Any CF Karma stories

[Bethany83]

Inspired by yesterday's thread of the bill splitting karma, which was very uplifting to read, can anyone share any stories where CF got their come uppence? These will be a wonderful read for all especially victims of CF!
I don't have any to offer I am afraid...

Sorry all, I've derailed a mainly fun thread by arguing about fences.

In the UK the responsibility is to "maintain the boundary" which can be done with tent pegs and a bit of string! You don't have to fence.

The fence was still dog proof until she removed a broken down panel at the very back. Most of it is just leaning into her garden. She removed the small panel on the day the dog walked through, once the panel was removed.
She knows we have a dog, I hadn’t noticed she had taken out the remnants of the panel since we were working on the other side of the garden.
I have now made it secure. It is a very narrow gap so not immediately noticeable.
The fence has been in poor repair for over 12 months, but our garden has overgrown mature shrubs and until we started to removed them we were not aware how bad it was. It is much more obvious from her side since it is leaning into her garden at a 45deg angle. And no it’s not our shrubs that caused the damage, two of them have been holding it up until now.

And we have replaced the fence on that side twice over 29yrs since we originally thought we were responsible for it. But then new neighbours further up lead to our neighbour the other side seeking legal clarification and it turns out we have been maintaining the wrong fence. We all agreed to forget any historic costs and going forward maintain the boundary we are legally responsible for. So she has had 20 yrs of fencing.
Since we are doing a lot of work I am going to offer to repair the fence if she pays for the materials.

I don't know if this Is karma or not

Years ago there was a 'problem family' living not far from my parents (we all know the type)

Well one night it had been snowing heavily and my father had to go out somewhere on his motorbike

The families kids where out,throwing hard snowballs at passing traffic

My father passed and was hit in the face by a hard snowball and almost lost control of his massive motorbike

He came home fuming and rang the police,who did come out but couldn't do anything as not only where the kids all under 9 years old,but the parents swore up and down that the kids had been in all evening (they where caught on cctv!)

The family got wind it was my father that had rang the police on them so tried to target him (which didn't work-my father is a shy,passive man until someone upsets him and he turns into a nasty,spiteful and vengeful man-they soon learned theyd picked on the wrong man and backed off)

A few months later,the father was driving his van when he was involved in a very bad accident and he died on the spot

It was no great loss as the family moved away not long after after trying to raise a lot of money for the funeral via gofundme and raised nothing-not a penny (Cue a ton of wailing in the local paper about this-gave the locals a laugh)

the crime rate in the area dipped massively not long after

Can't say we where that bothered to be honest

Cool story

it's still your reasonability to control your dog

I agree, she is a lovely Labrador who is nosy but also addicted to water in any form. She very quietly snook off and with it being sunny took the opportunity to have a quick dip. If I’d known that ndn had removed the panel I would have secured it but it’s behind a shrub so didn’t notice it until dog disappeared.

Not necessarily. In any case, if there is a dog, then the responsibility lies on the dog owner to secure the fence.

My other neighbour sent me a formal letter via his solicitor confirming who was responsible for the maintenance of the fences. He used a solicitor so that everyone was clear after the confusion caused by the builder 29yrs ago. We are in a row of 5 houses, no one had moved out since the houses were built until just before Covid, so it hadn’t been an issue until new owners disputed the fence issue when they were completing.
It’s all sorted now, but our falling down fence neighbour has failed to repair the fence she is responsible for, despite it falling down for the last 12 months.
Hence karma issue when our dog decided to use her pond as a swimming pool after neighbour removed the broken panel stopping the dog from entering her garden on Saturday. If she had told me there was a dog sized gap I would not have let the dog mooch about.

Somewhat more tactful than saying 'fat' though.

Yes, that's how it works in Australia. The fence posts denote who owns the fence.

Owning a dog (or a cat, or bird, or lizard or goldfish) doesn't change ownership of fenceposts.

No, but you still have a legal obligation to keep your dog under control and off someone else's property. This thread has demonstrated the nonsense people believe about fences and T marks on plans.

