“The Look On That Girl’s Face Was Priceless”: 50 Times People Learned That Karma Was Real
Karma has been described as many things, some good, some less so, but one thing most folks agree on is that it’s rarely fun to be on its bad side. Conversely, seeing someone get what they deserve (both positive and negative) is entertaining. Even if you don’t believe in it, humans always love a good story of justice being served.
So we’ve gathered stories of “instant karma” from across the internet, where someone’s actions got a reaction very, very quickly. Get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorite tales and be sure to share your thoughts and own experiences in the comments section down below.
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Some teenage dudes throwing pebbles at the gorilla at the San Diego zoo...gorilla threw back with a fresh handful of [feces], right in the dudes face. My dad, the Marine, peed his pants laughing. Glorious!
Hope the gorillas got some extra tasty snacks after!
Load More Replies...At the National Zoo in DC, I looked over at the exact moment the obnoxious little boy yelling and throwing pebbles got hit in the face with a massive stream of urine from an old she-tiger. I was still watching when the realization hit mom's face as she launched into a fit. My reaction did not help them at all. It happens often enough they have a sign.
Yep. Been tiger-baptized, as well. Got my sandal-ed foot. The kids who had rudely pushed their way to front of the fence got the full brunt of it. Yes, there was also a warning sign off to the side which most people didn't notice at first, because...TIGERS!
Load More Replies...My Mum had to comfort my bigger brother when we were at a zoo in France. She left my buggy (stroller) facing the monkey enclosure. Turned back to me... I was covered in monkey p00
Monkeys passing over us in the canopy of a rainforest dropped fruit and p*o on our heads on a trail below. Monkeys are evil!
Load More Replies...I saw a gorilla spit a mouthful of water at some kids that were making fun of him. It's was a group of school kids and the boys screamed louder than the girls. I almost peed myself laughing.
Disrespectful brats. I feel so sorry for animals trapped in these prisons. They are at the mercy of kids brought up by idiot parents who themselves don’t give a d**n about the animals.
Load More Replies...I remember an elementary school field trip to the zoo--one of my classmates, a known PITA was aggravating the gorillas when the same thing happened; yes, it was glorious! Put him in his place real quick
I'm a teacher. In my country, all teachers get paid a set amount by the government that goes up the longer you're a teacher. There's different rates for extra responsibilities, relief, part time full time etc. In my first year, I worked at a really toxic school (staff were toxic, students were awesome). I was doing a mixture of relief and part time regular hours. They weren't paying me properly. They were only paying me for time I was actually teaching when they should have paid me for some non teaching hours since I'd often have classes at opposite ends of the day. I hard an argument at the time and was basically told, you're new, you don't understand the pay system, if you're going to complain we'll stop giving you hours. That was 10 years ago. A few weeks ago I got an email from the ministry of education. They had done an audit of that school, dating back to 2012, and found they'd been paying teachers incorrectly for relief work. I got a gigantic back pay.
According to the OP's Reddit information, yes NZ.
Load More Replies...A government that investigated it's methods, then did the correct thing by reimbursing employees who had been screwed over?? That's pretty incredible.
Getting retro pay is so nice, especially when you’re not expecting it.
Like finding money in a par of pants or the winter jacket when you take it out for the season.
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I was in the passing lane on the highway slowly coming up on a couple of cars in the right lane. The speed limit was about to decrease ahead and the another car came up behind me going pretty fast. Instead of gasing it to get ahead of the traffic to my right I slowed down and pulled in behind them, with the car behind me right on my [rear]. Once I got into the right lane the car floored it and passed me honking the horn and the passenger's body was half out of the car window yelling at me and flipping me off as they passed. Turns out the car I pulled in behind was an unmarked state trooper who promptly pulled them over. Justice.
but so nice to be witness to it happening.
Load More Replies...I've had the joy of witness this a few times and savored every moment.
A classmate in school broke one of his legs and was using crutches, he was about to go down the stairs and another kid KICKED one his crutches down the stairs. I walked down there and got his crutch for him and while walking back up, the kid who kicked the crutches came tumbling down and I moved out of the way.. The kid broke his arm.
The image is from 2021, I don't think it's AI. Just a weird stock photo, the model probably didn't know how to hold a crutch properly.
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My dad kicked our dog because it was standing in front of the fridge and he wanted a beer, but as soon as he opened the fridge the shelf that was holding the beer fell off and every single can busted open.
ehhh if a dog attacks you or your pet it's valid. a friend kicked a dog in the balls when he tried to mount her recently operated dog and the owner would not call the other dog back.
Load More Replies...Every single can busted open? Nope, doubt that very much. The beer might get shaken up but to burst EVERY SINGLE can . . . ?
Yeah. I want this to be true but the chances of one can breaking open are low, let alone all of them.
Load More Replies...Your dad is an @$$hole. You can train a dog, the "move" command. I even say, "move please."
I’m a server in a luxury hotel restaurant.
My coworker had a 10-top, and the guy who organized it was being a [jerk] the whole service.
When it came time to pay the bill, not only was he rude to rest of the staff about how he needed to pay so they could leave, he acted as though we had done him wrong by not accepting his payment in a timely manner.
His card gets declined and he has to ask his guests to cover the bill 😂.
One of the few moments of pleasure as a server was seeing the expression on the face of a jerk when their card was declined. You can't buy moments like that.
When I was a Learner driver, I was driving the right speed during school zones (here, that's 40km/hr). There was a car tailgating me the entire time and then as we turned a corner with the school's bus bay it cut into the bay to overtake me and the driver threw his middle finger up at me out the window as he sped away.
We get to the end of the street to find that we have caught up with that car...being pulled over by the cops and receiving a ticket for speeding in a school zone. Dude was going at least 60k/hr and the fine for that can be up to $2000. Most satisfying moment of instant karma I've ever seen.
When I was learning to drive, I was pulled over by the Police - scary. The officer thought I was too young to be driving. Happy days!
I can't wrap my head around the fact that in America you can drive your own car while learning. So you can own a car without a license? And you can learn to drive in your own car? And that's ok with police? How? No double pedals?
Load More Replies...Though this doesn't explain why the photo shows a car backed up to a fence, but the driver still being 'dealt with' by police ... ?
I was a $15/hr ski resort employee. I found a wallet containing $750 and turned it in. I was later asked to the office to meet the guy who owned the wallet. He gave me $100 as reward.
I remember years ago a guy left $300 in my store. I put it under the register drawer and he came back. That was his rent. I got a hug and good karma points.
Heck yeah! I wS waking with the partner one night, and we found $450 on the sidewalk. We were broke and excitedly gathered our two am windfall. About three blocks later, we pass a guy with a flashlight looking panicked. Despite dire straights, asked if he had lost any money and if so how much. He stated the exact amount and route it could have been lost on. We gave it to him. It was apparently a loan from a friend to cover his groceries, cat food and utilities.Just laid off no fault of his own. We ate ramen all month, absolutely worth it to restore little faith in humanity.
Load More Replies...When my daughter was a teenager she found an envelope with a birthday card and 200 euros in a book she borrowed from our local library. We asked the librarian for the name of the person who last borrowed that book (explaining the reason why we needed their phone number). That young teen and his grandma came to our house to get the precious envelope, he was so relieved, and gave my daughter a box of chocolates. Sweet memory.
Always return wallets. It's not the money but the hassle of getting all kinds of cards and licenses replaces is super annoying. Almost anyone will give a finder's fee. (I once got the entire amount that was inside. €200)
I always return pocketbooks. I have had mine stolen before, and remember the hassle and panic clearly, even though it was almost 30 years ago. I hate to think of someone else in that state, so I always turn it in, or find the person if I can. An extra few dollars isn't worth the heartache it will cause others
I had a guy level a bank deposit bag...calico bag with the banks logo on it...on my counter, I handed it into the office. When he picked it up he gave the manager $10 to give me as thanks...it was the days takings $5000 ... this was in the early 90s
Tried really hard to get an oyster wallet back to someone via a store receipt - they went GDPR, I got £150 and some oyster credit. I did at least try.
Why does it matter ? It's not like it's relevant...
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This is one of my favourite stories to tell. So, when I see a thread about karma, I can hardly resist sharing this one.
I went to a small school, of about 80 students. In my class there was 12. Although our numbers were small, we still had the classic bully archetype. Let's call him Christopher. Christopher was one of those kids who felt like he could do whatever he wanted to anyone else, and he would be absolved of all blame if he finished his routine with "It's just a joke". Basically, he was a grade-A [jerk].
Enter the second major character. There was also a mentally challenged kid in our class. Let's call him Todd. Now, Todd was fond of asking questions. It was just his own way of obtaining information. I know this might sound bad, but we got annoyed with him pretty soon. Hey, we were just kids.
