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34 Wild, Unexpected Or Underwhelming Discoveries Made By Private Investigators, As Shared In This Online Group
Movies and TV shows portray the job of a private investigator as very exciting and always finding out long-kept secrets. However, in reality it can get a bit boring with all the cheating cases and dead-ends where there is nothing more to be found.
Even though most private investigation stories are not movie-worthy, the sole fact of hiring a private investigator for a regular person is an unusual event in itself and is an interesting story to hear. There were a lot of such stories shared on Reddit when MoonPrismPowerUp asked, “Redditors who have hired a private investigator, what did you discover?”
From the stereotypical cases of finding out someone’s spouse was cheating on them to being investigated by a PI themselves, people were not afraid to reveal the drama they witnessed or got involved in.
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#1
My sister hired a PI for her child support/custody trial. She wanted to dig up some dirt on the guy I guess. (Baby girl was months old) BB daddy made very good money as the owner of a HVAC company but didn’t have a place to stay. He stayed in his warehouse. My sisters concern was, what does he do when he has the baby. Turns out when he had her he would rent rooms out in really nice hotels for stays. He’d spend the majority of the days walking her in the parks, having picnics and driving to non local destinations like state/regional parks, zoo’s. Got to see some of the pictures. Big a** 6’3” 300lb stocky body builder type guy, (think mountain from GOT) solo, pushing stroller and diaper bags in tow looking like only his daughter was the only thing that mattered. Dude is genuinely a good father with social anxiety issues.
Daniel Teel 3 years ago
He probably got wrecked in court for not having stable living arrangements
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
Not without a permanent address. I do hope he got generous visitation or maybe shared custody, although that would again be unlikely without a permanent address that isn't the warehouse.
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#2
Worked for a law firm that routinely hired PI’s to investigate workers comp claimants. One particular juicy bust involved a guy claiming a major back injury. PI got a whole days video of him doing a roofing job. Hauling big packs of shingles up a ladder, s**t like that. They went to mediation ready to drop the video on this guy when he shows up in a wheelchair being pushed by his twin brother. The PI had been following the twin all day. Fastest check I’ve ever seen written by an insurance company.
Myr Lopez 3 years ago (edited)
I mean, speaking as a disabled person, even if the PI HADN'T been following the uninjured twin, sometimes you end up having to work through crippling injuries, often further injuring yourself, in order to survive. If you're applying for disability, continuing to work is often seen as a sign that you "can" work and don't need benefits, even when it's "actively killing you*. You end up having to push through inhuman amounts of pain only to collapse, end up at the hospital, and have to leave early against medical advice because you can't afford the hospital bill and you need to go back to work to pay rent. By the time the decision is made, you'll already be homeless if you *don't* push through your injury, and because you're motivated by fear which causes adrenaline, often you push further than it seems you should be capable of. I saw this happen to several friends; it's horrible to witness because these are injuries that would leave me bedridden, they took years off their lives doing this
Natasha F Betts 3 years ago
I worked under these conditions after I hurt my back working in healthcare and had to soldier on because bills don't stop rolling in cause your in pain.
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𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
The real twist would be if it was the actual guy on the roof, realised he got caught, so got his twin brother in on it and they split the money. Or a funny twist if he knew he was being followed and really was injured, so let the PI follow the wrong twin. Either way, it’s a great story
Kiryn Silverwing 3 years ago
The twin has been in a wheelchair for years!
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Rick Greene 3 years ago
FIL of a female exec at the corp I worked for thought she was having an affair and thought his son naive to defend her. FIL hires a PI, they confront her with photos of her and another man. It was her brother.
Tristan Magdalena Valentine 3 years ago
My dad got a fractured spine at work and continued working because he had to doesn't mean his injury wasn't severe. Just means even when you need to most of the time you can't take time off because bills wouldn't be paid. Medical records should matter not what the pi might find
#3
I hire a private investigator about once a year to give me an update on my stalker, to ensure he’s not looking for me again. It costs a lot of money, but I sleep easier.
Also, stalker is passing of cancer and I feel pretty good about that.
Jane Jane 3 years ago
It must be terrifying to have a stalker much less one that goes on for years.
Hayhaypaula 3 years ago
They oftentimes do. Mine did. Might still be out there, lol. He was the reason I got cctv cameras. Best investment I've made. The cameras have aided in several local crimes!
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Memere 3 years ago
For everyone here calling her a "reverse stalker" SHUT. THE. PHUC. UP. Once a year she check to see where the stalker is to ensure her own safety. ONCE A YEAR, not monthly or weekly or daily. I call that being proactive with self defense.
Rylee Evergreen 3 years ago
Exactly! She probably doesn't even receive much information on the guy. Just enough to ensure she can breath more easily.
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Is Be 3 years ago (edited)
Wow I got 32 down votes. Let me just say that I was the victim of a stalker and it was terrifying. I took the necessary steps and had it investigated by law enforcement, restraining order and had to move out. Under no circumstance would I feel pretty good of anyone getting cancer. I am not sure how a PI can determine every year if this person is not stalking you. Believe me you know when you are being stalked because that is the whole point of it, they want their presence know and they get off of seeing you in fear.
Rachael Sampson 3 years ago
But you can't blame this person for feeling relieved about it. It means they will finally stop harming them and harassing them. They can finally put their life back together.
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KombatBunni 3 years ago
I’ve been stalked by two exes, it’s not fun..and tbh I wish that the first guy who did that had caught some kind of nasty disease..Probably would have made my life easier and safer.
Yayheterogeneity 3 years ago
Wow! I compliment you of taking control back over your life! Drastic measures but how else? Amazing!
Blue Pearl 3 years ago
It’s so depressing that stalkees have to resort to this because the law refuses to protect them.
#4
My old work did it for an ex senior manager, hoping to ruin him or something (horrible, bitter company).
Anyway, they got all excited about his meeting with a younger woman, drafted up the letters saying they'd expose him etc. All very sordid.
Till they found out it was his daughter he was meeting during her lunch break.
Some people truly only see darkness...
Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
So many sick people in the world who jump straight from older man + younger woman = sexual relationshop. Believe it or not, every woman has a father that is 15-45 years older than her!
Karen Grace 3 years ago
Bottom center, but it's in a sauce. Enlarge the pick and you can see rice grains.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
Reminds me of the people who went nuts screaming that Frozen was a lesbian movie when the scene they were losing their minds about was two sisters hugging each other after surviving a crisis. Made me think homophobes must not hug their grannies or siblings or kids or something so maybe we should be screaming about how they shouldn't be out in public.
Tracy Wood 1 year ago
Oh my God,really?!! I never heard about that,but how pathetic can some people be? That's so ridiculous that people would jump on such a stupidly idiotic band wagon,ABOUT A KIDS MOVIE! Wow,just Wow! I'm SO glad I'm not like that
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Some bigwig is misusing their discretionary funds for some farcical vendetta.
