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Like anyone who's worked a minimum wage job, I've travel crossed my just stock of entitled people. Recently, Redditor u/SensitiveCorner2379 asked, "What's the worst level of entitlement you've ever seen?" Below are 31 of the apical responses.
Ripped from the headlines:
1. "Ethan Couch. This happened successful 2013. At 16, helium was drunk and speeding done a vicinity and past slammed into a radical of people, sidesplitting 4 of them and injuring others, including paralyzing 1 of his passengers. A scientist hired by his ineligible squad argued that helium had 'affluenza,' meaning helium was excessively affluent and spoiled to cognize immoderate amended due to the fact that his parents gave him everything, truthful however should helium cognize however to behave? So the IDIOT JUDGE sentenced him to PROBATION (for sidesplitting 4 people) and rehab. He past went connected to violate his probation, and truthful erstwhile authorities went to apprehension him (he was astatine a enactment with intoxicant successful immoderate online video, a wide usurpation of his highly lenient probation), his parent took him to a edifice successful Mexico."
2. "This is akin to a teenage lad successful Pune, India, who allegedly deed and killed 2 radical past twelvemonth portion drunk driving and speeding successful a Porsche. He was fixed 15 days of assemblage work and assigned to constitute an effort connected roadworthy safety. I was implicit determination past twelvemonth for enactment and heard astir it. It's insane what the affluent tin get distant with."
According to CNN, the boy's lawyer said that the presumption of his bail were changed, requiring him to walk clip successful rehab. Additionally, his dada was arrested for allegedly allowing him to thrust underage because, successful India, the driving property is 18.
3. "That twat Anne Sacoolas, who was the woman of an American quality officer. In 2019, she ran implicit and killed 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn aft she was driving connected the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy successful England. She past fled backmost to the US and claimed she was protected from prosecution nether 'diplomatic immunity.' I anticipation she ne'er has a second's peace, and radical punctual her of it daily."
4. "There was a ridiculous justice present successful the UK who fto a shoplifter disconnected with a conditional discharge due to the fact that she was a gorgeous exemplary who was astir to survey astatine university. He adjacent called her a 'woman of sizeable talents.'"
In 2017, Natalia Sikorska was caught trying to permission Harrods with £959.59 worthy of decorator goods. She was fixed a 12-month conditional discharge and fined £85 positive a £20 unfortunate surcharge aft pleading blameworthy astatine "the earliest imaginable opportunity."
Westminster Magistrate Grant McCrostie reportedly told her, "You are a newcomer to this country, you are a pupil with a spot astatine university. You are evidently a pistillate of sizeable talents, you are evidently intelligent."
5. "Sharon Osbourne was connected Would I Lie To You telling the communicative of how, during her location fire, she yanked the oxygen disguise from 1 of her employees being seen to by an EMT and screeched, 'You enactment for me, present get backmost successful determination and prevention much paintings!'"
6. "The lawsuit of Jonathan Paul Burrows. He was a hedge money manager successful London who underpaid for his bid summons connected his commute for years (to the sum of £42,550). He was yet caught and paid backmost the money, and past the regulator banned him from moving successful fiscal services for beingness owed to his dishonesty."
Burrows told the BBC, "I person ever recognized that what I did was foolish. I person apologized to each acrophobic and reiterate that apology publicly... While I respect the FCA's determination today, I besides regret it, coming arsenic it did aft a 20-year vocation successful the City that was without blemish. I admit that the FCA has connected its sheet much profound wrongdoing than excavation successful the fiscal services sector, and I americium atrocious that my lawsuit has taken up its clip astatine this captious juncture for the aboriginal of the City and its reputation."
Redditors' idiosyncratic stories:
7. "My dada got a caller coworker who was besides caller successful town, truthful my parents invited him and his woman implicit for meal 1 night. Dinner included caller vegetables from my mom's rootlike garden. My ma besides gave them immoderate other tomatoes and zucchini to instrumentality home. A fewer days later, my ma was washing dishes and looked retired the model to spot the woman crouching successful her rootlike garden, stealing arsenic galore veggies arsenic she could acceptable into her bags, including things my ma had plans for and was not readying to springiness away. She had scaled the obstruction to get inside."
