Because Carla is trans. For bigots, this overrides the family wealth, especially if they don’t actually know about Ruttech.
Cbwroses
I honestly don’t believe they paid attention to who lived in which room.
If they did in fact smash her tv because she’s trans, this would be the very first indication that they knew who anyone was.
RassilonTDavros
Yeah I thought it was probably something like that, but wasn’t sure.
Leorale
I think it was because they could, because I don’t think they had any idea who Carla is. If they’d known, they might’ve avoided the room of the scion of famously litigious billionaires.
I’m pleased that they’re gonna find out who she is (via sweet Carla revenge).
Sirksome
I don’t know if I buy the cops would know Carla is trans but not know she’s also the billionaire daughter of Ruttech.
Kim
Yeah… :/
For those that are doubtful the police would know who Carla is, I’d like to remind you that Carla is famous, and the fact that she is trans is as well. Dorothy alluded to this back when Joyce found out that someone was trans but couldn’t put together who it was. Dorothy’s response was something along the line of ”it was all over the news”, if I’m not mistaken.
So the fact that the famous Rithech billionaires have a trans-daughter is well known. And I bet Carla’s room is not discreet about whom it belongs to.
So yeah… the cance they knew exactley what they were doibg is pretty high.
Cbwroses
We’ve seen Carla’s room on two separate occasions (4-6 different strips) that I can tell.
Once when she was with Charlie finding out her family was involved in supplying tech for war.
And the other when she video called her parents.
Nothing seen then would indicate it was Carla’s room to a stranger.
Could there be something on a wall we didn’t see? Sure.
But considering what we did see, that seems unlikely.
As for Carla being on national news, if we assume that was the case Harrison, Jacob’s brother, worked on, the last time we saw Harrison, he said Carla was no taller than his shoulder the last time he saw her.
And that should have been the time she was on the news (assuming her image, as a minor, was on the news and not just her being mentioned as the subject of the case).
It’s either been some years since then or Carla had one hell of a growth spurt over the summer.
Regardless, Carla would look noticeably different than when her court case happened and her room, from what we can see, didn’t seem to have anything in the open that would readily identify her.
If the cops knew who the rooms belonged to, then it’s possible, even probable, that they did damage because she was trans, but, right now, I can’t see how they would know.
They didn’t act like they knew any individuals at the time, there was nothing visible (that I noticed anyway) in her room previously that easily identified her, and she herself wasn’t there when the raid happened.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m fairly certain Carla has a big ass trans flag hanging from her wall (I think we see it the few times we’re there).
So they probably didn’t know who she was. just that she was trans.
Vanessa
There you go. They knew. Of course they also shifted through Joyce’s Sunday school crafts and just left her Bible on the floor disrespectfully, they aren’t good Christians either. Just jerks.
Leorale
Oh! I forgot a trans flag. Then, yes, they could’ve known she’s trans, without knowing just whose daughter they were messing with.
_
And Carla gets to wonder whether this was a crappy evil because-they-can cop style of thing, or if it’s that plusa hate thing.
_
I’m sure her parents could sue the cops off the map. But I await some cold, swift, and/or absolutely ridiculous revenge.
AMagicalDuck
I remember that too but I can’t find a comic where it’s visible
Considering she’s from an influential family, it’s possible there’s a subplot targeting her specifically. But it’s far more likely it was just a careless cop not giving a damn about collateral damage. Alternatively, a bigoted one saw a flag or other indication, and did it on purpose.
Leorale
When somebody wrongs you, it’s a small but distinct privilege if you don’t have to wonder, “Did this happen because I’m [marginalized group]…?”
It generally pales in comparison to getting wronged in the first place, but still, it’s an additional insult, when you have to wonder whether the crappy thing was also a hate thing.
Don’t trust revenge is probably the right takeaway here…..but I’m also happy Carla wants revenge because she’s like the only person here who could realistically get that.
She can get it with a phone call preferably to a lawyer. She’s a high profile billionaire heiress and protecting the rich’s property is like the one thing cops actually have to hold any accountability over.
That seems like a wildly disporporiante response, physicaly impossible (unless its a donut truck?), and likely to result in the death of innocents, such as the guy who just does data entry for the evidence locker and whoever they have in the drunk tank that morning. The real prank is just to send them powdered donuts, irrestiably delicous and yet impossible walk away from not looking like you just snorted Scarface levels of cocaine. Did I use that reference right, I’ve never seen that movie.
Yay, I’m very glad that this story is going this way instead of the alternative (that the cops avoided her room bc billionaire, so now she feels guilty).
Promise of revenge is just way better than guilt, in every way.
Your parents are billionaires and the cops searched your room without a warrant and trashed your property for literally no reason. Revenge doesn’t take that long to plot. It consists of burying them in lawyers and driving their insurance premiums to the moon.