#5
My brother hired a PI against me. And then, when the PI couldn’t find anything, my brother wanted me to reimburse him for hiring the PI. Because “I misled him into thinking I was hiding something when I said I wasn’t hiding anything”
To answer the questions:
it was about money
yes, he is stupid
yes, he believes Qanon
yes, I still have some contact with him because he is the victim of his own stupidity
no, he is not my favorite brother. My other two are amazing
his name is not Dwight Schrute
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
You’re doing filial relationships right. My two youngest brothers had a falling out and the youngest one made a decision that the three older kids (all well into adulthood at this point, BTW) had to choose between them. I continued to have a relationship with the other brother because we have so much more in common, and so I haven’t seen or spoken to the youngest in DECADES. Only our mother is exempt. It’s utterly ridiculous.
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
So sad, that children come from the same 2 parents, same upbringing, but are so different in every way that they can’t have a normal conversation or be in the same room for more then 5 minutes
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Memere 3 years ago (edited)
I have a brother I only speak to at family get-togethers, and then we only say hello & nothing more. He's the youngest of us & I've looked out for him since we were young kids, helped him thru his marriage to a raving alcoholic, spent a week's vacation & 500 bucks helping clean out his house so he didn't get evicted (it was declared uninhabitable by the city from her trashing it), & took his kid in when the drunk one would go nuts. When I needed help when my car was broken into, I called, no answer, went to voice mail. Left a message, & sent a text - no reply. 5 days later I get a call "Oh, did you need me to come over?" No, I had to get a total stranger to help me out, thanks anyway. Then he voted for the orange one. And started posting misogynistic crap on fb. I'm over it.
FABULOUS1 3 years ago
I have a brother who grew very delusional with all of his conspiracy theories and Qanon. Apparently because I didnt agree with him on a fb post he considers me a racist (against white people). I dont even remember what the post was about, but it boils down to I didnt conform to what he thinks I should believe and therefore I am the enemy. I still text him Hi and I love you with no response but hopefully he will be deprogrammed one day soon.
Don't Look 3 years ago
Well, this one was EXCELLENT! I’m rolling around laughing. Cool story bro.
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
how dare you insult Dwight Shrute like that. No one grows a good beet like Dwight does.
Cathy Hurd 3 years ago
I wouldn't have my siblings as friends. We have absolutely nothing in common except parentage. Why would I want to associate with them just because of blood. Biology doesn't mean s**t.
#6
My Aunt hired a PI because she suspected her husband of cheating on her. The stereotypical "Why does he have to stay at work for so long all of the sudden?" Instead she found out that he stayed at work after he was done so he could play poker and crack a cold one in peace. When she confronted him about it, he got so mad, flying into a rage that he confessed to her how annoying and controlling she actually is. They worked it out, saved their marriage and built a house though.
El Dee 3 years ago
Men are usually the ones who will fail to confront a problem in their marriage. Instead they'll deal with it like this ie staying out later to have some time to themselves. If men dealt with the problems rather than avoid them then I think many more marriages would last. NB I'm not saying women don't do this or have other faults. I just think this fault is particularly male, women do other bad stuff instead..
Trash_Panda 3 years ago
Men typically are the avoidant communication style (which is worse than anxious imo) so you are correct.
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Cathy Carey 3 years ago
Glad it all worked out; they must really love each other which is super rare these days.
Herb Coleman 3 years ago
Just goes to show that maybe a conversation first might have saved a bit of cash. Just saying.
#7
That, as I suspected, my husband (and I use that term loosely) was in fact already married to someone else.
Two wives in two different states and a convenient military job that required him to be “away” (at the other house) a lot.
Hiring the PI saved both of us wives because she was clueless about what was going on.
Don't Look 3 years ago
This one is just like that movie about the airline pilot with the two families in two different states.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Plot twist: having gotten rid of that bum the two now ex wives fell deeply in love and got married.
Kalyn Smith 3 years ago
If this was the US. Did one wife not wonder why they didnt get any military benefits? Cause there is NO way that was done legally and got past DEERS.
Samantha 3 years ago (edited)
It's because some people can lie so well their stories would make sense for some reason in the victim's mind. They know what to say so the victim wouldn't get suspicious.
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AxleMunshine001 3 years ago
I don't think I could pull off that kind of deception. My memory is not what it used to, and I would certainly mix up dates and names at some point, giving the game away pretty quickly.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
How though? If someone works from a military base (and is not deployed overseas), how can they suddenly "disappear" from one base and "appear" at another? In another state. Unless, he pretends he's on leave and doesn't go to the base? What about military housing? Does he have one at one base, but not another? How can he afford two homes, plus keeping two families? I'm thinking drugs or something else is involved. Unless he's extremely high-ranking, the pay isn't all that great to set up two households.
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Monty B 3 years ago
This happened to a friend of mine. Her dad named the kids the same names in each relationship so as not to get confused. Things unravelled when one kid searched their name on Facebook. She found someone else with the same name, noticed they looked similar and contacted them.
#8
My friend hired someone only to find out his wife was just eating out alone in parking lots without him lol
MarmotArchivist 3 years ago (edited)
Wife turns around mouth covered in mariana sauce. 'it's not what it looks like, I swear!'
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I read a book where a married couple have lost their son, and recently the husband has been disappearing for long periods. The wife gets suspicious that he's having an affair, only to follow him and find out he's actually going to a bakery their son loved and then sitting in the carpark with a pastry, quietly grieving. I wish I could remember the title.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
That's so sad. When my brother died of SIDS, my mom said spending time alone really helped.
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May light defeat the darkness 3 years ago (edited)
For a woman to sneak out just to have personal space and ‘me’ time may mean that husband is the paranoid, possesive and insecure type.
SirDigbyChickenCaesar 3 years ago (edited)
I have dealt with this. If I was held up at work for 30 minutes past the usual time he would accuse me of having sex with my coworkers. If I went out anywhere with my best friend he would accuse me of having sex with total strangers. If I just wanted some time alone he would make extra effort to ruin it somehow. If I was trying to relax hed put on loud music, if I was reading he would start talking to me and asking me pointless questions. Like, "leave me the hell alone!". I kept breaking up with him and he wouldn't accept the breakup and just wouldn't leave. SO FREAKING INSANE! I would literally have to go hide somewhere just for some peace and quiet. Some guys are total psychos. And the police will not help you get rid of them if they are not physically harming you and just driving you insane mentally.
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Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
But why? Why was she? Why did he? Seems like a serious communication problem neither want to solve.
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
Had he put her on a diet, or was she being "supportive" of his diet?
