“I’ve Never Forgotten That Day”: 78 Times People Witnessed Instant Karma Putting Toxic People In Their Place

I am an intern at an ad agency and one day my intern buddy and I where talking and wasting time. I had left my chair in the middle of the walk way on accident when a girl worker walked by. She stopped, looked at the chair, then at us, then at the chair and said "you're going to be interns forever". As she stepped away, her shoe got caught under the leg of the chair and she fell face first on the ground spilling coffee everywhere. Cocky I said, "can't be that long before I'm permanent I've never embarrassed myself like that." I start to walk away when I trip over the chair and fall face first. Freaking chair, I will be an intern forever.

I got sucker punched in a bar a few years ago because this dunk redneck thought having a conversation with him and his girlfriend constituted me hitting on his girlfriend. He didn't even let me get off my bar stool, and was gone out the back door before I even knew what happened. Cops were called and the caught up with him, mostly because the other 10 people in the bar knew who he was. Turns out he was out on parole and got sent back to prison.

I work at this restaurant in an area where a lot of homeless people hang out. Usually they stay away from the restaurant but there's a few that we allow use the bathroom and get water and stuff. There's this one guy who sells roses(I have no idea where he gets them from) but anyways he's probably a little bit of an alcoholic but otherwise harmless. So we let him come in and sell flowers to people.

One day this 18 year old girl driving her fathers BMW comes up to me and says "There's a dirty beggar selling flowers to people! You should kick him out!" So I respond with "Um, his name's Richard, he's selling flowers. We like it when he comes in here and he's not harming anyone." When she was driving out of the parking lot she ran into someone's car. In her fathers car. Oh, and she stiffed her server.

tl;dr Daddy's girl gets into car accident after stiffing waitress and being rude in general.

I was playing ultimate frisbee. In the game, players call their own fouls. People are generally honest and good-spirited about it, but some people try to take advantage of the rules. One time one of these jerks called a really non-existent foul on my throw, even his teammates were telling him it was a bad call. But he wouldn't let it go, so the rule is that the disc would come back to me. It had gotten pretty heated, we were arguing and he was yelling and kind of hopping around at the point someone tossed the disc back. It was a perfect shot. He stepped right in front of the disc as it was flying back, got his nose broken and had to spend the rest of the day at the hospital. Instant karma literally knocked him right in the face.

I was at a theme park with my school and threw up (yay…) and a kid laughed at me was a jerk about it told me I smelled even after I changed when I really didn’t.

Someone else threw up on him.

Back when I had braces my orthodontist was a jerk. He would be creepily friendly with all the girls and couldn't [care] about any of the boys. This was made all the more perverted as the vast majority of his patients were under age - mid-teens and such. He would frequently take calls while working on patients and clearly devote more attention to his buddy on the other end of the phone than whoever's mouth he was cramming his dental instruments into. Most mechanics I've seen have more respect for the vehicles they work on than this guy with his patients.

A couples years after my work was done I found out that there was some investor/whatever who fleeced all his clients and that my orthodontist lost something like half a million dollars to the guy. I normally don't take pleasure in the misfortune of others, but totally reveled in this one.

A long time ago I was at a small meeting of dax- mopeds, and we were at the local bars when suddenly a bunch of '"tough motorcycle guys" notice us and start being real jerks (Doing burnouts, laughing at our little mopeds, even start measuring how loud their bikes were with a db-meter). So they decide to take off, and one of those guys gives a last show and accelerates like a maniac. Then, he lost control of his bike and crashes against a curb and a metal construction where you can lock your bicycles. We go and check if he's ok, and at the same moment a random guy who was enjoying a beer at one of those bars said to a biker that they should contact the authorities. The biker basically said to [get lost], and at that moment the guy pulls out his badge and says he's the chief of police of the city. The look on the face of the biker = priceless (ah, and the guy that fell wasn't really injured after all)

TLDR; tough biker guys makin' fun of us and being real jerks, eventually one of them crashes his bike and chief of police was their to witness all of [it].

I had a friend in high school who was beat on regularly by his alcoholic father. His dad was his sole support system and felt he could take the beatings and decided not to report it and did a great job of hiding the true frequency of the beatings. He only revealed years later it was nearly a nightly occurance, we thought it was a once a month thing.

One night after we were in college, his dad started mouthing off to the wrong person at a bar, started to beat up on the guy, who ended up fracturing his skull and doing permanent brain damage. His dad is now in an adult care facility with a 24 hour nursing staff to feed him, change his diapers and bathe him.

