Generally speaking, fantasizing about taking an eye for an eye—getting revenge on someone who was being a jerk—is human nature. But often acting vengefully remains just that, a scenario in our mind. Our moral compass combined with the fear of further escalation keeps most of us in check. Most, but not all.

Revenge is a powerful emotional trigger that can actually mobilize some people into action. So we at Bored Panda decided to take a look at the ways it manifests in our everyday lives. Digging around the internet, we found many petty acts that people resort to in an attempt to restore justice. Like pouring water in front of the dishwasher to make your husband try to fix it even though the thing is perfectly fine. Continue scrolling to check out what we’ve gathered and fire up our older publications on the topic here and here. Enjoy!

#1 Oh, This Is Gold

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#2 I Really Hope It Was Her Name In Comic Sans

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#3 What Could Go Wrong Blocking A Farmer’s Gate To Save A Parking Fee?

#4 Employees In A Supermarket React To A Customer That Left The Car In The Middle Of The Parking Lot, Blocking The Way

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#5 Getting My Roommate To Clean

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#6 Awesome Mom

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#7 High Five Grandma, That’s Awesome

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#8 Outstanding Move

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#9 Evil. Brilliant… But Evil

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#10 What A Power Move

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#11 The Power Of Mums

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#12 Petty Betty

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#13 Justice Is Served

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#14 After Years Of This Guy Using My Email As A Spam Account, I Got My Revenge. He Signed My Email. Up For Siriusxm Which Also Gives Me The Ability To Beep His Horn

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#15 And The Winner Is

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#16 Revenge Is A Dish Best Not Served

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#17 To Everyone At Work That Has Been Eating My Jellybeans. Now The Fun Begins

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#18 My Two Older Children Were Trying To Lay Out All Of Their Pokémon Cards, But The Youngest Kept Intervening, So They Duct-Taped Him To A Chair

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#19 Turns Out We Have Ghosts

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#20 Well, I’d Do The Same

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#21 Genius

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#22 Banana Revenge

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#23 What A Legend

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#24 Petty Times Call For Petty Measures

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#25 A Days-Worth Of Dirty Diapers For Whoever Keeps Stealing Packages Off Our Porch

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#26 Someone At Work Kept Stealing My Sister’s Cherry Cokes Out Of The Fridge. So She Rubbed The Top Of The Can With A Habanero Pepper. Hope This Will Prevent Them From Stealing

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#27 Never Forget Those Ribs

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#28 Inspiring Moment

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#29 This Is How You End Up In Hell

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#30 I Applaud This Level Of Petty

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#31 My Neighbor “Allegedly” Refused To Pay The Guy Who Cleared His Back Yard. He’ll Be Coming Home To This Gift Left In His Driveway

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#32 Did He Even Remember?

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#33 Ethan Isn’t Playing Around This Semester

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#34 My Sister And I Had An Argument And She’s Chopped The Bristles Off Of My Toothbrush. Why?

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#35 Karen’s “Revenge”

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#36 I Would Have Done The Same

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#37 This Is My Level Of Petty

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#38 Thought My Mom Was Sending Me A Care Package… But Instead She Sent Me A Box Of Trash I Was Supposed To Take Out

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#39 My Neighbor Keeps Vacuuming His Floor When I’m Sleeping At Night. I Started Vacuuming The Ceiling As He Sleeps At 3AM

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#40 I Like Her Style

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#41 Drink Up

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#42 Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn

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#43 Thwaites Brewery In England Told Workers It Was Cutting 60 Staff. My Dad’s Mates Worked As Electricians There And Shorted The Lights In Retaliation

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#44 Talk About Revenge

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#45 This Is So Me

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#46 You Know How Mad You Got To Be To Carry A Refrigerator

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#47 Pizza Sponsored By This Drunk Creep

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#48 “Screw Your Time I’ll Exercise In The Street” Is An Entire Mood

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#49 I Bet There’s A Dude Sitting With Just Salt And Pepper In His Cubbard Right Now Wishing He Had That Old Bay I Snatched Back

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#50 Oh Wow, This Is Next Level

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#51 My Mate Told The Driver Of The Black Corsa Not To Park In The Company’s Parking Space. He Gave My Mate Attitude And Ignorance. So My Mate Put Scaffold Up Around His Car

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#52 Joe Mode

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#53 Madlad Strikes At His Mom

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#54 Dad Waits 28 Years To Return Birthday Card To Son

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#55 It Never Ends Baby

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#56 My Coworker Decided To Prank Us, So We Exacted Our Revenge

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#57 A Japanese Woman Discovered Her Boyfriend Was Cheating, So She Gathered All His Apple Devices And Dumped Them Into A Tub Full Of Water

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#58 My Friend’s Girlfriend Moved Out And Took Everything, Including The Drawer Handles

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#59 Let’s Review

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#60 Woke Up To My Coffee Jar Like This After A Petty Argument With My Partner

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#61 If I’m The Only One In My Building Who Shovels The Sidewalk, Then I Will Have My Revenge

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#62 Neighbor’s Car Hasn’t Moved After He Cheated Because This Was Her Revenge

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#63 Petty? Yes. Satisfying? Definitely. Handwriting? Horrible

The note says: “Hey buddy, it looks like you don’t understand how to operate a motor vehicle. This will help you practice staying inside the lines like the toddler you are.”

