I think the Grandpa knew that the OP had been set up with the loaded gun by the OP’s cousin. That’s why there was the clause in the will about taking what wasn’t given to them. He knew the cousin was a slimy little weasel. The plan was to probably to just have OP out for a little to make it seem like the cousin won and then have them back. He just happened to have a heart attack before that last part. Keep your head up OP; your grandpa loved you and knew you were the real MVP.
I’d wager that the clause was in there all along-a good lawyer would advise people who will leave a large estate behind to do this to eliminate the possibility of infighting over the estate. Grandpa and Grandma-or their lawyer-were smart cookies!
I imagine classic racist cop but with everybody Pulls guy over for speeding “Sir do you know why I pulled you over” “No officer” “You got a busted taillight” Smashes taillight “And do I smell alcohol on your breath?” “No sir, I’ve been sober for 15 years” “Out of the vehicle hands behind your back, I think your trafficking drugs” “I’m coming home from church!” “Did you just threaten me?”
@@Nickwilde7755 so are you saying all cops are racist? Sounds like you are. I was a cop. Never stopped anyone because of their race, and never changed how I handled a stop because of a person's race. Frankly didn't care. You speed (6 over) you're getting stopped. How you react is how I react. You're a dick, well you just talked yourself into a ticket. You're cool with me, warning, because frankly I don't want to do the paperwork. I think you have a problem with cops and think they should be abolished or that YOU should be the police. This is scary. Secondly, why didn't the cousin report him to his superiors? If he fails a UA, blood test, hair follicle, ect. He would be terminated. There would be no questions. He may also be arrested and charged for being armed while intoxicated. This is a felony. This it what I would have done. If his supervisor wouldn't do anything, than you have the county Sheriff's Office. Guess what SO and City don't get along.
1st story: its disgusting how the cousin uses OP's grandparents as a source of money. And the cousin taking "OP's" (grandpa's) gun, putting a magazine in it, and told OP that they were getting arrested. And then getting himself into trouble because of greed.
A handful of the jewelry would send his kids to college. He had 4 shoeboxes full. All jewelry is not worth the same ofc, but it's safe to say that the jewelry was worth well over $1 million.
I'd bet that the jewelery was in their own boxes. Not just a pile of gold like what comes to mind. So might not be a lot of raw gold and gems but high quality stuff in their original boxes.
Yeah, the cousin’s greed was such that he played himself-not just because he took the jewelry, but because he tried to take all of it. If he’d snatched one box and then left in a hurry, he wouldn’t have been caught. OP was very slick!
It's possible he was actually going to bring it all to donate and was just gonna swipe a portion for himself just in case anyone checked up on whether it got donated or not. Though it's just as likely he was just being super greedy.
As for the story where OP tricks the pen thieves at work, I'm a Lefty, I curl my hand around paper, leaving it straight. I LOVE G2 pens because they write easily, dry quickly, and don't transfer ink to the side of my hand. Having said that, a few of my favorite G2 colors are the dark red, the dark blue, and the purple, which I keep hoping they'll put out in a dark shade like the red, blue and green. Unfortunately, I have to buy the multi packs to get my favorites because, I haven't found refills, nor do they sell them singularly. Which also means I end up with LOADS of colors I don't like/use. So, I've just started leaving them in random places like customer service counters, restaurant tables, etc. Because finding a free, quality pen in a pretty color hopefully makes someone happy, AND declutters my collection.
OP of the first story; I’m sure your grandfather saw you as a good man who either simply made a mistake or was simply a victim of a lie. I promise he still loved you, it’s very clear from what you wrote.
First story: When I saw the really bad trap the cousin set OP's grandpa in I felt no remorse. He deserved it, and more for also becoming a dirty cop. For me, mess with the grandparents' relation, and you are dead for me.
No op said a handful of his grandmother's jewelry could put all three of his cousins kids through college. So if a handful is worth over 400k, imagine how much 4 shoe boxes would be worth
If someone keeps stealing your pen, buy a electric shock pen. Its usually used for pranks but that can be used to find your pen thief. I got shocked once by a shock lighter where if you press it too slow, it shocks you similar to the shock pen.
