Wednesday, September 30, 2020

County Mower Shreds Dad's Shrubs, Dad Revenges With Rebar


This tale of pro revenge involving an inconsiderate county mower and a dad who wasn't going to put up with anyone's nonsense reminds us of another revenge involving a steel-enforced mailbox and a snowplow. The grin on dad's face must've spanned from cheek to cheek. Sounds like the county mower was ultimately unsuccessful with trying to get dad to cough up cash for those broken blades too. Talk about the icing on the cake. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/SwizzleMalarki • 1y + Join County mower trimmed down our shrubs for no reason. Go ahead and try that again... First time posting. I was reading a post on here about a neighbor running over the poles in their yard and it reminded me of this story. Also writing this from my phone, so bear with me. Tl;dr at the bottom. When I was 7 or 8 my dad planted a row of shrubs along the front of the property. They started out as scrawny sticks, but fast-forward a few years and they were

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Text - After my dad found the corner cut off he confronted the county mower, who mowed the public areas around our house: "Why the hell did you cut down my shrubs?" "Because they were hanging over the road. Anything hanging over the road will be cut back" "What? No they weren't. I keep these shrubs cut so they're only over my property." "I'm not gonna fight you on this. You let them grow up like that and I'll cut them down again." "...Fine."

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Text - For those of you that don't know, shrubs grow pretty quickly. A few months later the shrubs had made progress toward recovering and my dad got an inkling that it wouldn't be long before the mower lopped them off again. So he did what any man would do to get revenge in that situation - he went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of rebar. Rebar is a very sturdy steel bar used to reinforce concrete (rebar = reinforcing bar) and nothing short of a steel saw or cutting torch is going to get thro

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Text - There were pieces of mower blade strewn about across the road and two of the three blades on the mower nothing but nubs. "You destroyed my mower!" "No I didn't. I made sure that rebar wasn't an inch over the road. That's what you get for mowing down my shrubs" "The county'll be charging you for those blades" "Feel free to have them give me a call so I can have them come out and see exactly what happened." They never called or sent a bill. The mower never touched our shrubs again. And thos

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Text - Edit: For those worried about the danger of this, when I say the blades were strewn across the road I mean along the 5 or 10 feet the mower traveled before he stopped. They broke off and fell to the ground rather than flying all over the place. We expected it to just chew up the blades, not break them, but it was worth the cleanup to see the look on the guy's face. Tl;dr: County mower took a chunk out of our shrubs, so when they grew back my dad hid rebar in them which destroyed the mower

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Choosing Beggar's Request Lands Them At Comedy Club


It's never a good sign when the buyer kicks off negotiations asking the seller what the lowest price that they'll go for is. From there, it gets even worse when they're told about the lowest acceptable price and proceed to try and lowball that to oblivion. Check out some more choosing beggar madness with this choosing beggar who couldn't (or wouldn't?) grasp the meaning of a deposit.

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Text - Today 8:45 PM Hey man, you still have the MacBook Pro? Yeah What's the lowest you'll take? Lowest I'll go is $700

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Text - $200? Sure why not Ok where do you want to meet 101 main in Burlington in about 10 minutes? Sounds good Hey I'm here Cool, head inside

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Text - Into the comedy club? Yeah. Then head up on the stage and tell your jokes to somebody else Delivered iMessage é Pay

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Things That Grew Classier Over Time


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various things that grew classier over time. Definitely had no idea that lobsters were commonly fed to prisoners back in the day, and had a reputation for being the cockroaches of the sea. 

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Text - Vionrd • 6h Living or staying in the topmost floor. Before elevators were invented, people from the low class generally occupy the top floors while high-class people resided in lower floors. Reply 248 ...

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Text - Faith1_2 • 8h Being tan used to indicate you worked in the fields. Now it indicates you are wealthy enough to hang out and play tennis or whatever. Reply 449 ...

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Text - FiliaSecunda• 4h Reading novels. In the 1700s people thought it was something frivolous for flighty women that would rot your brain. Nowadays many people consider any reading at all better than TV or video games, the new brainrot bogeymen. (Though of course there are exceptions.) * Reply 108 ...

