"I was working as a contractor for a startup tech company in Boston. After I finished designing a website, the owner refused to pay me. His reasons? The cost was 'too high' and I had done 'work he didn't ask for.'

"Through some legal bull----, he tricked me into signing a termination contract that gave him the rights and would technically force him to pay all of the money owed, but — through a loophole — he wouldn't have to do it for nearly two months.

"I was super pissed at this point because now he had the files I made, was developing off of them, and I had to wait another two months to get paid. That sucks when you're a young designer living in an expensive city and you're already extremely undercharging for work.

"So I had a friend help me write an AppleScript that used iMessenger to send one message per second, as well as bypass the blocking on the phone by spoofing the iMessage account.

"If you run the program for a certain length of time and send large enough files, eventually it will cause the phones cache to overload and shut it down.

"So I ran that for about four days (the file was a 200 MB image of a political cartoon depicting a pig in a suit shoveling money down his throat) until he eventually forked up the cash." — Anonymous