These Jerks Prove Karma ISN'T Real
People get away with things all the time. When it’s something small, we don’t really think about it. However, when what they’re doing is harmful to others, we can only hope that justice—or karma—will prevail. Sadly, that isn’t always the case. Here Redditors share their stories of truly awful people who faced zero consequences for their actions.
1. Bad Blood
My next-door neighbor was a wonderful person. She had a foster daughter for years, and eventually decided to adopt her. What happened next was legal, but horrible. The biological mother heard about the adoption and decided she suddenly wanted her kid back. After a few parenting classes and drug tests, the courts forcibly removed this little girl from my neighbor and put her back into her biological mother’s care. This woman hadn’t seen her child for over two years and had previous cases with Child Protective Services.
About a month later, the biological mom’s boyfriend took that little girl's life. She was this close to living a wonderful, happy life with my neighbor, then her mother ripped it all away.
2. Cashed Out
$25,000 was lawfully taken from my grandfather, who had Alzheimer’s but wasn’t diagnosed at the time. He couldn’t tell the authorities why he had that much money on him because he had forgotten. It was to buy a new truck. The officers just took the money and left without any charges being filed.
We didn’t find out until a year later when the authorities sent a receipt of the seizure to his house, and we found it when we were cleaning. But it was already too late. There was nothing we could do about it because the department had already spent the money. I'm still furious about it to this day.
3. Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
My best friend had two kids with his wife, who then left him for her very rich boss. But that was just the start of the nightmare. She and the boss wanted custody of the children. So, they used his wealth to bankrupt my friend in court battles. Every time the court was leaning towards a joint custody ruling, they would introduce some new “evidence” or delaying tactic.
They knew if they just kept dragging it out repeatedly, he would run out of money and give up, which was what happened. As a result, he had very limited access to his own kids, and the access he had was routinely denied or ignored by his ex-wife. Her response was, "What are you going to do about it? You want a battle like last time?"
4. I Couldn’t Lay This One To Rest
This woman—a serial suer—was at her best friend's funeral driving in the funeral procession when she suddenly stopped her car. The parents of the recently deceased were in the car behind her and bumped her bumper from behind. The procession was obviously going extremely slow. The woman sued the parents for back and neck injuries and won.
The last postcard we got from this woman was a picture of her dancing it up in Greece. Her family wouldn’t even let her come to visit them on their properties anymore for fear she would fall and sue them. She was a real piece of work.
