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Good revenge stories about nasty strangers

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BananasBananas · 02/07/2020 22:54

We need some good revenge stories to lift our spirits after reading about all the random acts of nastinesses on here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3953798-to-ask-if-a-stranger-has-ever-been-nasty-to-you?msgid=97985195
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Russellbrandshair · 03/07/2020 19:52

After another few seconds of silence I just can't stop myself from putting the boot in, and my tone veers somewhat into condescension... "You have called your own number 47 times in the last 30 minutes

That must have felt SOOOOO good! Love it

Thisismytimetoshine · 03/07/2020 20:07

@Qwicky

He probably wasn’t, I used to deal with such calls among other complaints for a large telecoms company and we would just send a standard letter or apologetic phone call back in response to these.

Yeah, similar here. Told the complainer whatever was needed to shut them up. Conversation with employee would often go something along the lines of "haha some knobhead rang up to complain about your driving you naughty boy. Hand in your keys right now hahahaha you still coming to the pub after work?" (Not said by me I might add!)

Jesus Hmm. No wonder they feel so free to act like dicks.
MulticolourMophead · 03/07/2020 20:32

@okletsdothis

That was absolute gold. Did he ever need to call your department again?

MuddlingMackem · 03/07/2020 20:37

@Fuss, I have a Morris Minor one you might like.

Many, many years ago when my DB and I were kids, we went on a family holiday in North Yorkshire. Our Morris Minor was loaded up, cases on the roof rack, crawling up a steepish hill. A family overtook us, pointing and laughing at our old, slow car. We were all totally meh about it though.

Until we get a few miles along the road, and there was that family and that car, bonnet up on the side of the road waiting for the AA / RAC. Ah, we did smirk. Grin

MorganKitten · 03/07/2020 20:59

Awful ex’s new GF (who he cheated on me with about 2 weeks after I miscarried) cornered me in our local (on my birthday) and told me in graphic detail about The wonderful sex life they had and then followed me around all night, jumped in on people buying shots etc... he was fired from his job, she ended up with sepsis. A week after this. They aren’t together now btw.

BobbieDraper · 03/07/2020 21:08

@okletsdothis

Thats the best thing I've read on here in ages. What a dick he must have felt like.

Piccalily19 · 03/07/2020 21:09

I was being aggressively tailgated by a car once, like really dangerously aggressive. I was already doing 65 in a 60 so refused to go any faster (also I’m stubborn af so refused to slow down so he could overtake). Caught up with a couple of cars going a bit slower so I slowed down as normal, he continued to aggressively tailgate.
Anyway, long story short he cut in front of me and the car directly in front of me just before a bend nearly causing a huge crash with oncoming traffic.
The joy on my face when the car in front of me (that he cut in front of) lit up immediately in a sea of blue flashing lights and proceeded to pull him over.

Piccalily19 · 03/07/2020 21:18

@okletsdothis that is genuinely brilliant 😂😂

Thunderstorms2 · 03/07/2020 21:26

I went for a nice walk on the beach. There was a flood at the entrance/exit and whilst I was carefully walking around it to get on, a car full of young men came hurtling towards the water. I don't know if they were doing it on purpose for laughs or just plain thoughtlessness but I was clearly going to get drenched! All I could do was stand there and brace myself for the massive splash that was about to happen... but the water was too deep to drive through at speed. There was no big splash. Instead the impact tore the bumper off the car and it came to a stop in the middle of the flood. To top it off, a car full of lads behind him(presumably his friends) whipped their mobiles out and started filming him, laughing and jeering.

RiftGibbon · 03/07/2020 21:28

@Fuss

I used to have a morris minor as a daily driver. It was an 'experience' but it was cheap motoring. Unfortunately every idiot on the road was drawn to it.

