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Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.

ATTENTION!  THIS IS A VERY VERY VERY LONG READ.
You may wan't to bookmark this thread and read it in parts.  I would post the story in sections, but I would rather have it in one post.

meh buddeh wrote:

There recently was a thread about awful room-mates, along with
pictures. I have my own experience.

Housing complex. The units are basically small cottages, made for two
room-mates, with a common area and attached kitchen, a small storage
closet in the common area containing water pipes leading to Suite A's
bathroom. The two private areas of the suite contained a private
bedroom, a sliding glass patio door, and a private bathroom. Sounds
idyllic.

My roomie, Jed, liked to throw parties. He liked tarantulas, too, and kept six.

For the sake of saving my effort in recounting this story, here is a
basic rundown of the chaos:

This run-through of incidents is going to be kind of terse, because
I'm working off of a check list I made a while ago.

During our stay together, my roomie:

He brought his motorcycle into our common room because he was "afraid
it would be stolen." This was fine, but then he started it and let it
idle for 15 minutes without opening any windows, causing all of our
stuff to smell like motor exhaust.

After his girlfriend left him, he went berserk in his private bathroom
with a sledgehammer or a geologist's hammer and smashed all of his
bathroom fixtures. I'm not sure of this but I believe that just before
she left him she fucked some guy with pubic lice in my bed during a
party.

His toilet was inoperative at this point, so he used mine for a time,
until I refused him access. Later I would find out that he shat in
garbage bags and kept them in the common room closet for weeks. More
on this later.

He set fire to our carpet with alcohol during a party. He pissed in
the fridge. He shat in the fridge. He shat in the crisper drawer. He
shat on the oven top, and instead of cleaning it up, turned on the
burner, reasoning that carbon is easier to clean than feces.

He left a dead cat he found somewhere in our oven for a week and
forgot about it. I discovered it later.

He owned 6 tarantulas, and would let one run around free-range. He
assured me he had "tamed it." I assured him he was a stupid fuckhead.

He never showered.

He sold drugs from his room. He smoked pot with his friends in the
common area. He spilled bong water on two of my text books. He and his
friends did cocaine off of the television set in the common area.

He had a party to which he invited too many people, and they spilled
into my room. Strangers had sex in my room at that party. In my bed.
One of them had pubic lice. Someone took a dump in my closet. Someone
left a used condom in my slipper. I discovered all of these things
after it was too late.

Morning after said party, my mother knocked on the front door, and a
stranger from that party answered and immediately threw up on her
legs.

Crackheads would regularly come by our apartment at all hours of the
night trying to buy drugs because of his illicit activities. Whenever
I answered the door and indicated that there was no crack to be had,
they would sometimes get, desperate, belligerent and violent, and
refuse to leave.

He put food products containing milk, meat and cheese on the heating
unit and turned it on for three hours to see what would happen. I
could've told him what would happen if he asked me.

He got angry at some video game he and his friends were playing in the
common area, so he busted into my room while I was sleeping, and
punched me in the face and stomach.

A few days later he put a tarantula in my bedsheets while I was
sleeping. Thankfully I wasn't bitten, but I was freaked out and still
sometimes jump out of bed in the middle of the night for no reason and
attack my sheets.

He shat in a lot of our fixtures. He would put his shit in baggies and
leave them in strange places. I was thankfull for when he used a
baggie. A few words of advice for potential room-mates: A light
fixture is not a toilet. A heating vent is not a toilet. The sink is
not a toilet. The oven is not a toilet. That is all.

I was pissed at this point. He refused to clean or take care of all of
the messes listed above, so I ended up cleaning them, but keeping an
hourly log and catalogue of what work I did and worked out a bill,
which I sent to him. I was tired of cleaning feces out of our
refridgerator, finding turds in our crisper drawer, shit on the
stovetop, vomit on the carpet, vomit in our potted plants, vomit on
the grille of our television set, urine on the carpet, urine on the
kitchen floor seeping behind the refridgerator, dead animals in our
oven and freezer units, and bags of feces hidden in our light
fixtures.

Have you ever had to move your refridgerator out of its little nook to
get behind it to clean urine mixed with whatever the fuck lurks behind
a refridgerator in the first place?

After sending him the cleaning bill and getting a refusal of payment,
I took some of his stuff, dumped it in a storage unit across town, and
held it until he paid me back. He stole some of my stuff in
retaliation, but I called the cops and repossessed my belongings. He
was unable to articulate to the cops that I had some of his shit in
this exchange, so I ended up basically getting my shit back while he
had to be put in their car to cool off.

Upon retrospect, I think maybe he became mentally ill after losing his
girlfriend, and not being able to part with his feces was part of his
illness. This is purely speculative.

He wasn't poor. He was from a wealthy family. They don't come into the
picture, though.

This is where the sealing begins. Put a datemark right here, because
this is where shit gets crazy.
========================

I had had enough. I bought a minifridge, a plug-in stovetop, two
padlocked footlockers, a wooden bar, duct tape, a remote-control car,
and an external padlock. My private area had two entrances... Here, I
best sum up my little fortress in this post I made in another thread:

quote:
Actually, upon reflection, I really want to share how I kept my
room-mate out of my private area. It was dubbed the "Home Alone"
security system.

I had two potential entrances to my private area, a sliding glass
patio door and a regular door to the common area. I secured the common
door with a padlock on the outside which was really just for show. The
inside was barricaded. At the bottom I had a rolled up towel, and I
sealed the rest of it with tape to avoid smell or other chemical
assaults from the common area. I packed against the door with my
king-sized bed, which was in turn secured from being dislodged by a
bookshelf full of weights and books. Even if he got through the
padlock, he would not have been able to open the door without busting
it in two. The top half of the door was unsecured; I was worried he
might break the door and gain access, so when I siezed his stuff I had
it put in public storage across town.

Now the sliding glass door is where the home alone shit comes in. It
had a lock, but it was nonfunctional and only accessible from the
inside. So in order to secure the door while I was away, I got a
remote controlled car, attached it to a string which was secured by a
fisheye screw at the top of the door, and tied to a security bar which
would drop into the tread of the sliding door, preventing it from
being opened.

Anyone who has a sliding glass door would know how this works, but if
anyone needs further explanation, I'm happy to furnish it.

So when I came home, I would whip out my little remote control, make
the RC car run off and lift the bar, then gain access to the
apartment. To prevent this system from being discovered, I papered the
inside of the sliding door with butcher paper, and I ran a wire
outside of the door in an obvious manner, so that the roomie would
think that this wire somehow, if tugged correctly, would undo the
lock. To my knowledge, all of his attempts to get inside my apartment
were by messing with this wire, which was attached to the handle of an
antique coffee grinder and a paint can. If you tugged it, you'd get a
wierd uneven resistance as the handle crank turned and the paint can
danced, which added to the illusion that this wire was some secret way
of ingress.

I heard this account from the neighbors, because it occurred while I
was away, but apparenty he had lost his front door key, had some kind
of intestinal problem, and had to take a shit really bad. All of the
neighbors he knew he had already hit up for toilet access and been
refused by this point. So he's swearing like crazy and yanking at this
wire, and bashing against the door in a frenzied desperation when the
neighbors call the cops, reporting a B&E. When the cops show up he's
taking a shit in the bushes just outside my window. I fucking hate him
so much.


I think he went crazy and lost all his friends at some point, because
around the time I barricaded, I stopped hearing parties. In fact, I
stopped hearing anything from the common area of the apartment, except
for the occasional formless moans and thumping. I don't know precisely
what went on in there, because I mentally washed my hands of the whole
area. I did, however, start smelling odors. I taped up my door. I know
it wasn't smart to do things like this, but I was just fucking sick of
dealing with his shit. I didn't call the landlord or anything, despite
the fact that I knew he was destroying things over there. After
cleaning so much of his shit up, I just wanted the universal god of
justice to see what a wreck the place would become without my
presence.

Forgive me for being a little spotty in my descriptions after this
point. What I do know of what transpired over there I can only
reconstruct from forensic evidence, what precisely was destroyed, what
commmon friends have told me in their accounts, and two forrays over
into the waste zone over the next two months. I essentially didn't
even see the front door of our apartment during this time.


quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:
What was this guy's story about shitting on a stove and leaving it on?
Or shit in the refridgerator? OR shit in various fixtures?

Why didn't you call the landlord and get this guy kicked out?


The feces he left around falls into three categories:
A) Experiments he conducted. The stove top feces thing was an
experiment he conducted after his toilet was broken, and I refused him
access to mine, and his neighbors got sick of letting him use theirs.
I think he was trying to find some new way of getting rid of his shit.
Either that or he thought it would be funny to make me clean shit off
of his stove top and then got curious about what would happen if he
turned on the burner. He really liked playing with heating elements
and fire. It was fucking stupid. The dead cat in the oven, I think,
falls into this category as well.

B) Feces in the refridgerator, shit in the closet, vomit on the TV,
etc. I lump this into the "OOPS I SHAT ON YOUR CARPET DURING A PARTY"
category.

C) Shit inside baggies in various places: After I stopped letting him
use my bathroom he got angry and I think this started off as his way
of "proving" to me that I should let him use my bathroom. After a
while of this I think it started to take on a life of his own, and he
started stashing his feces due to some mental illness. This is purely
speculative.


quote:Ott came out of the closet to say:
I read your posts in the other thread... hilarious story.

I'm having a hard time picturing the "Home Alone" security system, though.


Ok, if you've ever owned a sliding door, you know that you can secure
it from being opened by putting a wooden dowel in the treads while the
door is closed. This is great, except it can't be opened from the
outside. So what I did, was I attached a string to the dowel, and lead
the string up to the top of the door, through a little loop-nail, and
back down to a remote controlled car. By moving the car with a remote
control from outside the apartment, I could cause the string to be
tugged, raising the dowel, and granting me access to the interior of
the apartment. I'm almost more proud of the wire trick, because I gain
endless pleasure from that fucker spending hours and hours trying to
yank on this stupid dummy wire I put out there for him in order to get
inside and mess with my shit.


quote:A wINNer = mE! came out of the closet to say:
Holy shit, I don't think I've ever heard a more disgusting tale
regarding bad roommates.

Are you just a wimp? The first time I found a turd in the apartment
outside of a waste receptical (toilet), I would have yelled at him at
the top of my lungs and made him clean it up.


Actually, Jed was much smaller than me, and emaciated. In retrospect I
could have taken him, easily. That's just not how I do things. I do
not break the law. Ever. I absolutely must have a clean, orderly
house, which is why I went around cleaning shit up, regardless of who
did it. I am not some cowardly little bitch, in fact, I think Jed was
afraid of me, which is why he did passive agressive shit like shitting
in light fixtures. I generally don't try to solve disputes by shouting
or anything, I just quietly give notice of the unacceptable condition,
document it, and clean it up. Somewhere back at my parent's house I
have a box full of typed, dated, signed letters to Jed stating the
date, time, and extent of a mess I had to clean up, and a notice that
such behavior is not acceptable, and that unless he stopped, I would
move out and make him responsible for rent. Those letters helped me
eventually recover back rent from him for the equivalent value of the
common area he exclusively occupied during my stay there.

I eventually got so pissed off at the condition of the rest of the
apartment that I could only deal with it by sealing it off, and
ignoring it. Essentially there is a blank period of about a month
where I absolutely ignored anything from the common area, which is why
it got so bad.

I was crazy busy with schoolwork and my job, so I basically just shut
the whole situation out of my mind for a while. After some time, I
came to the realization that this guy might start a fire and get us
both killed, which is really the beginning of the end. The thing that
ended the insanity was his discovery that
A) He had access to the fuse box
and
B) He could trip the fuse to my room with some metal and a hallway plug
and
C) He was too stupid to manually flip the fuse switch and just turn
off my power, so he had to go the fire hazard route. I think he might
have been afraid of touching the fuse box for fear of being
electrocuted.

But I'll detail the downfall of this shit later.

For those of you wondering why I didn't call the landlord. I was kind
of in denial. I just figured that whatever happened over there was
Jed's business. I think I was on a sublease under him at the time, so
I wasn't too worried about damage to the apartment. I withheld rent
from him during this time too. His family was paying rent for the
whole unit, and I would reimburse him directly. I deducted cleaning
costs and other things from the rent I paid him. I think he was too
embarassed or crazy to call me on it, or have his lawyer financial
guru daddy get me busted.

Quick fact: His father was on the cover of Forbes magazine like 8 years ago.

Have you ever had something go wrong, and, knowing it was someone
elses responsibility, just didn't intervene out of sheer curiousity
about how it fucking bad it would get? I didn't turn him in for that
reason too. I just... wanted to see how bad it would get. I was
stupid, mad, curious, and really didn't have any responsibility for
damage to the unit, knowing his family would cover the costs.

Edit: So, basically, I didn't kick his ass for two reasons: A) I am
always law abiding to a fault, and B) The setup I made was really very
convenient for me, and made it so I never even had any contact with
the guy. It was basically rent-free... I paid $50 a month in rent
after all of the deductions for unsanitary conditions and ouster from
the common area I made (and documented... and got to keep after the
courts got done looking at it...), and I was exiting and entering from
an opposite end of the house. Basically, I only really knew what Jed
was up to during this period from forensic evidence in the apartment
and the accounts of friends, neighbors, and the police.


quote:DannyManic came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, dude, you're crazier than he is.


From my perspective, imagine this: You are strapped for cash. Someone
offers you a studio apartment, with minifridge and bathroom for $50 a
month, and after you move out, you're given a few thousand dollars
just for living there. The only catch is that there's a closet you
can't open, and you have to tape around the edges, and the lock to get
in is a remote controlled car rig. Sounds like a good deal to me. Jed
couldn't make much noise to bother me after I confiscated his music
equipment. All of the people talking about going ape shit sound like
the nutballs to me. I'm very easy going, and I came out of this ahead.
I'll get to the renumeration later.

Also it was very satisfying to have this asshole's shit in a locker
across town and know that he desperately wanted to fuck with my shit
but couldn't, and couldn't prove I ganked his stuff. He would flip the
fuck out in rage from this. I think that might have contributed to his
degeneration into madness.


I kind of messed up the timeline for this stuff, so here's a quick
runthrough before I continue the story.

TIME A: Tons of parties, vomit being cleaned up by me, tarantula,
punching, etc. I start witholding rent at this point, and am
subtracting $200 a month from the rent for cleaning costs.

TIME B: His girlfriend leaves him. His friends stop hanging out with
him. He smashes his bathroom. He uses mine for a time, is denied
access, uses neighbor's for a time, is denied access, and is angry at
me for refusing him access to my bathroom. I fixed his faucets so they
wouldn't leak all over the place and sent him a bill. He gets really
pouty and angry and does the famous shit on the stovetop. He does
experiments with various places to piss and poop, eventually settling
on leaving it in baggies around the house. When I tell him this is
unacceptable, he responds with a demand to use my bathroom, which I
refuse. Around this time, while cleaning the stove top, I find the cat
in the oven. It has a collar on it so I put it in a box and return it
to the owners, not explaining where I found it, and advising them not
to look in the box. I don't know how that turned out, and I didn't
give them my name. I hope it got hit by a car and wasn't killed by
Jed.

TIME C: Jed starts trying to get at me by playing his subwoofer really
loud at odd hours, and demanding to use the bathroom. I get back at
him by packing away all of his stuff, (including the audio equiptment)
and storing it in a friend's storage unit across town. I think that he
started to really go truly crazy at this point. I come home finding
him taking things out of my room and putting them into his truck. I
restrain him and call the police. By this point he is beyond all
rationality and is completely flipping out, so he is put in the copcar
for a while and the officer helps me unload my things from his truck.
For some bizarre reason the officer does not arrest him, but after
"talking to him" lets him go. I think my calm temperment made the
officer not realize he was violent and that is why I was restraining
him. (My motto in life: "So it goes.")

TIME D: I dub this time the sealing. I really don't mind cleaning up
poop and piss, I used to be assistant manager of an apartment complex,
but it is taking too much time to clean. I buy a range-top, and seal
things off after writing a surrender letter to Jed, declaring that he
has evicted me from the common area. Shortly after I come up with my
Home Alone security system, withold rent except for a nominal $50 a
month, and go on with life as if I did not have a crazy room-mate
sealed away in the other end of the apartment. Time left on lease at
this point: 2 months.

