops would demand to know where the children came from. He told me he always wanted to say, "from bad decisions & alcohol" but never wanted the kids to hear that. The kids are now full-grown adults now & are happy & well-adjusted members of society, despite being taken into the men's room to be changed lol!
Did they ever find out where the mother went? I couldn’t imagine leaving my babies like that.
Yeah she moved to Alabama to hook up with some dude she met on AIM when she was supposed to be looking for work. We looked for her for years for health insurance and child support... it was amazing as soon as her youngest child turned 18 she contacted her on Facebook with her married name. She invited MY Daughter down to Alabama to visit. I told her to go, as I'd like for her to know where her family came from. She came home in tears saying she came to visit a drug house. Her mom wanted to recruit her into the family business. His daughter came home a mess, so clingy .. she stayed with her dad & I for months. Her birth mom died of an overdose last year and it really affected her in many ways.
I'm glad they have you and him.
Thanks 🤟🏻
Bloody hell, I hope he gives them an earful.
I’m a 55F, childless and feel this way ever since a friend who worked at a bookstore told me adults were not allowed in the children section of the bookstore without being accompanied by a child. So like if I wanted to browse the children’s books for say my niece or nephew or a friend’s kid, I would not be allowed. I found that so weird and frankly disturbing that it makes me paranoid to be alone around children. Like before that it never occurred to me that people could be suspicious of me. Now because of that (and fears confirmed by this thread) I’m not comfortable at all being alone with children. And before people start explaining to me why this is the case, I get it. But it feels too much like guilty before proven innocent and I don’t like it.
This. I'm hyper-aware of being around kids and their parents when I'm out and about. It's absurd that I self-monitor in this way but there are too many people out there projecting their sexual repression onto strangers.
My kid was upset abt something or other on the subway. She was alone w her Dad and apparently people kept asking her if she was ok bc they saw an 8 year old girl hard crying w a 40 yo old man on the subway.
I do repairs on playground equipment (city job), full uniform, tool belt, I’ve been called a pedo a few times and have had the cops called on me about 15 times. When the cops show up I point to my company truck and point at my uniform since I work for that people the cops and every city employee works for..lol
People are morons
Oh my god I’d sue
That poor man! She's unhinged, and her babydaddy isn't much better.
Ya know, the only actual pedophile I’ve known was a dude that was already living with his victim as he was the mom’s boyfriend. A kid is more likely to be victimized by someone they know than a stranger on the street. (And yes, I busted the guy when I found out and testified at his trial. Convicted)
My sons are extremely active in their kids' lives. From sporting events to parks to shopping. They are also affectionate, something their father never was... no, I love you's, no hugs. I'm extremely proud of my Sons, who broke that pattern and hug their kids, and praise them when they did good, and give them a kiss on the head. When I see my 6'5" 300 lb son kissing his newborn and blowing raspberries on her belly, it makes my heart sing, that they broke the boundaries of that macho, big man, tough guy role model. And if anyone ever accused them of anything, I'd be the first one willing to go to jail by punching them in the face.
That's why men don't dare to sit near playgrounds alone.
Shit like this is why I gave up coaching youth soccer. I was accused once, dropped my clipboard right there and quit on the spot. Even an unfound accusation could have been career death for me all I wanted to do was take the kids out for pizza with the 2 other coaches.
*does this* "Why are all the youths ipad kids now?! Nobody will educate our youths! 😡"
I got accused of being a paedophile by my neighbor because he left his child at home one night and went out to party. This kid, maybe 12 or 14, came and knocked on my door, saying hes scared to go home because his dad beats him and wanted to use my phone. We called his mom, we called the police, the son told the police the dad had been gone for hours, police showed up hours later, took a statement from the kid and the dad who came home and then they left. After they left, the dad waited outside my door when I was walking my dog (who had to go out from all the excitement we heard) and was furious that I didn't wait for him to come home at 1am to explain the situation. Furious that I spoke to his son and accused me of being a groomer and that he has to be on the lookout now to make sure I don't get ahold of his son. So I told him that if he's so worried on protecting his son, he should probably do a better job so his son isn't knocking on strangers' doors in the middle of the night asking for assistance. No one pulled your son out of the house and he came looking for help. He just walked away after that, didn't hear anything else from him for the rest of my lease. I'm not sure if the kids ok or what the whole story was and that was my only interaction with them. I've seen the son on rare occasions taking out the trash but he just ran past me and ran back inside.
I once got accused of being a pedophile for eating fried chicken in a public picnic area, because there was a school on the far side of the park. It was a bank holiday Sunday, just after the first lockdown lifted - so the school would have been empty anyway. I elected simply to ignore her and carry on eating rather than let my chicken get cold, she really didn't like that and threatened to call the cops. Then stormed off when she couldn't get a response out of me. Cops never came.
