KarmaSue Denham writes, "I once slipped out of work two hours early without the boss noticing. In my hurry to make the most of this petty victory, I knocked myself out on the car door and spent the rest of the day semi-conscious, bowking rich brown vomit over my one and only suit."
Have you been visited by the forces of Karma, or watched it happen to other people?
Thanks to Pooflake for the suggestion
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chthonic, Thu 21 Feb 2008, 14:24)
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Be sure your sins will find you out...Back in the days of the poll tax, I was so afraid of "authority" that I paid every instalment bang on time. I begrudged every last penny, but I paid it.
After it had been abolished, a work colleague took great delight in telling us all he'd not paid a brass farthing. He'd moved house, and not registered at the new address. He didn't pay any council tax either. He smugly (and loudly) informed all and sundry of his "can pay, won't pay" status.
A couple of years go by, and just before I'm about to leave the company, he comes in one morning with his bottom lip tripping him. Lo, the council have caught up with him! Common repairs were required, and a helpful resident in the same block of flats had supplied a list of names and flat numbers to the council to divide up the bill.
When they checked their records, they realise that no-one is registered at his flat, and in a fit of efficiency, someone looks to see if this "random" has ever paid poll/council tax. He received a very stiff letter threatening dire consequences if he didn't cough up, and had to start making payments immediately or face a wage arrestment. They also slapped some kind of order on the property meaning he couldn't sell it without paying them what he owed.
General response to his new skintness? Glee, dear reader, sheer unadulterated glee! Why? The rest of us had paid, mainly on time, and had seen our bills go up as the council sought to make up for the non-payers. Plus the fact that he was a smug twat!
(, Thu 21 Feb 2008, 15:00, 2 replies)
Smug Twat gets whats coming.......It reassures me to read that officialdom (whilst full of cnuts, don't get me wrong) can do things that restore my faith in the system.
That & the fact that I facking love seeing smuggers (as I call em) getting their comeuppence!
(, Thu 21 Feb 2008, 16:07, closed)
The real consequence of not registering to pay the poll taxwas that the poll tax dodgers lost the right to vote, thus bringing in five more years of Tory governement. Bah!
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 12:37,
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