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Best/worst/untraceable revenge

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namechangeforwrongdoing · 22/06/2021 21:12

Just tell me the best (worst?) but most untraceable acts of revenge/comeuppance that you've heard....Asking for a friend.....Wink

OP posts:
GreyhoundG1rl · 23/06/2021 10:57

Some of these are quite sick, tbh.

And the posters spitting out their coffee at tales of other people smearing shit on door handles sound about 8 years old 🙄. Pathetic.

HyacynthBucket · 23/06/2021 10:57

In the early days of eBay I remember reading about a woman who advertised her cheating DP's precious classic Lotus kit car that he had lovingly constructed over many months. She put it on eBay for 50p, and sold it within half an hour to someone who could not believe his luck, and did not hang around to find out more.

ValerieMorghulis · 23/06/2021 11:01

DCat carried out a revenge attack on me, in retaliation for some imaginary slight or insult.

She killed a small field mouse and left it under the sofa; being only tiny it didn’t stink enough to have to fumigate the house but sufficient to give a waft of unpleasantness for several weeks, and - crucially - for us not to realise where it came from. When I eventually pulled out the sofa to hoover there was the corpse alongside the remains of many fly larvae cases which explained the influx of flies into the house :hmm:

She still hates me, periodically

theressomethingaboutmarie · 23/06/2021 11:02

Many years ago, I worked with a woman with whom I had initially gotten on well with. Over time, she just decided to become really unpleasant - I hadn't done anything or said anything, she simply decided to be really rude and try to undermine/humiliate me in every meeting we were in together. I had worked on hiring someone for our department as I was leaving the company and as the role wasn't yet filled, was getting over 50 emails per day about it. In my last week, I didn't reply to any of them. In the last hour of my last day, I copied and pasted a response to about 4/500 emails giving this horrible womans' name and landline for them to contact about the role. It felt bloody awesome.

Womendohavevaginasnick · 23/06/2021 11:02

@ValerieMorghulis

DCat carried out a revenge attack on me, in retaliation for some imaginary slight or insult.

She killed a small field mouse and left it under the sofa; being only tiny it didn’t stink enough to have to fumigate the house but sufficient to give a waft of unpleasantness for several weeks, and - crucially - for us not to realise where it came from. When I eventually pulled out the sofa to hoover there was the corpse alongside the remains of many fly larvae cases which explained the influx of flies into the house :hmm:

She still hates me, periodically

😂
JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 23/06/2021 11:05

DH kept messing with the music in the car.. so I swapped all his favourite songs on his playlists to the glee versions. Not sorry.

REP22 · 23/06/2021 11:07

A prawn sewn into the curtain lining or placed atop a door lintel.

Write their phone number on a banknote and spend it.

Possibly cruel but sometimes necessary.

AlCalavicci · 23/06/2021 11:09

@Ylvamoon

Having a greasy & expensive takeaway delivers to their address - payment in cash / by card upon arrival. (Just ensure your number is withheld when ordering! or cheap payg phone)
I know that this sounds good but please don't do it , it's not fair on the person delivering the food . They get abuse from the person reviving the delivery and from the restaurant/ take away owners
socalledfriend · 23/06/2021 11:11

So many......

Friend found out her DP was having office affair, and he was due to go on a "business trip" the next day so she threw his passport underneath their built in wardrobes and packed her stuff and moved out. He rang her hysterically about the passport but she could say hand on heart she hadn't taken it.

Friend cleaned toilet with ex's tooth brush.

Friend found out DP had been having affair - she boxed up all his stuff and had it sent to his place of work and changed the locks on her flat where he had been living.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/06/2021 11:12

I know that this sounds good
It doesn't even sound good. There's no particular trauma involved in saying "No, sorry, I didn't order that".
Unless the revenge is intended to be taken on the owner of the takeaway, it's utter nonsense.

Campalumpa · 23/06/2021 11:12

A long time ago, someone I knew who wasn't getting on well with her BF, wrote FART on his forehead in suncream whilst he was sunbathing.

they spilt up not long after

SpaceRaiders · 23/06/2021 11:14

A friend of a friend was getting divorced. Her husband was been an absolute prick at every point of negotiation, he wouldn’t accept it’s over, I think he’d refused to move out, he was stalling on the divorce too, refused to talk about what furniture he wanted out of the house.

So she waits until he’d gone to work, booked the removals and cleared the house to storage. 3 days later she moves out to a rental. Leaving him with exactly half of everything, down to the pots and pans.

BlooperReel · 23/06/2021 11:14

Someone at an old workplace was stealing my pots of yogurts regularly, I got a 4 pack, peeled back each corner and added a dose of liquid laxative to each then used pritt stick to reseal the corners

Grin
ihtwsf · 23/06/2021 11:35

Put dried up cat shit in ex's jacket pockets...

