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

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Fishface77 · 19/09/2016 13:51

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?

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MrsMook · 20/09/2016 11:33

I spent my primary and secondary years with a toadying, obnoxious prat in my class. He didn't like me, and over the years he sneared at me over every little thing he could. I remember being laughed at for my early bed time when we were 12. At 14 he noticed that I still didn't wear a bra under my shirt, so he thought it would be deeply witty to call me ironing board with reference to my (non-existent) cleavage. Something that wound him up regularly was that I was raised by my grandparents and called them DM and DF, and he would condesendingly say that he was living with his grandmother, and he was intelligent enough to know that she was his grandmother and not his mum. (With hindsight, guess who was secure and which had an inferiority complex)

Over the years he toadied up with the in-crowd (helped by a decent aptitude for sport) and kept favour with the teachers. Until the sixth form. He neglected his friends from y12 in favour of the "cooler" y13s, and more importantly fell behind in his studies making strings of lies to cover up which by the end of the year had lost the support of the teachers.

The karma moment came at the end of the year. He'd been selected to play in a tournament for county, but being behind in his studies, school refused him the time off which they usually granted. He went anyway, telling his grandmother that term had already finished. Prior to retirement, she'd been a well-respected, strict teacher at the primary school that many of us had been to. Oh how the year group would have loved to have seen her face when school rang up and asked why he wasn't in school. She was surprised, believing it to have been the holidays and said that he was at the tournament. He was asked not to return for y13. He must have regretted that lie too far, both from the school and her reaction to being shown for a fool.

No one kept in touch with him long term. Hopefully it may have taught him to be less arrogant and obnoxious at a young enough age.

hellsbellsmelons · 20/09/2016 11:39

Yep my ExDH
6 years on he's back in UK living with mummy and daddy and working in a pub.
Nothing wrong with working in a pub by the way.
But he was an MD before he left the country.
Oh and he's over 50 now!
Knob-head.

2kids2dogsnosense · 20/09/2016 12:42

Itsmine
What a spectacularly helpful pc. We struggled to get them to come out when we are broken into, can't believe they follow up cases of people making comments about breasts in some places and even talk to their employers!

Come on! Breasts - you know - NIPPLES! (sideways swipe at another thread . . .)

littleprincesssara · 20/09/2016 12:51

My abuser (pedo) developed a serious mystery neurological condition and has spent the past few years barely able to stand. It doesn't make me feel good but it is karma.

I googled the girl who bullied me through middle school and she's never left our small town and has spent her life working in shops. I do quite enjoy that. And it's not me being horrible because she seems perfectly happy with her life (there's nothing wrong with living in a small town and doing shop work) it's just enjoyable that she used to say I'd never achieve anything and now I have a very successful high-flying showbiz career, and she's been made deputy manager at ShoeZone.

apintofharpandapacketofdates · 20/09/2016 13:06

I sense that I must have been Genghis Khan in a past life.
No matter how decent, fsir, compassionate I am, I've still been shat upon way more than most.

I've certainly never seen those who have bullied/hurt me, get their comeuppance. Quite the reverse.

Leaves me thinking I've got it all wrong. Kindness, manners and consideration count for nothing in this horrible world.

RhodaBorrocks · 20/09/2016 16:29

Same as other PPs, I was once going along a dual carriageway, clocked the unmarked car in the lay by and stuck to the speed limit (which I would have done anyway). Some prat comes up behind me and tailgates, before moving over and undertaking me. The police car immediately speeds off after him with their lights on, and by the time I pass the next lay by they're pulling him in.

The next one was after dropping DS at school, a woman on a mobile nearly runs me over on the pelican crossing (the lights were red and I was in the middle of it and had to jump back out of her way). I only lived a few houses down and jumped in my car to go to work, following her route, although she was nowhere to be seen.

I was about 5-10 minutes down the road and had just turned on to a busy cross country lane when I sailed past 2 police cars, then her with her mini wrapped around a tree and completely written off. She was outside of the car, still on her phone, apparently unhurt, but it did make me smile.