Now although Todd annoyed us, we still all looked after him, and made sure nobody gave him [a hard time]. He was one of us, sometimes that was a good thing, sometimes a bad thing.
The Karmic incident in place took place once when we were the oldest year in the school. We basically ruled the school, and naturally this power would go to our heads. And it corrupted nobody quite as much as Christopher.
We were playing rounders, (kind of a UK baseball) practicing for an upcoming competition. Split up into two teams, and made play each other. I was kinda mad because Todd was on my team, and as you can imagine, he wasn't the most athletically gifted. Picture Kermit The Frog trying to Run the 110m hurdles. THAT unathletic.
We were losing, due in no small part to the other teams superior members. I had lost interest, and only gave lackluster hits when it was my turn. Then it was Todd's turn. I watched, just to see how it would go. And I looked at the other team. Christopher was pitching the ball.
He wasn't even giving Todd a chance. He'd throw the ball at his feet, and burst out laughing with his team. Babe Ruth couldn't have done a thing with those kind of throws. It went on for 3 minutes.
Eventually his own team got sick of him, and told him to give a decent throw so Todd could strike out and the game could progress.
He throws it, and Todd braces himself. We're all watching by now. Todd has tears in his eyes, the kind of thing humiliation does to someone like that. And as the ball draws closer, the world moved in slow motion for me.
WHACK. Todd didn't just hit the ball with the bat, he anhilated it. The Bang was heard all over the school.
So what does a ball do when it's met with a force like that? I don't know for sure, but in this case it went back towards Christopher at Mach Speed. I didn't even see the ball on it's way back. It was like a bullet from a pistol.
When it got to Christopher, it hit him squarely in the eye. He fell down, out cold.
One of his friends helped him inside, while the rest of us, both teams, cheered and laughed.
We lifted Todd on our shoulders, and gave him a heroes support.
He was no longer just Todd.
He was Todd, the destroyer of [jerks].
Worth mentioning that UK kids play rounders with a tennis ball, not a cricket ball. You break fewer windows that way. Oh, and people.
I thought, "Todd, the destroyer of buttholes" and then thought "no...no, that's a different kind of nickname."
In an ideal world, your term would be premature, rather than inaccurate. When Christopher wound up in prison from his bullying ways, it might be the descriptor of his fate.
Load More Replies...Hail to Todd! The idiot male sibling I unfortunately have was Christopher, entitled, stuck up and stupid AF. He has two felony convictions now,.
We played rounders in Malaysia. Pretty hard to find the ball when it went over the nieghbour's house LOL
Also baseball is an English game in origin. It's even mentioned in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
When I was a kid, we visited Montreal. I had gotten a hockey puck as a souvenir. While we were in our hotel, my sister decided to mess with me by hiding it. I got mad and yelled in my high pitched voice "GIVE ME BACK MY HOCKEY PUCK!" before smacking her in the head with a pillow. Guess where she had hidden it.
Don't mess with hockey players. Most of our WWII soldiers probably played hockey.
Not my story but my mom's. Apparently when she was a young lass, there was a girl at school who was always a major [jerk] to her. Hated my mom for whatever reason and always made fun of her. Fast forward to my mom as a college aged woman now dating a guitarist from Bob Marley's band, out at a bar with him getting a drink. Dude goes to the bathroom and said [jerk] from back in the day comes up to my mom and says, "OMG, did you see who is here?!" At that moment, dude comes and puts his arm around my mom and says "hey babe, what's happening?" She said the look on that girl's face was priceless.
I had a nasty girl in highschool do that to me. I didn't even know her. She would leave insulting messages in my files, always called me a b***h when she saw me. To this day I don't know what Jeri had against me. She's probably still a miserable c**t.
As a group of teenagers driving on a back road at night, in the snow, we were going pretty slow and a group of other teens went speeding around us and they had their windows rolled down and were hanging out, yelling and gesturing, being obnoxious because we were going slow. We went around a corner a few minutes later and they were in the ditch. We had a lot of fun yelling and gesturing at them as we slowly and safely drove by.
Something similar happened to my husband a few years ago, he was cycling home from work on a country road, car behind was getting impatient, finally managed to overtake but did it really aggressively, seconds later he heard a tyre squeal and a thump, cycled by the car on its roof! Saw the driver was ok as he slowed down and carried on home. Be patient of other road users is the moral of this story.
Going through a village with very narrow, twisty roads yesterday (Holmbury St Mary in the UK, really pretty village), stuck behind a cycist for a good 10 minutes as it was impossible to pass. Didn't bother me. The roads don't need impatient people getting frustrated and making bad decisions. If you're late just accept that you're going to be late (allow yourself more time than necessary where possible - far less stressful!). Putting others at risk in order to gain a few minutes at most isn't worth it.
Load More Replies...Had a variant of this happen in Scotland in heavy snow. Locals going slow , in 4wd or both. AH whizzes past, makes it about 200 m up the road before sliding off the road into a snowdrift. We all stopped, towed him out and went on our way, slowly. Not a word was spoken ... but a few were thought ...
Better slow and safe than fast and crashed. One time a drive that usually takes 2 hours, took 4 hours to do. Not just the weather, there were also traffic jams in the middle of nowhere. Why? Accidents. If you're in bad weather conditions while driving and feeling impatient, imagine seeing two firetrucks, an ambulance (two others had already screamed by heading back to the city 45 minutes away), and an over-sized tow truck with one crumpled vehicle loaded, and pulling another crushed vehicle back up out of a ditch.
Karma's sister Consequence is a bigger b***h, she always makes sure you get exactly what you deserve.
making fun of people who have been in a car accident is underrated as amusement.
I got rear ended in a turn lane by a girl texting. She was doing 45mph and I was stopped. No major injuries.
I went to her court date hoping she got a big fine or something. She got a $50 ticket. I was a little bit upset.
As I was sitting at the stop light to pull out of the court I watched her run a red light and tbone a cop. I don't normally laugh at other peoples misfortune, however, I laughed my a*s off at that one.
Sounds like the other woman should be taken off the road. Texting and running red lights? Terrible driver with appalling judgement.
I can see you never drove with my mother-in-law. LOL!
Load More Replies...A woman in a local town ran another woman over and k****d her. She kept going but the Police tracked her down, now she's in prison.
I had a lady back into my car once (then blame me for being partially at fault for not honking at her to warn her she was about to hit me). There was a tiny scratch so I let it go. I watched her get into the wrong lane (of oncoming traffic) as she drove away and wished I had reported it, lady was a hazard.
I was in daycare as a child. I had very long hair that my dad always put into a ponytail. There was girl that would pull my ponytail all the time.
We were doing a musical chairs thing at the end of the day while parents were picking us up. The girl was behind me and kept yanking my ponytail, I kept telling her to stop. The teacher "didn't see anything so I can't do anything about it"
There were a bunch of parents waiting for us to finish our game, my mom included and she kept doing it and the teacher "didn't see it" so I turned around and punched her as hard as I could, she stumbled into the "cubbies" where we kept our coats. The teacher tried to chastise me and my mom was like "nope. I didn't see anything"
Didn't even get in trouble.
Yup. Not 'seeing something' is no justification. If someone is complaining about someone in this kind of scenario most of the time there will be a reason why (sure, sometimes kiddies lie) but WATCH out for it and if it's bad enough there will be other children who see it. Talk to them.
Load More Replies...Just because the teacher didn't see it doesn't mean they can't question the alleged offender. If an adult can't get the truth out of a day care kid (or at least warn them off repeating), they don't belong in the job.
My neighbor, Billy, used to always pull my ponytail and that summer my Granny was in town for a visit. I was 5 and Billy was 6. I complained to my Granny who said, “the next time that little boy pulls your ponytail, punch him in the stomach”. Next time I saw him, he pulled my ponytail so I punched him in his stomach. He ran inside crying to HIS grandma who came over to our house to complain. Great fun because now we had the Dueling Grandmas. But he never pulled my ponytail again.
My daughter's teacher had warned a boy to stop messing with my daughter's things. Apparently there was a very loud bang and from what other students told her, he had reached into her backpack yet again and "had tripped face first into her desk" ... no one would say how that happened. Coincidentally, he never reached into anybody's things again..
It's bad enough being bullied, but when the bully is the teacher's pet, there's something very, very wrong at that school.
When my youngest son was about five, he was bitten several times by another boy. Nothing was done about it, so it kept happening. Until my son got fed up, turned around, and a pair of (child's) scissors landed in the boy's cheek. It left a scar, clearly visible because the boy was dark-skinned. The white (adoptive) mother was angry, so I told her to teach her child not to bully.
Teachers who don't like kids should just be s*x workers to work off all that pent up frustration.
