'People were driving along the shoulder in order to get ahead of the traffic': Top Tales of Instant Karma

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 22, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Jojo Siwa, Chappell Road, and Taylor Swift sure have plenty to say about karma, but don't we all?

The funny thing about karma is that you really can't predict when it's going to strike. For instance, how many times have we all witnessed someone driving recklessly on the road without any legitimate consequences for their actions? Because of this fact, we have to embrace when karma does come back around to haunt the entitled people of this world. So the next time you see a selfish driver avoiding traffic by driving along the shoulder, just know that if he doesn't end up having to pay for his actions, that outcome is surely happening to someone in the universe. It might not be the entitled driver you've witnessed today, but if he keeps it up, it could very well be him tomorrow. 

Keep scrolling below for this collection of Reddit's top instant karma tales. For more content like this, check out this list of the week's top Karens!

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    DrDudeM... My dad told me this story. He was driving back from the shore when traffic got really bad.
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    About a mile ahead, there was an accident that had brought traffic to a crawl. happens, my dad decides to be patient about it.
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    Others weren't so patient. People began driving on the shoulder in order to get ahead of the traffic. This my dad off. We all know how this goes.
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    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
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    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,
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    while the other wrote all of those drivers tickets. He describes it as one of the most satisfying things he's ever seen.
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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
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    I used to be a zookeeper. This was making fun of our llama for looking ugly. The llama was a rescue who had corrective jaw surgery.
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    The pointed and laughed at our llama. The llama spat in her mouth.
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    I gave the llama a treat and told her that she was a good girl.
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    thewerep... 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
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    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
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    him at the ATM and saw what happened, so he'd got the money for him. It was £200 so a decent amount.
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    Customer A was super grateful and offered him some of the money but he wouldn't take it. Customer B then bought a scratchcard,
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    scratched it, and found he'd won £5. Not a whopping amount of karma, but karma nonetheless.
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    DarthRee... Driving through Philly in standstill traffic some decides to use the shoulder as a lane to "cut" in line. The vehicle he ended up
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    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.
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    Grey_Gry... kid in middle school kept trying to steal my cellphone (it was a cheap flip phone,
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    but he'd do it just to me off). Our school had a rule that you couldn't have your phone out in class. Teacher left
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    the classroom for a second to have a brief word with an administrator, kid grabbed my phone. Teacher came back in a moment later and caught him red-
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    handed with (my) phone out. She wouldn't believe it wasn't his phone. He got detention.
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    elixthefa.... 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
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    on the sandwich, lo and behold, the guy who stole it was looking red as a hot iron.
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    they fired the guy and my dad got to eat his lunch again.
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    cruisefro... That time I had my SHOES stolen! I was 17. Went to a party where there were kids from two different high schools. When I went inside I took off
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    my brand new Nike Air Mada shoes that I had just bought for $140. Hours later, when I went to leave,
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    my shoes were gone. We had an idea of who took them (a guy from the other school) but didn't have proof. I
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    was so sad and so embarrassed. I had to drive home in my socks. Long story short ... a week later,
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    Monica (the girl who threw the party) shows up on my doorstep holding something behind her back... turns out she went to a party
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    and saw the guy who stole my shoes - wearing them! When he took them off after a smoke break she snagged them!
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    Now, standing in front of me she reveals my Nikes!!! She told me the best part was watching him look for them (just like I had) and then leave in his socks!
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