A Woman Gets Crazy In A Revenge Plot For Something Her Neighbor Did To Her Mother, But Did She Go Too Far?

Sometimes Being Subtle Isn’t Enough

The fantastic subreddt r/ProRevenge is filled with stories of revenge plots that are often incredibly planned out down to every last detail to exact the revenge on the author’s foe. Often it’s jilted lovers, or sometimes estranged family members, or predictably, someone’s in-laws.

One story stood out from the rest though, and not for its intricate plan or its daring nature – it had neither of those. This was a story a pure, unadulterated hatred and furious anger. It is one woman’s plot to completely ruin her former neighbors. Not by cunning or guile either, but by sheer, brute force.

But was this the appropriate response? of course it’s not, but it is a completely insane trainwreck that totally worth reading about!

Singles Moms And Neighbors

The woman, who we’ll call Donna, begins her story by describing her trashy neighbor. Donna is a single mom living in an apartment with her own mother and they live next door to a woman that we’ll call Wendy. Wendy is also a single mother with a daughter about the same age as Donna’s. Donna didn’t think very highly of Wendy, she found her to be “shallow and very sketchy,” but Wendy knew few people in the neighborhood and as a result, she “kinda pushed herself” onto Donna.

If Donna did a little self-reflection, she might recognize how sketchy she is too and maybe won’t be so quick to judge others, just wait until you read what she did here. It’s far sketchy than anything Wendy did.

Donna was careful to always be on alert when Wendy was around, but not pushing her away too hard either. That is something she’ll would come to regret, but for the time being, everything was fine…until Wendy decided to move out.

The Anger Started With A $100 Bill

Wendy decides one day that it is time for her and her daughter to move out and she tells Donna that she is leaving. Wendy has had some serious issues with her most recent boyfriend and after a breakup, Wendy was worried that he was stalking her, so she concocted a plan to leave without telling the landlord. She was going to leave her furniture for a bit, which Donna described as “mostly Rent-a-Center stuff she hadn’t paid for in months.” Wendy then asked Donna if she would call her if she had any packages arrive and Donna agreed.

Later that evening, Wendy came by Donna’s apartment to ask for some things Donna had borrowed, a few CDs. When Donna went to get the discs, she left Wendy alone in the kitchen, trusting that her “friend” wouldn’t do anything shady, but remember, this a person Donna called “shallow and very sketchy.” It was Wendy’s time to show how sketchy. Donna returned with the CDs, gave them to Wendy and Wendy said her goodbyes.

Later, after Wendy left, Donna noticed that a $100 bill was missing from the kitchen table, where Wendy had been waiting. Losing or having 100 bucks stolen is bad, but stealing from a friend is as low as someone can go if Wendy was indeed guilty, and it can be hard to see a way to ever forgive or forget. Yet Donna was convinced that Wendy was at fault, and wasn’t interested in either forgetting or forgiving.

The Lost Money And The Revenge Plot Begins

Donna and her mother “tore the place apart looking for (the $100).” The money was meant for Donna’s mother to do the grocery shopping the next day and they couldn’t find it anywhere. It meant only one thing to Donna – Wendy had to have taken it when she left her alone to get the items she had borrowed. At least, in Donna’s mind, that’s the only thing that could have happened. She was going to blame Wendy no matter what. It sure seems like there was a lot of unsolved issues between Wendy and Donna, and Donna was ready to “resolve” them.

Donna was FURIOUS. She said, “no one messes with my mother. No one. My mom was in tears because we were a paycheck to paycheck household and our cupboards were pretty thin.”

In her mind, Donna immediately began thinking about how to handle the situation. Calling the cops was pointless because “she’d probably already spent it on illegal substances.” Which is fair, the cops aren’t going to care about $100 but reporting the crime is still the responsible thing to do. Yet Donna had no interest in being responsible, far from it.

So she settled on a different angle. An extreme angle. A destructive angle. The first thing she needed to do, in her mind, was to break into Wendy’s abandoned apartment.

Trashing The Place

According to Donna, getting in was simple. She wrote that Wendy “was always locking herself outta her apartment and on numerous occasions, so I had climbed through her living room window to open the door for her before.” So, the next day, Donna broke in by climbing through the window. She wasn’t worried about getting caught because, “It was a nice, quiet neighborhood and no one batted an eye. I’d lived there longer than anyone and they’d seen me do this before.” Sure, nothing like some light breaking and entering in the middle of the day! Totally normal, right? No…it’s not, but we digress…

Once she was inside she went nuts. She started with the cheap rental furniture. She “took a box cutter to all her Rent-a-Center furniture.” No doubt she left it looking like a snowball fight with foam and feathers everywhere. It sounded like she was a rabid dog indiscriminately destroying just for the sake of destruction.