Jonae Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
This is me... my husband thought I was funding lunch with some dude everyday. Idk why he doesn't know by now that I can eat $25 worth of food by myself. Also why would I fund an affair through our shared account??? Its like he doesn't want to accept the obvious... that his wife is a fat ass.
Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
That’s me! Happy marriage, four kids and I love to take myself out on dates. So nice to make decisions for just myself.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Why is it do difficult to understand that some of us need some time alone? It doesn't mean we don't appreciate our friends or partner, just we just need to spend time on our own, without listening or paying attention to anything. It's not despise, or boredom, or depression, or anger, or shyness. We just need to be alone.
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
Nothing difficult about it. Hiding it is unhealthy though.
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Not me, but the insurance agency I worked for. We got this strange claim about children that were hurt in a frontal collision while the parents filed no claim for themselves. The collision was against a wall.
A few things in their account of the accident didn't check out so the comp agent tasked an investigator.
Investigator found out the parents sat their two children in the backseat with fastened seatbelts, then put a rock on the accelerator pedal to crash the car in the wall and get compensated for their children's injuries. Needless to say, while we did pay for the children's care, parents got no penny and ended having to deal with CPS.
Anaïs Grobin 3 years ago
Yes, this is quite disturbing. They don't value their children at all, and eventually they would have ended up worse off than minor injuries
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Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
Jesus f*****g christ!!! WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K!!?? Hope they got the poor kids taken from them!!
Panda Kicki 3 years ago
So the.parents willingly cause the kids injuries and risk their life and they dont.call the POLICE right away? Like, CPS can join the police at the arrest, but this is criminal, not neglect.
Susan Kiser 3 years ago
What horrible parents! If they needed money they should both be working and if that isn’t enough then one should have gotten a second job.
#10
My uncle did this, he found out that his wife was sleeping with their pastor and they found out their pastor was also a drug dealer. It was a crazy couple weeks hearing everything come out.
Chicken Tacos R Better 3 years ago
Kind of off topic, but this comment section shows how you can't even mention religion nowadays because it's gonna stir some argument. People saying "rEliGIoN BAd!! 1! " and "aThEiSM bAd!! 1!" Like- stfu please. Whatever you believe in is fine, and doesn't make you automatically good or bad. Why are y'all so pent up on people's beliefs anyway? It's weird, seek help.
Ashley Bonner 3 years ago (edited)
Your profile says that Chicken Tacos R Better but I think pork tacos are better, so that means I hate you, you're stupid and we should fight.....or or OR....we can just order different tacos when we go out to eat. People get so offended over things that have nothing to do with them, it's so stupid. Your comment is great!!!
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I've been told a lot of it is just sitting in a car outside someone's house trying to look inconspicuous.
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Giobemo 3 years ago
He read 'God helps those who help themselves.' and said, "Don't mind if I do!"
Simspyder40 3 years ago
Where did he read it? It's the most misquoted passage. It's not in the Bible anywhere. 😉
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Evelyn Ann 3 years ago
My fiance stayed with a priest (distant family member) when he and his dad first immigrated to the US from Poland in 98. Very small town in Upper Michigan. The priest lived off money donated to church and in a large home owned by church. Had a cook for all meals and cleaning lady. Told them to treat it as home but they were uncomfortable and tried to only eat there when specifically invited. Four weeks in dad and fiance had jobs and were able to move out... the priest handed them an itemized invoice for several thousand dollars for the month they stayed. 20$ a plate for dinners, 50$ for sharing a bottle of wine with them at dinner. They paid him a few dollars back in confusion but never spoke to him again. A decade later they saw his name in the news and now he's a very high up monsignor or something in the Church, relocated to Washington DC.
Sally Barry 3 years ago
Did he run tRump's church, the one where the orange stain held an upside down bible?
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Bob Standen 3 years ago
Can't trust a pastor? A drug dealing, fornicatoring, adulator? Sounds like my pastor too.
#11
Not me but my father-in-law and his sisters hired one because they found out their father had given their oldest sister up for adoption. They were in their 30’s and wanted to find her.
Turns out the PI didn’t need to work too hard because she was an executive at NBC in Florida. Everyone else lives in Canada. I’ve got to meet her a few times and she’s terribly nice.
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
I'm not trying to be the devil's advocate here, but maybe the parents were struggling and thought the child would be better off with someone who could care for her and later on, maybe their situation in life improved but by then it was too late to take back the child and they felt ashamed for giving her up? Idk, but I'm reading too much into it, but I've read some stories (on Reddit) ib which similar things have happened. What matters is that the siblings gt along and their recently discovered sister seems to have a good life.
DCB 3 years ago
Yes. You never know what situations anyone else, including your own parents (!) have gone through. There could be hundreds of good reasons that was done. The way I look at it, adoption (especially in the 70s and before, when it was considered "shameful") was often done out of love because the mother (and father sometimes) didn't have the resources or the maturity to give the child the quality of life that the child deserved.
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Seaweed Vibes 3 years ago
I have a similar story but didn't use a PI to find out that my mother had another family before her and my father had met and had our family. So I have 3 older brothers, one is incredibly nice and has a good outlook on life, the other I have met is in and out of prison with a poor outlook on life and one I havent met.
#12
Not me but a friend hired a PI to find out if the PI he originally hired had started to sleep with my friends' wife... Turns out he had XD
Bored Turtle Princess 3 years ago
The real question is, did the new PI sleep with your friend? I think that will even this out. 🤣
Thalia Lovering 3 years ago
I know what XD means but since they didn't put a full stop before it I thought that it was something else.
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Paddling Panda 3 years ago
What do you get when one PI follows another PI? PI squared. I'll see myself out now...
#13
Friend hired a private investigator to look into her boyfriend who she thought was cheating on her. The dude wasn't cheating, he was plotting his proposal.
GenericPanda09 3 years ago
If that was me tbh I'd forget about proposing after that. If me and my partner didn't trust each other to be allowed some privacy or personal time without jumping to the conclusion that an affair might be going on then there wouldn't be any future in the relationship anyway.
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
And that is why so many relationships fail. At some point folks started believing you have to give yourself up in one instead of two personalities completing each other while still being themselves.
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Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Maybe she'd been cheated on before? I wasn't sure my x was cheating on me till he got remarried a week after the divorce was finalized. (And then a lot of stuff from while we were married made sense ). I did a lot more pokeing around before my second marriage and we've been married over 13 years happier than we've ever been before. ^_^ Sometimes investigating your fears and being able to really be sure someone is trustworthy is what it takes after a heartbreaking relationship. I'm extremely lucky though. My hubby understands the traumas my x put me through and is always here for me, compleatly open. We even swap phones when one of us has a low battery or something. You know some one is open and honest when they are stress free letting you borrow their phone for a day. ^_^
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
This is what's considered "baggage" I know- I have a lot of it. The thing is- if you can't trust because you've been hurt you can't get into a trusting relationship until you've healed from that enough to try again and you shouldn't force yourself. It's great that you've found a partner empathetic enough to work with you but what you expect of him is not considered acceptable in many "normal" relationships and a person isn't necessarily untrustworthy because they won't give you their phone to use.