My cheating ex has become impotent. The kind of impotence where even a needle directly in the dingus won't help. It's glorious.
my grandmother used to say "it's nice to be impotent, but it's more impotent to be nice"
I’m sure she will have been told , lol cheating exes tend to collect people as will happily tell tales to the poor cheated on spouses 😂
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i was sorry that i had no shoes, until i met a man who had no dingus . . .
See, that's the exact way it should be. His p****r will never rise again.
guy goes to the dr. for the snip-snip, shows up wearing a tux. of course the doc has to ask why - patient says "If I'm gonna be impotent, I'm gonna look impotent!" (yeah, i know that's not how it works, but that's how i heard it many, many years ago!)
Former boss terminated me because I kept pushing to meet compliance.
The following month they got audited and slapped with some 7-8 figure fines.
Thank goodness it wasn't a 6-7 figure fine. They'd never hear the end of that one...
I worked at a medical facility that is still operating, even though they are corrupt AF. I'm hoping they eventually get caught over billing and embezzling.
When I was in first grade, my class had recess and this bully pushed me to the ground. I fell and was about to go off on the kid when this 4th grader came over lifted the kid up and took the kid over to the principal.
In high school my skinny little son saw a gay kid being harassed by a bully. He told him to cut it out. The bully eyes my son and says, "So what are you gonna do about it?" like my son was going to be next. Suddenly my son's friend - this huge, scary-looking guy - comes up behind him. Bully noped right out of there.
I had a bully in kindergarten that would punch and kick me because every time I get ready to defend myself the teacher would scold me so I stopped fighting back. One day he punches a girl and was getting a second hit in when I grabbed from behind and squeezed. By the time the teacher noticed I had dropped his limp body to the ground and walked off. You can't be a bully if you can't breathe.
Last spring I didn't get a date to the junior prom. I wasn't thrilled but I figured I'd go stag. I found the perfect dress and was actually really excited. Then my group of friends said I couldn't come with them. Why?
I didn't have a date and it would 'ruin the pictures' if I stood by myself. And since I wasn't going to be in the pictures, they said, wouldn't it just be so awkward for me to get ready with them and be at Claudia's (the ringleader)house before hand? And of course, wouldn't I just be so uncomfortable being the only one in the limo with no boyfriend? And what would I do afterwards anyways? I mean everyone knows what happens at the parties after prom. So I didn't go at all.
Guess who's limo never showed up?
Exactly. Friends don't care about how a photo might look (could just take some without them if THAT bothered anyway, it's a pathetic excuse) or would want to leave someone out just because of no boyfriend. I hope OP gets new and much better friends.
Load More Replies...A girl being bullied at school didn’t have a date for the prom, she wanted to go. I can’t remember which state it was, but the local 501st Legion found out about it. For those who don’t know, the 501st Legion are Star Wars fans who dress as the bad guys. Their motto is ‘Bad guys do good.’ The girl went to the prom dressed as Princess Leia with her own stormtrooper squad protecting her. There are chapters of the Legion worldwide and they visit the sick, libraries and special events.
I would agree that those prom pictures would have been ruined. After all, they would have had Claudia and her gang in them.
Hon, when people show you who they are, believe them. It stings right now, but that old saying is true: there is no better revenge than a life lived well. You know how it feels to be hurt. Be the one everyone remembers because you are kind. People will always be happier to see you.
Mmm. Guess who maybe called the limo service pretending to be Claudia and cancelled the limo?
Tell me that when you heard this, you put on your gown and danced like there was no tomorrow in your bedroom.
I was going to take my dad to my prom. I got a dress, he rented a tux. Then he got us tickets to see Champions on Ice, so we got the prom tix refunded and went to the show all dressed up (circa 1998)
I was once in a play where I was double cast with another kid (Two people taking turns to play the same role). We were very different body types. When it came time to get costumes fitted, the crew rented me something off the rack, but they decided they'd have to make her something custom fitted. She was super mad that I got to have a costume before she did, so she tried to make me feel bad by saying it looked like I was wearing an old set of curtains. They ended up making her costume from scratch...out of a set of old curtains.
Anyone else picturing Carol Burnett in "Went With the Wind," or am I the only old fogey here today?
I had to smile remembering her coming down the stairs with that curtain rod in her dress.
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My old manager was a monster. Belittled people, made a hostile environment, denied anything that would make coworkers happy while giving himself every comfort, even denied me a half day to go to my mothers funeral, adding, "Would it be a big deal if you couldn't go?" He wrote up a fictitious counseling statement about someone and the entire office revolted. The manager wasn't fired like we wanted, but he was relieved.
So in comes the new manager. Very well regarded, 20 year Air Force veteran (retired at E-9), humble guy who knew how to handle people. We have our first awkward team meeting, old manager bitterly in attendance. As the new manager is giving his "nice to meet you" speech, he sees the [jerk] glaring around the table trying to intimidate people. He stops talking, pauses for a few seconds, and then says, "You know, when I was in the Air Force I learned that if you take care of your people, they'll take care of you." He then stared directly at the old manager and said, "And if you don't take care of your people, they'll take care of you."
If you lose a parent or a sibling, you are entitled to four days off, paid. It doesn't matter how your employer feels about it: it's the law. At least, where I live.
I'm guessing you don't live in deliver-the-placenta-and-get-back-to-work America.
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I used to live a street or two behind a central suburban bus stop ontop of a big hill and I would take the bus every day to University about an hour's bus ride away.
One morning I get on the bus and the bus pulls up to the intersection waiting for the intersection lights to turn red so it gets the green and pulls out. We get the green and start pulling out.
All of a sudden this primped up snooty middle aged woman in a red suit (I still remember the details because it made me so mad) FLEW through the red light in her huge silver Cadillac going the same way that the bus was turning.
The bus driver had to slam on the brakes quite suddenly and then honked at the woman. The woman, who clearly *intentionally* ran the red because he head was never down **FLIPS THE BUS DRIVER OFF** and keeps speeding. The bus driver, this really jovial large black lady, cursed and carried on.
From the bus terminal to the city you drive down a really big hill before it flattens out in the valley. In the mornings/evenings cops like to patrol the intersection right at the bottom of the hill especially because they can radar gun cars coming down the hill as the bus was because there is a curve in the road and if you're going too fast the cops can catch you before you have a chance to see them and slow down.
Well guess what happened?
We get to the bottom of the hill and see that the cops had pulled over a silver cadillac into the cross street and were issuing her a ticket.
The bus driver saw it and said, "Oh yeah baby!" and pulled the bus over to the sidewalk near to where the intersection was and flagged down one of the cops.
He came on and asked what was up and the bus driver asked if she had been caught speeding. The cop said she had and the bus driver said, "oh yeah? Is it still illegal to run a red light?" The cop laughed and said that it was, then asked her if the lady in the caddy had done that and the bus driver said yes.
The cop asks, "Well we will add that to her ticket--would you be willing to come in as a witness in court for that?"
Then the bus driver said, "HONEY, I GET PAID TO GO TO COURT FOR STUFF LIKE THIS. IT'D BE MY PLEASURE."
And the whole bus started clapping. It was such a good day.
ever rode on a city bus in the USA? that was an "eat the rich" moment for all. A bright moment.
Load More Replies..."The woman, who clearly *intentionally* ran the red because he head was never down **FLIPS THE BUS DRIVER OFF** and keeps speeding." what does this mean?
My childhood bully making fun of me becuase I was very very short. At 33 I'm now 6 foot and he never really grew (like 5,5) and got bald at 24.
People grow at different rates. I stopped growing for so long my parents took me to the doctor, who said not to worry, I'd catch up. A year later I grew 10 inched in one year to my adult height of 4'10".
My oldest daughter is 4’11” and a half. And she gets mightily offended if you don’t mention th3 half
Load More Replies...boys bullying each other, right into adulthood, because of childhood disputes. does it get any better than this?
With glee, I ran over a bee on my tricycle once. Aimed for it on purpose and then SPLAT. Minutes later I got called into the house and I stepped on that same bee, stuck with stinger up, in my bare feet. It hurt so badly. I told my mom everything and she told me I got exactly what I deserved. I agreed.
I rather hope OP refrained from hurting animals on purpose since then......
I have hope, I mean the mother clearly has good principles.
Load More Replies...Rather like how as a toddler I wouldn't quit bullying the cat until she scratched me in the face and drew blood. I got absolutely no sympathy and an "I told you so" from my mother. Yeah, 100% served me right.
how did you know it was the same bee? it might have been a blood relative . . .
Child was on a tricycle, so maybe 3 or 4 years old. You expect me or anyone else to believe that you never squished a bug when you were little?! Children aren't vile, they have to learn. Adults who should know better, they are vile.
