10 Karens Who Went Crazy on Thanksgiving

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Turkey isn't the only thing getting roasted this holiday season... Join us as we count down our picks for the most shocking times when entitled Karens unleashed their dreadful behavior around Thanksgiving! From homophobic teacher tirades to burning crosses, these holiday horror stories will make your family drama seem tame by comparison.

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00:00If it wasn't for the officers stopping Ashley Morgan at the coffee pot turkey trot, it would

00:05have been a tragic Thanksgiving.

00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most shocking times

00:13when the rudest, most unhinged, and most entitled people, better known as Karens,

00:18showcase their dreadful behavior around Thanksgiving.

00:21Supposedly their first class, obviously with no class.

00:2610. Terrible Thanksgiving Teacher Tyrade

00:31In 2019, a substitute teacher at Deerfield Elementary School in Cedar Hills, Utah decided

00:37to ask the class what they were thankful for. It should've been a nice, wholesome moment. Instead,

00:43the educator took the opportunity to teach the kids about her bigotry.

00:47Well, she first said, why would you be happy you'd be adopted by them?

00:51One child, Daniel, a son of Dancing with the Stars performer Louis Van Amstel,

00:57spoke about being thankful for being adopted by his two dads. This sparked the Karen teacher to

01:02go on a homophobic rant, which, astonishingly, lasted for 10 grueling minutes, despite protests

01:10from the students. Sophie tried to change the topic in class, and Demi went to the principal's office.

01:16Students then went to the school's principal to issue a complaint against the Karen. Kelly Services,

01:21which provided the teachers in the school district, confirmed that the terrible teacher was fired.

01:27I feel she could've done better. Even if she didn't like it, she didn't have to say that.

01:33Number 9. Karen Hutt

01:35Service staff have it rough. Not only do they not make anywhere near enough money that they deserve,

01:42they might also be forced to work their job on a holiday. Well...

01:46In 2013, Tony Rohr took a stand against Pizza Hut. After spending 10 years working his way up the

01:52ladder to manager at a franchise in Elkhart, Indiana, he refused to open the restaurant on Thanksgiving.

01:58Instead, his bosses asked him to sign a resignation letter.

02:01I think that was it. Tony refused, and he was fired.

02:04In response, Rohr wrote a letter outlining his stance and denying this was him resigning. So,

02:11Rohr was fired. The backlash to Pizza Hut treating this cult hero this way was massive, resulting in

02:18the company offering Rohr his job back. However, he rejected it for new opportunities.

02:23Tony says it wasn't about him, it was about his employees.

02:28Number 8. Nap to attack

02:30Many people can relate to Jacqueline Blake's tale. After having too much to drink at her home in

02:35Wilkes Bar, Pennsylvania, on Thanksgiving in 2014, she went to have a nap. Then, when she

02:41woke up, Blake discovered that her boyfriend had begun eating dinner without her.

02:46Here's where people stopped being able to relate to her. Blake, filled with post-sleep rage,

02:51attacked her partner, even grabbing a knife. She managed to stab him in the chest and threw the

02:57blade at him, striking him just below the eye. Thankfully, with non-life-threatening injuries,

03:02the boyfriend was okay after hospital treatment. Blake, on the other hand, was arrested and charged with

03:08the unhinged attack. Number 7. One Million Karens

03:14For many, it's not Thanksgiving unless the Macy's annual parade happens. However,

03:19in 2013, the right-wing collective One Million Moms attempted to ruin the holiday for millions of

03:26people. The anti-LGBTQIA plus group was frothing at the mouth at the idea that a couple of non-binary

03:33actors were set to feature in the event. As such, they created a petition to boycott the parade,

03:40describing it as the non-binary and transgender extravaganza. Which sounds amazing!

03:46Macy's has deliberately chosen two different non-binary actors that now perform as females

03:54to perform during their Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Ironically, despite being promoted by One

04:01Million Moms, the petition only got around 40,000 signatures. On top of that, the boycott had no

04:07effect whatsoever as the TV ratings for the parade broke records with 28.5 million viewers.

04:20Number 6. Left Out Attack

04:22Typically, Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to reunite for the holidays and celebrate

04:28with good cheer. However, Joseph Hu wasn't able to do that as he was banned from turning up to another

04:35family's event in New Milford, New Jersey. Well, his actions afterwards probably explained why he

04:41wasn't invited. Hu arrived at the residence to find out the reason for his exclusion and then threatened

04:47the family with a machete. When the police arrived, he attempted to drive off only to be pulled over,

04:52where officers found his teenage son, the machete, and two baseball bats inside the vehicle with him.

04:58For this bizarre reaction, Hu received one year probation and was fined for disorderly conduct.

