- [Narrator] Everybody loves to see some karma in action,
but sadly, in real life, it's all too rare.
Luckily, you don't have to wait for the universe
to deliver up some instant justice,
I've already done it for you.
So just sit back, relax and get ready
for some super satisfying tales of karma
giving bad people the punishment they deserve.
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A drink with a stink.
When police in Laverton, Australia,
were called to a crime scene in 2016,
it was immediately obvious that the criminals
had already been duly punished.
A tour bus driver had returned to his vehicle,
noticing what seemed to be a fuel cap on the ground,
evidence that people had tried to siphon his gas.
Typically, fuel thieves will remove the cap,
attach a hose to the fuel port and suck
to get the fuel flowing on a heist like this.
Only on closer inspection, the bus driver discovered
that the actual fuel cap was still firmly in place.
He was dumbstruck to find,
instead, that the cap on the ground
had been removed from the bus's sewage tank.
And there was a literal spattering of evidence
on the ground that, in a short-lived effort,
the perpetrators had attempted to suck fuel
and instead sucked stool.
The officers spotted the signs of a quick getaway
after this shameful realization.
Needless to say, the police had very little interest
in recovering those stolen goods.
Karma, you nasty!
Double fly tipping.
When a farmer in the UK grew tired of fly tippers
dumping their trash on his land,
he took to patrolling the vicinity at night
to catch them in the act.
He was successful and confronted a couple of white van men
intruding on his property in April, 2019.
But wrestling one of them to the ground wasn't enough,
the farmer had brought a friend along.
That friend happened to be driving a digger
and wasted no time ramming into the junk-laden van
and tipping it over.
As this farmer proved,
the only way to deal with fly tippers
is to tip them right back.
Home sweet home confinement.
Occasionally, the punishment fits the crime
in the most delightful ways.
This was exactly the case for a Kansas man
named Lawrence Ripple, who robbed a bank in 2017.
After the bank teller handed over the cash
during the robbery, Lawrence waited politely in the lobby
for the police to arrive
and put up little resistance when they did.
Only when the police interviewed the robber's wife
did they find out why he'd been so cooperative.
It turned out, Lawrence had revealed his crime plans
to his wife, telling her he'd rather be in jail
than at home with her.
The whole fiasco had been an attempt to get away
from his wife, and once he'd been put through
the court system, karma had been truly served.
His sentence, six months house arrest,
plenty of time to make it up to his beloved wife.
Not on my land.
When a Redditor moved into a new house,
they disliked the fact that their kitchen window
looked straight into their neighbor's kitchen.
Seeking some privacy, they laid down a load of plants
so the view would be obscured.
It was costly but it seemed worth it.
The next day, they awoke to find that their neighbor
had chopped down all of the plants.
And when confronted, he claimed they'd been planted
on his property line.
Not wanting to cause trouble with the new neighbors,
the Redditor stayed quiet and laid down some new plants,
but closer to their own home this time.
There was no way
these could be on the neighbor's property line.
But the neighbor cut them down again, with the same claim.
That was the last straw.
The Redditor called a professional to assess
the property line and found that not only was the neighbor
in the wrong, his fence was massively encroaching
on the Redditor's property.
Long story short, the neighbor lost a quarter
of his backyard and had to pay $10,000
for the destruction of property.
This time, the plants stayed planted.
Cementing your fate.
Some people seem to think that owning a sports car
elevates them above the rules of the road
the rest of us have to follow.
But thankfully, the rules of physics don't make exceptions
for jerks with more money than brains.
Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the countless
cases of arrogant rule-breakers getting stuck in wet cement
while trying to beat the game.
These cases are ridiculously common
and extremely satisfying to behold.
There's nothing like cement
to really put someone in their place and keep them there.
Karma's faithful whip.
It's often the case that those who rally the hardest
against a certain cause, end up being secret perpetrators
of that very thing themselves.
But rarely is the punishment for this type of hypocrisy
as perfect as the case of an Indonesian man
named Mukhlis in October, 2019.
Mukhlis was part of a council that drafted laws
into existence in the Aceh region of Sumatra Island,
whereby anyone guilty of adultery
would receive a painful, humiliating public whipping.
Not long after Mukhlis assisted in the laws passing
was he caught, quite literally, with his pants down
with a married woman.
The adulterous pair were brought in front of a crowd
and caned 51 times between them.
While the law is certainly barbaric,
the lesson rings true.
Practice what you preach,
especially if you're practicing on another man's wife.
Heist of the century.
When an Irish fellow went to visit his father's grave
in 2017, the last thing he was expecting
at the cemetery was hilarity.
But when he stumbled across a truly bizarre crime scene,
that's exactly what he got.
The cemetery was home to a fake brick-cladded building,
with a heavy door.
And the visitor was surprised to find that overnight,
someone had cut a hole in the side.
Slowly, all became clear.
Someone had seen the building and finding it locked,
assumed it to be a crypt filled with family valuables.
So they'd taken a considerable amount of time
to hack their way in.
First, they tried and failed to cut the locks.
Then they unsuccessfully attempted to tear the roof off.