Edit: Time D is when he shits in the bushes and is arrested for the night.

TIME E: The black time. I am not sure what exactly went on in the
apartment during these two or three weeks. This is around the time
finals are going on, so I really don't care. Water starts leaking from
the wall, so I re-enter the common area to see what is up. This
description really deserves its own post, and will clog the time-line
up, so I'll elaborate later. I fix the water leak, which he had been
covering up with newspapers, and promptly exit. Once he finds out I
was in his area he flips out and makes a lot of noise over there, but
I do not investigate.

Remainder: There is one further, final re-entry by myself, with a
flashlight. I couldn't get in with my key because the door was messed
up, and his sliding door was blocked with a mattress, so I kicked down
the door and entered. After a quick walk-through I call the fire
department, the landlord, the police, and an ambulance. This is full
of drama and will be detailed in its own post.


The Black Time:
I'm very preoccupied with work and school at this point. Since my
point of entry on the house is opposite from the front door, the only
real contact I have with Jed at this point is what I can hear from him
through the walls, and whatever odor seeps under the door past my
homeland security setup. This is pretty tolerable as a condition,
definetely worth the $50 a month I was paying for it, but I was
starting to get worried. I was worried about Jed's tarantulas getting
into the ventilation system, so I sealed that off with plastic wrap
and duct tape. Then I started worrying about fire. Jed liked to play
with heating elements and flames, and he was an alcoholic, so I was
worried that with the sealed off vent I wouldn't know if the house
were on fire. At around 3pm, I was studying, when I noticed that my
feet were getting wet. Upon inspection, the carpet next to the wall
was wet. I went around to the front of the house and found that the
door was ajar. I went back to my apartment and picked up a plumber's
wrench and a flashlight to see what was wrong.

I'm not exactly the best at descriptions, as you can probably tell
from the poor quality of writing in this thread, but here's the best I
can do. I'll try to portray these things from my perspective at the
time, and not reveal what they eventually turned out to be.

I unlocked the front door of the apartment and pushed it open, after
confirming that Jed's truck was gone. The lights in the place were out
and the shades were drawn. The light shone inside and revealed that
there were strange particulates hanging in the air. Not quite smoke. I
would almost say that the odor was so thick in the apartment that it
could be seen with the naked eye. Upon reflection, I imagine that what
I was seeing was mold spores.

As the arc of light from the bright outside swept across the room, a
few things were revealed in sequence: First off, the common area was
absolutely covered in free student newspapers. There were obviously
things underneath because the newspapers bulged, and I could even
identify an easy chair covered in newspapers in the corner. The
kitchen was crammed with garbage. I could identify two large bulky
garbage bags in the corner of the common room. Investigating them
further, I discovered that they were covered in some kind of
glistening brown muck. The whole place smelled absolutely rank. I
swept my light across the place a few times, just to make sure Jed
wasn't there lying in wait with a knife or something, and I proceeded
into the apartment, leaving the door open. I took some vic's vaporub
from my pocket and doubed just under my nose. The garbage bags had
been hastily pulled out of the common room closet, the one which
contains pipes leading to Jed's bathroom. I shined a light into the
closet and a rat or mouse or something ran very quickly under the
newspapers in the common room. I looked and saw that there were
several dents in a pipe in the common closet, and it was otherwise
soaked. Finding no immediate source for the water, I proceeded into
the hallway area towards Jed's room.

I was a little uneasy, because the whole place was filled with debris.
The common furnature that came with the apartment was lodged in the
strangest places. Like the hallway to Jed's room had the common couch
in it, upturned. I climbed over that after making sure Jed wasn't
under it. I was a little more nervous because my egress had been
essentially blocked by this couch, and walked past the debris. It
looked like he was salvaging equiptment and building materials from
local construction yards. I could identify in the hallway, piping
materials, a toilet lid, cinderblocks, scrap wood, and a box of
pilfered nails. Jed's large sledge hammer (or geologists hammer, I
don't know which) was lodged in the door of his room. I pushed it open
and the damn thing fell out, giving me a fright. Anyway, I proceeded
into his room, which was strangely clean. There was nothing in there,
but the floor was absolutely soaked. I realized what happened; he
realized there was water everywhere and threw all of his shit outside
of the room into the hallway, and leaned his mattress against the
sliding door (where it remained, to my knowledge, for like two weeks.
I have no idea where he was sleeping.). The leak was coming from his
bathroom, so I went in with my wrench ready to clock the shit out of
my crazy room mate if he should jump out at me.

I saw the familiar smashed bathroom fixtures, and I was very thankful
for the vic's vaporub, but the stench stung my eyes still. There was a
bathtub covered in newspapers. I proded it with my wrench and the
newspapers gave way, like they were on top of jello or something soft
and organic. I prodded it harder and what I can only describe as fecal
fluid seeped from the sides of the newspaper. I think he was taking
shits in the bathtub and covering it with newspapers, like some kind
of foul lasagna. The leak was coming from under his sink, which he had
dislodged through some violence. I could see the remains of a
cinderblock on the pipe, so I think he might have been hitting the
pipe with a cinderblock. I turned off the water to the sink, stopping
the leak, and decided that it would be best if I left before he
returned.

On my way out, I climbed into the kitchen area and opened the fridge,
just out of curiosity. There was a ball-like, organic mass in the
middle, with tendrils of mold growing out of it. It was roughly the
size of a human head with a large dent in it. Not desiring to get
toxic mold in my nostrils, I closed the fridge and surveyed the common
closet again. The walls of the closet were covered in a black shiny
material which glistened. Upon closer inspection, it was mold. I
didn't know that mold looked like that. I prodded the newspapers a
little bit, but remembering the rat, and not wanting to get bitten, I
left the apartment, closing the door behind me.

I got a towel and did my best to dry out the carpet. I left my sliding
glass door open to help air the place out. I printed out a notice to
Jed that I had entered and fixed his sink, and placed it under the
door. I later heard Jed come home, and he obviously discovered I had
been in there, because he started freaking out, swearing, and throwing
things around. I heard the couch in the hallway get rammed into my
door. He threw a tantrum for another five minutes, and then I heard
the front of the apartment door slam. I heard him approach my sliding
glass door, swearing, and I can only imagine that after seeing it
open, he decided not to come any further. Like I said, the guy was
afraid of me. He left in his truck a few minutes later, to return in
ten minutes. I heard strange moaning and stumbling around in the
apartment after that. I think he was moving furniture or something. I
heard breaking glass a few times, but after that, silence.


quote:jollygrinch came out of the closet to say:
Spiders freak me out. Just the thought of one of his 6 coming flying
at me from under some news paper would be enough to make me torch the
place and run screaming into the night.

Excellent writing and story. Anxiously awaiting the most assuredly
horrifying conclusion, preferably involving flaming spider death.


Oh I completely forgot about that. Yeah. I was not only afraid of Jed
popping out with a knife, I was also afraid of those tarantulas. They
were like a big unknown X-factor in the apartment. Normally I'm not
very frightened of just godawful messes or rats, but if you throw
giant tarantulas into the mix it really drives me up a wall.
Especially in terrain like that. I was imagining setting my hand down
on a part of the couch right as I was climbing over it and setting it
right down on top of one of those hairy bastards. They could move,
too. The fact that there were newspapers all around for them to hide
under didn't help. And I imagined they had plenty to eat while in that
apartment, and possibly gave birth to a jillion other little
tarantulas.

edited. I'll tell you this fact later..


The Kidnapping.

Let's get this over with.

So as I said, I am a pretty easy going person and I could tolerate
this situation pretty endlessly. But as I hinted earlier, Jed
eventually made this situation unlivable. Here's how it goes down:

I've long been using a cellphone since Jed pretty much has control of
our apartment phone, and whenever anyone calls he'll answer with
crazytalk. To my knowledge, he still has access to the store room in
Longs Drugs, from which he has been stealing crates full of random
stuff.

Anyway, lately, Jed was more active than usual. I hear a lot of heavy
stuff getting dragged around, and crashing, and lots of moaning,
hollering, and other psychotic outbursts.

One evening I hear Jed making a hell of a lot of noise, then silence.
Then I hear the front door slam, and his truck goes off. A while
later, he comes back, I hear more slamming into things, and a bunch of
really high pitched loud vocalizations, kind of like whales mating.

I get a call on my cellphone. This is basically how it goes.
*ring* *pickup*
Jed: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSATAN!
Me: Hi Jed. You're nuts.
Jed: I HAVE SARAH (Jed's ex girlfriend)
Me: Really.
Jed: LISTEN.
I immediately hear a high pitched shrieking from the other end of the
apartment, and banging and stumbling around. Sarah is a water polo
champ. I think if he somehow got her into the apartment, he would have
to hit her in the head with his big geologists hammer, because there's
no way he would be able to wrestle her inside conscious. At any rate,
I bet at the time that he hadn't grabbed Sarah, and the high pitched
screaming was really that crazy motherfucker. I've been getting all
kinds of crazy phone calls from Jed lately, so I call bluff:
Me: That sounds like you Jed.
Jed: COME AND SEE.
Me: I need to study. Bye Jed. *click*

This is a very normal response from me, because by this point Jed has
been calling me and saying all kinds of crazy shit. Basically, if I
can hear him through the wall, I completely disregard anything he
might say on the phone. He's called me once and begged for help
because he's stranded on the nascar race track in the middle of a race
and I can clearly hear him through the wall. So I have a very trained
automated response to Jed's calls: "Hi Jed. You're crazy. That's nice.
I need to study. Bye Jed."

At this point, I smell smoke. This is very disconcerting, because as I
said earlier, I have been living in fear of the whole place going up
in flames. I stand up from my desk, and at that very moment, the power
goes out, and I hear Jed laughing like crazy through the wall. I hear
what sounds like something banging against the pipes in his bathroom,
and some other, deeper noises, which I haven't heard before. The
noises have a sort of deep bass resonance, like a big drum, as if a
bull or some other large creature were banging around over there.
Jed's a small guy, and I didn't think him capable of moving shit
around heavy enough to make that kind of noise with that degree of
frequency. Since I smelled smoke and the power was out, I grab my
gigantic wrench, smear some vic's on my nose, put on my leather
jacket, put on a motorcycle helmet I confiscated from Jed, and prepare
myself for battle, maglight in hand.

I am really psyched up at this point. I know a lot of you will be
saying that I was stupid for operating like this, but I reasoned with
myself that I had better go over there just in case he HAD captured
some poor girl and was, I dunno, by the noise of it, bludgeoning her
to death with a tuba. I headed around to Jed's car and looked inside.
I saw he had rope and there was blood inside the cabin. I tried the
door, it was locked. I smashed the window with a wrench and went
inside the cabin. Behind the seat was some bloody rags. Ohhhh shit. At
this point I decide I had better get the fuck in there and stop
whatever he was up to. I felt really guilty at this point for letting
it get this far. I decided that if I were to go in there and die, I
would've earned it for letting him get that crazy for that long.

I trucked it over to the door, set my wrench on the ground, and
fumbled for my keys. I unlocked the door but it wouldn't give. The
door was moist. I didn't quite understand that. I pushed and pushed
but it hardly moved an inch. So I started stomping at the door as hard
as I could. Eventually I heard something slide and shift and collapse
on the other side of the door, and I gave it another kick. My foot
actually made a hole and went through the door, and I fell over. I
started freaking out because I was worried Jed would stab my boot or
something, so I struggled and hurt my ankle. I also broke my foot from
the kicking. Eventually I calmed and got my foot out of the door, and
bodychecked the door. It came flying off the hinges, and came
completely to pieces.

Ok, so I bashed the door in, and I went flying into the apartment,
head first into a wall that is right in front of the doorway. The
couch had been barricaded against the door, and my kicking caused it
to tip over. It was still partially blocking the door. I immediately
started struggling wildly once I was on the floor, flailing my wrench
and maglight everywhere in case something was about to jump on me. I
immediately exited the apartment, grabbed a metal patio chair, and
hurled it into the blackened apartment in case anyone was in there.
The motorcycle helmet was making it really hard to hear any kind of
ambush, and it was covered in grease and filth from the couch, so I
ditched it, and proceeded inside. It was night time out so I didn't
get the benefit of a good light source from outside, and my maglight
had grease on it. I saw a glow coming from the corner. I tried to
smell if there was smoke coming from a particular direction, but the
Vic's vaporub made it difficult. I swung my light around the room and
found it full of trash like it was before. There was no way I could
ascertain whether Jed was hiding under something. I did note that some
of the newspapers were covered in what looked like splotches of blood.
From my forensics training I could gather from the splotches that
whatever shed them was moving at a high rate of speed through the
apartment.

I bounded over the couch into the apartment, landing on my broken
foot, and falling on my face, in a lot of pain. I remembered the
tarantulas and freaked out again, scrambling to my feet and stumbling
over towards the source of light. I discovered that Jed had stolen a
large floodlight from Longs drugs, which was in the corner,
smouldering the carpet. I grabbed that and quickly shone it all over
the place. Suddenly I saw that there was a guy about 6 feet tall
wearing a beige suit about two feet away from me, so I flipped the
fuck out and tackled it. It turned out to be a cardboard standup of
Captain Kirk Jed got somehow. I picked up my wrench again and limped
onward.

The apartment was completely silent by this point. All I could hear
was some kind of dull tubal thumping from inside the place, that same
dull bass noise I heard earlier. Remembering my crack training at
counterstrike, instead of going further in, I limped over to the
kitchen area and flung shit around to make sure that nobody was hiding
under the newspapers. I could see that he had gotten a lot more crap
since the last time I was here. There were mason jars of urine in the
kitchen, along with gallon jugs of the stuff. There were a lot of
things he had obviously stolen from longs drugs. There was a crate of
sour patch kids all over the place. On one wall was a poster of homer
simpson naked drinking beer, and a bunch of knives had been stabbed
into it. I was too angered and pumped up to be frightened. I opened
the refridgerator and stomped the shelves apart while I was at it,
just to be sure he wasn't hiding in there.

I had a huge floodlight but it couldn't illuminate everything all the
time, especially with the dank murk of mold spores and the smoke, so I
ended up trying to shine it everywhere at once as I proceeded. The
common closet was closed, so I kicked that in and swung my wrench into
the dark area within. I hit something soft so I kept pounding at it,
but it wasn't human. It was a trash bag full of something soft and
yielding. I gave it a kick and moved on.

I ripped the doorway off of the hall closet and swung my wrench
inside, but I only hit a few canned goods in there.

I could hear high pitched shrieks coming from the interior of his
room. His hallway was pretty fucking well blocked with shit, so I
started grabbing things and chucking them into the common room. He had
a gigantic stuffed pluto doll, about as big as a gorilla, which I
chucked. Among the other things I hurled was a futon I recognized as
salvaged from the end of our block, some patio furniture, a bag full
of mcdonalds playpen balls, and something which was big, black,
disgusting, soft, covered in growht, which I cannot, even to this day,
identify.

I crawled through the remaining debris with the wrench in front of me.

This is embarassing, but I forgot to mention. As I was hurling stuff,
I had my wrench in my hand still, and so I hit myself in the face with
it. It required some stitches, and, since I had hit the trashbag full
of feces with the wrench, it got infected.

So to tally it up, we have one broken foot, one twisted ankle, one
gouged and splintered shin, and one bleedingassed face.

So anyway, I am crawling through the hole I've made in the blockaded
hallway. I finally realize why he has been making so much noise. The
fucker has made some kind of evil fortress. If my room is the fortress
of light, his is the fortress of evil. And feces.

I crawl through the hole and pop out in his room. My strategy when
playing doom 3, when I knew something bad was about to happen in a
room I dropped into, was to run around like crazy in the dark and
fling grenades. Well, instead of doing the slick commando thing and
dropping into a crouch and assessing the situation, I popped out of
that hallway barricade with my wrench and flashlight, and ran like
crazy into the pitch black room, swinging around at anything and
everything. I connected with some stuff but nothing human. My foot
failed me and I fell over and crawled like mad to a corner. I dove for
my flashlight, picked it up, and assessed the room.