Pandora64 · 23/06/2021 11:42

An opportunity for revenge popped up in my inbox just yesterday - someone deeply unpleasant from my recent past now needs my help for a legal matter.

Im torn as to whether to tell them to get stuffed or to rise above it and graciously help them.

But it’s interesting reading this thread while I decide!😁

MrsGulDukat · 23/06/2021 11:47

In the early days of eBay I remember reading about a woman who advertised her cheating DP's precious classic Lotus kit car that he had lovingly constructed over many months. She put it on eBay for 50p, and sold it within half an hour to someone who could not believe his luck, and did not hang around to find out more.

@HyacynthBucket

That car belonged to Tim from Car SOS (TV show on NatGeo)

He was a radio DJ at the time and was interviewing Jodie Marsh. He said on air that he'd leave his wife and kids for Jodie.

Apparently he had form.

Newestname001 · 23/06/2021 11:51

@Pandora64

An opportunity for revenge popped up in my inbox just yesterday - someone deeply unpleasant from my recent past now needs my help for a legal matter.

Im torn as to whether to tell them to get stuffed or to rise above it and graciously help them.

But it’s interesting reading this thread while I decide!😁

Do you need to say or do anything? Other than block them everywhere? Silence can be very eloquent. 🌹

Malbecfan · 23/06/2021 11:52

We have a doorstep milk delivery & have done for over 20 years. In our old house, someone used to take the orange juice but not the milk. The milkman was a very odd guy and claimed never to have seen anything when he was delivering at around 1.45am. We asked our neighbours and one of them suggested spiking some with laxatives. We saved a foil top and mixed up a strong dose of laxative into orange squash. We waited until the milkman came then immediately swapped the bottles over. It never happened again.

My dad gets really cross with people who encroach on the entrance to his flats. The council has painted a white line but some monster cars still manage to partially block it, or ignore it altogether. Dad's nice neighbour leaves notes under the windscreen wipers, which end up screwed up on the pavement. Dad gets his grease gun and smears a fine trail of grease under the driver's door handle.

Finally my uni aged DDs were so sick of the anti-Covid/anti vaccination messages from my idiot sister and cousin so they signed both of them up to every free text and email they could: stop smoking, bible verse of the day, you name it, they did it. Petty? Yes. Illegal? No.

looptheloopinahulahoop · 23/06/2021 11:54

Someone was bullied out of a job back in the late 90s. It was in the days of voicemail and people were not very well organised when it came to data security so everyone had the same default passnumber for their voicemail.

So the victim used to phone in and delete all the bully's voicemails until the bully realised something was amiss (several weeks later I think!) and changed the passcode.

Sweetener12 · 23/06/2021 12:02

Removing them from every photograph you have! It works out way better if you have some of those pictures printed and framed, so you can totally remove the person from digital copies, then print them out and replace old pics with the new ones. It's mostly for your own pleasure but if they occasionally drop in the look on their face is just magnificent. Here is a tutorial on removing people from photographs, too- photo-works.net/how-to-remove-person-from-photo.php
Let's just say it works wonders Grin

Moonwhite · 23/06/2021 12:02

Bit of a tit for tat one. In my relationships' death throes ex DP once walked into the bathroom while I was having a bath, wordlessly picked up the toilet brush holder and tipped the manky liquid at the bottom into my bath water.

I said nothing. He left. Then I got out, took his toothbrush, and used it to clean the inside of the toilet brush holder, just to make sure the job was properly done.

He shit the bed that night.

AngeIinaBaIIerina · 23/06/2021 12:07

Some of these are funny but some are borderline criminal. Planting japanese knotwood and releasing pregnant rats is not fair to the poor neighbours and super-gluing someones penis is dangerous.

Purplewithred · 23/06/2021 12:08

Chap had responsibility for a particular range of a well known brand of cakes. Dumped his girlfriend. Girlfriend got a hatpin and whenever she went into a supermarket pierced said cake packaging with the hatpin so he would get lots of customer complaints.

Maddox33 · 23/06/2021 12:09

A lot of these anecdotes are urban myths lifted from Snopes - especially the prawns/tuna/seafood in the curtain rail and then taking the curtain rail to the new house. Funny though.

I don't like the idea of breaking and entering, causing damage to property or introducing an infestation, or causing physical harm to someone for revenge - the superglued penis is absolutely not funny. Just walk away.

Snopes is still worth a read though, it's kept me amused often, especially when I read something on Mumsnet that absolutely happened to their friend.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/06/2021 12:12

@Moonwhite

Bit of a tit for tat one. In my relationships' death throes ex DP once walked into the bathroom while I was having a bath, wordlessly picked up the toilet brush holder and tipped the manky liquid at the bottom into my bath water.

I said nothing. He left. Then I got out, took his toothbrush, and used it to clean the inside of the toilet brush holder, just to make sure the job was properly done.

He shit the bed that night.

What is wrong with people? Hmm. Seriously, where do people learn to behave like this? God help you.
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