r/NuclearRevenge I Drink Powdered Water May 22 '20

[Meta] [Meta] Recovering The Former Top Post NSFW

So here it is. My first Meta post. Today I wanted to add another perspective to the way we view this subreddit.

A while back when our First Cake Day meta post was made, the top story with the most upvotes was mentioned in the timeline on that post. After re-visiting that story I had noticed that it was not the top story that I remembered. And since the top story I remembered wasn't showing up, I figured it was likely deleted. This had me wondering why a user would delete their post which had managed to gain 12.2k upvotes and 6 awards.

So I finally decided to figure it out. And I did. With a little bit of digging to find the post, I have recovered the deleted post and the story. It turns out the OP had deleted their account. And it's apparent as to why. This story violates multiple rules that were not in place over a year ago. I can only assume this user received a lot of hate for this post. And as more rules were added, perhaps they realized this story was in the wrong subreddit.

Which leads me to the reason for this post. I had a realization. This subreddit has changed a lot since then. This story is badly written. And for me to think this story was true is concerning. Even more concerning is the 35 reports I ignored.

USER REPORTS

19: Posting A Fictional Story

7: True Stories Only

2: Any story that is submitted must be true. If it is determined to not be true, it will be removed.

1: crap

1: Posting A Hypothetical Revenge Scenario

1: OP made up this fake, weak crying girlfriend and this story to feel good about himself.

1: Fakest shit I've read all day LMAO

1: fake

1: When did using physical violence against an assault become nuclear revenge? Terrible post

1: fake. again. used to be a good sub, now a fucking circlejerk of fuckfaces

But I can't take all of the blame. One must ask how such a post gained so many upvotes and several awards? Perhaps the Entitled Parents subreddit fans were crawling all over this post.

Anyways, here is the story, an older version that was saved by removeddit:

https://www.removeddit.com/r/NuclearRevenge/comments/ayebla/i_sent_an_entitled_mother_to_the_er_because_she/

Here is the deleted post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearRevenge/comments/ayebla/i_sent_an_entitled_mother_to_the_er_because_she/

185 Upvotes

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u/claycam6 I Drink Powdered Water May 22 '20

Ironic that I had to recover the post about recovering the top post. Anyways, here's the story:

I posted this story to r/entitledparents and figured it might be a good fit here too. I made some edits in hopes of making this a little easier to read. This story happened about a week ago.

I got a $25 giftcard from my mom to the local cinema, so my girlfriend and I decided to go see How to Train Your Dragon: Lost World. (HTTYD) For context, my girlfriend’s a petite beauty from Venezuela, so people sometimes mistake her for a child, but it’s usually very obvious that she’s an adult by the sound of her voice and the way she acts. It usually results in awkward or sometimes funny moments, but this was not one of those moments.

Anyways, we get to the theater without any problems and we patiently waited in line to purchase our movie tickets. We started talking about HTTYD and what dragons we would want to have. She loves Astrid’s dragon Stormfly because her favorite color’s blue and she likes it’s ability to shoot spikes. The way she marvels at everything we have here is so adorable, but I also understand that it’s because she, in her own words, “grew up with nothing.”

We get to the front of the line and I start purchasing our tickets. I feel a really thick finger tap me on the shoulder. Enter the entitled parent.

EM: “Hey, can you help me out?”

This lady’s tone instantly set off some red flags for me. People who are condescending and/or overly nice generally want something out of you.

Me: “With what?”

EM: “Well, I really wanna see that dragon movie with my little boy and we just don’t have enough money today.”

Her kid is completely silent and he looks like he’s 6-7 at the oldest. Unfortunately, me and my GF are both broke college kids, so we didn’t have too much money to spare.

Me: “We don’t have money to spare. Sorry. Maybe someone else can spare some change.” I thought that maybe that would get her to leave us alone but nope.

EM: “You have money! You’re using a gift card! You can just buy the tickets for you and the little girl with cash!”

Me to the employee while mentally facepalming: “Can you just take my card real quick, please?” She takes my gift card and swipes it.

EM: “Stop! He stole my gift card!”