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Amy Taylor 3 years ago
My Father-In-Law's lifelong best friend retired to Hawaii. For his 75th birthday, his wife planned this elaborate surprise party where we all flew in. She planned an entire luau..the whole works. On the day of, when he came into the surprise he burst into tears.. he said "this is what's been going on??" apparently he saw all of these hotel bookings and a lot of secrecy on his wife's part and thought she had been having an affair :( I'll never forget the look on his face... while relived he was wrong, you could clearly see the anguish he had been suffering for weeks. The party ended up being an absolute blast and he had a wonderful time in the end.
Kalyn Smith 3 years ago
My sister in law was getting suspicious about my brother in the weeks leading up to him proposing. He has anxiety and he suddenly started acting real weird and clingy to his backpack (which is where he stored the ring). We were like "Dude you need to hurry up. You're freaking everybody out." Lol
Catlady6000 3 years ago
Is it just my phone, or is something wrong with the hand in the photo?
SCP-3998 3 years ago
So, according to the comments, it's ok to check on your long time partner/spouse like this, but just NOT when they're planning to propose? Nah, that ain't it fam.
Bored Turtle Princess 3 years ago
What most of the comments mean(this is my interpretation) is that if the one being proposed to is already so suspicious of their partner that they feel the need to hire a private investigator, then they probably didn't trust their partner at all.
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My mother hired one against my dad cause she thought the he was cheating. She found out what I've been telling her, and that was that my dad was an overworked guy and was tired of her s**t and just stayed at my brother's house
Carlos Bergade 3 years ago
From my experience a woman doesn't want to hear the truth about a mans feelings. She says she does, and begs, nags you yo communicate but when you tell them that you are tired of doing everything, tired of watching her sit on the sofa binge watching anything from Grays Lobotamy to CSI etc. Not taking the dog for walks or cleaning it's sh1t up, or lying to me about not being called back to your job or being able to find a job.
Load More Replies... M 3 years ago
Cheating or not ... Why to stay married if you are miserable. If you feel mistreated (but your partner is not cheating) does that make it ok?
Dillon Sizemore 3 years ago
It's because even in a agreed upon divorce your still likely to have one party that ends up in financial ruin from divorce costs new housing cost or whatever easier just to not rock the boat
Load More Replies... Carlos Bergade 3 years ago
I know the feeling, pulling a 70~90 hour week installing away from home and not feeling like going home to put up with my wife's BS. Most of the time it was the dog that I missed. Some times I would lie and pretend I had to stay the week and and just carry on working hoping another job would pop up meanwhile so I didn't have to go home. Now it's just me and the dog, happy dog happy life!!
Patricia the Grey 3 years ago
Have to wonder--what is that sign on the cubicle on the right? No crawling?
willi santiago 3 years ago
Again, he's lying and avoiding and being passive aggressive, but somehow ots her fault. Ever since the stupid talking snake, men have blamed their sins on women
#15
My coworker hired one to track down his first car he ever owned so he could buy it back. Cleanest E28 i've ever seen (in person that is)
kcanded 3 years ago
Not me! I had a 65 Dodge Dart that could only be started with a screwdriver across the spark plugs. And no, it didn't do that when I bought it but started doing that pretty darn quick.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I'm involved in a car club and we get a surprising number of requests from people wanting to track down their old cars. Funniest old car story for me was one of my Dad's, an E36, which the garage had kept as a courtesy car when he traded it in, and I came home in it when mine went in for service!
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
That's so cool! What did he say when he saw you in it?
Load More Replies... Keisha 3 years ago
I tried this for my first car and another car I absolutely LOVED but found out that both had been totalled in one car accidents where the driver hit an immovable object and died in it. My Camaro the guy died the same day I sold it hitting a tree right near his house and my Cadillac the guy died after hitting a concrete wall two days after buying it. Everyone I know said never sell another car because I am a curse. I do see my vehicles of an extension of my family and have since become a collector because I don't believe that that these were just coincidences.
RafCo 3 years ago
My first car got driven into the ground by me. 1988 Toyota Tercel. When the engine finally called it quites, i had just over 327,000 miles on that car. I never sell cars, except for scrap. That one I donated to a high school mechanics vocational training program. My current car is 11 years old, and I'm pretty sure I'll get at least another five to six years more.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I really like this one. I haven't seen the first car I had since I sold it seven years ago, I could only hope that someone cares for it as well as I did.
Leslie Crittenden 3 years ago
Lol Gremlin!! I had a 68 Chevy Nova *sigh* I'd give a lot to have that back!
Load More Replies... Matt Smith 3 years ago
Maybe, but there's far worse things one can do with that kind of money than hire a PI to track down an old car so you can rebuy it...
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#16
I hired one to follow somebody suing me for a knee and hand injury. The PI put motion cameras outside where he lived, one morning he sent me a picture of guy wearing sunglasses asking me if that was him which it was. PI followed him through several red lights at high speed to a park. He then records him smoking pot and playing frisbee golf without limping. The guy he followed walked up to the PI suspicious but he talked his way out of it. PI fee was money well spent, around $400.
Pilar 3 years ago
Scamming someone is despicable, but if you're going to do it, at least do it right!
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
I still til this day do not understand people that file false injury claims go about their day in the most physical way possible, wouldn’t you stay low til the hearing( just saying) it’s like a suspected bank robber going on a shopping spree, but they always get caught
Denise Melek 3 years ago
Is it legal to set up motion cameras in front of someones home? I think you can get sued back for that where i live..
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Hahah the one who followed me got so bored 😂(I got set of fire and his job was to catch me either filling up petrol in my car or an exposed uncovered burn ) dumbass got nothing, for the people who are genuinely injured these ass holes are annoying, I like my privacy outside of performing 😂 (it took ten yrs after accident to fill car up myself ).
Rylee Evergreen 3 years ago
This makes me want to hire a PI for no reason at all. Just for fun, which would be completely useless, but..... I don't know XD
#17
An affair that my wife had been lying to me about for a year. I got incredibly damning photos that I texted to both of them just after calling my wife on the phone and having her lie to me once more.
Samantha Galentine 3 years ago
My ex husband should have thought about doing this when he claimed this on me. Last laugh is I married the "person I cheated on" not long after our divorce because everything clicked perfectly. Third anniversary coming up and it's refreshing to not be accused. Would have loved the PI watching me because my ex would have photos of me crying and being alone.
