35 Creative and Highly Satisfying Acts of Revenge

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35 Creative and Highly Satisfying Acts of Revenge

Who doesn’t love a good comeuppance story? Karma coming back around to bite some wrongdoer in the behind is always a crowd pleaser, so we’re expecting this list to skyrocket to the most-read list in the history of the site. Don’t let us down!

It’s got it all — the scorning, the inception of the plot, then the all-important follow-through! These wronged folks did what we wish we could do, so today, we satisfied onlookers commend them for it.

Bullying

Over 16 months, 40-year-old Japanese man Shigeta Miura sent 70 packages containing around 500 junk items, including old ladies' underwear, dirt, and other junk, to four of his former bullies from school. - .. .... - BEAN .... DE UN - .... Alacem there ... - الاعل م POST JAPAN POST His method was rather genius. Не mailed to random addresses without stamps, writing the bullies' addresses as the senders, so that the packages would be returned to them. GRAGKED.COM

David Bowie

David Bowie went from '70s freak to '80s megastar out of spite. Specifically, he did it to spite his former manager, who was contractually entitled to take 50% of Bowie's royalties until 1982. Between 1976 and 1980, Bowie made the most intentionally uncommercial records of his career. Then, as soon as the contract expired, he released the pop-est album imaginable, Let's Dance. It sold 10 million copies and made him a multimillionaire. GRAGKED.COM Marc Spitz, 2009 Bowie: A Biography

George Lucas

For 25 years, George Lucas tried to build a production studio on his Marin County property. His neighbors continually blocked the project, whining that it would ruin their everything. So Lucas sold the property for use as a low-iNCOME HOUSING pRojEct. CRACKED.COM http://www.

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35 Creative and Highly Satisfying Acts of Revenge

Todd Stave

Todd Stave is a Massachusetts landlord who received harassing phone calls over the abortion clinic on his property. Protesters would phone his home at all hours, spewing colorful threats at Stave and his family. SO stavE RESPONdEd WitH HiS OWN PHONE CaMpaiGN. Every caller who bothered the Staves would receive a polite return call, thanking them for their prayers and politely reiterating Stave's intention to keep the clinic running. From each volunteer helping the Staves. Because of the widespread support for the clinic, a caller could receive 5,000 return calls. GRAGKED.COM http://www. washingtonpost com/local/a-clinics-landlord-tumns- the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/g(QAThgwiS_story.htm/

The Civil War

Before Arlington became a national cemetery, it was the home of Robert E. Lee. When Lee defected to the Confederate Army, he and his wife abandoned Arlington House, the mansion they called home. Meigs Lee Hardcore unionist Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, a former colleague of Lee's, decided that the ultimate vengeance on Lee for leading the Confederate Army was to fill his property with dead bodies. GRACKED COM http:/swww smithsonianmag

My Pet Bear

When Lord Byron went to Cambridge, he wanted to bring his dog. Не was told he couldn't. Apparently the rules of Trinity College specifically forbade dogs on campus. SO HE bouGHt a bEaR. Не brought the bear with him to Cambridge, because there were exactly no rules against bears. CRACKED.COM http://www.praxxis. CO ukicredebyron/menagerie.htm

Stephen King

In 1999, Stephen King was struck and severely injured by a minivan driven by a man named Bryan Smith. King ended up with Smith kept his a fractured hip, a leg license, got a broken in nine six-month suspended places, eight chips sentence, and in his spine, four described the event broken ribs, and 30 as an accident stitches to his scalp. without a cause. KiNG'S REVENGE: Не bought Smith's minivan for the express purpose of smashing it up with a sledgehammer. Then he wrote a character named Bryan Smith into his Dark Tower series. Like the real Smith, he

Vermont

Prisoners in a Vermont correctional facility print shop were tasked with printing decals for the state police cars. VERMONT STATE POLICE SO tHEy addEd a piG. It actually took the police a year to notice it was there. GRACKED.COM http://www bostonglobe com/opinion/editorials/2012/02/09/vermont-prank- don-have-cow-man/FW5Xb9WFIHm Vqj6ts9ZTyl/story.htm/?campspm

Jennifer Fitzgerald

After a bad breakup, Jennifer Fitzgerald's ex-boyfriend bought a car in her name without her knowledge, then parked it at Chicago O'Hare Airport. MENTE CIELO 9 It was there for two years, getting over 600 tickets and racking up over $100,000 in fines. GRAGKED.COM

Harlan Ellison

GRAGKED.COM During a contract dispute, legendary author Harlan Ellison had 213 bricks mailed to a publishing company, one by one. Не followed up with a dead gopher. Each package was received postage due. That is, the recipient pays.

Frank Ocean

To get back at Def Jam for not helping with his debut album, Frank Ocean made a video album of himself building a staircase for 45 minutes, called Endless, ending his two-album contract with the label. CAXOM Не then released his real second album, Blonde, the very next day with Apple. CRACKED.COM

Harry Macklowe

Property mogul Harry Macklowe had to split his $2 billion fortune with his wife after their divorce. Не got back at her by putting giant pictures of himself and his new wife on an apartment building his ex was buying. CRACKED.COM

Corina Kavanagh

CRACKED.COM When her engagement to a member of Buenos Aires' aristocratic Anchorena KAVANAGH BUILDING, 1936 family was thwarted- Corina Kavanagh built a 33 story building to block the family's view of their private church.

