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Any good CF comeuppance tales?

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lolliplop · 21/06/2026 13:29

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!

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Braveheart35 · Yesterday 06:33

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It’s you who are fixated. And becoming increasingly nasty. Let it go.

Dastardly2026 · Yesterday 06:34

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faithfultoGeorgeMichael · Yesterday 06:41

Waiting for someone to exit a parking space, blinker on and obviously positioned. The driver leaves and a man drives into the space frontwards at about 20mph grinning manically. The space was between 2 stone walls and he knocked his wing mirror off. I laugh about the expression on his face when we made eye contact at least once a week. 😂

TestingTestingWonTooFree · Yesterday 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!

pictoosh · Yesterday 06:53

People who become aggressive and antagonistic towards other adults making their own considered decisions are the ultimate cheeky fuckers. So full of their own interpretation they consider it fact and start throwing out shade as if their opinion is warranted.

Talk about a sense of entitlement.

Sadly these types do crash around with little by way of comeuppance.

PetulaGordeno · Yesterday 06:57

First teaching job interview over 30 years ago was feeling less nervous as my friend Samantha was being interviewed.
We got shown around the school with the Deputy Head in the morning and as we hit the new IT suite Sam pipes up…
Ah Petula’s hopeless with computers aren’t you?
To be fair I was but I thought what a CF.
Group lunch and everyone was bigging themselves up and I thought sod it I’ve got no chance. They had that lovely school cake so I had a piece and thought I’ll have two. Why not?
During the interview I said listen I’m not the best with IT but if you let me have an Amstrad with the instruction booklet I’ll teach myself.
When they asked if I had any questions I asked if there was any school cake left could I have it? To be fair the panel all laughed.
It used to be the custom that everyone waited until the end of the day and they would announce the successful candidate.
I got the job.
Sam had given me a lift as well so she had to transport me, a new Amstrad and two slabs of cake back to my student flat.

JuliettaCaeser · Yesterday 07:03

There was a tiny tiny car park. I was struggling to park in the last remaining space. Twat man shouting and jeering at me. I gave up and let him have the space. He couldn’t park in it either. He sped off in a testirical huff. Hilarious

Cailin66 · Yesterday 07:08

lolliplop · 21/06/2026 20:15

Not prohibited. When my Dad returned to the UK from a European country due to ill health, he left some 'friends' as caretakers of the family property, they were in the guest house. My Dad has since died and they refuse to leave. We're in the process of evicting them, which takes years. I've since discovered they've been using his identity for utility accounts. And that they've moved into the main house, and sublet the guest house to other people. They've installed caravans on the land so no idea who else they've let live there. I've now involved the police in that country, but again, that could take years. Or they could say its just a civil matter. The waiting for any news is very stressful. I just want them to be held accountable and that my family can get justice.

Is this Ireland?

Flowerlovinglady · Yesterday 07:10

Beekman · Yesterday 03:27

New neighbours, who had disrupted the entire block with their ridiculous renovations over the space of 2 years before they moved in (but that’s another story entirely but worth noting they had annoyed pretty much everyone on the block and beyond) befriended the elderly couple next door, made themselves indispensable, and somehow got power of attorney from the wife for her estate. The husband was older, frailer and expected to die pretty soon. What actually happened is that they both died on the same day but she died first, meaning all her assets went to her husband and then when he passed away a few hours later, his estate including the house went to his son and not the neighbours. The Cheeky Fucker neighbours were literally hours from inheriting at least a house from a woman they had basically hoodwinked.

The son had absolutely no idea that this couple had power of attorney over his stepmum’s assets and there is a legal investigation going on as to how it happened.

What a brilliant story - makes me shudder to think how it might have been.

Zoereferral · Yesterday 07:13

Along the lines of faithfultoGeorgeMichael, DS was a junior Dr on a rotation at a GP practice. He was about to pull into a space in the car park one day and a CF swerved in front of him to take the space, laughing and giving DS the V.
His face was a picture when he was called into the practice room and DS was his Dr. He had the grace to look shamefaced and managed ‘I’m sorry about the car park, Doc’…

JaspersCarrott · Yesterday 07:14

Many years ago, late 80s, I had my first car and was driving into town. The village I grew up in had a police driving school just on the outskirts...
An unmarked police car had pulled out with 4 people in it. I was following them, it was a 30mph limit.
Looked in my mirror and a car had suddenly appeared behind me. He was throwing his hands up, like he was in dispair, kept hogging my bumper until he decided to overtake - he had to do more than 30 to get past me & the unmarked police car....
The police car stuck its blue lights on and pulled him over, and just smiled as I drove past.

ClayPotaLot · Yesterday 07:21

Tontostitis · Yesterday 06:11

What's was your husband's karma? Ir is it only her that's in the wrong?

