Page 13 | Any good CF comeuppance tales?

lolliplop · 2026-06-21T12:29:29+00:00

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!

Molecule · 26/06/2026 08:53

@lolliplop good luck with it. I have no experience of the Spanish legal system, but know from bitter experience how difficult the German system can be (and this was just recovering money owed, with none of the emotional things you are dealing with too). So fingers crossed for your next thread…

MyPurpleHeart · 26/06/2026 08:56

Its not comeuppance but current situation going on. I went away with a group to see a theatre show in London and we booked an air bnb.

One of the group has left an expensive watch in the air bnb and noticed before we left London. Made no attempt to go back and get it

Now we are home he wants the air bnb owner to post the item back to him. The air bnb owner isn't being very helpful and he is threatening to report him to the police for theft.

Still hasn't made any attempt to go to the air bnb and physically collect this item by the way

blacksax · 26/06/2026 09:35

Never2many · 25/06/2026 22:07

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.

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That's not really the same, is it?

CoffeeCantata · 26/06/2026 09:50

Not a personal experience, but one I remember from the Covid era.

I think small business were paid furlough (that might not be the right term...) based on their last self-assessed tax statement.

There were several stories on this line...a tradesman had claimed on his last statement that his annual income was only 16K, so he got very little compensation! He was incensed but could do nothing about it. Naughty...none of us like paying our taxes but we all need to. I've never had any choice!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/06/2026 10:23

Friend was carved up in her estate car by a middle aged man-racer who then forced her to stop, came and, puce-faced, screamed at her through the window.

What he hadn’t realised was that lying in the back of her estate car, having a quiet snooze, was her 11 stone, black Newfoundland dog*, who promptly sat up and uttered his best, threatening, baritone, WOOF!

She didn’t see the bloke for dust!
*Appropriately he was called Hero.

Iwanttobeafraser · 26/06/2026 11:37

GreenFootstool · 25/06/2026 14:13

My old boss was one of these twats. He was paid around £90k and his wife was on at least double that with no kids.

We had a team dinner after a conference and one of the minimum wage staff had confided in me she was worried about the cost so was going to use a starter and drink water but didn't want to make a fuss.

Cue dickhead boss ordering a bottle of wine to share with one other person, three courses of food, several cocktails the saying we should just split the bill however many ways we were (about 16 I think)...

I took that one up and said no, we had several colleagues who hadn't been drinking alcohol and it wouldn't be fair to make them subsidise our drinking habits 😁.

Dickhead boss grumbled but I passed the bill round for everyone to tot up their own figures. Skint colleague's was about £8, dickhead boss's was about £100.

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I find this so annoying. When we have these sort of team dinners, whichever of the SLT or more senior people are there, quietly agree between us that we'll pay the bar tab or the tip or whatever. Usually we go off and buy drinks a tthe bar and share round, or if it's at the table we'll just make sure that we get the bill and calculate everyone else's payments - usually just whatever they've eaten or whatever. I hate people who are clueless to the costs for less well paid members of staff.

Differentforgirls · 26/06/2026 12:50

BatsInHibernation · 25/06/2026 18:51

Without a doubt, I would have laughed so hard I would have broken something.
People falling over makes me laugh inappropriately. That guy falling over and stunt rolling would have almost killed me.

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Oh god me too. It's awful. Everyone is rushing to see if they're ok and I'm bent double in tears of laughter. I think it's a nerves thing. I even did it with my son when he was a toddler - twice! 😳

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 26/06/2026 13:06

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/06/2026 10:23

Friend was carved up in her estate car by a middle aged man-racer who then forced her to stop, came and, puce-faced, screamed at her through the window.

What he hadn’t realised was that lying in the back of her estate car, having a quiet snooze, was her 11 stone, black Newfoundland dog*, who promptly sat up and uttered his best, threatening, baritone, WOOF!

She didn’t see the bloke for dust!
*Appropriately he was called Hero.

Love this!

JudgeJ · 26/06/2026 13:53

Somethingtosayagain · 25/06/2026 20:15

I assumed it was a fee paying school

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It's a sentence uttered frequently when a parent can't have their own way, often by people who've never worked a day in their lives, they don't like a gently raised eyebrow though.

KittyCorncrake · 26/06/2026 14:55

CoffeeCantata · 26/06/2026 09:50

Not a personal experience, but one I remember from the Covid era.

