Again, this will vary from state to state. I don’t know the law in Pennsylvania, but in some places, whether you have a lease or not is immaterial; if you have a mutually agreed arrangement for residence in exchange for an established rental fee, the renter can’t simply be kicked out on the street, regardless probation violation or jail term or anything else. Tell your friend to talk to an attorney to find out what is involved with formally severing the residence relationship with this guy.
Maybe it’ll be easy-peasy in Pennsylvania. Maybe not. You won’t know until you check.
Oh, and since this was apparently missed the first time:
In Pennsylvania, month-to-month leases are legal. They also require 30 days notice for either party to terminate. It also sounds like there’s more than enough ammo to file for a formal eviction, but if the cops show up to arrest the guy, that may not even be an issue.
neutron star, let me know when this goes down so I can read about it in The Patriot.
Leaving right away isn’t often an option. Back in my early 20s, the expense of moving certainly would have been too much a hardship for me. Neutron put a padlock on his bedroom door, that seems t be due dilligence to me, while you’re waiting for the term of your lease to end to get the hell out.
In another thread, I even took the steps of calling the local police department if you could be charged with such a prank. They were all very helpful and seemed to like the distraction of their evening.
The bottom line was that in many juristictions (and defenitely in mine, they said), you could be charged with “administering a noxious substance”. I’d have to look up the previous post to get the detective’s name that I talked to. They all seemed to think my phone call was pretty funny, and I’m not sure they believed me that it was just a hypothetical and I wasn’t actually planning to Ex-lax a co-worker.
A. Not really all that dangerous, frankly, and B. she shouldn’t have admitted it on the Dope, knowing people would have a hissy over it, but it happens all the time.
My doc told me that 20mg of Ambien is not an overdose.
Do you think any of this justifies calling someone a cunt, and saying she’s not worth being in a room with? I don’t. I think comments like that say volumes more about the idiots who said them than they do about lobstermobster, whose main mistake here was revealing this personal information in a glib way so it could be misunderstood and blown out of proportion by people who are looking to pick fights with her. I bet she’s learned her lesson now.
I’m replying to this thread mainly so I get the updates from neutron star, but I have to say that I’m surprised at the people who are recalling a thief from their own lives who did something like forge a check and then acted like nothing happened!! I’m certainly not saying that check forging is anything but wrong, but how would you actually expect the check-forger to act?
If this is a common practice in your experience, you need to hang out with a better class of people. Regardless of how dangerous you or **lobstermobster **think such behavior is, whether or not someone else ingests drugs is simply not your call. Anyone who slipped me a mickey would be persona non grata.
Yeah, I agree that if the guy was an active danger I’d be out of there. But he sounds more like a petty theiving douchebag.
I’ve not been where Neutron Star is, but I’ve certainly had friends who have - the psychology of the situation (as I’ve seen it) is more anger than fright. More ‘that no-good freeloading bastard has finally gone too far - time to sling his sorry ass outta here’ than ‘I’m in danger - gotta move out now’.
Use of a sledgehammer on my door would certainly change that equation fast, though.
While a padlock **is ** certainly due diligence and will stop those who respect the power of locks, Dave The Douchbag doesn’t seem the respecting sort. In his heyday of stealing from his mother, my cousin Frankie (a current guest of the state of Michigan for the third time in his 41 years) enlisted the aid of a skinny young friend to go through the air ducts into his mother’s bedroom and steal her purse that way. While she was in the room.
This was in Detroit, by the way, where cops don’t bother to respond to a call of, “My piece of shit kid is stealing from me.”
I wouldn’t put brute force or tunneling past DTD. Likewise, I’d park where he didn’t see my car and watch for him to follow me.
Whoa. Okay I did break a rule. I will concede there. I’m sorry I wouldn’t go out of my way to break a rule I signed off on I just didn’t think of it. However, I told a true story that was related to the slipping of the exlax. I didn’t make the story up and I thought it would be taken in the humorous cheeky manner it was intended. Obviously I wouldn’t hurt my boyfriend and I really didn’t think Neighborhood watch would get upset. Presenting more information such as knowing he hadn’t taken an ambien previously (so it was 10 mg not 20 mg) as well as knowning he was not going to either shit the bed as he didn’t have diarrhea and we don’t own a car so he wasn’t going to run anyone over isn’t really backpedaling.
So yes I agree I should have been called out for breaking a board rule but I don’t understand why Dad has to toss in a nasty comment there at the end. I’m not a troll I am genuinely surprised at the irritation. I guess I just haven’t been around long enough to realize that troll means that the more vocal screech owls simply don’t like it. Anyone else can call me mean names but I just feel like a moderator doing it is just a really shitty way to run a community. My opinion probably doesn’t count though since I’m a social degenerate!
That’d be Mom. fluiddruid is female. Of course whenever I say stuff like that I’m no longer sure.
neutron star I’ve been following your thread, hijacks or no hijacks. While I agree that perhaps staying on was not the wisest course, I understand it’s really hard to believe and difficult to just up and move. Best wishes to you, I really hope this gets resolved in a good way for you.
I think you should consult your landlord and find out if he should step up the eviction procedure while the fellow is in jail. Especially since I think PA is a place where it’s hard to kick tenants out, (ETA: If memory serves me, and gives me correct recollection that is.) lots of loops and red tape. Good luck neutron star.
ETA2: And I think a restraining order/Protection From Abuse order is a good idea as well.
I’m sure this has all been said by other practical posters upthread, but if I were you, neutronstar, or your friend/landlord, I’d be busy getting a headstart arranging some practical things. After all, If you want to sever the connection beween Dave and yourself, you don’t have that much time anymore. Worst case scenario, Dave gets arrested today and makes bail in a week or so, showing up again on your doorstep, all ready to resume life on Easy street. I suggest you don’t let him move back in, and arrange matters so you won’t even have to talk to him. Saves spikes in your bloodpressure. dave doesn’t sound like a guy rich enough or organized enough to get a lawyer and fight an official evection. He will probably take what he is dealt with. So that means you have to:
-Make an arrangement with a locksmith to change all outside locks. Ask for a locksmith who will install a used lock; that 's cheaper and it doesn’t have to be new, only different from the one you have now.
-Make sure you have a few moving boxes to pack Dave’s stuff and his girlfriend’s adress (or Dave’s old grandma’s place) where you can drop those boxes off. The idea is not to have to have to deal with the douchebag again.
Place an ad for a new roommate and list the landlord’s phonenumer. No point in letting the room stay unoccupied and unpaid for two weeks longer then necessary. Besides, nothing says “Dave, go away, we’ve moved on” better then a new roommate staying in his room. Preferably a new roommate who has hung new curtains for Dave’s old windows.
Hey, this ain’t about me. I don’t do it and I don’t endorse other people doing it. Mostly because it’s illegal. Sometimes a drug that is scrip only becomes OTC-- does it suddenly becomes less odious and abhorrent a practice?
Frankly, I don’t see accusations of trolling either. I think lobstermobster is legitimately someone who doesn’t realize that admitting to stuff like this is indiscreet and shouldn’t be shared. So, clueless, tactless, naive, but a troll? I don’t think so.
Firstly, Anaamika is correct, I am in fact female.
Secondly, you are either trolling or incredibly naive. Perhaps I gave you too much credit, which is why I called you a troll; if I was in error, I apologize, but frankly I tend to agree with the other posters (you either are a troll or have some serious growing up to do).
This is a forum of adults. You are being called out for the real consequences of your actions and for advocating activities which are illegal and dangerous. You do not seem to recognize the gravity of your suggestions and actions. Wise up.