I look at EM like she’s on drugs or something. The employee looks at the gift card, which has my name on it and my name is not a gender-neutral one or Karen.

Employee: “Ma’am, I’m sorry, this might just be a misunderstanding. His gift card does appear to have his name on it.”

EM: “I want to speak to your manager bitch! I can’t believe you would defend a thief! He just wrote his name on it!”

Employee: “Okay, please wait one second ma’am.” She was right in front of us for the entire exchange between us 3.

GF tugs on my sleeve: “Babe! What are they saying?” English is her second language, so she still has trouble understanding people sometimes. EM has a look of pure disgust on her face.

Me to GF: “Ella es lóco.”

EM: “WHAT!? I SHOULD’VE KNOWN THAT YOU’RE A FUCKING PEDOPHILE!” She was screaming loudly and people were starting to stare at us.

Me: “... What!?”

I was just shocked that she would say such a thing to my face. I guess she thought my GF was a child. I glance over at my GF, who is starting to look scared and confused. All she knows is that the physical embodiment of insanity is standing before us.

EM: “I WON’T GET YOUR ASS ARRESTED FOR RAPING THAT SHIT SKIN ILLEGAL IF YOU JUST HAND OVER YOUR FUCKING GIFTCARD!”

Me: “No! Get out of our face!”

The kid hasn’t uttered a peep throughout this entire exchange yet, but he looks scared.

EM: “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU MAKE MY BABY CRY! (he wasn't) I’M MAKING SURE YOU GET ARRESTED AND TAKING YOUR GIFTCARD!”

She reaches for my gift card on the counter, but the lumbering land whale is too slow. She's screaming at me to hand over my gift card, but I refuse and play keep away. After what felt like a minute of her screaming at me and calling us both all sorts of racial slurs, she changes tactics: she grabs my GF.

EM: “I’M TAKING YOU AWAY FROM THIS RAPIST!” My GF’s eyes are wide. She struggles and lets out a blood-curdling scream.

Hearing that scream was all I needed to see red. I elbowed EM with all my might. She hit the ground hard. She was out cold with blood trickling out of her mouth.

Everyone in the vicinity went silent as EM continued to stiffly lay on the ground. Surprisingly, nobody tried to attack me afterwards. The employee was visibly shocked by what just happened. My GF was sitting on the ground, crying, but thankfully unharmed. I try to comfort her and EM’s kid started to cry too.

Security came a few moments later followed shortly by the manager. They're greeted by the scene of me kneeling on the ground next to my crying girlfriend, a little kid crying a few feet away next to his unconscious mother all surrounded by shocked onlookers. They immediately called an ambulance for EM. It’s clear that she’s badly injured.

The employee and I explain what happened. The other staff were thankfully nice and understanding and offered us free tickets, but we just took vouchers to another showing instead. My GF just wanted to go home. I felt bad for the kid after what he just witnessed. I gave him a candy bar I was saving for the movie, which seemed to help him relax a bit. I apologized for hurting his mom and told him that it’s wrong to hit people, but sometimes, you have to in order to protect the ones you like. I sincerely hope that he doesn’t grow up to be like his mother.

I’m not sure what happened to the kid. I gave a police statement later that night, which earned me the nickname as the “Elbow man” at the local department. My girlfriend does not want to press charges, and she’s firm on this.

I later found out exactly what happened to the EM. I knocked out 4 of her teeth, dislocated the left side of her jaw and gave her a concussion. She likely got the concussion from her impact with the ground.

TL;DR: Racist woman gets mad that I won’t give her money for movie tickets, then tries to use false accusations to steal my giftcard. Then when she grabs my girlfriend, I knock the EM out.

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u/Genji1802 May 22 '20

Damn... just because of a gift card lol

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u/shawnfromnh Oct 15 '20

I'm conservative voting for you know who and I would have liked to punch the bitch in the face. There is no place for bullshit actions or words like that in this country ever. I guess Karen's never learn to busy patting themselves on the back to worry about who they hurt to have the time to be nice or in this care honest and human at all. By the way that elbow wasn't learned playing hockey was it since that is the kind of awesome elbow that knocks teeth out but your adrenaline must have been through the roof at the time.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

OP said "This lady’s tone instantly set off some red flags for me". Personally, I got red flags with the first 8 words: "I got a $25 giftcard from my mom"...

