Yeah, but hopefully she'll have those friends to encourage her to try again. She doesn't have to be alone if she doesn't want to be alone and maybe this helped boost her confidence
I was gonna say that OP should've either recorded Karen admitting to sabotaging Sasha's relationship out of jealousy, or forced Karen to admit to Sasha's crush that she lied to him. Due to the wording it's hard to tell if that's what happened. "apologized to Sasha for what she did, I forced her to come clean to her BF..." You can't really tell if OP meant Karen's boyfriend or Sasha's crush.
Then the driver would complain but at the same time incriminate themselves, "they built the mail box that way cuz we were smashing it and wanted us to get hurt by ramming it", cuz when you're emotional you say whatever and that can get you into deep doo doo.
Other than it was before cellphones... I think the statute of limitations has run out. And really, unless there's more to it, they don't usually get people for that now.
@@hitmonkey2984 yeah I'm not an expert on US law (not being from or lived in the US) but still I'm sure it'll at the very least be listed on the crash report which I imagine won't look good when getting a licence at the minimum even past the statute of limitations
@@shadowmewfred09 the problem comes from "not enough" agents to investigate the crimes, or something like that. It's basically just going to be something they tack on if they can, not just boom federal case.
Nah, it's typically just a criminal mischief charge. Charging minors with Federal crimes is rare. You'd have to be caught counterfeiting money or crossing state lines with drugs or something.
I felt really bad for Sasha in the last story. As a verbal autistic myself, I know how hard it is to find anyone willing to deal with you, let alone who actually shows interest in you. It's a real shame she lost interest in the guy and wouldn't give him another chance after he told them what happened.
Verbal autistic here too! I've asked out everyone I liked, none have accepted, but I will lose a lot of interest based on how they respond. Some are very kind and courteous, others become catty and petty, and some just disappear. The story made it sound like the guy didn't ask Sasha about it and just listened to rumors, and if that's the case, I wouldn't like him anymore either
I totally feel bad for Sasha as well and this made me so sad. While I don't have autism, I do have obvious disabilities and I know first hand how hard it is to find someone who would like to go out on a date. Most people don't want to be with someone who has disabilities and I've made peace with that a long time ago. But I've had a handful of relationships. Not many but some.
Yeah, that's really rough and I hope she found someone who will love her (not just tolerate her, but actually love her). I don't have autism, but I have severe anxiety, including social anxiety, so I know how hard it can be to gather your courage enough to ask someone out. At least it sounds like she has wonderful friends who will stick by her and help her rough things like that.
For Story 2, OP REALLY needs to name the "anti-virus" by name. Screw the regulations of the subreddit. Dangerous things like that needs to be shut down.
The subreddit's rules forbid doxxing physical people, but big public corpos are fine, so I also dunno why OP didn't revealed it either Edit: I looked the comments and OP stated on them the company didn't existed anymore, but still didn't wanted to tell the name. Lots of people pointing out McAffee or CA Anti-Spyware/Total Defense (both that still exist), and many others telling it's very likely a fake story; I couldn't find anything about it online either, the post was based on a AskReddit comment that I also couldn't find, and the fact the post is 5 YEARS old makes hard to prove if it's legit or really a fake one.
@@suzannepottsshorts I immedietaly thought about McAfee 💀 I have literally uninstalled it from my computer and browser several times and it's still there...
Story 3: All of this because Karen decided to screw up Sasha's relationship. It *CRUSHED* the camel's back, and OP decided that this Karen needed to wake up to reality. No more plagiarism, cheating, harassment, etc
Story 1: Geez, the kid straight up screwed up his own insurance within a year because he decided to speed and smash mailboxes like nobody would catch or punish him. You gotta wonder what made him do all that
I remember an old story Rslash did that the neighbor kept destroying the OPs mailbox so made one out of concrete and metal and destroyed the neighbors truck
@Daniel Brant You're right, they could probably make a killing. We had some dingdong go down our street and hit a couple of our neighbors mailboxes with their car and plowed ours down. We had to put up a new one and it wasn't too much of a cost to do it, especially if you can get a discount for the supplies or find sales.
