'It was probably somewhere close to 300 lbs [of meat]': Neighbor dents dude's car, dude tricks him into giving him a freezer full of meat

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Sep 22, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Community is essential, serving to lift up and better the existence of the individual through the support of the group through mutual aid and assistance. 

Of course, there's an implication of trust involved when it comes to building community. The individuals involved need to exhibit a certain amount of altruism for mutualism to exist. Take, for example, two neighbors who have established trust and understanding. Rather than asking someone else to come and take care of their house while they're out of town, it's easier to ask this neighbor to keep a watchful eye on things.

For this reason, this guy is almost as bad as his lying neighbor for his act of petty revenge, which betrayed the trust that the neighbor had placed in him. Who would be willing to let someone look after their house if they had knowingly caused significant damage to that person's vehicle and lied about it to their face? If I accidentally drove my car into my neighbor's, you can bet that I'd never leave that neighbor to be solely responsible for my house… Not that I'd ever refuse to own up to damaging my neighbor's vehicle in the first place.

You would think, in this case, since his neighbor was so willingly capable of continuing to trust him, that maybe the neighbor was telling the truth and didn't cause the damage. The chances must be pretty good that it might have been a visitor with a similar vehicle who had caused the damage in that case—if not, then even a random person with a winch on the front of their vehicle turning around in the neighbor's driveway.

Still, this makes for a great story of revenge, which sees this neighbor "meating" their match in terms of dishonest, petty behavior. Did the neighbor commit the crime they're accused of? Who knows. Read the original story below and form your own opinion.