8. "The Edward Jones fiscal advisor who parked successful handicapped parking each time for 3 years until she yet got a $500 ticket! She tried to unit the spot owners to wage for it since they knew she was utilizing that abstraction and ne'er said thing to her astir moving."
"I really threw a acceptable astir it erstwhile I archetypal started moving present and made an anonymous ailment that was ignored. Problem is, I enactment for a slope that has a narration with this individual, truthful I was encouraged not to marque it a large woody and fto karma grip the situation."
9. "A person I had couldn't comprehend what I meant erstwhile I said I couldn't spend something. They looked truthful baffled and asked wherefore I didn't conscionable spell get wealth for it. Oh, spot money babies."
10. "I was a chauffeur, and I was driving the nanny and 3 children to a destination wherever the parents would extremity up. They each had iPads with AirPods. While loading, 1 of the children got upset and tossed his iPad connected the ground. The nanny didn't accidental anything, conscionable picked up the breached iPad and went inside. She came retired with a marque caller 1 and handed it to the child. Nothing was said."
11. "My relative bought his eldest girl a car arsenic a astonishment acquisition aft she passed her driving test. She refused it arsenic it was the incorrect color."
12. "My mother. My stepdad had been suffering from prostate crab for 14 years. He went downhill rapidly and passed away. My parent had sold her location and bought into his, truthful they owned fractional each. When helium passed, his fractional was near to his 2 kids. She was furious helium didn't permission his fractional to her, citing that he'd already fixed his children plentifulness of money. They'd already mislaid their parent to cancer, too. Plenty much stories similar that astir her! None of america talk to her."
13. "Worked with a pistillate who was flying with a clump of our coworkers. She was disquieted that a connecting formation would get diverted owed to the weather. She decided to spell to the table and request that they alteration her flight. The archetypal formation landed connected time. Everyone other boarded, and she demanded to get her aged spot backmost connected the archetypal flight. 'It's lone been 30 minutes. Why can't I person it back?' She's retelling this to maine and acting similar she's the victim. She conscionable couldn't comprehend that the formation was full. Her spot was fixed distant to idiosyncratic connected standby. And the formation she changed to would beryllium determination successful 30 minutes."
14. "When I was a kid, my parents were friends with different couple. They had met done religion and yet hired the hubby (his company) to physique our house. They were friends ever since. Once the lodging marketplace wasn't doing excessively well, the hubby ended up making a supplication petition successful church. Tearfully, helium told everyone they were connected the verge of losing their location due to the fact that helium couldn't find capable enactment to wage the bills. My parents ended up inviting them implicit for meal and past afterwards, presented them with a check. I person nary thought however overmuch it was, but it was capable to prevention their house. I retrieve them some sobbing successful our kitchen. That was to beryllium the extremity of it, but the adjacent week we went to church, things took a turn. People were whispering and staring astatine us. Eventually, idiosyncratic took my parents to the broadside and explained what was going on..."
"This mates had been going up to our communal friends, asking for their 'advice.' They told everyone that my parents had fixed them wealth to prevention their home, but upon reflection, they realized that this magnitude of wealth could money their imagination abrogation to Las Vegas. They were asking radical if they should usage the wealth arsenic intended, oregon if they should spell connected their once-in-a-lifetime imagination travel and gamble it, accepting, of course, that this would apt extremity the friendship. I'm not definite if they thought radical would beryllium connected their broadside oregon what, but everyone was beauteous appalled. It ended the relationship instantly, and they ne'er spoke again. Even arsenic a kid, it was absurd to maine that they would marque the choices they did."
15. "Friend (who was inactive surviving astatine home) got huffy astatine her parents for remodeling their kitchen. They 'were expected to' usage that wealth to bargain her a house."
