r/Prorevenge He Broke My Mailbox, So I Broke His Car

welcome to our slash Pro revenge we're a greedy landlord gets punished so I've gotten acquaintances Richard who has always been ugly I know better than you school of thought what makes it worse is that he literally received his PhD in physics from one of my country's top universities about six months ago so he's not a dummy the problem is that he thinks that because he's a physics genius that means he knows better than everyone about everything just an example my kids are in Montessori schools this is a decision my wife and I reached together and we're very happy with it when he heard he went on a 30-minute rant and lecture about how were throwing our money away and Montessori is nonsense when I told him that I had read and even professionally translated studies proving the opposite and gave him some real-world examples Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Sergey Brin Jeff Bezos Larry Page etc he still would not admit he might not be a hundred percent correct not the subject of this revenge but so you understand the person we're dealing with another thing that's important to note is that Richard does not have Asperger's or anything similar we joke about this all the time and he's been tested from here until next week he's just a really smart socially oblivious pain in the butt given all the above I try to limit my time with him but unfortunately that isn't always possible and last week we were both did the same barbecue for a friend Jack who was visiting back home from overseas I've known Jack since grade school so we brought our families and made it more than just a long time no see type of thing at some point later on in the afternoon my eldest about 10 years old came to me really sad and said she wanted to go home when I asked her why she said that Richard had just spent 15 minutes telling her that she shouldn't eat hot dogs because they're unhealthy and he explained what went into hot dogs and what they're made out of my kid is not a vegetarian and knows that beef and chicken she eats you used to be live animals and has never professed interest in vegetarianism at the same time when a kid is eating a hot dog they don't care or want to know what's inside we spoke a bit I calmed her down and I told her to ignore Richard and go play with her siblings and her friends being a kid she was thankfully easily distracted by something else and moved on I didn't want to make a fuss with jacker Richard so I just let it be this turned out to be a mistake about 30 minutes later I heard my kids scream and begin crying I ran over to her Richard had come up to her and knocked her hot dog out of her hand saying that she shouldn't eat that garbage I handed my kid over to my wife for damage control and I took Richard aside and told him that a you don't ever talk to a man's kids without permission B he don't ever teach a man's kids without permission and C you sure as hell don't ever touch a man's kids without permission he doesn't have kids so I still wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt this turned out to be a mistake instead of doing the mature thing and moving on he decided to double down on the hot dog issue this was the hill he was going to die on my kids shouldn't be eating hot dogs keeping Jack in mind I disengaged and told him to stay the F away from my family for the rest of the barbecue I kept my eye on him and he didn't come near them Jack enjoyed the party we all need some good meat into the story as far as I'm concerned this turned out to be a mistake a few days later we received a visit from a child protection officer who claimed that we were neglecting our kids specifically my eldest she came in and saw that while the house could have been cleaner what else with kids is spotless everything was fine she sat with my kid for a few minutes and asked her some questions said everything was fine and left the first thing I did was call a friend of mine who's a lawyer just to be on the safe side he said it looked to him like we were in the clear but we should keep in touch with him just in case next I began working the grapevine it turned out that Richard had been offended by how I treated him after the hot dog incident so he filed a false anonymous report being Richard and never thinking he could ever be wrong he was even talking about it as if people should be proud out of him for what he did I had to make sure though so the last thing I did before dropping the hammer on him was confronting him personally I set my phone to record and went to his house he doubled down yet again saying we were torturing my kid he's the one who called Protective Services on us and he do it again in a heartbeat this turned out to be a mistake I'm not the violent type but I swear I wanted to break the son of a bit in half I told him that if he ever came near myself or anyone in my family again I'd have a restraining order put on him and I'd make sure every single one of our shared acquaintances knew why I listened to the recording in my car and his admission that he filed a false report came out clear as day I immediately forwarded to my lawyer who said I'll get the ball rolling with some of his friends with the public prosecutor to see if we could get Richard in trouble using his admission still waiting on that the wheels of justice turn slowly sometimes then I enacted my actual revenge see after he got his ph.d Richard bragged about the new flat he'd be moving into as soon as he sold his current flat to that end he renovated most of his current flat including putting in lots of new and expensive features that required lots of electrical work he did the same on his new flat he did most of the electrical work himself which is a big no-no unless you're licensed I called him an inspector on both of his flats who asked to see certification on who did the electrical work obviously there was no certification it wouldn't surprise me if Richard being Richard he began arguing with the inspector that his work was good enough and he didn't need to pay someone else to do it for him I haven't seen or