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Originally Posted by pylon
Situations like this are not uncommon at all.......
NSFW swearing....
I had an almost identical situation happen to me when I was about 20. Girl sideswipes my car in the apartment parking lot, and I saw it happen from my balcony. I knock on her door to talk to her, and she knows exactly why I am there. Without batting an eye, she starts punching herself in the forehead and banging her head on her door screaming RAPE! RAPE! Damn I wish it was in the day of pocket video cameras, as in hindsight, it looked ######edly hilarious.
But at the time, I was frikking terrified, and ran down the hall back to my place. Nothing ever came of it, and I never called the cops as they will always take the side of a woman. Her little strategy worked, and I ended up just paying the 400 bucks to fix my car. I was looking over my shoulder for months, expecting to be arrested on some sort of false accusations, so it ended up affecting me negatively for quite a long time.
I am not absolving men of the fact that they do rape women. But there is a larger segment of women than many think that use the accusation of it as a tool to get their way.
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I'm not sure how you can use one personal anecdote to conclude that this sort of experience is commonplace. Nothing like this has never happened to me nor has anyone I know ever related a similar story to me. I work in the criminal justice system and I have never once been involved in a case similar to your story or read a reported decision with circumstances similar to your story. Therefore, I am inclined to believe that these sorts of incidents are incredibly rare.