Last one was a former friend who I worked with. We were on the same team and she'd negotiated a probationary promotion and enjoyed lording it over everyone. But never me, and we were happy for each other as our careers progressed. She came to a family event as my friend, got drunk and proceeded to introduce herself to my family as my manager. I wasn't having it, and firmly corrected her there and then that we were colleagues, but she had no overall responsibility for me. She maintained I was being over sensitive and she was my manager really, which soured the friendship somewhat.

She totally took the piss in her role and was demoted before her probation was up. She tried to exact revenge by digging up dirt on our team manager and then tried to drag me into it, which I refused to get involved with. When she was caught she tried to say we were in it together. I was honest with the HR panel that she'd told me what she was up to and tried to get me involved, but I'd said no, so there were no consequences for me. She was sacked for gross misconduct. We are no longer friends.

SerialBodenReturner · 20/09/2016 16:36

Brad Pitt?

Fishface77 · 20/09/2016 16:39

I was talking to my friends about this thread and between them they gave me 3 examples.

  1. A friends dsil was married to an abusive arse. We're talking physical sexual emotion and financial abuse of heartbreaking proportions. His own parents or siblings wouldn't help as they were scared of him. When she tried to leave him he would snatch the kids from their school or turn up at her workplace. He dropped dead one day at home and was found by her later that day. She said she had never been so happy. We shouldn't celebrate someone's death but when their living makes others so unhappy then....
  1. A shop keeper who treated his staff like shit. Expecting them to work over hours and if he was hungover thy would have to go to his house, get the keys, open up, stay all da, lock up and drop the keys back. A new shop opened locally and they all got jobs there and left on the same day with zero notice.
  1. A man was bullied to the point of breakdown by his female boss. He left the company and was happy and satisfied in his new job moving through the ranks and promoted quickly. His DB was getting serious with someone and wanted to introduce them to the family. Guess who it was and guess who had her heartbroken (clue: it wasn't the brother, he was so disgusted at his girlfriends behaviour he dumped her there and then).
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Ebbenmeowgi · 20/09/2016 16:40

Some random guy was verbally abusive to my mate in the street and as he walked off laughing he unwrapped the sandwich that was in his hand and a seagull swooped down and stole it 😊

Fishface77 · 20/09/2016 16:41

And yes serial.
Maybe someone needs to remind angie, if he cheats with you hell cheat on you.
Karma.

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Ebbenmeowgi · 20/09/2016 16:43

Also another mate wouldn't give me even a single chip he was scoffing, then a seagull pooed in them. No idea why mine are all seagull related, perhaps they are my version of the wicked witches flying monkeys?!

mum2Bomg · 20/09/2016 17:39

Yep, my sister's dog bit my ex in the face. I felt awful at the time but he turned out to be such a nasty piece of work my best friend said it was 'pre-karma.' He was fine btw, just a couple of puncture wounds Hmm

AlexRose5 · 20/09/2016 17:55

Watched my DH go through hell for nearly a year battling his unpredictable psychotic ex in the family courts because she kept using contact with his daughters as blackmail. She pulled out every trick in the book, I would honestly need a whole page to myself to list off the unscrupulous lows she stopped to in order to keep control over him via his dauggters, small examples being making her mother block my husbands path , trying to make him place his hands on her so she could scream assault. Then she was also caught standing in her kitchen punching herself in the face after a row with my DH when he went to get his daughters (if she hadn't been caught in the act I dread to THINK what she would have tried to say!) After thousands spent, our wedding downsized and the stress of her sending the police to my house constantly , saying I had been verbally abusive to her , I'd been trying to intimidate her (all lies!) even when my son who was 8 months old was on life support after he contracted a terrible disease she sent the police to try have me dragged away from his hospital bed. Unlucky for her, the police straight away apologised to me and said they only came this time to say they were investigating her and did I know if she was mentally ill. Also my husband and I resorted to wearing dictaphone when we had to be near her , and the recordings proved all her lies. The icing on the cake was after everything she tried to pull, the judge saw right through her, handed her arse to her, not only awarded my husband contact but also said he doesn't know why my husband was only going for contact instead of applying for 50% or indeed full custody as it would be in the childrens interests to be with his above her. Her jaw dropped lol.
On top of the final ruling going in our favour , our wedding went ahead and was magical even though the court case ate into our budget. (Prior to the final ruling the judge made a special ruling that the girls were to be allowed attend our wedding, as his ex kept threatening to ban them from it and that had both kids in tears!) . My son made a full recovery . The girls have a happy healthy relationship with their dad, me and their brothers with very regular contact including have the holidays, As for his ex, the same week of the ruling she had her car vandalised , got mugged, and her boyfriend dumped her. Not something I would find funny under any normal circumstances but the fact that four years later she's still alone and has no say in my husbands relationship with his daughters makes me feel very bloody happy indeed! Well deserved all round lol