This place was full of fucking hostess products. The guy must have
stolen at least two crates worth of the damn things. They were still
in their wrapping. Twinkies, hostess cupcakes, all kinds of stuff.
There was nobody in the room, but there was blood all over the place.
I could hear that strange bass ressonance from inside the bathroom.
There was actually a light coming from there, it was rosy red, coming
from a crack in the bathroom door.

...the very air in Jed's room was absolutely thick with mold and
smoke, which I couldn't smell from the vix, but it still stung my eyes
anyway. He had smeared all kinds of crazy gibberish on the walls with
what looked like red lipstick, and the walls themselves were
absolutely covered in growth. The barricades in the hallway must've
been there for a while, because they essentially kept a lot of
moisture in the air in Jed's back section.

Also, I forgot to mention this as well, but as I was running like a
sissy through Jed's room, I knocked into his mattress which he had
leaned against the side door a few weeks prior (my estimate). The
mattress was completely soaked and very heavy, and the instant it hit
me I thought I had fallen into an insidious trap or something, so I
further injured myself by trying to struggle out from underneath it.
Jed was making these freaky noises the moment I burst into his room,
but the echo chamber effect of the bathroom and ventillation system,
and the strange nature of the noises, made it difficult to determine
where the hell they were coming from. Also, there were tons of boxes
of hostess cupcakes and other similar products.

The carpets in his room were really rank. The previous water leak had
made them dank with mold, and I can only imagine what the high fecal
content of the air did. It was difficult to breathe, and nearly
impossible to see, which really added to my panic. It was almost like
I had been buried alive. The scrawlings on the wall, though I didn't
really get to see them in much detail because I was far more concerned
with other things at the time, were just... creepy. The vibrations
made me think for a second or two that he had tunnelled under the
apartment and I'd have to go into some kind of underground basement
he'd made.

Edit: Scrawlings on the wall from what I saw consisted of nonsense
latin words, tons of triangles within triangles within triangles
trailing all over the place, and a few goatsatan faces made of
triangles.

I got to my feet and regained my composure. I stomped over the hostess
cupcakes and other misc crap he had lying on the ground. I would limp
every time I remembered I had a hurt foot, but really, by this time, I
didn't give a shit about the pain. I heard the shrieking from inside
the bathroom, like some kind of high pitched wailing, and the strange
bass resonance. I kicked open the bathroom door and screamed at the
top of my lungs,
"YOU FUCKING FUCK SHIT"

I wasn't in the right mind to come up with awesome catch phrases, so
let's pretend I screamed something bannable like, "The juice is
loose!"

I stomped into the bathroom and was immediately PHYSICALLY STRUCK by
the most powerful odor I have ever, ever encountered. My nose was
pretty vixed up, but somehow, my eyeballs felt like they could smell
the odor. I swung my wrench before I really looked to see what was
going on and totalled what was left of the sink. In the corner of the
bath tub I saw Jed writhing around with a golden metallic object in
the shit lasagna. He was freaking out and screaming. The other thing I
noticed was the fire. In the remains of the toilet tank was a bunch of
flaming papers, right next to a can of paint thinner. I figured that
Jeb threw in the thinner thinking it would burst into flames, but he
neglected to uncap the thing. So I grabbed the can of paint thinner
and in one swift motion clocked Jeb in the head with it. He started
freaking out even more, and at this point I could see that the object
he was writhing with in the tub was a saxophone. He seemed to be
bleeding all over his head but it was hard to tell because of the shit
smeared everywhere, coming out onto the floor. The lightbulb was
covered in either nail polish or blood.

I backed out of the room and grabbed a jug of urine, and threw it at
the fire. Remembering I should probably uncap the jug before using it
to extinguish flames, I grabbed another one and actually poured it
out. By this time Jeb was trying to get out of the bath tub, so I
stomped at him with my boot, closed the bathroom door, and jammed the
fuck out of there after one final check for any hostages in the
bedroom.


Then I got the fuck out of there, rammed the exterior door with a
patio table, and called the cops, the fire department, an ambulance,
and, after getting back into my place and looking up the number, the
landlord.

There. Done.

Oh, and aftermath, there was some court action for back rent, but all
said and done they couldn't prove I was witholding rent because I paid
Jed with cash on the barrel head, and I ended up actually getting paid
money to stay there in the long run. I still have Jed's things to this
day and to my knowledge he is in a nutbarn or something.





quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:


Did he actually play the saxophone?



No he didn't.

And for those curious, the shrill whale-like noises were actually his
insane vocalizations. If you don't know, it's very hard to be that
crazy and actually make a sound on a saxophone. No, I don't know where
he got the sax.


Background story
Jeb was the dyslexic slightly medicated son of wealthy, distant
parentage. He had trouble in school and wasn't very smart, and had a
little bit of trouble dealing with things on a rational level since I
first met him; I think this was due to the fact that he's been
medicated since high school.

He was white as can be, with blond hair, and very skinny. I am only 6
feet tall and 150 pounds (I get a lot of aerobic exercise so it's
difficult to maintain bulk) and he was smaller than I am. I could
easily overpower him.

He dropped out of high school because of his dyslexia, got a GED, and
finally attended a two year college at the time of the incident. He
worked at longs drugs as a stock boy despite the fact that he didn't
need the money, and made most of his friends through his job. I don't
know if you know this, but longs drugs employees are some heavy
drinkers and heavy partiers.

He had trouble with drugs, and while I knew him went from completely
clean to having a problem with alcohol to going as far as snorting
cocaine off of our television set once during a party. He was a pretty
decent, but troubled guy before he went apeshit crazy.

I, in contrast, am a very clean, humorless fellow who never drinks,
parties, or watches TV. Some would call me "obnoxiously uptight" but I
break that mold by being extremely easygoing and laid back about
everything. So I'm very uptight with myself without being uptight with
others, if that makes sense. I'm the ultimate stoic.

Also I was just reminiscing with a friend who reminded me that I was
screaming at the apartment afterwards calling him a "Shitbathing nazi"

It was so long ago I find it hard to remember just why I did what I
did, the way I did it. Partly I left things as they were because I was
mad, and I wanted to prove that he would really fuck things up if I
wasn't there to clean his shit up. Partly, I didn't really care what
he did, because if he fucked stuff up it was his ass on the line.
Partly, I was sort of curious, in that manner of a distant bystander,
just how awful things would get before the forces around us
intervened. Finally, I wanted to see how long I could get by
witholding rent in a righteous indignation. Really, I let it go on for
the most petty, inexcusable reasons imaginable.


Afterthought from the author

It's hard to convey the strong, stoic attitude without sounding like
either an asshole or a doormat, but, to try again to put it simply: A
doormat tries to overextend his control and folds at the drop of a
hat. An asshole rigidly defines his influence, extending it over other
people, and doesn't fold even when it's futile to resist. I choose my
battles very carefully, and where I do assert myself, there is no
amount of insanity that will cause me to budge. For all the
awfullness, Jed didn't really intrude upon me. I had a few months of
very nice, intrusion free existence, where I had all that I wanted in
a little exclusive area of the house for very little rent. Where Jed
tried to fuck with my shit, I set things up so he couldn't. Where I
couldn't do that, I just removed myself from the equation. Choose your
battles. I wouldn't stick around in the common area and bitch and
whine like a pussy, or pick fights like an ass. I would just remove
myself from the conflict, and continue to live the good life. In the
fortress of awesomeness.

Just to clarify, the shriek noises were his psychotic wailing, not the
sax, which was full of shit and inoperable. The strange base noises
was his movements in the shit lasagna tub, amplified by the fact that
it is a gigantic shitty cheap plastic tub and next to my wall.

There were never tarantulas actually running around in the apartment.
They were all in their cages and quite dead by the time the showdown
occurred. I wish I had known that, because I might not have been so
berserk frenzied at the time of re-entry.

The cleaning costs were somewhere around twenty five thousand dollars.
I know I scored around 8 thousand dollars after it was all said and
done. I don't know what the police said, and his parents refused to
speak to me except through lawyers.

I know they called some special unit or something with moonsuits to
extract Jeb from his shithole, but I didn't stick around much after
that before going to the hospital. I drove myself.

Oh haha, I forgot one silly little detail.

The cops were about to go into the apartment, and I told them, "Be
careful. He has tons of tarantulas and they're probably all over the
place in there."

After that they gave eachother a look and decided to wait for the moonsuit crew.

That couch is a whole other story too. We had two couches, one was a
common couch and one was this crazy couch my roomie had bought at a
garage sale. The crazy couch was made of black fur, and was gigantic.
It was the one blocking the door, and had shit growing all over it. I
don't know how, but somehow mold is all greasy when it gets wiped on
stuff. I'm not sure where the other couch was at the second re-entry.
I can't remember if it was blocking the hallway or what.
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6624

Best roommate story I have is when he came out.... IN HIS SLEEP!!!
I'm lying in bed and I can't sleep because he snored like a motherfucker, and then alluva sudden he starts mumbling and saying random stuff. Then out of nowhere he says, while sleeping, "I think I'm gay.... I've just always felt gay." And then continued mumbling. I was literally laughing my ass off! I could not stop laughing. And he didn't wake up either because he was so deep in his sleep. But it wasn't a surprise to me that he was gay anyway, it's completely obvious to everyone in the world except for him.
Magpie
international welder....Douchebag Dude, <3 ur mom
+257|6496|Milkystania, yurop
Yeah ive read that story before sick sick
SEREMAKER
BABYMAKIN EXPERT √
+2,187|6538|Mountains of NC

mtb0minime wrote:

Best roommate story I have is when he came out.... IN HIS SLEEP!!!
I'm lying in bed and I can't sleep because he snored like a motherfucker, and then alluva sudden he starts mumbling and saying random stuff. Then out of nowhere he says, while sleeping, "I think I'm gay.... I've just always felt gay." And then continued mumbling. I was literally laughing my ass off! I could not stop laughing. And he didn't wake up either because he was so deep in his sleep. But it wasn't a surprise to me that he was gay anyway, it's completely obvious to everyone in the world except for him.
What ......................... were you both lying in bed together bc how did you hear all that
https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/17445/carhartt.jpg
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.

ATTENTION!  THIS IS A VERY VERY VERY LONG READ.
You may wan't to bookmark this thread and read it in parts.  I would post the story in sections, but I would rather have it in one post.

*STUFF
Why not just link the website you got this from instead of posting it all?
mikeyb118
Evil Overlord
+76|6568|S.C.
NemeSiS-Factor
Favorite Weapon? Pistol
+29|6640|Everett, WA, US
If I was still in contact with that guy, I would probably have to have a chat with him about this.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.

ATTENTION!  THIS IS A VERY VERY VERY LONG READ.
You may wan't to bookmark this thread and read it in parts.  I would post the story in sections, but I would rather have it in one post.

*STUFF
Why not just link the website you got this from instead of posting it all?
I found it on descentbb.com.  In 2005 they purged their forums and it was lost.

Last edited by NemeSiS-Factor (2007-05-11 12:44:44)

Undetected_Killer
Le fuck?
+98|6255|FIYAH FIYAH FIYAAAAAAH
Hot holy fuck.
That is an insane story.
Surgeons
U shud proabbly f off u fat prik
+3,097|6459|Gogledd Cymru

how the hell did i read all of that

thats a real turn on to me though, bathing in shit
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6624

SEREMAKER wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Best roommate story I have is when he came out.... IN HIS SLEEP!!!
I'm lying in bed and I can't sleep because he snored like a motherfucker, and then alluva sudden he starts mumbling and saying random stuff. Then out of nowhere he says, while sleeping, "I think I'm gay.... I've just always felt gay." And then continued mumbling. I was literally laughing my ass off! I could not stop laughing. And he didn't wake up either because he was so deep in his sleep. But it wasn't a surprise to me that he was gay anyway, it's completely obvious to everyone in the world except for him.
What ......................... were you both lying in bed together bc how did you hear all that
We were living in a college dorm, i.e. we share room. Not an apartment or anything.
NemeSiS-Factor
Favorite Weapon? Pistol
+29|6640|Everett, WA, US
Yeah, but what better way to save space in that cramped room than to push the beds together?
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6624

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Yeah, but what better way to save space in that cramped room than to push the beds together?
Who needs to push them together when we could easily snuggle in a tiny twin-sized bed?
sexecuti0ner
What kinda guy are you are?
+148|6201
And I thought I had it bad last semester... I can't say that I would have restrained myself from beating the ever-living shit out of that guy.
NemeSiS-Factor
Favorite Weapon? Pistol
+29|6640|Everett, WA, US
With a tuba?  Or the can of paint?

Or a dead cat!
Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,053|6592|Little Bentcock
Wow.

I read it all, it was horrible.
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|6736|UK
lol. Gotta be the funniest story in a long time.
White-Fusion
Fuck
+616|6521|Scotland
Good read! lol bathing in shit playing the saxaphone... nice.
mkxiii
online bf2s mek evasion
+509|6206|Uk
i have something similar to the coming out in his sleep story.  it wasnt roommate, just a guy staying over, and he talked in his sleep.

first of all he started shouting about how he hated gerald coz he's ginger (we know no one called gerald, let alone a ginger gerald)

then he kept telling 'everyone' to go down the fire escape, then shouted 'PENIS' for no fucking reason.

was funny as shit and i kept laughing for fuck knows how long
bennisboy
Member
+829|6616|Poundland

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.

ATTENTION!  THIS IS A VERY VERY VERY LONG READ.
You may wan't to bookmark this thread and read it in parts.  I would post the story in sections, but I would rather have it in one post.

meh buddeh wrote:

There recently was a thread about awful room-mates, along with
pictures. I have my own experience.

Housing complex. The units are basically small cottages, made for two
room-mates, with a common area and attached kitchen, a small storage
closet in the common area containing water pipes leading to Suite A's
bathroom. The two private areas of the suite contained a private
bedroom, a sliding glass patio door, and a private bathroom. Sounds
idyllic.

My roomie, Jed, liked to throw parties. He liked tarantulas, too, and kept six.

For the sake of saving my effort in recounting this story, here is a
basic rundown of the chaos:

This run-through of incidents is going to be kind of terse, because
I'm working off of a check list I made a while ago.

During our stay together, my roomie:

He brought his motorcycle into our common room because he was "afraid
it would be stolen." This was fine, but then he started it and let it
idle for 15 minutes without opening any windows, causing all of our
stuff to smell like motor exhaust.

After his girlfriend left him, he went berserk in his private bathroom
with a sledgehammer or a geologist's hammer and smashed all of his
bathroom fixtures. I'm not sure of this but I believe that just before
she left him she fucked some guy with pubic lice in my bed during a
party.

His toilet was inoperative at this point, so he used mine for a time,
until I refused him access. Later I would find out that he shat in
garbage bags and kept them in the common room closet for weeks. More
on this later.

He set fire to our carpet with alcohol during a party. He pissed in
the fridge. He shat in the fridge. He shat in the crisper drawer. He
shat on the oven top, and instead of cleaning it up, turned on the
burner, reasoning that carbon is easier to clean than feces.

He left a dead cat he found somewhere in our oven for a week and
forgot about it. I discovered it later.

He owned 6 tarantulas, and would let one run around free-range. He
assured me he had "tamed it." I assured him he was a stupid fuckhead.

He never showered.

He sold drugs from his room. He smoked pot with his friends in the
common area. He spilled bong water on two of my text books. He and his
friends did cocaine off of the television set in the common area.

He had a party to which he invited too many people, and they spilled
into my room. Strangers had sex in my room at that party. In my bed.
One of them had pubic lice. Someone took a dump in my closet. Someone
left a used condom in my slipper. I discovered all of these things
after it was too late.

Morning after said party, my mother knocked on the front door, and a
stranger from that party answered and immediately threw up on her
legs.

Crackheads would regularly come by our apartment at all hours of the
night trying to buy drugs because of his illicit activities. Whenever
I answered the door and indicated that there was no crack to be had,
they would sometimes get, desperate, belligerent and violent, and
refuse to leave.