"It's not my fault I wrecked my car against the mailbox - the mailbox was non-compliant!" I HATE that argument and any judge who accepts it is a moron.
Why didn’t OP just send the info anyway? Because she is a decent person who abides by her agreements. I think there’s a chance OP did Karen a massive favor here by waking her up to the real world just a bit.
I agree, sure some people are extra cruel and decide to break their agreement, but not OP and it honestly shows how they are someone you can trust even when they're the one screwing you up
I agree I think OP definitely helped Karen out in the long run it hopefully taught Karen that there’s consequences for her actions and if she doesn’t cheat in both ways she won’t have her life upturned not to mention the amount of money she lost should probably give her a good wake up call too
Agreed. Telling on her anyway would probably just drive her into more of the cesspool she lived in. With honouring the agreement, she allowed for Karen to have a chance of becoming a better person on her own.
Story 3: I am autistic and shoutout to OP for helping the autistic roommate. That's adorable and wholesome and I'm glad OP is/was watching out for them like that.
Last story. I’m wondering why that professor never turned in all the evidence to the school of her plagiarism she did. That’s what he should of done and she definitely would get kicked out no matter what. Colleges take it very seriously.
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Story 1: Obviously the 14-year-old wasn't ready for the responsibility of driving a car. Love the idea of an indestructible mailbox, though. As for the brat's dad claiming that the mailbox wasn't legally built, well, that wouldn't have mattered if your brat had been driving properly, now would it? Another garbage parent trying to pretend that their brat isn't the problem. Story 3: Good for Karen's boyfriend to finally see sense, bad that it took him so long to see sense.
Story 3: This is the most satisfying thing I’ve seen in YEARS. I nearly had an aneurysm out of sheer satisfaction. I, personally, would’ve sent the evidence without giving her the choice. University are *not* joking when it comes to copyright and having the real world really come up to her face would’ve been much, MUCH better than a few weeks of chores.
I get why he didn't. After all he was taking care of hundreds of other students, a sick wife and at least 3 kids. Reporting her to the dean probably meant a mountain of paperwork. It probably wasn't worth the effort, but since he has the evidence he had to address it in some way. It seemed like a pick his battles situation.
@@l.tc.5032 i can see your point. i was in a class where something like a third of the students got caught cheating on the final exam and that was turned into a 6 month investigation. teacher either got screwed over or just decided he hated his students because when i had him in a later course he was obviously less interested in teaching. on the up side, about 25 people got kicked out of school and black listed for other colleges. funny as hell.
Legend has it that when the world ends and all the buildings fall you can go to OP's neighborhood, at least where it once stood, and those mailboxes will still be standing tall.
I remember in a aita post recently he mentioned how he thought telling a dean that ops friend plagiarized their written paper to get into college and getting her kicked out was harsh. But here he is saying that now op here should have still sent in the evidence and gotten the person kicked out even after they apologized and were forced to basically make up for being a piece or sh.t. flip of the coin it seems.
Not gonna lie, the same theme as Story 1 was long ago. Maybe mailboxes are the training grounds to create ProRevenge. Plus it's a good way to create sturdy mailboxes and once you'll sell tell the story of your mailbox.
@@OldsmobileCutlass1969Va Identifying as a gender other than what they were assigned hurts no-one, an inexperienced, reckless driver on the road has a high risk of collateral damage.
If reddit has taught me anything besides "don't screw with the IT guy" and "if anyone asks for something in writing you better check yourself before you wreck yourself," it has taught me to NEVER mess with someone's mailbox/other rooted fixtures. They WILL replace it with concrete and it WILL destroy your car
Rslash: "why didn't you send the Dean evidence of plagiarism?" Also Rslash: "how could you get this person kicked out of college and lose their scholarship over plagiarism of your work?"