V Michael Lazar 3 years ago
Because a PI is more likely to know the local surveillance and stalking laws better, have better equipment and experience. Not to mention, trying to surreptitiously follow someone who knows what you look like is not easy.
#18
I hired one once.
He found out my ex was not, in fact, pregnant with my child.
She had just been telling me she was.
Worst six months of my life.
John Guy 3 years ago
There is a spot in Hell Lady Karma has for this POS.
Load More Replies... Eiram 3 years ago
Im sorry. A friend of mine was dealing with custody of his two children, and DNA tests proved neither was his... worst day of his life since he loved those kids.
Anna Taylor 3 years ago
My dad watches court shows all the time and there was one child support case where the dad was sueing his ex for the money back after finding out the kid wasn't his. You could see the incredible heartbreak in his eyes. I hope your friend one day recovers and is able to have kids of his own.
Load More Replies... Hayhaypaula 3 years ago
At six months, she should be showing the typical baby bump.
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No you can't have my name 3 years ago
Better to find out now than to be strung along with a fake miscarriage story?
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Or kidnapping attempt at a maternity ward in 3 more months... o.0
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Thalia Lovering 3 years ago
I wonder how does a PI find out that a woman isn't pregnant. Like, do they follow her to the loo and search for tampons in the bin?
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
More likely that sometimes she did have a baby bump, sometimes she didn’t.
Load More Replies... #19
My vindictive aunt hired one to spy on me and the guy found out quite a bit about me, like my dental records and stuff. I mean, I'm a pretty boring person with nothing to hide so the guy didn't find much to use against me.
Keisha 3 years ago
That sounds more like a dentists PI just to make sure his clients are doing as instructed. 😜
Load More Replies... Lulxby 3 years ago
"Your teeth are clean. A little too clean. Pretty suspicious if you ask me..."
Memere 3 years ago
HIPAA. But it could have been before HIPAA was put in place, or could be another country.
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Sara Smith-Anderson 3 years ago
I feel bad for anyone hired to investigate me. They'll end up dying of boredom.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
That's still unnerving that our info isn't as private and confidential as we think.
heather kosto 3 years ago
So much for HIPAA. She should help everyone else who are patients there and sue the pants off of that dental practice
#20
The wedding planner booking our wedding did in fact not make any reservations, and was planning to steal pretty much every penny we gave them (20k) and leave us weddingless.
Keisha 3 years ago
But if people show up and there is no wedding, especially the bride and groom that's of little help at the time.
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Warren Peace 3 years ago (edited)
Why people waste this much money on a wedding is beyond me. Save it for something meaningful, if your love requires a 5 figure party to validate, it wasn't that meaningful to begin with. Keep it simple, save that cash for something vital.
Orange Is Aging 3 years ago
Is nobody going to say anything about how people are spending 20k on a wedding?
ERIKA H. 3 years ago
This is actually really common. Almost happened to me, but luckily i have sense. My current wedding planner has been AMAZING. for anyone else planning a wedding and using a planner (who may be scamming you) a legit wedding planner will have you CC'd in all her correspondence with venues/vendors and you and your partner will have meetings with those vendors because you'll need to make decisions. A legit wedding planner will not be making all the decisions for you, they are there to organize and set up everything, but it is up to the couple to pick stuff out and make final decisions.
Keisha 3 years ago
That's horrible. Things like this is why my obsessive brain did everything myself. And I mean everything down to decorating before the wedding. I'm not able to micromanage because no matter how clear I make myself it won't be right. So instead of getting mad at other people it's easier to do it myself.
#21
That a scummy competitor who ripped off my branding, 90% word for word on business name, copy and graphics had several serious felony charges. Including getting caught red handed robbing someone at gun point by a passing police officer.
readingthequibbler 3 years ago
To quote them, Well my business at the time was helping people in California start legal Cannabis businesses. So I handled sensitive information like names, SSN, EIN #s etc. I was going to make a website exposing his criminal past but by the time I got around to it he was already gone. I assume he pissed off more than a few customers and ghosted them.
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Cat Amanigh 3 years ago
BP is a content aggregator. The person who wrote that isn't here...
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#22
I was looking for a lost family member. I discovered he wasn't living anywhere under his name, he wasn't in jail, and that he hadn't collected his VA benefits.
Turns out he was living homeless on the street, but the PI didn't find that part.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I hope once they found him they gave the poor bugger a place to stay.
PotatoGirl31 3 years ago
Did you help him??? Or find resources that help vets and homeless and direct him toward them??
Kathryn 3 years ago
Why is there what looks like an empty shirt crouching in the bushes? The Invisible Man?
Dee 3 years ago
I’m guessing the shirt is there on the bushes airing out, a night of fresh air is almost as good as laundering (so long as there aren’t any obvious stains).
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BILL SMALLEY 3 years ago
Sadly , if you wanted to quickly " disappear " yourself blending in with people on the streets would probably do it. People will actively ignore you at all costs . Well most anyway.
#23
That the dentist who took six sessions to just ruin my tooth (and drill on a sore nerve) wasn't actually allowed to be a dentist. She immigrated, got covered by the medical practice during her stay, and fled back into her country as soon as she realized she did a mistake. Luckily they found her.
Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
Not everyone knows you can usually look up licensing online. It's worth it to look up the person's license before you go to them. It will show if they are a) actually licensed and b) if they have any complaints against them. It's worth it. Won't catch everything but at least in this case OP would've known she was unlicensed.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
I did not know that, so thank you for the information. How would one go about looking up this information? Is there a national registry?
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Keisha 3 years ago
WOW. I have a horrid love hate relationship with the dentist. My family has a long history of issues with our teeth no matter how well they are maintained. One of my brothers had to have all of his removed by the time he was 18 he had a full mouth of dentures. I can't numb and nitrous doesn't work and they always have to surgically remove mine but true sedation dentistry is expensive and hard to find where I live so I sympathize with you so much. Glad you tracked her down.
laura lee 3 years ago (edited)
I don't believe this one either. Most immigrants I know, yes I know many, actually lose their ability to practice. The US requires you to have stateside or equivalent (equivalent like UK/Canada) and even then you have to satisfy MORE requirements than those with a stateside license and schooling.
Soggy Crumpet 3 years ago
In the US, healthcare and dental providers have to go through a credential process that confirms licensing, tax levies, etc before an insurance company will participate with them. If a they have no insurance companies associated to them, there is probably a reason…
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
I don’t understand how it got that far as her working in someone, if self employed isn’t there documentations needed to open up any business of the trade, same if she was hired, credentials are needed right?? I took my daughter to this dentist office one time, husband and wife duo, as she’s working in my daughter’s teeth, he’s over her shoulder giving instructions
2022emmam trent 3 years ago
I had two root canals on a tooth only for it to be pulled. The first doctor didn't even finish it but told me it was done before assigning me a new dentist. The second root canal was done by a specialist and the tooth was pulled by a way better dentist than both.