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Working at a restaurant, we had a 16yo girl working as a dishwasher/prep for the summer. One day she cut herself pretty bad, no stitches but it was a gusher and she was scared.
Couple days later, she comes back she has her finger bandaged up. She's getting ready to cut some veggies and one of the cooks, a [jerk] mid-20s, starts teasing her "Hey, don't cut yourself!!" then he proceeds to cut himself **immediately** after saying it. He actually needed a few stitches.
That karma was beautiful, but it got even better when he came back and she sarcastically razzes him with "Hey, don't cut yourself!!".
And *BAM* instant karma, she cuts herself again immediately! Repeat ad nauseam until in the end neither of them had any fingers left. Karma’s a bítch.
I was at a party one time, and this one girl couldn't stop talking [trash] about this other girl that was coming to the party. The other girl shows up and this dude picked her up and hugged her and spun her around in a way where her foot kicked the girl that was talking [trash] right in the head/face while she was sitting on the couch. Her beer spilled all over her and she caught a black eye.
Oh that's Awful 😡 I really hope that her foot was alright afterwards...... 😉🤣🤣🤣
I work in an ER and once a girl got brought in by ambulance after being [attacked]. She was walking down the street when some guy tackled her to the ground and tried to drag her down an alley. A Good Samaritan managed to chase him off and call the cops.
Like 20 minutes later they brought in a guy in full cardiac arrest. Turns out the police found the attacker and chased him several blocks when he collapsed and his heart gave out. The victim IDed him right in the ER.
Reminds me of the guy who had a heart attack and died while r@ping a woman. Instant Darwin Award winner.
That's a "and the Lord struck him down for his wickedness" kind of moment.
Load More Replies...The girl was already in the ER room - as a patient, not a "civilian".
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When i was in middle school i was sitting at lunch with my normal lunch group. There wasnt enoungh room for this one guy at the table so he sat at the table next to us by himself. One of our friends felt bad so he left our table and sat next to him. The kid who was originally sitting by himself moved to our table, took the other guys old spot and leaving the other guy completely alone. We all moved to the other table and left him alone again.
Bully got put in the ICU by the new scrawny white kid he thought he could bully. Bully lost 4 teeth when he ate the concrete at full force.
I had a student who was the most annoying guy ever. He loved to push buttons and taunt, then claim he was the victim. He was in my English class and one of the few students I can ever say I disliked.
Also in my class were 2 brothers -B and C. Both decent kids who'd spent some time in juvie and were trying to get on the right track. They had just moved to out district to live with their dad. Unbeknownst to other students their mother [had] AIDS.
It was right at the end of class and the kids were putting their books up and I let them stand around and chat for 5 minutes until the bell rang. I didn't hear the conversation but was filled in later. Annoying kid had focused on the brothers - specifically the younger one and was telling him he was dirt and worthless. The bell rang and as it did annoying kid made his big mistake. He told the younger brother "Yeah I'm better than you, that's why you're going to get AIDS and [pass away]." He then got exactly 3 steps out into the hallway when older brother sucker punched him.
Annoying kid was out cold with a broken jaw. As another teacher and I tended to him and called for help, older brother calmly walked to the office, and took a seat outside the assistant principals office to face his consequences.
A 10 day suspension later, he returned and the only thing he would say about the incident was "It was worth it." Annoying kid began to keep his mouth shut after that.
I hope the teacher spoke up for suspended kid and against annoying kid before the suspension was handed out.
When I was a teacher, one of my students was extremely disruptive and I was at my wit’s end. I called his mom and she acted like I made the whole thing up because “she raised her son better and he wouldn’t do that.”
Two days later, he got caught vandalizing part of the school and his mom had to pay for the damages.
In a way she was right. His behavior did reflect how he was raised.
I had a very disruptive student whose mom was also in denial. I invited her to come visit my classroom. She was sitting at my desk when her son came in and started acting like a complete idiot. He pushed a kid, cursed at another, refused to take his seat when I asked everyone to sit down, talk over other students, all with me correcting him as I usually do. I told him his mother would be very unhappy if she knew he acted this way and he said she wouldn't believe me, he always lied to her and she never knew. I thought he was going to pass out when he finally realized she was in the room.
I'm from San Diego and during the summer, you have to a claim bonfire pits on the beach really in the morning if you want it for that night. So my friends and I got to the beach at 8am and stayed there so we can get a bonfire going into the night.
Just before sundown, this one couple asked if they could share the bonfire with us and since our group wasn't too big, we decided to share it with them. However that couple proceeded to bring a group of like 15 others and they literally surrounded the pit and pushed us out.
We were pissed but we were so tired from being at the beach all day so we decided to head out. Little did we know what that night had an extreme high tide warning and when we moved all of our stuff over the wall that divided the beachwalk with the beach, a huge wave came in and washed out that whole group surrounded by our bonfire.
The wave flipped over their table of food, took a handful of sandals back into the ocean, and destroyed all their stuff. The best part was this one girl was trying to jump the wall to save herself but she didnt jump high enough and ended up falling right back into the waters. Karma.
Tides can arrive quickly depending on the events happening in the water. A wave coming in at 15-20 mph can disrupt a party, especially if the bonfire is very close to sea level.
Don't want to rain on your bonfire but tides arrive slowly, they take 6 hours to reach peak...
When I was driving my Jeep very carefully in a snow storm and someone in a Mustang passed me in an unsafe manner. He almost lost control of his car, which would have caused an accident that included me. Picture someone dangerously fish-tailing right in front of you with an 18 wheeler coming at you in the other lane.
Saw him in the ditch about 5 minutes later. Idiot.
This is why I don't drive in bad weather. I can handle it, it's the jerks that can't that scare me.
I am retired now so I don't have to drive in bad weather if I don't have to. So I don't most times. I had to put new tires on my vehicle earlier so in a way I am looking to see how well they work in snow.
Load More Replies...Evidently knew little about Mustangs. They can fishtail on dry surfaces.
Very carefully driving home on slick roads, I watched the idiot in front of me lose control, do a 360° spin, but save himself and then speed off. You guessed it - five minutes later I saw him stuck in the median snowdrift.
Some Bozo's truly believe they are invincible. Act like you know everything and can do anything you feel like without regard for others is almost a sure thing you will fall on your a$$.
I've seen similar since coming to west Michigan. A guy was getting on the expressway, very crowded after work, driving an old beater pickup. He gets to the end of the ramp and punches it which starts the truck fish trailing. Folks are giving him a wide berth and he's going back and forth across 3 lanes of highway traffic then he goes squarely, head first, into the concrete retaining wall. Jerk.
I worked as a bartender at a bowling alley. For some reason one of the other bartenders *hated* me. She was constantly poaching people on my side (horseshoe-shaped bar, so we each got a side), we split tips and whenever it was her turn to count them down I *know* she wasn't splitting them properly, tried to get the scheduling manager to put her on my days, etc. One of my regulars even said she caught her pocketing tips and not putting them in our communal bucket while I was working with her.
Well, tournament season started, which everyone dreaded/looked forward to. Dreaded because the shifts were twice or three times as long as normal and there was a constant rush of people at the bar. Looked forward to because shifts were two or three times as long as normal and there was a constant rush of people at the bar, so we'd make as much in a day as we did in a week.
Well, the first tournament was teams that she considered 'hers,' they bowled on her side on days she worked, so she knew them well and was looking forward to their tournament tips. She came in, saw that I was scheduled to bar tend that day, and flipped out. She started ranting to the manager (who happened to be the scheduling manager) and the owner of the place happened to be standing there. The owner pretty much said I was one of the better bartenders so I was getting put on the tournaments, and if she didn't like it she could just leave.
My coworker left. And then I got to work her normal shifts as well.
Was a server at various establishments in my younger days, but I refused to work where tips were shared. I always gave the busboys and dishwashers a percentage of my tips, but I sure wouldn't share them with other waitstaff/bartenders.
When I was in 7th grade, after school, a bully picked a fight with another kid. The kid kind of wrestled the bully to the ground and the bullies head landed in a big pile of dog [dump].
Instant karma.
His new nickname was s**t-head, and it stuck. Ok I'll show myself out :p
this the plotline of the 2008 film "Stepbrothers" starring Will Ferrell
Woman on a cell phone runs me off the road. Flips me off for laying on the horn.
The road ends a mile up the road. She was going right and I was a ways back going left. A van was in front of her at the red light and she just plows into the back of it.
I slow down as I passed with the window down. "Running me off the road wasn't enough to get your attention, huh?"
She flips out; I laugh and drive off into the sunset.
DO NOT USE YOUR F KIN PHONE WHEN DRIVING 🤦♀️she needs to be banned from the roads permanently.