spoken to Richard since but I've heard that he had to bring in a certified electrician to examine every single change he made in both flats this meant dismantling everything and having it inspected turns out the buyers of his old flat weren't happy with the delay in receiving the keys and were even unhappier when they learned why there was a delay they walked away from the deal and are taking him to court because his sale fell through he's now in the hole paying mortgages on to flats I don't know if there was a fine levied against him but I sure as hell hope so lesson of the story you don't ever with a man's kids Opie you said that Richard doesn't have kids so you wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt I don't have a kid and I'm smart enough to know that you don't come up to other people's kids and slap food out of their mouths I mean do you want to get beaten up because that's how you get beaten up our next reddit post is from some huge friggin guy so I live in a quiet little town in the Midwestern United States my house is the last house at the end of a sleepy little dead-end road a new guy moves in next door let's call him dick dick was probably one of those guys who was so popular in high school that he thought he had it made without doing any work and tried to spend the rest of his life living off being the cool guy the type of guy who drives a lifted truck and a motorcycle don't get me wrong I ride motorcycles myself what I don't do is sit in my driveway at 2:00 a.m. and Rev my engine there's a bit of a downhill slope from the middle of the street to our houses at the end and dick likes to race down this hill then lock his brakes and drift into his driveway the first winter after he moved in I noticed that my mailbox has been crushed and there's fresh tire tracks in the snow leading down the street over my mailbox and into his driveway a few days later I see dick standing outside and asked about this he denies the entire thing says he doesn't know what happened to my mailbox and that it must have been a delivery guy or something I figured whatever and fix my mailbox a few months later the same thing happens again I fixed my mailbox and move on sometime later this happens yet again this time I'm pretty pissed so I talked to my cousin who's a commercial welder and had him make a mailbox out of some scrap quarter-inch steel plate which was mounted on a length of old railroad track for its post a little bit of glue and some cedar shingles and you'd never know it wasn't a typical wooden mailbox also the railroad track post was sunken concrete four feet into the ground for the next several weeks I waited with anticipation every time I heard his truck roaring down the street but nothing until about five months later when I heard his truck then a crash by this time I'd forgotten about my mailbox and thought for sure he'd struck another car I ran out to the street to see if anyone needed help and there was his truck a broadside against my mailbox all smashed up he saw me walk up and started yelling about how I had destroyed his truck and he'd make me pay and he called the cops a cop showed up to take his report and dick pointed out how my mailbox has been specifically designed to destroy his truck I gotta admit I got nervous at this point the cop looked around at the truck and the construction of the mailbox then turned back to us and asked me if I'd had trouble with my mailbox before I explained how it's been smashed several times in the past year the cop then said it's pretty clear what's happened here this is an obvious case of one destruction of property my heart sunk to the ground and dick got a smug look on his face but then the cop turns to dick and says I'm gonna issue a citation for this as well as reckless driving you should have seen dicks face at this point he was boiling with rage as the cop wrote him two tickets and told him he needed to pay for the repairs of the damaged wood to my mailbox the metal was fine hadn't even tilted it but the wood came a flaw had broken off then we have this word from PSX down in the comments we used to have high school kids who would play mailbox baseball on our remote country road they destroyed it once and then my dad rebuilt it was steel played sides covered in wood the guy's tried it again a week or so later they were using a metal baseball bat it bounced off this deal took out their back window they swerved ran in and out of the ditch busted a headlight ripped part of the bumper off and then booked it out of there my dad went to the school parking lot the next Monday found the car that matched the parts left behind and called the cops I think they got ticketed and had to pay for all the other mailboxes they destroyed the kid swinging the bat had a broken finger and effed up wrists that I think he said was from football and totally not from smashing mailboxes then we have yet another story from stunts the runs I had a co-worker who bought a nice house but it was on a corner bend in a road in the new neighborhood people in lifted trucks kept driving over her nice corner lawn dumb since they had to drive over a sidewalk - it was an oil town so lots of lifted douche trucks who can't drive for crap in the winter she did something similar to you except it was large boulders large enough to persuade someone to never drive there again but small enough to get hidden by this snow also they added some nice featuring to the rather large empty lawn at least I thought so sure enough next summer her lawn was able to thrive since damaged during the winter had ended so no spring injury healing time was needed I'm also sure that many mechanics made some nice cash repairing chassis damage a few dips and mufflers and we have yet another story from the mighty Sandusky Hell I unfortunately did this in high school it was Halloween and we had a pumpkin and we decided that something awesome needed to be done with it I was driving around 45 miles per hour and my buddy thought it would be cool to chuck it at a mailbox he saw a brick mailbox and decided it would be a good target look sturdy and a pumpkin explosion