@@hawksucks3128 I feel that. I have to be to work at 6AM and can't leave until 6PM. If sucks ass, especially since all the supervisors come in at 8 and leave at 4
@@trevgauntletneu_gaming Depending on when, and where that happened, it's possible the local LEO's figured that the kid will learn a hard lesson from that incident. I doubt any parent would let their kid slide after wrecking the car like that, and losing their license so soon after getting it. The neighbors involved probably also didn't feel like pressing Federal charges after having the last laugh.
Story 3: The part about Sasha and her boyfriend almost made me cry. In Sasha's position I would be on the verge of committing 1st degree manslaughter. This is the kind of thing that would make Satan tell you to chill. Absolutely deplorable.
Present Rslash saying in the last story that he would’ve sent the dean the evidence anyway vs Past Rslash saying the girl who got mad HER OWN ESSAY, her ticket for college, got plagiarized and sent the evidence was too harsh.
I’ve been questioning his logic and reactions lately as well. Saturday there was a story where a woman opens up about her mustard loving psycho husband and he chooses to end it on a nonchalant note about his history with mustard. Not appropriate in my opinion
I thought that too. Feels wishy washy to say it's not okay to punish someone so harshly (ruining their chances at going to uni) for cheating for one circumstance, then turn around when it's presented again and say they should get the maximum punishment (turning in the evidence and getting the person kicked out of uni). Maybe he's the type of person to change their view on a whim due to backlash in a community, but not I. I'll always believe cheating in college/university should never be excused. They can start over and learn from their mistakes, and, hopefully, never cheat again.
My stepdad did the same with our neighbors for our mailboxes. 5 neighbors helped. That huge monster of a mail box line up lasted over 35 years but the poor thing couldn't put up with being hit by a huge truck. It ruined that guys truck but the railroad ties just finally gave up. We all have our own posts now
Stories about concrete mailboxes never get old. In the real world of American universities/colleges, the prof would have automatically sent that evidence to the Dean.
Way back in the 1930s my great Grandpa had a problem with someone taking out their mailbox. After the 6 or 7th time he had enough. Some how he got a 10 foot I beam. Dug a 6 foot hole. Dropped the I beam in it, and filled the hole with concrete. Then got a 50 gallon metal drum. Put that over the top of the I Beam, and filled that with concrete too. Finally, he put the mail box nicely on top. And covered it in concrete for good Measure…. He was a mad man on a mission~ About a week later, there was A resounding crash! A neighbor from 6 farms down the road was a Notorious drunk. In his drunken state he got a kick out of taking out all his neighbors mailboxes. When he saw Great grandpa’s new monster of a mailbox. He took it as a personal challenge. he floored it, aiming for the mailbox. The way my grandma told it. There wasn’t much left of the car. But the mailbox was perfectly fine. As for the guy. He was throw from the car and landed in the long grass and mud on the side of the road. He lived. 20 years later, the city wanted to expand the road. The monster mailbox was in the way. So they payed my great grandpa to blowup his own mailbox. Apparently he went a little overboard with the TNT, and left a 15 foot hole where the mailbox once was.
Dabney last week, when reported plagiarism lost a girl her scholarship: "I don't know if the punishment fits the crime." Dabney today, when reported plagiarism would have ended someone's college career in the last stretch (years and tens of thousands of dollars wasted): "I would've still reported her."
there was a similar story with mailboxes a while ago, but not using chunky railroad ties (kinda obvious that they are solid and indestructible), but thick steel pipe with re-inforced concrete, clad in wood, so it would look like a normal dingy mailbox post. it did the expected damage to the people who drive over mailbox posts for fun...
I heard one here where the homeowner built a mailbox using a long tool-steel rod as the core of the stand. Ripped the bumper off of the vandal's truck. Only two ways to get the cops to easily catch those people it seems: Have a camera recording your mailbox (this might not be possible if it's illegal to record the street) or build a mailbox that tougher than the car.
