'My car is RUINED!': Entitled Karen ignores ticket for parking next to fire hydrant, faces karma when firefighters are forced to break her car windows for hose access

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Isabella Penn
Dec 25, 2023 10:00 AM EST

We all know the agony of circling around multiple blocks in desperate search of a spot to parallel park on the street. You suddenly see your opening and do a little fist bump in relief, only to pull up and see a fire hydrant. A little part of me always wants just to snag the spot anyways and hope not to get a ticket. Well after reading this story, I think I'd rather circle the block for hours instead of risking parking next to a fire hydrant. 

Unlike this entitled Karen, who took the fire hydrant spot without hesitation. When the police located her and warned her to move her car, she declined. Apparently, this Karen has her fair share of parking tickets but refuses to believe they're ever her fault. You know, the typical Karen move. Well, karma struck pretty fast when an actual fire started across the street, and the firefighters had no choice but to break her windows to feed the hose through to the hydrant. As you can imagine, Karen wasn't so happy about this. 

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    Posted by u/AQuietBorderline 14 hours ago "YOU need to leave MY CAR alone!" "If you say so." LOC
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    This is not my story but my friend Adam's. Adam is a retired police officer and this takes place in the mid 90's, back when Adam was a beat cop maybe a year or two into his service.
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    At the time this story takes place, a firebug had targeted several businesses over the course of a 3 month period. The fires were put out but they were getting bigger and bigger, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Everyone
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    was on edge and the police were patrolling the area every night to try and catch Mr. Firebug. On this particular night in the middle of February, Adam and his partner, Rick, drew the short stick and thus were assigned to patrol part of the area.
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    While on patrol, he notices a classic Mercedes Benz pulling up to a house and a familiar lady dressed in a thick fur coat steps out. He groans...it's the wife of a local business owner that every officer in this town have had the displeasure to ticket for various parking/traffic violations.
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    It would've been fine if she were a nice lady or something. But no. Her three default sentences were "Don't you know who I am?!" "Where's your
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    manager/supervisor?!" and "I'll have your job!" Seriously, she was a Karen before Karens were even a thing.
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    Rick points out to Adam that Karen had parked right by a fire hydrant. Par for the course. Adam gets ready and steps out of the squad car. "Good evening, Mrs. Entitled, ma'am." Adam said.
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    "What are YOU doing HERE?" Karen bellowed. Adam guessed that's the Karen version of the word "hello". "Working the beat. You do
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    know you parked next to a fire hydrant?" "So?" Karen said. "I'm suggesting you move it before I write you a ticket. I'm
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    not in the mood for extra paperwork tonight." "Listen. YOU need to leave MY CAR alone. Or I'll have your job!" With that, Karen
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    storms off to the house, goes inside and slams the door. Adam thought "If you say so" and proceeded to check the outside of the car for any more violations and wishing that "being a b_ch" was a
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    federal offense. As he's putting the ticket under the windshield wiper, the call everyone's been dreading comes on the radio. A fire alarm has been
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    triggered. The address? Right across the street. Adam looks over at the building and can see a faint orange glow in the windows on the second floor. He reports the glow.
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    He and Rick get ready in case Mr. Firebug decides to cross their path. Several officers arrive and set a perimeter around the building as the glow gets brighter and brighter. Unfortunately, by
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    the time the fire department gets there, flashover and all the windows on the second floor get blown out. It was so hot that Adam felt sweat form on his face. happens
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    The fire department need to get the hoses set up. But Karen's car is in the way. Using safety hammers, they break the windows and run the hoses through, getting everything set up in record time.
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    During all of the chaos, Karen comes out and she sounds like a banshee that had swallowed an air raid siren. She runs over and tries unhooking the hose from the hydrant.
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    "What are you DOING?! My car is RUINED!" It took two officers to restrain her and bark at her to go inside and let everyone do their jobs. She actually listened and returned inside.
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    Adam spent the rest of his shift helping with the fire and investigation. It was close to dawn when he returned to the station to finish up. All he wanted was to go home and
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    crawl into bed. That's when his supervisor calls Rick and him over and reports that Karen reported several thousand dollars worth of damage. Not only had her windows broken but water had gotten in and froze
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    because it was, again, the middle of February. The supervisor asked them what happened and they reported everything. Fortunately, the dashcam caught a recording of the event. The supervisor shook
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    her head, laughed and said "Well, you had nothing to do with the car getting damaged, so I consider this closed." A few weeks later, they caught the firebug, a
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    different business owner who was trying to commit insurance fraud. He figured that if several other buildings caught fire, nobody would think he was responsible for burning down his own business.
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    Unfortunately, Karen never did seem to learn her lesson so she was back to racking up tickets and being a thorn in the police's side. She did have to pay for the damages and the ticket Adam gave her.
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