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* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Komarr]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], this trope is subverted in that Ekaterin Vorsoisson isn't throwing her husband Tien out for infidelity, but leaving him because he's a bribe-taking traitor. And that it's ''him'' throwing the tantrum while she simply stands there quietly clutching her remaining dignity to her, demanding that she stay with him and trying to (entirely irrationally) blame her for his crimes, and pitching her prized bonsai tree (in the family for 70 years!) off a fifth-story balcony at one point to punctuate his childish rant. Her only reaction?

{{quote| '''Ekaterin:''' You ass, Tien. You didn't even look to see if there was anyone below.}}

* In ''The Last Days'' by Scott Westerfeld, this is how Moz gets an expensive electric guitar for free, and also how he meets Pearl.

* In one of Carla Kelly's Regency romances, this is done to the heroine because she married well beneath her station.

** One episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' begins with this. Eventually the man on the balcony throws the dog over, and the horrified woman below is spattered with blood... Fortunately we are then shown that the dog was caught safely, and the blood was being sprayed by a road salter.

* This doesn't happen as much as you would think on ''Cheaters'', though there was one notable episode where the woman set her cheating partner's possessions on fire.

* Used hilariously in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Dreamland", in which Mulder switches bodies with an Area 51 worker Morris Fletcher. Fletcher's wife thinks that her husband (really Mulder) is cheating on her, as Mulder was muttering something about Scully in his sleep and Scully herself showed up at the door five seconds later looking for Morris Fletcher. She ends up throwing out all of her husband's possessions while Mulder tries to convince Scully that it's really him, even though he looks like Fletcher.

* Haley does this to her boyfriend's things in ''[[Modern Family]]'' after he goes to a movie with another girl.

* ''[[Keen Eddie]]'': In ''Inciting Incident,'' a woman is sent photo-shopped photos of her husband with another woman and becomes so furious with him, she throws all of his belongings out the window while the police watch and comment. She eventually beans her husband in the head with a suitcase, leaving him with a nasty bump for the rest of the episode.

* Done in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Ring Out Your Dead". A woman breaks up with her lover by flinging all of his belongings out of the window of her flat. Including his pants, forcing to run outside naked to retrieve them.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' used it in a sketch, with a pair of birds and their nest.

** In another episode, Luann Van Houten cheerily gathers up her ex-husband Kirk's stuff, puts it in a box, tapes it up, writes "Kirk's things" on it and happily torches it. ''While humming''.

* Oscar Kokoshka and his wife Susie go through a number of times on ''[[Hey Arnold]]''

* Happens in ''[[Stoked]]!'' when the staff go on strike and Bummer locks them out of the staff house. The staff not on strike dump their belongings on them from the balcony.