It is okay for women to not LTB an adulterer, although OP has mentioned that he didn't get off scot free. This thread isn't - tell me how the world has balanced every single wrong ever. It's just supposed to be a few tales to make OP smile while she waits on an awful situation of her own. Not a place to have a sly dig at another poster because she hasn't told the tale you wanted to hear. A previous poster who had a similar dig at ThisMadeMyDay has already had all their posts deleted.

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 07:28

While I was travelling with a friend, some absolute weirdo latched on to us for dinner and told us it was on us. Before we ordered, we said we were going to the ladies' and escaped via a back entrance. I suppose I should feel bad but he was such a fucking creep and we were young. At least we scarpered before there was a bill.

Noseyoldcow · Yesterday 07:28

I popped my mini into a car park space as another car left it. My daughter said that I was cheeky as there had been another car waiting for that spot. I never saw them in the first place, and when I turned to look, they’d driven off, so I left my mini where it was. When I got back though, somehow or other the front number plate had been broken. No other damage, so I suspect someone booted it.

Happyholidays78 · Yesterday 07:34

A friend of a friend who always came across as lovely at gatherings etc. She always said how much she wanted to be married & have children, the year's whizzed by & she never seemed to be in a relationship. Long story short it turns out she had several relationships with married men over the years (at least 4 according to my friend). Anyway she's now 46, single & no children.

PolitePinkSnail · Yesterday 07:39

Obviously if the husband has moved out of the family home he’s going to have less access to his children than he would living there.

Retireornot · Yesterday 07:42

lolliplop · 24/06/2026 22:39

I haven't posted about this before. I'm sorry to hear its happened to someone else and I hope got it resolved. I just don't know how these people live with themselves. I should be grieving for my Dad, but instead I'm cross with him for being so naive and trusting these utter scumbags. And for leaving me with this clusterfuck to sort out

Sorry about your Dad. You must be sad and also livid with them. If you are the executor then you could surely contact all of the utilities and get the gas, electricity and water cut off?
I’m big on revenge. So they would have no end of sales people turning up for quotes and the like.

MaryBeardsShoes · Yesterday 07:43

Chocolatebuttons88 · 24/06/2026 22:24

Your post has made me really sad. The sheer glee of how things have turned out for the OW. But your husband is a better man for it. Just wow.

Yeah, there’s something there about the poster obsessing over the OW getting comeuppance (like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die) whereas the husband gets to go back to normal life.

OnlyHasEyesForLoki · Yesterday 07:44

Francestein · Yesterday 04:57

Mine is long but glorious. This was in the late 80’s. Police in my neck of the woods were notoriously corrupt. (In Australia in case road rules are different). I hadn’t had my Licence very long and was driving to uni VERY carefully. It was one of the first times I had had driven alone. A traffic light turned yellow just as I got to it, and I went straight through. I was pulled over on the other side of the lights for running a red. They started writing the ticket and when the lights changed, a car full of law students stopped and told them that they had witnessed the whole thing and that the light had been yellow. Because the other car was full of “Independent Witnesses” (I didn’t know them, but it didn’t matter - they were in another car.) the police had to tear up the ticket and they were pissed off about it. I thanked the guys for stopping and got back in my car and started off for uni again. Of course the police decided to tailgate me on the way. After five minutes or so, I came to a light that was turning yellow again, so I braked. The police car rear-ended me and the law students showed up to be witnesses again. It went to court, the police were charged with intimidation and dismissed, I had a lovely payout for my whiplash and a replacement car AND I dated one of the law students for a while.

This is brilliant! 🤣

MaryBeardsShoes · Yesterday 07:45

Happyholidays78 · Yesterday 07:34

A friend of a friend who always came across as lovely at gatherings etc. She always said how much she wanted to be married & have children, the year's whizzed by & she never seemed to be in a relationship. Long story short it turns out she had several relationships with married men over the years (at least 4 according to my friend). Anyway she's now 46, single & no children.

100% living her best life with no man or kids to stress her out.

Tonissister · Yesterday 07:47

@Strawdolly 'a pound shop James Bond' - brilliant!

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 07:51

Happyholidays78 · Yesterday 07:34

A friend of a friend who always came across as lovely at gatherings etc. She always said how much she wanted to be married & have children, the year's whizzed by & she never seemed to be in a relationship. Long story short it turns out she had several relationships with married men over the years (at least 4 according to my friend). Anyway she's now 46, single & no children.

Sounds like she didn't really want marriage and kids if she continuously chose men who couldn't offer them and never even had an "accidental" pregnancy by any of them.

lolliplop · Yesterday 07:54

Cailin66 · Yesterday 07:08

Is this Ireland?

No, it's Spain. The CFs are Brits though

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Menopausio · Yesterday 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 ? 😁

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