As the saying goes, “An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.”
We’ve been discouraged from avenging people who wronged us, yet we also know that justice should be served and teach the culprit a lesson.
It could be a tiny fault or a heinous crime, and that adage tells us that the punishment should be the same or with equal weight as the deed.
So, what do you do when someone steals from you?
You might have the urge to get something away from that person, too, or you can sue them, especially if what they stole was a thing with immense value.
But this guy had one clever way to take revenge and teach his neighbor a lesson.
David Welles was trying to survive through one of the biggest blizzards in Chicago.
Residents often found it difficult to park at the curb with the snow reaching an insane height.
Like the other residents, David experienced this daily, so he equipped himself with the most trusted tool – a shovel.
He also used the tool to take advantage of the weather to entertain his daughter.
David was building an igloo by their yard so she could play in it, but he couldn’t find his shovel anymore.
He knew he had placed it by their front steps.
There was one thing left to do: check the security camera footage.
David works as a security camera salesman, so it’s expected that he had them installed all over their property.
He checked the footage, and there he saw the culprit.
A woman – his neighbor – dropped by his property, and it wasn’t the only infraction she did.
She went inside their gate to get her dog, who was doing its business on David’s front steps.
To add insult to injury, she grabbed the shovel leaning by the stairs and walked off.
In different footage from another camera, he saw the woman using his shovel to get some snow off her car.
It wasn’t so neighborly of her, especially since she didn’t even bother to return it.
David was bothered by this behavior and thought it wasn’t fair, especially since people were desperate to keep the snow to a minimum in their driveway.
He thought of teaching her a lesson.
Coincidentally, he bought a new snow blower that was perfect for his plan.
He went out one night and used his new equipment to blow off some snow toward the woman’s car.
It took him several rounds going back and forth until he finally buried her vehicle in the snow.
Was it right? Maybe, not. But somebody’s got to teach her a lesson somehow.
“It felt really good,” he told CNN. “I’m not going to lie; it felt really good.”
David went back to check his camera footage and saw the fruit of his revenge there.
She stood there by her car, relatively unfazed.
She went out and returned with a broom at hand and started brushing off the snow, burying her vehicle, which took her four hours.
Of course, David was guilty about it, but it sure was satisfying.
He never got his shovel back, which was fine.
The important thing for him was that he tried to teach her a lesson the best – and fun – way he knew how.
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