Woman Lies To Roommate About Food Ingredients, Nearly Kills Her, Receives Felony

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Sep 26, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

It seems like everybody has some kind of food allergy these days. Suddenly nobody can drink milk anymore and everybody complains about their stomach after gluten. Maybe we are getting weaker as a species or maybe were just realizing the kinds of things that we put in our bodies and how they affect us. Regardless of how you feel about food allergies and sensitivities, it's best to just assume that they are lethal or else things can get very dark very quickly. On Reddit's 'Am I the A-Hole' page, a woman asked if she was in the wrong for filing charges against her roommate for her hospital bill. There is definitely more to this story, let's get into it.

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    Facial expression - Posted by u/throw_onceuponatime 8 months ago AITA for filing charges against my roommate and suing her for my hospital bill? Everyone Sucks
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    Font - That's how I met Erin. Before she moved in she informed me that she was vegetarian but she wouldn't have a problem if other roommates weren't. She moved into our apartment a month later.
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    Font - The next day after she moved in she cooked breakfast for us. I was surprised. We didn't ask her to and by her own words "she wanted to do something nice".
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    Font - She had made pancakes, bacon strips and hash browns. I am deathly allergic to few things. So, I immediately asked her what was in the food, but I didn't mention my allergies (huge mistake). She listed the ingredients and I didn't
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    Font - mistake). She listed the ingredients and I didn't find anything I was allergic to. [Edit: she told me it was regular bacon. Not that it was fake bacon or that it had soy]. I start eating and everything
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    Art - tastes a little off. I try the bacon and definitely something is wrong. At this point, she does a Ta da" and smugly told us "I bet it tastes exactly like meat".
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    Plant - I am freaking out now. I told her I am severely allergic to soy and asked her whether there was any soy. Now she is apologising and says she didn't know and that she is sorry she lied and blah blah. I am experiencing anaphylactic
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    Font - shock: throat closing up, dizzy, the works. My bestfriend freaks out and calls an ambulance. I had to stay in the hospital for 2 days. With the US healthcare, the ambulance + my hospital stay racked up a lot of money. Money that I didn't have.
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    Font - In the meantime, I also filed a complaint with the police. Food tampering is a felony. I had a lucky break: my best friend had filmed the breakfast to post it on Instagram and she got the whole thing in video.
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    Font - In the end Erin had to plead guilty to some low degree of felony. She didn't get any jail time, but got community service. Once she was found guilty, I sued her for the hospital fees. I won that one too.
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    Font - [I did all the legal things under the advise of my Uncle's friend who is a lawyer. He said something about how it will be easy to sue if she had a guilty charge. I also did not have any contact with Erin during any of this under the advise of my laywer].
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    Font - Erin's scholarship was cancelled and she had to drop out. She also went into dent paying medical fees. I saw her on Facebook few days ago and she is still down on her luck. I guess a felony charge makes it very hard, no matter how small the charge was.
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    Font - I know she is the asshole for lying about food. I wanna know whether I am the asshole for everything I did after. Because bottom line is, I basically screwed a person's life because they put wrong ingredients on breakfast that they made only "to do something nice".
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    Font - jocelina · 8m Partassipant [2] I feel like ESH. It does seem like she was trying to trick you into eating meat substitute, which is a, rotten thing to do, but I also think it was your responsibility to ask "does this have soy/[other substances to which you are allergic]?" explicitly or to otherwise inform her or anyone else who prepares food you're going to eat that you have life-threatening allergies.
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    Font - mama_llama44 · 8m OP asked what's in the food. They're not obligated to disclose medical information in order to get the truth. Would it have been better had OP stated they're allergic? Probably. But the fact of the matter is, the roommate purposely lied, and the lie almost killed someone.
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    Font - ObjectInMirror · 8m · edited 8m Partassipant [3] NTA. The reason that food tampering is considered a serious crime is because it can have precisely the kind of consequences you suffered. She absolutely needed to be responsible for your costs - and face the proper legal consequences for her reckless act that literally endangered your life and could have killed you! And for what? in order to trick you into liking something vegetarian - not at all to do anything actually nice for you. She de
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    Font - [deleted] · 8m ESH. Her for pushing her vegetarian agenda onto you - if you are correct about her being smug. And you for not speaking up about your debilitating food allergies. That is on you. That should be the first thing you mention if someone you just met is serving you food. My sister has food allergies as well and that is something she always says when someone offers her a snack. Tbh something isn't adding up tho.
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    Font - The_Sleepiest_Shadow 8m YTA big time. "So, I immediately asked her what was in the food, but I didn't mention my allergies (huge mistake)." You admit it here yourself, it's your mistake. You didn't disclose your deathly allergies. It is your responsibility to inform anyone if you are severely allergic to any ingredient. I bet you anything she would have immediately told you what was in the food had you been responsible enough to tell her of your allergies. How you won these court cases is
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