'Her face go[es] to shock as she realized she just did all of that in front of a police officer': Rude Karen dismisses construction workers, proceeds to ruin her own life in one afternoon

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 17, 2023 11:00 AM EST

One Karen ruined her life in a spectacularly fast fashion after getting into a squabble with a construction crew who was just trying to keep a parking spot open. Lots of Karens mess around and find out, but this entitled mom was especially punished for her deeds!

As the OP u/BBQLunch, wrote in a classic r/ProRevenge post, they work as a foreman on construction projects, and were working on a rather difficult project on the day of the incident. As they were trying to block off the street so that they could carry materials up a hill, this woman decided to park right where they were working. Since the site was near the local elementary school, she kept insisting that she'd only be parked for a few minutes. Uhh, that's not how reserved parking spaces work! So the OP called the police on this mad woman, and truly spectacular amounts of chaos reigned. 

After scrolling through this timeless Karen classic, read about this person's petty revenge plan for their group project full of slackers. 

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  • 01
    Font - "I walk up to her car and politely let her know that she is parked in a no parking zone... She... rudely states back, 'I'll just be a few minutes, and your truck isn't here, take a chill pill dude."" DONE
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    Vertebrate - r/ProRevenge Posted by u/BBQLunch 22 34 "Can't you just unload around me?"
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    Font - So this happened earlier today and was too perfect to not share with you guys. I work in construction as the foreman for a new house build. The location is kinda strange, the house is 250 feet up a hill via a foot path only. All of our materials have to come up this foot path by hand, it's a pain in the a to manually carry, quite literally, an ENTIRE HOUSE up this hill. One of our saving graces is having the two parking spots on the street at the bottom of this hill marked with official N
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    Font - Unfortunately there is an elementary school about half a block away and the parents of children seem to regularly (at least twice a day) think it's ok to park in our spots. Now I consider myself a reasonable person, so if someone is parked in the spots and we don't have a delivery or a need to park a truck I will let it go. If we need the spots and there's someone parked there, however, I will ask them to move nicely and most of the time they do so immediately. Until today.
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    Font - I get a phone call from the lumber delivery truck that is en route to our location, he says he'll be there in about two or three minutes. I let him know I will meet him at the street and make sure he has space to park. He's carrying all of the material to frame the roof of our house, which is a lot of really big lumber and will take easily an hour to bring up the hill, so naturally I didn't want him parked in the middle of the street with his hazards on for an hour, when we have a perfect
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    Font - Before I can respond, a giant lumber truck comes around the corner and I wave to him, and then gesture towards him to the woman in the car who has now put her window back up to ignore me. I put on my best customer service smile and wave at her through the window, she put it down halfway and angrily shouts "WHAT!" By now the truck has pulled up alongside her car and I politely ask her again, with a stronger tone of voice to move her vehicle, reminding her that she is illegally parked in a
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    Font - I give her another smile and walk away, a brilliant plan forming in my head. I instruct the delivery driver to park as closely to her as possible and block her in with the porta potty that is at one end of our reserved spots and the parked car that is parked just adjacent to our spots on the other end. He smiles because he immediately gets what I'm trying to do, and proceeds to expertly block this lady and her car into a little two parking spot jail. We unstrap the lumber and my guys begi
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    Font - The very friendly traffic officer lets me know that she can be there in about 30 minutes and deal with the situation for me, wonderful! As we continue to unload lumber the child of the parent shows up, and wouldn't you know it Mom is just now realizing that the lumber truck is parked so close she can't get out of her driver door to meet her kid. She awkwardly clambers across the inside of her car and stumbles out the passenger door, shooting glaring looks at me and the truck driver in the
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    Font - At this point, with impeccably convenient timing the parking enforcement officer shows up and parks behind the truck. She doesn't see the officer arrive and while the officer is still getting out of her vehicle I just casually say, "Can't you just pull out around it? It's not that hard." With the biggest seating grin I've ever had I watch as she realizes that I just used her line on her. "F you!" She yells, and storms back to her car and angrily clambers back in through the passenger door
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    Font - The officer, driver and I are staring in disbelief as she gets halfway over the curb and gets stuck. I can hear her screaming obscenities over the idling truck from inside her car. The officer promptly walks up to the door of the car and orders her out. My favorite part of the entire thing is watching her face go to shock as she realized she just did all of that in front of a police officer. She gets slapped in cuffs as the parking officer calls for a second unit and she is promptly sat o
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    Font - She sits on the curb yelling to the now two officers about how we told her she could stay there and that we never asked her to move. The traffic officer responds that she was the one who was originally called when she first refused to move and that she already knows what's going on. While myself and the driver are giving a report to the second officer, my guys finish moving the remainder of the lumber and the driver finishes his statement and takes off to go back to the yard. By the end o
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    Font - On top of all that she also got her car towed, the kid went home with his grandma and she went to spend some quality time in a cell. I never expected her to actually heed my advice to "Just pull out around it." But I think next time she'll probably think twice about parking in a tow away zone, if she ever gets a license again.
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    Font - TLDR: Rude lady parks in construction site reserved parking, asks us to unload around her, so we park blocking her to do so, gets mad when she now has no way out, crashes into our porta potty and tries to mount the sidewalk. Gets stuck, and the arrested by an officer who was on scene, and all with her child in the back seat.
