There’s nothing like the feeling of getting your own back, or hearing stories of terrible people who got their just desserts! However, some people have taken their revenge plots way too far, but in a way we all just can’t get enough of. From cheaters who had their lives completely ruined, to immortalizing the deed with tattoos, here are even more stories of people who conducted some nuclear level revenge!
On A High
On YouTube, we asked our subscribers to send us their own revenge stories. And they have a lot of stories. While they were all pretty good, a few were on another level, like this next one that came from Tracy in the UK.
Tracy's husband Gary is employed at a local steelworks, and one of his workmates, who we’ll call Derek, enjoyed playing pranks, like, really enjoyed it. He’d superglue cups to tables, put hot sauce or salt in people’s drinks while they weren’t looking, fill their safety boots with mud, pretty juvenile stuff.
But then one day, he lined the inside of Gary’s safety helmet with glue, so when he went to take it off, he couldn’t! Eventually, Gary ended up having to cut his hair to get the helmet off, leaving him with no option but to shave the rest of his head! That was the last straw. Gary thought long and hard about how to get Derek back, but there were only two things Derek really loved: pulling pranks, and his motorbike. He loved that motorbike so much, it was his pride and joy, and he rode it to work every single day, and that’s when Gary came up with an ingenious scheme. That Friday, he approached one of the site’s crane operators, another man who was all too familiar with Derek’s pranks, and asked him for a favor. Would he use the crane to pick up Derek’s bike and leave it on top of their building? The crane operator happily agreed to, no questions asked!
When the end of the day came around, the crane operators made a swift exit before Derek came out to the parking lot and saw his precious bike had vanished. At first he thought it’d been stolen, and it was only when he saw his workmates pointing and laughing at the bike on the roof that he figured out what had happened. But because all the crane operators had already left, there was no way to get it down.
He had to spend the entire weekend without his precious bike, racking up expensive taxi fares to get around. When he came in the following Monday, he was fuming, petulantly demanding someone get it down and pay for all his taxi fares. But, unimpressed at his antics, the crane operators refused and left it up there! He begged them, pleaded with them, but apparently, it’s still up there! When it’s eventually brought down, we don’t imagine Derek will be keen to start pranking again!
Don’t I Do it!
In western weddings, traditionally, the father of the bride pays for everything. However, the father of the bride in this next story, sent in to us by a viewer of our YouTube channel called Paul, paid for more than he ever bargained for. Paul’s ex-army buddy, who we’ll call Pete, was about to be married; mainly because his would-be father-in-law had obsessively pestered him about "making an honest woman" of his daughter.
Pete’s fiancé, Rebecca, had some expensive wedding plans, and her father was happy to pay for it all! However, during her bachelorette party, Rebecca drunkenly admitted to her friends she’d cheated on Pete, and not just once, but more times than she could remember!
News of this eventually reached Paul, and, like a good friend, he immediately told Pete what he’d heard. He was expecting Pete to have a major reaction to this, but he started laughing! It turned out, Pete had suspected Rebecca had been unfaithful for a while and had hired a private investigator to follow her! The truth, he assured Paul, would all come out in good time. The wedding eventually rolled round, and the bride and groom were placing the rings on each other’s fingers, but when Rebecca said "I do", Pete replied "I don’t!" He then turned to the hundreds of guests and asked them all to look under their seats. There, they all found packets containing photos of Rebecca smooching other men!
While everyone was gasping and shouting at Rebecca, Pete and his groomsmen, who were all in on the plot, grabbed several bottles of champagne from the bar and slipped out. With military precision, they made a beeline for Pete’s family home, quickly removing all of Rebecca’s possessions and dumping them in the yard before changing the locks. He technically did make an honest woman of her, in that he showed everyone she was honestly a cheater!
Deep Water
Landlords. Some are good, some are bad and some are just plain evil. But if you’ve ever had to live under a bad landlord, a story from 14 years ago belonging to a now deleted reddit user, who we’ll call Angela, might make all that rent money feel well spent!
Back in the day, Angela rented a flat which was owned by a cheapskate landlord. He’d skimp on repairs, paint over mold, raise rents whenever he could, you know, the typical scumbag subspecies of landlord. After raising the rent for the 3rd time in a single year, Angela decided to move out. On the last day of her lease, she’d cleaned up and removed the last of her belongings by 1pm. However, the landlord had told her to be out of the apartment by noon, and used this as grounds to keep her entire security deposit; some $1200!
Angela was seething, but instead of fighting him on it, she decided to bide her time. 6 months later, in the dead of night, Angela dropped by her old apartment building. Without anyone around, she located an outdoor faucet that she’d seen a few times on a set of stairs leading to the building’s basement, and turned it on. Water began pouring down the steps and into the basement; a room that was off limits to residents as the landlord claimed he was using it for his own personal storage, namely for electronics and supplies for another business he ran. Then Angela simply walked off.