One night driving home I had some lad in a black BMW so far up my arse I couldn't see his lights. Eventually the road went to two lanes for traffic lights, which were red.
He pulled alongside, revving his engine and was laughing at my car. Imagine the hilarity when the lights changed and he stalled it. I couldn't resist giving him a little wave as I drove off. He was scarlet.
Road went to two lanes again further down but he stayed right back.

This has reminded me of another similar incident. When I was a kid, we had very little spare money. My dad drove what could be best described as "an old banger" and a car that had a reputation for being slow and unfashionable. We were waiting at lights and a guy in a souped up flashy car pulled up beside us, laughing, revving, giving it the big "I am" and constantly looking over. Dad ignored him. The lights changed and dad's old banger pulled away leaving this guy posturing. He then stalled.
hadtojoin · 03/07/2020 21:54

Near us there is a lane which regularly floods up to 4 or 5 feet at a ford just by the main road turning. A friend got caught just before she reached the ford in 1ft of water and had to be towed out, they passed a local man in a land rover heading towards the ford who laughed at them. An hour later her children came back from school saying they had passed the lane and there was the land rover man sat on the roof of his car with water up to the door handles.

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 03/07/2020 21:57

Was at a farm type theme park with ride in peddle tractors when my daughter was a toddler and an older boy (probably about 5, she was 2ish) lifted her out of the little tractor she was in from behind, plonked her down next to it and proceeded to climb in himself.

I got up to go over and sort him out, I could see his mother coming over from the other direction but, before I got there, the little boy turned in the seat of the tractor to face my rather peeved daughter with a smug grin and was greeted with two fingers jabbed straight into his eyes.

I ended up apologising to his mother.

Monty27 · 03/07/2020 22:39

I'm here. Haven't changed my name. I have no reason to.
I don't do bullies. Nor people attempting to bully me.
I have not derailed the thread at all. Some of you guys have though.
Whoever accused me of namechanging didn't tag me properly.
No I don't feel stupid. And the first person to use sweary language was @Vodkacranberryplease.
I couldn't give two hoots about @jackdaw141 posting twice. The first post was hardly descriptively and the poster continued to be unpleasant anyway.
As for my critics, so shoot me Grin

Staffy1 · 03/07/2020 22:56

My friend was cut up by someone in a convertible who overtook her... as soon as he smugly straightened the car in front of her a seagull flew past him and shit on his head

This really made me laugh, would love to have seen it!

Staffy1 · 03/07/2020 23:04

@SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing, register with places that send out catalogues in the post with their address and a name like "Mr/Mrs F Wit/R Sole".

Thisismytimetoshine · 03/07/2020 23:45

[quote Staffy1]@SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing, register with places that send out catalogues in the post with their address and a name like "Mr/Mrs F Wit/R Sole".[/quote]
It'll take half a second to tip that into the recycling bin. What's the point?

8misskitty8 · 04/07/2020 00:08

People we bought our house off left it in a disgusting state, shit on toilet seat, carpet wet with piss etc. There was a crack in the bath which they covered with a bath mat. Really grim.
I cried when we got the keys. Took a few years but we have eradicated all trace of them now.
A couple of years later and we were still getting their mail. I tracked him down on social media and messaged him. He sent a sweary aggressive message back.
So I started opening them. He owed thousands to a car finance company and a debt collection agency. I found out his new address and phoned all the companies up to give the new address and also the website of the company he owned.

okletsdothis · 04/07/2020 00:27

@Russellbrandshair

After another few seconds of silence I just can't stop myself from putting the boot in, and my tone veers somewhat into condescension... "You have called your own number 47 times in the last 30 minutes

That must have felt SOOOOO good! Love it

Honestly, it was so satisfying! If I had been a smoker I think I might have lit one on the spot Grin
okletsdothis · 04/07/2020 00:37

[quote MulticolourMophead]**@okletsdothis

That was absolute gold. Did he ever need to call your department again?[/quote]
Funnily enough, any requests from his department were made by his junior doctors for quite a few weeks after that! He did eventually brave it and start calling himself again though.