Police don’t always need a warrant. If they believe evidence is being or is in danger of being destroyed they can force entry. The classic example is hearing a toilet flushing and believing drugs are being disposed of.
Knowing Amazi-Girl has been seen in the dorm, a reasonable lawyer could easily argue they had to force entry before evidence (ie the costume) was destroyed.
Similarly the student housing agreement could have provisions where the university can grant access if there is reasonable evidence of criminal activity.
Again, Amazi-Girl was seen going into that dorm and was also seen committing many crimes.
And the TV? “The officer responsible has been disciplined here is $500 to buy a new one.”
You are talking about exigent circumstances, and while that is a potential exception to the need for a search warrant, it needs to be far, far more particularized and immediate than you’re describing. The cops can’t just say someone in this general vicinity committed a crime and could potentially destroy the evidence. They need some objectively reasonable, specific thing to point to that *this* person is attempting to destroy evidence *right now*. Especially when it comes to searching empty dorm rooms, there is simply no way to make that argument fly.
One guess is that it’s only the most damage because Carla has a bunch of expensive equipment in her room other students don’t. Beyond that I would buy the purposefully more aggressive search and destruction because of any indicators in her room she was trans, but I also think there are signs the cops were getting more frustrated as the search continued to not reveal Amazi-Girl.
If they searched left down the hall and then right up it, I think Carla would’ve been the last to be searched as well. Since she’s across from Ruth, iirc, that’s why Jennifer asked her to keep an eye on Ruth. But it’s probably the trans thing, she probably has a flag in her room or something.
If the cops damaged Carla’s TV screen while searching her room, she could probably sue them for the damage, though I’m sure she wouldn’t need the money for that since her parents are billionaires.
It seems odd me that the same cops who didn’t find Malaya’s iguana because she had a sign over the cage saying “science project” and they didn’t want to disturb it, also smashed Carla’s TV screen. Somehow they alternate between being Andy Griffith style bumbling idiot cops and really serious destructive cops and it’s kinda giving me tonal whiplash.
Five years from now, Carla is going to don a suit of powered armour and Sal will wear a domino mask.
Carla: “What are we, some kinda-”
Amazi-Girl: “That joke was terrible when the original movie came out, please stop.”
I never know how to make the sound you get when you suck on your own teeth- tisk? tch?- but thats about what i did here. Yeah, that’s what I expected. Super-super-super visible trans girl. Free reign to search rooms and trash em.
On a less grim note, I like how these two have become friends over time, and them specifically being kind of stirred up and agitated after this. It reminds me of the comradery I find with other people who are different types of minority then I am.
67 thoughts on “The damage”
NGPZ
Pigs better beware,
The Queen is coming, and she know that REVENGE is a dish best served with STYLE! ✌🏽👿
*plays “Killer Queen” on hacked muzak*
TrueSurvivor
Freddy Mercury, out of this world!
IntangibleMatter
Revenge takes a while to plot
Bill Erak
I’d like to believe the cops were just stupid enough to think the costume could be hidden in the TV, but we all know why they did it.
RassilonTDavros
…Because they could? I feel like i’m missing something obvious here.
Jon
Because Carla is trans. For bigots, this overrides the family wealth, especially if they don’t actually know about Ruttech.
Cbwroses
I honestly don’t believe they paid attention to who lived in which room.
If they did in fact smash her tv because she’s trans, this would be the very first indication that they knew who anyone was.
RassilonTDavros
Yeah I thought it was probably something like that, but wasn’t sure.
Leorale
I think it was because they could, because I don’t think they had any idea who Carla is. If they’d known, they might’ve avoided the room of the scion of famously litigious billionaires.
I’m pleased that they’re gonna find out who she is (via sweet Carla revenge).
Sirksome
I don’t know if I buy the cops would know Carla is trans but not know she’s also the billionaire daughter of Ruttech.
Kim
Yeah… :/
For those that are doubtful the police would know who Carla is, I’d like to remind you that Carla is famous, and the fact that she is trans is as well. Dorothy alluded to this back when Joyce found out that someone was trans but couldn’t put together who it was. Dorothy’s response was something along the line of ”it was all over the news”, if I’m not mistaken.
So the fact that the famous Rithech billionaires have a trans-daughter is well known. And I bet Carla’s room is not discreet about whom it belongs to.
So yeah… the cance they knew exactley what they were doibg is pretty high.
Cbwroses
We’ve seen Carla’s room on two separate occasions (4-6 different strips) that I can tell.
Once when she was with Charlie finding out her family was involved in supplying tech for war.
And the other when she video called her parents.
Nothing seen then would indicate it was Carla’s room to a stranger.
Could there be something on a wall we didn’t see? Sure.