She moseyed past the building a few days later, and noticed the faucet was still on; a deep pool of water now swamping the door. Clearly the landlord hadn’t been around in a while, because his basement storage room was completely flooded, undoubtedly ruining everything, including the tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics, he had stored down there! You can wonder if he skimped out on those repairs?
Let It Go
They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but you’d argue it’s best served frozen, if reddit user AQuietBoarderline’s Uncle’s story is anything to go by! Uncle Dale was a senior engineer at a small firm in the US, and while not in his job description, he was also the one who organized the office parties. He left a tin box with a slit in the top outside his office which people could leave money in to donate to the firm’s party fund.
He’d seen plenty of co-workers popping bills into it, but when he went to check the box one month, it was empty! Someone had stolen the donations! But this engineer preferred to solve problems rather than just report them, so he came up with a plan.
He secretly rigged the box up to a hidden doorbell camera, then loudly announced someone had been kind enough to donate $100 to the party fund! A few minutes later, the doorbell camera app pinged on his phone. The footage showed Brad, the owner’s nephew who also worked at the firm, sneaking up to the box and opening it, before realizing there was nothing inside it and guiltily slinking away. Dale could have sent the incriminating footage to the owner, but no. Dale knew the footage didn’t actually prove anything, and he wanted to teach this nepo baby a lesson he’d never forget! So, Dale asked some of the firm’s engineering students to create a box that, when opened, would play the loudest, most obnoxious noise possible. They quickly put together a box that not only blared the popular Disney Song ‘Let it go!’ from the film Frozen at full volume when opened, but they also made sure it wouldn’t stop until the lid was closed, and you could only do that by hitting a hidden switch at the back. Dale then proudly glued the box down to the table with industrial strength glue, shut the lid, and then loudly announced that someone had kindly donated $50, before walking away.
A short while later, the deafening tune from Frozen suddenly blared through the office, and people gathered to see what was up. Everyone, including Brad’s uncle, came to look and watched as Brad was desperately trying to close the box lid, but to no avail. The thief had been caught red-handed, and in full view of the boss!
15 minutes later, Brad had packed up all of this things and been kicked out of the office. His uncle had also left a note in his file stating "Do not re-hire. Do not recommend". So just like that, this nepo baby’s easy career path, along with any hopes he ever had of becoming an engineer, were over! If only he’d let it go!
The Early Bird
In our opinion, the worst kind of thieves are food thieves! Luckily, another person who wrote in, called Virika, enacted revenge on a food thief that was so vile, she made sure they’d never touch her snacks ever again.
Back when Virika was a student, she shared accommodation with another student called Sophie, who, it turned out, didn’t understand basic manners. Virika had spent an afternoon baking cookies, but as they were cooling, Sophie snaffled the entire tray and went to eat them in her room.
When Virika found only the crumbs were left, she was furious. And annoyingly, this would happen often, with most of Virika’s baking ending up being sneakily gobbled down by her greedy flatmate. Virika told her to stop, but Sophie repeatedly ignored her. So, Virika decided to do something she wouldn’t be able to ignore. She made another batch of cookies, only this time she added huge fistfuls of dried mealworms into the dough. It's already gross, but it's doubly gross for Sophie, because she was a strict vegetarian! Virika then baked them and, as per usual, left them out to cool. And, right on cue, Sophie came in, snatched up the whole plate and disappeared into her room! It was only when she was down to the last few cookies that Virika marched into her room and told her she’d actually eaten close to half a pound of mealworms. Sophie’s face dropped and she started screaming.
She ran to the bathroom, and all Virika heard for the next few hours were the sounds of retching and heaving. Eventually, Sophie emerged, her entire face bloodshot from puking so hard! Virika’s baked goods never went missing after that!
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Spider Hider
Alright, if there are any arachnophobes out there, it's recommendable to skip ahead to the next story because this one that was sent in from Wild Bill will send shivers up your spine. Many years ago, when Bill was just 10, his older sister spilled a glass of milk all over a carpet in their house, and then blamed Bill for it. Despite his protests, Bill was punished by his mom, and then all the family put the incident behind them. All of them except Bill, that was.
