They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and it turns out they might actually be right.

At least that's the conclusion to be drawn from the countless brilliant examples of cold calculated revenge to be found throughout the internet.

From the ultimate way to stop a food thief to the greatest payback against a bully you'll ever hear,

let's check out some awesomely passive-aggressive ways. People

got revenge.

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

In 2011, Lee Beaumont from Leeds, England, got even with the frustratingly high number of telemarketing cold callers he was dealing with by turning them into a new stream of income.

While only giving his personal number out to friends and relatives, he set up a premium phone line to give out every time a bank, gas, or electricity supplier requested his contact number.

As these types of companies occasionally pass customer details on to the types of organizations

likely to carry out cold calling, if anyone did cold call him, they'd pay the price,

specifically 10 pence per minute.

In his first two years with the premium line, Lee made over 300 pounds from cold callers.

He wound up trying to keep the cold collars he'd once despised on the phone for as long as possible to squeeze more money out of them.

Once the story got picked up by news organizations, he began making even more money from the journalist calling to ask him about his setup.

They say the best revenge is living well, and for Lee Beaumont, this was certainly true.

Thanks to all that extra money, it earned him.

Next up, international politics is a difficult game.

When you depend heavily on the oil exports of a nation run by someone guilty of inflicting countless human rights violations upon their own people,

things get a little complicated. That was exactly the case with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,

so when he visited the UK in 2007, the Brits weren't exactly overjoyed. And neither were the

band employed to welcome him. But being under the employ of the British royal family, the band

couldn't flat out refuse to play,

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