16. "I was placing asphalt astatine this aesculapian school, and I saw this beauteous young woman was wearing these fancy flip-flops. I said, 'Excuse me, miss, you don't privation to locomotion connected that asphalt. It's 325 degrees.' And with utter contempt, she said, 'Excuse you, I'm going to beryllium a DOCTOR!' She charged past me, astir got tally implicit by the roller, realized IT'S HOT, and past walked close connected to the caller tack (gooey, sticky tar that binds the layers together). She mislaid a flip-flop, tripped, and glared astatine maine with scapels for eyes. I had to locomotion distant 'cause it was excessively funny. Apparently, she complained, due to the fact that immoderate bigwig came down an hr later. The superintendent told him off. We are not liable for idiots who disregard warnings not to beryllium stupid."
17. "I worked astatine a high-end car dealership. A pistillate successful her 50s purchased a car, past she called 4 oregon 5 days aboriginal and said that 'the car conscionable stopped' connected the freeway. We sent a tow motortruck and discovered she'd tally retired of gas. She wanted the dealership to waive the tow measure due to the fact that her salesperson failed to archer her she'd person to enactment substance successful the car."
18. "I utilized to enactment successful a recognition paper fraud and quality telephone center. One day, I received a telephone from an evidently affluent pistillate who bought USD $10K jewellery from New York. After returning to Toronto, she realized that she didn't similar the plan anymore. So, she went backmost to NY to instrumentality it. The jeweller returned her wealth successful full. Now she was asking for associated question and edifice costs from the bank. I couldn't judge my ears erstwhile she said that. Oh, however pissed she became erstwhile I flatly denied her demand."
19. "Had a person successful assemblage whose parent lived 4 hours distant from our pupil housing. Friend refused to bash immoderate housework, bash immoderate laundry, oregon instrumentality plates/garbage retired of her room. Instead, she made her ma thrust 4 hours and travel cleanable her country erstwhile capable of america complained. Her ma didn't fuss to thatch her girl however to bash thing herself. Her ma gladly did it, unfortunately. One time, she did inquire maine to amusement her however to bash laundry due to the fact that her ma was truly sick and couldn't thrust over. But adjacent period was close backmost to summoning her servant-mother."
20. "A coworker of excavation threw a acceptable due to the fact that I won a ample solid jar of gummy candies, and she demanded to our manager that it needed to either beryllium successful the interruption country for communal snacking oregon fixed to her due to the fact that 'I don't person a household and don't recognize what struggling is.' This was implicit gummy candies."
21. "While travelling, I met a feline whose dada owned respective Marriotts successful the States. His household was ace loaded, and they wanted him to get immoderate beingness acquisition and question experience, truthful they paid for his travel to fundamentally spell anyplace successful the world, staying successful five-star hotels successful their penthouse suites. He hated each 2nd of his expected year-long trip, and helium said helium bought a 60-inch TV and a PS4 truthful helium could enactment successful his edifice country to play games alternatively of sightseeing. He spent the 10 mins I had interacted with him doing thing but complaining astir what assholes his household were for making him bash each of this, erstwhile each I could deliberation is, 'Bro, I'm staying successful a hostel for 4 euros a nighttime with 11 different people, trying to agelong this travel arsenic agelong arsenic I can. So galore radical would perfectly leap astatine this benignant of accidental to spell anyplace successful the satellite and not interest astir expenses. But you're conscionable bitching astir the full thing.'"
22. "I knew a feline from the gym. In the '80s, his dad's edifice got bought truthful immoderate developers could enactment up a immense building. The dada got respective millions, truthful helium bought his 20-year-old lad a Lotus Esprit (a beauteous car). The lad threw a acceptable due to the fact that each his gym buddies had IROC Camaros (which were fractional the car the Lotus was)."
23. "My neighbour thinks due to the fact that she owns her home, she, her family, and extended household tin bash immoderate they want. The archetypal time they took possession of the house, her member did a burnout down our freshly paved street. Instead of apologizing erstwhile radical were like, 'WTF?', her dada tried to combat the annoyed neighbors instead. It did not amended aft that. They chopped our net enactment erstwhile they were planting a cedar hedge. When I went extracurricular to beryllium like, 'Did you conscionable chopped my line?', helium conscionable shrugged and didn't adjacent apologize."
24. "American Lady successful Ireland, insisting the subway queue begins from wherever she stands (collection side). Literally insisting. Everyone ignored her. She caught up eventually."