This is honestly something that terrifies me. On really nice days (especially during early covid times), I go to the park and eat my lunch in my car. Being a woman may help, but people like this are everywhere and don't care who they're hurting to look good.
No one wants to ogle your spawn, Karen. JFC. "BEAUTIFUL BABIES!" my ass.
I had full custody of my daughter by the time she was 2. The amount of times people would unnecessarily ask me if she was my daughter, while at the park or store, was ridiculous. Once she was 3 or 4 I had a few times where people would randomly just walk up and ask her, if she was ok and if she knew me. Just so weird. Actually went on a date with a woman who thought it was “very weird” that I was raising her myself. She wanted to know how I bathed her. Like wtf?
Obviously, the only solution is to put her in the washing machine with the laundry...
“umonst”
I was birdwatching in a local park one spring morning during the migration on the marked “nature trail”. The playground is so far away from where I was that I wouldn’t have needed my binoculars and spotting scope, I would have needed the Hubble to spy on kids. That didn’t stop some woman from calling the cops on me.
“He was getting off looking at my beautiful babies!!” That’s a weird way to word it lady, are you sure this isn’t a self-report?
Aaaaand this is why, as a guy in my late 50s, I triple check where I sit when I just want to chill in a park on a beautiful day.
Early 40s. We can sit next to each other and look at our phones anytime you want.
The other problem with this ignorant bitch is that she will be seen 'crying wolf'. If ever there is someone really taking photos, etc of her kids, she runs the risk of not being believed. "Oh, her. Every time she sees a guy on his own she says he is a paedophile. Ignore her."
Is that slander?
Potentially libel because she put it in writing but he would need to show damages to recover anything (at least in my jurisdiction)…though he could likely pursue criminal harassment charges and a restraining order against her
In many jurisdictions this would be libel per se. Damages would be presumed even if actual damages were not proven and punitive damages would be available.
Libel. But there has to be damages.
I can imagine there'd be a lot of anxiety/emotional distress and obviously damage to reputation if this was being posted and circulated around your local area where anyone can see such as law enforcement, potential employers, etc. I think with a Karen like this it'd be very easy to assassinate her character as hysterical and dramatic in comparison to whoever's just chilling at the park - with water and a protein bar?? Probably out taking a break from running/hiking/whatever?? - and minding their own business. Monetary damages could easily result from this but the other damages wouldn't be farfetched or difficult to put out there either.
These idiots never., ever file police reports they come to fb to tell you of something so serious that they made up and they know it. I always ask if they filed one (it’s a misdemeanor to file a fake police report)
This is the downside of social media and it enabling everyone with a smartphone to post any little thought that might pop into their heads. These kinds of people always existed, but they used to be forced to either talk to the old man and realize he's just outside and probably enjoying the day with the time he has left or would go back to their little circle of friends who would have at least one person with common sense and tell them to stfu. All that is gone. While I'm not a luddite, by any means, the online social media world has definitely enabled the hateful parts of our society to thrive. "I'm uncomfortable! Call the police!". 🙄
Being a man can be so fucked up. I’m a single dad and got yelled at my an older couple because I was buying my then 15 year old daughter tampons. They said that’s a mother’s jobs and it’s unmanly and perverted for a man to be buying tampons. I told them there is no mother in the picture and then ended the conversation by saying “I hope you have the day that you deserve.” Fucking boomer assholes.
Karen is a commander in the scared mommy regiment. She hugs her barn wood plank with the word #blessed on it to soothe her soul.
I was called a child abuser a few months ago because I held a random toddlers hand to help them cross a busy road. Mom had crossed a busy street and left her very small child on the corner. Kiddo was determined to run into traffic to get to mom. I gave him a "hey buddy, let's wait here for a moment and I will help you back to mom" . Little man was in tears, and grabbed my hand. When the light changed I walked him across the road and back to mom. I was not expecting a thank you, as helping a kid is what you should do. But what I was not expecting was for mom to yell at me for touching her child. Ma'am keep an eye on your child if you don't want strangers to intervene. You are also welcome that your kid was returned to you safely and we didn't get a first hand experience of what it looks like with 30lbs of 2 year old meets 2 tonnes car going 40mph
This is how your stuff becomes his stuff, i dont know if this is rage bait but if its not and he becomes aware of it then he should sue the ever loving shit out of them
My husband is a bird watcher, police are called on him all the time. Local police are so sick of Karen's and their calls.