The amount he was trying to take wasn’t small, though; that’s precisely how he ended up playing himself. If he’d snatched only one box or just a few pieces and fled quickly, he’d have gotten away with it. Maybe by the skin of his teeth, but still. But he wanted it all, and his greed overwhelmed his common sense and self-preservation. A few missing pieces wouldn’t necessarily be noted-although grandpa sounded like a smart cookie, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a detailed inventory filed away somewhere. But if *everything* went missing, people were bound to investigate. Cousin doesn’t seem to have thought of this. Plus, the cousin wasn’t even suspicious of OP, who had every reason to hate him, and just took him at his word. Greedy asshole got what he deserved!
…AND 4 shoe boxes full of jewellery wouldn’t have been missed - those grandparents were Croesus rich, like 1930s Rockefeller’s, Vanderbilt’s or Getty’s.
I think the Op thought the cousin would skim off of what he was gathering to "donate to charity." Which is why he said how valuable a handful would be.
@@nickiegoldinhart Right. But cousin was so greedy, he wanted it all. He didn’t stop to think that, while a few pieces might have been missed, surely if all the jewelry went missing, there’d be an investigation. Greed overwhelmed his common sense.
If I read along correctly the OP said that grandma had a collection of jewelry, gems & precious metals. That means it could be small gold bars so a handful of those could add up. I bet grandma had expensive shoes & gowns...
Years ago, in Kelowna, Canada (a very popular retirement and tourist destination) we had a similar situation to story #3. The farmer owned a plot of land in the middle of the city. Back then the province declared that all farmland had to go through a special, very convoluted process to convert agricultural land to commercial or residential property. The province didn't want to lose any farmland than absolutely necessary. But this was a relatively small lot in the middle of the city and the farmer was too old to farm anymore. After many years of not getting anywhere with the Agricultural Land Commission, the farmer decided to, "Restart his farm". Well, you need fertilizer to restart farming, don't you? In the hot August heat the farmer had two truckloads of chicken manure delivered to the perimeter of his property. He said the same thing. Well, it's agricultural land, so I might as well use it as agricultural land and farm it. You guys won't let me do anything else with it. Very shortly after that, the British Columbia Agricultural land Commission felt that rezoning one tiny plot of land in the middle of Kelowna wouldn't have that much of an impact on agricultural land. No one has ever seen rezoning paperwork go through the system that fast before or since.
Glad it worked out, in my case, my grandfather died, grandma lived another 13 years after and began draining the trust for her youngest who was spoiled and always begging for this and that, like how she paid for his knee surgery with no insurance and bought him 2 homes in Florida and a truck, all of which he put reverse mortgage on. He even potentially abused her, but there was nothing we could do to stop it from halfway across the United States especially as she wouldn't open up about it. When she died, he "died" within 2 months after (in his 50s) cause he couldn't stand life without mommy paying everything for him. My grandfather who died a millionaire left $500 to his four children through grandma in the end. We didn't even accept the agreement, because it was so abhorrent it wasn't worth waiving our rights to contest someday for $500.
Ah, finally I feel like I'm not alone in the world. I'm not the only one who buys some of my own office supplies to work. No-one's stealing them from me though.
My great grandma was nearly a millionaire, but she paid for so many people’s college’s, surgical needs, and even making home quashed/knitted mittens and hats by the trash bag full. She was a really kind and generous woman, and many people could not have gone forward (successfully ) in their lives without her. Many of the descendants have asked for money, but before she checked and tried to teach them to help themselves when next in that situation, then loaned them the money, expecting it back. I remember one time, our family needed help with car expenses, and when we gave the money back, she could not remember what it was for, as she was so trusting. R.I.P Oma, you are certainly in the tops of heaven with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
My dad keeps bragging he's worth millions of dollars whenever we get into an argument or money. BUT he's not organized, opened to new ideas, unrealistic plans and it's in real estate that's not easy to resale or managed well. So yeah I'm going to inherit it but it's going to be a rat's nest of problems.
The gun safety aspect of the first story didn't really make sense. Dude says he keeps the handgun for home defense, but it's locked up with a key stored in a separate place, AND the gun is unloaded. Good luck getting it loaded in time if you ever discover an intruder in your home.
As sort of related to the Pen thief story. At work, I went to the communal supply locker to get a highlighter and took an Orange one cause I hate bright yellow. After a while a co-worker (who is VERY set in his ways) saw it and mentioned that the Orange ones "were only for the Receiving Department", which I was not apart of. There are no set rules for highlighters in the company. Less than a week later my highlighter went missing. I know who took it, but I never brought it up...I just went and got another one and hid it in my desk drawer. Another quick one. I had a pen that had 4 colours in 1 (bought myself, not company owned). I had opened the pen up and put a dab of liquid paper on inside to identify it as mine cause there were a couple of those pens floating around. I left it on desk and over the weekend it went missing. I later found it on someone's workstation and opened it and saw the liquid paper. The guy that took it (not the same guy from the above story) and I DO NOT get along. I'm not surprised that he took it just to be a petty jerk and try and piss me off.