25. "My husband's member loves contented and ever wanted to 'wake up successful the household location connected Christmas morning,' adjacent though helium and his woman lived little than an hr away. My hubby and I unrecorded successful the 'family' location (my in-laws' 2nd house) due to the fact that helium is disabled and a wheelchair user. For each intents and purposes, it is our house, and we wage rent. My in-laws inactive person a country and immoderate things there, and they sojourn each fewer months. I slumber successful a antithetic country and furniture from my hubby due to the fact that of his mobility and abstraction needs. This country used to be my BIL's room. For 2 years astatine Christmas, helium and his woman and toddler would expect to enactment for 2 nights and to slumber successful 'his aged room'…despite it being my current room."
26. "I erstwhile had a woman effort to locomotion onto the main signifier astatine Coachella 2019 during a set. I politely told her she was not allowed, and she told maine she was a VIP and that I didn't cognize who she was. I told her lone radical with higher entree were capable to spell connected stage, and she asked, 'Oh yeah, similar who?' And I said, 'Like me.'"
27. "My ex didn't similar her assemblage room, truthful she someway got her household to get her a euphony scholar's room, which was astir 1000 quadrate feet and had a expansive soft successful it. She didn't play the piano. Some talented instrumentalist got looked implicit for this exclusive room."
28. "I'm definite there's been worse, but it happened straight to me, and I retrieve it vividly. In university, I had a part-time occupation successful the cafeteria, cooking and serving students from the residences. A batch of affluent kids astatine this school. I had a miss archer maine to spell to that fridge (she pointed) and get her immoderate caller tomatoes from a caller instrumentality of sliced tomatoes. We already had tomatoes connected show with different disposable condiments, but those ones weren't bully enough, evidently. I retrieve I benignant of cackled erstwhile she said it due to the fact that I was truthful shocked by it, I thought she was joking. She wasn't, and she complained to the manager astir my attitude. Fortunately, I was a decent worker and had a bully narration with the different unit and manager, truthful thing came of it. I inactive retrieve that from clip to time, and it's been astir 20 years."
29. "I worked astatine a hotel, and this mates was complaining that our bartender wasn't making the drinks beardown capable (he was pursuing state-issued rules). They said, 'He's nice, but we conscionable wanted a small more!' Well, my brag requested that helium get to grip it. So they told their communicative and ended it with, 'We tin enactment anyplace successful town, but we enactment present due to the fact that of the determination and the staff!' Boss kinda nodded on and said, 'Well, that's not true. I cognize for a information that you're banned from the Umstead, and you're besides banned astatine the Downtown Marriott and the full-service Marriott 2 exits down.'"
30. "I was connected a very, precise tiny tourer island, and during meal I noticed the full balcony country was roped disconnected (I would beryllium determination for greeting whale watching), and determination were 2 tables, 1 with 3 adults and 1 with nannies (plural) and kids. The kids were feral, throwing things connected the level and smearing worldly each implicit the table, and the nannies cleaned up arsenic champion they could but did not subject the children."
"Later, we were told that each the boats were connected backstage charter and nary 1 could spell retired connected a boat, but we're divers who prepaid/chartered our dives, truthful we told them we would instrumentality a vessel of our prime if they didn't bash amended and get america a boat. They recovered a boat, but we went to a antithetic broadside of the island, and that day's snorkeling radical was cancelled, but again, we're divers with our ain gear, which means our non-diving household had their ain fins, masks, etc., truthful our radical went snorkeling anyway. I recovered retired aboriginal that this was a Saudi prince-level household who were upset that we were connected their land for their two-day stay. They didn't adjacent privation america successful the water connected the time they were doing their circuit and glass-bottom trips. I conjecture they couldn't person america peasants successful the water astatine the aforesaid clip they were."
31. And finally: "My ex mother-in-law is raging that her ex-husband (divorced for implicit 20 years) didn't instrumentality her connected abrogation with him and his existent fiancé due to the fact that 'they were joined once, truthful she deserves to spell conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic her.'"
What's the worst lawsuit of entitlement you've ever seen? Tell america successful the comments, oregon successful the anonymous comments container below!
Note: Some responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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