Worst way of getting caught?

[TarnishedPenny]

Looking at the ongoing scandal with two married people exposed in an affair at a Coldplay concert, that’s got to sting! So, I got thinking, are there worse stories out there?

I know of one, certainly. It took place on a large military base some years ago. The bomb squad got a worried call from the base post office, located in the basement of the base headquarters, saying they’d just had a parcel in the morning mail which had started humming. There’d been a minor letter bomb scare at the time and they’d been briefed to watch out for strange packages.

The bomb squad responded, judged there was at least some possibility of it actually being a bomb. The headquarters was evacuated, with fair-sized crowds outside, flashing police and fire department lights and ambulances standing by… The EOD crew did the long walk and whacked the parcel with a disruptor, a device neutralizing bombs with a high-speed bolt of water. When they went back in, they found the remains of a large vibrator and a shredded, sodden note.

The letter was from a senior NCO (male) who was away in temporary duty, and written to a corporal (female) in the same unit. In it, he professed his love and explained in graphic detail his plans for her various body parts on his return. The toy was to keep her occupied until his return.

Okay, it’s been done, but both of them were married, both to somebody else. And rank disparity made it a double whammy, with absolutely no way to sweep any of it under the rug.

Oopsie.

Any others?

 

[TomTeacher19]

It's not nearly on those levels but the worst story I knew of was back in college. I went to a small, conservative, private, Christian college. The debate team was made up of like eight kids and they traveled to competitions like ten weekends a year.

Two of them were a married couple who had been high school sweethearts and got married after like their sophomore year of college. Well the rumor started that the professor in charge of the team was sleeping with one of the other girls on the team who had a reputation of being slutty. He was older and married. The other girls on the team decided to bust them and while gone one weekend at competition, they got the extra room key for his room and then busted in on the room to try catch them in the act.

They were half right. Turns out the slutty girl also had that idea to get an extra key to that room and use it. But the professor wasn't there and instead it was the husband student. Busted by his wife and all the other debate girls.

Trh couple divorced and dropped out and the professor resigned as debate coach and moved to a different college a couple years later. The slutty girl stuck around and graduated.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Are you looking for fun thread here, or are you looking for the really nasty stuff as well?

 

[MrPixel]

I'd say both.

I'm thinking back on our rich life of questionable behaviors, and recall one possible incident, but that had plausible deniability including no paper trail, and anonymous witnesses. Can't think of any acquaintances outed in spectacular fashion.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Are you looking for fun thread here, or are you looking for the really nasty stuff as well?

Melissa, I’d never want painful stuff. The example I gave had beaucoup hurt in it, but it’s decade ago and time makes suck things funny from a distance.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't know about worst, but I was part of one of the dumbest.

My wife's best friend when we met began dating a guy I worked with when they met at a party at our house. Flash forward sixteen years, they've been married for fourteen years and have two kids together. The four of us are close, dinner at each other's houses every couple of weeks, took a cruise together etc.

Well, he ends up screwing around with a woman at work and word spreads faster than the plague in work places. I caught wind and I'm like, no, he wouldn't. I ask him.

He point blank says, "Yeah, but I'm only fucking her" and proceeds to give me the "Look, its been a long time and you know how it is, we get the itch" and all that BS, but then he says. "Besides, she'll never know, guys don't rat out their buds."

I told my wife that night and she had her friend come over and we both told her. She's devastated, but wasn't going to put up with that and tosses him. He proceeds to tell everyone in work I'm a rat and I told because I always wanted his wife. When he started telling people he not only fucked my wife but tag teamed her with another guy that was the end of that stupid situation.

To think I'm not going to tell a woman I was friends with longer than him and then to get upset about. Comes down to don't be a cheating sack of shit and nothing happens. Then again, if I'm being honest I'd have told her even if I didn't really know her. I don't do the bro code shit.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

But another, taken from a book long lost.

The incident was set in England and featured a couple who’d parked in the local lovers’ lane, disrobed and proceeded to get frisky in the frony seat of their car. At the penultimate point, his back went out, leaving him in agony and immobile and her pinned underneath.

Eventually, she managed to reach the horn with her toe and started beeping out an SOS. The noise brought passersby, who called the police, who called an ambulance. The ambulance crew judged that the only practical way of getting him out was to remove the roof of the car. By this time, there was a major crowd, reporters, even a van with a little old lady handing out tea.