The last story seams to be very common. My aunt had a similar problem. She and her family wanted to build a modern cow farm outside of the city but the city council didn't let them sell the old property, which was in the middle of the city by the main road. The city stopped several deals and that's why my aunt keept the manure heap directly by the road.
mum has the same issue with pen stealing in the government where I live. She found out that the colour purple comes up black when scanned on black and white, which is what was needed. She brought some good quality purple pens and made that her signature pen to use. That combined with her unique style of handwriting, she was the only one to get away with this and no one would steal her pens cause the whole office would know.
12:00 Over here in the UK we had a guy who wanted to get permission from the local council to redevelop a plot of land, but it was denied, so instead he filed permission to place a tank on this plot of land in Bermondsey in London. The local council saw 'tank' and thought 'Septic tank'...no...in this instance the tank was an ex-Czechoslovakian T-34/85 tank which had recently been bought to the UK and used to film 'Richard III', which he then put on the plot with the cannon pointing towards the council offices. It's still there, on Mandela Way, nicknamed 'Stompie' after an anti-aparteid activist, it periodically gets repainted by local artists and is a local landmark.
The story about the farmer is eerily similar to what the town I lived near during high school had happen. They were expanding, building more home and businesses outwards. I sometimes drove the back road into town to avoid traffic and such on the highway leading in. One day a massive sign is out front of a long driveway leading to a farm. It read "Build next to this 3000 head a year hog pen at your own risk" Had the number in the story not been 400, I'd have been convinced this story happened in my old hometown lol
My Aunt took all of my Nana’s jewellery after she died, saying she’d bring it all to the next family gathering for all of us to go through. My Dad, Uncle and I knew it was gone so we deducted it from her share of her inheritance only to find she now owes the Estate 250,000. She never knew I was included as an executor of my Nana’s will as well. We took ownership of her house and we’ve had her evicted. In the process, we found many other items we’d been looking for that were to go to others. We pressed charges. She’s always been useless but we are appalled at what she’s done. Her kids get NOTHING because of her actions as well.
Y’all that pig farm revenge is brilliant. In Minnesota, there’s Martin County that is the #1 producer of pork in MN. And you can tell even before seeing the county sign you’re in it cus IT SMELLS SO BAD. Like the whole freaking county smells like pig/pig manure.
A horse rancher on the outskirts of my city had some apartments developed right next to his land and all the people in the apartments complained about the horses because "they are to noisy and smelly" rancher got annoyed with their complaints and built a hog pen against their back yards. They called the police and city but city and police said he is county and he can do what he wants on his land. Now the property value of the apartment has dropped extremely low
Similar thing happened in my neighborhood. We were grandfathered into the city but with county guidelines still in affect. There was a 3 acre empty lot in the middle of our neighborhood and the city sold it to build a semi private community of fancy houses. As soon as the houses were finished, people moved in and immediately complained about my neighbors 4 horses. Claimed they smelled and they never picked up the manure. They went to the city and the city shrugged and said "Want a free fence?" So they got a 10 foot tall fence and can't see my neighbors anymore. Every once in a while they'll have a go at someone with livestock but nothing ever comes of it.
8:10 Dabney...from US Department of Education: 2021-2022 average tuition and fees per year...Private college: $38,185 ($152,740 for four years...$458,220 for three grandchildren). Public in-state college: $10,338 ($41,352 for four years...$124,056 for three grandchildren). 35% of students go to private colleges...65% go to state colleges. Private colleges is almost four times more expensive than public colleges. Assuming all three kids go to private colleges inflates your calculations by a factor of 400%.
I’m a teacher and I LOVE Pilot G-2 pens. However, students are NOTORIOUS for stealing pens off teachers’ desk at my school. I use this SAME trick. My black pens are all colorful and my colored pens are all black. I get my pen thieves by writing black with a pen with the color matching the ink in their stolen pen. Do not mess with me, thieves!
Even if the cousin tried to arrest op, he would be in trouble for violating personal space, letting his child take op’s gun (stealing) and threatening to make arrest off duty over something so trivial.
