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32 Revenge Plots That Were Incredibly Petty — And Totally Worth It

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge

32 Revenge Plots That Were Incredibly Petty — And Totally Worth It

November 25, 2023

As they say, revenge is a dish best be served cold. However, some vengeance plots have functioned colder than others. Which ones exactly? Well at least in terms of movies, here are some of the deadliest and most destructive, maddest and incredible revenge plots in history…

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Roger Anderson achieved his revenge against telemarketers by creating the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, a subscription-based chatbot designed to waste telemarketers' time. golly Roger TELEPHONE C° S SC LN bay Programmed with snippets of his own voice, Anderson now has thousands of subscribers who stick it to telemarketers with bots like Crazy Mazy, which holds the bragging rights for a record 45-minute conversation. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Property mogul Harry Macklowe had to split his $2 billion fortune with his wife after their divorce. Не got back at her by putting giant pictures of himself and his new wife on an apartment building his ex was buying. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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King Pedro I of Portugal searched for his lover's killers for years. Ines de Castro's murder In 1355, King Afonso IV of Portugal had his son Pedro's lover, Ines de Castro, murdered (her crime was not being noble enough for Pedro). In two years, Pedro became king. Не spent six years hunting the assassins. Не caught two of the three and had them publicly executed by having their hearts torn out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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After a bad breakup, Jennifer Fitzgerald's ex-boyfriend bought a car in her name without her knowledge, then parked it at Chicago O'Hare Airport. MENTE CIELO 9 It was there for two years, getting over 600 tickets and racking up over $100,000 in fines. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Over 16 months, 40-year-old Japanese man Shigeta Miura sent 70 packages containing around 500 junk items, including old ladies' underwear, dirt, and other junk, to four of his former bullies from school. - - .. - BEAN .... DE UN - .... places KINGDOM there DO - BE الاعل م POST JAPAN POST His method was rather genius. Не mailed to random addresses without stamps, writing the bullies' addresses as the senders, so that the packages would be returned to them. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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32 Revenge Plots That Were Incredibly Petty — And Totally Worth It — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Alfred Hitchcock cast Raymond Burr as the villain in Rear Window because he looked like David 0. Selznick. Selznick had acted as producer on four of Hitchcock's films, and Hitch found Selznick's micro-management insufferable. Selznick Burr CRACKED GOM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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When Genghis Khan sent envoys to open relations with the Khwarezmid Empire, they attacked the caravan, then killed his interpreter. SO GENGHiS wipEd KHwaREzMia off tHE Map. Genghis Khan's army destroyed an army five times its size, and by the time they were finished, not even dogs or cats were spared. The entire empire was literally erased, its four million inhabitants reduced to mounds of skeletons. CRACKED.COM Stephen Turnbull 2003 Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400 — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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When Brian McCrary received a retroactive speeding ticket, he took over the police department website. When he got the ticket, he went online to try to find a non-emergency phone number to call. When he landed on the department's website, he saw a notice that the domain was about to expire. KOOSY SO НЕ bought 4HE-domain. 80 bucks later, McCrary was the proud owner of the police department website. Не filled it with information about speed traps and traffic cameras, including camera locations and how to avoid them. CRACKED.COM http //abcnews go com/Technology/man-buys- police-dept-website-speeding-ticket/storyid=10858731 — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Eliahu Itzkovitz tracked down and befriended the man who killed his family. When Itzkovitz was a child, he saw his entire family murdered by a Romanian guard in the Chisinau Ghetto. All he knew about the man was that he was named Stanescu. Itzkovitz joined the Foreign Legion, because he heard a rumor that Stanescu was there. Не managed to get assigned to Stanescu's unit, and became one of his most trusted comrades. tHEN НЕ GUNNEd HiM dowN. GRAGKED.COM Bernard Fall, 2005 Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Vermont State Police

Prisoners in a Vermont correctional facility print shop were tasked with printing decals for the state police cars. VERMONT STATE POLICE SO tHEy addEd a piG. It actually took the police a year to notice it was there. GRACKED.COM http://www bostonglobe com/opinion/editorials/2012/02/09/vermont-prank- don-have-cow-man/FW5Xb9WFIHm Vqj6ts9ZTyl/story.htm/?campspm — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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When Home Guard soldiers killed his father and brother, Henry Berry Lowry formed a mixed-race gang and waged war on racists. The Confederate Home Guard was a paramilitary group that rounded up non-whites and pressed them into slavery. The Lowrys were members of the Lumbee tribe, and drew first blood by killing a Home Guard officer who got too grabby with the Lowry women. HENRY'S REVENGE: Henry spent the next seven years fighting, robbing, and killing plantation owners and notables, and openly warring against the Ku Klux Klan. In true Robin Hood fashion, Henry both took from the rich and — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Mariya Oktyabrskaya avenged the death of her husband by buying a tank and killing Nazis with it. It was 1943, and her husband was killed in the Battle of Kiev. Oktyabrskaya sold everything she owned and used the money to buy a tank for the military, stipulating that she be allowed to pilot it herself. БОЕВАЯ ПОДРУГА 396 It went beautifully, too. The tank she dubbed the Fighting Girlfriend led her unit in battle, tearing through the opposition with ease. When the tank was damaged, the crew stopped mid-battle, repaired it, and kept going. GRAGKED.COM Henry Sakaida, 2012 Heroines of — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Todd Stave is a Massachusetts landlord who received harassing phone calls over the abortion clinic on his property. Protesters would phone his home at all hours, spewing colorful threats at Stave and his family. SO stavE RESPONdEd WitH HiS OWN PHONE campaiGN. Every caller who bothered the Staves would receive a polite return call, thanking them for their prayers and politely reiterating Stave's intention to keep the clinic running. From each volunteer helping the Staves. Because of the widespread support for the clinic, a caller could receive 5,000 return calls. CRACKED.COM http://www. washingtonpost com/local/a-clinics-landlord-tumns- the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/g(QAThgwiS_story.htm/ — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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David Bowie went from '70s freak to '80s megastar out of spite. Specifically, he did it to spite his former manager, who was contractually entitled to take 50% of Bowie's royalties until 1982. Between 1976 and 1980, Bowie made the most intentionally uncommercial records of his career. Then, as soon as the contract expired, he released the pop-est album imaginable, Let's Dance. It sold 10 million copies and made him a multimillionaire. GRAGKED.COM Marc Spitz, 2009 Bowie: A Biography — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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After WWII, a special force of Jewish soldiers hunted down and executed former Nazis. They operated until 1960, and eliminated hundreds of escaped Nazis. Their main target: high-ranking SS officers who were never prosecuted for their crimes. tHEy callEd tHEMSElVES tHE avENGERS. GRACKED.COM http://www. express CO uk/expressyourself/93194/The-real-avengers- The-Jewish-survivors-who-hunted-the-Nazis — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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John Cleese stuck it to his ex-wife by doing a comedy tour called The Alimony Tour and insulting her several times during each show. STUDIOS - JOHN CLEESE LIVE THE ALIMONY TOUR 2011 1° EVER LIVE DVD! DVD CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Long-Game Revenge Schemes