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    Font - Pillsy 74 If this school is anything like my kid's, they've sent e-mail upon e- mail and letter upon letter home to tell people NOT to park in these spots. My kid's school has a curb in front with a ton of No Parking from 8-4 signs out there (there's a drop off point literally at the next right), and it's still amazing how many people still ignore them. You may actually want to let the school know about these spots so any future idiots have even less footing to stand on.
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    Font - Bone OWI EE uzzles TheBoneOwl No parking signs will forever be ignored by the "I'll only be 5 minutes" crowd. Low risk + high convenience = breeding ground for selfish behavior.
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    Font - JewishFightClub I live by a school that does that as well. They put up signs stating specifically not to block our driveways, yet I still find myself trapped in/out of my driveway about once a month. I don't blame the school, but it bothers me that the city/local PD knows it's a huge problem and refuses to do anything about it. A few tickets would go a long way to spread the news among the soccer moms that maybe they shouldn't do that anymore.
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    Font - [deleted] There's an elementary school immediately behind my uni's campus apartments, and they don't have any designated spot for the car line, so these super smart parents think it's a great idea to line up allIIII the way down the aisles of the apartment's parking lot. It took me about an hour of sitting in my parked car, 100% blocked in and nowhere to go, before I was able to at least get in line and eventually get out of the lot. I've called the uni and I'm not sure if they fixed it b
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    Font - Tyrannosaurus_Rox_ It is always so painful to read about people slowly making worse and worse decisions... Basically every step of the way she was able to acknowledge her bad decision and take her small retribution, but she kept making it worse and worse. Is it wrong for me not to be surprised at all that she had a suspended license? It seems to go with that type of person...
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    Font - Nyes Junk The suspended license was the best part for me. Everyone knows if you're riding dirty you keep your head down and obey traffic laws.
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    Font - song_pond I was really happy when I got to the part where she was charged with child endangerment. If that's what she does in public with her kid in the car, what does she do when no one is looking?
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    Human body - BossRedRanger I must be a terrible person because the worse her decisions became, the happier I got.
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    Smile - -Master-Builder- This is what happens when an idiot keeps doubling down.
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    Font - bl1y Suspended license did it for me. We all had bad days, we're all a big d than we should be from time to time. We should forgive a lot. This lady is a habitual di.
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    Font - PinstripeMonkey. I love revenge stories where the 'victim' repeatedly makes decisions that both affirm that he/she deserves it and escalates the situation to their detriment. Great story OP.
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    Font - MyAccountForWeirdSht Are the owners of the house just going to park 250 ft below their house everyday? 2.2k Reply Share BBQLunch OP Yup! It seems like a terrible place to live imo, groceries have to go up the hill, trash and have to go up and down, it really doesn't appeal to me
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    Font - QuiefMcGregor I work on construction sites too, the amount of precision workers can park massive trucks with is amazing to me. 1.3k Reply Share BBQLunch OP Blows my mind every time
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    Font - Desister I work on a ton of industrial sites the most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life was this guy driving a super b semi and had to back park in between two boiler units where he had maybe 5 inches of play on each side.... now the more impressive part was he only had just enough room to swing it in and he was unfamiliar with the site... this guy just pulls up takes 2 minutes to size up the area jumps in his truck and backs in in one shot... the whole ordeal took maybe 5 minute
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    Font - Magicalyn This is some quality r/maliciouscompliance 2.2k Reply Share BBQLunch OP Actually posted it there first and was redirected here!
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    Gesture - FueledByFruitSnacks The fact that she got arrested for driving with a suspended license and destroying a porta potty made this story all the more better. Best. Plot twist. Ever.
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    Font - Durto Yeah, anyone who feels like this lady's life is "ruined" because of "one bad mistake" can take solace in the fact that a person driving with a suspended license did not make just one mistake in their lives. Bad things like this don't just happen to random good people, this was a long time coming. I can see the version of events on Facebook from her perspective painting her as the victim and it makes me ill.
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    Font - Dingmaxiu Man I just feel sorry for her kid. Reply Share 269 mrsbebe Yeah you know that kid was in the backseat begging her to stop being a maniac
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    Font - Old_timey_brain Well worth the read. Methinks you performed a public service there.
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    Font - JustAnotherLemon Tree The fact she did that s with a child in her car makes me think a call to CPS might be in order. This can't be a one-time blowup; who knows what other stunts she's pulled while disregarding her passengers' safety. Reply Share 130 BBQLunch OP I think that's the logical next step in the Child Endangerment charge
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    Font - CustomSawdust Contractor here. The opportunities we occassionally get to exercise malicious compliance and allow selfish neophytes to learn a dynamic life lesson are precious. Well done. 366 Reply Share BBQLunch OP Rare but awesome
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    Font - Feedme10tacos Reading this was like watching a small 2 inch snowball rolling down a hill and watching it just get bigger and bigger and turn into a huge boulder as it finally ends at the bottom of the hill and obliterates everything in its path. As i am a female and normally would never ever say this, "F that cl Thanks for sharing!
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