'A true hero amongst us divorced ladies': Woman discovers ex-husband still has power bill in her name, she plans glorious petty revenge

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Feb 10, 2024 4:00 PM EST

As it turns out, this lady had the power the whole time. After a failed abusive marriage, u/West-Cardiologist-30 discovered that her ex-husband was still using her name/account for the power in his home, the house they used to share together before she left him. Luckily, the timing of this discovery came around his birthday and Valentine's Day.

So what did the Redditor do? Well, knowing he wasn't living with anyone and therefore she wouldn't be endangering anyone else, she decided to do the sensible thing: shut off all the power unannounced in the middle of the night. If that isn't icon behavior, I don't know what is. She shared her story via this thread on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit, and let's just say that folks in the comments section were more than amused by what she had accomplished. Keep scrolling below to have a look for yourself! For more stories like this, here's one about a woman who married her bully's sister!

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    Font - My Ex Kept the Power Bill in My Name for a Decade...Until Today Join me right now as I await the arrival of my petty revenge. It's my Ex's birthday today, and I had always made a very nice V- Day/Birthday week extravaganza each year of our 10 year marriage despite his dirtbag ways. Horrible marriage, lots of DV, and when I finally could take our kids and I leave I left almost everything behind, including the house. Had to, or I would have never been free.
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    Font - Well, a few weeks ago when one of my sons visited him for an hour on college break and noticed that my Ex had received mail with my name on it. It was his electric bill. Long story short, he was supposed to have updated accounts into his name but did not because that would have cost him money, and I somehow failed to notice. My bad for not knowing, but single motherhood, starting over, and recovering was almost too much at times and I guess things slipped through the cracks. I since have
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    Font - Or I could simply terminate the account at any point without notification, and then suggested this I might want to do so this week as it was the best time in the billing cycle to do so. I thought hard about it. He lives alone and doesn't have any pets or people in the house who would be harmed by a night without power. It's a major inconvenience though, he'll be confused when the lights go out, and then when he's told the news he'll be mad, and then he'll have to come up with a deposit to
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    Font - So she helped me schedule it for COB today with no warning to him. Operation LIGHTS OUT should be happening right now! HOLE I truly hope he has a lousy birthday today. And a cold shower in the morning. And if there's any deposit returned to me, the electric company says it's mine to keep, but I'll be donating to the women's crisis center a few towns away where I live now, happily ever after and with lovely electricity powering this little note of petty revenge. Thanks for sharing it with
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    Font - _wjaf edited 16 hr. ago +2 17 hr. ago. . I like it. I had a cheating ex who after we broke up, started writing cheques on a shared account that I hadn't fixed yet. I got a call from a muffler place where she bounced one demanding payment for work on her car. I said no, gave her number (if you split, get new phone numbers.... Or else you deal with their
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    Font - Anyhow, visited the bank and found out she drained it and it was over $20. I couldn't close it since it was joint, so paid the $20 and had myself removed from it.
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    Font - When she found out, she lost her mind because the bank left me alone when cheques started bouncing and I'd tell companies calling that I wasn't on the account and she was using old cheques. Her rant was absolutely glorious to hear. 1.3k Reply Share
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    Font - CoderJoe1 +4 16 hr. ago The power was in your hands all along. 319 B Reply Share
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    Font - Ceico_ +2. 17 hr. ago I really hope he is hosting a big birthday party tonight ;) 178 Reply Share
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    Font - Range-Shoddy. 17 hr. ago Did you check every other bill? Gas? Internet? Phone? Water? 4 102 Reply Share
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    Font - West-Cardiologist-30 OP. 17 hr. ago yes, I got the whole picture before acting, thank you for the reminder. I think he didn't do this one because it's the biggest deposit? I found a few other things to take care of though and did so. 170 Reply Share
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    Human body - armyofsnarkness 16 hr. ago . A true hero amongst us divorced ladies. I love it!
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    Human body - Rare-Turnover158 17 hr. ago I've always wanted to do that to my exhusband.
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    Font - FLEX West-Cardiologist-30 OP. 17 hr. ago thanks for getting it! kinda hope he remembers it every year on his birthday going forward
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    Smile - Wrygreymare 14 hr. ago Full points to the lovely person at the power company, too!
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    Font - Overall-Scholar-4676. 15 hr. ago Take you son out for a fun day.. he deserves a surprise for telling you that news.. I love it..
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    Font - Background_Newt3594. 15 hr. ago I hope you gave them your new mailing address, since it would be counter productive to have a refund sent to your old address!
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    Font - DGAFADRC 16 hr. ago OP, I love you! I laughed so hard at this! What a PERFECT petty revenge!
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