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Don Trachte Jr. forged a Norman Rockwell painting to keep his wife from getting it in their Second THE ORIGINAL divorce. The forged version of Breaking Home Ties hung in a museum until Trachte died, when his sons found the original behind a false wall in his THE FORGERY home. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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For 25 years, George Lucas tried to build a production studio on his Marin County property. His neighbors continually blocked the project, whining that it would ruin their everything. So Lucas sold the property for use as a low-iNCOME HOUSING pRojEct. CRACKED.COM http://www — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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After Aline Lawlor Coker had a falling-out with her brother, she bought the 262 available plots in their local cemetery SOLD to prevent him from being buried with the rest of the family. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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When Lord Byron went to Cambridge, he wanted to bring his dog. Не was told he couldn't. Apparently the rules of Trinity College specifically forbade dogs on campus. SO HE bouGHt a bEaR. Не brought the bear with him to Cambridge, because there were exactly no rules against bears. CRACKED.COM http://www.praxxis. CO ukicredebyron/menagerie.htm — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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In 1999, Stephen King was struck and severely injured by a minivan driven by a man named Bryan Smith. King ended up with Smith kept his a fractured hip, a leg license, got a broken in nine six-month suspended places, eight chips sentence, and in his spine, four described the event broken ribs, and 30 as an accident stitches to his scalp. without a cause. KiNG'S REVENGE: Не bought Smith's minivan for the express purpose of smashing it up with a sledgehammer. Then he wrote a character named Bryan Smith into his Dark Tower series. Like the real Smith, he — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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To get back at Def Jam for not helping with his debut album, Frank Ocean made a video album of himself building a staircase for 45 minutes, called Endless, ending his two-album contract with the label. CAXOM Не then released his real second album, Blonde, the very next day with Apple. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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After his father filed a lawsuit that would force him to sell his $500,000 home, a man from Florida decided to give the property a vibrant makeover. Не didn't just splash paint around. Не took rollers and worked every corner. Who IS 1 OMAR? CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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CRACKED.COM When her engagement to a member of Buenos Aires' aristocratic Anchorena KAVANAGH BUILDING, 1936 family was thwarted- Corina Kavanagh built a 33 story building to block the family's view of their private church. — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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CRACKED COM Painter James Whistler had a dispute with his patron Frederick Leyland, who rejected Whistler's design of his dining room and refused to pay him. The painter would later go bankrupt. Whistler took the one SH time to paint Leyland as a hideous peacock monster and left the painting in his house for his nemesis to discover. — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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In 2013 Richard Neale left Esselar, the cyber security firm he had co-founded, on bad terms. Не waited CRACKED.COM months until Esselar was giving a security presentation to its client Aviva and then hacked Aviva's system, wiping the data from 900 company iPhones. IOU 60 80 70 60 Hello 50 40 30 20 10 Esselar (unsurprisingly) lost Aviva's $135,000 contract as well as over $840,000 in other business (and Neale got an 18-month prison sentence). — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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CRACKED.COM Tim Martin was told by his teacher that he'd never be successful in business, so he created a huge pub chain in the teacher's name. Wetherspoon now has over 800 outlets all around the UK and Ireland. — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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GRACKED.COM During a contract dispute, legendary author Harlan Ellison had 213 bricks mailed to a publishing company, one by one. Не followed up with a dead gopher. Each package was received postage due. That is, the recipient pays. — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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Tokyo resident Akio Hatori got annoyed when his bicycle seat was stolen, so he decided to steal 159 bicycle himself. seats When he was finally caught, he said, I wanted other people to feel what Ihad gone through, and I stole the seats as a form of revenge. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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British portrait painter Daphne Todd took slow-burn revenge on a subject. She made a four-hour roundtrip during the Christmas holidays to do one guy's portrait, but he didn't want to get out of bed. So, when she finally started painting, she painted devil horns under his hair. They'll become visible as the top layer of paint fades over decades. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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After a woman's neighbors reported her to the city for illegally renting out her house on Airbnb, she painted her house bright pink with emojis to spite them. Now they're trying to figure out whether the emoji house violates any rules. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Revenge Plots (Worthy Of 'Kill Bill')

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