I also find this type of story appealing. I love when the superheroine gets a sound and humiliating spanking, and the criminal gets away scot-free. Or when an innocent bystander steps in to stop a bully and gets perceived as the bully and is soundly punished.
I personally know of a real-life situation where a person paid someone to steal back something that was legally and rightfully theirs, only to get caught out, have the paid person rat them out and then they be punished for the attempt.
I call these stories reversal of fortune. A person tries to help an elderly old man and is unfairly punished by his family for being a gold-digger or for taking advantage of him. A young college girl tries to help find a missing student and breaks into the wrong home because the guy living there is creepy, and she gets caught and pays for her jump to a conclusion.
Another favorite is when a grown woman catches young boys egging an old man's house. She demands they hand over the eggs, they do, he appears, they scamper off, leaving her with egg on her face and a very sound spanking coming!
Of course, a Lara Croft type that always JUST ABOUT gets the treasure but ALWAYS gets the punishments, or three angry housewives go down to the local Strip joint to bust their sleazy husbands only to end up the night's entertainment for everyone's enjoyment!
A college girl and her three friends all try to be sleuths and all four run afoul of some really bad dudes with a sick sense of justice to teach these ladies a lesson! Well, that's a few ideas. Not original, I know, but surely others have some great ideas!
Thanks for bringing up the topic, however! |