Why can't you morons pull to the side of the road to use your mobiles??? Just how freakn' important do you think you are?
"I can't speak now I'm driving" annoys the hell out of me. Don't answer it, just reject the call and send to voicemail.
Load More Replies...Around here we now have these roadside sensors which can tell if you're using your phone behind the wheel. I don't know how they actually work, but I have seen them. On the same road where a friend of mine died in a smash-up caused by a drunk driver, in fact. He was, sadly, not the only person to die on that road.
This happened to me. When I was younger (high school) my city had automatic sprinklers in most of the parks and areas with grass - they would turn on automatically at like 3 or 4 am. So being a young dumb kid me and my friends figured out if you kicked them hard enough the top would break off and the sprinkler would full force shoot a huge stream into the air from then on. We thought it was hilarious and were never caught. We kept on with this until one day they started replacing them with new super strong steel ones. I kicked one and broke my big toe and while in agony rolled my ankle so bad it was bruised up for a week and has never been the same.
These are the kids who grow up and whine about their taxes being too high.
I can almost justify theft if a person is poor and in dire need, but vandalism is a destructive act I can never justify.
Adults hate you chipmunks who have irresponsible parents that never taught you morals and civics. City has to pay for repairs from taxes. Squeezing budgets for everything else good. Fk the likes of you and don't breed
Neighbors on the balcony next door having a smashing time throwing bottles to the sidewalk, can't get any sleep and I have to wake up at 7:30am. Make the decision to get my rest and request officers to survey the scene. Watching from my window I see three fratties picking up glass under the flashlights of two deputies. With this issue resolved, I guess you could say I called the KARMA POLICE.
When my ex-husband who stole $4000 from me to go visit his mistress in another country called me to beg for money (actually my credit card number--as if!) because his lights got cut off.
And you pulled out your teeny tiny violin and played him a sweet tune.
I got laid off from my lab job so that I could be replaced by the van driver. He was completely clueless. My former boss called and begged me to come back in to train him. I was still polite but managed to tell him to "f**k off." It took longer than expected but they went out of business 18 months later. The former boss was gone six months after I was.
Math teacher in HS gave me terrible grades in his class. I thought I had a solid B+ but was given barely passing grade. My home life was terrible so I didn’t have the wherewithal to figure out what was happening, I thought it was me. Gave up on math all together.
Eventually, at a CC, I discovered I was actually great at math. After many years of hard work, I finished an engineering degree.
I found out later several female students had taken this teacher and the school district to court over discrimination. They were all top students and he was failing them all. The case was settled out of court and he was told to retire immediately. It came out that he’d been doing this his entire career.
His retirement was short lived, he became very ill from a disease that [ended] him quickly. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone and I didn’t but it happened.
I had a very sexist math teacher in high school who thought that girls couldn't really do math and would focus his attention on the boys. He let us skate by telling us we would pass if we did the homework, so we would copy off of each other. I didn't learn much in his class and struggled with math in college. Later learned he told one girl that if she baked him cookies he would give her an A. She did and he did.
That happens far too often. I'm so sorry that happens to anyone.
Load More Replies...Wasn't there a Malcolm in the middle episode about this? The teacher would fail Reese without even reading the answers
Yes. Malcolm was helping Reese study, and eventually did an assignment for him. Teacher failed Malcolms assignment, Lois finds out and puts the fear of God in the teacher for failing Malcolms assignment.
Load More Replies...Had a geometry teacher in HS like that. Said to me in front of the whole class I was too stupid to learn math. Had to take calculus in college. Aced both courses.
Ugh. I had a math teacher that would grade the girls based on cup size. D cup? You can have all the makeup tests, extra help, and extra credit you want. Training bra (me) you get nothing. Thankfully I'm really good with math, and rarely missed an answer. However he would he would find any way to nitpick ( I very rarely needed to write down the process). I figured out what amount of work had to do to pass with a D. He got pissed when I just stopped doing most assignments and jeered that I'd have to ace the finals and wasn't possible. I got a 99% which meant exactly a passing grade and ticked him off good. Since it was the last day of classes, hence no retaliation, a bunch of girls went to the principal and complained of sexual harassment. He did not return next semester. Mr.Tran, I hope you never taught again.
I got failed most of a year in history because not long after starting that year, I defended my Jewish fellow against him. Why is Jewish relevant. Because he proudly had a swastika flag in his classroom. I proved I was being failed by almost verbatim copy A*'s paper one day (he knew) and we took it up the line. My grades improved until the final exam which you don't get back and I was back down to D again. Didn't care, didn't take history after that. He got shot dead in front of class some years after I had left.
schools need a more effective way to vet teachers before hiring, and dismiss them for performance issues. usually they don't get fired unless convicted of a felony.
I work for a contracted unloading service in a warehouse. One of the guys on my crew is an absolute little [jerk] sometimes. Complains about his work, tries to leave early every day, bums cigarettes off everyone without ever bringing his own pack, etc. He even owes some of my other coworkers money, I believe. But I digress.
On Thursday, he lost his [cool] over a produce load and threw a temper tantrum: kicking boxes, tearing down tall pallets of product, and causing a lot of damage... Right as the site manager walked by his trailer door. Got suspended without pay and was told he is on his last chance with the company. Now it's only a matter of time before he gets fired. Sweet, sweet, karma.
This case doesn’t sound like it’s in the UK, but over here you have to go through the right channels. Suspension then disciplinary meetings etc, firing can be on the first meeting after suspension but I don’t think you can fire someone on the spot. I could be wrong though.
Load More Replies...FFS, he sounds like a giant toddler. Mind you, my nephew learned not to behave like that when HE was a toddler.
I was kicking a customer out for being racist and cursing at one of my employees. He yelled offensive stuff all and then he tried to slam the door on his way out, but it had one of those things on it that makes the door close slowly. He pushed it hard, it didn't budge and he slipped and fell on the floor. We had a good laugh.
New Brazilian on reception asked by old boy if she can speak English properly. While I'm still opening my mouth to say something she says "how many languages do you speak?!" Turns out he needed to leave.
On a trip backpacking around Greece once I had a bad experience in a hotel and decided to take one of their beautifully painted stone eggs from the bowl in the reception as compensation. When we were on the ferry to the next island I started noticing a horrible smell coming from my bag. It turns out that it was not a stone egg at all, but a painted boiled egg that had broken in my bag, the whole thing had become so rotten it had turned a nice shade of green and the smell was almost intolerable. I had to borrow a lot of my friends clothes for the rest of the trip but at least it taught me a good lesson.
If you'd offered to shell out for 'the stone' they might have warned you it wasn't all it was c*****d up to be
Pysaky egg? We made some one year, and they aren't easy! And they didn't look anywhere as nice as the pros make them. Jerk deserved it. And yes, you dye them raw and let them dry slowly for years.
It was an Easter egg. It seems it was kept as decoration many months after. It's fine until the moment you open it and the stupid OP did exactly this.
Load More Replies...so was a bowl of rotten boiled eggs part of the bad experience you had at this hotel?
Late to the party... some little toddler punk grabbed at the just poured hot coffee meant for me. The barrista tried to stop the kid but this kid was not having it. He took a huge sip, I think mistaking it for the pumpkin spice latte his momma ordered for him while in line before me, and promptly made a face, spit it out, and dropped the hot coffee all over himself. Cries ensue. Mom berates the employee for letting this happen. Waving her own large frapp wildly in the air. Little hellion is still throwing full tantrum on the floor, pulls at his mom's pants and then the frapp falls on him too.
I giggled.
Hit or strike; but it is also a ballet term I believe.
Load More Replies... There was a man who lived on the next block who used to ride his dirtbike on the streets, which is illegal here. He wouldn't just ride to a trail, he would ride recklessly weaving through traffic.
When his kid learned to ride, he began teaching his kid how to cut off cars and weave through traffic.
One day either him or his kid caused a significant accident on a major crossroad. Another time a driver swerved into a telephone pole to avoid hitting him. We all knew it was him but, camera's weren't prevalent at the time and there was no real evidence of it.
Then finally he was showing off on the nearby highway when he cut someone off, then fell off his bike hitting the ground so hard his helmet flew off, and was then run over by one of the cars he cut off.
He lived through it but is down an arm and confined to a wheelchair.
I feel incredibly sorry for the person who ran him over as that would be horrifically traumatising for life
My husband drives professionally. Four years ago he rear ended a woman that had come to a dead stop on an interstate because she missed her exit. It took a year before he was even willing to get behind the wheel again. My brain hurts hearing these stories
Load More Replies...this sort of tragic outcome probably shouldn't be included here for entertainment value.
