To ask if you've ever seen someone get what they deserve?

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I was at a wedding in Saturday and there was an ex-couple there.
The ex-H d was emotionally, verbally and financially abusive to his ex-w (witnessed).
She finally left him, gained a stone, had hair and make up done, looked fab and has a hot new man.
Ex-h eyes nearly fell out of his head. He tried to chat to her and she laughed, asked if she knew him and strolled of.
The look on his face was priceless and he just slunk away.
Have you ever seen anyone get what they deserve?

LadyConstanceDeCoverlet - true karma. I find it astonishing that people can be proud to make a living doing this. Smug bastard.

Nah. Karma is bollocks. Both in practice and as an idea. When I was a learner driver a flash git in an expensive car spent a couple of miles tailgating and flashing his lights. At the first opportunity he barrelled past at great speed and straight into a police speed trap. i could point to that and say 'cosmic justice in action.' However that is one occasion in 20 years of driving that's happened and I see aggressive, selfish tailgating and speeding motorists on a weekly if not daily basis. If I were to draw a lesson from that it wouldn't be that baddies get their comeuppance, but that the overwhelming majority of times you'll get away with driving too fast and being an aggressive selfish dick.

On a philosophical level Karma (as it is used to colloquially to mean the natural justice of bad things happening to bad people) makes no sense. It always Suppose that the Karma begins with them and ends with their antagonist. Suppose someone picks my pocket and then in running away, gets knocked over by a speeding motorist and ends up in hospital with a broken leg. That might be looked on as Karma. However does that mean that getting my pocket picked was payback for something I'd done? Did I on some level deserve it? Is it Karmic retribution for a lifetime of forgetting to put the cap back on the toothpaste? Will the speeding motorist get some future punishment?

Karma and the belief that cheats and bullies never prosper in the long run is a comforting myth and it doesn't usually pan out that way.

The idea of the baddy getting their comeuppance is something we all hope for but rarely happens. I come across aggressive, selfish and speeding motorists on most journeys.

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Dylan is right, there is no such thing as Karma. If you need proof take a stroll around any hospital for children.

I have three: My ex is a narcissistic control freak who mentally and emotionally abused me for years. We have twin DDs, one of whom has ASD. He, however, flatly refuses to accept the ADOS assessment, and says the teacher and I bullied the peadiatrician into giving the diagnosis because I so badly wanted an autistic child. Because of his attitude it's been very hard getting her the help she needs. A few months ago I needed a break from her, and he had her overnight. I won't go into details, but he physically hurt her in a number of ways. I took her to the GP the next day, she saw the bruises around DDs neck and reported him to SS and the police. They interviewed him, and in no uncertain terms 'advised' him to accept the ADOS assessment and allow me to get DD the help she needs. He was also ordered to go on a parenting course and to stop trying to obstruct me from helping her. He's not quite so verbal towards me now, and the police investigation is ongoing, with them watching him very closely. While obviously I'm not happy about him hurting DD, I am glad that Karma has bitten him on the arse!

Money is his god, and he won't even give me £10 to help buy new school shoes for the girls. He lives 5 minutes from me, but won't even babysit (not that I would allow him to now anyway after what he did) if I want to go out for the evening, as he 'has too much to do' screwing the latest girlfriend. He invested around £20,000 in a property scheme in Brazil during the olympics - ikr - and lost it all. Karma!

When I was at school I had a huge crush on a friend. He was tall, dark and handsome, and very intelligent (president of the chess club). One night outside of a nightclub and after a few drinks, he tried to pursuade me to sleep with him. He practically begged, saying he has a condom, we would still be friends afterwards etc. I said no and left. A month later he was forced to get married to a massively obese girl because he'd gotten her pregnant. FF 26 years, and he's now also massively obese, stuck in an unhappy marriage with a severely depressed wife and a crappy job, unhappy with his lot in life.

Person we bought our home from was a property developer but it turned out he cuts lots of corners.. we found loads of really shoddy repairs and bodges afterwards, very frustrating. Didn't stop him using images of our home (filled with complete lies) on his website portfolio!