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Text - Vievin • 8h At least where I live, eating brown/black bread. It used to be the poor people's bread, the rich people ate white bread. It has flipped in the last decade, and now brown/ black bread is very popular among the rich for being healthy or something, and white bread is the poor people's bread. Reply 151 ...

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Text - Woodpecker_Live • 9h Champion brand clothes. That was the cheap Walmart brand in the 1990's. Reply 297 ...

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Text - M_Ad • 8h Until the late 1800s oysters were dirt cheap. In medieval times up to well into the 18th century even working class people at them in large quantities. Reply 86 ...

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Text - Prasiatko • 7h Maybe not trashy but when my mum was young they used to use kale as animal feed it was so cheap and nobody wanted to eat it. Now it's some kind of superfood apparently. Reply 106

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Text - jasenzero1 • 9h Eating lobster. Used to be so abundant it was fed to prisoners. Reply 249 VillyD • 9h It was known as the cockroach of the sea 86 ...

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Text - longliveniko • 5h Wearing vintage clothes/second hand. Years ago it was only for poor people. Reply 223 ...

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Text - PhoneJazz • 5h Living in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. Reply 25 ...

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Text - lionfish-ru • 7h rock-n-roll. remember that scene from back to the future ? Reply 1 70 ...

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Text - humanhomie • 5h Depending on the quality, fake Christmas trees. Used to be ugly no matter what and a real tree was considered so much better. Now they make some really pretty fake trees and a lot of people consider buying a real one an environmental no-no. At least, that's the mentality I grew up around. Reply 29 ...

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Text - gizmosbutu • 1h A well designed and executed and placed tattoo. Not too long ago, people with visible tattoos were passed up for job opportunities regardless of qualification because of any visible tattoo. I manage a Health Care IT shop so we are very visible be it site visits or Teams/Zoom meetings. I also have very visible tattoos as does half my staff. However, I've seen a shift in perception with clinical staff in the past decade and a half or so. We used to get told to wear long slee

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Text - wisedoormat • 9h fitness fashion, wearing gym clothes during daily activities. i think the classiness perception is from healthy lifestyles being associated with wealthier people and the quality of some fitness wear does indicate a certain budget. combined with the indication of time management.. having a job, a familiy, a social life, education... AND you're able to the gym and stop by for groceries on your way home? plus the colors, so colorful! Reply 394 ...

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Text - KMerrells • 3h Credit cards. Their use was pretty much restricted to poor people who were forced to use them because they didn't have enough money at the time. Now they're not only commonplace, but certain types of credit cards are seen as symbols of high status. Reply 1 12 ...

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Tom Cruise Accepting The Scientology Award


This feels like it could be scripted or something. It's too much cringe to be real life. Too much. 

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The Bee Gees Storm Out Of Interview


Sometimes enough is enough. The amount of cringe that ensues when they actually up and leave is pure, awkward gold. 

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Paramedic Mountain Response With A Jetpack


This is one of those videos that makes the whole flying cars and everyone continually immersed in a virtual reality world kind of future seem like it's already arrived. Just imagine being on that mountain and seeing that dude cruise by. It'd feel like you accidentally walked through some kind of time traveling portal. 

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Kid on Scooter Getting Chased By a Bird


Now this is what it's all about. Who knows what that bird wanted from that kid, but boy it wanted it bad. Pained screaming and utter freakout aside, props to that kid for staying on his scooter.

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Loud Neighbors Deprive Family Of Sleep, Kids Take Revenge


This is certainly not the first time that we've encountered a case of neighbors being loud and inconsiderate, and we doubt that it'll be the last. With that being said, this particular scenario brought into play some loud neighbors that insisted on being a sleep-robbing nuisance. So, the kids decided to be their personal, unwanted alarm clock. All in all, the perfect recipe for a successful petty revenge. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/wolfmutt • 2d + Join You want to deprive our whole culdesac of sleep for years with loud music in the middle of the night? Let us be your alarm clock in the morning. I'm bad at titles, excuse me. Since we were but smol babs, our neighbors, their kids and their friends have had this...lovely habit of either driving into or straight tearing into the neighborhood with no regard for the safety and well-being of themselves or the rest of us and blasting pop and rap music from