would be cool to see right nope the mailbox burst into pieces and I stopped to check the damage the homeowner came outside and I told him what we did and that I would pay for its replacement he wasn't too upset to my surprise I told him I had a bunch of bricks at my house tore down my fireplace and chimney with my dad during an addition to our house and he said just bring it by and we'll make it work spent the afternoon with him building a mailbox and then grabbed a burger and he shared with me all the dumb stuff he did as a kid lesson learned to admit to an F up most of the time it's way better than lying about it our next reddit post is from moderate extremists I had just moved cross-country for a job with my girlfriend and found a nice apartment in the suburbs building was nice staff see fine everything seemed in order after unloading all our boxes and organizing clothes on the floor we decided to take a break and grab dinner in the middle of our meal I got a call from the building saying we had a fire in our apartment later found out a sprinkler pipe burst and triggered a fire alarm I rush back to find 4 to 5 inches of water and a massive hole in the ceiling leaking water everywhere all of my stuff was ruined including all my clothes my piano multiple computers electronics everything was gone I did have renter's insurance but found myself living out of a hotel until the repairs were made fast forward two weeks I'm still living out of a hotel after the building claimed they would have my place fixed in a week I go in to inspect the place and there's black mold all over the walls and ceilings obviously not a livable space even after repairs I'm communicating with a property manager who keeps brushing me off and saying everything will be fine it won't take much longer I mentioned breaking my lease and she snaps claiming I have no grounds to do that and they'll sue me if I do so I work in digital marketing in real estate actually I have a follow-up meeting with her boss in an hour and decide to do some research into their URL their website name is the full name of the residents which is pointlessly long I find that dotnet available for purchase as well as multiple iterations of shorter URLs which presumably have higher search volumes I spend 50 bucks and buy them all up then I call a lawyer buddy and talk to him about how to use language that will avoid sounding like extortion if I make them buy these back I walk into the meeting and tell the general manager that I went out of the lease immediately I also say that I want my time off work to be compensated compensated for all meals and given a few thousand dollars for the inconvenience of living out of a hotel for weeks she literally laughs in my face and tells me I have no legal grounds that's when the most satisfying moment of my life happens I slide over that Whois information of all the URLs she doesn't understand what she's looking at I tell her I purchased these domain names for this property I'm planning on building a website that explains my story and including links to your local competitors for free on the home page at the site I let her know what I do for a living and hand over a search engine optimization audit I pulled for free on the internet of their current site and explained their poor performance I let her know I'll have this website outperforming them within a matter of months with links to competitive properties and my story at the top her face drops and she's white as a ghost she has me wait while she gets her lawyer on the phone I explain everything to the lawyer being very very careful with the language I use we settle on $5,000 for all the websites no bad reviews ever and they break the lease a week later when the check comes in I transfer the domains to a very confused IT person who wants to know why I have URLs of their company name the lesson in all of this why could renter's insurance and don't let landlords push you around then someone down in the comments asks how on earth this was an extortion and opie replies I couldn't say do this or I'll do that I had to say if I'm satisfied with your offer to break the lease I'll hand over the URLs as an act of good faith it seems minor but apparently that's how you cover your but then Waluigi is the real hero ads this response while a court could still construe what you said as a threat that would be down to the individual judges interpretation of what your state's law requires for extortion the advice you were given basically amounts to wording your demands such that there isn't an explicit quid pro quo you can't say do X and I won't do Y you have to break the causal link by wording it the way you did you create no obligation on your part regardless of whether they make things right you might not be satisfied with their offer and you could still retain the URLs you've offered them nothing more than an opportunity to do the right thing it helps to think of it like contract law in contract law you'd have to have an offer acceptance and an exchange of consideration to form a valid contract if you offer the url's in exchange for breaking the lease you're definitively offering something of value aka consideration that will be exchanged this would be akin to forming a binding contract and would likely constitute enough of a threat for extortion purposes on the other hand if you say what you said if I'm satisfied with your offer to break the lease I'll hand over the url's is an act of good faith then there's no exchange of considerations since you're not promising or agreeing to exchange anything of value you could walk away after the lease was broken and keep the url's and you wouldn't be liable for anything that calls a link between actions is one of the deciding factors in determining whether something is a threat or not so always remember if you're gonna commit extortion be very careful with the words you use that was our slash bro revenge and if you liked this video then please let me know by hitting that like button because it really helps my channel

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Published: Sat Mar 14 2020