But considering what we did see, that seems unlikely.
As for Carla being on national news, if we assume that was the case Harrison, Jacob’s brother, worked on, the last time we saw Harrison, he said Carla was no taller than his shoulder the last time he saw her.
And that should have been the time she was on the news (assuming her image, as a minor, was on the news and not just her being mentioned as the subject of the case).
It’s either been some years since then or Carla had one hell of a growth spurt over the summer.
Regardless, Carla would look noticeably different than when her court case happened and her room, from what we can see, didn’t seem to have anything in the open that would readily identify her.
If the cops knew who the rooms belonged to, then it’s possible, even probable, that they did damage because she was trans, but, right now, I can’t see how they would know.
They didn’t act like they knew any individuals at the time, there was nothing visible (that I noticed anyway) in her room previously that easily identified her, and she herself wasn’t there when the raid happened.
Bill Erak
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m fairly certain Carla has a big ass trans flag hanging from her wall (I think we see it the few times we’re there).
So they probably didn’t know who she was. just that she was trans.
Vanessa
There you go. They knew. Of course they also shifted through Joyce’s Sunday school crafts and just left her Bible on the floor disrespectfully, they aren’t good Christians either. Just jerks.
Leorale
Oh! I forgot a trans flag. Then, yes, they could’ve known she’s trans, without knowing just whose daughter they were messing with.
_
And Carla gets to wonder whether this was a crappy evil because-they-can cop style of thing, or if it’s that plusa hate thing.
_
I’m sure her parents could sue the cops off the map. But I await some cold, swift, and/or absolutely ridiculous revenge.
AMagicalDuck
I remember that too but I can’t find a comic where it’s visible
Mravac Kid
Considering she’s from an influential family, it’s possible there’s a subplot targeting her specifically. But it’s far more likely it was just a careless cop not giving a damn about collateral damage. Alternatively, a bigoted one saw a flag or other indication, and did it on purpose.
Leorale
When somebody wrongs you, it’s a small but distinct privilege if you don’t have to wonder, “Did this happen because I’m [marginalized group]…?”
It generally pales in comparison to getting wronged in the first place, but still, it’s an additional insult, when you have to wonder whether the crappy thing was also a hate thing.
Sirksome
Don’t trust revenge is probably the right takeaway here…..but I’m also happy Carla wants revenge because she’s like the only person here who could realistically get that.
Thag Simmons
Sadly this remains Great 2026 Energy, and absent a miracle will likely be Great 2027 Energy as well.
Thag Simmons
Actually gonna revise that and say absent many miracles, shit’s fucked
Dave Van Domelen
Unorthodox Economic Revenge.
Astariel
There’s the Carla we know and love. Not sure how she can get revenge on the cops, but if anyone can do it, it’s Carla.
Sirksome
She can get it with a phone call preferably to a lawyer. She’s a high profile billionaire heiress and protecting the rich’s property is like the one thing cops actually have to hold any accountability over.
Jon
That’s not revenge, that’s just punishment. She wants vengeance.
Astariel
Well, yes, but I assume she has something more elaborate in mind. Just calling a lawyer or her parents wouldn’t take long to plot, after all.
Wraithy2773
…oh dear, the pigs pissed off the beloved daughter of gig economy billionaires.
Dean
“We should never have messed with Carla’s TV” -Note found on the locked door of the last police station in America, 2028.
Shiro
re: alt text, it’s fortunately/unfortunately also great 2026 energy
Elf grrl
Oh HELL YEAH! REVENGE PLOT!!
RassilonTDavros
And it will be a deadly vengeance. It will be the deadly vengeance of deadly revenge! Mwahahahahaaaaa!
Yotomoe
https://imgchest.com/p/pg738958z4r
I’ve gone on record that I’m not the biggest fan of Doyce. But I decided to see if I can convince myself to like it more by drawing them so here I go.
TrueSurvivor
That is very cute and well drawn to boot.
Astariel
As someone who is a huge Joyrothy fan, let me say that this is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing it.
Amós Batista
That’s gorgeous, Yoto.
Thank youuu
Dara
very cute <3
but also you drew me and anna
(i’m the cat)
Vanessa
That is adorable, you’ve really captured Joyce’s confident come-hither smirk.
Jeff K!
Oooohhhh, that’s so adorable! 🥰
And absolutely the energy of their last couple interactions.
Love it!
Taffy
I know a really funny prank that Carla could pull on the cops, involving a box of donuts and about 1000kg of dynamite.
TrueSurvivor
That seems like a wildly disporporiante response, physicaly impossible (unless its a donut truck?), and likely to result in the death of innocents, such as the guy who just does data entry for the evidence locker and whoever they have in the drunk tank that morning. The real prank is just to send them powdered donuts, irrestiably delicous and yet impossible walk away from not looking like you just snorted Scarface levels of cocaine. Did I use that reference right, I’ve never seen that movie.