A girl in high school was making fun of another girl who broke her leg over the weekend. While making fun of her broken leg, she fell down some stairs and broke her leg.

When I was younger (20?) I was just wandering around my hometown one night, pretty late, bored with nothing to do. I walked by the parking lot of a dive bar as a car was pulling out. The driver had to hit the brakes as i was in front of him, and as he and his buddies slurred "loser" at me I noticed one of them had an open beer. They pull out and a couple of seconds later a cruiser drove by. For some reason the cop looked at me and I pointed my thumb over my shoulder and made a drinking motion with my hand. He hit his lights and took off.

I went by about an hour later out of curiosity. The car was pulled over, the drunk guys' stuff was all over the road with cops tearing the interior apart and the tough guys were sitting on the curb cuffed.

This jerk who cut me off in traffic then slammed on his brakes to try and get me to hit him then flipped me off sped away, and not a mile down the road I see a cop had pulled him over. Just felt good.

Rode with a ”friend” at work to grab food for our bosses. I was visibly upset and she kept adding me what was wrong. After awhile of saying nothing I finally told her a very personal secret, swearing her to keep out to herself. She promised, consoled me and said everything would be okay. She end up telling everyone at our work my business. I'm humiliated, talked about and upset my friend could do that. She came in two days later with an extremely puffy face, hardly could open her eyes and was crying about how out of no where a bunch of bees started to sting her face over and over. No she isn't allergic just enough be stings to cause mass swelling. It was all the self control I had not to say I bet you shut your mouth then.

Step mother growing up. Although, she wasn't "bad" to me, she was still a [jerk] about me not being her kid.

Years later, she cheats on my father with her own daughter's boyfriend, a truck driver, and gets caught.. and BAM, divorce.

She now lives in Florida in a mobile home that should be condemned.

EDIT: My father, remarried a feisty Irish Jersey girl, who we all love. He's retired and lives in Arizona.

I was at a theme park and a kid suddenly jumped out in front of me and yelled something, trying to scare me. He then proceeded to run away... running straight into a trash can. I patted him on the head as I walked by.

Driveing on a icy road, going just 5 miles below the speed limit, a guy start tailgateing me and Flasing his light for me to go faster, this being on a 2 lane road he was stuck behide me or so it would seem He finnaly started to pass me, flicked me off while he floored it. This was an ICEY road..... he not less then 100 foot away lost control. and slamed in to a tree. Me being a good guy greg. Stoped and called 911. He broke an arm i know for sure (or he was very double jointed), but cop told me he would be ok, when i was telling him what i saw.

I pulled into a busy gas station and there was only one open pump at the time and it was on the wrong side for my car. I drove past it and started to reverse in and as I was reversing in some lady swooped in and stole my pump. I was so mad and luckily once I turned my car around the pump next to her opened up. I parked there and I was ready to give her some passive aggressive comment when I decided not to and just forget about it since it wasn't worth it. I finished up filling my tank and was about to climb into my car when this lady pulls out the hose but mistakenly does not let go of the handle and proceeds to squirt gas all over herself, the inside of her car, and all over the ground. Made me so happy and a true believer in karma.

Some loud jerk budged in line at the pizza shop. She dropped her pizza as soon as she got it.

There was this girl in high school who always gave the special ed kids a hard time, making fun of them, just being an all around jerk. She thought she was real funny but it was anything but. Well fast forward to our graduation ceremony in front of thousands of people (we had a huge class, like 800 kids or so), she was accepting her diploma at the podium, as she was walking away she tripped and fell. That was by far the best karma I’ve seen. Couldn’t have happened to a better person.

Used to deliver pizza. On a night when there was a blizzard I was going slow trying not to crash my car. Some jerk in a truck was tailgating me and beeping the entire time, eventually he sped up and went around me on the other side of the road holding his horn down the entire time. Two seconds later see blue lights in my rear view and the same truck gets pulled over for that maneuver. ROAD JUSTICE!

When I go to school I take the bus and every single day the last kid to be picked would always be late and we would watch as he slowly walked to the bus without a care in the world while all the kids scream to hurry up, we always told him to wake up earlier or just simply run but he didn’t want to listen. So in short we were always late for first period, then one day we stopped at the pick up spot and as usual the kid walked toward the bus and all the kids were yelling to hurry up and the kid put up the middle finger. Then the bus driver had enough and started to drive off and the kid had to run almost a km after the bus like peter parker did in the first movie.