1rst story: "Those mail boxes were illegally built!" Yeah, because your son kept destroying them. Amazing that people try to use these kind of arguments. 3rd story: I'd have sent that info to the dean, to her parents, to every local school board, everyone. I wouldn't let her have a normal life after that. I am that petty when it comes to my friends.
First story the county may not have any regulations on the mailbox, but the Feds do. The mail and delivery is regulated by the Federal government. You may be able to construct it from a variety of materials. But there are regulations on how far from the street and how high it must be.
Mailbox story - Railroad ties are not 12 feet long & if you dig a 6 foot hole, bury a 12 foot post, you will have a 6 foot post to attach the mailbox to. My letter carrier told me that the regulations state 32" - 34" is the standard height for mailboxes. A mailbox on top of a 6 foot pole would be a bit out of their reach - unless they're on a horse.
My mom drove past a concrete mailbox and explained to me, that it was my grandpas! he made it!! She told me a story of why and how that I sadly dont remember, but I love that man for doing it
Oh, there’s a ton of mailbox trap revenge stories on Reddit. You can find them if you know where to look. I think this is the fifth or sixth mailbox trap revenge story he read to us.
My uncle's mailbox was ran over or hit with a baseball bat several times. He ended up putting a 6" steel pipe filled with concrete in the ground and welded up a sheet steel mailbox. After a drunk hit the mailbox another time the county said it could not be on the public right-of-way. He built and paved a turnout for the postal carrier that moved them completely out of the path of vehicles on the road and put the mailbox back up. Later a teenager broke their arm hitting the mailbox with a baseball bat and the sheriff made another visit, but because the turnout and mailbox were on his land and not the public right-of-way there was nothing the sheriff or the teen's parents could do. My uncle died nearly twenty years ago but that mailbox is still there and the new owners of the house use it.
I was here thinking it was that other reddit story, the one about a concrete mailbox vs brand new truck, or maybe a new story altogether. I guess "reinforced mailbox vs old Buick" just doesn't get the clicks.
Even a cheaply built mailbox is going to leave some damage to a car/pickup. Maybe not much, but some. And if you do it enough times to become an active annoyance people are going to build a VERY STURDY, REINFORCED mailbox that may or may not look "normal" but will absolutely destroy whatever vehicle is used to smash into it short of a tank. In my travels around the country as a truck driver (before I retired) I saw a lot of "interesting" mailboxes. One of my favorites had a "post" made from the welded links of a ship's anchor chain! I sometimes wonder what the story behind that post was.
Pro revenge be like, "He cut me off in traffic, so I killed his dog." And it's the highest upvoted story with comments like "Yes! I would've done the same!" "lmao should have also burned his house down" "haha that'll teach him to cut people off in traffic"
@@vintagecameragirl I can guarantee this is illegal in at least 70% the u.s. They say it was on a country road so it was likely in farming country since they tend to be more lax with driving laws when it's open land with nothing to crash into. Personally my guess is this was either in rural Ohio or northern California, not because of the memes but because my folks are from Ohio and this is the type shit that happens sometimes in winter, and I live in California and people drive kinda crazy up north where there's nothing but nature and crashing isn't a concern. Still doesn't change the fact that you have to be 16 in order to get a driver's license, which makes me think this was a long time ago
I love that in the first story you said pole host digger instead of post hole digger - had to listen again to be sure, but yep, you transposed the words!! Had me laughing as I do the same thing so often. Just today I called a Fender Mustang bass a Fuster Mendang🤣 Which may just be the best band name I've ever come up with 🤔🤣
My father did something similar with a 6" iron pipe and concrete for the same reason. The passenger would lean out the window and take out the mailbox with an aluminum bat... only this time he ended up breaking his arm, the driver jerked the wheel (I assume when the passenger screamed) hit the ditch and wrapped the truck around a tree. Oops.