I think small business were paid furlough (that might not be the right term...) based on their last self-assessed tax statement.

There were several stories on this line...a tradesman had claimed on his last statement that his annual income was only 16K, so he got very little compensation! He was incensed but could do nothing about it. Naughty...none of us like paying our taxes but we all need to. I've never had any choice!

Excellent!!!! 😂😂😂

KittyCorncrake · 26/06/2026 14:59

Iwanttobeafraser · 26/06/2026 11:37

I find this so annoying. When we have these sort of team dinners, whichever of the SLT or more senior people are there, quietly agree between us that we'll pay the bar tab or the tip or whatever. Usually we go off and buy drinks a tthe bar and share round, or if it's at the table we'll just make sure that we get the bill and calculate everyone else's payments - usually just whatever they've eaten or whatever. I hate people who are clueless to the costs for less well paid members of staff.

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Back in the old days in the 90s in the City when you could still have meals out to treat staff (private sector so not spaffing taxpayers money) it was the second most senior person that picked up the bill, so that their attendant boss signed off the expense claim)

SinnerBoy · 26/06/2026 15:26

2 years ago, there was a brief fuel shortage,I the summer. I drove to Sainsbury's to fill up and there was a queue on the road and signs saying that only a couple of pumps had diesel.

I got to the pumps and was waiting for one of 2 cars to leave and heard some honking and shouting. I looked over and saw a red Mercedes forcing its way through. (I would have blocked the bugger).

The car alongside me was waiting for the first pump to my right, obviously having seen that the second had a sign "No Diesel" and hazard tape on the diesel pump. Mr. Very Important was bellowing,

"Fucking move, you stupid bitch! There's a fucking pump there!"

I took my belt off, ready to hop out, as I was worried he might attack her, but he got past, jiggled his Very Important red Merc up to the pump, got out, rattled the pump handle and screamed, "FUUUUCK!" before getting into his car and burning rubber, the purple faced twat.

We were paying and I asked if she was OK, she was all apologetic and said she must have been in the wrong. "No, pet, he was a bullying arse. He was totally wrong, you did nowt wrong. Best thing was that he didn't get his diesel!"

She looked to be in her late 60s.

Strawdolly · 26/06/2026 15:45

That will have no doubt shaken her @SinnerBoy , thank you for being strong enough to check in with her, not many would be.

I find as I age that my confidence has grown in one way but diminished in others, that will have knocked that lady's a bit. I hope she's able to fill her car without giving purple faced twat a second thought.

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:03

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 25/06/2026 06:49

Some arsehole told my friend to “cheer up love” while she was minding her own business. He was too busy patronising her to notice he’d come to the end of the escalator he was on and promptly fell off, flat on his face. She wasn’t miserable but definitely did cheer up!

Oh I hope she told him “that cheered me up@ as she stepped over him

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:09

Menopausio · 25/06/2026 07:58

Ive shared this one before. I have mobility issues and sometimes need crutches - Occupational Health issued me with permission to use the disabled bay at work. One day Id brought my DH's transit van in as we were taking a foodbank Xmas collection to the local foodbank that afternoon. I get into the car park just as a young ish man is parking his penismobile in the disabled bay. I pull up and explain that thats an allocated space and tell him where guest parking is. He tells me to F off.
I parked blocking him, but no one else, in.
I then get myself into work , get my files/ coffee - send them into the board room with a kind colleague then make my way in on my crutches as part of the interview panel. Guess who the interviewee was ? 😁

Oh how I’ve wished to see an asshat like this in front of me in one of my interviews. I hope you made him squirm!!

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:11

Menopausio · 25/06/2026 08:23

Interview proceeded. At the end I asked if he had any Inclusivity and Diversity training recently as it was at the forefront of our Mission Statement and taken very seriously. He said yes. I then said he had told me to fuck off when asked to vacate the disabled bay. He said he'd told a delivery driver he wouldnt move. Main manager then told him that he had reviewed the CCTV, it was me - and it didnt matter he had no right to swear at anyone , at which point he admitted he had sworn. Main manager and hiring manager both told him that if he had actually aplogised / been honest they would have taken that into consideration and that they would not be bringing him back for 2nd interview.
After all that he had to come back in and ask me to move the van to let him out.

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Delicious!!