He put food products containing milk, meat and cheese on the heating
unit and turned it on for three hours to see what would happen. I
could've told him what would happen if he asked me.

He got angry at some video game he and his friends were playing in the
common area, so he busted into my room while I was sleeping, and
punched me in the face and stomach.

A few days later he put a tarantula in my bedsheets while I was
sleeping. Thankfully I wasn't bitten, but I was freaked out and still
sometimes jump out of bed in the middle of the night for no reason and
attack my sheets.

He shat in a lot of our fixtures. He would put his shit in baggies and
leave them in strange places. I was thankfull for when he used a
baggie. A few words of advice for potential room-mates: A light
fixture is not a toilet. A heating vent is not a toilet. The sink is
not a toilet. The oven is not a toilet. That is all.

I was pissed at this point. He refused to clean or take care of all of
the messes listed above, so I ended up cleaning them, but keeping an
hourly log and catalogue of what work I did and worked out a bill,
which I sent to him. I was tired of cleaning feces out of our
refridgerator, finding turds in our crisper drawer, shit on the
stovetop, vomit on the carpet, vomit in our potted plants, vomit on
the grille of our television set, urine on the carpet, urine on the
kitchen floor seeping behind the refridgerator, dead animals in our
oven and freezer units, and bags of feces hidden in our light
fixtures.

Have you ever had to move your refridgerator out of its little nook to
get behind it to clean urine mixed with whatever the fuck lurks behind
a refridgerator in the first place?

After sending him the cleaning bill and getting a refusal of payment,
I took some of his stuff, dumped it in a storage unit across town, and
held it until he paid me back. He stole some of my stuff in
retaliation, but I called the cops and repossessed my belongings. He
was unable to articulate to the cops that I had some of his shit in
this exchange, so I ended up basically getting my shit back while he
had to be put in their car to cool off.

Upon retrospect, I think maybe he became mentally ill after losing his
girlfriend, and not being able to part with his feces was part of his
illness. This is purely speculative.

He wasn't poor. He was from a wealthy family. They don't come into the
picture, though.

This is where the sealing begins. Put a datemark right here, because
this is where shit gets crazy.
========================

I had had enough. I bought a minifridge, a plug-in stovetop, two
padlocked footlockers, a wooden bar, duct tape, a remote-control car,
and an external padlock. My private area had two entrances... Here, I
best sum up my little fortress in this post I made in another thread:

quote:
Actually, upon reflection, I really want to share how I kept my
room-mate out of my private area. It was dubbed the "Home Alone"
security system.

I had two potential entrances to my private area, a sliding glass
patio door and a regular door to the common area. I secured the common
door with a padlock on the outside which was really just for show. The
inside was barricaded. At the bottom I had a rolled up towel, and I
sealed the rest of it with tape to avoid smell or other chemical
assaults from the common area. I packed against the door with my
king-sized bed, which was in turn secured from being dislodged by a
bookshelf full of weights and books. Even if he got through the
padlock, he would not have been able to open the door without busting
it in two. The top half of the door was unsecured; I was worried he
might break the door and gain access, so when I siezed his stuff I had
it put in public storage across town.

Now the sliding glass door is where the home alone shit comes in. It
had a lock, but it was nonfunctional and only accessible from the
inside. So in order to secure the door while I was away, I got a
remote controlled car, attached it to a string which was secured by a
fisheye screw at the top of the door, and tied to a security bar which
would drop into the tread of the sliding door, preventing it from
being opened.

Anyone who has a sliding glass door would know how this works, but if
anyone needs further explanation, I'm happy to furnish it.

So when I came home, I would whip out my little remote control, make
the RC car run off and lift the bar, then gain access to the
apartment. To prevent this system from being discovered, I papered the
inside of the sliding door with butcher paper, and I ran a wire
outside of the door in an obvious manner, so that the roomie would
think that this wire somehow, if tugged correctly, would undo the
lock. To my knowledge, all of his attempts to get inside my apartment
were by messing with this wire, which was attached to the handle of an
antique coffee grinder and a paint can. If you tugged it, you'd get a
wierd uneven resistance as the handle crank turned and the paint can
danced, which added to the illusion that this wire was some secret way
of ingress.

I heard this account from the neighbors, because it occurred while I
was away, but apparenty he had lost his front door key, had some kind
of intestinal problem, and had to take a shit really bad. All of the
neighbors he knew he had already hit up for toilet access and been
refused by this point. So he's swearing like crazy and yanking at this
wire, and bashing against the door in a frenzied desperation when the
neighbors call the cops, reporting a B&E. When the cops show up he's
taking a shit in the bushes just outside my window. I fucking hate him
so much.


I think he went crazy and lost all his friends at some point, because
around the time I barricaded, I stopped hearing parties. In fact, I
stopped hearing anything from the common area of the apartment, except
for the occasional formless moans and thumping. I don't know precisely
what went on in there, because I mentally washed my hands of the whole
area. I did, however, start smelling odors. I taped up my door. I know
it wasn't smart to do things like this, but I was just fucking sick of
dealing with his shit. I didn't call the landlord or anything, despite
the fact that I knew he was destroying things over there. After
cleaning so much of his shit up, I just wanted the universal god of
justice to see what a wreck the place would become without my
presence.

Forgive me for being a little spotty in my descriptions after this
point. What I do know of what transpired over there I can only
reconstruct from forensic evidence, what precisely was destroyed, what
commmon friends have told me in their accounts, and two forrays over
into the waste zone over the next two months. I essentially didn't
even see the front door of our apartment during this time.


quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:
What was this guy's story about shitting on a stove and leaving it on?
Or shit in the refridgerator? OR shit in various fixtures?

Why didn't you call the landlord and get this guy kicked out?


The feces he left around falls into three categories:
A) Experiments he conducted. The stove top feces thing was an
experiment he conducted after his toilet was broken, and I refused him
access to mine, and his neighbors got sick of letting him use theirs.
I think he was trying to find some new way of getting rid of his shit.
Either that or he thought it would be funny to make me clean shit off
of his stove top and then got curious about what would happen if he
turned on the burner. He really liked playing with heating elements
and fire. It was fucking stupid. The dead cat in the oven, I think,
falls into this category as well.

B) Feces in the refridgerator, shit in the closet, vomit on the TV,
etc. I lump this into the "OOPS I SHAT ON YOUR CARPET DURING A PARTY"
category.

C) Shit inside baggies in various places: After I stopped letting him
use my bathroom he got angry and I think this started off as his way
of "proving" to me that I should let him use my bathroom. After a
while of this I think it started to take on a life of his own, and he
started stashing his feces due to some mental illness. This is purely
speculative.


quote:Ott came out of the closet to say:
I read your posts in the other thread... hilarious story.

I'm having a hard time picturing the "Home Alone" security system, though.


Ok, if you've ever owned a sliding door, you know that you can secure
it from being opened by putting a wooden dowel in the treads while the
door is closed. This is great, except it can't be opened from the
outside. So what I did, was I attached a string to the dowel, and lead
the string up to the top of the door, through a little loop-nail, and
back down to a remote controlled car. By moving the car with a remote
control from outside the apartment, I could cause the string to be
tugged, raising the dowel, and granting me access to the interior of
the apartment. I'm almost more proud of the wire trick, because I gain
endless pleasure from that fucker spending hours and hours trying to
yank on this stupid dummy wire I put out there for him in order to get
inside and mess with my shit.


quote:A wINNer = mE! came out of the closet to say:
Holy shit, I don't think I've ever heard a more disgusting tale
regarding bad roommates.

Are you just a wimp? The first time I found a turd in the apartment
outside of a waste receptical (toilet), I would have yelled at him at
the top of my lungs and made him clean it up.


Actually, Jed was much smaller than me, and emaciated. In retrospect I
could have taken him, easily. That's just not how I do things. I do
not break the law. Ever. I absolutely must have a clean, orderly
house, which is why I went around cleaning shit up, regardless of who
did it. I am not some cowardly little bitch, in fact, I think Jed was
afraid of me, which is why he did passive agressive shit like shitting
in light fixtures. I generally don't try to solve disputes by shouting
or anything, I just quietly give notice of the unacceptable condition,
document it, and clean it up. Somewhere back at my parent's house I
have a box full of typed, dated, signed letters to Jed stating the
date, time, and extent of a mess I had to clean up, and a notice that
such behavior is not acceptable, and that unless he stopped, I would
move out and make him responsible for rent. Those letters helped me
eventually recover back rent from him for the equivalent value of the
common area he exclusively occupied during my stay there.

I eventually got so pissed off at the condition of the rest of the
apartment that I could only deal with it by sealing it off, and
ignoring it. Essentially there is a blank period of about a month
where I absolutely ignored anything from the common area, which is why
it got so bad.

I was crazy busy with schoolwork and my job, so I basically just shut
the whole situation out of my mind for a while. After some time, I
came to the realization that this guy might start a fire and get us
both killed, which is really the beginning of the end. The thing that
ended the insanity was his discovery that
A) He had access to the fuse box
and
B) He could trip the fuse to my room with some metal and a hallway plug
and
C) He was too stupid to manually flip the fuse switch and just turn
off my power, so he had to go the fire hazard route. I think he might
have been afraid of touching the fuse box for fear of being
electrocuted.

But I'll detail the downfall of this shit later.

For those of you wondering why I didn't call the landlord. I was kind
of in denial. I just figured that whatever happened over there was
Jed's business. I think I was on a sublease under him at the time, so
I wasn't too worried about damage to the apartment. I withheld rent
from him during this time too. His family was paying rent for the
whole unit, and I would reimburse him directly. I deducted cleaning
costs and other things from the rent I paid him. I think he was too
embarassed or crazy to call me on it, or have his lawyer financial
guru daddy get me busted.

Quick fact: His father was on the cover of Forbes magazine like 8 years ago.

Have you ever had something go wrong, and, knowing it was someone
elses responsibility, just didn't intervene out of sheer curiousity
about how it fucking bad it would get? I didn't turn him in for that
reason too. I just... wanted to see how bad it would get. I was
stupid, mad, curious, and really didn't have any responsibility for
damage to the unit, knowing his family would cover the costs.

Edit: So, basically, I didn't kick his ass for two reasons: A) I am
always law abiding to a fault, and B) The setup I made was really very
convenient for me, and made it so I never even had any contact with
the guy. It was basically rent-free... I paid $50 a month in rent
after all of the deductions for unsanitary conditions and ouster from
the common area I made (and documented... and got to keep after the
courts got done looking at it...), and I was exiting and entering from
an opposite end of the house. Basically, I only really knew what Jed
was up to during this period from forensic evidence in the apartment
and the accounts of friends, neighbors, and the police.


quote:DannyManic came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, dude, you're crazier than he is.


From my perspective, imagine this: You are strapped for cash. Someone
offers you a studio apartment, with minifridge and bathroom for $50 a
month, and after you move out, you're given a few thousand dollars
just for living there. The only catch is that there's a closet you
can't open, and you have to tape around the edges, and the lock to get
in is a remote controlled car rig. Sounds like a good deal to me. Jed
couldn't make much noise to bother me after I confiscated his music
equipment. All of the people talking about going ape shit sound like
the nutballs to me. I'm very easy going, and I came out of this ahead.
I'll get to the renumeration later.

Also it was very satisfying to have this asshole's shit in a locker
across town and know that he desperately wanted to fuck with my shit
but couldn't, and couldn't prove I ganked his stuff. He would flip the
fuck out in rage from this. I think that might have contributed to his
degeneration into madness.


I kind of messed up the timeline for this stuff, so here's a quick
runthrough before I continue the story.

TIME A: Tons of parties, vomit being cleaned up by me, tarantula,
punching, etc. I start witholding rent at this point, and am
subtracting $200 a month from the rent for cleaning costs.

TIME B: His girlfriend leaves him. His friends stop hanging out with
him. He smashes his bathroom. He uses mine for a time, is denied
access, uses neighbor's for a time, is denied access, and is angry at
me for refusing him access to my bathroom. I fixed his faucets so they
wouldn't leak all over the place and sent him a bill. He gets really
pouty and angry and does the famous shit on the stovetop. He does
experiments with various places to piss and poop, eventually settling
on leaving it in baggies around the house. When I tell him this is
unacceptable, he responds with a demand to use my bathroom, which I
refuse. Around this time, while cleaning the stove top, I find the cat
in the oven. It has a collar on it so I put it in a box and return it
to the owners, not explaining where I found it, and advising them not
to look in the box. I don't know how that turned out, and I didn't
give them my name. I hope it got hit by a car and wasn't killed by
Jed.

TIME C: Jed starts trying to get at me by playing his subwoofer really
loud at odd hours, and demanding to use the bathroom. I get back at
him by packing away all of his stuff, (including the audio equiptment)
and storing it in a friend's storage unit across town. I think that he
started to really go truly crazy at this point. I come home finding
him taking things out of my room and putting them into his truck. I
restrain him and call the police. By this point he is beyond all
rationality and is completely flipping out, so he is put in the copcar
for a while and the officer helps me unload my things from his truck.
For some bizarre reason the officer does not arrest him, but after
"talking to him" lets him go. I think my calm temperment made the
officer not realize he was violent and that is why I was restraining
him. (My motto in life: "So it goes.")

TIME D: I dub this time the sealing. I really don't mind cleaning up
poop and piss, I used to be assistant manager of an apartment complex,
but it is taking too much time to clean. I buy a range-top, and seal
things off after writing a surrender letter to Jed, declaring that he
has evicted me from the common area. Shortly after I come up with my
Home Alone security system, withold rent except for a nominal $50 a
month, and go on with life as if I did not have a crazy room-mate
sealed away in the other end of the apartment. Time left on lease at
this point: 2 months.

Edit: Time D is when he shits in the bushes and is arrested for the night.

TIME E: The black time. I am not sure what exactly went on in the
apartment during these two or three weeks. This is around the time
finals are going on, so I really don't care. Water starts leaking from
the wall, so I re-enter the common area to see what is up. This
description really deserves its own post, and will clog the time-line
up, so I'll elaborate later. I fix the water leak, which he had been
covering up with newspapers, and promptly exit. Once he finds out I
was in his area he flips out and makes a lot of noise over there, but
I do not investigate.

Remainder: There is one further, final re-entry by myself, with a
flashlight. I couldn't get in with my key because the door was messed
up, and his sliding door was blocked with a mattress, so I kicked down
the door and entered. After a quick walk-through I call the fire
department, the landlord, the police, and an ambulance. This is full
of drama and will be detailed in its own post.


The Black Time:
I'm very preoccupied with work and school at this point. Since my
point of entry on the house is opposite from the front door, the only
real contact I have with Jed at this point is what I can hear from him
through the walls, and whatever odor seeps under the door past my
homeland security setup. This is pretty tolerable as a condition,
definetely worth the $50 a month I was paying for it, but I was
starting to get worried. I was worried about Jed's tarantulas getting
into the ventilation system, so I sealed that off with plastic wrap
and duct tape. Then I started worrying about fire. Jed liked to play
with heating elements and flames, and he was an alcoholic, so I was
worried that with the sealed off vent I wouldn't know if the house
were on fire. At around 3pm, I was studying, when I noticed that my
feet were getting wet. Upon inspection, the carpet next to the wall
was wet. I went around to the front of the house and found that the
door was ajar. I went back to my apartment and picked up a plumber's
wrench and a flashlight to see what was wrong.

I'm not exactly the best at descriptions, as you can probably tell
from the poor quality of writing in this thread, but here's the best I
can do. I'll try to portray these things from my perspective at the
time, and not reveal what they eventually turned out to be.

I unlocked the front door of the apartment and pushed it open, after
confirming that Jed's truck was gone. The lights in the place were out
and the shades were drawn. The light shone inside and revealed that
there were strange particulates hanging in the air. Not quite smoke. I
would almost say that the odor was so thick in the apartment that it
could be seen with the naked eye. Upon reflection, I imagine that what
I was seeing was mold spores.

