ClearMyName
#21482
I accidentally got involved in one of these back in elementary school. When I was little, I used to bring one or two of my stuffed kitties in my backpack as a sort of SecurityBlanket, and normally kept them in there. One afternoon, though, I noticed that my backpack had mysteriously ended up under the desk of the boy in front of me, who picked on me now and then. I didn't think much about it until I got home, opened my backpack, and found that ''somebody had cut my kitty to pieces''. Traumatized, I told my parents, and they descended on the school in a fury -- and naturally, since my backpack had been under the desk of somebody who already had a history of bullying me, it seemed like an open-and-shut case. #QUOTE# ...Eventually, though, it turned out he was innocent. His '''best friend''' had done the foul deed and stashed the evidence under the accused's desk to take suspicion off him. But the teacher figured it out and cleared up the whole mess, making the real culpit pay for a replacement kitty. I don't think those two were friends anymore after that, either, even though they'd been like ThoseTwoGuys before...
#21483
In primary school, this troper was once accused of throwing half a brick at somebody. He didn't do it and he doesn't know who made the accusation, but what he wouldn't give to find the guy and ACTUALLY do it now...
#21484
My game group has a certain GM that, as far as I can tell, ''loves'' using this as an adventure hook. To date, half of the games he has run have involved this as a major plot point. Unfortunately, the most recent has also involved TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, making this part of a TraumaCongaLine. (Then again, said game takes place in the most crapsacky world of them all.)