📝 AITA for snitching on my old friend who talked about committing a crime?

By anTi-janEt • Score: 0 • April 10, 2025 12:45 AM


So I’m probably not the AH considering the circumstances, but I can see why SOME people may feel this way.

For starters, I am in high school (yay unnecessary high school drama!!) and only have 2 really close friends (I will call them friends A and B). Sadly the one was expelled, so I only go to school with one of them now. These two friends of mine also happen to be dating each other. Also, I will be referring to the person I snitched on, as “criminal”.

It all started the other day, I was at lunch with friend A and out of nowhere she began to tell me the shenanigans her girlfriend was up to.

Keep in mind, her gf (friend B) was expelled for fighting, and the person she was fighting was the girl that her gf cheated on her with. So after the sleeping around was said and done, friend B was feeling cocky that friend A chose her over the side piece and started texting her absolute bs, and so the side piece ended up jumping friend B at school. I also believe that friend B was jumped because she messed with the side piece’s car by scratching it and putting nails in her tires. So yes, she’s crazy and not a rational thinker.

Back to the other day, friend A basically told me that her gf was asked to help the criminal in vandalizing her ex’s car. And the reason: because she moved on after they broke up… but it was actually because she moved on with a certain someone that criminal considered a close friend, and that’s why she was upset. Once I heard about this, I could only think of one potential ex she was talking about. I also happened to know this ex (I didn’t know it at the moment) and our families are friends basically. I began asking my friend if it was a certain ex and she didn’t know, so I went and asked friend B and she also didn’t know. And she also proceeded to tell me she only said yes because she was being messy..(weird, I know) I brushed this outrageous statement under the rug and continued to think about it the rest of the day.

The next day I was in my first period class with some of my other friends and was telling them about what I was told yesterday, expressing that I don’t know who the potential victim is but whoever it is, I hope their car doesn’t get vandalized anyways. Fast forward to lunch again, my friend isn’t here, so I sit with some other friends of mine and they happen to know about the situation as well because the one girl heard the criminal talking about it in a class they both shared. My other friend chimes in and says that the criminal threatened to fight his brother over the situation which made it all clear to me. The criminal WAS talking about the person I was thinking. We basically had a breakthrough, so me and 2 others from that table decided to go over to the ex and tell her what was going on. I also asked her bf if he was close with the criminal and he said no. We explained everything and she expressed how much she appreciated us telling her about it, and we went about the rest of our lunch as normal.

Right after lunch, I’m sitting in my sixth period class, and I ultimately decided to (unnecessarily) make a post to my public story without naming names. Something along the lines of saying it’s weird to want to vandalize your ex’s car just because they moved on. After posting, the ex replied to my story and thanking me again for telling her about the criminal. She also said to me that towards the end of her relationship with the criminal that, the criminal was being abusive (verbally yes, physically I don’t know and I hope not) towards her and touching her inappropriately when it was against her wishes. It all sounded awful and I felt really bad and wished her all the best with her new relationship.

It wasn’t until a few hours later that the criminal posted a story in response to my story that I made previously. She said, and I quote: “Yk I hate when people do wtf they be talkin ab it’s kinda crazy to me but I sit back and watch like I said I was trolling…I got my giggles and laughs out nb ever said I was gon beat nb but I’ll let yall believe what yall want I real life think ts funny asf bc now people posting shit thinkin they know what they talkin abt

And if I really was gon do sum don’t yall think I would’ve did it already???”

So she basically claimed she was joking around and that people can believe what they want to. Which is not true in the slightest because if it was, why were you going around openly telling people what you planned on doing? And then proceeded to ask for someone’s help in vandalizing your ex’s car? Sounds pretty serious to me, I don’t know. Anyways, that’s not something to joke about like that. And honestly the only reason I inserted myself into the situation is because I know the ex and I would hate if my car got messed with and people knew about it beforehand without telling me.

No further advice needed for the situation since I never needed to respond to the bs that the criminal said. Just want to know if anything I did was wrong or not. I just know I do think I could’ve gone without publicly posting about it, but by then lots of people already knew, so yeah. Just wanting to see what other people think about this!

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