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#64 This Is What I Get For Nicely Telling Two German Campers To Leave From My Property

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#65 That’s Comedy Gold, Right There

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#66 I’d Say This Is Chaotic Good

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#67 Blocking Her Out Of Your Life

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#68 Complaint About Delivery Of The Wrong Grade Of Copper

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#69 The Height Of Pettiness Seen In A UK Car Park Today

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#70 Roommate Came Back To 400 Balloons In His Room. He Got His Revenge When The Other One Left For A Week. Everything In His Room Was Wrapped And Put Back In The Same Place

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#71 This Is The Pettiness You Love To See

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#72 Bad Parking Like This Doesn’t Go Unpunished Where I Work

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#73 No Parking

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#74 If You Park Like This I Will Find You And Make Sure You Have To Climb Through The Passengers Side

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#75 My Sons Accidentally Lost Their Football Over The Neighbors’ Fence Yesterday. This Is How It Was Found Back In Our Yard Today

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#76 Evil Act Of Revenge

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#77 Revenge Of A Weaboo

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#78 Madlad Revenge

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#79 How To Get Revenge 101

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#80 I’d Say It’s A Revenge Between Generations

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#81 Crazy Ex

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#82 Epic Man

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#83 That’s The Definition Of Petty

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#84 Every Time The Bread Gets Used, The Twist Disappears. I Started Collecting Them And Today I Got My Revenge

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#85 My Daughter Yelled At Me To Make Her A “Surprise Snack”

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#86 Dumping My Roommate’s Trash At His Door Because He Won’t Take It Out

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#87 Son’s Revenge

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#88 Some Sweet Revenge. I Was Still Within The Lines Too

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#89 My Petty Neighbors

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#90 Careful Not To Step In The Retribution

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#91 This Is What Happens When You Take Up 3 Spots At Walmart In My Town

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#92 Classics Never Get Old

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#93 My Flatmate Pissed Me Off So I Froze Their Cutlery Into An Ice Block

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#94 My Mom Told Me She Would Buy Me Grapes But She Lied To Me

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#95 A Friend Toilet-Papered Our Car So We Decided To Up The Level A Bit For Revenge

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#96 Spotted Today In Muswell Hill – A Level Of Petty Revenge To Which I Can Only Aspire

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#97 I Call This OCD Cornbread. My Wife Ate My Last Apple, This Is My Revenge

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#98 A Really Expensive Revenge

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#99 My Friend Got His Door Stolen By His Neighbor, So He Stole His Neighbor’s Back In Revenge

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#100 My Friend’s Parents Force Her And Her Siblings To Have A Picture With Santa Every Year. This Year They Got Revenge And Took This Beauty Home

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#101 This Is How To Handle The Parking Problem

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#102 Sweet Revenge

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#103 That’s Pretty Petty Revenge

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#104 Hit Where It Hurts

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#105 Petty Misbehavior

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#106 No Burgers And Biscuits For Her

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#107 He Tried To Start A Full On War

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#108 This Guy Parked Well Over The Line So I Parked In A Way That Blocked His Driver Side Door

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#109 I Get A Little Petty When My Dad Likes To Mess Up The Laundry Room And Blame It On Me

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#110 My Ex-Boyfriend Encrypted My External Hard Drive To Get Revenge On Me

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#111 Neighbors Are Slamming Their Cabinets So Hard They Opened Mine. They’re Having A Fight, So Now I’m Blasting Shrek As Revenge

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#112 After 30 Years Of Being In A Wheelchair, I’ve Finally Started Getting Sweet Revenge By Parking In Your Non-Disabled Spots

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#113 This Is Why You Shouldn’t Steal Food At Work

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#114 Revenge Of The Mildly Infuriated – Bike Race Ended 2 Months Ago

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#115 Someone Got A Little Petty With A Price Gun

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#116 The Office Staff Where I Work Had A Meeting About My Hand Mirror (Which I Allegedly Used Too Much) So I Turned My Desk Into A Mirror

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#117 Saw This Bit Of Revenge In A Parking Lot

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#118 Few Weeks Ago Wife Served Me Miniature Pancakes With Some Berries On A Paper Plate Saying I Need To Lose Weight. Today, She Gets A Gourmet Breakfast. Revenge Best Served

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#119 Easy Solution

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#120 The Future Is Now Old Man

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#121 My Sister Spoiled The Ending Of A Book I Was Reading So I Spoiled The End Of Every DVD She Had. This Was The Notebook

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#122 Park In The Way Of A Snowplow? Taste Pettiness

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#123 Restaurant’s Being Super Petty About Minimum Wage Increases

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#124 I Waited For Her To Finish Parking And Get Out Of The Car. After I Parked And Got Out She Came Running Up To Me And Said “Sir, That Is Not A Parking Spot”

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#125 Slightly Petty, But My Wife Said I Couldn’t Take The Trash Out In One Go. I Went To A DIY Shop For A Trolley Just To Prove Her Wrong

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#126 Unloaded My Laundry Before The Load Has Even Finished? Enjoy Your 30 Minute Wait For Zero Progress

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