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

Spread a rumor around our small school that I had AIDS. Everyone ostracized me and thought of me as the weird kid. Person who started the rumor ended up dating the wrong guy which led to a falling out with all her friends. She's now the ostracized girl in school. Suck eeeeeeeet.

Kind of an easy one...

42 yo girlfriend dumps me after 7+ years and one of the reasons she gives is "I want to get married and you want to wait until my kids graduate from college."

Behind the scenes, so I find out later, she is seeing another guy. It's 5 years later, her eldest has graduated college, her middle one is graduating college in a few months, and she will be down to one kid left to go through college.

She's still going out with the same guy. They've been engaged for almost 3.5 years, and she whines occasionally that he can't seem to set a date. Five years later, and still not married.

I was in a 7-11 when the clerk caught a young boy about 11 years old trying to steal a pokemon magazine or something. It didnt help that his backpack was see thru, like mesh material. She embarrasses him in front of all the customers and kicks him out. He went out the doors and came back in crying "Someone stole my bike!" We all had a good laugh. Hopefully he learned his lesson.

I let a car pull in front of me in traffic, I got a great parking spot later.

I saw what I thought of as 'instant karma' when I was driving through the Canadian Rockies several years ago. There was a jerk in a sports car driving really fast and almost forcing other cars off the road as we were going downhill. About 10 minutes after they passed us we found them at the bottom of the hill, having been pulled over by the police.

Driver behind me is tailgating me in traffic. There is no where to go but he is just riding my bumper. I keep driving with the flow of traffic and he manages to change lanes. He rolls down his window and just starts yelling at me. I just point to all the cars around and smile. He then uses a parking lane to pass a bunch of cars. Well up ahead there was a cop looking for people just like him. Cop steps out from behind a car and pulls him over. I just waved at him as I passed.

My partner was waiting for his order from drive-through at Mcdonald's when a group of women (who had also paid and were waiting) behind him shouted over asking if they could cut in front to get their food first, he tried to explain why that would not work but they didn't listen and started shouting at him before driving around him giving him the finger. I would have paid good money to see the looks on their faces when they realised they had gotten his order of one Big Mac while he drove off with their four full meals and drinks that they had paid for :').

OOooo Karma has been good to me this past year...

My SO and I moved to a new city together... he got a job that consumed his time... which included a girl who connived her way her way into our relationship... ugh she's such a witch. Anyways, in one week he dropped her, THEN, on her way home from work she got hit by a car (she was riding her bike).. after the driver got out to make sure she was okay and get his insurance, he DROVE AWAY, and she's too much of an idiot to get his license plate, then to top off her week, she got fired, effective immediately, from her job, which also happens to pay her grad school tuition. . i *so* wish i could say i played a part in this.

I let 4 girls out of the lift first and none of them said thank you. All 4 of them tripped over a mat and fell over as they walked out. Made my day.

One time a kid for no reason at all had beef with me he hit his head on the door and stubbed his toe at the same time.

Once, I spit my gum out on the floor in the hallway at school . After that class period, I stepped in it.

Buddy took a potted plant from the front patio of a corner house and ran across the street. About 2 seconds later he's face first in the pavement with a huge gash in his arm because he tripped over the median while fleeing, shattering the pot. To top it off he could quickly cried out that karma caught up to him quickly that time.

I was in an argument and when it came to a conclusion the person I was arguing with stubbed there toe when walking away.

Woman at the bank today was talking very loudly on her cell. Outside at the ATM then inside the lobby. Very self involved type. When she turned to go out the door, period leak on her dress.

Broke up with a guy for being controlling. He started telling everyone he knew that I had been cheating on him, that I was a horrible person, and everyone should take his side. For a while, people did. I was new to the area, and spent most of my time either at work or school. Didn't really fight back, had a new guy in my life who was actually a decent human being.

Then I finished my degree. I got a full time job, had my weekends free. Bought a car. Started going to hang out at the local game store, put together a couple of Magic decks, and did a lot of work for the local anime/gaming convention. Guys started lining up to date me. I took a few of them up on the offer. Generally had an awesome time.

He, meanwhile, is trying to refuse service to me every time I try to play FNM, because he's still telling everyone I'm a cheating jerk. I take it up with the store owner. Store owner thinks I'm amazing. Guy gets fired. Everyone thinks guy is selfish jerk. Several people voice suspicion that guy had been stealing from the store.

Last I heard, this guy is now married, is sponging off his wife, and can only play MTGO because he can't find people who will put up with him.

This guy who filed a claim against his employer and milked it for what it's worth, decided to have a surgery at its expense. He didn't need it but wanted to do it to get more compensation. Employer denied, he threatened to sue. Finally he has the surgery. Becomes vegetable from post-surgical complication.

It’s very petty. Fell in love with a FWB who was really more than just a FWB, she broke my heart because she didn’t want a relationship with me. We mutually liked the band The 1975 and lots of softer artists. While my taste in music is very diverse, I’m really into metal—which she couldn’t stand. Shortly after we stopped talking, I was getting ready to go to work and saw that The 1975 had just released a new song called “People.” This made me really sad because I missed my friend and wanted to listen to it for the first time together. I put it on anyway and was speechless, confused by what the hell I was watching. They’d gone from pop rock to screamed vocals. I slowly began laughing uncontrollably like a maniac at how furious she would be when she heard it. I hadn’t laughed like that in a very long time. It felt as though it was a statement of solidarity from the band to me. Like I said, very petty.

My ex best-friend. [She] was crazy, but only found out just how bad after I moved in with her. Towards the end we had a couple yelling matches because she was disrespecting me, second one gets physical. I broke her lip, she left me with bruises on my body for a month.

I don't know what's happened to her since, but within the last few weeks I had to live there, she lost the first Event Management job she'd managed to get after school because she swore at her boss about a lazy coworker, she had quit her job at a flower store (It later went out of business) so she had no income, and her ex fiancee found out she cheated on him and they had a fight. She was so emotionally broken up over these things (And reportedly over losing me as a friend, as shared with me by our other roommate), that at one point she tried to [end her life] with an OD on Robaxacet and white wine. The ambulance took her away and I told all her friends what happened.

My last month there I was starting my life of a government salary and moving in to a nice place to live, while her attitude and bi-polar moodswings ran wild and she destroyed her own. Last I heard anything about her, a friend just said she was "scary".