rSlash - r/AmITheA**hole For Getting an ENTIRE Family of Thieves Arrested?

Episode Date: April 10, 2021

r/AmITheA**hole In today's episode, OP gets his $2500 bicycle stolen by some spoiled teenager. Luckily, he's able to find that his bike is being sold on Facebook marketplace, so he goes to confront the teen. He's surprised to discover that the teenager's mom is there with the bike, trying to sell it. He calls the cops to get the teenager arrested, and later the teen's dad calls up OP for some good old-fashioned witness intimidation. Surprise! The father got arrested too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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have the bike, and they say yes. We agreed to meet up at a truck stop with a friend who tipped me off about the listing to take a look at the bike. When I get there, I find a woman with my bike. I ask her about it and she says that she has no idea about anything about the bike, claiming she's selling it for her son. After a few minutes of stringing her along and pretending to inspect the bike, I say, oh yeah, this is the bike that your son stole from that restaurant. I'll be taking it back now. She screams that we're robbing her and tries to create a scene,

and then my friend calls the cops for real. The cops arrive. They question both parties, but she avoids responsibility by feigning ignorance. However, her son is arrested for grand larceny. Two days later, the kid's father calls me. My number was listed publicly on Facebook. He tries to talk me into dropping the charges because this would ruin his life and kids make mistakes.

I told him the situation is no longer in my control, which was a lie, and then he tried to convince me to put in a good word for his son in hopes for leniency. I shut him down immediately and he proceeds to get angry and yell and threaten me, but he was oblivious to the fact that I was recording that conversation. I turn the recording over to the police and then the dad is arrested for intimidating a witness. The next day, the mother calls me from a block number and tries to talk to me. But as soon as she identified herself, I told her to f off and not call me again, or I'll be reporting her to the cops as well, and she hung up.

She then contacted my wife by a Facebook, sending a massive wall of text, claiming that I'd ruined her son's life over nothing, and how her and her kids were going to be out on the street because they relied on her husband's income. My wife is now upset in things that I took the situation too far, as do most people that I've told about this, but I disagree. I don't think that my actions were unreasonable. This isn't some little kid making a mistake because they don't know the difference between right and wrong.

This is a teenager who stole something because he's a little bastard, and a family that not only didn't make the kid do the right thing, but willfully participate in concealing and trying to profit off their child's criminal behavior. They are awful people, and I don't feel any remorse for giving awful people what they deserve. Then beneath that, OP adds a lot of clarifying detail and an update. First off, his number is on Facebook because his Facebook account is associated with his business. Second, yes, stealing a bike does qualify for Grand Larceny because it was a $2,500 bike. In OP state, $500 bucks is a cutoff between misdemeanor

and felony. Down in the comments, I agree with the user, no garden fairies. Nope, it's a family of thieves. Mom was participating, dad was participating. Screw them, not the buttle. Yeah, I almost have to wonder if the parents are actively encouraging it because if a parent steals a bike, they're in big trouble. If a kid steals a bike, then they're only

in a little bit of trouble. Also, stealing a bike is bad enough as it is, but actively calling up a witness and intimidating them is a major crime. I just looked it up, and witness intimidation is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Now granted, the father probably won't get that much of a penalty because I imagine to get 20 years, you have to do some pretty major witness intimidation. But still, witness testimony is a cornerstone of the American Judicial System and it has

to be protected. OP, I'm giving you 0 out of 5 buttholes, I'm giving that whole family 3.5 out of 5 buttholes. Am I the butthole for not going to my mom's birthday party after learning that her husband got rid of my cat? I'm a 29 year old guy, and back when I was 14 years old my mom got remarried. At the time, my sister was 12 years old and my brother was 9 years old. From the beginning, none of us liked mom's new husband, Ben, and we didn't consider him our stepdad. It was obvious that he didn't like us either. He literally divided our fridge between stuff that was ours and what was his.

We had separate milk, cereal, eggs, soda, etc. Everything he paid for we were not allowed to touch. It was weird, but whatever, our mom bought us the things we needed. Ben was super controlling too. He always told us that our friends weren't allowed in his house, even though that he's the one who moved in with us, and even if my mom said that it was okay. We weren't allowed to sit on couches, so we always sat on the living room floor, and he expected us to be silent in the house 24-7, and he never let us go outside. I was a stubborn little kid, so I butted heads within the most, and my mom played mediator between us. Even now that we're older, we still

dislike him, and we only tolerate Ben for our mom's sake. My brother in particular hates him, and sometimes they have screaming matches. Last month when we met up at their house, things got out of hand with their argument, and my brother revealed that he knows that Ben was the one who got rid of my cat when he went missing. This caught me off guard, but I got on Ben's case and told him to tell me the truth. And it was true after all. My brother saw Ben with my cat in his car driving off once. Ben confessed that he was tired of all the cat hairs and my cat roaming around everywhere, so he took my cat to a shelter an hour away.