One day, he was at the local arcade, and after winning a whole bunch of tickets he saw in exchange for a single ticket, he could get a cheap plastic spider toy. Suddenly a brilliant revenge plot came to mind! For two weeks he visited the arcade, and traded all his tickets for as many fake spiders as possible. By the end, he had hundreds of the things, and began hiding them all over his house. This sounds pretty harmless, but both Bill’s sister and mother were severe arachnophobes, not just a bit scared of spiders, but mortally afraid. So, whenever either of them found one of the plastic arachnids, they’d scream and shriek like there was no tomorrow. Bill’s reign of terror continued for several weeks, and he hid these things everywhere, in their beds, their clothes, their food cupboards. After a few weeks, his sister got used to the pranks, merely calling her brother stupid whenever she found another one. And that’s when he enacted the final part of his plan. The entire time he’d been pranking his mom and sister, he’d secretly been catching a whole bunch of real spiders and kept them in a jar, and now it was time to release them, all over his sister’s bed. After the jar was empty, he went downstairs, turned on the TV and waited. He heard his sister walk into her room, and it wasn’t long before she yelled down “God, you’re so immature!”. Bill could only assume what happened next was she went to remove the spiders on her bed thinking they were plastic when she suddenly realized they were all real!
She screamed so loud their mom ran upstairs, thinking something serious had happened. Moments later, both Bill’s mom and sister were shrieking like banshees, and ran out of the house. Bill took his sweet, sweet time removing the remaining spiders from the bed, but his mom and sister were both so horrendously traumatized by the incident that neither of them would step foot in that room ever again! All of that over some spilled milk.
Tattoo Far
Playing a prank on your partner is funny for reasons you just cannot explain, for example, one woman in the UK pranked her partner in 2019 by giving him a bad haircut. They both found it funny as they’d been pranking each other like this for over 20 years, and it grew back in a couple of weeks; no harm, no foul!
However, her partner wanted to really get his own back, but not by cutting her hair, or doing anything to her at all. No. Instead he decided to get a picture of her, not a nice one, an unflattering one where she was asleep. Pretty funny, but he wasn’t done there because he then got that unflattering picture tattooed on himself, really bringing out all the details! Now that is commitment to the revenge! At first
his wife was absolutely furious, but eventually came round to see the funny side of it.
Way Tattoo Far
Getting a tattoo as a form of revenge is a hilarious, albeit permanent, way to go about it. But sometimes it really gets the message across, as TikTok user Modern Day Angel knows all too well. Being covered head to toe in tattoos, he would occasionally attract pretty mean comments from other TikTok users, including a particularly nasty one from a user called Max. but we all know the golden rule: on the internet, never feed the trolls.
At first, Modern Day Angel looked like he was going to let it slide, however, Max had left his Facebook account linked to his TikTok, and Modern Day Angel found a post Max had written dedicated to the passing of his father. So, Modern Day Angel did what any rational
man seeking revenge on a silly little troll would do, he got the picture of Max’s dad tattooed on his thigh, next to the Grim Reaper.
That is a level of disrespect we didn’t even know existed! Guess Max’s dad is with the angels now, well, a modern day angel, at least!
Revenge Fail
We usually only cover stories of nuclear revenge that succeed, but we want to talk about one which backfired so badly it made major news headlines all over the world! David and Ina Steiner, a couple who live in the US state of Massachusetts, own a blog called eCommerceBytes, and regularly publish articles on eCommerce news.
Back in 2019, Ina published a story on the blog covering a lawsuit being brought against the auction site eBay, criticizing the company heavily. You’d think eBay, being a major corporation, would barely take notice of one relatively small blog, but it did. So, much so that eBay’s CEO at the time, the actual CEO of a $22 billion company, David Wenig, instructed his staff to take the Steiner’s down. Soon, the Steiners began receiving things they’d never ordered, and not nice things. There was a funeral wreath, a book on how to deal with the loss of a spouse, a grizzly pig mask, $70 worth of weird pizza, and even live spiders and cockroaches! But that wasn’t all. The eBay executives bombarded the couple with hate from fake social media accounts, sent them threats, and even physically stalked them, going as far as trying to plant a GPS tracker on their car! This is revenge overkill even by my standards! What were they expecting to happen?
Couple speaks out about alleged harassment by eBay executives | GMA by Good Morning America It turned out this was all part of what the executives called a "White Knight Strategy" when the Steiners eventually contacted eBay about all the hate they were receiving in relation to their coverage of eBay, eBay responded that they’d officially help the couple tackle these crazy stalkers manipulating them into running good coverage of eBay, even though they were the ones harassing them! So, what was their undoing? The pizza. Believe it or not, after police began investigating this cyberstalking, they discovered a gift card was used to pay for the pizzas which had been bought in Silicon Valley, just a few miles from the eBay Headquarters. A rental car also spotted following the couple had a license plate that was traced back to the same area. It was at this point the police got the FBI and eBay’s own lawyers involved, which the executives hadn’t expected. They matched all the fake social media accounts, threatening parcel deliveries, and stalking to some of eBay’s Safety and Security Unit because none of them had been smart enough to think it would ever actually be traced back to them! By November 2022, seven employees were sentenced collectively to more than 100 months of prison time for their roles in
the crazy plot. However, CEO David Wenig stepped down as CEO in September 2019, and was not charged. So remember kids, if you’re going to try and enact a complicated revenge plot, make sure you have a bunch of minions to take the fall.