A few years later he talked a personal friend and local landlord into letting him do a major project for him. He was a tenant of the friend/landlord at the time as well. He completely screwed up the project and lost friend and desirable tenancy in the process. Bloody marvellous.

Many years ago I worked in a fast food restaurant which was a franchise. The owner had 2 other restaurants and was an utter cunt who bullied his staff. amongst other things he pushed a 16 year old girl into a cupboard and threatened her, clocked people out during their shift so that he could underpay them and brought his daughter in to point and laugh at people cleaning telling her loudly that she was far too good for that and girls like her would never have to do shit jobs like us scummy people.

I left when I got a better job but stayed in contact with a lot of ex colleagues from there who gradually all left and moved on to other things. I didn't hear any more from or about my ex boss until 3 years ago a friend who I worked with there called me in utter hysterics, she was laughing so hard it took ages to get the words out. She had just been in to the 24 hour Tesco in the town and seen our ex boss stacking shelves while his manager told him off for not lining things up properly No one has any idea what happened but he obviously is no longer too good to do the jobs that were so far beneath him before!

Driving along an A-road many years ago when a white van full of knobheads came up beside me in the next lane. They hung alongside leering into my car screaming 'TITS OUT WHOOOARRRR' for a few hundred yards until eventually they got bored, floored the accelerator and sped off whooping.

Half a mile further on they were all standing on the hard shoulder after their trailer had shed its load .

I used to work in retail and had a manager who was a complete bitch. She'd come from a chain store which had been closed down and she was incredibly bitter about losing "her" store. She systematically bullied all the existing staff in the new job until they left and she could bring in all her old staff from her other job. A while after I left for another job, you guessed it, the company downsized and closed a few stores down and yep hers was one of them.

madeinkent Whoa. I'm quite gobsmacked at that.

I'm overweight and struggled with my confidence when I was much younger.

When I was 17 I had a very short 2 week relationship with a horrible lad who showed me attention, so I slept with him

He then told all his mates and anyone else who would listen (including my Dad, although he wasn't aware he was my Dad at the time!) he'd slept with me but hadnt enjoyed it because my fat did nothing for him. Luckily he went to a different college to me, but I didnt go out in my home town for months and spent most of my time hiding in my bedroom. I got some really lovely messages from his "mates" who all told me what he'd done was out of order and they'd distanced themselves from him since.

Luckily for me shortly after I met my lovely DP and my confidence sky rocketed. I went to Uni, got myself a fab job, bought a house at 23 and we're getting married next year. I have a fabulous life I'm currently stripping off the weight week by week ready for the wedding and I'm currently the best version of me I've ever been. Happy days!

I saw the knobhead the other day.. he's now much, MUCH fatter than I ever was, his girlfriend is also bigger than I was and I hear from his "mates" (who all mostly grew up to be lovely people and who I am now great friends with!) that he's rarely seen out and work as a takeaway delivery driver...

I'e never told anyone that story

I think I must have a bit missing. A few people I thought were friends have turned out to be pretty nasty characters (I like quirky people and it's a risk, they can go either way tbh). I truly don't wish bad things for them though. Is that weird? I just feel...nothing!

Plutoisnotaplanet brilliant story! Well done you x

madeinkent

That's horrific.

My example isn't as instantly satisfying as some of these but I was with my ex for three years in my late teens/early twenties. I loved the bones of him and he broke my heart when he phoned me(!) one afternoon to tell me that we were finished. I was an absolute wreck for ages but he started seeing another local girl within weeks.

Fast forward several years and I'm now happily married, been with DH for four years and have moved to new city. I have a great, stable job, I'm studying part time to get my degree and we are saving to buy a house next year.

