'His truck was literally bent': Boorish customer gets led down a rocky road after expecting free labor from his mechanic

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 28, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

This customer made a wrong turn down 'Entitled Alley' and found out pretty quickly that his truck couldn't handle the terrain. Overinflated by unchecked arrogance, the guy in our next story got more than what he asked for at the auto shop.

When denied free service by a reputable mechanic, the guy tapped into his Neanderthal cortex and decided to use intimidation to try and get his freebie tune-up. Unbeknownst to him, the witty mechanic was playing on a home-court advantage, using 4-wheel-drive to get 4x the revenge. After the mechanic denied free labor to this miscreant customer, he clocked out of his overtime shift and decided to head home. As he drove his regular route home, he noticed that he was being followed by the enraged customer and decided to take him on a ride down the scenic route. 

Scroll for the entire story of how a little road rage nearly snapped a dude's car in half, teaching him a valuable lesson about the consequences of demanding free labor. 

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    Posted by u/ZZZ-Top Idiot tries to follow me home because I wouldn't fix his truck for practically free, so I took the "scenic" route. Don't worry I called a rescue.
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    This customer is of the reasons my boss will not have him come in during business hours, but will work on his truck afterhours with no one else around. The usual MO is he tries to fix something on his truck and it up then expects everyone else to fix it for really cheap using his veteran status as a guilt trip because he already had done half the work himself.
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    This time he "fixed" his brakes and somehow no longer had rear brakes his truck is two bolt failures away from a junkyard. My boss is out of town so I was in charge for the week with strict instructions to not help him while he's out.
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    He showed up at the shop today demanding I fix his truck, I had already closed the building up and was ready to leave I told him when my boss gets back he'll fix your truck. He didn't like that answer the said something I picked up on to be racist remark and told him to I off till the boss gets back. He gets and grabs a piece of wood and throws it into the desert.
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    I start my drive home and a second or two later i notice his truck behind me and matching my lane changes. I live 40 miles away so I knew he wouldn't keep up with me in the hills and I didnt want to kill him by outpacing him so I call my friend who's only about 9-10 miles in the middle of the desert and told him I was gonna swing by because I think I'm being followed and I was gonna take the scenic route.
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    My friend told me he was gonna meet me at the half way and if he had to he would scare him off. The scenic route is 7 miles of rough desert road that will destroy any truck without long travel suspension a lot of locals use it to test and tune their desert off-roaders,
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    I get to the turnoff into the trail and I see his headlights turn in behind me at that point I shut my lights off and turn on my desert headlights and floor it, i made sure to lure him into the first set of jumps. Right before the jumps I kicked up a bunch of dust and turned off all the lights and waited at the other end.
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    I see his headlights again and I could tell he cleared the first jump but I could see his headlights shake going down which is a sign of suspension failure from hitting the ground hard. I turned on all my lights so he could see where I was as I left and proceeded to my friends location,
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    he was waiting for me with his brother and a big eating grin. My friend told me he saw me about a mile away because of the lights but couldn't see the other truck behind and he just said, "Looks like he must've missed the first jump, I'm gonna call rescue".
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    We hung out another few minutes and took a different trail that led me to the highway home. Later in the evening I get a call that the customer was fine but his truck was literally bent at the cab and bed from the 5 foot drop he experienced. He said he got lost going home.
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    I plan on calling my boss in the morning and letting him know I'm having that dumbass trespassed from the shop for that stunt.
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    *Update, my boss has been contacted, he's taking my side on this and he's no longer welcomed at the shop. He's been formally trespassed by the sheriff's, I also saw the truck it's literally bent with the bed and the cab pressed into each other at another shop.
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    . PanaceaStark · 1 day ago He gets I and grabs a piece of wood and throws it into the desert. I don't know why imaging this display of impotent rage is so funny, but it is.
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    ZZZ-Top OP 1 day ago More common out here than you think lol even I do it on a bad day. We used to have a Bender robot made out of old mufflers and one of the techs got really frustrated one day and punched it.
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    sydmanly 1 day ago Someone needs to fix the bent cab. Expect a call Monday morning 2.1k Reply Share • ZZZ-Top OP 1 day ago There isn't going to be a Monday morning for him immediately stopping at the sheriff's in the morning to get him trespassed.
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    _Fizzgiggy 1 day ago What the was his endgame with following you home? What a psycho
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    Associate Good9653 1 day ago Hopefully he will learn from this but somehow I doubt it. 303 Reply Share Exploding Muffin · 1 day ago Probably blames the ground for breaking his truck.
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    blonde_usagi 1 day ago I absolutely love this swift backslapping of revenge. Well played god sir, has me off here xD laughing my
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    . UnexaminedLifeOfMine 1 day ago What's up with these guys raging like little toddlers 31 Reply Share Threshingflail · 23 hr. ago They are toddlers in adult bodies. Narcissism and brain damage from lead have destroyed all higher cognitive functions. All they can do is make noise and express anger.
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    Ambitious-Effect6429 1 day ago • Sometimes I take a wrong turn and end up in the desert instead of at home.
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    Project_IGNYTE 1 day ago This feels like something out of like Fast & Furious; you see the enemy truck in your rear-view mirror, and you already know the advantages your truck has over his. Thinking quickly, you remember some dune whoops and a nearby friend for help and start planning your escape. You call the friend and inform them of your plan, and then plot your course.
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    Once you find the turnoff for the dunes, you strategically boost his confidence by approaching the whoops slowly, and when the enemy truck starts to prepare to stop you, you throw up a dust cloud and block his vision. At the same time you kill all your lights, turn on the exclusively forward-facing off- road lights, and floor it.
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    Once you see his truck's frame bounce off the second whoop hidden by your dust cloud, you turned off the off-road lights and back on the factory lights to make sure the enemy truck knows he fell for your trap, and proceed to your friend's location, strategically abandoning the enemy truck with a bent frame and no way to move on it's own. Poetic.
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