Once the furniture was trashed, she then went to the closets and grabbed all the clothes that Wendy had left behind. She mentions that Wendy “liked to shoplift so there were pricey items with the tags still on them all over her room. Purses and shoes too.” She hauled all that stuff back to her place. Like vandalism, stealing wasn’t beneath her either. To be fair, she did leave the son’s room alone, “no need for him to pay for his mother’s sins.”

After all that, she still wasn’t even close to being done with her insane revenge.

Spare The Rod, Spoil The Apartment

Next, Donna moved on to the kitchen. After rummaging through cabinets and taking whatever food was left, she moved on to the refrigerator. She didn’t steal that food though, instead, she left the door open and unplugged the fridge from the wall. This food would be used to stink up the place as the food spoiled.

Next, it was onto the sink. “I took cleaning supplies from under her sink and dumped them all over her expensive feather down comforter and mattress,” Donna wrote. So, those are ruined and probably smell lemon-fresh. Finally, she stole some more. Donna: “She loved buying in bulk so I took all her bulk toiletries (soap, shampoo, lotion, TP, paper towels). I cleaned this witch out! And what I didn’t take I trashed.” Total wanton destruction, mayhem, and theft.

She still had not had enough though! Ruining the furniture, stealing the clothes and turning the kitchen into a biohazard site still wasn’t enough for Donna. Wendy had taken a Ben Franklin right off her table. Donna needed more revenge!

The cat! Why did Wendy leave the cat?

And Then There Was The Cat

As Donna is trashing the place (a rental, it’s important to remember, so the landlord is going to be thrilled), she notices that the cat was left behind. Donna could have taken the cat in, fed the cat and maybe even returned the that, but no, she’s going to make sure Wendy never sees the cat again. Thankfully, she doesn’t do anything to harm the cat and it led to the only humane thing Donna did in her rage-filled revenge plot.

Donna says of the cat: “She had also left her cat there to fend for himself! (She ended up not returning for 2 weeks so she fully planned on letting it die a slow and painful death). I called the SPCA and had them pick him up as a stray, so don’t worry.”

We’re more worried about Donna’s sanity at this point.

Making Up The $100 And Way More

All those clothes she stole? That was Donna’s way to get the $100 back that Wendy (might have) stolen. She set up shop and “put the word out I was selling some designer gear and in one day I made $400.”

So, the hot merch made four times what she lost. Donna kept $100 and gave the rest to her mom. Donna does note that her mom “did not approve of how I handled the situation but she also felt (Wendy) had it coming.” Mom didn’t approve, but she didn’t turn away the money either. Classy

Yet Donna wasn’t done “getting” free stuff. Over the next two weeks, before Wendy came home, three packages were delivered to Wendy. Donna took them. “All of them were expensive make-up and perfume,” she boasted.

A couple weeks later, Wendy finally returned.

Wendy Returns Home

After two weeks, with the door open, the cat gone, the trashed furniture repossessed, with a “HUGE bill from Rent A Center,” and the kitchen probably smelling like a landfill in July, Wendy returned.

Donna relished the moment. Her destructive revenge was a complete success in her mind. She “reveled hearing Wendy’s screams.” Donna was also proud that Wendy “didn’t even come up to ask about any deliveries.” STILL not done, Donna did take a couple more parting shots at Wendy as she packed up the U-Haul she had brought to move her stuff out. “As she brought the last bag of stuff out to the U-Haul, I opened my window and called out ‘Hey! Wendy! I was wondering if you got a hundred I could borrow?!’ She shot me this look I can’t describe! Horror, rage…”

To top it off, Donna “even went out to wave her off as she drove away!”

The smugness is palpable. This was extreme revenge raised to a whole new level. Wendy might have taken the money, but she paid dearly for it.

Surprisingly, a year later, Donna ran into Wendy and Wendy tried to strike up a friendly conversation. Donna wanted none of it, “She was all big smiles and kept asking if I wanted to hang out. I completely ignored her. Then I got a friend request via FB several years later and I simply replied ‘Really?’ and blocked her.”

Don’t mess with Donna, she’s the kind of person that takes things way, way too far.

And one final thought – what if Wendy never took the money? The only evidence that she might have was that look on her face at the end. What if the money was lost somehow and Wendy had nothing to with it? Donna might have gone completely nuts for nothing. She might have destroyed thousands of dollars with of someone else stuff for no reason at all. Who’s the crazy person then?