Pins & Needles
While some acts of revenge take time and patience to plan out, spur of the moment revenge can be just as effective, as reddit user rottinmongrel, who we’ll call Mike, once proved.
When Mike was in grade school, he usually kept a bag of chips in the side pocket of his backpack. The only problem was another kid, who we’ll call Dave, noticed this, and Dave was a major douchebag. He would quietly walk over and punch Mike right where his chip pocket was, destroying the chips and bursting the bag, leaving a mess for Mike to clean up. For 5 days in a row, Dave did this any chance he got, and Mike was powerless to stop him. At least he was until he got a wicked idea. He turned up to school the following week, and right on cue Dave punched the backpack pocket as hard as he could. But when his fist hit the bag, he suddenly jumped backwards screaming in agony! His hand was mangled, and he was rushed to the nurses office.
It turned out Mike had emptied out the chips from the packet, and replaced them with sewing needles! That’s sadistic! Realizing he’d get in trouble for hitting a fellow student, Dave didn’t tell anyone what had really happened, but he stayed away from Mike from then on. Finally, Dave could eat his chips in peace, and all it took was some light mutilation!
Shrimply the Best
Have you ever been cheated on? It sucks but it’s also why this story of revenge from a now deleted reddit user makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
Back in 2022, this woman, who we’ll call Beth, was living happily with her boyfriend, who we’ll call John, of 4 years in an apartment he owned in London in the UK. She’d been studying really hard to get her Master’s degree, and for a few months she’d been spending every waking moment on her thesis. So initially, she didn’t notice when John would come home later than expected, or began spending more time out of the apartment. Then, one day after she’d finally finished, she decided to book them both a little vacation as a treat! She logged into her account for a hotel chain she regularly used, and suddenly noticed there were several bookings for a hotel in London that she hadn’t made, one of which was booked for that very day.
She quickly rang up the concierge and asked what was going on. Confused, they informed her that 2 people had just checked in with her booking, except, she was at home. They quickly confirmed the details of who’d checked in, and lo and behold, it turned out John had booked the room through her account, apparently thinking Beth wouldn’t notice. The concierge, concerned about potential identity fraud, revealed he’d checked in with another woman and it was clear John was cheating on her, and if the multiple room bookings were anything to go by, he’d been doing so for a while. Beth was instantly heartbroken, but kept her cool on the phone. She casually lied that she had in fact made the booking, and hung up. When John returned that evening, Beth was her regular affectionate self, giving away nothing of what she actually knew. Over the next few weeks she began slowly packing her stuff up into boxes, saying she was just doing some spring cleaning and re-organizing. John didn’t suspect a thing, and continued on with his affair non-the-wiser. Beth knew he was due to go on a business trip, and spent the coming weeks securing a new apartment, renting movers, and telling all their friends what had happened, but asked them to reveal nothing to John.
She also told their downstairs neighbors what John had done, and, disgusted at his behavior, they vowed to help her however they could. After she’d moved the last of her stuff out, she bought 25 packets of fresh prawns and proceeded to hide all of them under the carpets, in the curtain poles, down the radiator slots, and even glued them to hot water pipes around the apartment! She then locked the door, said goodbye to the neighbors, and left.
When he returned a week later, he suddenly found his keys wouldn’t open the front door! The night before he’d left, Beth had secretly filed down the teeth of his keys, so they wouldn’t fit in the lock. When he asked his neighbors for the spare keys, they claimed he’d never actually left a set with him, he had, they just didn’t want to help him! Confused, he tried to ring Beth, but his calls went straight to her voicemail. So, to get into his apartment, he now needed an expensive emergency locksmith. After several hours, he finally stepped into his apartment, and was hit by a wave of week-old rotten seafood stink! He rang all of his friends, none of whom would pick up, and then once again desperately tried to reach Beth, calling and messaging, demanding to know what was happening. She simply messaged back. “Maybe you can get a hotel?” before blocking him. That’s pretty savage, but it didn’t end there! A few months later, the downstairs neighbors rang Beth, sounding very excited. They said since she’d moved out, John hadn’t been able to afford the mortgage repayments on his own, and was being forced to sell the property.
She asked why he hadn’t just moved his new girlfriend in, and they said they think it was because the source of the fish stink still hadn’t been found! So, with no-one wanting to live there with him, he was being forced to sell up at a pitiful asking price, losing at least £40,000! Well, I do love a happy ending.
If you were amazed at these extreme stories of revenge that went to far, you might want to read
part 4 of this series. Thanks for reading!