There should be 3 tiers of prorevenge: 1: Small prank/person being annoying, under $1000 2: A little crime involved, something like screwing over a shed OP is building. $1,000 - $15,000/a few years in prison. 3: Life-changing revenge: permanent credit score below 550, decades in jail. $15,000 - $2,000,000 Anything higher is nuclear revenge.
I'll never forget when my grandpa was still alive. My ex step dad helped my mom out by watching him while she was at work. It worked fine, till around when my grandpa passed. Cause my step dad was drunk and was trying to say my mom cheated him out of my grandpa's house and he was threatening to call the cops. Even tho my grandpa didn't have a will My mom was his only child and exterior of his estate. She got so mad at my step dad and yelled at him that when if my grandpa did have a will his house would NOT go to my step dad. If it went to anyone it would be me since I was his closest grandchild to him and the apple of his eye. Thankfully he didn't try anything and 8 years later we still live in my grandpa's house. And my step dad rarely comes around.
In that first story, you know the older sibling was irredeemable trash when you find out it's a cop, and the best revenge is to paralyze the pile of fucking trash.
You forget to mention that op had said that a small handful would be enough to put his 3 kids through college, and the cousin had 4 SHOEBOXES FULL of jewelry
If you went to a A.C.E.-acculturation private school, you know the value of red-inked pens. I switched the inks of a red pen and a blue pen. They are used to check your homework, but are only allowed at the scoring station. Your homework is done in these booklets called PACEs So yes, you check your own work. The grade comes from when you take a test at the end of the booklet. If you fail, they go over your PACE, and see if you actually graded work correctly and learned from your mistakes, by actually redoing your work. See, if it was all “correct” you moved on. You could very easily grade your all correct when of course you did not. If it shows you did not correct your work, where labeled a cheater. You have to go the principal’s office, get detention, blah, blah, blah, and redo the PACE. You redo it again to if just suck at tests, but you don’t get in trouble. (any questions, this is very hard for me to describe).
My aunts did something like that...when my grandmother died they kinda broke into the house(my stepgrandpa still lived in) and took a bunch of stuff I already know im going to be an agent for karma, me nor my mother were able to ask for anything and I wanted a painting of my grandma(which i was never going to ask for until my stepgrandfather passed cuz I figured he wanted the painting of his wife) my aunt took it(while my grandpa was still alive, he passed recently due to covid, so i would have requested it now) its hung in a dining area at my aunts...in the dark where you can barely see it This is like a, "you hired a person to paint you kind of thing", not just a basic thing or a kids drawing....and its in a dark place you can hardly see and makes me depressed when I visit her house .... I know for a fact I will own that painting one day so it gets the honor it deserves, so my grandma can be remebered in the light And if that means doing to my aunt what she did to my grandma to get it...im petty enough to do it ..... I know i was probably supposed to get that painting anyway, im first born granddaughter, im named after her(middlename), I got her wedding dress, flower crown and pearls and grandfather clock we had to donate, probably was eventually suposed to inherit the portrait too(especially from talks with my grandparents when I was kid pointing it out all the time) ... Yes im kind of still angry about it all 10yrs later
Story 2, workplace thievery is one of my bug bears, I’ve laid many a trap and caught many a thief, when I do I covertly publish the evidence so everyone knows the thief’s identity.
There are some cultures where it is traditional to put as much of your savings as possible into jewelry. If the grandma had that sort of background then they might not be quite as rich as rSlash suspects. Also, when OP says "putting them through collage" he may mean less depending on where OP is, he may also be accounting for stuff like uni loans, scholarships and the parents current collage fund(if they have one). Alternatively they may just be really really rich especially if they had employee shares of a large company a good retirement fund etc etc
A few blocks from where I live. There's a shopping center with just a few leased shops. At the corner there's one house, the previous owners of the shopping center tried to buy out the home owner but not as commercial so the owner never sold his property. It's been there for at least 20 years+ LOL. The shopping center however has changed owners several times.
I knew that last story would have pigs. Pigs are like, the farmer's ace in the hole to win any battle. Wanna get someone to stop harassing you? Pigs. Wanna make everyone complain to get what you're owed? Pigs. Wanna dispose of a body overnight? Pigs.
LOL, I joined one of my friends world in Minecraft, because I had asked him if I could join five times an hour earlier, and I got bored and joined. One of the people who was in that world said “I’ll send ____ to beat you up if you don’t leave”. The person he said that he would tell to beat me up was literally my one of my bff’s for nine years, and I was like “yeah, good luck with that”. LOL 😂 I also asked that particular friend if he would ever beat me up for that reason ever, he said NO. So I’m thankful for that friend. I’m also a little pissed at my two other friends in that world.
