A Coworker Repeatedly Stole His Breakroom Lunch—So He Bypassed Illegal Poisoning and Used Carolina Reaper Ghost Pepper Extract and an Administrative Trap
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Imagine bringing your lunch to work, but when you go to get it out of the break room, it’s missing. What would you do?
In this story, we hear about a man who was in this exact situation. His first step was to find out who was stealing his lunch. His next step was to confront him, but when that didn’t work, it was time for the final step. He was out for revenge.
Keep reading for all the details.
My dad told me how he got back at an awful co-worker for stealing his food
My dad used to be an extremely fit guy back in the day (I.E. Before he had teenage sons) and has gained a lot of weight and with it came diabetes.
After being in denial for a year, he came to terms with it and started eating right again and bringing his lunch to work instead of hitting the grill for a quick burger and fries to and started exercising again to help lose weight.
This is awful!
After a while, he noticed his meals going missing out of the fridge at work and he started asking around to his co-workers and most of then pointed out “Ralph” was eating whatever container my dad described his food being in.
He approached “Ralph” about it and Ralph quickly fessed up and said it wouldn’t happen again, but he continued anyway.
After a while, my dad got aggravated not because he would have to find a replacement for his meal, but because this guy would blatantly eat the food in front of people not giving two cares who saw.
So my dad hatched a plan.
Time for revenge.
He decided to make Ex-Lax brownies and bring a plate to work with him.
Now most of his co-workers hated “Ralph” because he’s already eaten their food and ended up in on the joke. So they knew to steer clear.
My dad walks in with his “lunch” and sees Ralph chilling out. He tells Ralph to stay away from his lunch and not to eat it and Ralph agrees to do it.
Needless to say, food went missing and Ralph ran between his office and the bathroom so many times, he ended up going in his pants.
Let’s see how the boss handles this.
After cleaning up as much as he could, Ralph went to the boss and ratted my dad out saying he was poisoned by him.
My dad gets called in, is asked about his “food” and told the boss that he told Ralph to stay away from the food.
Boss looks at Ralph and asks if this is true.
Ralph says “that’s not the point.”
Boss responds with sending him home because he smelled awful and ended up transferring him to another branch a week later.
It actually is the point that the dad said not to touch his lunch. That’s the whole point. Ralph was stealing. I’m glad the boss was on OP’s dad’s side.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
Exactly! All he had to do was not steal OP’s dad’s food.
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Another person has a question.
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I don’t think it was illegal.
There’s no way to prove that he knew the coworker would eat the brownies. In fact, the exact opposite would be easy to prove. He specifically told the coworker not to eat his lunch.
Sure, he had a hunch that the coworker would still eat this lunch, but that’s far from poisoning him.
I hope the coworker learned his lesson.
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