'She left behind a $12k paperweight of a car': Man gets back at cheating ex-wife by having her broken down car towed off his property at her expense

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 15, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Divorce is nasty business. They say that all is fair in love and war, but divorce is a combination of both, so does that double the amount foul play each side is entitled to? Absolutely. In this case, OP was in the midst of a dreadful divorce– as if dealing with his ex wife and her new lover wasn't enough, he found himself in a property predicament after she moved out. She left behind a ton of personal junk for OP to sift through and, even worse, she abandoned a broken down car, leaking oil and bad vibes onto OP's driveway. 

After weeks of attempting to get her to come retrieve her property, OP was faced with a simple decision to solve all of his problems. Urged by a supportive neighbor and his therapist, OP took action against the woman that blew up his entire life. Scroll your way through the full story on how one man stole back his life from his cheating ex wife with one simple phone call to the local towing company. Next, check out this dastardly revenge story of a dental hygienist who proved an ageist Karen wrong, banning her for life from a dental office.

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    Wheel - "I had it towed at her expense
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/Shadow11Wolf50 12 hours ago 3 Towed my ex's car at her expense.
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    Font - Some details are vague because while I feel ready to share this story, I still have ptsd flashbacks and anxiety fears of her popping up on my doorstep. Sorry for the length, tldr at the bottom.
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    Font - Context that lead up to my petty revenge: This happened about 5 years ago. My ex wife and I were married for about 2 years, together for 5. Things were declining in our relationship, badly. Well, my ex
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    Font - found another partner, I'll call the new partner, NP. Instead of just leaving or starting divorce proceedings they decided I needed to be the bad guy so they could ride off into the
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    Font - sunset or something. I have mental health issues, that I was actively seeing a therapist for. I'm not saying she had to stay and deal with my mental health issues.
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    Font - She told me she was moving out shortly thereafter. I was at rock bottom. She moved out a month and a half later, and removed herself off the lease at the beginning on the following month. My ex didn't
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    Font - take everything with them despite the fact I didn't fight them, it was her stuff. More importantly she left behind a 12k paperweight of a car she was still making payments on.
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    Font - Thankfully at the time she got the car, I had seen how horrible the reviews were for that make and model; and I wanted nothing to do with it. I
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    Font - refused to put my name on that vehicle. I ended up being right. It wasn't even a year after she got it, the transmission was destroyed and there it sat in the driveway.
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    Font - For some context, my landlord had a clause in our lease against broken down vehicles just sitting on the property, and the city did too. So I kept asking her when she was going to come get it. I got the
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    Font - run around. She'd say would come get it then either went silent or pushed the day back. My ex even tried to convince me to lie and say it was mine. I flat told her no. I didn't want to
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    Font - wind up in trouble for having a broke down car that wasn't even in my name. During this time, I ended up befriending a neighbor who was determined to dust me off and get me back up on my feet. I'll call her A. Well
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    Facial expression - between A and my therapist, they finally got through to me that I didn't deserve any of this and that she needed to get her c p already.
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    Font - Now for the revenge: Weeks of going back and forth with her to come get her stuff, it was now over 30 days since my ex had been taken off the lease. The idea of her popping up
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    Font - whenever she wanted made me extremely anxious and I vented to A. A pointed out that I could have the car towed. I got an idea and we plotted! I gathered up the last of her stuff from inside the house and put it inside the car and
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    Font - then called the non emergency # to report an abandoned car. They sent someone out and got my info and some info off the car then put a sticker on it. They said that the owner had 72hrs to remove it or I could remove it. I warned my ex one
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    Font - last time that she needed to come get her car. Silence. 4 days go by and I still hadn't gotten anything from her to make plans to come get this stupid broken down car.
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    Font - Enough was enough. I called a tow company and had them come pick it up. The best part was it was at her expense. She would have pay them when she finally decided to do something about the car. A
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    Font - filmed and took pictures while the tow guy loaded it up and sent it to my ex, giggling like a maniac the whole time. Once the car was gone I felt a sense of relief I hadn't ever felt before. My ex had zero legit reason to return to my house.
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    Font - My phone was blowing up within the hour from my ex, who suddenly had plans to remove the car (that she had neglected to fill me in on). Now bombarding me with angry texts stating I was trying to ruin her life. I told her that I
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    Font - wasnt, that I had warned her repeatedly and she had ignored me and all I wanted was to be left alone. If I was the bad guy, fine I accepted that. I then blocked her and locked down all of my social media. I felt like I could finally
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    Font - begin to heal and move on with my life! Not going to lie, it felt good to get some payback for the last 10 months she had made my life h II.
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    Font - Tldr: Ex wife made me out to be the bad guy in our relationship and left, but chose not to take all of her stuff, including a broke down car. After refusing to remove it for over 30 days I had it towed, at her expense.
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    Font - thedamned234 11 hr. ago tips hat Raises glass You and A are complete GENIUSES. Lovely at the end where she decided to bombard your phone with texts accusing you off ing her life when she was lazy.
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    Font - LadybugGal95 +1 - 2 hr. ago Nah, the geniuses part is that her stuff is in the car. She can't say screw it to her credit rating and let the bank repo the lemon without losing all her stuff in the process.
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    Font - PrinceDietrich 2 hr. ago And the icing on the cake is that she can't just go get it either. It's immobile under its own power so she'll have to pay (again) to have it towed to wherever she has to take it.
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