I take heart in knowing that he will absolutely never forget our phone number now, and every time he dials it he will be reminded of what an absolute moon boot he was, just as I will remember every time I see his number on my caller ID. It truly is the gift that keeps on giving Grin

AJ1425 · 04/07/2020 01:21

Not revenge as such. When I was a student on the bus to uni one morning, a fussy middle aged woman tapped me and told me the music on my headphones was too loud. I stopped the music while I adjusted the volume. She then tapped me again to tell me it was still too loud. I had nothing playing and just looked at her and said 'but they arent even on'. She shut up very quickly and I was always annoyed she didnt accuse anyone else of having loud music but actually, she must have felt like a right twat.

derta · 04/07/2020 01:21

Some people here should realise that two wrongs don't make a right
Some people are absolutely equal or even worse to the ones they "took a revenge on". Bloody hell

Really I think you should treat others like you would like to be treated. It's not that hard to not be a dick

MyNameHasBeenTaken · 04/07/2020 01:38

When I was pregnant with my first (17 years ago now) I hardly ate. Just went off food.
One night, driving back from visiting friends, I fancied a burger from Macdonald's.
So I went through the drive through, as it was late and I didn't want to be hobbling around on my own with my bad hip.
Treated myself to a burger meal and an ice cream. Drove over to the far side of the car park, away from the cinema as I didn't want to take a cinema space when I didn't need one. And I didn't want to be disturbed.
Settled down with my book and my supper in peace. All was good.
Then another car appears in the far corner of the carpark. Parks right next to my driver side. So close I cant get out. (She can get out as cars facing the same direction).
She leaves her car and goes to do whatever she went there to do.
I finish my food and I am left with empty wrappers that I cant put in the bin/recycling as I cant open my door.
As I looked around, seeing if I could get out anyway? Window? Passenger door?
Nope. Too much baby bump and nausea.
But I did spot an open sunroof.
I did not leave litter on the ground 😉

OprahSaysNah · 04/07/2020 01:43

@StillCoughingandLaughing

A woman sent me abuse on Facebook because she disagreed with something I’d posted about the Alfie Evans case - along the lines that I was too vile to live, how could I be so cruel to the parents of that poor baby, I deserved to get cancer etc. Unfortunately for her she’d been daft enough to leave her FB profile publicly visible, including where she worked. A spot of Googling, a few screenshots sent to head office and she was right in the shit.
That's interesting @StillCoughingandFarting - you made a very passive aggressive comment to me previously asking why I bothered responding to a ~deliberately offensive~ user on mumsnet (under my previous username). As you said then, why care so much about someone else's opinion. In my situation, they were being nasty and there were no consequences regarding them being challenged. You were very condescending to me when I pointed out that they were of line (even though it did not affect the nasty poster personally), yet now you are happy to get somebody "in the shit" with their employer. Pot calls kettle black perhaps?
Destroyedpeople · 04/07/2020 01:56

If I tell you mine all you lot will tell me I am a psycho...

Ok so (single parent small children) just dropped them off at the station to meet their dad. V tired v stressed.

I get a shish kebab and the server says 'chilli sauce?' Holding the dripping ladle over the kebab..I toy with the idea and say no thanks.

Get my kebab and I am so hungry that I start tucking in while walking towards my bus stop...

Just then a young drunk man in the company of an older couple passes me..and as he passes throws me the comment 'you're ugly' and walks off laughing. ..

I was so cross! I ran after him caught him up grabbed the back of his jumper so that he turned round and pushed the whole kebab intoo his face.

'Be grateful tank girl doesn't like chiili' I said.

Well ok I didn't but I should have.

The older couple laughed at him and told him it was his own fault. ..and off I went...still hungry..

GilbertMarkham · 04/07/2020 02:02

then looked to her friend for back up and her friend went "oh stop being such a cunt all the time."

I love her friend Grin