Iwanttobeafraser · 26/06/2026 16:12

KittyCorncrake · 26/06/2026 14:59

Back in the old days in the 90s in the City when you could still have meals out to treat staff (private sector so not spaffing taxpayers money) it was the second most senior person that picked up the bill, so that their attendant boss signed off the expense claim)

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Yeah, I remember those days too! We don't get that option mostly anymore sadly.

I also remember when it was considered standard for the MD(s) to just pay... out of their own pocket! (MD as in within an investment bank).

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:37

AuntieDen · 25/06/2026 12:56

soon after the 'pick up dog poo' laws came in, a lot of people didn't do it. One guy used to walk his dog past my parents house and every day he'd let it poo in their driveway entrance and just walk off. Not even on the verge, but on their properly where they had to drive over it to get the car in.

My dad asked him not to, I asked him not to, my brother told him it was illegal. He just didn't care.

My mum was about 70 by then so looked like a sweet older lady, but was pretty feisty when she wanted to be. One day we were in the kitchen and watched through the window as he let his dog shit and then just walked off. She grabbed a piece of kitchen roll, walked out, picked it up and trotted up the road behind him saying "ooh, excuse me, so sorry, I think you dropped this".

Presumably he thought it was keys or something because he turned round and held his hand out to receive whatever it was he'd dropped and she slammed the poo squidgy side down in his hand, turned round and marched back home.

She was bloody wonderful, was my mum 😂

Good on her.

Im glad he didn’t shove it right back at her. Hope he was shocked enough to change his ways. Or at least location!

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:49

AWeeCupOfTeaAndAnIndividualFruitTrifle · 25/06/2026 15:04

See also 'rough diamond', 'no angel but...' and 'determined character' and similar. Nobody ever says "He was a nasty aggressive thug - and whilst we're sad to have lost a family member, he got what was always coming to him".

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Yeah there was a bloke who was stabbed and died in the town I’m originally from. Local pages all full of “so sad, so young, loveable rogue, cheeky chappie, you’ll be missed” type comments.

He was the local drug dealer who was known for commissioning beatings of rivals, several sexual assaults and intimidation. The stabbing was from a rival drug gang.

He definitely will not be “flying high with the angles”

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:51

SnakesandKnives · 25/06/2026 15:05

Many years ago was following an Aston Martin into North London. We got to one of those ‘long’ roundabouts and some dick in a BMW decided to try and race up the inside of everyone, and cut in front of the Aston really close. Who beeped but that was it. BMW screeches to a halt so we all have to stop and a young guy gets out absolutely raging and shouting. The AM door opens and Lennox Lewis just unfolds from the interior - it was a bit weird cos he’s just sooo huge. You’ve never seen someone retreat so fast in all your life. The karma was he jumps back into the bmw to drive off and the car behind me puts on blues and pulls him over. Not a good morning for him!

Lennox Lewis haha bet the lad shit his pants!!

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:52

Menopausio · 25/06/2026 15:14

I finished a call, had a coffee, a nice long chat with the receptionist and a loo break before I moved it.
I hope he learned his lesson.

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Love this.

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:58

Love the tale of the fire engine pushing the car out of the yellow box. Just what he deserved.

SinnerBoy · 26/06/2026 17:25

Strawdolly · Today 15:45

That will have no doubt shaken her

Oh definitely. I enjoyed fantasising about him having a coronary after he left!

JudgeJ · 26/06/2026 17:38

Leaving our small town the limit switches from 30 to 50 and it's not unusual for a smartarse to pull out before the 50 and screech off. One day I noticed the car behind me signal right and then another one behind him did the same, putting his foot down, however the first car didn't, as he was turning right into his drive and the second car ran into the back of him, not realising what was happening in time. I pulled over and went to the hit car, the second driver was effing and jeffing. I took great delight in giving the hit driver my details as a witness, he quietly said Bloody fantastic, I needed a new exhaust too!

AuntieDen · 26/06/2026 18:36

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 26/06/2026 16:37

Good on her.

Im glad he didn’t shove it right back at her. Hope he was shocked enough to change his ways. Or at least location!

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Well there was no more shit after that. I dont know if he walked elsewhere or started picking it up!

It was a silly/risky thing to do looking back but I think one of those things which you just do when someone pushes you to snap. I do remember locking the door when she came back in, but no consequences thankfully!

I still get the giggles remembering it though.