@@l.tc.5032 destruction of mailboxes is considered a felony because you are interrupting federal business by ruining the mailbox. If they can't safely put mail inside it becomes a federal problem.
I heard this story from a college friend in the very early 70’s. His father was a WW2 vet~a member of the CB’s (Sea Bees). He was a military engineers who served from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. He built runways in the jungle while under fire. Post War he & a few friends opened a very successful construction firm that eventually went international. In the 60’s he decided to build a dream counry estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the first week his just put up mailbox was destroyed. He talked to the Sheriff & learned it was a chronic County wide thing. The father just smiled & built a mailbox using his years of military & civil engineering skills. My friend said it looked nothing special but his Father hid the high grade reinforcement with his devious skills. The crew of smashers tied repeatedly to tear the box down & they failed miserably. Finally they left behind a truck bumper with a license plate. It lead back to the culprits. The smashers folded like 5th grade little girls crying for their Momas. The Sheriff pointed out that mail box could be a federal crime with years of jail & their fathers loosing their farms to repay damages. In the end the boys were given years of community service for multiple County agencies. Their Fathers provide the appropriate discipline at home. My friend said that the Sheriff & many others welcomed his Father into the local community & his new country mansion was a happy part of the greater local society.
Unintentionally funny. When r/slash was reading the roommate story and just after: I would’ve leave until I served my slice of (Ad:) Cote d’Or, wich is a brand of chocolate.
Story 1 - Not sure is mentioned, kid is lucky it didnt get reported to the postal service, destroying a mail box is paramount to disruption of mail in the US, and therefore a federal crime since the mail box is protected by federal law. Who knows what the penalty for such was back then, but today it would be 3 years and a fine of upto $250k. As to the regulations around mail box construction, it doesnt actually fall under the county/state laws, the mailbox dimensions and designs must be approved by the Postmaster General, its why when you go to places like Home Depot that you will see the Postmaster Generals seal on such approved mailboxes. But for those wanting to know, and yes I did research this. The USPS website states that the position of a mailbox is between 41" to 45" from the road surface to the bottom of the mail box or point of mail entry. And has to be between 6" to 8" back from the curb, if you dont have a raised curb, which most country address wouldnt have, then to contact your local postmaster. However, as long as you are following the guidelines you are given, it doesnt matter what the mailbox is ultimately constructed with.
How did the father not notice the damage on the truck? Any parent that lets their kid have a car that age would be watching their child's vehicle like a hawk to ensure that they weren't damaging anybody's property or the car itself.
My neighbors across the alley had a driveway what came out onto the alley. They kept backing up over my back gate and smashing over the post. I dug a hole 3 ft wide and 5 ft deep. Dropped in a 9 ft piece of 6 inch oil well casing (about 1/2 inch thick wall), Then filled the whole thing up with concrete. Including the inside of the pipe. I was nice, though, and painted it bright yellow. It hasn't been hit since. That I know of :) .
I learned that mailbox vandalism really hits a nerve with people. When the Internet was new and shiny, many discussions like Reddit were done in newsgroups instead. One thread that started was about mailbox vandalism and it steadily grew into the biggest thread I have ever seen. I noticed people fell into one of three categories: "Vandalism. Bad." "Vandalism? I'm getting even (action in any form)" and finally, "bad, but don't do anything -- otherwise someone will sue you"
The house my family lives in had the same issue with the mailbox being knocked down, so the landloard had a friend with an auger dig a hole 6' deep then set a long bit of power pole in, and cut it at the level the post office said the driver would need the box to be, and after the new post and box were up, it was 5 days later when a car left 2 pieces in the road. I do not know who the driver was nor did any that are aware of the incident, but that was the last car to make that mistake, LOL the car could not have been very stable on the slow drive home, but the post only had 2 dents and 1 piece of plastic sticking out of the wood. LOL.
