What to do? Roommate's brother unauthorized entry etc.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:18 am
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Hmmmm, I have a bit of an odd situation brewing at my house and would like some input on how to handle the situation from the older, wiser and more experienced.
Saturday morning about 3am the wife and are awakened by the roommate coming into the house with a fair amount of noise. He proceeds to his bathroom and there is a ruckus like you wouldn’t believe. It sounded like he was ripping out the sheetrock. I debated on whether I should get up and find out what’s going on but the next thing I know I'm waking up to sunshine. I had fallen back asleep.
Roommate wasn’t seen Saturday, but turned up Sunday evening. He comes to me and shows me a mop from his bathroom that’s mangled and toothpaste tube that’s been squished and says his bathroom has toothpaste all over the walls and asked what was up, why we did that, etc.
The wife and I both denied knowing what he was talking about and the subject of the ruckus on Saturday morning came up. He said he hadn’t been home all weekend.
Well, we eventually got to the bottom of the situation. Apparently his brother who lives across from us entered our apartment using a spare key we have hidden outside and for whatever reason completely trashed the roommate’s bathroom complete with some minor property damage.
The roommate confronted the brother who denied it but you could tell by his reaction that he did it. At that point the roommate layed the brother out to the tune of about 8 stitches needed just above his lip. Not sure if the police were involved, they never showed up to my door anyway. I pretty much stayed out of the whole affair.
Upon some further thought though I'm pretty miffed about the brother’s unauthorized entry and vandalism. We didn’t actually SEE him and have no actual proof he was there. Had I actually got up to investigate on Saturday I probably would have held him at gunpoint until the police arrived. He’s a nut job with a felony record for assaulting a police officer.
In the future I will certainly investigate. Looking back now through not-3am-eyes I was very foolish. I should have investigated. I'm pretty disappointed in myself for not stepping up on that. Had I ANY clue it wasn’t the roommate I would have been all over it though.
But, I'm curious now, what LEGAL action can >> I << take against the brother? He was not authorized to be there. We have no proof it was actually him though. Now that I think of it, if I do get the police involved I suppose they’ll find out about the assault and the roommate will likely go to the pokey.
Man, I'll be glad when we move next year.
Hmmmm, I have a bit of an odd situation brewing at my house and would like some input on how to handle the situation from the older, wiser and more experienced.
Saturday morning about 3am the wife and are awakened by the roommate coming into the house with a fair amount of noise. He proceeds to his bathroom and there is a ruckus like you wouldn’t believe. It sounded like he was ripping out the sheetrock. I debated on whether I should get up and find out what’s going on but the next thing I know I'm waking up to sunshine. I had fallen back asleep.
Roommate wasn’t seen Saturday, but turned up Sunday evening. He comes to me and shows me a mop from his bathroom that’s mangled and toothpaste tube that’s been squished and says his bathroom has toothpaste all over the walls and asked what was up, why we did that, etc.
The wife and I both denied knowing what he was talking about and the subject of the ruckus on Saturday morning came up. He said he hadn’t been home all weekend.
Well, we eventually got to the bottom of the situation. Apparently his brother who lives across from us entered our apartment using a spare key we have hidden outside and for whatever reason completely trashed the roommate’s bathroom complete with some minor property damage.
The roommate confronted the brother who denied it but you could tell by his reaction that he did it. At that point the roommate layed the brother out to the tune of about 8 stitches needed just above his lip. Not sure if the police were involved, they never showed up to my door anyway. I pretty much stayed out of the whole affair.
Upon some further thought though I'm pretty miffed about the brother’s unauthorized entry and vandalism. We didn’t actually SEE him and have no actual proof he was there. Had I actually got up to investigate on Saturday I probably would have held him at gunpoint until the police arrived. He’s a nut job with a felony record for assaulting a police officer.
In the future I will certainly investigate. Looking back now through not-3am-eyes I was very foolish. I should have investigated. I'm pretty disappointed in myself for not stepping up on that. Had I ANY clue it wasn’t the roommate I would have been all over it though.
But, I'm curious now, what LEGAL action can >> I << take against the brother? He was not authorized to be there. We have no proof it was actually him though. Now that I think of it, if I do get the police involved I suppose they’ll find out about the assault and the roommate will likely go to the pokey.
Man, I'll be glad when we move next year.
