Most of us are pretty good at keeping our cool. That’s why they allow us to walk around, have kids and drive cars etc. But every now and then, even the best people just… snap.
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1. Back in high school, this one really annoying guy would come up and talk to people long enough to subtly steal their milk. One day he happened to pick the kid who was having a terrible day. He grabbed the kid’s milk and started to open it. The kid told him if he opened it, he was going to break the lunch tray over his head. So of course, he opened it. And he had a lunch tray broken over his head. Guy stopped stealing milk after that.
fireinvestigator113
2. I had a coworker get up from her desk, throw her keyboard against the wall, and go sit in the corner and start bawling uncontrollably. The reason? “All of the data in her payroll program had been deleted.”
What actually happened is that she opened the wrong program. Everything was just fine and in the correct program.
Costner_Facts
3. I worked at a Mexican grill years ago. The older quiet dude who always kept to himself but was basically pleasant just lost it one day. He was chopping chicken to put on the line when one of the line employees called out Were out of chicken!”
The guy LOSES IT. “I’m already F******. MAKING. CHICKEN.” He throws the chopping knife sideways at the wall and the tip of it sticks. He pulls it out and throws it again, towards the line, narrowly missing an employee. The knife lands in the barbacoa, splattering juices all over. Then he calmly took off his gloves and apron and left.
Sweetrhymepurereason
4. So I worked with this ER doctor with chronic back pain. He managed to get the hospital to buy him a special chair for his back. Well, one day we had the cops show up because a patient walked in and wanted to report an assault. (continued)
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The doctor was in a patients room and when he came out a cop was sitting in his chair. The doctor asked the cop to get out of his chair, explaining it was his special back chair. The cop replies that he was a cop and would sit anywhere he wants and that the doctor would just have to deal with it.
The doctor got this wild look in his eyes and cocked back and punched the cop square in the jaw. Suddenly all the cops jumped him. He got felony charges talked down to a misdemeanor, but he still spent some time in jail and lost his job.
illiternati
5. Back in middle school I remember there was this kid who got bullied. One day he decided to punch the bully back. They both went down and started wailing on each other. The kid didnt win the fight – not at all. But he didn’t get bullied again after that day.
hidden-entity
6. Out at a bar when some guy grabbed the butt of a married woman. She didn’t say anything, just looked across the bar at her husband – a man about 6’8″, at least 280 pounds of pure muscle, like ridiculously big.
How the butt-grabber remained conscious for the savage beating he received before 5 or 6 people pulled them apart was actually surprising. He landed maybe one hit before he got sent through a table.
strayjay50
7. Middle school. Little skinny kid. He was quiet, usually polite, but really didn’t have any friends that I can remember.
There was this group of middle schoolers that just picked on this poor guy all the time. Spread rumors about his family behind his back, ‘accidentally’ bumped shoulders with him in the hallway to make his books scatter, ‘accidentally’ spilling drinks during lunch to get on his clothes, and countless other things to inconvenience this kid and humiliate him.
One day (his locker was a few doors down from mine) he had dropped a pencil. I happened to pick it up, and hand it back to him. He gave me a smile, and tucked it into his pocket.
“Watch this,” He said, in that quiet, barely-there voice of his. (continued…)
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The bullies were coming back down the hallway. I’d seen it happen enough that I could already tell they were aiming to body-check him.
He had his books in one hand, and the other hand in his pocket as he started walking down the hallway toward the group.
Right as the ringleader pushed to the side to shoulder-check him, he whipped his hand up and lunged into the other guy. The pencil stabbed right into the other guy’s shoulder, pushed by the momentum of both of their bodies.
Bully dropped like a rock, shrieking, pencil sticking out of his shoulder – just under his collar bone. I remember thinking it was unlucky he had decided to wear such a wide collar – the pencil missed cloth entirely.
Skinny kid just kept walking down the hall.
Skinny kid was expelled. After that day, I never saw him again. We weren’t really friends, but I hope his life turned out okay. I thought it was super unfair that they never got punished for bullying him, but the one time he fought back
daitoshi
8. My dad and I were in traffic once and he saw a car break down. The guy (wearing a business suit) casually got out of the car, opened the trunk and got an aluminum baseball bat. He then proceeded to beat the living hell out of his car. Windows, lights, the whole works. Once he was finished, he fished out his briefcase from the now-ruined car, ripped off the license plate from the car, then casually, calmly walked to work (we think).
MistahZig
9. I used to work as a private security guard.
One of the most common assignments was working weddings which was usually a nice change of pace from the usual work sites. So I’m at this wedding and the two families are fairly large, and booze is freely flowing. For the most part they were loud, but there wasn’t any trouble.
