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Paying Fines With Mounds Of Pennies

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In July 2009, Tallahassee college student Jordan Renken emerged from a bar to discover that his car had been towed, resulting in a 15-mile walk home. He needed to pay $88 to release his impounded car, so Renken decided to exact his revenge on the towing company by delivering the fine ... in the form of 8,800 pennies.

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Man Gets Revenge On eBay Scammer By Setting Up A Fake Blog For Him

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In 2005, Thomas Sawyer purchased a laptop on eBay for 375 pounds from seller Amir Tofangsazan. The laptop took two months to arrive and, when it did, Sawyer discovered that it did not work. Tofangsazan brushed off all requests for a refund, so Sawyer took matters into his own hands. After some fancy technological footwork, Sawyer recovered enough of the hard drive to enact a creative, albeit humiliating, revenge.

The buyer found more than 90 voyeuristic photos of women's legs, shot on the London subway, in addition to several kinds of porn and tons of personal information -- including Tofangsazan's CV, passport, and selfies. So, Sawyer used what he had gathered from the hard drive to set up a mock blog written from Tofangsazan's perspective.

"If only I had washed that huge pile of laundry so I could take a selfie with a damn shirt on."

The blog, called The Broken Laptop I Sold On Ebay, includes photos of Tofangsazan as well as embarrassing items from his voyeuristic and porn collections. Speaking as Tofangsazan, Sawyer jokes nonchalantly about not issuing a refund and the justification for using the blog to put Tofangsazan in the spotlight.

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The Guys Who Thwarted Telemarketers By Setting Up Sex-Line Style Phone Rates

In 2012, Englishman Richard Herman was growing increasingly frustrated with cold calls offering to help him claim compensation for an accident he never had. Eventually, Herman advised the cold callers that he would begin charging them 10 pounds per minute for his time. The company called his bluff and continued to phone him. Too bad for them that he wasn't bluffing and began recording their calls. The UK courts decided that the company's persistence indicated an agreement to his terms, awarding him 195 pounds as well as an additional 25 pounds in court fees.

A similar revenge occurred in 2011 when Lee Beaumont of Leeds, also in England, got so sick of cold callers that he paid 10 pounds to make his home phone number a premium 0871 line, which is the British equivalent of a 1-900 number. So, after that, whenever a bank, insurance agency, solar cell conglomerate, or funeral plan company cold-called him, they were unwittingly spending the equivalent per minute of someone on a phone sex line.

Hopefully Lee, at least, took his shirt off and moaned a bit so they got their money's worth.

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Charlie Wilson Ruins The Campaign Of The Congressman Who Killed His Dog

Charlie Wilson was a 12-term Texas congressman and the basis for the Hollywood biopic Charlie Wilson's War, although you probably know that particular episode of history better from Rambo III. In Charlie Wilson's War, there's a scene in which Wilson (portrayed by Tom Hanks) recounts an anecdote about getting back at his neighbor for killing his dog. It might sound like Hollywood fluff, but the story is actually true.

Growing up in Trinity, Texas, Wilson had an asshole neighbor by the name of Charles Hazard, who hated Wilson's dog because he used to jump the fence and trample on his flower garden. So, Hazard made the rational and totally sane decision to grind up a glass bottle, mix it with dog food, and feed it to the pup.

Wilson's dog died as a result, and Wilson, at the age of 13, responded by pouring gasoline on Hazard's precious flower garden and setting it alight, presumably while walking away in slow motion and putting on a pair of sunglasses. But, that wasn't even enough -- Wilson had to make sure that his vengeance was complete.

Never make enemies with a man with no personal restraint.

It just so happened that Charles Hazard was a city official who was up for re-election that year. So, Wilson decided to offer the people in his neighborhood a free ride to the voting booth on election day. After delivering them, Wilson told his passengers, "I don't want to influence your vote, but I would like you to know that Charles Hazard poisoned my dog."

About 400 people voted in the election, with Wilson providing free shuttle service to 96 of them. Hazard lost by just 16 votes. And that's the plot for the upcoming prequel to John Wick.

Kevin Phelan is a New York-based reporter who talks to people such as the kids from Willy Wonka, Chunk from The Goonies, and a professional wrestler or two. Tweet at him here. Nichole Urban is a freelance journalist in the greater New York City area. See her work and connect with her on LinkedIn.

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