05:05Number 5. Shuttlebus Racism

05:08In 2024, Purvez and Nicole Taufik took their three children with them to Mexico shortly before

05:15Thanksgiving. Yet on the trip back to Los Angeles, California, it all fell apart when meeting Arlene

05:21Bunch. Starting on the plane, according to Purvez, she spotted their son sitting alone and began

05:27questioning his race. However, it got worse on the airport shuttle bus.

05:31She's yelling at him, the four-year-old, and says,

05:35shut up, just shut up. Bunch uttered racist insults towards the family, who have Indian heritage,

05:41sparking Purvez to record the exchange.

05:43I'm American. So are we.

05:46After Bunch was identified, she spoke to the media. She claimed that the Taufiks called her white trash,

05:52and at the same time, she used the insult against them. Bunch also excused her behavior due to a brain

05:59injury she'd suffered a year before. But since the brain injury, I can get agitated very easily.

06:084. Walmart Profiling

06:11Rushing around a grocery store to prepare for Thanksgiving is probably up there in the most

06:16stressful situations for a person to be in. Yet for one Walmart customer in 2022, it was far worse.

06:23This happened Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.

06:26At a store in Moreno Valley, California, a black customer was set to leave after paying for his goods.

06:33However, one of Walmart's employees, a white man, wasn't having that. While the

06:38customer attempted to show his receipt, the worker ignored that and uttered,

06:42you people always trying to steal. Before removing items from the cart.

06:47I would chase them down and say, give me my item. And then I took the item back from him,

06:51and then he went in my cart and took the other item out of my cart.

06:54Because that wasn't racist enough, the employee also reportedly threw in slurs too. Unsurprisingly,

07:01the worker was swiftly fired. He says he filed an incident report right afterwards at the store.

07:07Number three, Wacky Racer. In 2022, the five kilometer coffee pot turkey trot Thanksgiving race

07:15in St. Petersburg, Florida could have resulted in disaster. Ignoring the road closure and the

07:20police attempting to prevent her, Ashley Morgan sped off in her car, nearing the race and the thousands

07:26of runners. Officers say she ignored their screams for her to stop and she fled driving onto that course.

07:34Thankfully, officers managed to stop her from driving recklessly. However, the Karen drama wasn't over.

07:40Morgan was livid that the cops had the audacity to try to stop her since it was Thanksgiving and that

07:45she was recently divorced. Uh, shocker. Police say Morgan also left the scene of a crash nearby where

07:52officers say she hit a stop sign. She also compared her situation to that of

07:57black people being falsely detained by the police. In response, Morgan was pepper sprayed multiple

08:04times and was arrested for her dangerous driving and for several other charges. When we contacted her,

08:10she said she did not want to talk about the incident. Number two, Angry Grandma. Stereotypically,

08:16Grandmas are warm, fuzzy, friendly folk whom kids love to see and spend time with.

08:22Unfortunately for LaChunda Johnson, she breaks that mold in a bad, bad way.

08:27In 2024, while enjoying a family Thanksgiving in Memphis, Tennessee, Johnson had too much to drink.

08:34It happens. Yet what doesn't happen is Johnson's actions after. For some reason, she pushed her

08:41grandson, causing Johnson and her daughter to argue, filled with rage. The grandmother grabbed

08:46a knife and attacked her daughter, injuring her hand. Officers say a grandmother charged the victim

08:52with a knife. Then Johnson went for her grandson, injuring his hand too. Thankfully, the other three

08:59minors in the house escaped Johnson's rage. The police soon arrived and arrested the grandma for assaults.

09:06Investigators say Johnson, who may have been drunk at the time, started arguing with her daughter and

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09:27switch on notifications. Number one, Thanksgiving Cross. Not even Thanksgiving could turn

09:36Warden Butler and Alexis Hartnett into good residents in Horry County, South Carolina. In 2023,

09:44after stalking and harassing their neighbors with racially charged language, they made it

09:48significantly worse on Thanksgiving. Reportedly stemming from a property line dispute, Butler and

09:54Hartnett placed a cross on their front lawn, pointed it at their black neighbors, and set it on fire.

10:00Yikes.

10:00Those neighbors were arrested and charged with harassment.

10:03Of course, it didn't go down well with the authorities who raided their house and arrested

10:08the duo for their hate crime. In 2025, after pleading guilty, Butler was sentenced to time served and

10:15released. The same year, while awaiting a trial for this case, Hartnett was arrested for violating her

10:22home detention for an unrelated indecent exposure charge.

10:26Now, the prosecution has asked Judge William Seals to remove the tenants,

10:30Warden and Butler, from the home and have police place barriers and tape along the windows and the door.

10:36Which holiday brings out the worst in Karen's? Let us know below.

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