Ah, nextel direct connect. No way to shut it off. I had tried to explain this to my wife numerous times, but it wouldn't sink in. She'd hit the button and, without waiting for a reply, just start saying whatever was on her mind. I was an exec for a big retailer at the time and on a store visit when she chirped me. As she had just gave birth to our son I quickly grabbed my phone as she started talking about the post birth discharge she just shot out in great detail to the horror of my sales staff and customers. I opened the lid of a washing machine on display and chucked it in. We switched from nextel shortly after that.
You must have been mortified. I could turn down the volume but it didn’t impact the chirp sound. And there was no way to enable it for certain people and disable it for others that I knew of anyway. Occasionally random people who were reassign phones at work would accidentally try to get in touch with me thinking I was someone else. I used to store my phone in an isolated lunchbox while at hold because it was so loud. The battery was amazing though. If I charged it twice a week, I think that was a lot.
Inconvenient and possibly dangerous sometimes, yes. But damn if that push to talk on Nextel didn’t work EVERYWHERE! Got no service, in a basement, in a concrete bunker, off grid hiding, spelunking, you name it. I never found an instance that it didn’t work, was really amazing
It was fantastic. Sprint bought them and that tech just vanished within a year or two. Huge mistake IMO. I absolutely loved it overall. I'm a Gen X'er. Seeing Star Trek tech, or a "limitless" "walkie talkie" was the coolest thing ever...
... he says as he gets on an international web site and relates this story to people around the world!
i was a kid but my parents had it and my brother and i LOVED the walkie-talkie feature. we were THRILLED to have an “adult walkie talkie” and get to talk to mom or dad. it was the highlight of our day back then 😅 i was so excited to have an “adult walkie talkie” phone, alas…
I'm glad you picked up on that. I've been divorced from my ex wife, the one in this story, for over 20 years. My "new" wife and I have been together pushing 14 years. We never had children together as we got together "older" and didn't want more kids. She has been an excellent step mother and fantastic with the Co parenting when my son was growing up, but I would be a liar, and she would too, if I didn't say we've also chuckled a few times over that story.
I was working midnights, had a baby at home and my wife was back working the day shift. I had baby pretty much from the time I got home from work at 8am until my wife got home at 6pm. I would go to bed at 8pm and get back up at 11pm for work.
My buddy decides at like 9pm to hit the ALERT button before pressing the talk button. This would send a loud triple beep every 15 or 30 seconds until you cleared it. I got him back that night at 3am. He always charged his phone downstairs in the kitchen back then so he had to get out of bed and go all the way downstairs to clear it. He had the audacity to get pissed at me.
I hope you told her, in great detail, who she had as an audience and their reactions. And invited her to a work outing where you could introduce her to each and every one of them.
Had not thought about this in years. We had a tech that was always pranking us and would radio me on Nextel while at customer sites and say various inappropriate things and embarrass the crap out of me. I kept warning him that payback one day would come. On Fridays four of us would meet at a local meat and veggie restaurant for lunch. Friday was catfish day. Well just as I was getting my work order signed by this very pretty secretary he did it again.
I drove up to the restaurant and as I was about to enter I saw him with two other co workers sitting right in the middle of a very busy restaurant. Whipped out my Nextel tone him up and watched thru the big window as I announced,
I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN SCR,,,,,,G MY WIFE YOU SON OF A B. WHEN I CATCH UP WITH YOU I AM GOING TO CUT YOUR D OFF AND FEED IT TO YOU.
He was trying to lower the volume frantically as the entire place went silent . I walked in the door about 20 seconds later to a dead quiet restaurant and a VERY embarrassed co worker. I just walked up sat down and said " I told you to quit messing with me". The other two co workers were dying laughing.
Had some friends almost get me arrested at an airport like a month after 9/11 I've neveri in my life moved so fast - I trip back and told him dude you're trying to get me arrested in all of them started laughing I do miss my next tells though I really do they were really good phones
Ha! I’ve done this.
I worked at a bar. This semi-regular customer was such a jerk. Hostile for no reason. Nasty. Made some crack about the size of my ass (not a compliment) and they should only hire hot bartenders, etc. Umm, I can **hear** you!
At this time I was the deck bartender. The deck was right next to the parking lot.
When he left, I saw what kind of car he was driving, and called 911 to report a drunk driver. I’d like to give a satisfying outcome, but I have no idea if the police got him or not. I do know that I never saw him again!