The local fire department was summoned and proceeded to take the roof off with the jaws of life. Romeo was lifted out and placed on a stretcher. The ambulance shortly hee-hawed its way into the night.

One of the fire fighters wrapped the woman in a blanket and tried to reassure her.

“Don’t worry, Mum, he’ll be right as rain in no time.”

The woman is supposed to have given him a bitter look and come back with one of the more memorable rejoinders in history.

“Sod that! What am I going to tell my husband about the motor?”

 

[MelissaBaby]

Melissa, I’d never want painful stuff. The example I gave had beaucoup hurt in it, but it’s decade ago and time makes suck things funny from a distance.

Sure, I get it. I'll save my grim anecdote for another time.

 

[iwatchus]

I know of an instance where a woman found out her husband was cheating when he got thrown through a plate glass window by the other woman's husband. He discovered when she got pregnant. The other couple was going to a doctor to understand her infertility. I guess her husband was shooting blanks.

And I knew two people who were on a business trip together. She called the ambulance because she noticed his face had turned blue. At 2AM. While he was in bed in her hotel room. Both were married and both moved to other employers within a few months.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

When I was in my teens, my whole neighborhood discovered that one their neighbors was cheating on her husband.

Apparently, the hubby had heard rumors that once he left for work their pastor was stopping by the house pretty much every morning.

The hubby waited a few hours, went back home and found them naked in bed. He grabbed them and pushed them both out the bedroom window. But lucky for them, they landed in a few feet of snow in the front yard. He also tossed out her clothes so that everyone would know what she'd done.

They split up, and the pastor moved onto to another parish, but people still remember how guilty they looked once they got caught, sitting naked in the snow in the middle of winter.

 

[dirk2024]

There are a couple of loving wives' stories in here.

 

[Voboy]

Imagine leaving a message for the wrong paramour on a messaging app. Nothing all that racy, but definitely enough to let you know there's someone else, and it's pretty far along.

Awkward for everyone.

Might or might not have happened to me at one point.

 

[TheLobster]

I told my wife that night and she had her friend come over and we both told her.

So, instead of giving him an ultimatum and a deadline, to end the affair and come clean to his wife so they can try and possibly salvage their decade-plus marriage, which included two kids, you immediately went for the nuclear option?!

And then the fallout caught not only the guy’s family but also the atmosphere in the workplace you both shared, leading to a spread of more nasty rumors that, I presume, ended his career?

What. In. The. Actual. Fuck.

 

[yano2mch]

Looking at the ongoing scandal with two married people exposed in an affair at a Coldplay concert, that’s got to sting! So, I got thinking, are there worse stories out there?

The coldplay could have been avoided, either by not cheating, or just acting like it was natural. They would have been noticed by the audience and then.... totally ignored after an 'awwww' moment and no one would have thought twice as there's millions of older couples that look like that. Anyone that might have recognized them would have probably kept it down low, unless the wife saw the footage directly.

I heard someone's infidelity during 9/11 showed up where a wife called her husband via his cell phone to ask if he was okay, this was after the plane had hit the building during his lunch break, he was apparently in a hotel room some blocks or miles away.

 

[lovecraft68]

So, instead of giving him an ultimatum and a deadline, to end the affair and come clean to his wife so they can try and possibly salvage their decade-plus marriage, which included two kids, you immediately went for the nuclear option?!

And then the fallout caught not only the guy’s family but also the atmosphere in the workplace you both shared, leading to a spread of more nasty rumors that, I presume, ended his career?

What. In. The. Actual. Fuck.

So, I was wrong, and all the fallout of HIS CHEATING was my fault. Yeah, sure.

Pretty sure his "You're not going to tell" was an indication he wasn't admitting anything because he thought it was fine. Not only was there no sign of "Oh, shit" but he'd been bragging to a few other guys who also knew his wife.

Him making her look like a fool with his equally gross friends was okay, the fact I'd been good friends with her for 20 years at that point doesn't matter either, right? But him paying the price was wrong? Oh, the drama! His feelings!

Don't be a dog and you don't get put down. He wrought his own ruin in this situation, anyone who thinks otherwise says a lot about themselves.

Don't spread nasty stories about someone's wife and you won't end up looking like a racoon is the other lesson he learned. FWIW the only reason I caught wind of that was another person at work told me he'd been telling it to everyone at the place. Doubt anyone believed him, but at least one person had the decency to tell me. Guess that guy should have given him a chance to come tell me that as well?

He fucked around and found out in multiple ways.

Guess we know who follows the bro code now, don't we?