Daphne Todd

British portrait painter Daphne Todd took slow-burn revenge on a subject. She made a four-hour roundtrip during the Christmas holidays to do one guy's portrait, but he didn't want to get out of bed. So, when she finally started painting, she painted devil horns under his hair. They'll become visible as the top layer of paint fades over decades. CRACKED.COM

Airbnb

After a woman's neighbors reported her to the city for illegally renting out her house on Airbnb, she painted her house bright pink with emojis to spite them. Now they're trying to figure out whether the emoji house violates any rules. CRACKED.COM

Colorful Homes

After his father filed a lawsuit that would force him to sell his $500,000 home, a man from Florida decided to give the property a vibrant makeover. Не didn't just splash paint around. Не took rollers and worked every corner. Who IS 1 OMAR? CRACKED.COM

Tim Martin

CRACKED.COM Tim Martin was told by his teacher that he'd never be successful in business, so he created a huge pub chain in the teacher's name. Wetherspoon now has over 800 outlets all around the UK and Ireland.

John Cleese

John Cleese stuck it to his ex-wife by doing a comedy tour called The Alimony Tour and insulting her several times during each show. STUDIOS - JOHN CLEESE LIVE THE ALIMONY TOUR 2011 1° EVER LIVE DVD! DVD CRACKED.COM

Telemarketers

Roger Anderson achieved his revenge against telemarketers by creating the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, a subscription-based chatbot designed to waste telemarketers' time. golly Roger TELEPHONE C° S SC LN bay Programmed with snippets of his own voice, Anderson now has thousands of subscribers who stick it to telemarketers with bots like Crazy Mazy, which holds the bragging rights for a record 45-minute conversation. CRACKED.COM

Forgery

Don Trachte Jr. forged a Norman Rockwell painting to keep his wife from getting it in their THE ORIGINAL divorce. The forged version of Breaking Home Ties hung in a museum until Trachte died, when his sons found the original behind a false wall in his THE FORGERY home. CRACKED.COM

Burial Plots

After Aline Lawlor Coker had a falling-out with her brother, she bought the 262 available plots in their local cemetery SOLD to prevent him from being buried with the rest of the family. CRACKED.COM

Rick Rolled

My cousin stayed with us for the weekend and made a big mess of my room. So I took his iPod while he was asleep and replaced the songs on his playlist with Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up then changed the song titles and artists to match the ones he originally had on his playlist. Не was stuck with the song for his whole trip back home. CRACKED.COM

Hidden Barcodes

My roommate kept snooping around my stuff and rummaging through my drawers, just because. So I put a barcode in her handbag, making sure an alarm went off every time she walked in or out of a store. She went through months of frustration before she figured it out. CRACKED.COM

Garbage

| had a neighbor who held frequent, way-too-loud parties, during which trash was thrown over the fence and into my yard So I collected all of my trash for the CRACKED.COM month and shoved it in his mail slot while he wasn't home

Spam

My sister was being harrassed In by one of her coworkers... acks Spansol email to subscribe him to ete I used that guy's work literally thousands of newsletters of adult sites. I knew it was his only way of contacting his clients, and got it spammed to death with porn.

Besties

CRACKED.COM About a week before my best friend and I were supposed to get matching friendship tattoos, I learned that she had been trying to hook up with my boyfriend. I pretended to be none the wiser and on the big day, I let her go first. I waited until halfway through her tattoo then left. We haven't spoken since.

That’s A Wrap

My brother put salt in my tea... so I DID THIS CRACKED COM

Coins

CRACKED.COM IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THERE WAS THIS KID WHO WOULD CONSTANTLY MAKE FUN OF EVERYONE AND CALL US NAMES. BECAUSE OF THIS, I GOT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PASSING A JAR IN WHICH НЕ WOULD HAVE TO PUT A DIME EVERY TIME НЕ SAID OR DID SOMETHING MEAN. THING IS... THE JAR WAS MY IDEA, THE TEACHER DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT. AND I WALKED AWAY WITH 15 BUCKS AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

The Art Department

While at school, I spent a lot of time in the Art Department building. The upper floor was a dorm, and the boys who lived there would bully the younger students because they had no live-in resident teacher to keep them in line. The electricity for the building was run from a single electrical panel downstairs, so several times a week I would flick their power off long enough to screw up their alarm clocks... and on at least one memorable occasion I left them without power overnight. CRACKED.COM

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Nanny’s Revenge

I used to nanny for 2 teenaged girls. One long weekend one of the girls intentionally ruined an outing that her sister was excited about because she wanted to stay home and video chat with her boyfriend. So, when we got back to their house I unplugged the router to the internet. CRACKED.COM

Neighbors

My next door neighbor had a little dog that constantly dug under my fence to drop landmines in my yard. When diplomacy failed to convince them to keep their dog at home, I declared WAR and deployed artillery. A few volleys later and they sued for peace. CRACKED.COM

Clogged Drains

My long-haired roommate never noticed when the shower drain got plugged up. I didn't notice when a clump ON 24 55 of his drain hair S GOLD STANDARD WHEY got into his 100% RELATES PRIMARY TEARIT 73 KBC KING protein powder. GRACKED.COM

Cigarettes

CRACKED.COM I WAS IN A GROUP AT A PARTY, AND PASSED MY CIGARETTE TO A BUDDY. THE PERSON TO HIS LEFT BUMMED IT FROM HIM, AND so ON- THROUGH EIGHT PEOPLE. WHEN THE SOGGY BUTT CAME BACK AROUND TO ME, I ASKED HEY, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM THAT I HAVE A HERPES SORE INSIDE MY LIP, RIGHT? IDIDN'T, BUT THE GROUP'S MOMENT OF PANIC WAS DELICIOUS.

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