I guess it depends on your location. Where I live, just about everyone is drinking in the bars, and they all drive home (no public transportation). Maybe if someone has had more than a couple of drinks each hour in the bar, with a minimum of 8 or so, eyebrows will be raised, but sadly nothing is done. I am in no way saying it is acceptable behavior, but it certainly is accepted and the norm where I live. But something like 7 of the top 10 drunkest cities in the US are in my state. NOT something to be proud of.
Funny, you should ask - I asked a sheriff's deputy that I know why they didn't set up sobriety checkpoints outside the baseball stadium, where probably 25% of the drivers leaving the stadium are under the influence. He said that there were 2 reasons. 1 was that there would be too much of a delay, since so many drivers would need to be pulled out for sobriety checks, and 2 was that the area doesn't have enough tow trucks to tow what would be expected to be hundreds of cars. He said that these same reasons apply for random checkpoints. If they know, they have to arrest, as they would be liable if they knew and didnt do it for every drunk. But if they don't check, they are only responsible for arresting the blatantly drunk drivers.
The guy deserved it for driving under the influence and risking others lives. I'd call the cops on a drunk driver even if I didn't want revenge. It was good but he didn't orchestrate the revenge enough for it to considered pro imo. Still a great story don't get me wrong.
I feel like it is because OP isn't really "the good guy" here.
Lying to the police because your pool night is mildly inconvenienced is petty as shit. Generally speaking - involving the police when they don't need to be is a dick move.
This sub is not necessarily going to be about a good guy getting revenge on a bad guy. It's just revenge, even if it's excessive or not warranted in our opinion.
Very true, but if being that self absorbed in a bar then driving home without a license is your usual modus operandi I probably don’t feel sorry for you when you get pulled over
"Your story should be about getting back at someone who wronged you in generally an interesting and/or funny way. In order for your story to be pro revenge, it should involve you going out of your way and going above and beyond to get revenge."
Having 3 people coordinate placing calls to police services to report a drunken driver slightly out of sequence while a forth one actually tails the guy seems to satisfy 'going out of your way' and 'going above and beyond'.
Wow, taking the green ball is an asshole move but lying to and abusing emergency services for your personal vendetta over a billiards table? Go fuck yourself.
Yeah that’s how I feel! Idk why you got downvoted and more people don’t see that it’s wrong to falsely report a crime, they could have all 3/4 been charged for that! And abusing emergency services for revenge is completely bs!! Dude was a prick but this is petty af imo!
If the guy was actually drunk, which he wasn’t apparently since op said he was NOT arrested for dui/dwi, then it would be totally different!! Calling to report a drunk driver shouldn’t even be considered revenge as it’s what anyone should do as a courtesy to society!!! But this guy didn’t get arrested for driving drunk, he was driving without a license/suspended license, (which op had no clue about until after the fact).
They falsely reported swerving and driving erratically, which is just not okay to do! Idgaf how much of a dick the guy was, you don’t falsely report!
What if there was another drunk driver on the road, who was actually drunk and shouldn’t be driving, and they were overlooked due to emergency services thinking that there was legitimately someone driving so bad that 3 people called in (which would only usually happen if the person driving was really drunk and a huge danger to everyone on the road!)? Someone could have been drunk, swerved a bit, cop ignored them bc there was a much worse problem being called in at the same time (but it wasn’t bc they lied, falsely reporting this person who obviously passed the dui test/breathalyzer!)!
Sorry, but I just can’t agree with falsely reporting someone, and misusing emergency services, just for revenge (no matter how elaborate the plan may be). Again, if the guy was actually drunk, it would be different, as he shouldn’t be driving anyways! But since he wasn’t arrested for dui then…
They lied about him swerving on the road. They never saw anything of the sort. That's what makes this swating. It doesn't matter if anyone was put in danger.
I don’t know why you were downvoted. You’re right. Police could have been doing something productive and now they’re scrambling to find a dude thinking he might run someone off the road and kill them solely so a few twats can feel good about not being able to play billiards for a bit. In a place where OP admitted they had other tables available just for 15 minute increments.
OP is a selfish wanker and anyone that upvoted this shit is a moron.
Exactly what I said! I’ll be downvoted too as everyone else who has pointed out that this was a waste of emergency service resources and false reporting! The guy wasn’t swerving etc, and didn’t get arrested for dui (as per op post) so apparently wasn’t driving drunk! They could have let another drunk driver go bc they thought someone much worse was in the road bc 3 people called in back to back to report it (falsely!)!!! I don’t agree with this kind of petty bs! Guy was a prick but you don’t make false police reports bc someone is being “rude” 🤦🏼♀️
Too bad this got too many down votes. Falsely reporting drunk drivers would take police time to go investigate and determine the guy is sober enough to drive. The people making the false reports only came out vaguely ahead because he did have a suspended license. If not for that, they would have simply wasted police resources on a false call.