I guy those self proclaimed “nice guy” vibes from a man that overlooks the work it takes to become a nurse and only sees “she saw my grandparents as her ticket”. Hide a noise maker to alienate me? Broke the lock box open? I’m aware I’m not a trusting person but this definitely screams “one side of the story” vibes to me
Instead of changing the pen colour, OP should of used some blue cream marking die on the body of the pen. That stuff gets all over you and is permanent. It won't was off at all. You'd be able to find the pen thief for days afterwards. Being in a machine shop they'd have some. And a little would do wonders, and with the oil and grease being on everything at a machine shop. No one would feel the cream either. We used to use it as a joke on ppl. Put a dab on the inside of the handle on a toolbox or a dab on the bottom side of a wrench or something. The target would have machine bluing on everything and all over themselves before they usually would notice! Funny as hell, until they get you anyway.
First story OP said that the jewelry was supposed to go to auction and they wouldn’t know if a little bit went missing, does this mean 4 shoeboxes is a little portion of jewelry?
Oh rslash...Do you not realize? The Post Said: a HANDFUL of grandma's Jewelry would allow all 3 kids to go to college (At last 500k by the time Im writing this?) You haven't taken into account: THERE ARE FOUR SHOEBOXES OF THE JEWELRY. THAT HAS to be expensive.
Lesson to be learned: If you have a dodgy relative who works in law enforcement or any other law profession and you know they're out to get you in trouble and try to take money that they haven't earned, you'll do well to record and document *everything!* Set up small, inconspicuous cameras to record all private property, audio-tape every conversation possible, and most importantly check any and every legal clause that can either be used against you or that you can use against their corrupt plans to stay ahead of the curve.
3 kids. my brother me and my sister. cop and nurse parents. bastard of a mother worked with blood in a hospital. father was a cop. their were some heavy addictions in that family cause we never struggled. damn that gives me a perspective
They said a handful of the jewelry would send the kids to college. Meaning there was more then that since a large part had to go to charity without notice
I always thought something was wrong with the first story. My first thought was "Oh, there was a case? Well the case can't have disappeared into thin air, right?" But also, "Record that shit. Mention a key and never what it goes to. When he tries to say "There is no case!" you hit him with that "I didn't mention a case. I mentioned a key to where it was. Could have been a room key, a safe key, a diary key. Anything. But I never said a safe. You just got caught in a lie where the truth is you found a key, found the case, loaded the gun, and handed it to your child, which is a lot more damning than your child going into a room I've asked you to keep them out of and coming across something they shouldn't have."
Lol, on the farm story. As someone who grew up on a farm myself, I knew exactly where that story was going because Pig farms STINK. Even farmers hate the smell.
what not talked about was Grandpa's Hearth attack natural or caused by stress or what ever by the cousin .the way op's cousin is acting only caring about the money wouldn't be shocked . If the cousin had helping hane in causing the heart attack of Grandpa for his money .
the first story so sad that OP cousin used their grandparents as paycheck and the cousin wife divorce him probably because since OP set up the cousin he didn't get his share and since he wasn't get no money she divorce him that what he get and I wish Op and his grandpa relationship recover before he pass
Keep in mind OP said a HANDFUL of the jewelry. That means there was WAY more than enough jewelry to put all three gremlins through school. Also, in my opinion, Papermate pens are the best pens.
Story 1: So the cousin and his shitty wife were so eager to get all the money that they framed OP and tried ruining OP's life. Pro revenge on greedy bastards is so effin sweet cuz those who are greedy only see dollar signs and no possible way things could come back to bite them! So OP's sneaky revenge was well worth it and justified! I love stories like this. The cousin got trapped by a gold digger wife who baby trapped him and then left him when he lost it all. Story 2: Really? Pen thievery?? What are we? In middle school???? Story 3: That farmer is the real MVP for this! Smelly justice is the best justice XD
We had something similar a neighbor had a lend next to us, with 3 accesses, 1 in gravel thruw farmland, 1 to the state road and a small one near ours, they couldn't use the others for legal reasons only our driveway to make the trucks come for the construction, but we didn't let them
In Belgium, you need a permit to own a gun. But there are very strict rules such as : Ammo and gun needs to be in 2 different safes with different codes (can't be similar ones either) and you need to go shoot with your weapon xx times per year in an official gun club or you'll lose the license and gun. Etc......
