'[Cop] wrote all those drivers tickets': Top 10+ Tales of Instant Karma

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 5, 2023 4:00 PM EST

You can never exactly predict when and how karma is going to strike. Sometimes, the people who deserve it the most get off easy (for now). But when karma does come into play, the results can be glorious. I'll never forget the time I had a friend who was so insistent that their wedding would happen the way they wanted it to that despite the forecast of good weather, it started to downpour during their outdoor wedding ceremony. It was the kind of climactic situation no one could have predicted (and therefore, no one could be blamed), and yet the only explanation was that this person put a certain kind of negative energy into the universe that led to some perfectly timed karma. 

This collection of instant karma tales ranges from traffic drama to classroom antics. Keep scrolling below for the full list. When you're done, here is a story of a Karen's neighborhood fence fiasco.

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  • 01
    r/AskReddit Posted by u/mrbumnus What's the best case of instant karma that you've ever seen? 5.4k Comments
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    DrDudeManJones. My dad told me this story. He was driving back from the shore when traffic got really bad. About a mile ahead, there was an accident that had brought traffic to a crawl. happens, my dad decides to be patient about it. Others weren't so patient. People began driving on the shoulder in order to get ahead of the traffic.
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    This my dad off. We all know how this goes. We do the right thing and are punished for it, where as these are skipping in front traffic and will probably get away with it. He thought about following this stream of cars onto the shoulder, but he decided he'd do the right thing and wait.
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    As he got closer he saw two cops in a parking lot. One cop was directing all of the shoulder drivers into the parking lot, while the other wrote all of those drivers tickets. He describes it as one of the most satisfying things he's ever seen. 20.0k Share
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    N3MO_ My dog tried to eat my sushi while I was away from the table for a second. I came back to missing wasabi and a disgusted-looking dog 17.9k Share
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    MyNameIsNotRyn . I used to be a zookeeper. was making This fun of our llama for looking ugly. The llama was a rescue who had corrective jaw surgery. The pointed and laughed at our llama. The llama spat in her mouth. I gave the llama a treat and told her that she was a good girl. Edit: Thanks /u/ntownuser! My instant karma llama story earned me my first gold. 17.2k Share
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    thewerepuppygrr I was working in a supermarket when panicked customer A came up to me and said he'd accidentally left his cash in the ATM and had anyone handed it in. I was about to say no when customer B appeared behind him and said he'd been trying to catch up to him - he'd been queuing behind him at the ATM and saw what happened, so he'd got the money for him. It was £200 so a decent amount. Customer A was super grateful and offered him some of the money but he wouldn't take it. Customer B th
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    omglookawhale. I banged by knee on the corner for a hotel bed and my husband was laughing his ; off while he was brushing his teeth in the bathroom. As soon as he walks out of the bathroom, his hit his knee the exact same way and I got to laugh my off. 11.4k Share
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    DarthReeder. Driving through Philly in standstill traffic some decides to use the shoulder as a lane to "cut" in line. The vehicle he ended up cutting off was a state trooper. An instant whoop whoop and told to pull off the highway over a loudspeaker. I couldn't stop laughing. 10.8k Share ...
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    Grey_Gryphon. kid in middle school kept trying to steal my cellphone (it was me a cheap flip phone, but he'd do it just to off). Our school had a rule that you couldn't have your phone out in class. Teacher left the classroom for a second to have a brief word with an administrator, jerkass kid grabbed my phone. Teacher came back in a moment later and caught him red-handed with (my) phone out. She wouldn't believe it wasn't his phone. He got detention. 10.3k Share
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    ChileConCaveman. I worked at a grocery store. I was stocking Instant Noodles on a big sale display. All I had was a cheap small step 2 step stool, you know the one with the bar that runs across the top step? Reaching down to the stool from the shelf I was standing on, was about 3 feet .I had a 60% chance my foot would land on the top bar and collapse the thing. I asked a coworker to use his shoulder as a handle as I got down. My supervisor called me a "princess" for getting assistance.
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    Soon after he was stocking the 2-Liter Coke bottles on a sales display. He tried to get down. He took the 40% success rate jump onto the step. Hit the top bar.The step ladder collapsed. He broke his arm and took down half of the display. I just clocked out and left before they told me to clean up the spilled soda all over the place. 7.6k Share
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    FelixthefakeYT. ( Not instant, but karma none-the-less, my dad kept getting his lunch stolen at work one day, so he got my mother to get the spiciest hot sauce on the market to put on the sandwich, lo and behold, the guy who stole it was looking red as a hot iron. they fired the guy and my dad got to eat his lunch again. 6.8k Share
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    TheFire_Eagle I'm in the NYC subway. A guy elbows me out of the way to get into the turnstile first yelling vaguely that he "has a train to catch" (no .). Through the turnstile, turn the corner and there are a few cops set up near a folding table and he gets pulled to have his bag searched. ↑ 6.0k Share
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    [deleted] Used to commute to DC from 40 miles away. Driving home one evening, this dude decides he MUST merge into my lane NOW. Beeping and all, he pushes me off the road. The car behind me was a cop. As soon as I was on the shoulder, lights and sirens went on and the dude was pulled over. 4.9k Share
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    Hellchron Back in high school I was kind of being a to a girl I was friends with. Nothing too bad, just some friendly teasing, but still. Then I turned around and fell down a flight of stairs. Even mid fall the karma and the justice did not escape me. We both found it pretty funny 4.2k Share
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    VariousHandSoaps. It was my own karma. I was in eighth grade. I was standing on a bench when I watched some girl fall over in the yard, started laughing and pointing and then went to lean back onto the fence that was behind the bench. Turns out it had broken off where I was standing and I fell straight through and into the mud. 3.5k Share
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    [deleted] a girl laughed at my wife and I on a train . When the train stopped, she tripped onto the guy in front of her and got a nosebleed. EDIT: thanks for all the nice comments peeps :) 2.2k ↓ Share
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    jurassicbond I saw someone tailgating another car on a highway. There was a huge CRT lying in the road. The tailgatee changed lanes at the last minute and the tailgater slammed full speed into the TV. It was hilarious. EDIT: For those too young to remember anything not flat screen, this is a CRT (cathode ray tube) television. 2.1k Share ...
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