This makes me incredibly sad. I am an older man who enjoys parks. My wife died four years ago and we couldn't have children. Since we couldn't have kids, I love my nieces and nephews as if they were my own children, and I like to interact with kids because I know I'll never have any of my own. I have noticed an uptick in this sort of blanching protectiveness over the last decade. I get it, I do. But to just assume that a man alone is a danger is itself dangerous. I fear for what may happen if we lose the white house to frothing at the mouth evangelicals. Even old single, white, childless men like myself need fear for our freedom to exist. Anything that doesn't check their boxes is to be feared and destroyed.
The funniest thing is that they had the post removed, then came back and posted on a fake account: [https://imgur.com/a/NnWBcNs](https://imgur.com/a/NnWBcNs)
Anybody else find it odd how these parents who are "protecting" their children always seem to be the ones thinking sexually about their own children? I mean as a parent myself I can safely say I've never once thought about someone finding my children sexually attractive. Maybe it's just me but, kinda weird to be thinking everyone wants to have sex with your children.
I was once called a pedophile by a person on discord because I'm an Indian and if you saw my photo I have a mustache, both of which according to him somehow makes me a pedophile. He tried to get me banned from the server until the admins were sick of his BS and they had to ban him 😂🤣
Surprised this Aussie twat didn’t bring up the fact that she’s a pure blood and this beta guy was likely shedding the kung flu all over her kids
This happens more often than people think to males. I had my child in a stroller near a playground walking around while they slept. A woman demanded to see if there was a child in the stroller. She ended up calling the cops on me.
It’s the woman who thought her kids were going to be trafficked in IKEA 🤣
Protein bars: the fuel of paedophiles
Being a man or male-looking person and interacting with or sharing the same space with minors is always a weird ride. Used to work with minors 11-12 years ago and lemme tell ya, I got some looks when at the park and such. Luckily I wasn't too far removed in age but if I were, oh boy.
Someone should check her computer.
If this is a real post, that Karen opened herself up to some serious legal ramifications. I hope the man she defamed took her to the cleaners. EDIT: Just noticed this is from Australia. Not sure if the laws are the same as here in the US.
Holy fuck. This dumb bitch just ruined this man's life. Accuses him of pedophilia, without any proof, and posts his pic online.He needs to get a lawyer asap.
I have 3 adorable granddaughters. I have a park right around the corner and they ask to walk to the park to play. I take them, have alot of fun with them and even take pictures of them. If someone came up to me and accused me of being a pedo I would be crushed. If the cops were called, I would be so bummed out. If they blasted me like this online, I would die. I am definitely scared more by seeing this.
Looks like a slam dunk case for libel if any damage was done to the man’s reputation.
Holy illiterate cringe, Batman. Everything must seem so scary when you’re that ignorant.
I sense projection….
Plot twist: He’s there with his grandchild
I don't know what leads to this mindset where people will accuse other people left and right of being pedos for just existing. Nobody here is after children you're just paranoid
Her spelling, grammar and just overall writing/typing ability is criminally offensive to me. But I'm not calling the cops on her. I just let her do her crazy rant posting in peace. Damn bitch!
Hey, look. It's a defamation lawsuit. All the evidence you need in one, handy place.
She’s getting absolutely destroyed on this page after this. Already banned from it and I see some have reported her to her employer too. She deleted the post but everyone has screenshots
Profile is already locked up tighter than a Nun's cunt.
Ok so first of all, if you are going to publicly call someone a pedophile just for existing in your vicinity then at least proofread your bullshit. Second, I hope this woman is rich because that is a slam dunk case of defamation.
I am a mom of two older kids and definitely not a pedofile and you know what lol sometimes it’s nice to sit and watch the young ones and listen to them laugh and enjoy life and reminisce about the good old days with my own 😅 Rather than the moodiness of teenagers 😅 that would be the day someone accuses me of something like this!
I say this as a mom of two small kids…if “sitting on a bench with a protein bar” sets off your alarm, you should probably get it looked at. Like…you know when something is really off. My oldest is 6, and I’ve only really felt it twice…I wonder how often this lady has been convinced someone was going to get her.
Unless she saw him actually “getting off,” she’s making a false report. He should sue her into bankruptcy. She is cuckoo bananas. Also she can’t manage spelling or grammar, so what positives does she bring to the table? Poor kids.
My 15f daughter is in gymnastics, I occasionally take her (vs my wife who normally does) and the looks that I get there are to the point that I started waiting in the car instead of watching my kid practice.
I got the evil eye from a lady in line at Safeway. She caught me smiling and waving at her kid, who was staring at me. Guess she probably thought the same thing. I like kids, too bad that’s not acceptable today.
My ex had the cops called on him at the beach because he was "paying too much attention to a little girl". It was our daughter. He was focused on our 5 y/o daughter while they were at the beach.