And finally, they succeeded by arduously
cutting through the wall.
Only what they found inside wasn't priceless
antique heirlooms, it was a toilet.
- It's a toilet!
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- [Narrator] They'd broken into a cemetery bathroom.
Stick to bank vaults next time, maybe guys.
Karma will ketchup with you.
Sometimes those who accumulate bad karma
are able to redeem themselves.
That's exactly what happened in August, 2019
when a self-proclaimed awful person,
in the heat of out of character rebellion,
stole a bottle of ketchup from a restaurant.
No one was anywhere the wiser
until the restaurant servers found a note
left there a few weeks later.
The note confessed to the heinous crime and detailed how,
ever since the act was committed,
the thief had been plagued with exceptional, bad luck.
Hours after stealing the ketchup,
someone crashed into their car
and countless other disasters followed.
So by providing the restaurant with a ketchup bottle,
plus an extra one for good measure,
they hope they'd be able to rebalance the karmic scales.
It worked! The note was shared online and went viral.
Within a few days, Heinz's official Twitter account
had caught wind of the story and launched a search
for the ketchup thief.
But once they found them,
they not only publicly forgave them,
they also helped pay for the repairs
to the good natured thief's car.
Now that's the kind of good PR I can get behind,
and all in the name of ketchupy karma.
Drop like a brick.
Sometimes karma is the best deterrent of all.
And if the thief in this next clip didn't take
the universe's is anti-douchebaggery warnings
he received to heart,
he probably deserves more karmic punishments.
When a young car thief in Durham, England
attempts to break the window of a parked vehicle,
he turns the phrase,
"banging your head against a brick wall" upside down.
Specifically, he brings the wall to him.
As the thrown brick bounces off the car window,
clipping him directly in the face.
And after he hunches over in pain, he gets Karma's message
and saunters off to rethink his awful choices.
Easy as it gets.
Police work isn't easy, but it can be when the criminals
do the officers' work for them.
In what's essentially the opposite of a high-speed pursuit,
this footage captured by Ohio officers in July, 2019,
sees a drunk driver veering on the road.
Thankfully, he's not a threat for very long
and parks himself right in front of the police
by slowly crashing into their bonnet.
He takes a moment to realize what's going on.
But when he does, his earphones are pulled out
and a feeble escape is attempted.
I mean, I think that's what it is.
It could well be a dance move.
Either way, he was charged with a DUI and the police
were grateful that he inadvertently
made their evening much easier.
Stop right there.
Sometimes karma can be a little cruel when it hands out
it's darkly-suitable punishments.
One such case from 2012 involved a young man
with a deadly penchant for stop signs.
Tyller A. Myers of Norwalk, Connecticut
was driving around one night and making other drivers'
lives slightly more dangerous,
but not by drunken or reckless driving.
He'd been stealing stop signs and had amassed
quite the collection in the back of his pickup truck
from his night's adventures.
But for every stop sign he stole,
it seems he ignored many others, driving straight past them
without any regard for their purpose.
If he'd stopped at one sign in particular,
whether to obey it or just to steal it,
it would have had profound effects
that he'd probably never even have noticed.
But he chose to drive straight out, past that one stop sign
right into the path of an oncoming truck.
Unable to stop, the truck T-boned him.
And with his seatbelt unfastened,
Myers was killed then and there.
He lived by the stop sign and he died by the stop sign.
The world's toughest snowman.
Some people are jerks out of anger or vengeance,
but some are just jerks for the sake of it.
Like people who smash up strangers jack-o-lanterns
or destroy innocent snowmen.
But in Kentucky, in January of 2019,
one such snowman fought back.
After a homeowner returned to his house to see tire marks
parting the snow in his front yard,
it didn't take him long to work out
what had occurred in his absence.
A car had purposefully driven into his yard
and attempted to knock down the nine-foot tall snowman
he'd constructed earlier that day.
But what the driver didn't realize until it was too late,
was that the homeowner had used a thick tree stump
as the base of the snowman.
The driver had likely crashed straight into the trunk,
doing more damage to their vehicle than to the snowman.
The snow giant, on the other hand, stood strong and proud
as the car drove away broken and embarrassed.
Heart's not in it.
Now I'm in no place to say whether karma plays favorites
but cases like this certainly make you wonder.
When a pastor in Guarulhos, Brazil
was parked on a residential street in January, 2019,
he was surprised when a group
of criminals surrounded his car.
They threatened him, attempting a robbery,
but when one of them pried open the driver's side door,
the biggest surprise of all arrived.
The robber at the door collapsed,
much to the confusion of his co-conspirators
who soon fled the scene.
But the collapsed thief would hold no grudges
against his accomplices for abandoning him
because he was dead.
It turned out he'd had a heart attack while attempting
to rob the pastor and had died almost immediately.
The pastor escaped with his life and his car.
Undoubtedly reaffirming his beliefs for life.
Which of these styles of karma gone right
did you enjoy the most?
Do you think I have any karma tales of your own?
Let me know in the comments section below.
If your story is good enough, I might even feature it
in a future video.
Thanks for watching!
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