This is why I can't stand certain breeds of men. They stick together like dirty pigs.

 

[yano2mch]

He fucked around and found out in multiple ways.

This is why I can't stand certain breeds of men. They stick together like dirty pigs.

I was stuck in a sexless/loveless marriage for 10 years. She'd get annoyed when i went to stories rather than her even when she never put out. She considered 'chatting' as cheating.

Just saying, you don't know the situation. I believe one should keep to their vows, but everyone has breaking points.

... And then there's just assholes.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was stuck in a sexless/loveless marriage for 10 years. She'd get annoyed when i went to stories rather than her even when she never put out. She considered 'chatting' as cheating.

Just saying, you don't know the situation. I believe one should keep to their vows, but everyone has breaking points.

... And then there's just assholes.

Sorry to hear about that. You said was so I take it you're no longer with her. hopefully you're happier now.

I understand what you're saying, but in this case we knew the situation because this is my wife's best friend from 4th grade and the four of us were good friends which is what pissed me off the most about it. What genius decides to have an affair and openly brag about it in the same company where one if his wife's best friends work? The assumption was I was his friend too so I'd let it go? I'll be the first to say I don't have a lot of great qualities, still have no idea how such a beautiful person as my wife loves me, but one thing I am is loyal to a fault to those who deserve it. If they were just having trouble in their marriage, I doubt I'd take a direct side, but this?

No, this was a cut and dried case of him being a midlife crisis prick.

Sometimes there's gray areas, sometimes it is what it is.

Sounds like your ex was very possessive and if I want to play amateur therapist her being not interested in sex along with being that jealous smacks of very low self-esteem/ insecurity on her part. That's not your fault if she never let you help and its too bad, but everyone deserves to be happy. Maybe I just simplify things but I never understand the "well, we couldn't divorce because..." if you're miserable move on. People owe themselves that. I walked away from a miserable first marriage when she cheated and made no effort to retaliate against the other guy, fuck it, she was his problem now and thanks for giving me the chance to do so much better with the next person I got serious with.

 

[yano2mch]

Sorry to hear about that. You said was so I take it you're no longer with her. hopefully you're happier now.

Sounds like your ex was very possessive

When we first got together sex was great. Then somewhere 6 months together her libido took a dive. her words were 'The novelty wore off'...

Yes I've been separated from her for about 8 years now. I'd say she got the better end of the deal. But now that i have options for more sex with my current GF, but medical problems make that hard to capitalize on. So i missed my best years to enjoy good sex.

 

[lovecraft68]

When we first got together sex was great. Then somewhere 6 months together her libido took a dive. her words were 'The novelty wore off'...

Yes I've been separated from her for about 8 years now. I'd say she got the better end of the deal. But now that i have options for more sex with my current GF, but medical problems make that hard to capitalize on. So i missed my best years to enjoy good sex.

Life's not always easy, its why people eat up HEA romance stories.

My ex cheated on me and we divorced, she's on her third husband and the last two years they just live together because they bought a house that neither can afford alone and they'd get nothing in a sale because they have no equity. She's as unhappy as she deserves especially for how she treated my daughters who eventually had enough of her shit and came to live with me. I found an amazing woman second time around, but almost lost her to cancer in 2014 and the last two years she's been battling it again, lost her kidney and spleen in February. So, yeah, sometimes you find the right person but the road is still very rocky, leaves you feeling that "We/she/I deserve better feeling." But I wouldn't walk away from her for anything. She's my ride or die and that's what matters.

 

[MaturemanAJ]

Friends daughter ended up divorced as she found out her ex had been paying a hooker for years.
His biggest mistake was making promises to the hooker and when she called him on it and he said no she went to his wife with everything.

 

[Erozetta]

Oh, man. I have one.

So, this just happened last year. My former friend of nearly 30 years got caught "cheating" (In quotes because it was all online stuff.) and I got a frantic message from him on Discord telling me his wife was going to reach out to me and he begged me to say I used his account to comment on pussy pictures all over reddit and also writing bad erotica under his name. (She could've googled my name and she would've easily seen the difference in writing styles). Now... My friend isn't the brightest bulb, but he loves his kid and I was irritated by his wife for being so fucking puritanical even though I knew she cheated on him before. Actually cheated, not just online stuff. She fucked her boss, multiple times, while refusing to fuck her husband. At that point, I didn't really care if he fucked around or not, fair's fair.

