Prawns
A mate of a mate (really) had a nasty, bitchy divorce a while back. Whether he was as hard done by and royally shafted as he claimed is hard to verify, as I haven't heard the other side's version, but he was certainly pretty bitter about the whole thing. Especially about the fact that she got the house and most of its contents. So when he arranged, via the lawyers, that he should come round and collect the few items he was allowed to take, one of the stipulations of this visit was that the ex-to-be would be out at work so that never the twain should meet (and kill each other, most likely).

This suited him fine. He grabbed whatever he was entitled to as quickly as possible and spent the rest of the time sewing frozen prawns into the top of the living room curtains.

So far this is a fairly common act of revenge. I suspect many people know of someone who has done, or claimed to have done, something like this.

What gives the mate's mate the last laugh though is that the smell got so bad that the ex eventually moved out.

And insisted on taking the curtains with her.

A tallish story I know, but I do rather hope it's true!
(eesnahk, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 13:49, 11 replies)

Generally, the story has it
That the prawns/rollmops/kippers/calamari are placed inside the tubes of the curtain rails themselves making detection tricky.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 13:55, closed)

That is genius
Any potential suiter she invites round is going to think she has a fishy wimsy *boke*
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 14:30, closed)

This has been posted

on here before, somewhere.
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:45, closed)

Aside from the fact this is a popular urban myth.
I don't think anyone would bother sewing anything into anything. Though I just had the idea of prawns in the duvet...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:38, closed)

'Prwned'....anyone ?

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:51, closed)

Winnar!

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 4 Feb 2011, 20:04, closed)

'tis a story with origins going back as far as 1945, I'm afraid
But a good one, nevertheless.

http://www.snopes.com/love/revenge/shrimp.asp
( eXOBeX, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 23:51, closed)

The thing is....
Just because it's a story told elsewhere does not mean it is not true. Many people who otherwise wouldn't have thought to do that will have done so because they heard it, and many people even who had not are not stupid enough to never think of it at all and so will have done it too.

If I was mightily pissed off (and I mean mightily like I have never been yet) I would probably do it.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 0:32, closed)

Petty revenge on exes never strike me as having the last laugh, because if I discovered an ex of mine had done something like that, I would probably have a moment of being pissed off, and then reflect on how lucky I was to no longer be associated with such a twat.
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 9:25, closed)

Yup, it's better to do nothing while you wait for them to drop themselves in it.
They always do. Mine did, big-time.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 11:00, closed)

yes heard that - usually prawns in curtain poles
also heard chillies being rubbed into the crotch of pants and cress seeds being watered into carpets

i think the prawn thing would be pretty easy to track down

personally i prefer to curl one off into the header tank
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 7 Feb 2011, 2:30, closed)