hey everybody rob from karma karma chameleon coming at you with another
nuclear revenge story almost kill someone we respect
and put the blame on us lose life as you know it let's jump right in
hit that subscribe button for more daily reddit stories hello I have been
enjoying the pro revenge nuclear revenge entitled parents
malicious compliance and I don't work your vids on YouTube and they just
brought back all kinds of memories so I thought I would post a few I'm posting
this one here as I seem to notice that nuclear revenge tends to not only have
devastating effects but sometimes questionable means were used and this
story fits that perfectly so anyway it is the early 90s and I was in my 20s
working as an electrician with my best friend we were known as the Hawkeye me
and trapper or Honeycutt old match reference team of our crew and we kept
everyone on the job site laughing and in good spirits even in the worst times we
were working new construction of an elementary school and had been on site
since the very beginning we were two weeks away from punch-out that is where
construction is complete and inspections are done looking for any flaws or
Corrections that need to be made anywho the superintendent over the whole
construction site was a major jackhole and had been since day one
he was new and wanting to make a name for himself it was his first time
running a job and he made several mistakes and always blamed others
remember me mentioning worst of times he constantly cut corners to save on costs
which would turn around and bite him later on he had gotten several good
hands fired he would run good contractors off the job and bring in his
friends to replace them the drywallers and painters were a
couple of examples and I heard that he had half of the plumbers run off and
replaced with his crew as well he was a total jackhole to us electricians as
well wanting us to work overtime but not willing to pay it he was really wanting
to keep us behind so that he could charge the company finds our small
company finally brought in a couple of extra hands which pissed him off even
more because we were starting to catch up by
the time Christmas rolled around we were ahead of everyone else and as mentioned
the job was nearing punch-out status two weeks before Christmas my friend's car
since I was his roommate I carpooled with him as I didn't have my own
transportation lost its rear end and we my best friend and I missed two days of
work repairing it the jackhole superintendent saw this as
an opportunity and told our job foreman to have us fired if not run us off the
jobsite he tried to kick us off property himself but since he had no legal means
tried to have our job foreman run us off citing we were unsafe and a distraction
keeping others from getting any work done his argument was dismissed since as
I mentioned we were ahead of everyone else it was the day before Christmas Eve
our last day before we would be off for the holiday he knew our supervisor who
was visiting that day was deathly afraid of snakes earlier that day a small
rattlesnake had been found hibernating beneath a portage on that had been moved
and killed gotta love Texas the jackhole superintendent had brought
a cooler full of beer for his crew for when the day ended well our supervisor
made his rounds inspecting our work and talking to our foremen and since we were
his last stop was ready to leave and start his holiday the superintendent
told him to have a beer and pointed out the cooler our supervisor opened the lid
to the cooler and had a heart attack literally the dead snake was inside when
the EMTs finally cleared him the supervisor was telling him that he saw
me and my friend at the cooler earlier that day and blamed us of course we had
been under the Foreman's nose all day in which half of it was with the supervisor
and our supervisor was aware to the jackholes tricks so he did not give in
to the demands of us being fired now for the nuclear revenge my friend and I did
not take kindly to our supervisor being harmed nor to the blame being pinned on
us do to us what you will but do not harm those in whom we have respect like
I said it was the last day of work before Christmas holiday we
Christmas Eve and Christmas off after work my friend and I drove to a bait
shop and picked up a gallon of catfish Charlie for those who don't know
catfish are attracted to really foul odors and catfish Charlie was one of the
stinkiest baits used for fishing for catfish I mean one whiff will turn your
stomach and you will turn green a cast-iron stomach is what's needed not
to just lose your lunch we drove back to the school and around back to where the
air handler unit was for those who don't know the air handler is the main
environmental unit of commercial buildings a/c and heating we opened up
the main intake duct and dumped the whole bucket of catfish Charlie and
close the duct back up for good measure we had also added about a pint and a
half of water and stirred in a nice thinner paste so that it would not
quickly dry out I did learn that even though longtime smokers I could hold my
breath a full minute and a half and my friend two minutes probably due to him
being ex-military neither of us could see for about 10 minutes due to the
tears and it was a miracle we didn't lose the contents of our stomachs even
in Texas winters can get cold including on the coast and this was a particularly
cold winter staying in the 20s and teens Fahrenheit it even snowed on Christmas
not enough to write home about which maybe happens once every 10 to 15 years
remember this was Wednesday and like I said we had Christmas Eve and Christmas
off and then the weekend four full days for that stinkbait to stew in the
running heating system come to find out later the jackhole superintendent and
his cronies had forgotten to lower the main thermostat before leaving for the
long winter holiday weekend the thermostat is normally lowered to 50
Fahrenheit when closed during cold weather and raised to 82 Fahrenheit when
closed during warmer yeah it was left at 75 Fahrenheit that whole weekend it's
Monday and my friend and I pulled up to quite the scene that morning Martians on
all fours seem to be littering the grounds of the school projectile
vomiting speed food everywhere there was an ambulance
and three fire trucks on the scene with firemen in full rubbers including
respirators running around everywhere all of the doors and the windows of the
school were open with giant fans venting the building's the air was putrid and we
turned green upon exiting the vehicle oh holy fu.. was all I could say what the
hell happened here our boss was sitting on the hood of his
car next arz his breakfast artfully painted the ground the jackhole
superintendent and a couple of his guys were in the back of the ambulance on
oxygen as they had taken the full brunt upon opening the building okay let's
tally the damage the smell had permeated everything and I mean everything the
school besides cafeteria was fully carpeted the drop ceilings were of the
fiberglass type as well as the insulation so they absorbed the smell
the walls that weren't cinder block were papered and not painted since the inner
ductwork was the insulated type on the inside all of that had to be replaced as
well needless to say tens of millions of dollars in damage also a fence had to be
erected to prevent such a thing from ever occurring again come to find out
the superintendent had skimped on the insurance and pocketed the money so
needless to say it fell to his company to cover all the costs all of his
underhanded dealings came to light in the end as well needless to say he lost
his job and was arrested losing his contractor's license forever our boss
never said anything but I am thinking due to the way he always grinned at us
after that day that he had his suspicions that it was us but he never
turned us in and did put in for us a big raise since the smell didn't permeate
any of our stuff and our jobs were complete anyway the plumbers
electricians and pipe fitters were spared from ever having to enter that
mess yeah nearly 30 years I guess the statutes of limitations are
well up so I can safely tell the story I want to admit that I do feel a shame for
doing being young and dumb and all is a great
excuse but a good contractor service went bankrupt and a lot of jobs were
lost in the end and from what I hear the school still has a foul odor even today
well about 18 years ago from what I heard yeah we expected to stink up the
place but did not expect such a result there wasn't Edit on the story that I
feel helps tie up the story it says okay hopefully last edit a lot of people want
to know if the school still stinks today I called my brother since he lives down
there and I'm no longer in the area I learned that my friend lied to me
eighteen years ago when he said it still did my brother said that five years
after the incident after many complaints it was torn down and rebuilt I was
feeling pretty bad for all the people that lost their jobs in this case but
there was a comment down below from Opie that kind of cleared that up as well he
said during that time in that field there was a major boom one could quit or
lose their job and be working at another company within the hour
and generally earning more money so that makes me feel a little bit better but it
still puts those people in a really hard position having to find different work
I want to thank Opie for giving me permission to narrate their story today
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