This is horrible. I hope this woman goes to prison for filing a false police report.
Given the tension with policing in this country, her actions are beyond irresponsible and she needs to face legal and financial consequences for trying to use the police as a bludgeon.
I don’t know if that qualifies as a “Karen”. There are plenty of other titles I can think of (vapid, rude, self-entitled, liar, etc) but she doesn’t have that “je ne sais quoi” of a 50 year old with a short hair-cut refusing to wear a mask while wearing a fanny-pack and shouting racial profanities at a minimum wage worker in front of her 3 kids at McD’s because she can’t buy one drink and then just re-fill it 3 more times.
I think it was the calling the police and the false claims that she’d been ‘hit with a car’ that prompted the use of the name.
Even though the woman in question seems to fit the description of ‘rachet-ass chickenhead’ better, she’s also doing a fine imitation of a true Karen, with her stupid self-absorbed antics.
It might make me more determined to wait it out. Why reward bad behavior. OTOH, I’m retired and have the time to waste. I would also push for her to be charged for filing a false police report.
Funnily enough, I don’t remember him getting that much grief about it, other than a bit of initial snickering. This was in England, more years ago than I care to say, and “dickhead” wasn’t in as common usage as it is now: we all knew what it meant, of course, but I think it was still seen as a slightly exotic Americanism, and it didn’t make much headway against the standard all-purpose insult “wanker”.
In my engineering days, I knew a poor dude with a non-English name that unfortunately screamed out an English epithet within its syllables. I still feel awful for having found it funny for even a moment, but everyone I knew had the same click happen in their head and good god.