As the arc of light from the bright outside swept across the room, a
few things were revealed in sequence: First off, the common area was
absolutely covered in free student newspapers. There were obviously
things underneath because the newspapers bulged, and I could even
identify an easy chair covered in newspapers in the corner. The
kitchen was crammed with garbage. I could identify two large bulky
garbage bags in the corner of the common room. Investigating them
further, I discovered that they were covered in some kind of
glistening brown muck. The whole place smelled absolutely rank. I
swept my light across the place a few times, just to make sure Jed
wasn't there lying in wait with a knife or something, and I proceeded
into the apartment, leaving the door open. I took some vic's vaporub
from my pocket and doubed just under my nose. The garbage bags had
been hastily pulled out of the common room closet, the one which
contains pipes leading to Jed's bathroom. I shined a light into the
closet and a rat or mouse or something ran very quickly under the
newspapers in the common room. I looked and saw that there were
several dents in a pipe in the common closet, and it was otherwise
soaked. Finding no immediate source for the water, I proceeded into
the hallway area towards Jed's room.

I was a little uneasy, because the whole place was filled with debris.
The common furnature that came with the apartment was lodged in the
strangest places. Like the hallway to Jed's room had the common couch
in it, upturned. I climbed over that after making sure Jed wasn't
under it. I was a little more nervous because my egress had been
essentially blocked by this couch, and walked past the debris. It
looked like he was salvaging equiptment and building materials from
local construction yards. I could identify in the hallway, piping
materials, a toilet lid, cinderblocks, scrap wood, and a box of
pilfered nails. Jed's large sledge hammer (or geologists hammer, I
don't know which) was lodged in the door of his room. I pushed it open
and the damn thing fell out, giving me a fright. Anyway, I proceeded
into his room, which was strangely clean. There was nothing in there,
but the floor was absolutely soaked. I realized what happened; he
realized there was water everywhere and threw all of his shit outside
of the room into the hallway, and leaned his mattress against the
sliding door (where it remained, to my knowledge, for like two weeks.
I have no idea where he was sleeping.). The leak was coming from his
bathroom, so I went in with my wrench ready to clock the shit out of
my crazy room mate if he should jump out at me.

I saw the familiar smashed bathroom fixtures, and I was very thankful
for the vic's vaporub, but the stench stung my eyes still. There was a
bathtub covered in newspapers. I proded it with my wrench and the
newspapers gave way, like they were on top of jello or something soft
and organic. I prodded it harder and what I can only describe as fecal
fluid seeped from the sides of the newspaper. I think he was taking
shits in the bathtub and covering it with newspapers, like some kind
of foul lasagna. The leak was coming from under his sink, which he had
dislodged through some violence. I could see the remains of a
cinderblock on the pipe, so I think he might have been hitting the
pipe with a cinderblock. I turned off the water to the sink, stopping
the leak, and decided that it would be best if I left before he
returned.

On my way out, I climbed into the kitchen area and opened the fridge,
just out of curiosity. There was a ball-like, organic mass in the
middle, with tendrils of mold growing out of it. It was roughly the
size of a human head with a large dent in it. Not desiring to get
toxic mold in my nostrils, I closed the fridge and surveyed the common
closet again. The walls of the closet were covered in a black shiny
material which glistened. Upon closer inspection, it was mold. I
didn't know that mold looked like that. I prodded the newspapers a
little bit, but remembering the rat, and not wanting to get bitten, I
left the apartment, closing the door behind me.

I got a towel and did my best to dry out the carpet. I left my sliding
glass door open to help air the place out. I printed out a notice to
Jed that I had entered and fixed his sink, and placed it under the
door. I later heard Jed come home, and he obviously discovered I had
been in there, because he started freaking out, swearing, and throwing
things around. I heard the couch in the hallway get rammed into my
door. He threw a tantrum for another five minutes, and then I heard
the front of the apartment door slam. I heard him approach my sliding
glass door, swearing, and I can only imagine that after seeing it
open, he decided not to come any further. Like I said, the guy was
afraid of me. He left in his truck a few minutes later, to return in
ten minutes. I heard strange moaning and stumbling around in the
apartment after that. I think he was moving furniture or something. I
heard breaking glass a few times, but after that, silence.


quote:jollygrinch came out of the closet to say:
Spiders freak me out. Just the thought of one of his 6 coming flying
at me from under some news paper would be enough to make me torch the
place and run screaming into the night.

Excellent writing and story. Anxiously awaiting the most assuredly
horrifying conclusion, preferably involving flaming spider death.


Oh I completely forgot about that. Yeah. I was not only afraid of Jed
popping out with a knife, I was also afraid of those tarantulas. They
were like a big unknown X-factor in the apartment. Normally I'm not
very frightened of just godawful messes or rats, but if you throw
giant tarantulas into the mix it really drives me up a wall.
Especially in terrain like that. I was imagining setting my hand down
on a part of the couch right as I was climbing over it and setting it
right down on top of one of those hairy bastards. They could move,
too. The fact that there were newspapers all around for them to hide
under didn't help. And I imagined they had plenty to eat while in that
apartment, and possibly gave birth to a jillion other little
tarantulas.

edited. I'll tell you this fact later..


The Kidnapping.

Let's get this over with.

So as I said, I am a pretty easy going person and I could tolerate
this situation pretty endlessly. But as I hinted earlier, Jed
eventually made this situation unlivable. Here's how it goes down:

I've long been using a cellphone since Jed pretty much has control of
our apartment phone, and whenever anyone calls he'll answer with
crazytalk. To my knowledge, he still has access to the store room in
Longs Drugs, from which he has been stealing crates full of random
stuff.

Anyway, lately, Jed was more active than usual. I hear a lot of heavy
stuff getting dragged around, and crashing, and lots of moaning,
hollering, and other psychotic outbursts.

One evening I hear Jed making a hell of a lot of noise, then silence.
Then I hear the front door slam, and his truck goes off. A while
later, he comes back, I hear more slamming into things, and a bunch of
really high pitched loud vocalizations, kind of like whales mating.

I get a call on my cellphone. This is basically how it goes.
*ring* *pickup*
Jed: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSATAN!
Me: Hi Jed. You're nuts.
Jed: I HAVE SARAH (Jed's ex girlfriend)
Me: Really.
Jed: LISTEN.
I immediately hear a high pitched shrieking from the other end of the
apartment, and banging and stumbling around. Sarah is a water polo
champ. I think if he somehow got her into the apartment, he would have
to hit her in the head with his big geologists hammer, because there's
no way he would be able to wrestle her inside conscious. At any rate,
I bet at the time that he hadn't grabbed Sarah, and the high pitched
screaming was really that crazy motherfucker. I've been getting all
kinds of crazy phone calls from Jed lately, so I call bluff:
Me: That sounds like you Jed.
Jed: COME AND SEE.
Me: I need to study. Bye Jed. *click*

This is a very normal response from me, because by this point Jed has
been calling me and saying all kinds of crazy shit. Basically, if I
can hear him through the wall, I completely disregard anything he
might say on the phone. He's called me once and begged for help
because he's stranded on the nascar race track in the middle of a race
and I can clearly hear him through the wall. So I have a very trained
automated response to Jed's calls: "Hi Jed. You're crazy. That's nice.
I need to study. Bye Jed."

At this point, I smell smoke. This is very disconcerting, because as I
said earlier, I have been living in fear of the whole place going up
in flames. I stand up from my desk, and at that very moment, the power
goes out, and I hear Jed laughing like crazy through the wall. I hear
what sounds like something banging against the pipes in his bathroom,
and some other, deeper noises, which I haven't heard before. The
noises have a sort of deep bass resonance, like a big drum, as if a
bull or some other large creature were banging around over there.
Jed's a small guy, and I didn't think him capable of moving shit
around heavy enough to make that kind of noise with that degree of
frequency. Since I smelled smoke and the power was out, I grab my
gigantic wrench, smear some vic's on my nose, put on my leather
jacket, put on a motorcycle helmet I confiscated from Jed, and prepare
myself for battle, maglight in hand.

I am really psyched up at this point. I know a lot of you will be
saying that I was stupid for operating like this, but I reasoned with
myself that I had better go over there just in case he HAD captured
some poor girl and was, I dunno, by the noise of it, bludgeoning her
to death with a tuba. I headed around to Jed's car and looked inside.
I saw he had rope and there was blood inside the cabin. I tried the
door, it was locked. I smashed the window with a wrench and went
inside the cabin. Behind the seat was some bloody rags. Ohhhh shit. At
this point I decide I had better get the fuck in there and stop
whatever he was up to. I felt really guilty at this point for letting
it get this far. I decided that if I were to go in there and die, I
would've earned it for letting him get that crazy for that long.

I trucked it over to the door, set my wrench on the ground, and
fumbled for my keys. I unlocked the door but it wouldn't give. The
door was moist. I didn't quite understand that. I pushed and pushed
but it hardly moved an inch. So I started stomping at the door as hard
as I could. Eventually I heard something slide and shift and collapse
on the other side of the door, and I gave it another kick. My foot
actually made a hole and went through the door, and I fell over. I
started freaking out because I was worried Jed would stab my boot or
something, so I struggled and hurt my ankle. I also broke my foot from
the kicking. Eventually I calmed and got my foot out of the door, and
bodychecked the door. It came flying off the hinges, and came
completely to pieces.

Ok, so I bashed the door in, and I went flying into the apartment,
head first into a wall that is right in front of the doorway. The
couch had been barricaded against the door, and my kicking caused it
to tip over. It was still partially blocking the door. I immediately
started struggling wildly once I was on the floor, flailing my wrench
and maglight everywhere in case something was about to jump on me. I
immediately exited the apartment, grabbed a metal patio chair, and
hurled it into the blackened apartment in case anyone was in there.
The motorcycle helmet was making it really hard to hear any kind of
ambush, and it was covered in grease and filth from the couch, so I
ditched it, and proceeded inside. It was night time out so I didn't
get the benefit of a good light source from outside, and my maglight
had grease on it. I saw a glow coming from the corner. I tried to
smell if there was smoke coming from a particular direction, but the
Vic's vaporub made it difficult. I swung my light around the room and
found it full of trash like it was before. There was no way I could
ascertain whether Jed was hiding under something. I did note that some
of the newspapers were covered in what looked like splotches of blood.
From my forensics training I could gather from the splotches that
whatever shed them was moving at a high rate of speed through the
apartment.

I bounded over the couch into the apartment, landing on my broken
foot, and falling on my face, in a lot of pain. I remembered the
tarantulas and freaked out again, scrambling to my feet and stumbling
over towards the source of light. I discovered that Jed had stolen a
large floodlight from Longs drugs, which was in the corner,
smouldering the carpet. I grabbed that and quickly shone it all over
the place. Suddenly I saw that there was a guy about 6 feet tall
wearing a beige suit about two feet away from me, so I flipped the
fuck out and tackled it. It turned out to be a cardboard standup of
Captain Kirk Jed got somehow. I picked up my wrench again and limped
onward.

The apartment was completely silent by this point. All I could hear
was some kind of dull tubal thumping from inside the place, that same
dull bass noise I heard earlier. Remembering my crack training at
counterstrike, instead of going further in, I limped over to the
kitchen area and flung shit around to make sure that nobody was hiding
under the newspapers. I could see that he had gotten a lot more crap
since the last time I was here. There were mason jars of urine in the
kitchen, along with gallon jugs of the stuff. There were a lot of
things he had obviously stolen from longs drugs. There was a crate of
sour patch kids all over the place. On one wall was a poster of homer
simpson naked drinking beer, and a bunch of knives had been stabbed
into it. I was too angered and pumped up to be frightened. I opened
the refridgerator and stomped the shelves apart while I was at it,
just to be sure he wasn't hiding in there.

I had a huge floodlight but it couldn't illuminate everything all the
time, especially with the dank murk of mold spores and the smoke, so I
ended up trying to shine it everywhere at once as I proceeded. The
common closet was closed, so I kicked that in and swung my wrench into
the dark area within. I hit something soft so I kept pounding at it,
but it wasn't human. It was a trash bag full of something soft and
yielding. I gave it a kick and moved on.

I ripped the doorway off of the hall closet and swung my wrench
inside, but I only hit a few canned goods in there.

I could hear high pitched shrieks coming from the interior of his
room. His hallway was pretty fucking well blocked with shit, so I
started grabbing things and chucking them into the common room. He had
a gigantic stuffed pluto doll, about as big as a gorilla, which I
chucked. Among the other things I hurled was a futon I recognized as
salvaged from the end of our block, some patio furniture, a bag full
of mcdonalds playpen balls, and something which was big, black,
disgusting, soft, covered in growht, which I cannot, even to this day,
identify.

I crawled through the remaining debris with the wrench in front of me.

This is embarassing, but I forgot to mention. As I was hurling stuff,
I had my wrench in my hand still, and so I hit myself in the face with
it. It required some stitches, and, since I had hit the trashbag full
of feces with the wrench, it got infected.

So to tally it up, we have one broken foot, one twisted ankle, one
gouged and splintered shin, and one bleedingassed face.

So anyway, I am crawling through the hole I've made in the blockaded
hallway. I finally realize why he has been making so much noise. The
fucker has made some kind of evil fortress. If my room is the fortress
of light, his is the fortress of evil. And feces.

I crawl through the hole and pop out in his room. My strategy when
playing doom 3, when I knew something bad was about to happen in a
room I dropped into, was to run around like crazy in the dark and
fling grenades. Well, instead of doing the slick commando thing and
dropping into a crouch and assessing the situation, I popped out of
that hallway barricade with my wrench and flashlight, and ran like
crazy into the pitch black room, swinging around at anything and
everything. I connected with some stuff but nothing human. My foot
failed me and I fell over and crawled like mad to a corner. I dove for
my flashlight, picked it up, and assessed the room.

This place was full of fucking hostess products. The guy must have
stolen at least two crates worth of the damn things. They were still
in their wrapping. Twinkies, hostess cupcakes, all kinds of stuff.
There was nobody in the room, but there was blood all over the place.
I could hear that strange bass ressonance from inside the bathroom.
There was actually a light coming from there, it was rosy red, coming
from a crack in the bathroom door.

...the very air in Jed's room was absolutely thick with mold and
smoke, which I couldn't smell from the vix, but it still stung my eyes
anyway. He had smeared all kinds of crazy gibberish on the walls with
what looked like red lipstick, and the walls themselves were
absolutely covered in growth. The barricades in the hallway must've
been there for a while, because they essentially kept a lot of
moisture in the air in Jed's back section.

Also, I forgot to mention this as well, but as I was running like a
sissy through Jed's room, I knocked into his mattress which he had
leaned against the side door a few weeks prior (my estimate). The
mattress was completely soaked and very heavy, and the instant it hit
me I thought I had fallen into an insidious trap or something, so I
further injured myself by trying to struggle out from underneath it.
Jed was making these freaky noises the moment I burst into his room,
but the echo chamber effect of the bathroom and ventillation system,
and the strange nature of the noises, made it difficult to determine
where the hell they were coming from. Also, there were tons of boxes
of hostess cupcakes and other similar products.

The carpets in his room were really rank. The previous water leak had
made them dank with mold, and I can only imagine what the high fecal
content of the air did. It was difficult to breathe, and nearly
impossible to see, which really added to my panic. It was almost like
I had been buried alive. The scrawlings on the wall, though I didn't
really get to see them in much detail because I was far more concerned
with other things at the time, were just... creepy. The vibrations
made me think for a second or two that he had tunnelled under the
apartment and I'd have to go into some kind of underground basement
he'd made.

Edit: Scrawlings on the wall from what I saw consisted of nonsense
latin words, tons of triangles within triangles within triangles
trailing all over the place, and a few goatsatan faces made of
triangles.

I got to my feet and regained my composure. I stomped over the hostess
cupcakes and other misc crap he had lying on the ground. I would limp
every time I remembered I had a hurt foot, but really, by this time, I
didn't give a shit about the pain. I heard the shrieking from inside
the bathroom, like some kind of high pitched wailing, and the strange
bass resonance. I kicked open the bathroom door and screamed at the
top of my lungs,
"YOU FUCKING FUCK SHIT"

I wasn't in the right mind to come up with awesome catch phrases, so
let's pretend I screamed something bannable like, "The juice is
loose!"