#1 reminds me of a story my dad tells. They grew up in a very rural area and electricity was scare. So elementary age kids and middle school kids had a lot of free time outside. As a result they built lots and lots of snow men. All over their yards. One year someone drove through the yards and crushed every single snowman. Happened 5-6 nights each time destroying 3-4 snowmen. Finally one of the dads decides it’s his turn to play. Take a big ole stump, puts a large steel pipe into it and makes a ginormous snow man. 4-5’ across and 8-10’ high. It didn’t take long for the culprit to strike. However, the stump destroyed the car enough that it was deemed a total loss. My dad was in high school at the time and knew the kid who was doing the driving but evidently no one knew who it was until he got caught red handed at midnight with a trashed car and no exude for being 40’ off the road on a straight away. Got in trouble a bunch of different ways. If memory serves me right one of the houses the kid had targeted was his father’s (the culprits) boss. Made work hard for a while if I had to guess.
A friend has a similar mailbox story. After having his and other neighborhood mailboxes run over and vandalized multiple times he put a 4-1/2 inch square cross section steel billet in to support his instead of a wooden 4 x 4 post and embedded it in a concrete foundation. The following weekend his household was awakened by a crash. The pickup truck that hit it had it's front bumper, grill, radiator and engine smashed. Police arrested him and towed the totalled truck away. His insurance paid for a new mailbox but the post and foundation just had to be reset plumb and were otherwise undamaged.
We suffered smashed mailboxes year after year where joy-riders would drive by and club the mailboxes with a baseball bat. After replacing our untold number of mailboxes, we bought a large box and a smaller one that would fit inside of it and filled the space between the two with concrete. I had the fellows at work weld a 3-inch heavy-wall pipe to a 3/8-inch steel plate to mount the box on and buried it in the ground and concreted it in. I thought about how surprised those kids would be when they tried to bash our mailbox now. I started feeling bad a few days later thinking that some innocent driver might run off the road and my concrete-filled mailbox going through their windshield killing them. I took it off the post and bought the cheapest plastic mailbox knowing that I may have to replace it from time to time.
Story #1 Having your 1st Illegal Behavior while driving at such a young age (14 years old) is a reflection of his father on how he was raised badly 👎 Story #3 When Karens like this are remorseless, cheat the system, are arrogant, and cause misery to everyone around them because they themselves are miserable and hateful. They feel the world owes or revolves around them. They will now learn in the hardest of ways that that's not how life works. Story 1 & 3 Are kids being raised poorly by their parents. Story 3 : OP just outsmarted a horrible system that's also a scam.
I wanna know where OP got a 12 ft rail road tie! I use rail tie's for corner posts on my land. And the longest I can find is 9 ft and I have to scrounge and hunt to find those. Most I find are only 8 ft long.
How true this stories is questionable, I think most are fiction. However, putting concrete inside or using heavy steel posts, etc. etc. will get you sued. A driver "lost control" and hit a mail fortified mail box that left him partially paralyzed he filed a lawsuit. You cannot make a trap out of your mail box than a shotgun with string as security device in you home.
Some one kept smashing my parents mail box. So my step dad finally got frustrated and made a mail box from 1/4 steel. A solid metal pole and cemented it in place. Then put up a camera and saw the kid that had been doing it. The kid took a swing at it with a golf club. Then screamed, dropped the golf club and started shaking his hands. The mail box is still there today.
S1 In a similar story, the devious and cunning dad even disguises the I beam piece and metal mail box with "pretty" looking pieces of wood veneer showing greenery! With a satisfying outcome LOL In another story 2 butth0les went around. One drove, the other swung a metal "baseball" bat at mail boxes. The bat was found abandoned and they heard the butth0le was treated in hospital for a badly injured forearm (from the whiplash)
You've read so many similar stories about people destroying mailboxes and people doing similar revenges. It's so bizarre that this seems to be such a common problem in the US. I've never heard of anything similar in my country.
