A bad roommate can make your home a living hell. When this student noticed their roommate was stealing their stuff, things got serious. This sort of strategy happens with food too, like this guy who ended up baking a cake full of habeneros.
Computer trouble is a mystery to a lot of people, so it makes sense that it'd be easy to miss something. It's strange to look back and realize something you didn't know was going wrong, like these things people later discovered were illegal. For some funny scammer revenge, here's a scammer who got trolled with made up neighbor drama.
Having a bad roommate can result in some interesting, but stressful bad roommate moments and stories. For example, this other guy got back at his thieving roommate with a booby trap USB. In this case, after some escalation, this guy got his roommates laptop stolen when he tried to hide it, and he went to the internet to ask if he was in the wrong. The internet made sure he knew just how wrong he was.
We're not super sure what drives people to make absolutely insane demands and insult the hell out of strangers their dealing with. Is it the anonymity? Maybe sheer desperation? Either way these folks don't look like they're going away any time soon, so the only thing we can do is prove to them that their tactics won't work.
Actor and writer Gideon Hodge runs past firefighters to save a laptop containing two novels that were not backed up anywhere else as a three-alarm fire burns his apartment building.
This is why it's important to back. everything. up. always.
My old laptop finally snapped; it had to be strung up or it would flip its lid.