My ex, however, is 31 and still lives with his parents. He still works part time and dosses about, smoking weed and roaring around in his tricked out VW Golf. Prick

These are great to read. Am a believer in karma. Many years ago I was a negotiator in an estate agency. I loved the job but one of the women made my life hell, presumably because I was younger and worth a second look in those days. She was truly vile and often I would go to the ladies room and sob. Her favourite antic was to massage my shoulders when clients came in and purr about what great tea I made. Ugh!!! Anyway she was married and having an affair. She would bring her lover to the office and her poor husband had no idea.
One day she came into the office and said she was going off to Brighton for the day with her lover. If hubby rang I was to say that she was out doing instructions. Hubby rang and I said no mate it's her day off today she's gone off to Brighton for the day with your friend fred, I assumed you knew. He went quiet.

I felt bad for him but marvellously triumphant as the bitch got what she deserved.

Plutoisnot what a great story. Karmic law at its best.

Not me but a man bought a patch of land behind my mum's house. It has no road access, the access is through a medieval walkway which is listed and in a conservation area. He was really shitty about not fixing problems on his land that were causing damage to neighbouring properties and this was only because everyone was opposed to all his planning applications for flats that would overlook everyone's homes and block out the light. He was aggressive and threatened almost all the neighbours over the years.
He finally got planning permission for a very small single story house on the land. The only problem is it needs mains drainage and he cannot dig up the medieval walkway to do it. The council told him the only way he can get mains drainage is to link to one of the neighbours properties. Now he's having to beg and grovel and no one is willing to help him.

1st day of maternity leave very pregnant I took 3yr old DS to the seaside. Having a lovely time and went to a nearby cafe for tea and cake. It was very busy with one free table in the corner still with previous dishes, so sat DS down and took the dirty glasses from the table to the counter, busy owner said thanks be over in a second. I turned to go back to the table to find a man sitting there reading the menu. When I challenged him he went on very loudly how he was I a rush rah rah rah. Totally not in the mood for a debate I was saved by a lady stating we are going now sit here in the window. Lovely view better than being in the corner.
Best seat in the house fab
Rude man continued being s knob clicking his fingers at the waitress Talking loudly on his phone etc until lady friend turned up. He then rah rahed on about himself and how wonderful he was. After a few mins lady friend finaly got a few words in I'm leaving you the locks have been changed and your thing are at your parents house goodbye. She got up and left. Lady at the table next to me said quietly to her friend well that's him dumped DS over heard and said very loudly mam what does dumped mean!

When I was at school I had a huge crush on a friend. He was tall, dark and handsome, and very intelligent (president of the chess club). One night outside of a nightclub and after a few drinks, he tried to pursuade me to sleep with him. He practically begged, saying he has a condom, we would still be friends afterwards etc. I said no and left. A month later he was forced to get married to a massively obese girl because he'd gotten her pregnant. FF 26 years, and he's now also massively obese, stuck in an unhappy marriage with a severely depressed wife and a crappy job,unhappy with his lot in life.

I dont understand how this is Karma,just seems to me you are gloating

The fat shaming on here with 'and then he married a fat woman!' is really fucking vile.

I agree, CheekyMcgee, even if most of the fat shaming comes from having been fat shamed.

"I was fat and s/he laughed, now I am slim and s/he is fat, HA!"

Dustarr - I agree. All he really did 'wrong' was make a pass at her and now she's delighted he was 'forced' to marry a fat woman, as if there was no worse punishment.

Paxilin - I think that's slightly different. If (as I was) you've been bullied about your weight, it's hard not to laugh if said bullies end up finding out what it's like. The example Cheeky referred to is the poster who suggested marriage to a fat woman is somehow punishment.

Admittedly I don't know what it is like to be fat shamed. But I am not sure it's very healing to turn around once slimmed down and be happy someone else is now fat and at the receiving end of such treatment. Seems to simply swap one slim person smirking about a fat one for another. Not having been in the situation I can't say if I'd deal with it with more kindness of course.

Some of these posts are just hideously vile. Your stories do not make you sound better people

There was a similar thread the other week and many of the punchlines were "and now my husband earns a six figure salary" / "they're really horrible and fat"

Vile