Honestly? The relationship I have with my family now. It’s very distant and I never ask for help from them. My parents used to yell at me constantly about how I needed to stop relying on them and grow up. As a 10 year old. They now try to give me money or help me with things and I just don’t take any of the offers. I don’t want to be a burden like they treated as ever again. I can do it myself.
It's better to be not dependent on your parents once you're able to do things yourself. For one, it's good for your developing sense of self and it's also beneficial for the relationship between you and your parents: it can be on a more equal footing than when they 'help' you. "Help' has the frustrating habit of coming back to bite your posterior.
Disagree. This child was 10! You are obligated as a parent to support your child mentally, financially, and otherwise until,they are at least 18. If you are not willing to do this, DONT HAVE CHILDREN!
Load More Replies...Same. I was 9 when I realized my folks were so hamstrung by their own problems that there wouldn't be much help coming from them. I was right.
When I moved from my father's house, my stepmother phoned every day to make sure I started working and stopped taking child support that could go to her kids instead. I did get a job really quickly. I also years later got a big redundancy payment and sent money to my father after said little dickheads started a fire in their house... she never acknowledged it until my brother forced her hand years later.
My first job was in a kitchen at a nursing home. Our manager was going to leave for a new job elsewhere, so his spot opened up. One of the nurses decided that he wanted that spot, so he started learning how to run the kitchen. He was a huge jerk that thought he was better than us because he was nursing staff, but wanted to be our boss because I think it paid more. He gets the job and I quit because I hated him. I learn that a few weeks after I left, he did such a bad job that he was fired and they wouldn’t let him have his old job back.
Nursing homes are very hard work and I respect (nearly) all those who work there.
he wanted a downgrade from "nurse' to "kitchen worker'? and kitchen worker paid more? WTH !!!!
At an old job there was a manager who openly stated that he got his position because he was golf buddies with one of the district managers. At first when he took over things seemed to stay the same but things started getting weird. He'd always tell us that he would take care of electronic returns and items and to not worry about putting them away. If things were quiet around the store he would keep an eye out for "attractive" women and those wearing low cut shirts and would always go to the cashier these women were at and tell the cashier to go help someone else (usually a member doing stock or something). He would also stop caring about certain procedures but will put the blame on someone else should something go wrong.
After a couple of months of working for him he suddenly stops showing up along with another member of staff. I thought they were on vacation but as it turns out both of them were arrested for various charges the main one of which was for grand larceny. Apparently the two were marking high end electronic items as damaged (mostly ipads) and instead of throwing them into the bin for returns would take them and try to sell them. They blamed each other and both were charged one of who was handcuffed and led out the front door on a day I wasn't working.
A co worker of mine (who I actually like) was riding passenger in a small crane rig, when he got on site he went to get out of the truck and start talking [trash], and in the middle of saying "hey I didn't know they sent the Girl Scou-" slipped and fell out of the cab and landed face first in the mud. It was insta-karma. And quite hilarious.
Some drunk AH driving Very close to my bumper on 290 in Chicago, all they way up by Itasca where 290 splits and goes N, while the south leg turns into 355. Dude was yelling at me and purple faced, bec I flipped him off in my rear view, and for about a mile, was screaming and coming very close to my car. I call 911, operator tells me there an officer right behind us - who follows the guy who sees the cop, and pulls off to the right, to exit N 290 toward Itasca. Last I saw his angry face and I was pointing and laughing, and cop lights up behind him, it was so glorious.
It might also be an idea to refrain from flipping people off, fsr it makes them angry and they do annoying things...
i'm convinced with all these car-revenge stories. let's make licensing MUCH more difficult
Driving to Chicago and a crazy guy is road raging swerving erratically while yelling about shooting us. He zooms off.
5 or so miles later we see his van upside-down in the ditch. He's standing on the shoulder talking to a cop.
My brother was making fun of an old man slowly shuffling across a parking lot. "Look at Speedy Gonzalez " or something and 2 seconds after he (my brother) bashes his foot on the cement parking barrier! He limped back to the car as I laughed hysterically.
My sons mom. She left me and my son when he was 2 months old. She decided all she wanted to do was be out at the clubs and [sleep with] random guys instead of being a mom. My son is ten now. We don't talk to her, but judging from her Facebook her life is a mess. Now has 4 kids with different dads and has been in jail n and out. Child protective services have a scope on her. She doesn't have anything at all to do with my son. But..... she posted on her Facebook that the reason her life is a mess is because her first born child's father (me) put witch craft on her. Hahahah nope not me. That is called karma! Meanwhile me and my son have lives a wonderful life :-).
The malevolent character here was not a witch, but the spelling is close.
you need to put your own facebook post up, showing you dressed as voldemort.
Had a moron driver in a Porsche convertible tailgating me on a 6 lane highway. I wasn't in the far right lane, but I was in the middle so he still could have passed if he wanted to. He finally passes me and blows his horn at me as he blows past. We get on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and it immediately starts torrentially pouring. There was nowhere for him to stop so he had to drive a several mile long bridge with his top down the whole way.
when god closes a door, he opens a convertible top, or possibly a sunroof . . .
A lot of modern electronically operated convertible tops won't operate if the vehicle is in motion, or won't if traveling over a certain (low) speed. And some hardtops are still completely manual (notably for me the C7 corvette, but I love corvettes). Worked in rental 10 years, drove all kinds.
Load More Replies...When I was a kid I threw a basketball into a puddle in front of a friend of mine, splashing him. I'm walking backwards, pointing and laughing. I then turn around right into a pole and knock myself out.
Sitting on a highway late at night because of a bad car accident. The highway was packed and barely moving.
One guy thinks he's smarter than everyone else and tries to drive on the shoulder. He makes it a good little ways before running into an on ramp, also packed with cars. He had no where to go, and no one let him in. He was stuck between cars in the right most lane and cars from the on ramp. Everyone stuck bumper to bumper and flowed around him.
I went from watching him pass me and almost getting out of my view to passing him and losing sight of him in my rear view.
Is was on the M25 one day, when they were widening the carriageway from 3 to 4 lanes. Miles and miles and miles of chaos. We're all sitting there, fuming in the hot sun, when a Porsche zips past us all on the otter side - the roadworks side - of the concrete barrier. Anyway, some time and a few miles later, we spot the passengers in the cars in front leaning out the windows and standing up through sunfoofs, all cheering and waving at something on the other side of the barrier. Yup.The oh-so-smart rectal sphincter had finally reached the part of the carriageway that they'd dug up, wasn't even doing walking speed, from the movements of his car was ripping the bottom out of it and was being beaten to Hell and back by the woman in his passenger seat. Nice 🤣
A bunch of fools in their car flying down the highway, flashing their lights and giving everybody the finger as they drive-by. Three minutes later down the road, there was a speed trap and you see them pulled over by the cops. Sweet sweet justice.
Some instant karma I witnessed once:
Mom n I were driving in a school zone adjacent to my neighborhood. On a main-ish road that connects two major arterial roads. We were honoring the school zone speed limit as it was mid day and active, and this dude zooms around us (single lane in each direction separated by double solid yellow). Cop is waiting on a side street, speed trapping people. Dude gets pulled over right in front of us. Amazing.
The other day I was taking my dog for a walk around the neighborhood. She squatted down to take [feces] and I reached for my doggie bags only to realize I was fresh out. So I peeked around making sure nobody was looking, and I just left it.
10 minutes later I'm walking across the road and I cut through a thin grass median in the center and what do you know-- I step in dog [feces].
I wasn't even mad, I knew I deserved it.
I'm so worried about forgetting or running out that I end up having poobags in every bag I own, and in special containers attached to their leads, and I carry several packs of spares which I regularly top up. It's not that hard to remember!
It happens. I have also done the walk of shame for toilet paper as well, so things get forgotten.
Load More Replies...I admit, I learned how to "kick" p**p out of pedestrian pathways when I dont have my dog bags. It gets consumed fairly fast by slugs where I live.
My first IT related job, a shady AF computer store in the mid 1990's. The owner was about as egotistical as you can get. Shady AF, too. Big time software piracy, lying to people about computer specs, etc.
He owed all the vendors in New England (and possibly New York) hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars from previous businesses. He always had to pay them in cash (yeah, he'd routinely send me into Boston with $3,000 minimum (one time it was $25,000) in cash to buy equipment. He paid us in cashier's checks. He also harassed me and my friend (she didn't care, I couldn't do anything because male on male SA was not illegal at the time).
One of our vendors accused me of stealing and his version of "backing me up" was telling me to confess. Turns out, they acknowledged it wasn't me ( I have high morals). I ended up quitting when we got back. my friend quit less than a month later.
A year later I heard that he was raided by the FBI for check fraud (oddly, no charges of software piracy). Turns out, he and the lead sales person (another shady AF person) were both arrested (and later jailed). I don't know how long he was in jail but it was probably a while since he was convicted before.