So, my doofus of a friend got caught by his brother-in-law because he left a comment on a picture with a screen name that linked back to his main profile.

I still don't fucking know why he dragged me into this issue other than I was the expendable friend. But his wife actually reached out to me. And I covered for him for no other reason than I didn't want to see him lose access to his kid. But also, I didn't think she would buy it. I expected her to do some critical thinking and consider the odds of her husband giving me access to his accounts or me guessing the password to get in. And maybe wondering why I would even do that considering I had a higher following than him and much more favorable scores and comments across Reddit and here. And maybe she would even consider the fact that I write in American English but all of his posts were in Northern Ireland English.

When she called him out, the doofus, in a panic, nuked the accounts but didn't delete his post history first. His wife was bitching at me about me needing to delete his post history because her family thinks he's some kind of pervert now. (Newsflash: He's been some kind of pervert for as long as I've known him.) I said I couldn't as I didn't have access to the accounts (and I didn't, because I never had access to them.)
Anyways, I lied for him, saved his marriage (most likely temporarily) and he was "forced" to end his friendship with me. (Which is funny 'cause did he really think I was gonna keep being his friend after that?)

So, at the end of the drama (I still have the evidence of his coaching to me, should he ever try to doxx me or any other such bullshit for not being quiet about this whole situation.) he emails me to tell me he's deleted the trail of messages between us (sure, on his end. I have screenshots, screen capture video and the original emails still intact. Don't piss me off, I keep receipts and am capable of a long ass grudge.) and he swears he'll never do anything like this again.

I wrote out a long ass email response that I never sent. I'll probably never send it. But... hmm... Is "Letters I'll never send" an option here? Maybe in Letters and transcripts? It'll bomb like crazy, but I don't give a fuck.

I may end up submitting it. Undecided. I was being exceptionally cruel in it, but I was also really hurt and pissed off at him.

So, anyway, cheater gets caught by wife's family because he's a careless and horny bastard. Wife falls for the absolute stupidest ruse ever as a cover. (Oh, but I did have fun with seeing him panic as he sent me "scripts" then me writing back to him with, "I'm not saying that, it's stupid." Then leaving him in the dark while I spun up an elaborate yet obviously bullshit story around it.) And the cheater blew up a friendship that spanned nearly three decades by continuing to do the thing I told him to stop doing because he was going to get caught.


I will post the last few lines of the letter here, though. It's the less angry wind down:

I swear if this comes back on me and messes up anything I've been doing, I will post the screenshots of our conversations. I already showed my husband in case your wife decides to try and do some harm to me, so he knows what's really up.

Deleting things on your end doesn't delete them from mine and I have documented everything. Keep your shit contained and your wife and her family quiet about what you claimed I did, or I will fuck you. Just not in the way either of us ever wanted.

So, yeah, good luck.

And stay safe. For better or worse, I still want you safe and happy. If I didn't, I never would've gone along with this.

Oh, and get some fucking therapy.

Just wanted to add that the thing that still irks me about this is that I'm offended that his wife thinks I wrote his stories. Like... Out of all of it... I want to send her my actual stories to clear my name of having written his stories. And I think my own writing is shit.

 

[MrPixel]

I'll probably never send it. But... hmm... Is "Letters I'll never send" an option here?

It definitely is. It's therapy. It's a form of closure. Getting those thoughts down free your mind from dwelling on them, and when you feel the need to be "nostalgic" (is there a word for sad nostalgia?), it's there to remind you that you have moved on.

I have such a letter to my ex - and a story I'll never publish about "the end," when I kicked her out of our house. We divorced 43 years ago, but the pain bubbles to the surface for me every so often, usually in a dream. She was a master at gaslighting, and managed to hide affairs including drug-fueled orgies for 4 of our 6 years "together." (Yes, I was naïve, but the forest was so big!) Anyway, in the post mortem, I eventually discovered well after we split that she had a friend-of-a-friend who became a boyfriend, and definitely her supplier. This boyfriend was/is a big name in the Hollywood FX world, so Hollywood + 1980s = drugs & sex? Yeah, it's true.

Anyway, she never admitted to anything even after I confronted her after putting a couple of 2+2s together. I strongly suspect the denial of that kind of closure was at the advice of her attorney, who accurately postulated if the truth emerged, her standing in the assets distribution would have been toast. No kids; I was aware of two abortions, however.

So the letter and the story sit on my computer to remind me that I ended the relationship for very good reasons, and make me even more appreciate the special person I've been spending the rest of my life with.