I stomped into the bathroom and was immediately PHYSICALLY STRUCK by
the most powerful odor I have ever, ever encountered. My nose was
pretty vixed up, but somehow, my eyeballs felt like they could smell
the odor. I swung my wrench before I really looked to see what was
going on and totalled what was left of the sink. In the corner of the
bath tub I saw Jed writhing around with a golden metallic object in
the shit lasagna. He was freaking out and screaming. The other thing I
noticed was the fire. In the remains of the toilet tank was a bunch of
flaming papers, right next to a can of paint thinner. I figured that
Jeb threw in the thinner thinking it would burst into flames, but he
neglected to uncap the thing. So I grabbed the can of paint thinner
and in one swift motion clocked Jeb in the head with it. He started
freaking out even more, and at this point I could see that the object
he was writhing with in the tub was a saxophone. He seemed to be
bleeding all over his head but it was hard to tell because of the shit
smeared everywhere, coming out onto the floor. The lightbulb was
covered in either nail polish or blood.

I backed out of the room and grabbed a jug of urine, and threw it at
the fire. Remembering I should probably uncap the jug before using it
to extinguish flames, I grabbed another one and actually poured it
out. By this time Jeb was trying to get out of the bath tub, so I
stomped at him with my boot, closed the bathroom door, and jammed the
fuck out of there after one final check for any hostages in the
bedroom.


Then I got the fuck out of there, rammed the exterior door with a
patio table, and called the cops, the fire department, an ambulance,
and, after getting back into my place and looking up the number, the
landlord.

There. Done.

Oh, and aftermath, there was some court action for back rent, but all
said and done they couldn't prove I was witholding rent because I paid
Jed with cash on the barrel head, and I ended up actually getting paid
money to stay there in the long run. I still have Jed's things to this
day and to my knowledge he is in a nutbarn or something.





quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:


Did he actually play the saxophone?



No he didn't.

And for those curious, the shrill whale-like noises were actually his
insane vocalizations. If you don't know, it's very hard to be that
crazy and actually make a sound on a saxophone. No, I don't know where
he got the sax.


Background story
Jeb was the dyslexic slightly medicated son of wealthy, distant
parentage. He had trouble in school and wasn't very smart, and had a
little bit of trouble dealing with things on a rational level since I
first met him; I think this was due to the fact that he's been
medicated since high school.

He was white as can be, with blond hair, and very skinny. I am only 6
feet tall and 150 pounds (I get a lot of aerobic exercise so it's
difficult to maintain bulk) and he was smaller than I am. I could
easily overpower him.

He dropped out of high school because of his dyslexia, got a GED, and
finally attended a two year college at the time of the incident. He
worked at longs drugs as a stock boy despite the fact that he didn't
need the money, and made most of his friends through his job. I don't
know if you know this, but longs drugs employees are some heavy
drinkers and heavy partiers.

He had trouble with drugs, and while I knew him went from completely
clean to having a problem with alcohol to going as far as snorting
cocaine off of our television set once during a party. He was a pretty
decent, but troubled guy before he went apeshit crazy.

I, in contrast, am a very clean, humorless fellow who never drinks,
parties, or watches TV. Some would call me "obnoxiously uptight" but I
break that mold by being extremely easygoing and laid back about
everything. So I'm very uptight with myself without being uptight with
others, if that makes sense. I'm the ultimate stoic.

Also I was just reminiscing with a friend who reminded me that I was
screaming at the apartment afterwards calling him a "Shitbathing nazi"

It was so long ago I find it hard to remember just why I did what I
did, the way I did it. Partly I left things as they were because I was
mad, and I wanted to prove that he would really fuck things up if I
wasn't there to clean his shit up. Partly, I didn't really care what
he did, because if he fucked stuff up it was his ass on the line.
Partly, I was sort of curious, in that manner of a distant bystander,
just how awful things would get before the forces around us
intervened. Finally, I wanted to see how long I could get by
witholding rent in a righteous indignation. Really, I let it go on for
the most petty, inexcusable reasons imaginable.


Afterthought from the author

It's hard to convey the strong, stoic attitude without sounding like
either an asshole or a doormat, but, to try again to put it simply: A
doormat tries to overextend his control and folds at the drop of a
hat. An asshole rigidly defines his influence, extending it over other
people, and doesn't fold even when it's futile to resist. I choose my
battles very carefully, and where I do assert myself, there is no
amount of insanity that will cause me to budge. For all the
awfullness, Jed didn't really intrude upon me. I had a few months of
very nice, intrusion free existence, where I had all that I wanted in
a little exclusive area of the house for very little rent. Where Jed
tried to fuck with my shit, I set things up so he couldn't. Where I
couldn't do that, I just removed myself from the equation. Choose your
battles. I wouldn't stick around in the common area and bitch and
whine like a pussy, or pick fights like an ass. I would just remove
myself from the conflict, and continue to live the good life. In the
fortress of awesomeness.

Just to clarify, the shriek noises were his psychotic wailing, not the
sax, which was full of shit and inoperable. The strange base noises
was his movements in the shit lasagna tub, amplified by the fact that
it is a gigantic shitty cheap plastic tub and next to my wall.

There were never tarantulas actually running around in the apartment.
They were all in their cages and quite dead by the time the showdown
occurred. I wish I had known that, because I might not have been so
berserk frenzied at the time of re-entry.

The cleaning costs were somewhere around twenty five thousand dollars.
I know I scored around 8 thousand dollars after it was all said and
done. I don't know what the police said, and his parents refused to
speak to me except through lawyers.

I know they called some special unit or something with moonsuits to
extract Jeb from his shithole, but I didn't stick around much after
that before going to the hospital. I drove myself.

Oh haha, I forgot one silly little detail.

The cops were about to go into the apartment, and I told them, "Be
careful. He has tons of tarantulas and they're probably all over the
place in there."

After that they gave eachother a look and decided to wait for the moonsuit crew.

That couch is a whole other story too. We had two couches, one was a
common couch and one was this crazy couch my roomie had bought at a
garage sale. The crazy couch was made of black fur, and was gigantic.
It was the one blocking the door, and had shit growing all over it. I
don't know how, but somehow mold is all greasy when it gets wiped on
stuff. I'm not sure where the other couch was at the second re-entry.
I can't remember if it was blocking the hallway or what.
you were rite, it is long
SplinterStrike
Roamer
+250|6381|Eskimo land. AKA Canada.
EEEEEEE. Still cant believe he put up with all of that. I think my roomie would be long gone after the first time.
NemeSiS-Factor
Favorite Weapon? Pistol
+29|6640|Everett, WA, US

bennisboy wrote:

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.

ATTENTION!  THIS IS A VERY VERY VERY LONG READ.
You may wan't to bookmark this thread and read it in parts.  I would post the story in sections, but I would rather have it in one post.

meh buddeh wrote:

There recently was a thread about awful room-mates, along with
pictures. I have my own experience.

Housing complex. The units are basically small cottages, made for two
room-mates, with a common area and attached kitchen, a small storage
closet in the common area containing water pipes leading to Suite A's
bathroom. The two private areas of the suite contained a private
bedroom, a sliding glass patio door, and a private bathroom. Sounds
idyllic.

My roomie, Jed, liked to throw parties. He liked tarantulas, too, and kept six.

For the sake of saving my effort in recounting this story, here is a
basic rundown of the chaos:

This run-through of incidents is going to be kind of terse, because
I'm working off of a check list I made a while ago.

During our stay together, my roomie:

He brought his motorcycle into our common room because he was "afraid
it would be stolen." This was fine, but then he started it and let it
idle for 15 minutes without opening any windows, causing all of our
stuff to smell like motor exhaust.

After his girlfriend left him, he went berserk in his private bathroom
with a sledgehammer or a geologist's hammer and smashed all of his
bathroom fixtures. I'm not sure of this but I believe that just before
she left him she fucked some guy with pubic lice in my bed during a
party.

His toilet was inoperative at this point, so he used mine for a time,
until I refused him access. Later I would find out that he shat in
garbage bags and kept them in the common room closet for weeks. More
on this later.

He set fire to our carpet with alcohol during a party. He pissed in
the fridge. He shat in the fridge. He shat in the crisper drawer. He
shat on the oven top, and instead of cleaning it up, turned on the
burner, reasoning that carbon is easier to clean than feces.

He left a dead cat he found somewhere in our oven for a week and
forgot about it. I discovered it later.

He owned 6 tarantulas, and would let one run around free-range. He
assured me he had "tamed it." I assured him he was a stupid fuckhead.

He never showered.

He sold drugs from his room. He smoked pot with his friends in the
common area. He spilled bong water on two of my text books. He and his
friends did cocaine off of the television set in the common area.

He had a party to which he invited too many people, and they spilled
into my room. Strangers had sex in my room at that party. In my bed.
One of them had pubic lice. Someone took a dump in my closet. Someone
left a used condom in my slipper. I discovered all of these things
after it was too late.

Morning after said party, my mother knocked on the front door, and a
stranger from that party answered and immediately threw up on her
legs.

Crackheads would regularly come by our apartment at all hours of the
night trying to buy drugs because of his illicit activities. Whenever
I answered the door and indicated that there was no crack to be had,
they would sometimes get, desperate, belligerent and violent, and
refuse to leave.

He put food products containing milk, meat and cheese on the heating
unit and turned it on for three hours to see what would happen. I
could've told him what would happen if he asked me.

He got angry at some video game he and his friends were playing in the
common area, so he busted into my room while I was sleeping, and
punched me in the face and stomach.

A few days later he put a tarantula in my bedsheets while I was
sleeping. Thankfully I wasn't bitten, but I was freaked out and still
sometimes jump out of bed in the middle of the night for no reason and
attack my sheets.

He shat in a lot of our fixtures. He would put his shit in baggies and
leave them in strange places. I was thankfull for when he used a
baggie. A few words of advice for potential room-mates: A light
fixture is not a toilet. A heating vent is not a toilet. The sink is
not a toilet. The oven is not a toilet. That is all.

I was pissed at this point. He refused to clean or take care of all of
the messes listed above, so I ended up cleaning them, but keeping an
hourly log and catalogue of what work I did and worked out a bill,
which I sent to him. I was tired of cleaning feces out of our
refridgerator, finding turds in our crisper drawer, shit on the
stovetop, vomit on the carpet, vomit in our potted plants, vomit on
the grille of our television set, urine on the carpet, urine on the
kitchen floor seeping behind the refridgerator, dead animals in our
oven and freezer units, and bags of feces hidden in our light
fixtures.

Have you ever had to move your refridgerator out of its little nook to
get behind it to clean urine mixed with whatever the fuck lurks behind
a refridgerator in the first place?

After sending him the cleaning bill and getting a refusal of payment,
I took some of his stuff, dumped it in a storage unit across town, and
held it until he paid me back. He stole some of my stuff in
retaliation, but I called the cops and repossessed my belongings. He
was unable to articulate to the cops that I had some of his shit in
this exchange, so I ended up basically getting my shit back while he
had to be put in their car to cool off.

Upon retrospect, I think maybe he became mentally ill after losing his
girlfriend, and not being able to part with his feces was part of his
illness. This is purely speculative.

He wasn't poor. He was from a wealthy family. They don't come into the
picture, though.

This is where the sealing begins. Put a datemark right here, because
this is where shit gets crazy.
========================

I had had enough. I bought a minifridge, a plug-in stovetop, two
padlocked footlockers, a wooden bar, duct tape, a remote-control car,
and an external padlock. My private area had two entrances... Here, I
best sum up my little fortress in this post I made in another thread:

quote:
Actually, upon reflection, I really want to share how I kept my
room-mate out of my private area. It was dubbed the "Home Alone"
security system.

I had two potential entrances to my private area, a sliding glass
patio door and a regular door to the common area. I secured the common
door with a padlock on the outside which was really just for show. The
inside was barricaded. At the bottom I had a rolled up towel, and I
sealed the rest of it with tape to avoid smell or other chemical
assaults from the common area. I packed against the door with my
king-sized bed, which was in turn secured from being dislodged by a
bookshelf full of weights and books. Even if he got through the
padlock, he would not have been able to open the door without busting
it in two. The top half of the door was unsecured; I was worried he
might break the door and gain access, so when I siezed his stuff I had
it put in public storage across town.

Now the sliding glass door is where the home alone shit comes in. It
had a lock, but it was nonfunctional and only accessible from the
inside. So in order to secure the door while I was away, I got a
remote controlled car, attached it to a string which was secured by a
fisheye screw at the top of the door, and tied to a security bar which
would drop into the tread of the sliding door, preventing it from
being opened.

Anyone who has a sliding glass door would know how this works, but if
anyone needs further explanation, I'm happy to furnish it.

So when I came home, I would whip out my little remote control, make
the RC car run off and lift the bar, then gain access to the
apartment. To prevent this system from being discovered, I papered the
inside of the sliding door with butcher paper, and I ran a wire
outside of the door in an obvious manner, so that the roomie would
think that this wire somehow, if tugged correctly, would undo the
lock. To my knowledge, all of his attempts to get inside my apartment
were by messing with this wire, which was attached to the handle of an
antique coffee grinder and a paint can. If you tugged it, you'd get a
wierd uneven resistance as the handle crank turned and the paint can
danced, which added to the illusion that this wire was some secret way
of ingress.

I heard this account from the neighbors, because it occurred while I
was away, but apparenty he had lost his front door key, had some kind
of intestinal problem, and had to take a shit really bad. All of the
neighbors he knew he had already hit up for toilet access and been
refused by this point. So he's swearing like crazy and yanking at this
wire, and bashing against the door in a frenzied desperation when the
neighbors call the cops, reporting a B&E. When the cops show up he's
taking a shit in the bushes just outside my window. I fucking hate him
so much.


I think he went crazy and lost all his friends at some point, because
around the time I barricaded, I stopped hearing parties. In fact, I
stopped hearing anything from the common area of the apartment, except
for the occasional formless moans and thumping. I don't know precisely
what went on in there, because I mentally washed my hands of the whole
area. I did, however, start smelling odors. I taped up my door. I know
it wasn't smart to do things like this, but I was just fucking sick of
dealing with his shit. I didn't call the landlord or anything, despite
the fact that I knew he was destroying things over there. After
cleaning so much of his shit up, I just wanted the universal god of
justice to see what a wreck the place would become without my
presence.

Forgive me for being a little spotty in my descriptions after this
point. What I do know of what transpired over there I can only
reconstruct from forensic evidence, what precisely was destroyed, what
commmon friends have told me in their accounts, and two forrays over
into the waste zone over the next two months. I essentially didn't
even see the front door of our apartment during this time.


quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:
What was this guy's story about shitting on a stove and leaving it on?
Or shit in the refridgerator? OR shit in various fixtures?

Why didn't you call the landlord and get this guy kicked out?


The feces he left around falls into three categories:
A) Experiments he conducted. The stove top feces thing was an
experiment he conducted after his toilet was broken, and I refused him
access to mine, and his neighbors got sick of letting him use theirs.
I think he was trying to find some new way of getting rid of his shit.
Either that or he thought it would be funny to make me clean shit off
of his stove top and then got curious about what would happen if he
turned on the burner. He really liked playing with heating elements
and fire. It was fucking stupid. The dead cat in the oven, I think,
falls into this category as well.

B) Feces in the refridgerator, shit in the closet, vomit on the TV,
etc. I lump this into the "OOPS I SHAT ON YOUR CARPET DURING A PARTY"
category.

C) Shit inside baggies in various places: After I stopped letting him
use my bathroom he got angry and I think this started off as his way
of "proving" to me that I should let him use my bathroom. After a
while of this I think it started to take on a life of his own, and he
started stashing his feces due to some mental illness. This is purely
speculative.


quote:Ott came out of the closet to say:
I read your posts in the other thread... hilarious story.

I'm having a hard time picturing the "Home Alone" security system, though.


