What's a story of yours where you tried to do the "right thing" and it backfired on you or made you regret doing it?

[MCheetah]

Inspired by this question here and @Aerissa_Jade 's story. I told this story in that question.

When I was in college, I found some girl's mini purse in the library. It had her campus ID, driver's license, $200 in cash; everything in there. Obviously would've been a bad week to lose that. She was long gone by the time I showed up, and I had work to do before class. I typed my paper for like 30 minutes, and she never came back. I had time to write a quick note and printed that out as well, and left my number behind. I then went to class and silenced my phone for an hour.

After class, I had a voicemail from campus police and the a-hole rent-a-cop told me I was required to meet him at the campus station. This was maybe 10 minutes before class ended.

I showed up there with the purse and this POS white knight (he had to be in his late 20s, someone still young enough to date the student) hounded me, with the assumption I *stole* the purse from her. The girl herself was also b*tching, saying "You held me up and wasted my time!" (Even though she had nowhere else to be that day and wasn't in a rush; she didn't even come back to the library.)

I told them I found it in the library, and if I stole it, why would I leave a note with my name and number there. But the prick officer kept asking me follow-up questions, as if I had to prove my innocence.

The 19 year old Karen snatched the purse out of my hand and opened it, assuming I stole her money and whatnot, even though I took nothing. The campus officer, with no strong evidence, decided to "let me off with a warning."

There was a trash bin literally right there, next to the desk and workstation I found the purse. Next time, that sh*t is going straight in the trash and I'll even shuffle the other trash around inside so it's not even visible from the top.

What's something that happened to you where you tried to do the good morally just thing and it backfired on you?

[Aerissa_Jade]

Same thing I posted on the other one, found it in a garbage can, turned it into police. Who said if no one claimed it after 3 years that it would be mine.

Went to claim it later, the 3 years was up but it had exceeded 4 and they were rude, said they don't have to inform me that no one claimed it and now its theirs to keep, cause I only had a year to go back and get it.

They were rather rude, but they also made it very hard to check with to see if someone actually had claimed it. Lots of run around and time consuming.

Its to law enforcements best interest to make it hard so you'll give up so they can keep it.

If they know who it belongs to, but cannot find them, then the state has a unclaimed department to claim lost things. Anything that no one has a clue goes to the agency it was turned into.

[Daniela1982]

That's on them, not you. Don't ever regret doing the right thing.

[TheSpaceGnome]

"Next time, that sh*t is going straight in the trash and I'll even shuffle the other trash around inside so it's not even visible from the top."

I never understood the mentality of projecting one person's reactions on the remaining community, as if they are all just as bad.

I don't think anyone's behavior has ever changed how I thought I should act, imho, you did the right thing, even if she and the cop were being assholes about it.

I've had a number of times it bit me in the ass, but I don't recall any of them in detail atm, because I brush them off as extremism on the other person's part and forget about it, as I do with most negative experiences.

[Fuentes]

Lol man we black we don't be touching peoples purses, wallets you know the first thing them weirdos wbo left their stuff gonna gonna think, I don't get into these situations i just mind my business cause i know things will somehow turns sideways.

[FinalFantasyBro]

Bro that is the lady own problems don't feel any regret for actually being nice of course there are assholes like that lady who don't appreciate when people does nice things for them.

[JesseJayNeak]

Tried opening the door for a girl and she went off on me

[jamesgoldman]

I don't have one but then I rarely do the right thing