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17 hours ago
- Business
- Buzz Feed
17 Times Rich People Used Their Money To Say F**** You
There's nothing quite like a petty wealthy person, and these stories prove it. Recently, Redditor u/NeoAstral asked those in the Reddit community to share the best examples of "fuck you" money they've ever witnessed or experienced, and I can't believe some of these are real: "A family friend of ours owns a very successful national company. His wife's Jaguar was stolen out of their driveway; he'd noticed it at about 6 a.m. when he got up for work. He called the Jaguar dealer principal and had a new replacement car there by lunchtime in exactly the same color and trim. His wife apparently didn't notice until about four days later when the police turned up with what was left of her original Jaguar." —goss_bractor "The CEO of my company is actually a super solid guy. He hates one of our competitors so much that he bought a billboard right outside their office and kept our ad up until they changed locations." "I'm an employment and contract attorney. In my younger days, I was corporate counsel for a large hospital. We were in the midst of a fundraising campaign and were a few million dollars from our goal. We got a call from a wealthy, youngish guy who offered to cover the remainder, plus 10%, with two stipulations. He used to work at the hospital when he was younger and made it rich with a medical device company he started. He wanted a voting-member board seat and wanted to fire this vice president, who was his supervisor when he worked there and had made his life miserable. The vice president was the reason he'd quit and eventually created his own business." "Billionaire Howard Hughes reserved the top two floors of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas for 10 days. When his 10 days were up, the hotel asked him to check out. He wasn't ready to leave, so he bought the hotel and stayed there for four years." —SaucyFingers "My uncle made a bunch of money in investment banking. Seemingly out of the blue, he decided to buy a chain of shops he'd been fired from because he caught his manager having an affair with another employee. He bought the shop with a partner and made it a point of the deal to keep the personnel in place after the sale. The first day of taking ownership, he walked in and fired the manager who fired him. Then, my uncle gave everyone else raises and made sure the ex-employee heard about it." "I used to work with companies that build super yachts. One client had a boat where the interior of the vessel was finished in $500K worth of marble. Well, when the owner walked in, he decided he didn't like the color and requested it all to be removed again." "Growing up, our neighbor was incredibly wealthy — probably making nine figures. He owned a tremendous amount of land and could probably influence the price of beef with the amount of cattle he had (and oil, of course). He was in his 80s, and his health was deteriorating, so his kids showed up while he was recovering from surgery and explained to him that they didn't want him driving anymore and took his truck. As soon as they left, he called a local dealership and had a brand new truck dropped off an hour later. His kids came back over the next day, and he just told them he decided he wanted to keep driving and was fine buying another new truck every day if he could." "This guy I used to work for thought it would be funny to hire a limo to take a friend to lunch. The restaurant was literally next door to where they were. The limo company refused to rent by the hour and said that he had to hire it for the entire day. The guy was angry, so he ended up just buying the limo. After lunch, he was still angry, so he bought a few more limos and started his own company. A month or two later, he bought the limo company that initially refused him an hourly rental." —hmfiddlesworth "A former boss of mine was going through a contentious divorce. Her husband had skipped town down to Florida with some woman, ditching my boss and their son. Eventually, when the divorce was being finalized, it came to the point where they had to divide assets. She was the primary breadwinner, and the judge ruled that she had to either give him one of her vehicles (she had several large trucks) or buy him a new one. Her husband was no small fry; he stood 6'7" and was a former bodybuilder. So, rather than give her one of her many trucks, she bought him a completely brand new Toyota Prius. This huge man looked like he was driving a clown car around town, and it was hilarious." "When I was 15, I was riding with my good friend and his incredibly wealthy family to a theme park when his car, a Mercedes with all the upgrades, started making a weird noise. He pulled into a gas station, and the car wouldn't start. His eldest son came and picked us up, and I didn't think anything out of the ordinary. Later that day, I found out that he'd left the car in the parking lot and went and bought a brand new one." "My brother worked for a super yacht company in New Orleans. An owner's wife showed up to give final approval on a finished boat, only to announce that the interior was the wrong shade of pink. She wanted 'blush,' not 'bashful.' So, most of the boat had to be disassembled so that they could repaint the interior." "My grandmother sold her condo and bought a house down the street because the condo association wouldn't let her paint her mailbox the color she wanted." —cm253 "My friend knows a guy who flew his private jet from London to France for lunch. When he finished lunch, his jet was having some maintenance issues. Rather than waiting the two to three hours for them to figure it out, he approached a less rich private jet owner and offered them a big enough check for it to be worth their inconvenience to sell him their jet on the spot." "Kerry Packer. He frequented a particular casino often. One night, after a good run, he wanted to tip the dealer. She declined, as per casino policy. So, he asked to see her supervisor, who confirmed that it was against company policy for employees to accept tips from clientele. Kerry demanded that the dealer get fired or he'd never return. The supervisor obliged. Kerry then said, 'Well, now she's not an employee, so I can tip her,' and gave her a ridiculous sum of money. The supervisor allowed it. Then, Kerry said, 'Hire her back again, or I'll never come back to your casino.' The dealer got her job back and pocketed the tip." "I know somebody who tried to build a giant garage in their backyard to conduct their business out of. The neighbor complained to the town planning board and managed to block construction, so the guy I knew bought the empty land next to the neighbor's house and donated it to Habitat for Humanity so that they'd build a house there just to piss off the neighbor off. The guy I knew then managed to get some tweaked plans through the planning board for his giant garage to hold his sailboat that didn't exist." "There was a lady with a private jet who was told there was nowhere at the local airport where she could leave it. So, she bought a regional airline: Viking Air." —sh_caps Lastly: "My dad used to do handyman work for a fairly rich guy. He had a house in the hills with quite a few acres. Someone bought one of the hills next to him and started building a house. The rich dude didn't like how it looked, so he bought it from them, halted construction, and had all traces of construction removed. Then, he didn't like how much land was surrounding him with no fence because his property line was now too far away to see. So, he had a fence put in, across the middle of his land, just so that he could see a fence." OK, whoa. What's the biggest example of "fuck you" money that you've ever heard about or witnessed? Let us know in the comments, or you can anonymously submit your story using the form below!
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
It's Your Call for Feb. 6
License to steal I seen in the paper they're, again, talking about Internet for the rural areas and for people that can't get the Internet. Well, I live in the rural area and when it hit our area, it was sky high. All these laws are for these providers is a license to steal from us Missouri voters. I've got it I've got it. Trump takes over the Gaza Strip, plans a giant hotel, casino and golf course, and names it Trump's Desert Inn. Thanks, Trump I just got a notice from my bank that my escrow has a shortage of $500. That's a 25% increase. Thank you, Donald Trump. Not what we voted for So far, Donald Trump has cost me $5,000 in my IRA account. I don't have cheaper eggs, food or housing, but felons who attacked our capital have gotten pardons and rich people have gotten tax cuts. And now he's going to spend billions taking the Gaza Strip and developing that. For who? Am I ever going to get there? Even if he builds a resort? No. This is not what we voted for. What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong when an unelected, foreign-born, personality disorder billionaire named Elon Musk buys his way into influence with our criminal president and then gets his hands on America's financial accounts, including all of our Social Security numbers? What could possibly go wrong? I hope we don't find out soon.