Ok, if you've ever owned a sliding door, you know that you can secure
it from being opened by putting a wooden dowel in the treads while the
door is closed. This is great, except it can't be opened from the
outside. So what I did, was I attached a string to the dowel, and lead
the string up to the top of the door, through a little loop-nail, and
back down to a remote controlled car. By moving the car with a remote
control from outside the apartment, I could cause the string to be
tugged, raising the dowel, and granting me access to the interior of
the apartment. I'm almost more proud of the wire trick, because I gain
endless pleasure from that fucker spending hours and hours trying to
yank on this stupid dummy wire I put out there for him in order to get
inside and mess with my shit.


quote:A wINNer = mE! came out of the closet to say:
Holy shit, I don't think I've ever heard a more disgusting tale
regarding bad roommates.

Are you just a wimp? The first time I found a turd in the apartment
outside of a waste receptical (toilet), I would have yelled at him at
the top of my lungs and made him clean it up.


Actually, Jed was much smaller than me, and emaciated. In retrospect I
could have taken him, easily. That's just not how I do things. I do
not break the law. Ever. I absolutely must have a clean, orderly
house, which is why I went around cleaning shit up, regardless of who
did it. I am not some cowardly little bitch, in fact, I think Jed was
afraid of me, which is why he did passive agressive shit like shitting
in light fixtures. I generally don't try to solve disputes by shouting
or anything, I just quietly give notice of the unacceptable condition,
document it, and clean it up. Somewhere back at my parent's house I
have a box full of typed, dated, signed letters to Jed stating the
date, time, and extent of a mess I had to clean up, and a notice that
such behavior is not acceptable, and that unless he stopped, I would
move out and make him responsible for rent. Those letters helped me
eventually recover back rent from him for the equivalent value of the
common area he exclusively occupied during my stay there.

I eventually got so pissed off at the condition of the rest of the
apartment that I could only deal with it by sealing it off, and
ignoring it. Essentially there is a blank period of about a month
where I absolutely ignored anything from the common area, which is why
it got so bad.

I was crazy busy with schoolwork and my job, so I basically just shut
the whole situation out of my mind for a while. After some time, I
came to the realization that this guy might start a fire and get us
both killed, which is really the beginning of the end. The thing that
ended the insanity was his discovery that
A) He had access to the fuse box
and
B) He could trip the fuse to my room with some metal and a hallway plug
and
C) He was too stupid to manually flip the fuse switch and just turn
off my power, so he had to go the fire hazard route. I think he might
have been afraid of touching the fuse box for fear of being
electrocuted.

But I'll detail the downfall of this shit later.

For those of you wondering why I didn't call the landlord. I was kind
of in denial. I just figured that whatever happened over there was
Jed's business. I think I was on a sublease under him at the time, so
I wasn't too worried about damage to the apartment. I withheld rent
from him during this time too. His family was paying rent for the
whole unit, and I would reimburse him directly. I deducted cleaning
costs and other things from the rent I paid him. I think he was too
embarassed or crazy to call me on it, or have his lawyer financial
guru daddy get me busted.

Quick fact: His father was on the cover of Forbes magazine like 8 years ago.

Have you ever had something go wrong, and, knowing it was someone
elses responsibility, just didn't intervene out of sheer curiousity
about how it fucking bad it would get? I didn't turn him in for that
reason too. I just... wanted to see how bad it would get. I was
stupid, mad, curious, and really didn't have any responsibility for
damage to the unit, knowing his family would cover the costs.

Edit: So, basically, I didn't kick his ass for two reasons: A) I am
always law abiding to a fault, and B) The setup I made was really very
convenient for me, and made it so I never even had any contact with
the guy. It was basically rent-free... I paid $50 a month in rent
after all of the deductions for unsanitary conditions and ouster from
the common area I made (and documented... and got to keep after the
courts got done looking at it...), and I was exiting and entering from
an opposite end of the house. Basically, I only really knew what Jed
was up to during this period from forensic evidence in the apartment
and the accounts of friends, neighbors, and the police.


quote:DannyManic came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, dude, you're crazier than he is.


From my perspective, imagine this: You are strapped for cash. Someone
offers you a studio apartment, with minifridge and bathroom for $50 a
month, and after you move out, you're given a few thousand dollars
just for living there. The only catch is that there's a closet you
can't open, and you have to tape around the edges, and the lock to get
in is a remote controlled car rig. Sounds like a good deal to me. Jed
couldn't make much noise to bother me after I confiscated his music
equipment. All of the people talking about going ape shit sound like
the nutballs to me. I'm very easy going, and I came out of this ahead.
I'll get to the renumeration later.

Also it was very satisfying to have this asshole's shit in a locker
across town and know that he desperately wanted to fuck with my shit
but couldn't, and couldn't prove I ganked his stuff. He would flip the
fuck out in rage from this. I think that might have contributed to his
degeneration into madness.


I kind of messed up the timeline for this stuff, so here's a quick
runthrough before I continue the story.

TIME A: Tons of parties, vomit being cleaned up by me, tarantula,
punching, etc. I start witholding rent at this point, and am
subtracting $200 a month from the rent for cleaning costs.

TIME B: His girlfriend leaves him. His friends stop hanging out with
him. He smashes his bathroom. He uses mine for a time, is denied
access, uses neighbor's for a time, is denied access, and is angry at
me for refusing him access to my bathroom. I fixed his faucets so they
wouldn't leak all over the place and sent him a bill. He gets really
pouty and angry and does the famous shit on the stovetop. He does
experiments with various places to piss and poop, eventually settling
on leaving it in baggies around the house. When I tell him this is
unacceptable, he responds with a demand to use my bathroom, which I
refuse. Around this time, while cleaning the stove top, I find the cat
in the oven. It has a collar on it so I put it in a box and return it
to the owners, not explaining where I found it, and advising them not
to look in the box. I don't know how that turned out, and I didn't
give them my name. I hope it got hit by a car and wasn't killed by
Jed.

TIME C: Jed starts trying to get at me by playing his subwoofer really
loud at odd hours, and demanding to use the bathroom. I get back at
him by packing away all of his stuff, (including the audio equiptment)
and storing it in a friend's storage unit across town. I think that he
started to really go truly crazy at this point. I come home finding
him taking things out of my room and putting them into his truck. I
restrain him and call the police. By this point he is beyond all
rationality and is completely flipping out, so he is put in the copcar
for a while and the officer helps me unload my things from his truck.
For some bizarre reason the officer does not arrest him, but after
"talking to him" lets him go. I think my calm temperment made the
officer not realize he was violent and that is why I was restraining
him. (My motto in life: "So it goes.")

TIME D: I dub this time the sealing. I really don't mind cleaning up
poop and piss, I used to be assistant manager of an apartment complex,
but it is taking too much time to clean. I buy a range-top, and seal
things off after writing a surrender letter to Jed, declaring that he
has evicted me from the common area. Shortly after I come up with my
Home Alone security system, withold rent except for a nominal $50 a
month, and go on with life as if I did not have a crazy room-mate
sealed away in the other end of the apartment. Time left on lease at
this point: 2 months.

Edit: Time D is when he shits in the bushes and is arrested for the night.

TIME E: The black time. I am not sure what exactly went on in the
apartment during these two or three weeks. This is around the time
finals are going on, so I really don't care. Water starts leaking from
the wall, so I re-enter the common area to see what is up. This
description really deserves its own post, and will clog the time-line
up, so I'll elaborate later. I fix the water leak, which he had been
covering up with newspapers, and promptly exit. Once he finds out I
was in his area he flips out and makes a lot of noise over there, but
I do not investigate.

Remainder: There is one further, final re-entry by myself, with a
flashlight. I couldn't get in with my key because the door was messed
up, and his sliding door was blocked with a mattress, so I kicked down
the door and entered. After a quick walk-through I call the fire
department, the landlord, the police, and an ambulance. This is full
of drama and will be detailed in its own post.


The Black Time:
I'm very preoccupied with work and school at this point. Since my
point of entry on the house is opposite from the front door, the only
real contact I have with Jed at this point is what I can hear from him
through the walls, and whatever odor seeps under the door past my
homeland security setup. This is pretty tolerable as a condition,
definetely worth the $50 a month I was paying for it, but I was
starting to get worried. I was worried about Jed's tarantulas getting
into the ventilation system, so I sealed that off with plastic wrap
and duct tape. Then I started worrying about fire. Jed liked to play
with heating elements and flames, and he was an alcoholic, so I was
worried that with the sealed off vent I wouldn't know if the house
were on fire. At around 3pm, I was studying, when I noticed that my
feet were getting wet. Upon inspection, the carpet next to the wall
was wet. I went around to the front of the house and found that the
door was ajar. I went back to my apartment and picked up a plumber's
wrench and a flashlight to see what was wrong.

I'm not exactly the best at descriptions, as you can probably tell
from the poor quality of writing in this thread, but here's the best I
can do. I'll try to portray these things from my perspective at the
time, and not reveal what they eventually turned out to be.

I unlocked the front door of the apartment and pushed it open, after
confirming that Jed's truck was gone. The lights in the place were out
and the shades were drawn. The light shone inside and revealed that
there were strange particulates hanging in the air. Not quite smoke. I
would almost say that the odor was so thick in the apartment that it
could be seen with the naked eye. Upon reflection, I imagine that what
I was seeing was mold spores.

As the arc of light from the bright outside swept across the room, a
few things were revealed in sequence: First off, the common area was
absolutely covered in free student newspapers. There were obviously
things underneath because the newspapers bulged, and I could even
identify an easy chair covered in newspapers in the corner. The
kitchen was crammed with garbage. I could identify two large bulky
garbage bags in the corner of the common room. Investigating them
further, I discovered that they were covered in some kind of
glistening brown muck. The whole place smelled absolutely rank. I
swept my light across the place a few times, just to make sure Jed
wasn't there lying in wait with a knife or something, and I proceeded
into the apartment, leaving the door open. I took some vic's vaporub
from my pocket and doubed just under my nose. The garbage bags had
been hastily pulled out of the common room closet, the one which
contains pipes leading to Jed's bathroom. I shined a light into the
closet and a rat or mouse or something ran very quickly under the
newspapers in the common room. I looked and saw that there were
several dents in a pipe in the common closet, and it was otherwise
soaked. Finding no immediate source for the water, I proceeded into
the hallway area towards Jed's room.

I was a little uneasy, because the whole place was filled with debris.
The common furnature that came with the apartment was lodged in the
strangest places. Like the hallway to Jed's room had the common couch
in it, upturned. I climbed over that after making sure Jed wasn't
under it. I was a little more nervous because my egress had been
essentially blocked by this couch, and walked past the debris. It
looked like he was salvaging equiptment and building materials from
local construction yards. I could identify in the hallway, piping
materials, a toilet lid, cinderblocks, scrap wood, and a box of
pilfered nails. Jed's large sledge hammer (or geologists hammer, I
don't know which) was lodged in the door of his room. I pushed it open
and the damn thing fell out, giving me a fright. Anyway, I proceeded
into his room, which was strangely clean. There was nothing in there,
but the floor was absolutely soaked. I realized what happened; he
realized there was water everywhere and threw all of his shit outside
of the room into the hallway, and leaned his mattress against the
sliding door (where it remained, to my knowledge, for like two weeks.
I have no idea where he was sleeping.). The leak was coming from his
bathroom, so I went in with my wrench ready to clock the shit out of
my crazy room mate if he should jump out at me.

I saw the familiar smashed bathroom fixtures, and I was very thankful
for the vic's vaporub, but the stench stung my eyes still. There was a
bathtub covered in newspapers. I proded it with my wrench and the
newspapers gave way, like they were on top of jello or something soft
and organic. I prodded it harder and what I can only describe as fecal
fluid seeped from the sides of the newspaper. I think he was taking
shits in the bathtub and covering it with newspapers, like some kind
of foul lasagna. The leak was coming from under his sink, which he had
dislodged through some violence. I could see the remains of a
cinderblock on the pipe, so I think he might have been hitting the
pipe with a cinderblock. I turned off the water to the sink, stopping
the leak, and decided that it would be best if I left before he
returned.

On my way out, I climbed into the kitchen area and opened the fridge,
just out of curiosity. There was a ball-like, organic mass in the
middle, with tendrils of mold growing out of it. It was roughly the
size of a human head with a large dent in it. Not desiring to get
toxic mold in my nostrils, I closed the fridge and surveyed the common
closet again. The walls of the closet were covered in a black shiny
material which glistened. Upon closer inspection, it was mold. I
didn't know that mold looked like that. I prodded the newspapers a
little bit, but remembering the rat, and not wanting to get bitten, I
left the apartment, closing the door behind me.

I got a towel and did my best to dry out the carpet. I left my sliding
glass door open to help air the place out. I printed out a notice to
Jed that I had entered and fixed his sink, and placed it under the
door. I later heard Jed come home, and he obviously discovered I had
been in there, because he started freaking out, swearing, and throwing
things around. I heard the couch in the hallway get rammed into my
door. He threw a tantrum for another five minutes, and then I heard
the front of the apartment door slam. I heard him approach my sliding
glass door, swearing, and I can only imagine that after seeing it
open, he decided not to come any further. Like I said, the guy was
afraid of me. He left in his truck a few minutes later, to return in
ten minutes. I heard strange moaning and stumbling around in the
apartment after that. I think he was moving furniture or something. I
heard breaking glass a few times, but after that, silence.


quote:jollygrinch came out of the closet to say:
Spiders freak me out. Just the thought of one of his 6 coming flying
at me from under some news paper would be enough to make me torch the
place and run screaming into the night.

Excellent writing and story. Anxiously awaiting the most assuredly
horrifying conclusion, preferably involving flaming spider death.


Oh I completely forgot about that. Yeah. I was not only afraid of Jed
popping out with a knife, I was also afraid of those tarantulas. They
were like a big unknown X-factor in the apartment. Normally I'm not
very frightened of just godawful messes or rats, but if you throw
giant tarantulas into the mix it really drives me up a wall.
Especially in terrain like that. I was imagining setting my hand down
on a part of the couch right as I was climbing over it and setting it
right down on top of one of those hairy bastards. They could move,
too. The fact that there were newspapers all around for them to hide
under didn't help. And I imagined they had plenty to eat while in that
apartment, and possibly gave birth to a jillion other little
tarantulas.

edited. I'll tell you this fact later..


The Kidnapping.

Let's get this over with.

So as I said, I am a pretty easy going person and I could tolerate
this situation pretty endlessly. But as I hinted earlier, Jed
eventually made this situation unlivable. Here's how it goes down:

I've long been using a cellphone since Jed pretty much has control of
our apartment phone, and whenever anyone calls he'll answer with
crazytalk. To my knowledge, he still has access to the store room in
Longs Drugs, from which he has been stealing crates full of random
stuff.

Anyway, lately, Jed was more active than usual. I hear a lot of heavy
stuff getting dragged around, and crashing, and lots of moaning,
hollering, and other psychotic outbursts.

One evening I hear Jed making a hell of a lot of noise, then silence.
Then I hear the front door slam, and his truck goes off. A while
later, he comes back, I hear more slamming into things, and a bunch of
really high pitched loud vocalizations, kind of like whales mating.

I get a call on my cellphone. This is basically how it goes.
*ring* *pickup*
Jed: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSATAN!
Me: Hi Jed. You're nuts.
Jed: I HAVE SARAH (Jed's ex girlfriend)
Me: Really.
Jed: LISTEN.
I immediately hear a high pitched shrieking from the other end of the
apartment, and banging and stumbling around. Sarah is a water polo
champ. I think if he somehow got her into the apartment, he would have
to hit her in the head with his big geologists hammer, because there's
no way he would be able to wrestle her inside conscious. At any rate,
I bet at the time that he hadn't grabbed Sarah, and the high pitched
screaming was really that crazy motherfucker. I've been getting all
kinds of crazy phone calls from Jed lately, so I call bluff:
Me: That sounds like you Jed.
Jed: COME AND SEE.
Me: I need to study. Bye Jed. *click*

This is a very normal response from me, because by this point Jed has
been calling me and saying all kinds of crazy shit. Basically, if I
can hear him through the wall, I completely disregard anything he
might say on the phone. He's called me once and begged for help
because he's stranded on the nascar race track in the middle of a race
and I can clearly hear him through the wall. So I have a very trained
automated response to Jed's calls: "Hi Jed. You're crazy. That's nice.
I need to study. Bye Jed."

