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!

My route to work was on a windy road with lots of houses with gated drives and very hard to overtake safely. The speed limit was 30 miles an hour for obvious safety reasons. One morning an impatient driver behind me kept flashing his lights and tooting his horn as he wanted to overtake me. There was nothing I could do but as soon as the road straightened a little, he overtook me at great speed and caused a car coming the other way to swerve.

Shortly after I saw the car had been pulled up by a police car which had been parked in a small lay-by, we locals knew that the police often waited there so I guess he wasn’t familiar with the area! I felt like waving as I went past but thought better of it and just laughed to myself.

Thank you, yes, I probably should have gone down this route at the start, but now we're on the legal pathway, I'm terrified they would use anything we tried outside of the law to claim 'harassment' which I imagine they would do, they seem to know a lot about squatters rights. I honestly think they just thought they'd be able to take the property after Dad died for free. They're monsters.

Have you already posted about this before? It rings a bell

I saw a man in an open topped sports car pull up next to a canal and dump a large black binliner full of stuff into it, then saunter off into the nearest pub. I and a friend dragged out the binliner and shoved it sopping wet into the driver's seat. Never saw him return but oh how that still makes me happy!

I would love to read this thread! I'll see if search brings up anything....

Second one was a neighbour who complained constantly to me over the littlest thing, super unreasonable. He was a bully and I was young. Then at work someone asked me to sit in on a meeting just to make up numbers when they were choosing a new telephone system - this would have been a massive project for the right supplier but they had already decided not this one, so I was there just to make it look like we had considered etc. Blow me down, it was nasty neighbour trying to sell his telephone system. He looked white as a feather when he saw me. My colleague made out I was a key decision maker and I took enormous pleasure in squashing everything he said. Nasty neighbour never spoke to me again and used to beetle back into his house if he saw me in the street!

My DH's ex once asked me (via DH, she didn't even bother to ask me directly) to take a day off work to look after DSD when she was ill, so that she herself wouldn't have to take a day off work to look after DSD.

We might have been able to discuss whether that was doable, if less than a week previously she hadn't kicked off for being called out on various other CF behaviours, called me all the names under the sun and damaged an item of property in our home on her way out (having walking in without knocking in the first place and proceeded to march around like she still lived there while looking for an item of DSD's that she'd left behind.)

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Yes! That's the one we're thinking of

Anyone remember the allotment thread, where OP bought a house that came with an allotment but one of the neighbours had claimed it? I can't find it to see if there was any updates!

What was the comeuppance for your husband? Are you still with him?

Did anything come to bite him?

I think i would go and move in with them, and be as antisocial as i possibly could.

Not quite as bad but my uncles lived abroad and along with property, they also bought a commercial unit to let (this was during the 80s/90s when shopping centres were all the rage) and eventually the people they let to moved out.

Time passes and for whatever reason no one was calling in to let it. This was in the capital so a bit far from us but eventually they ask my mother to check up on it.

The shop next door dug a hole and simply had just taken over.

lol love this

That was a belter, the OP won in the end as I recall.

Well said

Soooo it’s my grandchild’s birthday recently. And exh once again either forgot or just didn’t bother to get her anything. This time my adult dd pulled him up on it. Because on Father’s Day he pulled a face at not getting a present he felt was expensive enough!. Anyway dd asks where gc card etc is or has he forgotten. Exh says “it’s your mums job anyway, I gave her enough maintenance back in the day”. We’ve been divorced nearly 30 years!!! And he hardly paid lol.

Oh no, virtually all banks especially any in Europe ask for your tax details - where you pay tax etc - that's the situation now for many years.

There’s someone in America who gets rid of squatters. He essentially moves in with them and annoys them till they go. It’s an interesting approach!

A few years ago we were selling my elderly dad’s house and the couple buying it attempted a significant gazunder just before we exchanged. I guess they thought they’d try it on with a little frail old man, but we saw them off! A few months later, the cricket team from my dad’s old village had a match with the team from our village and lost spectacularly. Looking at the scorecard, it turned out that my DP had bowled out the husband of the CF couple 😁

My landlady told me she'd accepted a job in Kuwait and if I couldn't afford the rent for the entire house (I couldn't) I'd have to move out. I had about 4 weeks. A couple of months after this Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.

I still hope she wasn't used as a human shield.

I think that whilst that may be legit for tax purposes, I don't think it is for benefit purposes. Worth checking out ?

Preach.

Think they gave them a date to be out by, and despite the neighbour kicking off, when the poster and husband went there on the day, she'd moved out.

I was really invested in that one!

Good god OP. That goes way beyond the realms of CF. That's criminal.

So sorry you're having to deal with it. It must be very stressful.