AITAH for leaving a tipsy (ex)friend at the club because of her dangerous prank?

One Reddit user (20sM) shares a distressing experience where his friend, Aya, drunkenly accused him of being a “creep” at a club, leading to a dangerous situation. After the scene escalated, the user, fearing for his safety, decided to leave Aya behind.

Now, his mutual friends are divided, and he’s questioning whether his decision was justified or if he was wrong for abandoning a vulnerable person. Read the full story below.

‘ AITAH for leaving a tipsy (ex)friend at the club because of her dangerous prank?’

My friend, Aya, and I went to a new club two nights ago. The place was packed so Aya thought that it was a good opportunity for her to meet new people. Meanwhile, I stayed at the bar to drink and just watch people do their thing. Later, I noticed that Aya was already stumbling around the dance floor.

I knew that she can’t handle too much alcohol, so I thought that it was time for us to go home or else she’ll throw up everywhere. When I approached her, she looked at me for a couple of seconds before laughing and saying, out loud, “ew! this c**ep is touching me!”

People around her turned towards us and both men and women started to push me away from her. I tried to explain but my senses were starting to become o**rwhelmed with the loud music, the crowd of people trying to interrogate and intimidate me, as well as the multiple people physically pushing and pulling me away from the dance floor.

The embarrassment and fear of being labeled a criminal were also starting to take over my head. At that point, I just walked away and left. I didn’t even bother to wait for her outside or anything like that because I feared that the dudes in the club would follow me and beat me up for being a “c**ep”.

I left her a text saying that what she did was s**tty and that she was an a**hole for purposefully making an unnecessary scene. I also told her that our friendship was over. I received a flood of missed calls and texts from her in the morning,

saying that I was the a**hole for leaving her there and that I should be thankful that nothing happened to her otherwise she would be blaming me. She said that I should “man up” because I overreacted over some prank.

And now, our mutual friends are divided on the situation. The dudes understand me and said that I was right to leave the situation, but the women are saying that I was a horrible man and friend for leaving a vulnerable woman alone at the club with strangers.

I tried to explain what happened, but they kept insisting that I never should’ve left her. I’m so torn about the situation. I feel so s**tty but, at the same time, I knew that I had to leave because I was compromising my own safety if I stayed at the club.

Let’s dive into the reactions from Reddit:

Fluffy_Sheepy −  NTA. She put you in physical danger for a laugh. One of those people might have actually attacked you in defence of this girl crying wolf like that. You could have ended up in the hospital, or worse. You are under no obligation to stand guard over someone who would throw you to the wolves for their own amusement.

BulbasaurRanch −  You did the right thing. Her cheer squad is detached from reality. She did a truly messed up thing, there is no reason for them to be supporting that nonsense.

Uropa_Hoppenstedt −  NTA – she didn’t want to be connected to you while in the club so why would you be responsible for her? And what did she expect you to do? Wait outside the club until she had enough fun without you and serve as her chauffeur for her ride home? (Edit spelling)

Agoraphobe961 −  NTA. Tell her friends they should be proud of you! You got the c**ep who was touching her to leave the club instead of him stalking her all night and following her home.

Cool-Palpitation-729 −  Isn’t this nice. You now know which people to cut out from your life. Nta

maroongrad −  NTA. Woman here. She fucked up and she put herself in danger. AT BEST she knew she was a stupid and mean drunk and got drunk anyways. Nope. If she wanted you there, she shouldn’t have done that.

Tell her you expect her to go to the bar and tell the bouncers and bartenders what she did, on video, and apologize to them and admit she sicced the guys on you for shits and giggles. Make her record it, upload it, and then block her ass everywhere.

She’s an awful person and if anything had happened to her, it’s her own damn fault, not yours, that you weren’t with her. She COULD have gone to the bar and asked them to call an Uber for her, if she was too drunk to use her own phone. She didn’t.

No pity here, and as an adult female? You don’t need her in your life, you know what she’s like. Keep an ear on things because she’s likely to pull this s**t on another male friend in the future and you’ll want to be there to back him up.

blueberryxxoo −  So typically a prank like that would last about 5 seconds. “ew this c**ep is touching me” **One Beat** “just kidding”- grabbing you and giving you a kiss and laughing and saying “I was kidding, he’s my BF”. I’m not saying it’s a funny or recommended prank I’m just baffled as to why she let it go on so long.

Why didn’t she stop in when people started reacting? Was she enjoying watching you go through that because it’s not funny. At all. It’s fine you left. And while, yes, I don’t like the idea of a vulnerable woman being left alone at a night club she absolutely did that to herself.

And I’m a women so I don’t know why women aren’t getting what she did was absolutely not okay and what were you suppose to do? Stay while people gave you the side eye all night? Nope. You’re good and NTA.

tfhaenodreirst −  What? NTA; that’s so unfair and I don’t know what you could have done to fix that. :/

TheBerethian −  NTA. She put you in danger, deliberately, because she thought it was funny. She and her flying monkeys can f**k off. Block any and all of them, be glad they’re showing you exactly the kind of s**t bags they are.

TensionCareful −  Nta. Next prank.. he just s**ually assaulted me…

Do you think the user was justified in leaving his friend behind to protect his own safety, or should he have stayed by her side despite the chaos? How would you have handled such a dangerous situation? Share your thoughts below!