IceIceIce · 20/09/2016 18:00

Yes. My mum bought me a pony after an awful accident and a girl at school spread videos of a woman having sex with a horse with similar markings to mine and claimed it was me. It was so upsetting and made me feel dirty. I loved that pony and I was never so happy as when I was with him. I couldn't understand why she would do that.

I logged know to Facebook a couple of years later and found her boyfriend had tagged her in a video of a walrus doing sit ups because she'd just started an exercise programme.

She was fucking FUMING. I never body shame but it made my day and I hope she felt as deflated and disgusting as she made me feel.

raspberrysuicide · 20/09/2016 18:02

Driving along the A27 and some aggressive idiot was tailgating us and getting all angry in the outside Lane flashing his headlights etc. It was really busy so couldn't even move over for him to overtake us.
I don't know what happened but he got too close to the central reservation and crashed!

ClashCityRocker · 20/09/2016 18:02

A little one, but gave me so much pleasure.

I was walking past queuing traffic and a motorist in a souped up sports car with the top down was revving the engine incessently making much noise - dunno what engine it was but sounded like a bloody jet plane. He saw me looking at the car and shouted 'jealous, love?' At me.

Lights changed, he stalled it, and got all flustered trying to get it going again, as there was much honking behind him.

Paris7 · 20/09/2016 18:05

Yes, and how!

I was driving along a narrow Paris back street in a Volvo estate car late one evening looking for a parking space, when a woman overtook me in an old Fiat 500 by nipping past with two wheels on the pavement, she promptly slowed down as she too was hoping to find a space and before me.... FUME!

She found one too, in fact a large space easily big enough for us both. I stopped and let her park slap in the middle (my guess is that she was embarrassed and hoped I would drive on). I just waited, no honking, no rude gestures, just my indicator on. She adjusted her mirror so that she could see me and so I her. She started touching up her lipstick..... I waited, she looked, I waited. Eventually I got out and tapped on her window, she wa s obviously expecting the earful she didn't get.

" I wonder madame if I ask nicely could you please pull forward a little as there will then be enough space for me"

' Huff, puff, huff " and a grinding of gears. She lurched forward lipstick in hand and bumped the car in front. I let her get on with it and then parked, there was loads of space. Then the good bit! We both got out of our cars at the same time I thanked her, she huffed as only a Parisienne can and nose in the air strode off and onto a dog turd - she went flying arse over tit. As she lay there for a moment I said

"Oh mon dieu! Are you OK? Do let me help you up". I offered a hand, but she was now a gibbering flustered wreck.

"MAIS NON! Huff puff" and she shrugged me away. However, as she leavered herself up, she realised what I'd seen, that she now had her hand in the dog turd too.

I forced myself to keep a straight face went, "tut, tut, merde alors!" and left her to get on with it.

You see, there really is a God!

alltoomuchrightnow · 20/09/2016 18:10

Yes oh yes,
In the 90s I had a vile boss. His surname was Wheeler and he was very dodgy.. we all called him Wheeler Dealer. He paid me £2.05 an hour. After being there a year I took a holiday (which I'd booked; gone through all the proper channels and had it ok'd) and when I came back he decided he would not pay me for it. Dragged me into office and had a go at me.. said I was not entitled to holiday . Didn't care that I'd been there over a year. Also said he paid me a very fair wage (bear in mind I was mid 20s, not living at home and living in one of the most expensive commuter towns in the UK - i.e. near to London) I handed in my notice and had a miserable summer out of work, couldn't claim benefits as had quit my job.

