Any good CF comeuppance tales?

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As i'm currently going through the most mind-blowing CF situation, and waiting for the courts to open a case against them, please can you point me in the direction to the best CF threads where they got their comeuppance. This will hopefully give me some reassurance that CFs don't always get away with it!

When I was divorcing my cheating first husband, he got legal aid and I didn’t, even though he had a well paid full time job and I only worked part time. Plus our 2 kids lived with me. He was very pleased with himself. When everything was settled, family home sold etc, those costs were deducted at source, before his share of the equity was paid to him. How I laughed to myself….

Sorry if someone else has already said this. The law has changed now in Spain and so you can now legally cut off utilities.

I was in a nightclub on NYE and not long after the bells I was trying to make my way through the crowds to phone my dad, the club had a sort of ramp between rooms, I didn't see it because of the crowds and hit the ramp and slid all the way down it and bumped into two guys at the bottom and spilled some of their drinks. They shouldn't have been blocking the ramp but anyway I apologised wished them a happy new year and offered to buy fresh drinks, they started screaming at me demanding £50 for dry cleaning bills and gestured to the bouncers to come over told them I was drunk and falling over and force me to pay up, the bouncer came over, took the drinks off the guys, I thought was going to get them topped up or something but then just chucked the guys out!! They'd seen the whole thing and saw it was an accident and that the guys were being absolute dicks about it. Everywhere is full at new year so those guys likely earned themselves an early home.

Really not relevant to the thread, but this has made me so incredibly nostalgic for my 20s and living in Camden decades ago; and my love of Carnaby Street.

Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread so somebody may already have mentioned this.

I remember one particular story that had a lovely end for the OP (and it was a parking thread as well). It was the one about the penguin bollards.

The OP owned a bungalow on the Isle of Wight next to a large home that had been converted into flats. The landlord (LL) of that property told one of his tenants that they could park on the OP's property.

OP was upset for good reason and the tenants turned abusive when told that they couldn't park on OP's property any more after she bought a car.

There was then a follow up about four months later. She had got her solicitor to check the deeds of both properties and it turned out that the next door LL didn't own the land where any of his other tenants were parking either.

That land was owned by another neighbour of theirs who lived elsewhere and who was unaware that LL was a CF who was telling his tenants to park on the other neighbour's land.

The neighbour then offered to sell the land to the OP and she took up the offer, informed the LL and abusive tenants that they had to shift their cars and, while looking for bollards to prevent them from returning, came across some penguin bollards and got them as she felt 3yo DS would like them.

There were three threads:-

people parking in my owned car parking space

then:-

To buy this land and risk upsetting the tenants next door

and finally:

To start a new thread about bollards on the Isle of Wight

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In another series of threads there was also 'horse paddock squattergate'.

A series of threads that ended with an invitation to a party and something about stacking goats?

For those unaware, in that case the OP and her family bought a rundown house in the country that came with a field. The seller had let another person keep two horses in the field rent free.

OP gave the horse owner two months to find another place for the horses - and guess how that ended up?

But the horses did eventually leave and then many years later the OP came back and said that the field was now part of a conservation project to reintroduce Lapwing birds.

The first three threads are now in Classics and then the follow up thread is still in AIBU:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1963190-To-kick-these-people-out

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1975028-To-Kick-These-People-Out-2

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1994280-To-Kick-These-People-Out-3-the-countdown-begins

and this was the follow up in 2023:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4833972-feeling-nostalgic-anyone-remember-fuckyouchris-and-her-fields

@Soonbbbqweather I was on your dh's side until he made the twatty, "I pay your wages" remark.
No, he does not.

Oh, that was a great thread! I wonder What happened!

It was quite anticlimactic in the end. They sent a solicitor's letter giving her 28 days to vamoose... and she did. She left the shed so OP's son and husband got rid of it.

It got the traction it did because there were a lot of jokes about making a musical about it and who would play everyone in the TV adaptation, plus OP was having surgery at the time, but the whole thing wasn't that dramatic really.

Pound shop James Bond - made my night that has. 🤣🤣🤣

I assumed it was a fee paying school

A large hairy biker friend of mine once repossessed his stolen property in a similar way. He found the ad, contacted the person saying he was interested and arranged to meet. He turned up accompanied by his two even larger hairy biker friends and their dobermans.😄

There was a thread about a wood being stolen that was really good too but I never found out how it ended. I think the OP was called Twittlebee or something like that. I remember as I thought “Twittlebee Woods” was a wonderful name for an area of woodland.

Non UK private school no taxpayer funding so in essence paid by parents by way of the fees.

Er, yes he does. As do we all. What pot of money do teachers' salaries come out of, and where does that money come from?

IIRC it was a troll.

Shame! It was a fun read!. 1

This is really minor in the CF league but used to make me chuckle. It happened quite a few times.

In my 30s DH and I had a metallic blue Subaru Impreza with gold alloys and custom spots and spoiler. Proper boy racer machine, except no boy racer could have afforded the insurance. Long story as to how we ended up with it (we'd gone out to buy a Focus...)

Anyway, fairly regularly I'd be waiting at a particular junction in our town, with traffic lights and two lanes to go straight on (and then zip merge once you'd got past the junction). And an over-egoed male in a repmobile would pull up alongside and start giving me the eyeball, revving and whatnot. As the lights changed, they'd floor it to outrace me....and stall cos they'd let the clutch up too fast. I'd then mosey off at a steady law abiding pace, humming to myself.

Sorry I think my phone thought it was a Ford Capri

You could say that about anything though. If you’re a customer of a company; for treatment on the NHS; essentially anything which you contribute towards.

It’s a twatty thing to say and makes the sayer look like a complete arsehole.

I’ve had similar at work, for a private company. Customer is a customer demanding something he couldn’t have and when told no he said “I own you.” Err no you don’t.

I agree. I didn’t see the content of the deleted posts and assume they were very unpleasant, which isn’t ok.

It is a thread about CF, though, so really those arguing that the poster should be able to post about the OW getting her ‘comeuppance’ must logically agree that it’s reasonable for people to think that her husband was also a CF who deserved his ‘comeuppance’. Obviously we don’t know the full story, but short of him being very vulnerable and her really taking advantage of him (illness, mental incapacity etc), logically he is by far the greater cheeky fucker because he was married.

There are people you can hire and effectively rent the property to. They drill trough the locks, move in and make the lives of the squatters miserable until they move out. That’s what I would do, don’t give up without a fight

So sorry you are going through this, OP. It sounds terribly stressful and really not what you need when you are grieving.

Love that @Francestein glorious indeed!