I almost effing lost it right there and my mom tried to calm me down. It turns out, my mom had always known that Ben was the one who took my cat. She never told me, but according to her, she made sure that Ben knew how horrible that was. Then I just left and told them I am not speaking to them anymore and my mom shouldn't expect me at a birthday which would be in a few days. My heart was pounding and I cried when I got to my car. I felt like I lost my cat all over again.

I had spent months looking for that cat and all the time he was in a shelter. Who knows if he was even adopted because he was an older cat. My brother apologized for never telling me about the cat and for bringing it up in that way. Everyone else is telling me to let go of it already because Ben made that mistake years ago. They said that mom was extremely hurt that I didn't show up to her birthday and it was very immature of me to be so angry over something that happened a long time ago. I spoke to her and she apologized for what happened back then, but she said that didn't make her right for

me to shut them out on an important day. I'm caught in the middle, and I'm still feeling emotionally raw over this whole thing, and I'm not really sure if I was the butthole for not going. OP, to be honest, it's surprising to me that you're still talking to your parents at all. Your mother brought an emotionally abusive man into her household. Your stepdad wouldn't let you sit on the furniture, he wouldn't let you go outside, and he stole your cat. What an absolute monster! Your stepdad sounds awful, and if you ask me, your mom is just as responsible as your stepdad is for all of this. OP, I'm giving you zero out of five buttholes. I'm giving your parents four out of five buttholes.

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and four of my five sisters have kids also with the exception of Serena, who's more of the travel the world with a napsat kind of gal. I love my family, but every single family outing, get together, dinner, lunch, everything has to be family friendly and kid centric. I can never get my sisters other than Serena when she's even in town, to go to a movie, have lunch, sit and chat without it all being about the kids. Even if the kids are having playtime with each other and the adults are sitting around

drinking coffee, the conversations are always about the kids. And kids are called over to talk to us, etc. Pre-COVID, I asked my sister Julie to come with me to get her nails done and just have some us time. She changed her mind last minute and said that she was bringing her daughter as a bonding activity. We do nothing but bonding activities. And the same thing has happened time and again. Shopping? The kids need to come. Taking a hike? Let's bring everyone. I expressed my frustration and she actually like I was being super out of line. She acted shocked and went on about how she can't imagine

doing things without her mini-me and that it was weird. It became this whole, are you okay? Are you sure? Are you depressed? Type of thing. Our Zoom family meetings are always about the kids with no adult time. So when we were talking about getting together for Easter,

I thought, hey, maybe the one I catch up. I asked a her a planning call. Do you think we can maybe just have some time for the adults where the kids are playing so we can all catch up? My mom and sister acted like this was the most ridiculous thing that I could ask. Mom asked, are you okay? And I can't imagine wanting to spend time with my family and exclude you girls from any part of it. That's not normal. I said that I really can't sit through another kid's center get together, and that if we aren't going to at least do something and sit and have cake and coffee together and catch up, just the family then count me out. Well, I just sent my kids over to their place, and I ended up staying home and having a great

time with just me and Serena. Serena says that she understands how I feel and she stands beside me because they exclude her as well since she doesn't have any kids and she's made it clear that she never will. Of course, she and I are being talked down to and told the world but holes to treat family like that. That we all should have been together as family and that it's time to grow up and accept that it'll never just be the sisters again.

I cried about that. Am I really wrong here? Is this normal and I just have to accept that I'm never seeing my other sisters one-on-one without their kids being the focus of everything? And then OP clarifies, I did not ask for a kid-free Easter at all. All I asked for was some time for the adults to drink coffee and catch up with each other while the kids were playing. Not OP, I think you're being completely reasonable here.