#24
I know no one will see this but... my ex sister in law hired one to get dirt on her oldest brothers ex wife. $8000 later he got information on the wrong person and took pictures of the wrong kids.
DrNefariousMcFarious 3 years ago
Why do people say that ..."no one will see this"? Legitimately asking
Question everything 3 years ago
These posts are from Reddit and may be at the bottom of the comment section after other tens or hundreds of posts, or they added the post later than the others did etc. so they think nobody will see the post.
Load More Replies... Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Was it that expensive before or after the second PI that investigated the first one?
Mmm K 3 years ago
Ha. Definitely the worst. He completely failed the assignment
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#25
Not me, but this is kind of a funny one. A friend of my father's hired one to find out whether he was still married or not. He had been separated for many years but wasn't sure whether his ex had ever actually divorced him. (Sounds strange to me too, but that's how I heard it.) He needed to know because he wanted to remarry.
So what did he find out? That she had in fact divorced him, and also passed away. So no worries on that front.
Don't Look 3 years ago
This is actually the brunt - if I’m not mistaken - of what PIs do. Boring civil work.
Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
Divorce decrees in most counties here in the US are public record and can be ordered/requested by the parties involved. I'm not sure why you'd need a PI for this. In my county, they can be ordered for $25.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
may sound funny but that kind of stuff isn't. was married to a guy for 6 yrs. left due to abuse. had a child with him. after researching by my attorney discovered that the "minister" that my ex hired was not, in fact, a minister. so, we weren't really married. but, because of the laws in my state i still had to get a divorce because of the child. crazy stuff.
#26
My father in law has been calling a woman who’s identity was a lie; she’s been using false IDs and is actually a cult guru.
I hoped exposing this info to my father in law would help him « rethink » his allegiances (he’s cutting off ties with his entire family to be with the cult). It didn’t, sadly. He was surprised when we revealed the info, though.
Susan Kiser 3 years ago
A girl I went to school with, and her siblings became concerned about their mom. She was struggling financially in the home she and her dear departed husband had owned, and where they raised all their kids. It was eventually discovered she was sending some foreign scammer lots of money. Later they discovered she had bought expensive gifts and shipped them to him. The siblings asked a cop to talk to her and explain how these scammers work. Mom still insisted the kids were wrong about him. Mom took a mortgage out on her home so she could send him the money. The siblings confronted her and within a couple hours mom attempted to commit suicide. She was admitted to the hospital on a 48 hour psych hold. Once back home mom just kept sending gifts like a DSLR camera, and money. It wasn’t much longer and she called her daughter and said I’m moving in with you the bank is taking the house. The kids were devastated she had even sent their inheritance their dad left for them
#27
Had one used against me (thanks current father-in-law). He found out that I was seriously a desperately boring person. Aside from my boring work and education history, he learned of two of my exes and the fact that they were pretty boring too (though one sadly, struggled with an eating disorder). I don’t think he knew what, “yeah, yak played world of Warcraft with his last ex... a lot...” meant, but yeah... he learned I was adopted and had grown up with a very nice pair of parents (non-bio... obviously).
You know, until this second, I assumed he had wasted his money, and ended up with literally no interesting info. I’m kinda curious if the guy found out about my bio parents... and wonder if that colored his view of me...
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Jane. Try to grasp that these are posts from Reddit. Maybe read the top of the article just a little bit. Then maybe you'll understand you're wasting your time trying to reply to people who aren't there.
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Dina Anastasakos 3 years ago
Well you didn't grow up with your bio parents...and anyway what right does your FIL have to judge you on anything! Guy sounds like a real jerk!
Susanne B 3 years ago
When I had read the rest I looked back to see, if I had not misread former father in law, but no. I think I would have reconsidered marrying a son of his
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Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Might have ended up setting his mind to rest, too, that you weren't an escaped serial jaywalker or something.
laura lee 3 years ago (edited)
You didn't ask? Would be my first question, yak. I assume that's your avatar or is your legal name Yak? If it's your avatar, I assume you played a tauren and your name choices are just as boring as you are.
Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
Username is under the post, The_Best_Yak_Ever
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Amaranthim Talon 3 years ago
I have questions- Mostly, this is OP's CURRENT FIL - did husband to be then and presumably husband now, know of his dad investigating his fiancée?
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Go ask the person who posted it on Reddit a year ago if you have questions.
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DetongLhamo 3 years ago
As the information pertains to you, you have the right to request the results of the investigation.
#28
My parents hired one because my piano teacher promised to make a recording of me playing piano, my parents gave him a down payment for recording equipment and then he peaced out. The PI found out that the piano teacher never went to the music school he claimed, had done this to at least 5 other families, he didn't work for the recording studio he claimed to and he didn't even live in New York as he said he did. I would have to ask my parents if there was anything else they found out and kept from me.
Pilar 3 years ago
But, the important question is, you parents were able to get their money back? If not, the lots even more paying the PI 😕
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Posted a year ago on Reddit. You can't ask questions because they won't see them.
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UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Someone put that poor piano out of its misery.
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#29
I've hired them for incredibly boring reasons. I work as a lawyer, and occasionally I'll need a document from a courthouse that's too far away for me to just go there and pick it up. Occasionally the courthouse staff will refuse to make copies and mail them to me. So I've hired a few PIs to pick up what I needed.
Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
This would be a perfect opportunity to turn boring into fun - Mission Impossible style. Are they really just going to the court to pick up papers? Or are they actually on a top secrete mission to uncover information about the towns founders and what hidden secrets they buried in cemetery plot 4355?
Sawdust 3 years ago
When the PI returns with the document, ask him "Were you followed?"
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Irish Lad 3 years ago
In Michigan I had a small video production company. I would be hired by lawyers for various surveillance work. (No PI license was required). One job I was hired to get evidence of a guy strip mining on his own property. Had to hike in, got video of heavy equipment and guard dogs! They wanted more shots. OK'd use of a plane. So we flew over and I'm hanging out the open door of a Cessna getting great shots at 1000 feet. Had to appear in court to verify the shots were unedited. The guy was a mountain of a man and I'm thinkin', "Oh crap, I'm dead." Plus side? The lawyer says that I am now known as an Expert Witness for future testimonies. Cool. Had lots of other jobs that were interesting also, some involving medical injuries.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
Irish Lad, this would make a great movie, and you've already got (some of) the footage!
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Memere 3 years ago
More reliable, or trustworthy. Plus if you used the same PI all the time, you establish a working relationship & can use them for other needs.
Load More Replies... Hayhaypaula 3 years ago
When I first worked for law firms, back in the 70's (yeah I'm old), we used to use a courier service to take docs to the court for filing, and to then return to us a conformed copy, showing the stamp of when the original was filed. One of those courier businesses was Janney & Janney. I wonder if it is still doing that?
