Seen wonderful karma at work today

@PepsiAddiction Very funny post! Read it twice before I "got" "shitland".

My heart bleeds...

"My little Maudie wouldn't do that!"

"Madam, I have the video."

Diddums, poor parents, let's have a whip round for them!

Maybe if they had made a better job when their sprogs were small they wouldn't now have parents who are 'ground down by their own children's poor behaviour'. If they are glad to sit back and let their sprogs misbehave then perhaps it needs random strangers to do their job for them though I would guarantee that they, the parents, wouldn't be happy.

I don't think that's entirely fair: the kids themselves may not be actually disgusting, it's the behaviour that is disgusting. I know it's a quibble, but it seems to me important: when telling off my own children I tried to be careful to make it plain that it was not them I was angry with or disliked, it was how they had behaved. A bit like the woman who said to a daughter that she loved her, she just didn't like her very much at the moment. (I forget what the daughter had done: something nasty, like for instance trying to kick a pigeon.)

My worry is that I don't know whether for example Robert Thompson and Jon Venables started out tormenting birds unchecked, went on to tying tin cans to the tails of cats and never being told off for it, and ended up ... well, we know what they did before they were stopped.

When a man marries mistress it just creates a vacancy.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4974597-to-be-scared-that-im-still-marked-by-the-crows

here it is.

Really interesting thread.

Yesterday DH saw the boy at the park picking up litter. Dh went up to him and told him well done and apparently he has to be on litter duty for an entire week. Slightly harsh punishment in my opinion but hopefully he will learn his lesson.

Not harsh at all, it's good to read about decent parents who care about their child's behaviour.
Many years ago working in a military school all the children went home by bus. After about an hour one boy reappeared at the Head's office panting, his WO father striding in behind him. 'I gather that Boy's Name had a break detention today that he's unhappy about. He's run all the way back to apologise and assure you it won't happen again!'

There was a fascinating thread recently about crows and it linked to how crows not only recognise people, they hold grudges and they even pass grudges down to their offsrping for certain people. I'll try and find it.

She was probably laughing too much!

A very similar thing happened to me.
I was dropping DD off at the beach last year and noticed the speed trap waiting to catch people at the bottom of a hill.
On my return journey, I had a similar arsehole tailgating me, even though I was driving at the 30mph limit.
Just before the top of the hill, I pulled over to allow the arsehole to pass me and he predictably zoomed off past me and down the hill.
I waited a couple of minutes, then drove down the hill and waved at him, stopped at the side of the road by the police.

A beautiful moment of karma.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast I know nothing about your situation, but you must see that children can't be allowed to torment/chase (and frighten) birds and animals? I'm not someone who eg tuts judgmentally when a parent is trying to calm a child in meltdown, but disrespect for living, breathing things should surely be a line in the sand.

🤣🤣🤣 serves them right! I have a similar story. My lovely cat who sadly died a few years ago was not keen on strangers so would hide under my couch when anyone visited but he would come out eventually when his curiousity got the better of him and if he liked said person would let them stroke him including kids despite him not being used to kids but my nephews and younger cousins who all knew to ignore my cat and let him come to them.

One day my cousin and his friend came round to my house they were about 11. My cousins friend saw my cat under the couch and kept trying to get him to come out and was sort of tormenting him by trying to grab him. I told cousins friend numerous times to leave my cat alone because he will attack when he feels threatened. He hissed at my cousins friend and I told him very firmly "leave my cat alone now he's giving you a warning next time he will attack".

I went to the bathroom and when I walked back into my living room cousins friend was on the floor and using my broom to get my cat out from under the couch. I was about to go fucking apsehit when my cat suddenly ran out from the couch and scratched cousins friend on the face and drew blood. I cleaned the scratches and took my cousin and friend back home and then went to my aunties. Cousins friend dad came round to my aunts and started telling me off about my vicious cat attacking his son and how I should have my cat put to sleep! I lost it a bit and told the dad straight that I told his son so many times to leave my cat alone and warned him my cat would attack if he carried on and he should teach his son to listen when told to leave alone and not torment animals!

Friends dad then turned to my aunt and said I needed to learn to respect my elders, my aunt calmly replied "yes I agree elders should be respected maybe if you taught your son to respect his elders and listen to WickedWitch when she told him to leave the cat alone he wouldn't have got scratched in the first place would your son have tormented WickedWitch's pet if she owned a doberman?" Friends dad had no reply to that and my aunt told him his son hopefully has learned his lesson about tormenting animals. Whether he did I don't know but it really baffled me how the dad was pissed off when his son was told and warned so many times and ignored it. Its not rocket science to not torment animals you never how they'll react.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast

Well do your kids behave like in the various examples here?
Which would be disgusting behaviour, in which case they are disgusting.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast not your first rodeo? Defensive much?

Im waiting for my bingo sheet to be entirely full before I shout house. I think the only thing Im missing now is for myself or my kids to be called ‘disgusting’.

Ugh please ask her to stop!

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You speak as though you bear zero responsibility for your poorly behaved children. Whose responsibility is it then, to ensure they grow into decent adults?

My dear, your kids are clearly your karma.

We had a ginger cat and she was fine with us and GENERALLY fine with people but she didn't respond well to the people who teased her. We had a few crying children that she'd taken a swat at (no-one was ever scratched) because they'd wiggled their fingers in front of her and she didn't take kindly to that.
Best one was our neighbour, who was well aware of the cat's attitude, warning her young niece to leave the cat alone and then saying "Well I did tell you!" when said neice got hissed at and then a swipe of the paw after NOT leaving the cat alone.

Used to drive an old morris minor as my daily commute. Had my fair share of arrogant arseholes most days but ignored. One night on my drive home I was at lights which merged up the road. Next to me pulls up a suited, middle aged bloke in a BMW, his window is down and he's taking the piss out of the car, all whilst revving the bollocks off it and laughing. Lights changed and I pulled away, meanwhile, he'd been so busy with his little display he'd stalled it and from what I could see in my mirror was struggling to get it going again.

Entire queue of traffic passed him, bloke behind was really laughing and he was still sat there when the lights changed again.

I told some adult tourists off at Loch Ness for throwing little stones at ducks on the Loch. Guy looked shocked and claimed not to have done it. I said I had just watched him do it, so don't bloody do it again. He looked very sheepish, all his friends looked sheepish and they tried to pretend they didn't know what was going on. Absolute twats!

Can't think of any karma stories, but hopefully their car broke down on their way home or something.

Hope you gave him the death stare?

I had someone driving up close behind me down a busy High St.. I stopped at a yellow box.. he clearly thought i.was stopping for no reason- so he moved his big 4x4 around my tiny mini and landed smack in the middle of said yellow box.. he tried to 3 point turn out (oh the stupidity)
how I laughed...