A couple of years later he went to prison for fraud and for not paying NI etc for his staff

IceIceIce · 20/09/2016 18:16

One I'm waiting for lady karma to visit is my friends ex. He is a piece of shit who never deserved my friend.

Basically they'd been together since school until last year so about 10 years. 2 children. One planned second unplanned but she didn't find out until about 6 months when she felt the baby kick.

She left him. Because he's a lazy whinging manchild. He is still a lazy whinging manchild.

He rarely provides anything for the children. He insists she provide and pack everything because "that's what I pay you for" (he rarely gives her anything for the children).

Talks shit to his family. Pretends he doesn't see the kids because she won't let him (she couldn't possibly have made it any easier. She explicitly told him he can have them any time he wants just ring incase she's out but 9 tines out of ten she can be back within an hour).

Claimed he couldn't afford a fiver for the bus to get them. So she bank transferred him a tenner.

He turned up and asked her to ask a woman we know for some weed which he had £20 for.

Told their 3 year old mummy was going going gout whoring for a sugar daddy so he "had to look after them for the weekend" (she was going to a friends house).

Turned up after a month of no contact and proceeded to bang on about his new girlfriend who he's not actually sure if he likes because "she's a bit black".

Something bad has to happen to this dick soon.

SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace · 20/09/2016 18:19

I honestly don't think I've ever seen someone get what I think they deserve actually!

IceIceIce · 20/09/2016 18:20

Oh and a funny one from a few months ago.

My other half had been a prick all day. He'd shouted at me and spoken to me like crap then made out I was wrong for being annoyed.

Later on we went to sort my horses out and I was lunging one. I asked him if he'd like to ride. He stomped over without replying and jumped on board.

At which point pony bucked, dumped him in a puddle and trod on his leg.

Then the tyre went on the car. Second time that week. He had to wait in a pub car park (he'd left his wallet at home too and so had i) with mud in his ears while I pissed myself laughing waiting for my dad to rescue us.

My dad laughed at him too when he got their a declared him "a fucking plonker"

IceIceIce · 20/09/2016 18:37

Must just be the circles I mix in then! Even my 18 month old had been significantly quicker than that. She's done one 32 mile journey where we averaged 137mph. I did get pulled a few weeks back, copper had seen me at well over 100mph on a dual carriageway.

Wow. You horrible inconsiderate little person. How DARE you endanger that ba y or other drivers? I'm sorry but you should be banned for driving and if you ever let slip any identifying info I'm going to be emailing these screenshots to your local authorities including social services and the police. Disgraceful.

SooBee61 · 20/09/2016 18:37

Ebbenmeowgi
Two of the funniest karma stories I've heard! Seagulls must have an unerring sense of direction.

Acat123 · 20/09/2016 18:40

My ex just received a 2 year custodial sentence for the way he treated me and his kids. Watching him being taken away in handcuffs was priceless!

spiderlight · 20/09/2016 18:44

I served up a tiny bit of my own karma once. I'd been bullied at school by a particularly vile and nasty girl who hated me because I was a swot, and also targeted the kids in the special needs class. She was a real piece of work. Many years later, I'd gone on to gain a doctorate and a gorgeous 6'7" OH, and I spotted her one day working on the tills in Boots when we were out shopping after work. We'd only been taking a short cut through Boots but I couldn't help myself - I went up to her till with a ten-pack of extra-large condoms and paid with my card saying Dr. Spiderlight. She looked at the condoms, looked up at my OH, clocked the name on the card as she swiped it, and just as she looked at me with her jaw on the floor, I took my card back, thanked her without so much as a flicker of recognition and walked off hand-on-hand with OH with a BIG smile on my face Grin