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These Karens didn't just demand a manager — they demanded a lawyer! Join us as we count down the most unhinged, entitled, and downright criminal Karen incidents ever recorded! Our list includes a plane-punching passenger, a racist neighbor from hell, a road rage incident you won't believe, and so much more! Which of these true crime Karens shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments!
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00:01Welcome to WatchMojo. And today, we're exploring the most infamous incidents of the rudest,
00:07most entitled, and belligerent people — best known as Karens — to have caused such a ruckus
00:13with their dreadful behavior that they endured criminal consequences.
00:17Lee's did get behind the wheel.
00:20Plane Punching
00:21When flying on a commercial plane, there are a few rules to follow. Yet,
00:26if you have a Karen raging within you, then the rules are meaningless.
00:30This behavior was reprehensible.
00:33In 2020, Viviana Quinonez was on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego,
00:40California, when a flight attendant asked her to stow her tray table, put her seatbelt on,
00:44and wear her face mask properly as the plane prepared to land. Rather than comply, Quinonez
00:50was furious at the employee doing her job and began recording on her phone. Somehow,
00:55this led to the passenger attacking the worker, which caused a cut that needed stitches and chipped
01:00teeth.
01:01All because she was told to wear her face mask correctly, fasten her seatbelt, and stow her
01:09tray table for landing.
01:11In 2022, Quinonez pleaded guilty to interfering with the crew member, earning her a 15-month sentence.
01:18Now, while on supervised release, Quinonez is banned from flying all commercial aircraft
01:23and must participate in anger management classes.
01:27Neighbor from Hell
01:28If it were possible to pick your neighbors, Suzanne Kraft would be near the bottom of most people's
01:35lists. After all, she targeted a family who lived near her in Louisville, Kentucky,
01:40simply for being interracial.
01:42A jury convicted Kraft of sending those messages because of her neighbor's perceived skin color.
01:47Kraft had been seen on the family's security camera writing racist messages and imagery on
01:53their driveway, despite being ordered to leave them be. Kraft continued, resulting in minor convictions
01:59for contempt of courts. However, she stepped it up in 2020 by sending the family threatening and
02:05racist letters in the post, some of which contained bullets.
02:09Michela Pineda saying, quote, I am still in fear today, looking over my shoulder everywhere I go.
02:15I heard the message loud and clear. Her intention was to instill fear. Up until the day of her arrest,
02:23she harassed us.
02:24Kraft was also sending violent and racist letters to another family in a nearby neighborhood.
02:29In 2023, Kraft was convicted on several counts, earning her nine years in jail.
02:35Now, Kraft's legal troubles are far from over. Her attorneys are due back in Jefferson County
02:41Court tomorrow, where she's facing state charges for the same case.
02:46The Dirty Road Rage
02:48Typically, when it comes to road rage incidents, there's usually some form of attack involved.
02:54In a way, in 2025, Christina Solomedo did just that — only with a grosser variant in Prospect Park,
03:02Pennsylvania. Reportedly, she was furious at the car behind her for following her. However,
03:08the other driver actually lived near her.
03:10They were both headed in the same direction. They both lived not far from one another.
03:15Filled with rage and something else, Solomedo got out of her vehicle, approached the car behind,
03:21and proceeded to defecate on the car's hood. Yep, that's something we humans do now, apparently.
03:26It's been running through my mind all day since I've heard about it.
03:30Weirdly, Solomedo reportedly bragged about her technique to journalists.
03:34As part of a rehabilitative program, Solomedo was handed two years of probation
03:39in order to undertake an anger management course and complete community service.
03:44It's really unwelcome. We don't want this.
03:46Couple of Karens
03:48In 2015, following the Charleston church attack by a white supremacist,
03:53there were calls nationwide to ban the Confederate flag. Furious at this project,
03:58a Georgia couple — Jose Torres and Kayla Norton — teamed up with the Respect the Flag group to
04:03show their Confederate passion. After decorating their vehicles with the flag, the members drove
04:08around Douglasville, shouting racist abuse. At one point, they spotted a Black family enjoying
04:14a child's birthday party.
04:15The first thing my son said was,
04:17Momma, they were saying that word that you don't let us say, that N-word.
04:21I said, yes. And he said, why?
04:23After yelling racial slurs, the group decided to utter violent threats.
04:27I mean, they terrorized us.
04:29This sparked Norton to retrieve a firearm from a car and hand it to Torres for further intimidation.
04:35In 2017, as well as other investigators being criminally punished, Torres and Norton
04:41were sentenced to 13 and 6 years, respectively.
04:45I do accept the possibility for what I've done. I know I was in the wrong.
04:52But I want you all to know that that is not me.
04:55Kentucky Karen
04:56Working the night shift at the University of Kentucky Dormitory in 2022, Kyla Spring was
05:03probably hoping for a quiet, uneventful time. Instead, in walked an intoxicated Sophia Rosing.
