To ask you to indulge me with your instant karma stories?

[ethelfleda]

Inspired after reading the post about the twat who stood and watched the OP reverse her car in to a bollard and then laughed at her....
Has anyone been an utter arsehole to you/someone you know and you had the great pleasure of witnessing their comeuppance?

For example - once DH and I were driving through the peak district on winding country lanes and a white van driver was aggressively tailing us and then dangerously overtook on a blind bend... 20 mins later we passed him and he was pulled over by the police and stood by his van looking very sorry for himself

Ahhh karma can be a bitch!

A long long time ago, I swung my leg at a pigeon to shoo it away from me.

It flew straight into my face!

Your karma ran over my dogma.

HTH.

Not instant karma but my best friend and his girlfriend turned against me overnight and tried to destroy my life. Pushed me to suicide and laughed about it.

I never retaliated. Not even by telling the truth that he had cheated on her (not with me)

Months down the line she cheated on him. They got back together and then she ended up leaving him for the guy she cheated with.

Then he sends me an emailing trying to be friends. That email was promptly deleted.

Definetely not instant karma, and I'm not sure if this counts, but at midday today I felt like karma had turned round and bitten me!

DD1 (7) was and still is the calmest, happiest, most easy-going child I've met. Never once had a tantrum, a squinny, or even a cross word with anyone- kind, generous, loving, blah blah blah. She was our youngest for 6 years and I quite smugly believed that her temperament was down to my frankly excellent parenting skills.

At midday today DD2 (18m) threw yet another one of her spectactular ear-splitting, back-arching, arm-flailing, grocery-throwing tantrums in the middle of the supermarket... all because I gave her a biscuit when she didn't want a biscuit?!

DD2 is currently the cheekiest, naughtiest, sneakiest, most defiant little girl ever, and I now know that my parenting skills were absolutely not the reason for DD1's gentle nature- I was just super lucky to get a compliant kiddo first time round!

I can't believe how smugly I used to think, and how I judged other parents' childrens' poor behaviour- serves me right- long time coming, but karma got me in the end!

i had successfully investigated a staff member and as my boss and my bosses boss were sacking him, another staff member's husband swung into the car park and smashed into the sacked staff member's car...which he had hired - it was a merc- to make it look as if he was trying to get the sack and all part of his cunning plan. wonderful.

A witch I used to work with spoke to me like absolute crap (the only time she'd ever actually spoken to me) and I was quite upset.

About 3 minutes later her snickers from the vending machine got stuck... I was sat there literally like

Other than that, not any other interesting stories...

People were desperately trying to pull back into traffic, but the near stationary queues were impenetrable. Never have I seen a bunch of motorists working together for the greater good in a better way. It was glorious.

Brilliant, Incy!

A story of quadruple karma....
Part One:
This was mid 1980's. (Australia). Police have had a major shakeup since then, but at the time they were pretty lawless. I was 18, blonde and driving alone. I was pulled over for "going through a red light". (It was green). They wrote a ticket and the people in the car behind me pulled over and said that the light was green, the cops were intimidating me, etc.... As independent witnesses, the ticket was invalidated.
Part Two:
I drove off (on my way to uni) and the police were tailgating me, hoping to catch me speeding, not indicating or something - which is easy enough to do when rattled. Just as I neared some traffic lights, they turned yellow, so I stopped. (Somewhat abruptly) The police car didn't. The car that had witnessed their previous intimidation (I love these random strangers) and yet another full of people I didn't know witnessed them rear-end me and called an ambulance as I had fractured my clavicle. (Seatbelt injury)
Part Three:-
These police were charged with harassment and fired - and...
I was awarded damages. (Car and fractured clavicle.)
Part Four:
I was called as a witness (as were the people who had come to my aid previously) in an judicial inquiry into the corruption of the police force, and this story was one of many used to ferret out and charge the corrupt police all the way up to the Commissioner.
The end.

