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To have had a little snigger, even though it's really not funny

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potentialqualms · 12/10/2016 19:13

Friend of a friend type situation. He told his long-term live in girlfriend it was over 5 weeks ago. She didn't take it well and they haven't yet sorted out who's going to move out etc (I've no idea of any details of their relationship or if she's entitled to feel wronged etc)

Anyway, he's been excited to have qualified for the World Championships in a fairly obscure sport and arrived at the airport for his flight this morning. At check-in, he discovered the photo page from his passport is missing!

It's not funny. It's terrible. But I will admit my first reaction was a little snigger at the genius!

What's made you laugh when it really shouldn't have?

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PickAChew · 12/10/2016 23:30

That on eis pure justice, dragon. Very scorched earth :)

JedRambosteen · 12/10/2016 23:30

Don't you have to input your passport details in advance of the flight these days? It's a great sounding revenge, but I'm not sure I believe it.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 12/10/2016 23:31

So, in the absence of any information that the man had done anything wrong, some posters are all but congratulating this woman? Presumably you don't have sons so wouldn't feel differently if this happened to him at some point?

If you subscribe to the notion that people are entitled to break up, end a relationship for any reason then you wouldn't find this funny. It's not the same as an act of revenge for an understandable reason, it's the act of spite for someone who has decided that the relationship doesn't work for them anymore.

Would it be just as amusing if a man did this? Curtailed and spoilt his ex partner's ability to go about their life?

user5318008 · 12/10/2016 23:39

Obstacle course racing? If it is, they're being held in Canada so not a cheap flight. She's likely cost him a couple of grand. Horrible thing to do whatever the sport and stupid. They're still living together so why wouldn't she be happy about him going away for a week? It's hardly going to be happy, fun times in their house this weekend.

ClaudiaJean2016 · 12/10/2016 23:42

Not funny at all. In fact I would not want to be friends with the sort of person who (a) thought about doing so horrible and (b) actually acting on that thought. It's immature, nasty, and spiteful.

I hope he takes her to court and makes her reimburse him for every penny he has lost as a result.

BrainPrions · 12/10/2016 23:44

I love "Don't stick your dick in crazy" stories. Like satisfying a nice Schadenfreude itch.

WatchingFromTheWings · 12/10/2016 23:47

Criminal damage and he could sue her for costs and incidental damages and he should.

Yes!! Very nasty thing to do.

Salmotrutta · 12/10/2016 23:54

Pretty shitty thing to do IMHO.

AND I'm pretty certain it's a criminal offence.

But yeah, congratulate the silly girl on her (probably criminal) behaviour without knowing the facts.

Hopefully she hasn't put herself on the wrong side of the law eh?

Meadows76 · 13/10/2016 00:05

Don't you have to input your passport details in advance of the flight these days? It's a great sounding revenge, but I'm not sure I believe it why not? You still have to produce it at the airport regardless

Meadows76 · 13/10/2016 00:06

I think it was an awful thing to do. Such nastiness.

JedRambosteen · 13/10/2016 00:07

Yeah, but it seems unlikely to me that the airport is the first time you'd notice.

cakedup · 13/10/2016 00:10

When DS was about 5, we came up some escalators and Instead of walking ahead with me, he got confused and went down the downwards escalators. I called out to him and when he realised, he turned around and tried to walk up the downwards escalators but obviously making no headway at all. I was doubled over with laughter, took me a bit longer than it should have to rescue him.

Meadows76 · 13/10/2016 00:11

Yeah, but it seems unlikely to me that the airport is the first time you'd notice. The flights may have been booked for a while, the passport may have been ruined more recently. He may not have looked inside his passport, my DH certainly wouldn't, so long as he picked it up that would be it for him until handing it over too

TheNaze73 · 13/10/2016 00:14

What an embarrassment to herself.

MidniteScribbler · 13/10/2016 00:17

I think it was a stupid thing to do. Relationships end, you don't have to be a dick about it.

In Australia, you can be jailed for up to ten years for deliberately damaging a passport, and I imagine there are similar laws in the UK. I hope he takes action against her. At the very least, he would be able to take legal action against her for the costs he incurred in not being able to go on the trip.

awkward91 · 13/10/2016 00:19

Ah that's hilarious!

A similar situation - a friend of a friends OH told her that their relationship was over and he had booked a holiday for himself and a lady friend and she was to be gone from his home by the time he arrived back in the county. Friend of friend decided to cover all of the carpet in the house with cress seeds and water before she left... I often imagine his face as he opened the door!

LouisvilleLlama · 13/10/2016 00:22

I seee threads like this and people pissing themselves and then whenever they hear about a man with a crazy ex, they act in all disbelief

RazWaz · 13/10/2016 02:05

My whole family ended up in fits of laughter at my grandfathers service at the crematorium. They were supposed to play a Johnny Cash song off a CD and chose the wrong track by accident - we all cracked up as "Ring of Fire" played as his coffin disappeared behind the curtain.

He was a man who loved to laugh though so we're sure he wouldn't have minded too much.

BrainPrions · 13/10/2016 03:07

I seee threads like this and people pissing themselves and then whenever they hear about a man with a crazy ex, they act in all disbelief

Context.

We wouldn't laugh at a man with a crazy ex that came on here clearly looking for support. This is clearly an anecdotal story about a crazy ex with none of the parties involved on here feeling upset or looking for support.

treaclesoda · 13/10/2016 03:27

I think it's a crappy thing to do. A friend's abusive ex destroyed her passport the day before she was due to go on holidays and it caused her no end of stress and expense. He was pissed off that she had had the strength to stand up to him and ask him to leave. In real life, people who are generally lovely don't tend to suddenly snap and do something malicious like this, it tends to be a pattern of behaviour. Lovely caring people who snap and carry out a one off act of hilarious revenge are few and far between.

LouisvilleLlama · 13/10/2016 03:35

Brain but anytime a poster references a man who for whatever reasons has said his ex was crazy gets a "it's so strange so many men have crazy ex's) and it makes many posters question the man.

BoneyBackJefferson · 13/10/2016 06:39

BrainPrions

The first thing many do on here is defend the ex female partner, look at the step mother threads, or threads were the new partner complains about the exes behaviour, more often than not in the first ten responses there will be "don't believe everything he tells you" etc.

SoupDragon · 13/10/2016 07:45

Yeah, but it seems unlikely to me that the airport is the first time you'd notice.

I don't look at my passport in between inputting the number onto my one flight booking and showing it at security. why on earth would I?

SoupDragon · 13/10/2016 08:07

I can't believe people ar so nasty as to think this was a great trick. I'm guessing you would all be happy to arrive at the airport to find it had been done to you and laughed long and loud about it.

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 13/10/2016 08:10

I tend to have the urge to laugh at inappropriate moments (usually solemn occasions like funerals, court etc).

However, I wouldn't laugh at this. I think what she did was fucking ghastly - and criminal.

If she'd sprinkled seeds all over his carpets then watered them, I'd have tittered at that. Juvenile, but enjoyable.

What she actually did was just plain bad. Unless there's some massive backstory, I hope she receives a knock at the door from the local not-so-friendly constabulary.

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