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Text - No surprise, they took their sweet time and sometimes no one was picked up or maybe even dropped off. So you can imagine the pure, overwhelming joy we experienced when we found out some of the drivers only came into the culdesac to lean out the window to briefly talk to someone, all while that their music practically rattled the foundation of our houses. Our dad, at the time (and still) can work late into the night and early into the morning, sometimes coming home in the middle of the nig

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Text - Sick and tired after so many nights and morning having been woken up by or kept awake...it was quiet now and we were alone. It was time. Now, we were still exhausted but we rarely had opportunities where we were alone (and less likely to get grounded by our parents.) as they were not home. And so, as the sun began to peek over the trees like a Midwestern version of the opening to The Lion King, we carried a radio out of the house and stood at the end of the guilty neighbors driveway.

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Text - Cranking up the volume as high as it would go, put in our chosen weapon (a cassete tape of bagpipe music) and flicked the music on an gently waking the whole house...and probably every other neighborhood for several blocks with the song of our people. (It was not our intention to involve innocent people but we were pretty young and hadn't completely thought the whole plan through.) our lack of a complete plan was made very apparent as the front door flew open and out ran the parents. Our

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Text - No surprise but the neighbors were all not too happy with us, though only the one family snitched. We got in so much trouble for that...grounded for weeks. But it was worth it. While the cars kept coming into the culdesac at all hours, they no longer played music. We had won. 2 1 O 2 1 2.2k 69 1 Share

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Precious Gems From The World Of Scottish Twitter


Ah, yes, good old Scottish Twitter. It's a world rich in culture, and more than half the time we honestly can't understand what they're trying to say. That doesn't mean that Scottish tweets aren't mad fun to try and read out loud. If you enjoyed this batch of precious gems from the world of Scottish Twitter, we recommend checking out more funnies from Scottish Twitter over here.

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Text - Harlot @sharpbyname8 Told my dad I had a missus yesterday and it went Me-dad am with someone. Da- right is he local? M- am with a girl D- sound is she local?

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Product - Beth Chisholm @bethchissi They treat their staff like shite, give u 15 min of a break for 9 hours work and if someone drives away withoot paying then it comes off yer wages PrettyLittleThing O @OfficialPLT · 2d OMG There's a service station in Scotland that does all these Slushies NISO TUBBEES

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Technology - Сосо @nicole_kennedyy MY DAD IS CANCER FREE !!! Congratul ou icked it Here 4ucking go

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Skin - spivs @spivs0 when yer da hears a packet of maltesers open in the back of the car 16:21 · 25/09/2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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Text - John Stewart @john_stewart4 If we go back into lockdown does that mean we aw need to start running 5K's again?

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Text - Lauryn @LaurynDow Does anyone else only get out eh bed in multiples of 0 or 5, like it gets to 07:21 n am like nah av missed it al get up at 07:25 or am a mad

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Text - James Bowes @bowesyy101 Why do I (18) have to pay £1400 a year car insurance on a 1.0 litre can of shite when partially blind Dianne (72) pays £160 a year for a 4.0 litre Volvo tank? Followed her to Tesco's today and 70% of the journey she was on the curb... but I'm the one who is more of a danger?

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Text - Daniel Leonard @Daniel_Leonard It's no even a hangover a get anymore it's more lit being a bawhair away fae becoming extinct. Solid 12 hours lying in bed trying to communicate wae god to see if he'll do me a favour n either wipe me out or square me up

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Text - jstaunt @JohnnyStaunt Had an absolute reggie blinker, bought Jane a north face jacket, thought it was a bargain at £70 , thought I was buying an 8-10 women's, turns out it was an ages 8-10. Told the girl in shop it was a bday present for my girlfriend too.

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Text - DEAN HALLIDAY. @INDYCAMP261115 Just laughed my head off. Seemingly there has been mass cancellation of TV licenses in Scotland and someone said if they come to your door tell them there are 6 people there already... brilliant 16:53 · 17/09/2020 · Twitter Web App 216 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 608 Likes

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