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
Do you pass on the large extra cost of your laziness to the client?
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
Seems like a lot of money to spend, but then a PI could be more trustworthy & dependable. I worked as a courier for a law firm over 30 years ago - it was very cool. I did a morning run to other law offices & the courthouse as needed, then got to take my lunch break. After lunch, I relieved the receptionist for her lunch break, then I did copying or filing in the office for a bit. Then an afternoon run or I sometimes drove paperwork to other courts or law offices outside the city - when I did those, I could go on home if it was quitting time. That was a fun job!
#30
Not me, but my former boss. She hired a PI to investigate a guy from my country who she was dating online. All the birthday cards, little gifts, and little etceteras she sent him never reached him, because as it turned out, he never gave her his real name. She finally had enough and hired a PI. Guy was married and he lived further away from where he said he was located
M 3 years ago
People really have money to waist.. hiring PI to spy on online date? Wouldn't it be easier just to let it go all together?
Dellon 3 years ago
The story mentioned birthday cards. Plural. This wasn't just an online date, it went on for a couple years at least.
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#31
My dad used one on my mom when they got a divorce since she was doing some really shady things, and she used one on him because she was paranoid.
My dad found out that my mom had gotten a 25 year old boyfriend. He also found out I was gay since he was dipping into other sources and found out a school boards chairperson had a daughter I was involved with.
My mom found nothing on my dad- except his double life as a baseball little league coach one town over. In about a year they completely separated.
Rose Button 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Well, thankfully they are NOT cheating, as we learned in #33
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laura lee 3 years ago
So you're a gay woman that hates your mom even though your dad's pi was the one that outed you. Ok...
MelO 3 years ago
Seeing as how "really shady things"= dating someone younger then herself while already separated, I'd say there was pretty significant bias, lol.
Load More Replies... #32
That the guy I sold my car to and who then got me 3 speeding tickets before I could change the details over doesn't keep his address up to date and moves roughly every 6 months...
Honu 3 years ago
It's not stolen. Where I live (US) you file a Notice of Transfer/Release of Liability form when you sell or give someone your car. I had some tickets crop up after I donated a car because DMV hadn't processed the transfer before the charity had given the car to yet another person and they'd gotten tickets. It all got cleared up easily because the original date on my filing was prior to the tickets.
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Jessica Rabbit 3 years ago
That's why you get online as soon as they are driving away and file the change of information yourself...
Kelsie Mcelwain 3 years ago
It would depend on when he actually sold the car. Bored Panda has a tendency of going on to sites like Reddit and posting what they find on here and they don't always put the original posting date like they should.
Load More Replies... Kathryn 3 years ago
Umm, did you not take the license plate off your car when you sold it to him? Not bothering with a title change is one thing, but I think the police would’ve had to have the license plate # to write speeding tickets. If that’s the case… are you just a total and colossal idiot?
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Umm, who's the idiot trying to reply to a person who posted this on Reddit a year ago on a completely different website?
Load More Replies... Keisha 3 years ago
Nope we sign the papers at the DMV. But what do I know ? I've sold two cars and two people have died right after buying them. One on the same day hitting a tree and the other the next day hitting a wall. Everyone says I'm a curse so now I collect cars that I love and drive them a different day of the week. Not trying to curse anyone else.
Agatha Christie 3 years ago
Exactly. The fact that the buyer didn't want to sign papers at the DMV is a major 🚩
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thee1nonlykRiS 3 years ago
A chick I sold my car to for dirt cheap ended up getting into an accident a few months later. She had no license, no insurance, & hadn't switched the car into her name. I kept insurance on it for 30days despite selling it to give her time. (Claimed she was pregnant & struggling financially). I get a call 1 day from this lawyer telling me she claimed I had lent her the car & I was liable. I said oh no sir I have a bill of sale plus the DMV records will show the sold slip from the title with the date & her name & full address. He said "I'm sorry for bothering u ma'am have a great day!" Not every1 has the best intentions & it can be a real headache selling a vehicle.
Richard McLean 3 years ago
Of course she got into an accident. Baby birds don't know how to drive.
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AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
I'm confused. Why would the ticket be attached to the car and not the actual person driving it? Like, if I borrow my sister's car, get a speeding ticket, I'm responsible for it as the driver
Rob Davison 3 years ago
Here locally we have a lot of migrant farm workers. When one sells another one a car he takes him/her to the local car license office and stands there while the person does the transfer and gets new plates as you get new plates when you buy a car in this state.
#33
That my wife was actually not cheating on me with my sons little league coach. Cost me over 5 thousand to figure that one out.
Shawn Brooks 3 years ago
If you're at the point of doing something like this your marriage is already over.
Beth S 3 years ago
Absolutely. Trust is such a major component of a healthy marriage... if not the most important component.
Load More Replies... Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
There are a lot of people that give us reasons to have trust issues.
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Steffi Rose 3 years ago
Maybe it was the guy who had the double life as a little league coach…
Agatha Christie 3 years ago
That money would have been better spent enjoying your wife instead of suspecting her
Cujo Merdoc 3 years ago (edited)
Would like to think it was the guy posted above with the lego man picture
#34
My wife was planning a surprise birthday party
What do you think ?
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
How do people even have the energy to lead a double life? It’s all I can do to keep up with my single one.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Too trusting brother in law refused family advice to hire a PI to check out his daughter's future husband who was behaving oddly. He could have saved his daughter and granddaughter much pain if he had. Seems the girl's intended hoped to inherit a lot of money from his uncle who suspected he was gay, so imposed a condition that he must marry and produce a child in order to inherit. In time uncle passed away and he inherited then disappeared never to be heard from again leaving a lovely young woman to raise her daughter with only her parents to help financially.
No you can't have my name 3 years ago
Too bad the condition was only for him to marry and act as a sperm donor.
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Nikole 3 years ago
I worked for a detective agency for a few years. It's mainly process serving (which can involve tracking someone down using skip traces). And then filing the servers' affidavits at the courthouse. Exciting! The servers had some messed up stories though.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
Tell us more about the stories. ☺️ I have some curiosity.
Load More Replies... Suz66 3 years ago
My ex hired a PI to spy on me. I was receiving alimony (I was severely disabled when we divorced. I retired and my health became more stable but not great.) Ex wanted to stop the alimony. The attorney sent me the PI report. It was over an inch thick. He had photos of the house and my car, etc. He had photos of me from social media, etc. He must've paid tens of thousands! It would have cost me $12,000 to fight. I needed him to sign a pension form for years. He wouldn't sign it because his atty didn't understand it. My now husband explained it to him. I dropped the alimony in exchange for the pension form signed. All that money he spent is way more than a year of alimony. I didn't need it and I finally got my form signed!