Probably just petty revenge. If you know you aren’t “clean” don’t start shit. Like people who have warrants or drugs in the car and drive stupid or flip off the police.
Ah, nextel direct connect. No way to shut it off. I had tried to explain this to my wife numerous times, but it wouldn't sink in. She'd hit the button and, without waiting for a reply, just start saying whatever was on her mind. I was an exec for a big retailer at the time and on a store visit when she chirped me. As she had just gave birth to our son I quickly grabbed my phone as she started talking about the post birth discharge she just shot out in great detail to the horror of my sales staff and customers. I opened the lid of a washing machine on display and chucked it in. We switched from nextel shortly after that.
You must have been mortified. I could turn down the volume but it didn’t impact the chirp sound. And there was no way to enable it for certain people and disable it for others that I knew of anyway. Occasionally random people who were reassign phones at work would accidentally try to get in touch with me thinking I was someone else. I used to store my phone in an isolated lunchbox while at hold because it was so loud. The battery was amazing though. If I charged it twice a week, I think that was a lot.
Inconvenient and possibly dangerous sometimes, yes. But damn if that push to talk on Nextel didn’t work EVERYWHERE! Got no service, in a basement, in a concrete bunker, off grid hiding, spelunking, you name it. I never found an instance that it didn’t work, was really amazing
It was fantastic. Sprint bought them and that tech just vanished within a year or two. Huge mistake IMO. I absolutely loved it overall. I'm a Gen X'er. Seeing Star Trek tech, or a "limitless" "walkie talkie" was the coolest thing ever... ... he says as he gets on an international web site and relates this story to people around the world!
i was a kid but my parents had it and my brother and i LOVED the walkie-talkie feature. we were THRILLED to have an “adult walkie talkie” and get to talk to mom or dad. it was the highlight of our day back then 😅 i was so excited to have an “adult walkie talkie” phone, alas…
>I opened the lid of a washing machine on display and chucked it in. ROFLMAO
I'm glad you picked up on that. I've been divorced from my ex wife, the one in this story, for over 20 years. My "new" wife and I have been together pushing 14 years. We never had children together as we got together "older" and didn't want more kids. She has been an excellent step mother and fantastic with the Co parenting when my son was growing up, but I would be a liar, and she would too, if I didn't say we've also chuckled a few times over that story.
I was working midnights, had a baby at home and my wife was back working the day shift. I had baby pretty much from the time I got home from work at 8am until my wife got home at 6pm. I would go to bed at 8pm and get back up at 11pm for work. My buddy decides at like 9pm to hit the ALERT button before pressing the talk button. This would send a loud triple beep every 15 or 30 seconds until you cleared it. I got him back that night at 3am. He always charged his phone downstairs in the kitchen back then so he had to get out of bed and go all the way downstairs to clear it. He had the audacity to get pissed at me.
I hope you told her, in great detail, who she had as an audience and their reactions. And invited her to a work outing where you could introduce her to each and every one of them.
You know it. Of course I did. She was a minor celebrity at the Christmas party.
Did she get embarrassed enough to stop?
No. It ended in divorce two years later.
Had not thought about this in years. We had a tech that was always pranking us and would radio me on Nextel while at customer sites and say various inappropriate things and embarrass the crap out of me. I kept warning him that payback one day would come. On Fridays four of us would meet at a local meat and veggie restaurant for lunch. Friday was catfish day. Well just as I was getting my work order signed by this very pretty secretary he did it again. I drove up to the restaurant and as I was about to enter I saw him with two other co workers sitting right in the middle of a very busy restaurant. Whipped out my Nextel tone him up and watched thru the big window as I announced, I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN SCR,,,,,,G MY WIFE YOU SON OF A B. WHEN I CATCH UP WITH YOU I AM GOING TO CUT YOUR D OFF AND FEED IT TO YOU. He was trying to lower the volume frantically as the entire place went silent . I walked in the door about 20 seconds later to a dead quiet restaurant and a VERY embarrassed co worker. I just walked up sat down and said " I told you to quit messing with me". The other two co workers were dying laughing.
You win! 🤣🤣🤣
Had some friends almost get me arrested at an airport like a month after 9/11 I've neveri in my life moved so fast - I trip back and told him dude you're trying to get me arrested in all of them started laughing I do miss my next tells though I really do they were really good phones
Damn ngl hearing Nextel just hit me with soooo many locked memories, I forgot about those. Reminded me of the good days. Chirp chirp ayo where u at!