It doesn’t work like that in NSW:

Normally the owners of neighbouring properties must equally share the cost of: building a dividing fence where there is not one. repairing or replacing a dividing fence where the original fence has been damaged, destroyed or has deteriorated.

Someone dying in a car accident is not karma for being a rough family who threw snowballs at your father.

Absolutely not.

Jesus that's not karma!! 😳

(And the word is "were", not "where". "Where" is a place. "Were" is the past tense of "are".)

how does that make sense though? If I was putting up a fence, I would put the fence posts the other side, so I would have a nice smooth fence, and my neighbours would have the ugly posts. It seems unfair for them to have the responsibility of maintaining a fence they didn't even put up!

Anyway, as per @RandomMess , in the UK, even if your deeds do say whose responsibility the boundary is (many don't, including mine), the responsibility is just to 'maintain,' it. Therefore if the boundary is only marked out with a few pieces of wire attached to sticks (as it often is in new build sites), if anyone wants anything more secure/private it's up to them to build and maintain.

In recompense for furthering the fence discussion, I have an immediate karma - was walking in the rain when my (admittedly cheap and shitty) umbrella blew inside out. Chap on bike looked over and laughed, so wasn't looking where he was going and rode straight into a bollard, falling off his bike into a puddle. Brilliant!

I just remembered another one. This goes back to when I was in high school.

All of the school dinner ladies were lovely except one. This particular woman clearly hated teenagers and did nothing but sneer and complain all day. The sort of woman who never cracked a smile.

One day she was lecturing one of the second year students about some rule he had broken (she had many including “no chips without a main course meal”).

While leaving the serving area with a tray of food, Peter, another second year student (13 years old) smirked at witnessing his friends dressing down.

Well! The dinner lady was completely furious at this. She launched into a shouty tirade against us all saying we were awful human beings with no manners etc. Funny thing was it was actually a lovely school with very very few difficult pupils. Anyways, having heard this all before Peter walks off and sits down at a table with his lunch tray. The dinner lady ran after him screeching “Don’t you dare walk away from me” and then tripped over a backpack that was lying on the floor beside a lunch table.

Dinner lady got launched into the air and did a full blown comedy sketch “slid on a banana peel” style fall.

The entire lunch hall of literally hundreds of teenagers burst into a fit of laughter as did her colleagues although they attempted (badly) to hide it.

A litterbug one: when I was about 20, I was walking along a main road and a lad about my age was walking some way ahead of me. He was eating sweets and just dropping the wrappers on the pavement as he went. Just as I noticed him dropping rubbish, a car went by him and the driver sprayed their screen wash, which was a bit too powerful and overshot the windshield by a long way and gave litterbug a good spraying! He was not happy 😂

Serves her right the tyrant. What is it with power hungry dinner ladies?

In Victoria all fences bar the front boundary belong to both neighbours, though it may be different in other states of territories.

@WiddlinDiddlin
That is just lovely. Beautifully written and, ah, the Landrover bit :)

Another Enormo-Cob fan here 😍

Enormo-Cob snippet (apols for derailing thread!)..

His real mum's parents ran a trekking and holiday centre, so he spent a lot of time at shows and also doing beach rides and picnic rides, and got very deft at gripping a can of pop in his mustachioed lips and flipping it back to drink it... and then he'd give you sticky cola snogs.
It was attempted to wean him onto orange squash (horses can't burp or puke so them drinking fizzy things isn't great) but he was having none of it, even though he could also drink from a plastic beaker in a similar way. He'd take it back then drop the cup, holding the juice in his mouth, snuggle up to you then drop the whole lot down your front.

He would also steal sandwiches from unsuspecting riders - he perfected a very friendly 'wuffle wuffle' with his top lip, to anyone on the ground eating a butty. Then when their guard was down he would yoink the sandwich from the hand, stick his nose 9 miles up in the air, two chews and it was gone. He preferred cheese and pickle but anything was fair game really!