Sure, it is important to be a parent, but it's also important to just have adult time to yourself. If you ask me, you're not the one being weird here, they're the ones being weird. I don't exactly begrudge them for obsessing over their kids, because that's the choice they want to make, then that's their right. But it's completely unreasonable for them to expect you to make the same life decisions that they made. Am I the butthole for telling my teenage daughter to stay with her on because my older daughter didn't want her in the house? My wife and I have two

daughters, Laura who's 20 and Lily who's 15. Laura is studying at school, but she came home for the weekend. Lily has just had her first breakup and it's hit her hard. She's been crying in a room the past few days. Unfortunately, Laura has a bit of a wind up personality and was tormenting her little sister about the breakup which only upset Lily more. Laura was saying things like the boyfriend left her for a prettier girl and saying that she didn't blame him, etc. Really horrible things.

We did tell Laura repeatedly to cut it out, but she didn't listen to the point that Lily went to bed in tears. Laura has eye problems. She's been visually impaired since she was a baby. Her current glasses prescription is negative 28 and she can't wear contacts. We woke up this morning to screaming from Laura's room. Laura had woken up and put her glasses on, but the lenses had been popped out. Lily admitted to doing it and said that she threw the lenses out the window.

We did try to search for them outside, but they couldn't be found. Laura was crying her eyes out and couldn't see anything at all. She does have a spare pair of glasses, but since she only came home for a couple of days, she didn't bring them with her. To be fair, Lily regretted what she did as soon as she saw how upset Laura was, but Laura didn't went Lily near her and begged us to keep her away. My wife's sister lives nearby, and I asked Lily to go spend the day there, because Laura was blinded and looking after her had to be our main concern. I then got a call from my sister-in-law saying, how dare you throw out Lily in favor of that spoiled bully.

But it's not about spoiling anyone. Laura was blinded and terrified and was too scared to be in the same house as Lily. It was right to ask Lily to leave until we get Laura back to her place where she had her glasses. I do get that it was harsh to ask Lily to leave, but what else could we do when our other child was blind and crying in fear? Okay OP, I'll do the good part first. So in your defense, in that situation, yes you should watch over Laura.

She was basically blind and helpless and she did need your support. Also, what Lily did to Laura kind of crossed a line and she deserved to be punished. However, OP, what you seem to not understand about this story is that Laura deserves punishment too. Lily was going through heartbreak and Laura was tormenting her for basically no reason. Did you stop it from happening? No, I mean you tried to, but clearly you failed. Did you punish Laura?

Also no. And to make matters worse, Laura is an adult and a visitor in your home. Lily, on the other hand, is a child who has nowhere else to go. So if Laura's tormenting Lily, it's not like Lily can just go drive to her college where she actually lives. Lily had no choice but to just stay in your home and endure the torment that you were allowing to happen. O.P., you are a massive hypocrite in the situation who's clearly showing favoritism towards Laura

over Lily. OP, I'm giving both you and Laura 3 out of 5 buttholes and I'm giving Lily 1 out of 5 butthole. Am I the butthole for not punishing my child after he corrected the teacher? My 10 year old son had to watch Snoopy cartoons in class, during which Woodstock eats a roast turkey. The teacher told the class that this is fictional and that birds don't eat other birds. My son corrected her and said something along the lines of, my uncle trains Balkans to hunt other birds at the airport to protect the airplanes. The

teacher got upset and said that he was disrespectful in talking back and sent him to the principal's office. I got called in and they explained the situation. I said, well, was he right? And the principal said, it doesn't matter, this was rude and you need to teach your son to show some respect to authority. And I told the principal, I'm not going to punish my son or make him apologize if he was right. Maybe your teacher should be better educated. The principal looked a bit shocked and just told me to leave. Find by me really considering

this school. Wait, wait, wait. Your kid's school literally called a parent into the office because your kid corrected an incorrect teacher? What a complete waste of your time OP. Why on earth is wrong with your kid kids school that they prioritize obedience over education? OP, it sounds like your kids teacher has a massive ego and I'm giving her 1.5 out of 5 buttholes. Your kids principal is a complete idiot, I'm giving him 2 out of 5 buttholes. I'm giving both you and your son 0 out of 5 buttholes. Also, to be honest, that's a really cool fact that should be shared with the class.

So the plane that Chelsea Selenberger was flying that landed in the Hudson, that plane was struck by birds, so a bunch of birds hit the plane engine, both of the engines, and they went down and so he had to land that plane in the Hudson. So like birds are like a really major threat to planes. So yeah, your son's right. That is a thing that airports do. They will like train predator animals that prey on birds to treat the airport as their hunting ground. That way other birds will stay away from the airport so that planes can take off and land really safely without having to worry about bird strikes. That was our slash in my The Butthole, and if you like this content, check out my Patreon

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