Episode 3: Reddit's Most Satisfying Revenge
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What is the episode’s overall theme and how does the intro set up the revenge stories?
This is my story about how I cost a mobile home park thousands of dollars after their tow company unfairly towed me. I lived in a Texas mobile home park years back when I was younger and woke up one day to find my car missing. When I called the police to report it stolen. I was informed that it had been towed. I fought with the park office and tow company on the phone all day long. Having to call in and actually miss work. They had towed my vehicle from my own driveway in the middle of the night. It wasn't like it was on the street or a broken down eyesore or anything that would even warrant a toe. So I could not imagine what their reasoning for towing me could have been. Well, the tow company claimed I was partially parked on the grass, which wasn't allowed.
Okay, maybe half my passenger side tires were on the grass, but I honestly don't think it was even that much. Anyway, the reason why my tires even touch the grass. was because the driveway pavement was crumbling and deteriorating around the edges from age and the extreme Texas heat. So if you had two cars parked side by side, like my spouse and I did. One car essentially had to be slightly on the grass because of the poor deteriorating condition of the park's driveway. that was making it smaller and smaller with each passing year. Especially as grass began to grow up through the cracks and encroach over the edges. After getting absolutely nothing but apathetic hostility from both the park office and the tow company.
I called city code enforcement. and got them to come out to inspect my driveway that very same day. They found rather quickly that the drive didn't meet cove. Which required it to be so many feet wide by so many feet deep. In fact. It missed three-dimensional requirements by quite a bit after years of deferred maintenance. The inspector then went to the office to inform them of this violation. In addition, the code enforcer told the park office that they'd be doing an inspection of the entire park, all 188 lots, in the coming weeks, and that the park would have to bring every driveway in violation up to code within 30 days, or face ongoing penalties per violation. Until they were all fixed. This meant that the mobile home park
was set to be on the hook for thousands of dollars in repairs and perhaps additional thousands in fines.
How did the mobile‑home‑park resident get revenge on the tow company and park management?
They didn't correct every violation noted within the allotted timeframe. So I ended up getting my car back from the tow company at the end of the day without paying any of the fees. Once I was there, they gave me restrained attitude and tried to make me just get my car and get out. But I made a big deal about taking a dozen photos of my car from every which angle. just to document any potential damage they may have inflicted during the tow and storage process. I think the fines and violations on the mobile home park, that was the big revenge here. But taking my sweet ass time walking around the tow lot and inconveniencing these people in a similar way to the way that I was inconvenienced earlier. That was the petty cherry on top.
And I loved every minute of it. By the way, the park itself was a great independent place when we moved in, but it became this gluttonous monster once a national corporation bought them out. They went up 4% every single year on rent because that was a legal max, at least I believe it was. They also stopped renting homes so everyone had to buy their homes from the corporation too if they wanted to stay in their rental home once their lease came up for renewal, freeing the company from having to do any repairs. And of course they raised the prices of the home significantly more than what they were listed for if you opted to buy when they were still an independent park. Ours went up 5k from what we could have bought it for when we moved in.
And they were still independent. But we had no other choice other than to move after a single year of owning. So we took a risk and did a private lease to own just for what we owed on the home with another couple that had poor credit, and got out within a year after the towing incident.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the episode’s overall theme and how does the intro set up the revenge stories?
0:17–2:30
2
How did the mobile‑home‑park resident get revenge on the tow company and park management?
2:30–6:06
3
What legal and financial consequences did the park face after the code‑enforcement inspection?
6:06–10:50
4
How did the narrator use a hidden reboot script as harmless IT revenge on a demanding director?
10:50–15:19
5
What was the outcome of the scripted computer reboots and how did the director react?
15:19–18:59
6
How did the landlord’s eviction notice lead to a strategic “pay‑back” for the leisure‑company team?
18:59–22:46
7
How did the narrator turn a job interview into a career‑killing revenge against his old school bully?
22:46–26:25
8
What final reflections does the host share about the lasting impact of these revenge stories?
26:25–27:22