On holiday last year my kids shared their pool float toys with another child. When my son popped to the loo this other child scarpered with their lilo. Kids distraught but we told them we'd replace the float toy after lunch and that it was kind to share in the first place.

As we were eating lunch an American family came over with an inflatable crocodile AND an inflatable doughnut, said that they were leaving that afternoon, didn't want to take the toys and would the kids like them?

Definite good karma in action.

One of my kids fell during a PE lesson a couple of weeks back.

A bullying little witch they've been having problems with did a huge comedy laugh - bent over holding her belly then swinging back roaring with laughter. Really making DD feel bad until she swung back too far and smacked her head on the wall behind her. Missed the end of term disco that night.

Wouldn't normally laugh at a child hurting themselves but she's fine, and 14 is old enough to know that her treatment of DD is wrong.

My friend and I were sitting on the curb outside a club one night wanting to have a cigarette but we had no lighter. A man was approaching so we politely asked him if he had a light. He didn't reply, just looked down at us and sneered. Just as he walked past a lighter fell out of his pocket at our feet. He didn't notice. You can imagine our faces as he walked on oblivious

*kerb! Sorry

justilou that must have been satisfying, particularly after what they put you through!

@HarryBiscuit
It was bloody terrifying at the time, tbh. Took a long time to change the culture, but it has improved no end since then. (Of course there are not nearly enough police now, and they're not paid enough considering what they have to deal with, but that's another story)

I was once working an event with a friend of a friend who promised me a lift at the end. The venue was a bit of a ball ache to get to and even harder to get back but the only reason I agreed to it was because of promised lift. Anyway at the end of the shift she had pulled and so wanted to hang out at venue but I had to get back home. So I made my way to the station . Anyway, 1.hrs later when I was just walking to my road I saw £15 on the ground. In the words of my DS "mine!"

Last seat on the bus was taken by a pushy woman who then sneered triumphantly in the face of the person she had barged out of the way to get to it. It was raining and about 5 minutes into the journey, water started dripping down from the leaking bus ceiling onto her head, and she had to move and stand anyway.

Dickhead neighbour used to think he owned the street, and would charge out of his house to physically intimidate and scream at people who had parked in "MY PARKING SPACE". He did not have a personal space. No-one does. It's a public street and parking is the councils.

One day my husband and I went to the car which happened to be "my parking space" The demented old fart came screeching out of his house, threw open the passenger door, and screamed in my face - I was 8 months pregnant at the time.

This was followed by a massive row between us and the gremlin, concluding with his harridan wife threatening to damage our car.

We reported it to the police and a special Constance came round, agreed with us and went round to dickheads house to tell him he doesn't own the street.

Anyway, a couple of weeks later, the same special constable turns up, asking if we had heard any disturbance the night before. We said no, why? And she gestured to the end of the street, where dickheads car was gently smoking, having had the entire back of it burnt out by someone. The sight of the angry little gremlin hopping around it, incandescent with rage was incredible

The police said "We're having to ask everyone on yours and the adjacent street - he's made a lot of enemies"

Superb.

(Disclaimer - wasn't us!)

At the train station and a girl of about 8 tried to kick and pigeon. Her shoe flew off and on to the tracks as the train pulled in. There were tears.

My DF and his business partner were dissolving their partnership - civilly, if not totally amicable. Partner tried to do it earlier without telling him and sent letters to places where they had joint accounts (as in for services, not the bank) asking all accounts to be transferred to his new company. No money involved at that stage, but certainly dodgy, and he didn't do it to local businesses where the staff knew my DF well and would have let him know.

Unfortunately for him, the business 150 miles away he tried it with was where I worked at the time and it landed on my desk. DF promptly informed, all dodginess prevented by a court order.

Child on those godforsaken Heelies zoomed past an elderly woman in the grocery store, damn near knocking her over. Child did not stop to apologize, or slow down, or even look to see if elderly woman was alright.

Child neatly clotheslined herself on the one-way electric sensor barrier type thing because she was moving too fast for it to sense her and open.

There were tears.

Loving these, can we have more please.