Julia French 3 years ago
Knew a woman hired one to find her adult son who went to Mexico & cut communication with her. PI came back saying he couldn't find him. a decade or so later son returns, with his familly, and says yeah i paid the PI more to tell you nothing.
RafCo 3 years ago
I knew a POS who had zero contact with his son. Then the boy and mother were hit by a drunk driver and the boy, 6, was killed instantly, the mother was left with severe brain damage. Her parents sued the driver for damages, and for continued care of their daughter, and won a huge amount. The POS father, sued the maternal grandparents for custody of their daughter, so he could claim the money. Hired a PI to dig up dirt on the whole family. The PI only discovered that the POS I knew never made any of the ordered child support payments.
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
My husband's ex wife hired someone to dig into every bit of my life/finances. Imagine her surprise when the judge told her that MY income is not considered for the purposes of child support! And even after that she wouldn't let it go....
nope nope nope 3 years ago
My husband broke contact with his parents two years into our marriage. They REFUSED to believe that we had relocated to live near my brother because I needed to get away from my abusive family. They thought I was "controlling" even though it was my husband's idea to leave because on top of my trauma we were just sick of the uneducated American south. What did they find out? Oh, that my oldest sister accuses everyone she dates of abuse, that she's labeled a "vindictive reporter" by social services because she will try to have kids taken away from anyone who upsets her, and that my dad can't legally own firearms because he threatened my mom with one to her head in the 70s when they were split up. Also discovered that my dad had been investigated for rape SEVEN TIMES! Needless to say but they believe my horror stories now. Though they still can't understand why my husband and I have chosen to adopt our children.Sorry, folks, my bloodline is broken. Ted Bundy could be hiding in my DNA. No!
James Suttle 3 years ago
Loved the stock images in this list - most of which had nothing to do with the accompanying story
Karen Lyon 3 years ago
When I was 26, a woman who was a good friend of both my parents called, asking for my Dad. He wasn't home, and the message was to tell him Helen called, but that Mom was not to know. My poor Dad, when I passed this on to him, the first words were, "It's not what you think." LOL. Their 25th anniversary was coming up, and he wanted to buy her a nice diamond ring for the occasion, and Helen was helping him pick it out. My parents married young, while he was in school, her engagement ring had been cheap. It had fallen apart years before, Dad wanted to make up for it. The funny thing, a few days later, Mom asked me if I thought getting HIM a ring for their 25th was a nice idea. I endorsed that as hard as I could without giving anything away. Watching them open those boxes on that anniversary is one of the best memories my sister and I have (she was the only one I told.) If they'd been checking up on each other, all that would have been ruined.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
How do people even have the energy to lead a double life? It’s all I can do to keep up with my single one.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Too trusting brother in law refused family advice to hire a PI to check out his daughter's future husband who was behaving oddly. He could have saved his daughter and granddaughter much pain if he had. Seems the girl's intended hoped to inherit a lot of money from his uncle who suspected he was gay, so imposed a condition that he must marry and produce a child in order to inherit. In time uncle passed away and he inherited then disappeared never to be heard from again leaving a lovely young woman to raise her daughter with only her parents to help financially.
No you can't have my name 3 years ago
Too bad the condition was only for him to marry and act as a sperm donor.
Load More Replies... Nikole 3 years ago
I worked for a detective agency for a few years. It's mainly process serving (which can involve tracking someone down using skip traces). And then filing the servers' affidavits at the courthouse. Exciting! The servers had some messed up stories though.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
Tell us more about the stories. ☺️ I have some curiosity.
Load More Replies... Suz66 3 years ago
My ex hired a PI to spy on me. I was receiving alimony (I was severely disabled when we divorced. I retired and my health became more stable but not great.) Ex wanted to stop the alimony. The attorney sent me the PI report. It was over an inch thick. He had photos of the house and my car, etc. He had photos of me from social media, etc. He must've paid tens of thousands! It would have cost me $12,000 to fight. I needed him to sign a pension form for years. He wouldn't sign it because his atty didn't understand it. My now husband explained it to him. I dropped the alimony in exchange for the pension form signed. All that money he spent is way more than a year of alimony. I didn't need it and I finally got my form signed!
Julia French 3 years ago
Knew a woman hired one to find her adult son who went to Mexico & cut communication with her. PI came back saying he couldn't find him. a decade or so later son returns, with his familly, and says yeah i paid the PI more to tell you nothing.
RafCo 3 years ago
I knew a POS who had zero contact with his son. Then the boy and mother were hit by a drunk driver and the boy, 6, was killed instantly, the mother was left with severe brain damage. Her parents sued the driver for damages, and for continued care of their daughter, and won a huge amount. The POS father, sued the maternal grandparents for custody of their daughter, so he could claim the money. Hired a PI to dig up dirt on the whole family. The PI only discovered that the POS I knew never made any of the ordered child support payments.
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
My husband's ex wife hired someone to dig into every bit of my life/finances. Imagine her surprise when the judge told her that MY income is not considered for the purposes of child support! And even after that she wouldn't let it go....
nope nope nope 3 years ago
My husband broke contact with his parents two years into our marriage. They REFUSED to believe that we had relocated to live near my brother because I needed to get away from my abusive family. They thought I was "controlling" even though it was my husband's idea to leave because on top of my trauma we were just sick of the uneducated American south. What did they find out? Oh, that my oldest sister accuses everyone she dates of abuse, that she's labeled a "vindictive reporter" by social services because she will try to have kids taken away from anyone who upsets her, and that my dad can't legally own firearms because he threatened my mom with one to her head in the 70s when they were split up. Also discovered that my dad had been investigated for rape SEVEN TIMES! Needless to say but they believe my horror stories now. Though they still can't understand why my husband and I have chosen to adopt our children.Sorry, folks, my bloodline is broken. Ted Bundy could be hiding in my DNA. No!
James Suttle 3 years ago
Loved the stock images in this list - most of which had nothing to do with the accompanying story
Karen Lyon 3 years ago
When I was 26, a woman who was a good friend of both my parents called, asking for my Dad. He wasn't home, and the message was to tell him Helen called, but that Mom was not to know. My poor Dad, when I passed this on to him, the first words were, "It's not what you think." LOL. Their 25th anniversary was coming up, and he wanted to buy her a nice diamond ring for the occasion, and Helen was helping him pick it out. My parents married young, while he was in school, her engagement ring had been cheap. It had fallen apart years before, Dad wanted to make up for it. The funny thing, a few days later, Mom asked me if I thought getting HIM a ring for their 25th was a nice idea. I endorsed that as hard as I could without giving anything away. Watching them open those boxes on that anniversary is one of the best memories my sister and I have (she was the only one I told.) If they'd been checking up on each other, all that would have been ruined.
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