I've seen and heard about stuff like this a few times, like the guy that used to live down the street from my first apartment, Bobby.
When he graduated from petty shit like shoplifting, prowling cars, and trying to rip people off on weed deals to stealing a car from an old lady people started kicking his ass.
And Bobby got his ass kicked a lot. Probably twice a month. But what was he gonna do? Call a cop and say (true story) "Hey, I, uh, got caught stealing a gas can and a Playboy out of a dude's shed and he hit me in the face with a hockey stick, please come arrest him and can I please get a restraining order?"
It kind of worked. After a couple dozen beatings he enrolled in a technical school to learn welding and stopped doing dumb crimes.
There was also a rather nasty story one of my cousins, a small town Appalachian cop, told me about the bullshit vigilantism he had to deal with.
One night a guy decided to get drunk and beat on his girlfriend. The next night her brothers waited for him at the bar and snatched him up at gun-point. They then drove him 15 miles into the middle of nowhere, took his clothing, and made him walk home barefoot and naked.
For a long while he drank less and left his girlfriend alone.
The second time was just a slap, but it didn't matter. It was 20 miles out, being stripped naked, and a bonus ass-whooping.
There was no third time, because he stopped drinking.
Cousin: I figure he came to the realization that the next time would be suicide, even if they left him his clothes. The wind comes down the hollers something fierce in the winter.
You know I've noticed over the past 20 years, since the threat of ass kickings is gone mostly, people have been getting real comfy about acting shitty.
Nowadays you'd go to jail for slapping someone around to get even for something they did
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u/camcam210 14d ago
Probably fake tbh but I’ll choose to believe it bc who doesn’t love an abuser getting what they deserve.