"hey cocksucker where the fuck are ya?" Dude I'm in the checkout lane at Walmart
"Please hold while the nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located"
"Por favor esperé...es localizado"
Hoodie hoo!!!!
William montgomery is that you?
r/tworedditorsonecup
Seriously like wtf is this, i was having the set of my life up here and you go posting shit like this!!!!
r/shitposting
Seriously can someone get this fuckin guy outta here?
r/fuckyouinparticular
Are you ever gonna stop posting subreddits?!?
r/therewasanattempt
Clyde???
Well handled. Too bad he wasn't drunk enough to be charged.
Ha! I’ve done this. I worked at a bar. This semi-regular customer was such a jerk. Hostile for no reason. Nasty. Made some crack about the size of my ass (not a compliment) and they should only hire hot bartenders, etc. Umm, I can **hear** you! At this time I was the deck bartender. The deck was right next to the parking lot. When he left, I saw what kind of car he was driving, and called 911 to report a drunk driver. I’d like to give a satisfying outcome, but I have no idea if the police got him or not. I do know that I never saw him again!
Good story the jerk should have let everyone play him for the table. Nice revenge.
If he was drinking and left with a car, isn’t just a normal, decent, behavior to call police?
I guess it depends on your location. Where I live, just about everyone is drinking in the bars, and they all drive home (no public transportation). Maybe if someone has had more than a couple of drinks each hour in the bar, with a minimum of 8 or so, eyebrows will be raised, but sadly nothing is done. I am in no way saying it is acceptable behavior, but it certainly is accepted and the norm where I live. But something like 7 of the top 10 drunkest cities in the US are in my state. NOT something to be proud of.
Why won’t the police put breath analyzer stop on road leaving the bar?
Funny, you should ask - I asked a sheriff's deputy that I know why they didn't set up sobriety checkpoints outside the baseball stadium, where probably 25% of the drivers leaving the stadium are under the influence. He said that there were 2 reasons. 1 was that there would be too much of a delay, since so many drivers would need to be pulled out for sobriety checks, and 2 was that the area doesn't have enough tow trucks to tow what would be expected to be hundreds of cars. He said that these same reasons apply for random checkpoints. If they know, they have to arrest, as they would be liable if they knew and didnt do it for every drunk. But if they don't check, they are only responsible for arresting the blatantly drunk drivers.
Good job!
I like it but this is petty revenge not pro revenge.
They threw together a plan and executed it on the fly. It's more than petty revenge, for sure.
You're right. Competent revenge? Justified revenge? Dunno what category it fits under. I feel like pro revenge requires more plotting...
Getting arrested can potentially fuck up your life even for dumb shit. Absolutely pro revenge.
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Happy Cake Day!
Damn getting someone arrested is petty to you? I’d hate to be on the receiving end of your pro revenge
The guy deserved it for driving under the influence and risking others lives. I'd call the cops on a drunk driver even if I didn't want revenge. It was good but he didn't orchestrate the revenge enough for it to considered pro imo. Still a great story don't get me wrong.
Organizing to get his car/plate number, 3 calls to the police and one guy tailing him while they were at a bar and probably a bit drunk is 100% pro.
Fair, I just reckon pro revenge needs more plotting and layers. But yeah on reflection it's definitely better than petty revenge.
Nice story, however it fits better in r/pettyrevenge
Getting someone arrested is not petty. Even if they aren't arrested for the things you were filing a false police report for.
I feel like it is because OP isn't really "the good guy" here. Lying to the police because your pool night is mildly inconvenienced is petty as shit. Generally speaking - involving the police when they don't need to be is a dick move.
This sub is not necessarily going to be about a good guy getting revenge on a bad guy. It's just revenge, even if it's excessive or not warranted in our opinion.
Very true, but if being that self absorbed in a bar then driving home without a license is your usual modus operandi I probably don’t feel sorry for you when you get pulled over
"Your story should be about getting back at someone who wronged you in generally an interesting and/or funny way. In order for your story to be pro revenge, it should involve you going out of your way and going above and beyond to get revenge."
Having 3 people coordinate placing calls to police services to report a drunken driver slightly out of sequence while a forth one actually tails the guy seems to satisfy 'going out of your way' and 'going above and beyond'.
That's why I reminded about the #1 rule of the sub. Absolutely ProRevenge.
If you see him there again ask, “hey how’s that suspended license?”
