There's nothing more satisfying than a heaping slice of justice, even though justice often seems so far out of reach.

But every once in a while with a remarkably twisted sense of humor, the universe does deliver its delicious brand of karma upon the awful people who deserve it the most.

So to do justice to karma's abiding place in the public consciousness,

here's an all-encompassing mixture of some of the most satisfying times karma came for awful people, past and present.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening.

You're being amazed.

This next timeless tale passed down through the generations begins at the end of the 19th century.

When Texan Henry Ziegland broke his fiance's heart by calling off their engagement,

she was so distraught that she ended her own life.

Her brother, overcome by vengeance-fueled fury,

made his way onto Henry's land and shot him before using the second round in the chamber on himself.

Little did he know the first bullet had merely grazed the side of Henry's

head shooting off into the woodland behind him. Henry survived the ordeal and 20 years passed. One day,

Henry was carrying out some landscaping on his property, removing several trees in the process,

but one was proving difficult to uproot.

Henry resolved to blow it up with some TNT, which wasn't so unusual then as it sounds now.

Henry detonated the T&T and died instantly.

Not from the explosion itself, though.

Buried deep within that tree was the very bullet that had missed him by a millimeter two decades earlier.

In the explosion, it had been launched back out and hit its original mark.

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