Random832
For a minute I forgot that powdered sugar exists and thought there was some sort of fully powder-based format of donut ingestion
Leorale
Yay, I’m very glad that this story is going this way instead of the alternative (that the cops avoided her room bc billionaire, so now she feels guilty).
Promise of revenge is just way better than guilt, in every way.
bogeywoman
Ultra-Carla: Origins screening in sin-emas near you
AK
Your parents are billionaires and the cops searched your room without a warrant and trashed your property for literally no reason. Revenge doesn’t take that long to plot. It consists of burying them in lawyers and driving their insurance premiums to the moon.
Taffy
Lawyers are expensive. Shitting on their car is free.
TrueSurvivor
Man, Detective Comics was right all a long – nepotism is a superpower.
Marisa Mockery
True but it’s not revenge if it doesn’t involve pie.
Also, Willis, mobile version of the site is still a mess :/
Amós Batista
“…and pies for all”
Metallica on hacked muzak
Vanessa
I look forward to what are hopefully funny pie-related revenge scenes.
Also, I agree, the mobile site is nearly unreadable and takes eons to load. I just can’t read a comment that is one character thick in a long column.
Gotthammer
Police don’t always need a warrant. If they believe evidence is being or is in danger of being destroyed they can force entry. The classic example is hearing a toilet flushing and believing drugs are being disposed of.
Knowing Amazi-Girl has been seen in the dorm, a reasonable lawyer could easily argue they had to force entry before evidence (ie the costume) was destroyed.
Similarly the student housing agreement could have provisions where the university can grant access if there is reasonable evidence of criminal activity.
Again, Amazi-Girl was seen going into that dorm and was also seen committing many crimes.
And the TV? “The officer responsible has been disciplined here is $500 to buy a new one.”
Tan
You are talking about exigent circumstances, and while that is a potential exception to the need for a search warrant, it needs to be far, far more particularized and immediate than you’re describing. The cops can’t just say someone in this general vicinity committed a crime and could potentially destroy the evidence. They need some objectively reasonable, specific thing to point to that *this* person is attempting to destroy evidence *right now*. Especially when it comes to searching empty dorm rooms, there is simply no way to make that argument fly.
Icalasari
Oooh she’s gonna take her insecurities and turmoil over the moral dilemma of how her family got rich and take it out on the police :3
V
In 2026 now and it’s still a 2026 mood.
Amós Batista
I wonder why pigs did the worst damage on Carla’s room…
Sirksome
One guess is that it’s only the most damage because Carla has a bunch of expensive equipment in her room other students don’t. Beyond that I would buy the purposefully more aggressive search and destruction because of any indicators in her room she was trans, but I also think there are signs the cops were getting more frustrated as the search continued to not reveal Amazi-Girl.
BYM!
If they searched left down the hall and then right up it, I think Carla would’ve been the last to be searched as well. Since she’s across from Ruth, iirc, that’s why Jennifer asked her to keep an eye on Ruth. But it’s probably the trans thing, she probably has a flag in her room or something.
Bryy
So, in five years.
Bobby
its a better 2026 mood than 2025 considering how this year is shaping up
Kyulen
If the cops damaged Carla’s TV screen while searching her room, she could probably sue them for the damage, though I’m sure she wouldn’t need the money for that since her parents are billionaires.
It seems odd me that the same cops who didn’t find Malaya’s iguana because she had a sign over the cage saying “science project” and they didn’t want to disturb it, also smashed Carla’s TV screen. Somehow they alternate between being Andy Griffith style bumbling idiot cops and really serious destructive cops and it’s kinda giving me tonal whiplash.
Thing 2
What makes you say the same cops? Surely it takes more than 3 to search an entire dormitory building?
Zamperla
Why do cops need to be smart to be hateful jerks.
M!a
Seriously, fuck the pigs.
Yes, including your dad who was A Good One, You Swear.
Maddie B
Yes. More Carla and Sal comics sounds good.
Also ACAB.
Rectilinear Propagation
“All for revenge”
Morhek
Five years from now, Carla is going to don a suit of powered armour and Sal will wear a domino mask.
Carla: “What are we, some kinda-”
Amazi-Girl: “That joke was terrible when the original movie came out, please stop.”
Acher4
A.C.A.B.
Zamperla
I never know how to make the sound you get when you suck on your own teeth- tisk? tch?- but thats about what i did here. Yeah, that’s what I expected. Super-super-super visible trans girl. Free reign to search rooms and trash em.
On a less grim note, I like how these two have become friends over time, and them specifically being kind of stirred up and agitated after this. It reminds me of the comradery I find with other people who are different types of minority then I am.
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