Observing the crowd, I see a guy who looked quite discontent at the reception. I figured he just wasn’t too social. The, when the time came for the best man to give his speech, I saw the angry guy from earlier come up from his table. He looked very determined and angry.
This young guy interrupts the best man by suddenly taking the mic. (continued…)
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He paused for a moment and wipes his eye. I’m thinking “great another emotional speech by a drunk guest.” But no, it was far better. It turns out the guy is a really close friend of the bride and professes his love for her and that the pregnant bride’s child is his.
The bride looks mortified and his emotional speech turns from a drunken profession of love to straight-up anger and resentment. Then he starts to insult the groom and his family.
The father of the bride, the groom, and groom’s friends are absolutely livid and ready to beat the living hell out of the guy. But I have to hand it to the speechmaker: he was smart and he had brought his friends. So it looked like a royal rumble as the men are brawling, chairs are being thrown. The bride is leaving, sobbing, her friends and family in tow.
By the time I was able to gather the other guards and try to respond, the police were already there.
MR502
10. I can’t recall my exact age when this happened. Maybe around 6-8 years old. My younger (over a year younger) sister and I were in the living room, watching TV.
My sister was sitting on the floor and i was sitting on the couch. Out of the blue our mother walks into the room carrying two heaping plates of spinach. Nothing else. Just spinach. She lays the plates in front of us. Sister complained that she didnt want any spinach. Thats all it took to trigger my mother.
At that, she pounced on my sister and began slamming the spinach into my her mouth while screaming at the top of her lungs, “EEEEEEAT IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!! EEEEEEAT IIIIIIIIIT!!!!! I MADE IT NOW YOURE GOING TO EEEEEEEEEEAT IIIIIIT!!!!!”
WallyPlumstead
11. My husband, a typically calm an stoic type, hauled off and punched a guy in the jaw. we were at a bar, enjoying a few drinks and some bar food for my birthday. Anyway, this very drunk guy came up and started asking my husband (US-born man of middle eastern descent) how it felt to be part of a terrorist nation. (continued…)
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My husband brushed him off with a joke and the guy backed off for a little bit.
Sometime later, he came back and started calling me a terrorist’s girlfriend and asked why I didn’t have a mask on because didn’t people like my husband beat women for showing off “their jugs and stuff?”
That burst some bubble my husband had put around us, and he just stood up without saying anything and punched him.
BrianaAsad
12. My boss once cut all her hair off in the bathroom at a work Christmas party. No explanation given.
Zibblerzee
13. This guy in our ER and didn’t like the fact that he had to wait to get a few stitches in his head. Didn’t want to hear that the critical patients came first.
The guy was loaded drunk and punched one of the admitting staff in the face. He wound up being tackled by security, cuffed and put into the psychiatric observation suite overnight. Then the police arrested him for assault.
MadLintElf
14. When I worked behind the counter at a gourmet deli in a natural food grocer, there was a day where this one lady had been served a piece of fish by another employee.
I hadn’t been a part of this transaction, however I was the one who helped her when she returned to the counter to complain about the fish. She handed the box back to me, saying “Hi I asked for a piece of the halibut from the hot case, and this is a piece of chicken.” I didnt know that she was unhinged, so I took her at her word. (continued…)
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I took the box that her food was in and prepared to grab her some halibut, but thought maybe I should check the inside of the box just to see what happened. I peak in there and, what do I find other than a piece of halibut. At this point, as gently as I can, I tell her “ma’am this is indeed a piece of-”
At this point she cuts me off and starts screaming at me, “DONT TELL ME THATS A PIECE OF FISH! IF YOU TELL ME THATS A PIECE OF FISH IM GONNA SPIT IN YOUR FACE!” I decided to retreat from the situation as quickly as possible. I grabbed her another piece of fish and told her that I hoped her day “continued to be as wonderful as it had clearly been.”
Then I flagged down a manager who followed her around the store to make sure she didn’t break or steal anything as she proceeded to walk through the store ranting loudly and profanely about how she wanted to spit in my face.
mustXdestroy
15. Had a shuttle driver working for us (car dealership). He would go pick up customers after their car was done being serviced. Unfortunately we called him because there was another pickup while he was on his run, and he flipped out.
He started screaming unintelligibly, but some of it we definitely understood, like how he was going to run the car off a cliff or into oncoming traffic and he had a customer in the shuttle van the whole time.
Lo and behold, the customer gets here and calmly tells our adviser that our shuttle driver is a disgrace. He was fired soon after and had another minor freak out.
I’ve since heard that he works at another local dealership.
As a shuttle driver.
FatFriar