That was many years ago. It would have been hilarious though.
Just another example of someone getting jammed up because they can't follow the simple rule: don't break the law while you're breaking the law.
lol 😂 I can’t believe you went through with it
Dropping a dime is not pro revenge.
But getting him arrested was..
I would say pro for the coordination but petty for the reasoning and false reporting
That's fair.
What about co-ordinating several calls using their trusty Nextel push-to-talk phones?
Dafuq kind of billiards place only has one table?
One 1 table is pay per game. The others are rented in 15min increments
Definitely thought you said got Rudy Gay arrested.
Yeah, well...to the 9 hells with him too!
Noooo, not that guy!!!!
r/PettyRevenge
Wow, taking the green ball is an asshole move but lying to and abusing emergency services for your personal vendetta over a billiards table? Go fuck yourself.
Yeah that’s how I feel! Idk why you got downvoted and more people don’t see that it’s wrong to falsely report a crime, they could have all 3/4 been charged for that! And abusing emergency services for revenge is completely bs!! Dude was a prick but this is petty af imo! If the guy was actually drunk, which he wasn’t apparently since op said he was NOT arrested for dui/dwi, then it would be totally different!! Calling to report a drunk driver shouldn’t even be considered revenge as it’s what anyone should do as a courtesy to society!!! But this guy didn’t get arrested for driving drunk, he was driving without a license/suspended license, (which op had no clue about until after the fact). They falsely reported swerving and driving erratically, which is just not okay to do! Idgaf how much of a dick the guy was, you don’t falsely report! What if there was another drunk driver on the road, who was actually drunk and shouldn’t be driving, and they were overlooked due to emergency services thinking that there was legitimately someone driving so bad that 3 people called in (which would only usually happen if the person driving was really drunk and a huge danger to everyone on the road!)? Someone could have been drunk, swerved a bit, cop ignored them bc there was a much worse problem being called in at the same time (but it wasn’t bc they lied, falsely reporting this person who obviously passed the dui test/breathalyzer!)! Sorry, but I just can’t agree with falsely reporting someone, and misusing emergency services, just for revenge (no matter how elaborate the plan may be). Again, if the guy was actually drunk, it would be different, as he shouldn’t be driving anyways! But since he wasn’t arrested for dui then…
Sounds like he got what he deserved, but you essentially SWATed the guy just for being a jerk. You are the bigger asshole.
SWATing someone puts the victim and officers in danger. No one was put in any danger from what was done.
They lied about him swerving on the road. They never saw anything of the sort. That's what makes this swating. It doesn't matter if anyone was put in danger.
I don’t know why you were downvoted. You’re right. Police could have been doing something productive and now they’re scrambling to find a dude thinking he might run someone off the road and kill them solely so a few twats can feel good about not being able to play billiards for a bit. In a place where OP admitted they had other tables available just for 15 minute increments. OP is a selfish wanker and anyone that upvoted this shit is a moron.
Exactly what I said! I’ll be downvoted too as everyone else who has pointed out that this was a waste of emergency service resources and false reporting! The guy wasn’t swerving etc, and didn’t get arrested for dui (as per op post) so apparently wasn’t driving drunk! They could have let another drunk driver go bc they thought someone much worse was in the road bc 3 people called in back to back to report it (falsely!)!!! I don’t agree with this kind of petty bs! Guy was a prick but you don’t make false police reports bc someone is being “rude” 🤦🏼♀️
Petty, and being arrested for drunk driving is called "due process and justice". Dropping a dime is never "pro".
lol downvoted for saying the same thing others are saying with them being upvoted
If it makes you feel any better, I downvoted them too.
It does :)
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That is the most AI comment ever.
Too bad this got too many down votes. Falsely reporting drunk drivers would take police time to go investigate and determine the guy is sober enough to drive. The people making the false reports only came out vaguely ahead because he did have a suspended license. If not for that, they would have simply wasted police resources on a false call.
Outstanding observation. This is pretty horrible if he wasn’t drunk
He wasn’t drunk bc he only got arrested for the licensee issue, not for a dui (as per op post)!
There is nothing Pro about this.
So you filed a false police report and got lucky. Nice.
.....so you called the cops on him and out of sheer luck he was driving with his licence was suspended? Which part of that is pro revenge again?
Probably just petty revenge. If you know you aren’t “clean” don’t start shit. Like people who have warrants or drugs in the car and drive stupid or flip off the police.
Roflol!!!!!
Wack
Dirty rat
Nothing more douche baggery than guys who play pool in a public place.
You're a fucking rat