5 Acts Of Ridiculously Disproportionate Revenge

When the employees of a web design company shockingly didn't have $50,000 on hand, the plan was to allow them to maybe mortgage their houses. Shea reportedly let them go to take care of their financials, with the threat that if they went to the cops, someone would murder their families. But they went to the cops anyway, because fuck a yoga vigilante. He got super arrested and charged with about a dozen crimes, none of which were Felony-Level Bafflingly Over the Top Dickishness.

However, it wasn't all magazines and diapers, as that old saying goes. She relisted the house online as soon as the new couple bought it so that prospective buyers would constantly show up expecting a viewing. She sent letters to neighbors letting them know a sex offender just moved in, followed by Valentine's cards allegedly from the husband. She even posted ads to the local high school letting everyone know of a New Years party at the house.

And sure, that's still the type of thing you'd see in a movie about a wacky prank war, maybe starring Seth Rogen. But finally Rowe took things to a nightmarish level that suggests maybe she shouldn't be allowed in society. She posted pictures of the house in online ads looking for anonymous sex, under the guise of the woman who actually lived there. One claimed she really dug anonymous sex and that she liked it when guys tried to force their way into the house, because that was all part of the fantasy. Yeah, essentially Rowe was trying to trick strange men into raping this woman. As revenge. For buying a house she wanted. Two men actually showed up, because that's the world we live in, but luckily nothing happened.

Rowe was convicted on several charges and later went on Dr. Phil, so, you know, problem solved.

In a fun twist, this isn't a secret tidbit someone looked up about Buffett, as he's happy to tell the story about how in 1964, he bought Berkshire Hathaway out of spite. Buffett had previously bought stock in the textile company as it was in decline, figuring he could sell it back to them after they closed another plant and make a profit. So another plant closes and the boss agrees to buy Buffett's stock for 11.50. Except a couple of weeks later when the paperwork comes through, the offer is 11.375. They screwed him out of an eighth, and Buffett acted like they'd cut off one of his feet in the night.

Buffett literally bought all the stock he could find instead of selling it back to them. He bought so much that he became the controlling partner, and then he fired the guy who shafted him with an imperceptibly small shaft.

By Buffett's figuring, had he not bothered with this at all and instead invested in an insurance company like he originally planned to do with his money, he would have made $200 billion by now. For comparison, Buffett is currently worth about $85 billion. So is that the costliest revenge ever? You know, considering that $200 billion sounds less like an actual sum and more like the cartoon number that a James Bond villain would invent, I really have no idea.

Folch got ahold of her neighbor's keys somehow, and when her neighbor was out, she told a contractor that the unit was hers, it was a piece of shit, and it needed to go. So the dude, who had no reason to believe otherwise, proceeded to drive right through it with a bulldozer. Halfway through is when the actual homeowner came home. Classic sitcom material, ya know?

Is it still called "coming home" if your home is actively being erased from existence? Folch was arrested, even though she said she was just doing the neighborhood a favor. We can only hope she had that "I Am Legend" moment after her arrest when she realized that in fighting the monsters, she became worse than the monsters. That's poetic.

Peters: "Oh, he's probably just a little slow to line up."

Easter: "I WILL GET YOU!"

Easter literally yelled that last part. Near as anyone can figure, Easter took "a little slow" to be a slight against her son's intelligence. And so the battle began.

Jill and Kent Easter wrote to the school and demanded that Peters be fired ... from her volunteer job. They said she'd left their son unsupervised and it caused anxiety attacks. The school did not fire her, so then Easter filed a lawsuit against Peters. The grounds? She alleged Peters was stalking her and tried to straight up murder her.

As the court shenanigans dragged on for a year, cops then got a phone call from a very concerned citizen. They had seen a car driving erratically near the school, and were concerned one of the volunteers was using drugs. In fact, they had seen the driver maybe put drugs behind the seat, so maybe the cops should go look. For drugs. Behind the seat.

Now hold on to your asshole, because when cops arrived, they found drugs. Behind the seat. A bag of weed, Percocet, and Vicodin. All in Peters' car. Man, it looks like the Easters were right to be concerned about her, huh? Yeah, no.

Surveillance footage from where the call was placed showed Mr. Easter entering the building at the time of the call. The drugs also had the Easters' DNA on them. Both Easters were found guilty of planting the drugs and given a couple months in jail. They were also sued by their victims for several million dollars. All that, and they still have to deal with having an extremely slow child.

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