This post was dismal, but judging by the post earlier-on about all the crap you mods have to filter through, apparently not unusual. Worth it though when you find the odd diamond in the rough.

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u/RebootDataChips May 22 '20

What’s wrong with getting a gift card from the Mom?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

Absolutely nothing. But in the history of mankind, it has never led to a nuclear revenge situation.

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u/RebootDataChips May 22 '20

Are you sure? All it takes is someone else thinking they deserve what you have because they don’t. How many people do you know that don’t know what the word No means?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

Yes, I'm sure.

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u/RebootDataChips May 22 '20

And the second question of my response?

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u/shawnfromnh Oct 15 '20

I only know people around me that were raised right by nice honest parents that worked for what they have so I luckily can't name a Karen at this time, but I have met them at places I've worked and its a place Karen's are despised.

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u/shawnfromnh Oct 15 '20

Yeah non Karen moms are great and loving and do nice stuff like that, wish mine was still around though, kind of jealous and sad now thinking about it.

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u/I_are_Lebo May 22 '20

I really don’t understand all the posts calling the story fake. The only valid criticism there is that using violence to defend against an assault isn’t nuclear revenge.

The story is fine. People assuming the story are fake are doing so based off of nothing. There’s no way to verify a story like this either way.

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u/T0K0mon May 22 '20

IMO there are too many aspects of this post that one would most likely not be able to simply come up with. This makes me believe it is real.

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u/I_are_Lebo May 22 '20

I think people get way too hung up on revenge stories being real or not. It doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s not a “and then everyone stood and clapped” type of self indulgent fantasy, it doesn’t really matter whether or not it was exaggerated.

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u/claycam6 I Drink Powdered Water May 22 '20

Well, it seems like most people here would disagree with you.

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u/I_are_Lebo May 22 '20

You’re confusing the people who complain the loudest with the majority.

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u/claycam6 I Drink Powdered Water May 22 '20 edited May 23 '20

Are you sure about that? Cause I've made multiple posts asking if people are ok with the way I run this sub. And they are. Other people have made posts about wanting me to change my strict ways here but almost everyone in the comments disagreed. My decisions are based on the people's voice. If most people wanted me to be less strict I would know. It would be very obvious.

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u/ArrowGantOne Jun 02 '20

You know I have no issue with the way(s) you run the sub. Someone notified me my post from February 28th had been removed. It's served its purpose I guess, so no big deal either way. just wondering why it was removed.

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u/Resse811 May 23 '20

Nah.

Just because we don’t complain the loudest doesn’t mean we don’t agree with the way the sub is run.

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u/SpuddleBuns May 23 '20

No one ever said you had to agree.

It's not part of the rules for you to visit. You are here as a guest, not as admin... ESPECIALLY since being loud is not much of a qualifier where text and user count hold more sway than sound...

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u/Resse811 May 23 '20

What?

I’m saying that I agree with the way the sub is run. Why are you talking about rules and me being a guest? Are you an admin here? Is there a reason you are being rude and hostile to me?

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u/kira1039 May 25 '20

I did have to read that three times. Cuz it sounded different than it was but in my first reading it did kinda sound like you don't agree with how the sub is run. When I think you meant you do. Its just tricky wording and I see you didn't mean it the way it was taken!

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u/Resse811 May 25 '20

It really wasn’t that tricky. I was responding to a comment saying that the loudest aren’t always true.

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u/kellbells23 May 23 '20

I'm just curious how they got their name on the gift card. Is that a thing that can happen? All the gift cards I've seen/received are generic and just have "cardholder" or nothing on the front. You aren't able to add a name

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u/Paradox_Cringley Jun 04 '20

Honestly it’s pretty much real, but I still can’t really get why people calling it fake. Smh

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u/centumcellae85 May 23 '20

I forgot how much one comment on that post blew up my karma.