Depends on what SA stands for. Male on male sexual a*****t - definitely illegal. Male on male sexual a***e (harrassment, etc) - often ignored.
Load More Replies... I work up the street from a court house. Guy gets in his car, pissed after losing his case. Does like 7000km up the street, smashes his car into another car, slides off of that & totals a brand new $50k truck which flies backwards into a Kia behind it.
Cops pull up the street in 4 seconds & arrest him for driving with an expired license.
I wonder how it worked out the owners of the cars involved. If he guy drove with an expired license, he probably wasn't insured, so how did all the owners get their damages reimbursed?
They'd be pretty much out of luck if they didn't have collision coverage (many/most people with older cars don't). If this guy had an expired license, obviously means no insurance like you said, and almost certainly has no money to sue after. My first car was totalled by somebody with no license - I got nothing. Edit: didn't notice they used km, so probably not in the US - I only have experience with car/legal issues in US, so no clue how it would work out elsewhere.
Load More Replies...Exwife cheated on me while I was deployed, drained our bank accounts, and sold all my tools ( 2 snap on rollaways filled with tools). After we divorced she lost her job, totalled her car, the guy she cheated with left her, her mom [passed away] and she lost her apartment.
you're taking way too much satisfaction in this. especially the death of her mom.
I was running laps on a grass field in the military when I was about to lap a guy who'd ALWAYS lap the [life] out of me. So as I passed him I yelled "Gotcha!" and *immediately* stepped in a hole in the ground and twisted my ankle. Despite the pain of jacking my ankle up, I thought the karmic payout was hilariously timed.
Yes BP, that totally looks like soldiers on a field.
The important thing is they're running laps. They could be in a school cross-country class, it wouldn't change much about the story. And also, stock image
Load More Replies...Not gonna lie, I felt pretty good when I found out my school bully had been arrested for shoplifting.
The bully on my street got arrested for bank robbery. The dye pack exploded on him. Serves you right Brad!
The racist homophobic bully in my class was born rich and stayed rich by inheriting his father's business. He dropped dead at an early age, first in our class to die. (The second was the doctor caught stalking pre-teen girls on the internet.)
Load More Replies...he's a bully, and all they could get him on was shoplifting? it's like arresting al capone for tax evasion.
This is from my younger years. A friend of mine had a cousin visiting around Victoria day in Canada (aka firecracker day). When I went to visit him, I was told he was in the backyard. I go back there and he and his cousin are setting off firecrackers. They have a big bowl of loose firecrackers. I ask if I can set a couple off as well and both my friend and his cousin start tossing lit firecrackers at me while laughing.
I figure that they are both acting like greedy [jerks], so I decided to leave. Just as I'm about to leave a spark gets into the bowl. The entire bowl of firecrackers ignite leaving only a few unexploded. This lasted about 10 or 15 seconds.
The stunned look on my friend and cousin's face was pure "karma is [real]". I'm laughing at them. I'm sure they planned a whole afternoon of setting them off.
setting off entire bowl of firecrackers at once is probably what the founders of Victoria day envisioned. Enjoy!
I'm not going to go into detail, but i was talking to this girl, and then stopped very abruptly when I met another that I felt i liked way more, and she seemed into me as well. It was a pretty awesome couple of weeks, when she did the same to me. I certainly did not even think about talking to the first again after how i ended that.
Once, I spit my gum out on the floor in the hallway at school . After that class period, I stepped in it.
don't ever visit any asian city. people spit everywhere, all the time.
On my drive back from school I witnessed a car run a red light in front of a cop; the car was subsequently pulled over. I pointed laughing and then immediately smashed into the car in front of me.
I (17F) have a nice mountain bike, as it’s my sport. My brother’s friend (15M) used to tell me how ugly my bike was, and that it was a terrible color. Funny, he got the identical bike because he didn’t have a choice in the color. He has a severe inferiority complex, and told me that his bike was better because it was a year newer. Right after getting his new bike, he was hit by a car, and his bike was totaled. He can’t afford a new one. I feel for the guy, and I’m so sorry that his bike broke ($2,000 bike), and no one deserves that, but karma hit hard.
How is that "karma"? Mid-teen hubris made him boastful and he gets hit by a car?
i refuse to feel getting hit by a car is karma for someone only 15 years old.
Imagine, if you will, a high school cafeteria, a microcosm of society with its own hierarchies and rituals, a place where the noise of adolescent chatter mingles with the clatter of plastic trays and the hum of fluorescent lights. Here, a teenager named Michael, confident and cocky, revels in his role as the class clown, always ready with a sharp word or a cruel joke at someone else's expense. His latest target is a quiet, bookish girl named Emily, who sits alone, her nose buried in a novel, trying to disappear into the pages and out of the cafeteria's unforgiving spotlight.
Michael, sensing an opportunity to entertain his audience of peers, approaches her table with exaggerated swagger, his voice rising above the din as he mocks her choice of reading, her clothes, her very existence. The laughter of his friends is a soundtrack to his cruelty, each chuckle and snicker fueling his confidence. Emily's face flushes, her eyes remain fixed on her book, but her shoulders tense, a silent testament to the sting of his words.
Then, in a twist of fate that feels almost scripted, Michael steps back, intending to make a grand exit, but instead his foot catches on the leg of a chair. He stumbles, his arms flailing in a desperate attempt to regain balance, but gravity has other plans. He crashes to the floor, his tray of food soaring into the air before descending in a slow-motion arc that ends with a splatter of spaghetti and meatballs across his chest.
The cafeteria falls silent for a heartbeat, the shock of the scene rendering everyone mute. Then, as if on cue, laughter erupts, but this time it is not directed at Emily. It is Michael who is the subject of mirth, his bravado reduced to humiliation in the space of a heartbeat. His friends, who moments before had cheered him on, now laugh the loudest, their loyalty as fickle as the tides.
Emily, still seated, glances up from her book, her eyes meeting Michael's. There is no malice in her gaze, only a quiet satisfaction, a recognition that sometimes the universe does balance the scales, that karma, swift and unrelenting, has its own way of exacting justice. Michael, covered in the remnants of his lunch, learns a lesson that day, not just about humility, but about the fragile nature of reputation and the unexpected ways in which it can be shattered.
As the cafeteria noise resumes its normal rhythm, the laughter and chatter now a background to Michael's shame, Emily turns a page in her book, a small, almost imperceptible smile playing at the corners of her mouth. The story she is reading is one of heroes and villains, much like her own, but today, she feels a little less like the victim, and a little more like the heroine.
OK it's great that OP likes to write and they're good at it, but six paragraphs for a flimsy anecdote is overkіll.
Careful Bartlet, Karma may come and teach YOU a lesson about how unkind your words are! You never know! 🤔🤨🙂↕️🤷♀️
Load More Replies...I read this in the voice of the man that introduces The Twilight Zone stories. Artfully written.
Rod Serling. "Imagine if you will, a seemingly normal cafeteria." lol
Load More Replies...I don't think I ever saw the cafeteria. We had a student smoking lounge and I hung out with the other stoners. We were a lot more laid back and tolerant of people.
Isn't it insane to think we actually had smoking areas in school??
Load More Replies...Oh this was beautifully written! I don't care how long it was, it was music to my eyes! You can tell Emily is a true writer, as well as a reader! My soul sister!
Love the way this was written! I felt as though (and pictured) Rod Serling was opening an episode of The Outer Limits - a favorite show.
No. They laughed. At Michael. Did you even read it? Lol
Load More Replies...you had me at "our cafeteria is a microcosm of society." but then again, every schoolkid probably feels like that.
Walking back from a job training, I see two young boys, maybe 11 years old, playfully throwing rocks at each other from the top stories of two adjacent construction sites. Boy one sees me approaching, breaks the gaze of his friend and starts shouting "ferengi ferengi China China MONEEEEE!" at me. Boy two takes this as the perfect opportunity to wind up and throw a rock directly into his friends testicles. Boy one crumples to the ground, while boy two and I share a laugh over this incredible moment.
Violence is so often hilarious - if you are the person providing it, that is. Others seem to be not so pleased ...
i don't undertand the "ferengi" insult. is this about star trek, or did you mean "farang" (foreigner)?
I went to this guy's house to check out an ATV he had for sale as "needs nothing". He was telling me that he's moving and had to get rid of it. So I drive it up and down the street a few times and it seems okay but on my last lap, I hear a pop and the thing starts pulling HARD to the right. I look down and the right wheel is almost perpendicular to the road. I wrestle the thing back to his house and tell him something to the effect of "no thanks. It's pulling hard to the right. You've got a front end problem". The guy just nods emotionless as if he knew all along. He probably just popped something back into place and crossed his fingers, hoping that I'd be the sucker that took it off his hands.
