6 Amazing Stories That Could Make You Believe in Karma

1. Thief hit by a bus seconds after robbing a woman

In Bogota, Columbia, in May 2013, a man grabbed a woman’s phone at a bus stop, wrestling it from her hand. He turned to run away and only got a couple of steps before he was hit by a bus. The whole incident was caught on surveillance tape, aired by the BBC and other media (watch below). 

2. Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

Ron Poirier dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents in the 1970s as a Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The chemicals seeped into the drinking water. The cancer that killed him in May 2013 was among the diseases afflicting Marines and local residents as a result of the toxins. He told the Associated Press before he died that he felt it was a retribution for his guilt.

“When judgment day comes, you know,” he said, “I hope those people that suffered … realize that I didn’t know what I was doing.”

3. Person does a good deed, finds $40 in extremely unusual way

Reddit user mappberg shared this story:

I go through periods of insomnia, and I have stayed up through countless nights over the years. One such night … I went to 7-11 at like 6:30 a.m. … On the way out I see this [homeless man]. … I go back in and buy him two microwave 7-11 hamburgers, and heat them up. I give him the burgers and proceed to Tropical Smoothie which opens at 7 a.m.

I park the car and open the door, look down and what do I see? A fresh $20 on the white line of the parking spot. … So that’s cool but then this is the really crazy part: I come back out of Tropical Smoothie and as I approach my car, what do I find? Another $20. In the exact same spot. I checked my pocket, the first one was still there. A glitch in the matrix?

4. Trying to get something for free, you pay anyway

Reddit user AdoplhManson shared this story:

One day I paid for one, but took two papers (because I was sick of co-workers rifling through MY paper). As I walked off with both newspapers, I noticed that my shirt tail got stuck in the newspaper box when it slammed shut. I had to put in another $0.25 to get my shirt out.

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