Mentally unstable, perhaps?
They were probably arguing over whether the paper goes over or under.
This should serve as a lesson to “unders” everywhere!
Now that’s someone who really needs TP for his bunghole.
Shoot, I can understand. I hate being in the bathroom and reaching under the sink and realizing there is no toilet paper. I hate just want to freaking kill my roommate when that happens.
Unfortunately I live by myself.
Jutifiable homicide.
It looks like both got a little out of control: if Crow is to be believed, the victim pulled out a rifle before he was killed.
Having lived with two roomates (at the same time) who in several years never bought any TP, never gave me money for the TP I bought. Searched my room while I was out of town and they ran out and they figured I had tohave some somewhere (I did). And then told our friends that I hoarded toilet paper. I fully understand wanting beat his roomate with a hammer because they ran out. Killing is too good for him, he ought to have been fed high fiber foods and given only leaves til he learned the error of his ways.
As funny and/or disturbing as it is to imagine someone getting killed over no toilet paper in the house, realistically it may be more like the final straw breaking the camel’s back. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’d been spats and violent fights before this.
And I just looked in our bathroom closet… and we’re out of toilet paper. :eek:
Of course there is a story on SDMB of what a roommate used when he ran out of toilet paper :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
My god, that’s hysterical. (In an infuriating way, of course.)
Years ago, I lived with a one of the worst roommates of all time. (A bass player in my friends’ reggae band.) The whole mess: Stinky bedroom that tainted the surrounding area, when I stopped doing his dishes in the hope that he’d get the hint, his response was to dirty all the dishes in the cupboards, and then go out and get a big box of dishes out of storage. “We needed more dishes!”
But the last straw was when we ran out of bog rolls, (which he never bought,) and he used coffee filters (which he also never bought) instead. And, of course, he had no idea how to unblock the toilet, wanted me to do it, and intimated that it was my fault anyway for not making sure there was toilet paper like I always did. (I had been out for the weekend.)
Jesus, Pat – just because it says “#2 Filters” on the package does not make them suitable for that purpose.
I don’t have a sledgehammer. Lucky boy.
Heh, that’d be a Strange Brew indeed.
I was a tad surprised to see that it was Forbes running the story of TP rage. I remember back when they were a prim, business publication. Now, it’s Malcomb in the Piddle.
So, slow news week?
Not in the US of A. Forgetting to buy toilet paper is presumed to be accidental until proven intentional (as are most toilet related transgressions). This is under the common law concept that “no reasonable human being would purposefully not buy toilet paper when needed”. In other words, there was no proven malice aforethought. That would, ipso facto, make this a civil case. There is no death penalty in a civil case. There wasn’t even any civility in this particular civil case. Obviously, due to the sheer number of blows, the perp should be tried for murder in the fecund degree (had he used a salami instead of a hammer, it would be murder in the wurst degree).
Now, had the roomie bought single ply paper - that would clearly prove malice and open up the death penalty option.
I will now retire to my vast law library and re-immerse myself in the legal classic “Trials of Calvin and Hobbes”.
Folks, this is why swampbear lives alone.
Where is said story? I’m not going anywhere for a few hours…