At this point, I smell smoke. This is very disconcerting, because as I
said earlier, I have been living in fear of the whole place going up
in flames. I stand up from my desk, and at that very moment, the power
goes out, and I hear Jed laughing like crazy through the wall. I hear
what sounds like something banging against the pipes in his bathroom,
and some other, deeper noises, which I haven't heard before. The
noises have a sort of deep bass resonance, like a big drum, as if a
bull or some other large creature were banging around over there.
Jed's a small guy, and I didn't think him capable of moving shit
around heavy enough to make that kind of noise with that degree of
frequency. Since I smelled smoke and the power was out, I grab my
gigantic wrench, smear some vic's on my nose, put on my leather
jacket, put on a motorcycle helmet I confiscated from Jed, and prepare
myself for battle, maglight in hand.

I am really psyched up at this point. I know a lot of you will be
saying that I was stupid for operating like this, but I reasoned with
myself that I had better go over there just in case he HAD captured
some poor girl and was, I dunno, by the noise of it, bludgeoning her
to death with a tuba. I headed around to Jed's car and looked inside.
I saw he had rope and there was blood inside the cabin. I tried the
door, it was locked. I smashed the window with a wrench and went
inside the cabin. Behind the seat was some bloody rags. Ohhhh shit. At
this point I decide I had better get the fuck in there and stop
whatever he was up to. I felt really guilty at this point for letting
it get this far. I decided that if I were to go in there and die, I
would've earned it for letting him get that crazy for that long.

I trucked it over to the door, set my wrench on the ground, and
fumbled for my keys. I unlocked the door but it wouldn't give. The
door was moist. I didn't quite understand that. I pushed and pushed
but it hardly moved an inch. So I started stomping at the door as hard
as I could. Eventually I heard something slide and shift and collapse
on the other side of the door, and I gave it another kick. My foot
actually made a hole and went through the door, and I fell over. I
started freaking out because I was worried Jed would stab my boot or
something, so I struggled and hurt my ankle. I also broke my foot from
the kicking. Eventually I calmed and got my foot out of the door, and
bodychecked the door. It came flying off the hinges, and came
completely to pieces.

Ok, so I bashed the door in, and I went flying into the apartment,
head first into a wall that is right in front of the doorway. The
couch had been barricaded against the door, and my kicking caused it
to tip over. It was still partially blocking the door. I immediately
started struggling wildly once I was on the floor, flailing my wrench
and maglight everywhere in case something was about to jump on me. I
immediately exited the apartment, grabbed a metal patio chair, and
hurled it into the blackened apartment in case anyone was in there.
The motorcycle helmet was making it really hard to hear any kind of
ambush, and it was covered in grease and filth from the couch, so I
ditched it, and proceeded inside. It was night time out so I didn't
get the benefit of a good light source from outside, and my maglight
had grease on it. I saw a glow coming from the corner. I tried to
smell if there was smoke coming from a particular direction, but the
Vic's vaporub made it difficult. I swung my light around the room and
found it full of trash like it was before. There was no way I could
ascertain whether Jed was hiding under something. I did note that some
of the newspapers were covered in what looked like splotches of blood.
From my forensics training I could gather from the splotches that
whatever shed them was moving at a high rate of speed through the
apartment.

I bounded over the couch into the apartment, landing on my broken
foot, and falling on my face, in a lot of pain. I remembered the
tarantulas and freaked out again, scrambling to my feet and stumbling
over towards the source of light. I discovered that Jed had stolen a
large floodlight from Longs drugs, which was in the corner,
smouldering the carpet. I grabbed that and quickly shone it all over
the place. Suddenly I saw that there was a guy about 6 feet tall
wearing a beige suit about two feet away from me, so I flipped the
fuck out and tackled it. It turned out to be a cardboard standup of
Captain Kirk Jed got somehow. I picked up my wrench again and limped
onward.

The apartment was completely silent by this point. All I could hear
was some kind of dull tubal thumping from inside the place, that same
dull bass noise I heard earlier. Remembering my crack training at
counterstrike, instead of going further in, I limped over to the
kitchen area and flung shit around to make sure that nobody was hiding
under the newspapers. I could see that he had gotten a lot more crap
since the last time I was here. There were mason jars of urine in the
kitchen, along with gallon jugs of the stuff. There were a lot of
things he had obviously stolen from longs drugs. There was a crate of
sour patch kids all over the place. On one wall was a poster of homer
simpson naked drinking beer, and a bunch of knives had been stabbed
into it. I was too angered and pumped up to be frightened. I opened
the refridgerator and stomped the shelves apart while I was at it,
just to be sure he wasn't hiding in there.

I had a huge floodlight but it couldn't illuminate everything all the
time, especially with the dank murk of mold spores and the smoke, so I
ended up trying to shine it everywhere at once as I proceeded. The
common closet was closed, so I kicked that in and swung my wrench into
the dark area within. I hit something soft so I kept pounding at it,
but it wasn't human. It was a trash bag full of something soft and
yielding. I gave it a kick and moved on.

I ripped the doorway off of the hall closet and swung my wrench
inside, but I only hit a few canned goods in there.

I could hear high pitched shrieks coming from the interior of his
room. His hallway was pretty fucking well blocked with shit, so I
started grabbing things and chucking them into the common room. He had
a gigantic stuffed pluto doll, about as big as a gorilla, which I
chucked. Among the other things I hurled was a futon I recognized as
salvaged from the end of our block, some patio furniture, a bag full
of mcdonalds playpen balls, and something which was big, black,
disgusting, soft, covered in growht, which I cannot, even to this day,
identify.

I crawled through the remaining debris with the wrench in front of me.

This is embarassing, but I forgot to mention. As I was hurling stuff,
I had my wrench in my hand still, and so I hit myself in the face with
it. It required some stitches, and, since I had hit the trashbag full
of feces with the wrench, it got infected.

So to tally it up, we have one broken foot, one twisted ankle, one
gouged and splintered shin, and one bleedingassed face.

So anyway, I am crawling through the hole I've made in the blockaded
hallway. I finally realize why he has been making so much noise. The
fucker has made some kind of evil fortress. If my room is the fortress
of light, his is the fortress of evil. And feces.

I crawl through the hole and pop out in his room. My strategy when
playing doom 3, when I knew something bad was about to happen in a
room I dropped into, was to run around like crazy in the dark and
fling grenades. Well, instead of doing the slick commando thing and
dropping into a crouch and assessing the situation, I popped out of
that hallway barricade with my wrench and flashlight, and ran like
crazy into the pitch black room, swinging around at anything and
everything. I connected with some stuff but nothing human. My foot
failed me and I fell over and crawled like mad to a corner. I dove for
my flashlight, picked it up, and assessed the room.

This place was full of fucking hostess products. The guy must have
stolen at least two crates worth of the damn things. They were still
in their wrapping. Twinkies, hostess cupcakes, all kinds of stuff.
There was nobody in the room, but there was blood all over the place.
I could hear that strange bass ressonance from inside the bathroom.
There was actually a light coming from there, it was rosy red, coming
from a crack in the bathroom door.

...the very air in Jed's room was absolutely thick with mold and
smoke, which I couldn't smell from the vix, but it still stung my eyes
anyway. He had smeared all kinds of crazy gibberish on the walls with
what looked like red lipstick, and the walls themselves were
absolutely covered in growth. The barricades in the hallway must've
been there for a while, because they essentially kept a lot of
moisture in the air in Jed's back section.

Also, I forgot to mention this as well, but as I was running like a
sissy through Jed's room, I knocked into his mattress which he had
leaned against the side door a few weeks prior (my estimate). The
mattress was completely soaked and very heavy, and the instant it hit
me I thought I had fallen into an insidious trap or something, so I
further injured myself by trying to struggle out from underneath it.
Jed was making these freaky noises the moment I burst into his room,
but the echo chamber effect of the bathroom and ventillation system,
and the strange nature of the noises, made it difficult to determine
where the hell they were coming from. Also, there were tons of boxes
of hostess cupcakes and other similar products.

The carpets in his room were really rank. The previous water leak had
made them dank with mold, and I can only imagine what the high fecal
content of the air did. It was difficult to breathe, and nearly
impossible to see, which really added to my panic. It was almost like
I had been buried alive. The scrawlings on the wall, though I didn't
really get to see them in much detail because I was far more concerned
with other things at the time, were just... creepy. The vibrations
made me think for a second or two that he had tunnelled under the
apartment and I'd have to go into some kind of underground basement
he'd made.

Edit: Scrawlings on the wall from what I saw consisted of nonsense
latin words, tons of triangles within triangles within triangles
trailing all over the place, and a few goatsatan faces made of
triangles.

I got to my feet and regained my composure. I stomped over the hostess
cupcakes and other misc crap he had lying on the ground. I would limp
every time I remembered I had a hurt foot, but really, by this time, I
didn't give a shit about the pain. I heard the shrieking from inside
the bathroom, like some kind of high pitched wailing, and the strange
bass resonance. I kicked open the bathroom door and screamed at the
top of my lungs,
"YOU FUCKING FUCK SHIT"

I wasn't in the right mind to come up with awesome catch phrases, so
let's pretend I screamed something bannable like, "The juice is
loose!"

I stomped into the bathroom and was immediately PHYSICALLY STRUCK by
the most powerful odor I have ever, ever encountered. My nose was
pretty vixed up, but somehow, my eyeballs felt like they could smell
the odor. I swung my wrench before I really looked to see what was
going on and totalled what was left of the sink. In the corner of the
bath tub I saw Jed writhing around with a golden metallic object in
the shit lasagna. He was freaking out and screaming. The other thing I
noticed was the fire. In the remains of the toilet tank was a bunch of
flaming papers, right next to a can of paint thinner. I figured that
Jeb threw in the thinner thinking it would burst into flames, but he
neglected to uncap the thing. So I grabbed the can of paint thinner
and in one swift motion clocked Jeb in the head with it. He started
freaking out even more, and at this point I could see that the object
he was writhing with in the tub was a saxophone. He seemed to be
bleeding all over his head but it was hard to tell because of the shit
smeared everywhere, coming out onto the floor. The lightbulb was
covered in either nail polish or blood.

I backed out of the room and grabbed a jug of urine, and threw it at
the fire. Remembering I should probably uncap the jug before using it
to extinguish flames, I grabbed another one and actually poured it
out. By this time Jeb was trying to get out of the bath tub, so I
stomped at him with my boot, closed the bathroom door, and jammed the
fuck out of there after one final check for any hostages in the
bedroom.


Then I got the fuck out of there, rammed the exterior door with a
patio table, and called the cops, the fire department, an ambulance,
and, after getting back into my place and looking up the number, the
landlord.

There. Done.

Oh, and aftermath, there was some court action for back rent, but all
said and done they couldn't prove I was witholding rent because I paid
Jed with cash on the barrel head, and I ended up actually getting paid
money to stay there in the long run. I still have Jed's things to this
day and to my knowledge he is in a nutbarn or something.





quote:Shokan came out of the closet to say:


Did he actually play the saxophone?



No he didn't.

And for those curious, the shrill whale-like noises were actually his
insane vocalizations. If you don't know, it's very hard to be that
crazy and actually make a sound on a saxophone. No, I don't know where
he got the sax.


Background story
Jeb was the dyslexic slightly medicated son of wealthy, distant
parentage. He had trouble in school and wasn't very smart, and had a
little bit of trouble dealing with things on a rational level since I
first met him; I think this was due to the fact that he's been
medicated since high school.

He was white as can be, with blond hair, and very skinny. I am only 6
feet tall and 150 pounds (I get a lot of aerobic exercise so it's
difficult to maintain bulk) and he was smaller than I am. I could
easily overpower him.

He dropped out of high school because of his dyslexia, got a GED, and
finally attended a two year college at the time of the incident. He
worked at longs drugs as a stock boy despite the fact that he didn't
need the money, and made most of his friends through his job. I don't
know if you know this, but longs drugs employees are some heavy
drinkers and heavy partiers.

He had trouble with drugs, and while I knew him went from completely
clean to having a problem with alcohol to going as far as snorting
cocaine off of our television set once during a party. He was a pretty
decent, but troubled guy before he went apeshit crazy.

I, in contrast, am a very clean, humorless fellow who never drinks,
parties, or watches TV. Some would call me "obnoxiously uptight" but I
break that mold by being extremely easygoing and laid back about
everything. So I'm very uptight with myself without being uptight with
others, if that makes sense. I'm the ultimate stoic.

Also I was just reminiscing with a friend who reminded me that I was
screaming at the apartment afterwards calling him a "Shitbathing nazi"

It was so long ago I find it hard to remember just why I did what I
did, the way I did it. Partly I left things as they were because I was
mad, and I wanted to prove that he would really fuck things up if I
wasn't there to clean his shit up. Partly, I didn't really care what
he did, because if he fucked stuff up it was his ass on the line.
Partly, I was sort of curious, in that manner of a distant bystander,
just how awful things would get before the forces around us
intervened. Finally, I wanted to see how long I could get by
witholding rent in a righteous indignation. Really, I let it go on for
the most petty, inexcusable reasons imaginable.


Afterthought from the author

It's hard to convey the strong, stoic attitude without sounding like
either an asshole or a doormat, but, to try again to put it simply: A
doormat tries to overextend his control and folds at the drop of a
hat. An asshole rigidly defines his influence, extending it over other
people, and doesn't fold even when it's futile to resist. I choose my
battles very carefully, and where I do assert myself, there is no
amount of insanity that will cause me to budge. For all the
awfullness, Jed didn't really intrude upon me. I had a few months of
very nice, intrusion free existence, where I had all that I wanted in
a little exclusive area of the house for very little rent. Where Jed
tried to fuck with my shit, I set things up so he couldn't. Where I
couldn't do that, I just removed myself from the equation. Choose your
battles. I wouldn't stick around in the common area and bitch and
whine like a pussy, or pick fights like an ass. I would just remove
myself from the conflict, and continue to live the good life. In the
fortress of awesomeness.

Just to clarify, the shriek noises were his psychotic wailing, not the
sax, which was full of shit and inoperable. The strange base noises
was his movements in the shit lasagna tub, amplified by the fact that
it is a gigantic shitty cheap plastic tub and next to my wall.

There were never tarantulas actually running around in the apartment.
They were all in their cages and quite dead by the time the showdown
occurred. I wish I had known that, because I might not have been so
berserk frenzied at the time of re-entry.

The cleaning costs were somewhere around twenty five thousand dollars.
I know I scored around 8 thousand dollars after it was all said and
done. I don't know what the police said, and his parents refused to
speak to me except through lawyers.

I know they called some special unit or something with moonsuits to
extract Jeb from his shithole, but I didn't stick around much after
that before going to the hospital. I drove myself.

Oh haha, I forgot one silly little detail.

The cops were about to go into the apartment, and I told them, "Be
careful. He has tons of tarantulas and they're probably all over the
place in there."

After that they gave eachother a look and decided to wait for the moonsuit crew.

That couch is a whole other story too. We had two couches, one was a
common couch and one was this crazy couch my roomie had bought at a
garage sale. The crazy couch was made of black fur, and was gigantic.
It was the one blocking the door, and had shit growing all over it. I
don't know how, but somehow mold is all greasy when it gets wiped on
stuff. I'm not sure where the other couch was at the second re-entry.
I can't remember if it was blocking the hallway or what.
you were rite, it is long
Thanks for doubling it.

Edit:  I guess I just tripled it.

Edit:  I suppose I could have just taken my story out of your quote though.

Edit:  I should have done it during the last edit.

Edit:  Or that one.
Mitch
16 more years
+877|6495|South Florida

NemeSiS-Factor wrote:

Anyone here just have a crazy ass room mate?  Have a story to go along with it?  Back in the good old days of Descent, I used to play with a buddy of mine who game me this story.
Wow write a fuckin book! LOL
15 more years! 15 more years!
Desolater
Member
+13|6196|Maryland, USA
stop being gay and quoting it...
MorbiD.ShoT
Stormin' through the party
+322|6566
I coulodn't tell who was more insane.  Jed or the roomate.
KrisPOLANDnorwida
Battlefield 2 killa'
+128|6298|SHAPE, Belgium
its too much reading.......
but I still red it
nice thread

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