“This Isn’t What it Looks Like” Moments That Were Completely Scandalous

Everyone experiences moments where they wish they could just go back and explain what was really going on and those moments are usually pretty embarrassing and sometimes hilarious.

These “this isn’t what it looks like” events may have been total misunderstandings, but that doesn’t make them any less humiliating.

Just a Prank

So when my friend got his apartment, I decided to give him an electronic photo frame as a gift, you know the ones where you can upload pictures and make a slideshow out of it. I uploaded pictures of our vacations together and other friendship pictures on it first.

Then I got the idea to make and download a couple of NSFW pictures on there, which he wouldn’t notice first since they would be so few and scattered. Yeah, this backfired big time.

Anyhow, a couple of weeks later another friend and I were chilling together and she said she’d be happy to help me make a tinder profile, so I gave her my phone while I made some food or something.

We continued to talk while she scrolled through my Phone, and as she got quieter and quieter I started to realize what she was seeing. There were pictures from racy films and pictures of me half-naked with “blood” running down my face.

So I turned to her in panic and went something like, “Oh my god, it’s not what you think. I was pranking my friend, I’m not that weird! Please believe me!” She is still my friend so I guess she believed me.

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Don’t Be Alarmed

I heard this story from a health and safety trainer. He goes on the road a lot, up and down the country. One day he’s at a gas station, and goes to grab something out of his trunk. As he does this, two old people walk past with worried faces. He thinks nothing of it and carries on his journey.

As he’s going down the motorway, he noticed a patrol car a few cars back, again thinking nothing of it. Then an unmarked patrol car swerves in front of him, and speeds up to pull him over. He stops and is immediately pulled out of the car by armed officers and held at gunpoint.

The officers go straight to the trunk, open it, and burst out with laughter. Turns out when that old couple walked past earlier they spotted the child training dummy and thought it was real, so they reported it.

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The Evidence is On Your Face

I’m heading home one night really tired. An officer pulls me over and asks if I know why he stopped me. Oblivious, I say no, and he tells me I have a large streak of blood down my face. I then say the worst thing possible. “It’s okay, officer, it’s not my blood!” Yeah.

Don’t say that to law enforcement.

He then asks me to open the back of my car. My response? “Ooh um ok but don’t freak out.” I was tired ok?? See, in the back seat of my car were a few lumpy black bin bags and a bit more blood.

I was almost in an awful lot of trouble, until I showed him the box in the backseat that contained my Harris hawk.

It was enough to convince him I was a falconer, and that the bin bags contained a few months’ supply of frozen food for my bird.

The blood on my face was because my hawk liked to “preen” me after he’d finished eating. The officer took some photos with me and my hawk then let us go, but God that almost went very, very wrong.

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How Embarrassing For You

My dad helped me out by leasing a car for me. He wasn’t techy (transferring money into his account wasn’t an option), so I always paid him in cash for the car payment. We would meet up to have dinner in a restaurant and I would give him my car payment.

Well, this one time, I got to the restaurant and had to go to the bathroom. After peeing, I went to wash my hands and decided to double-check my money to make sure I had the right amount of cash. As I was counting 400 in twenties, a guy walks into the bathroom, looks at me, and runs out!

I thought, “How embarrassing, walking into the women’s restroom.” Then he proceeds to walk in again, passing me awkwardly. I suddenly realize I’m in the men’s room, counting CASH!!!

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