As I turn to leave, I see a DARK black tire print running the entire 75 foot length of his newly power washed driveway. Apparently, that tire had melted from the friction of running sideways on my return trip and dropped melted rubber all the way down his driveway. I didn't say a word.
Now he has to power wash or probably sand blast the entire length of his driveway for the new owners.
Gotta love that karma.
At my former job the assistant manager put in an anonymous tip to HR how the new district manager was trying to pull a power move by threatening workers if they didn't do what she told them to do. She wasn't, assistant manager was just mad our boss got fired and the new one sucked. The head of the entire HR for this nationwide company comes to our store with the regional manager.
Assistant Manager ends up talking herself into a hole and got demoted when she got hysterical and claimed everyone was against her and went off how they're all dumb.
A cyclist flew through a red light at an intersection and I almost clobbered him. I'm used to these guys so I just harumphed and slowed down. This guy cuts me off AGAIN and flicks me off in the same motion.
I used to be a smoker and a litterer back then so in my frustration I flicked my but out my window and put both hands on the wheel. The [jerk] caught the wind and flicked back into the cyclists face causing him to crash into the median.
I'm not too happy about how satisfying it is still thinking about it.
Big convenience store network ( "Circle K" style ) HQ in my country, rejected me for a contract IT job for an undisclosed reason, despite the IT firm that proposed me told that everything was fine. A few years later, that company was sued for not paying taxes, was a big $$$ lawsuit ...
Karma usually includes some kind of link between "AH does bad thing" and "Bad thing happens to AH as a result". Link seems missing here ... ?
After years of belittling employees, the ruthless CEO was ousted when his own underhanded tactics were exposed, leaving him facing the very consequences he had once inflicted on others.
A little more context, even some characters, might lift this into the realms of the interesting.
Be Better, a tiktok star. They kept posting criticism videos of celebrities titled "The Downfall of X." And it was always a celebrity with a big following, but the "downfall" was always a bunch of exaggerated sweet nothings that never quite added up to a real criticism.
Finally karma caught up to them when they posted one about Kamala Harris that was so stupid that people finally had enough, prompting a wave of criticism, which of course people called "The Downfall of Be Better".
This does seem like a Welch v McCarthy moment, when someone goes that extra inch that loses their support - or breaks the fear they have been building
A new company came in and took over our contract. One of the things that was supposed to happen was they were going to buy us a couple Chevy Tahoes to patrol in. It was a part of the contract. Instead, they pocketed 4 of the 5 million dollars paid for 3 years and gave us Chevin Equinoxs instead.
One of the guys responsible for this bait and switch was driving down the road on his motorcycle a few weeks later and crashed into an equinox. He [passed away] on impact.
there are too many gas guzzling $70,000 tahoes as police cruisers. Go with the equinox. your manhood is not at stake.
might also benefit from what W S Gilbert called "corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative".
Guy who used to make fun of me in middle school turned into the kid all the teachers made jokes about.
Teachers shouldn't make jokes about students, learning is scary enough as it is
Trust me, all teachers make jokes and tell stories about the kids they teach but they - mostly - keep such talk between themselves. Only the bad ones do it in public. Source: my mother was a teacher
Load More Replies... When I was about 14, my friend was in a different school than me. He saw his English teacher out walking and mentioned it and said his name. I ran and hid and shouted, "Mr Jones, I love you." The teacher turned around and saw his student standing by himself.
Over the summer, the teacher transferred to become vice principal at my school. I moved house shortly after and ended up living about 4 houses away from my new vice principal. My prank got returned many, many times.
I’m in a historic vehicle club. One of our members is a lady in her 40s. Of course men who are new members never miss an opportunity to mansplain things to her. She’s actually head of technical development,for a major Formula One team. It’s hilarious to see her demolish them.
This wasn't instant karma, but karma nonetheless. I am a Disabled Vet and was renting from a building where a schoolmate was manager. She knew I get hydrocodone because signed for mail came to her office and i trusted her with that information. One night she shows up at my apartment late at night, with some guy, asking for a hydrocodone and I said no. Not only is that illegal, but she was on something and I wasn't about to be charged for manslaughter if she overdosed. She got me evicted. Said I had 3 dogs instead of the 2 on my lease and I was cooking m3th (W*F?). When you have no power and no voice that happens. I was homeless for 5 years in motels but eventually won my fight with the VA and bought a 4br house. Last winter my schoolmates were sharing her GFM because she was homeless. I have no sympathy. I even emailed her to rub it in. I am petty.
Sometimes you're entitled to be petty. Glad you are back in the saddle.
Load More Replies...Not quite instant, but my boss got fired maybe a few weeks after not taking mental health concerns seriously. I had anxiety attack and couldn't work one day, and he dismissed it saying everyone has anxiety. Apparently I was not the only one he told ...
We found out 2 weeks before we were supposed to move in that our homebuilder had no intention of selling the house to us. He was a huge swindler who would use construction loans to buy boats and stuff and then use the next loan to pay the first one. He was planning to move in "our" house himself. As his scams caught up with him he moved to another state. Later learned that a subcontractor who he never paid found him and unalived him. I won't say I'd wish that on anyone, but I will say no tears were shed for him.
Idiot boss relieved me of my job against everyone's advice, which was something he did all the time on a whim and which cost the company a lot of valuable staff of long service. I got a happy and respectful farewell with gifts and a speech at the last staff meeting. Two months later, idiot boss was fired in disgrace. I'm always welcome to come by and say hello. Former boss is now a laughing-stock and the subject of gleefully malicious gossip in every level of the company. Turns out everyone knew about the stupid s**t he got up to and now he's gone they can openly talk about it without risking some of his petty revenge. Joblessness has not been an easy time for me but at least I've got that bit of comfort.
i had a bad boss who didn't follow the rules. everyone was afraid. the company went broke. then she crashed her car into a telephone poll. the end . . .
In a haunted house I worked at once (I would stand there and give directions to visitors), there was one little girl who brought a flashlight (which in the situation was like a flashbang g*****e) in, and the people who would follow visitors around to scare them swarmed her like moths.
I’m in a historic vehicle club. One of our members is a lady in her 40s. Of course men who are new members never miss an opportunity to mansplain things to her. She’s actually head of technical development,for a major Formula One team. It’s hilarious to see her demolish them.
This wasn't instant karma, but karma nonetheless. I am a Disabled Vet and was renting from a building where a schoolmate was manager. She knew I get hydrocodone because signed for mail came to her office and i trusted her with that information. One night she shows up at my apartment late at night, with some guy, asking for a hydrocodone and I said no. Not only is that illegal, but she was on something and I wasn't about to be charged for manslaughter if she overdosed. She got me evicted. Said I had 3 dogs instead of the 2 on my lease and I was cooking m3th (W*F?). When you have no power and no voice that happens. I was homeless for 5 years in motels but eventually won my fight with the VA and bought a 4br house. Last winter my schoolmates were sharing her GFM because she was homeless. I have no sympathy. I even emailed her to rub it in. I am petty.
Sometimes you're entitled to be petty. Glad you are back in the saddle.
Load More Replies...Not quite instant, but my boss got fired maybe a few weeks after not taking mental health concerns seriously. I had anxiety attack and couldn't work one day, and he dismissed it saying everyone has anxiety. Apparently I was not the only one he told ...
We found out 2 weeks before we were supposed to move in that our homebuilder had no intention of selling the house to us. He was a huge swindler who would use construction loans to buy boats and stuff and then use the next loan to pay the first one. He was planning to move in "our" house himself. As his scams caught up with him he moved to another state. Later learned that a subcontractor who he never paid found him and unalived him. I won't say I'd wish that on anyone, but I will say no tears were shed for him.
Idiot boss relieved me of my job against everyone's advice, which was something he did all the time on a whim and which cost the company a lot of valuable staff of long service. I got a happy and respectful farewell with gifts and a speech at the last staff meeting. Two months later, idiot boss was fired in disgrace. I'm always welcome to come by and say hello. Former boss is now a laughing-stock and the subject of gleefully malicious gossip in every level of the company. Turns out everyone knew about the stupid s**t he got up to and now he's gone they can openly talk about it without risking some of his petty revenge. Joblessness has not been an easy time for me but at least I've got that bit of comfort.
i had a bad boss who didn't follow the rules. everyone was afraid. the company went broke. then she crashed her car into a telephone poll. the end . . .
In a haunted house I worked at once (I would stand there and give directions to visitors), there was one little girl who brought a flashlight (which in the situation was like a flashbang g*****e) in, and the people who would follow visitors around to scare them swarmed her like moths.
