An encounter with a woman — we’ll call her “Karen”– at a cemetery ended with him being physically assaulted and having his car tires slashed. A video posted on Reddit captured the altercation between an unnamed man and 49-year-old Karen A. Howard of Foresport, New York.
The clip was posted by the victim’s child, who captioned it, “My dad had an encounter with a Karen… Literally named Karen 😂.”
From the context given, Howard had asked the victim to be a part of the cemetery board. However, when he joined, he noticed some suspicious activities, indicating she may be embezzling money from the board. As he tried to uncover more details concerning the matter, Karen attacked the suspect on the cemetery grounds.
The video captured the moment the angry Karen walked up to the man and demanded to know why he had asked the caretaker of the cemetery to leave. The man said he did no such thing, but the suspect was livid, not hearing any of it. “Who the f*ck do you think you are?”
Howard then attacked him, slamming his phone out of his hand. He picked up the phone, which was still recording, and said, “Okay, that’s assault. That’s criminal assault on video.”
Another man, presumably Karen’s husband, appeared on scene and asked what was going on, but the suspect blatantly lied, saying, “He dropped his phone.” Surprised, the victim countered, “You don’t think they saw on the camera that you smacked the phone? What is wrong with you two?” However, Karen kept denying, and her partner seemingly agreed.
Amid the argument, Karen circled the victim’s car and slashed his tires. The moment the air was let out of the tires, with an audible hiss, could be heard in the clip. When the victim called out Karen for puncturing his rental vehicle, she blatantly denied it.
“I didn’t do anything to that car… I had nothing in my hand. You piece of sh*t. You keep trying to f*cking blame everything on everybody else.”
She even approached the victim’s car, looked at it, and asked, “How did you do that? Oh my god, that’s horrible.” Online, Karen was heavily criticized for her ridiculous actions. One user commented, “Hope you called the police and filed a report. That lady needs to be hit with the long d*ck of the law in order to change her childish behaviour. You can even hear the tire puncture in the video.”
One user called her a “psychotic liar,” and another remarked, “The gaslighting is strong with this one. Jesus Murphy. That’s so f*cked up.” Other users pointed out that if one looked closer at the video, they could see an object in Howard’s hand right before she punctured the tire.
Notably, Howard did not go scot-free but was held responsible for her actions. According to Flack Broadcasting, the victim filed a harassment complaint, and the next day, she was arrested. Pending further police investigation, Karen was charged with one misdemeanor count of criminal mischief with intent to damage property.