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    Font - "The dent is almost identically shaped and Mumungu m situated at the same height [his winch] was mounted."
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    Font - Posted by u/Valladian A neighbor hit my car and lied about it, so I ruined 300 lbs of meat while he was on vacation. This happened about five or six years ago. For some context my neighbor, we'll call him Chester, is your stereotypical weekend outdoorsman type. He owns at least 10 different baseball caps, and they all have camo on them. He's one of those. He drives a Jeep, which will be important later, and usually spends his weekends either hunting, fishing, or prepping for 'when the bom
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    Font - Two weeks before the revenge, I came outside to see my car had a broken window on the passenger side, and that part of the frame was dented just above the door handle. I can tell immediately from the size and shape of the dent exactly what it was from. As I said my neighbor, Chester, drives a Jeep, and mounted on his front grill is a cable wench he uses for pulling stumps and whatnot. It juts out almost a foot and a half in front of the bumper and is made of solid metal. Anyone with a pic
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    Font - I asked Chester about it, and without saying anything he shook his head while biting his lip like some clueless cartoon character. I then ask if anyone who borrowed his car might have done it because the wench itself was pretty scratched up, almost like he's been ramming it into things all over town. Again, Chester silently shakes his head and then tries to tell me it was probably teenagers. No exposition mind you, he just blamed it on teenagers.
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    Font - I was fuming, but kept my composure and went home to call the police and my insurance company to report it. I managed to get a competent police officer, who told me point blank that it was clear what happened, but without a witness it would be pointless to try and prove it. The insurance agent was equally certain of Chester's guilt but ended up recommending I pay out of pocket for the repair. Since I was parking on the street, it was a factor the insurance company might use against me if
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    Font - When it came time for them to recalculate and adjust my monthly rate I could see a significant increase. A few hundred out of pocket right now could save me several hundred a year going forward if my rate was increased due to my own negligence, which is what the claim would, unfortunately, be categorized as. Raw deal for sure, but at least he was honest with me.
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    Font - Fast forward to two weeks later, Chester and his family are going up North to rough it in nature for a week. And despite my cold attitude towards him in recent days, he asks me to keep an eye on his house while he's gone, since I'm the only person in the neighborhood that he trusts, apparently. I agreed to do it, not because I had any type of revenge in mind, but because he gifted me a large case of beer for my service. His one request was that I call him if we have any extreme weather be
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    Font - Two nights after he left, we had a nasty storm. Wind, hail, and even a few rolling blackouts. The next morning I called Chester to ask what he needed me to check on, but he didn't answer. Knowing Chester, he'd probably set up camp in some rural part of America with no dar cell phone service, even though he asked me to call him if this happened. After a few failed attempts I went over to his house to inspect for any potential issues that might have arisen from the
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    Font - weather. I figured he was probably worried about his garage flooding, since his yard was frequently a moat after heavy rain. I went into the garage and there was no flooding, but something caught my eye immediately. Four large freezer chests, lined up side by side, taking up a huge chunk of the wall. I peeked inside one and immediately realized what Chester was worried about.
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    Font - All four of them were packed from floor to lid with meat. Some of it was still in packages from the grocery store, and some of it was wrapped in butcher paper. Likely game picked up from Chester's hunting exploits. But on the top of one of the freezers was something else that seemed out of place. It was a red solo cup full of frozen water, with a penny sitting on top. I thought that was weird and dismissed it immediately, but curiosity got the better of me later that day when I got home.
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    Font - There's an old life hack that people used to use when they went on vacation. You freeze a cup of water, then place a penny on top of it and stick it in your freezer. If your power goes out, the water will eventually melt and the penny will fall to the bottom of the cup. If you return home and the penny is at the bottom of the cup, your freezer was off for an extended period of time, and now everything in it has potentially defrosted and become unfit for consumption.
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    Font - I immediately got up and ran back to Chester's garage to scope out the legitimacy of my nefarious deed. As luck would have it, Chester's circuit breaker was hidden behind a tool shelf, not directly visible to the naked eye. Who would put a shelf in front of a circuit breaker? Chester, of course. So I promptly took the cup out of the freezer and sat it on Chester's porch to let it get a little sun. After a few hours, the ice had melted enough that the penny slipped right to the bottom of t
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    Font - I started blowing up Chester's phone with calls and frantic text messages. "Chester, where is your circuit breaker? I can't find it and your power is off. Get back to me, ASAP!" I did this countless times over the next two days before I finally got a call back from Chester. He told me immediately where to go in his garage to find the circuit breaker, which of course I already knew thanks to my prior detective work. I sat the phone down and flipped the circuit breaker twice. Once to turn i
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    Font - When Chester got back home I was nervous, but eager to see if my charade had worked. The next day I got a knock on my door. It was Chester. He asked me if I wanted some meat to give to my dogs. Apparently, the power had been off for too long and all the meat in his freezers had thawed out while he was gone, so he was throwing it out. I asked him how much he had, and he said it was probably somewhere close to 300 lbs. He didn't want to waste it all, so he asked if I wanted to give some to
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    Font - The kicker is that Chester had no idea the meat never actually defrosted, and was still perfectly good. That night I helped myself and my dogs to a couple of nice steaks, courtesy of ol' Chester himself, who was still busy walking the neighborhood unloading the 'tainted meat' on anyone who had a cat or dog that might want it. It was at least four or five months before me and my dogs went through all the meat Chester had given us. I don't know if I made all my money back for the repairs on
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    Font - 756-19 Original Fluff Genius to not actually spoil the meat. Odd this guy would hit your car and say nothing, but still trust you lol. 3.4k comics0026 Reply Share He probably wasn't thinking, and maybe thought the guy totally bought his "teenagers" excuse Reply Share 796
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    Font - awetsasquatch I thought initially you were just going to waste all that meat, and was going to call you a massive as way better lol, well done. sole, but this is 1.0k Valladian OP Reply Share I thought he was just gonna toss it on his compost heap (which was large and could be smelled blocks away, another reason most of us didn't care for him) to feed his tomatoes and whatnot. But the free meat was a nice bonus! The dude was a total dock when it came to accountability, but a total Chad wh
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    Font - grated_testes While I am a meat eater, I dislike wasting meat because it's like an animal lost it's life for nothing. But I was pleasantly surprised at the conclusion of your revenge. Win win. 407 Reply Share freweg OP helped themselves to half a freezer full of meat. There were three freezers of meat in the garage. So 2.5 freezers full of meat still got thrown away - unless i'm missing something? 66 Reply Share
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    Font - Suspiciously DampSeat Just to be fung clear here. Typically mounted on the front of a jeep is a metal bracket with a motor and steel cable. Those are called a WINCH. A wench is a woman used for seal deviance(s) and is typically paid. And not very much A wench mounted on the front of a jeep would be OPs mom 277 Reply Share 93 ●●● Valladian OP ...this is why I hate Grammarly. Stupid technological marvel >_> Reply Share
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    Font - ManaPot TL;DR: About 5-6 years ago, OP's outdoorsy neighbor, Chester, damaged OP's car with the wench mounted on his Jeep. Despite clear evidence pointing to Chester, OP couldn't prove it without a witness and had to pay for repairs out- of-pocket to avoid increased insurance rates. Two weeks later, Chester asked OP to watch his house during a trip and call if there was extreme weather. During a storm, OP discovered Chester's power outage precaution: a frozen cup of water with a penny on
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