05:09I did not get paid enough for this. After refusing to show Spring any ID,
05:14Rosing launched into a racial rant, reportedly saying slurs around 200 times and attacked the
05:20worker. Even when the police arrested her, Rosing wasn't finished as she bragged about her family's
05:26wealth and kicked and bit an officer. Rosing was arrested and charged with alcohol intoxication in
05:33a public place, third-degree assault of a police officer, fourth-degree assault, and disorderly conduct.
05:39While she pleaded not guilty to the charges, Rosing was banned from the university's campus.
05:45After changing her plea to guilty, the former student was sentenced to a year in jail in order
05:50to complete 100 hours of community service. In 2025, Rosing was released early from her sentence.
05:57After Rosing was sentenced, you could hear the victim's mother crying on Zoom, quietly saying thank you.
06:04Racial ranting at rescuers
06:07Typically, when someone calls the police after being robbed, they're happy the officers arrived.
06:13However, Vicki Momberg isn't typical. In 2016, she called the cops after her car was robbed in
06:19Johannesburg, South Africa. Yet when the officers arrived, Momberg was furious that they were black.
06:26Let me tell you something. This is the type of police force we've got. We've got a low-calibur
06:31people working on. On top of using insulting language against black people, she also called
06:36the cops slurs nearly 50 times. She used the K-word 48 times. The trial and appeal were a mess
06:44as
06:45Momberg fired six legal teams, causing her to represent herself. In 2018, Momberg was sentenced to two years in
06:52jail and one year suspended. She eventually handed herself in after effectively going on the run.
07:06However, as part of South Africa's announcement of a special remission for prisoners, Momberg was
07:12released in 2019. Terrorizing the TSA
07:16When the TSA discovers a passenger has a bottle of liquid in their luggage and takes it away,
07:22the passenger complies, albeit probably fuming inside. However, in 2023, Micaiah Coleman was at
07:30the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, and she didn't keep her fury internal when the staff confiscated her
07:36apple juice. Instead, she went on a rant and attempted to get the items back.
07:41Coleman is accused of going around a barrier at that point, climbing on a table.
07:45After the workers stopped her, Coleman got onto a table and began attacking them.
07:50Her assault included elbowing one TSA agent so hard they got a concussion,
07:55punching another in the face multiple times, and biting one as well as ripping clothing.
08:00And called in Phoenix police to arrest Coleman and investigate.
08:03In 2024, after pleading guilty, Coleman was sentenced to four months in jail.
08:10Followed by 36 months of supervised release.
08:13She's also banned from traveling by commercial aircraft during that time.
08:17Plano racism
08:18In 2022, four women were walking through a parking lot after being at a restaurant together in Plano,
08:25Texas. However, rather than going home after a nice evening, Esmeralda Upton arrived,
08:31who hated the women due to some having Indian heritage.
08:34This is no indication of the tolerance that we allow in our city or the attitude that our citizens
08:43portray. Upton ranted at the group about how much she hated Indians, throwing in some racist and body
08:49shaming language too. One of the women was recording the interaction, which sparked Upton to attack.
08:55Our entire sense of safety was shattered with this incident.
08:59The police soon arrived, but did little until arresting Upton the following day.
09:04In 2024, after pleading guilty, the former realtor was sentenced to 40 days in jail and two years of
09:10probation. On top of that, Upton was also sued by the victims. One of the cases was settled in 2025.
09:18Spreading the blame
09:20In 2019, Daniella Lees made two terrible decisions during one night in London, Ontario, Canada.
09:27She is facing a long list of charges.
09:30First, she paid to see a Marilyn Manson gig. Second, she got intoxicated at the then-named
09:37Budweiser Gardens venue and drove home. Lees ended up crashing, striking a gas line that caused
09:43an explosion to rip through a neighborhood.
09:45I don't even know what I'm thinking because it's just devastating.
09:50Thankfully, no one was killed. However, there was over $10 million in damages and several people
09:55were injured. In 2021, on top of being sued, Lees was sentenced to three years in jail. In 2023,
10:04in a decision that seemed an attempt to diminish her responsibility, Lees issued a lawsuit against the
10:09venue's food and beverage company for serving her alcohol and for not stopping her driving.
10:14The statement of claims says, among other things, the company served her alcohol,
10:18didn't monitor how much she was drinking, let her drink more than she should have,
10:22and ejected her from the venue without making sure she was not going to drive impaired.
10:27Serious shift tantrum. For most people, when it comes to disagreements with work rotas,
10:33they either continue with their boss's demands or leave the job.
10:37"...um, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around nine,
10:48that would be great."
10:50However, Stacey Smith had a different response. After she and her wife Paula had been clashing
10:55with their manager, Michaela Morton, over their shifts at an ambulance station in Oldham, England,
11:01Stacey arrived at Morton's house in 2023. When she left for work, Stacey attacked her manager
11:07with a hammer. Afterwards, she confessed to the crime in a text message ending with,
11:12oopsie.
11:13"...this was no accident."
11:14Despite receiving life-changing injuries, Morton survived. In 2024, Stacey was sentenced to 20 years
11:22in jail. While Paula had no knowledge of the attack, the ambulance service fired her. However,
11:27a tribunal ruled it an unfair dismissal in 2026.
11:33Are there any other true crime Karens that we missed for this list? Let us know below.
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