'[I] filled the blue soap with Blue Rit Dye': Tenant enacts petty payback on neighbors for always using her laundry detergent

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 10, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Laundry thieves are strong contenders for the worst kinds of people. If you're like me and you have a communal laundry room in the basement of your building, you have likely come across a few issues with your fellow neighbors. Sometimes, they take forever to pick up their clean clothes and leave them in the one dryer for hours on end. Sometimes, they remove your clean clothes the minute they are done instead of waiting a few moments for you to pick them up. And sometimes, they just straight-up steal your clothes, laundry basket, or detergent.

Here, we have someone who continued to use their neighbor's laundry detergent without permission. After several notes and warnings to stop doing this, the thief persisted, which left their neighbor with no choice but to enact some well-deserved petty revenge. This meant filling the blue soap box with blue dye and seeing what unfolded.

Keep scrolling below to see what happened after the thief discovered the dye, albeit way too late. For more stories like this, here is one about a wife who locked her husband out of their bedroom because of a petty mistake. 

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    "You like the laundry Soap'I buy? Great! How about some fun soap just for you!"
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    You like the laundry soap I buy? Great! How about some fun soap just for you! This happened a while ago, but, I just found this sub, so here goes. I used to live on the 3rd floor of an apartment that had its laundry in the basement. Which means 4 flights of stairs for me, no elevator, and I have a newborn so I'm washing quite a bit. So we have cubbies in the laundry room for our soap and stuff. I've lived there a year and never had an issue leaving my soap down there. Apparently, some new people
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    I got 2 bottles of soap. A blue colored one. And clear colored one. Marked the bottles CLEARLY that they belonged to me (so they couldn't accidentally say they thought they were theirs) filled the blue soap with blue Rit dye. Filled the clear soap with unscented bleach. And waited....
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    Didn't take long. The next morning I hear screaming coming from the laundry room. 4 floors up I heard it. I waited a while and ventured downstairs. In the laundry room I found a bunch of wet clothes in the garbage that were bleach stained. 4 days later I saw a young man get into a car with a blue stained t-shirt. Touch my stuff.
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    Tophertanium I like it! Only can some people truly understand through being the victim of pettyrevenge. I once had someone who would take our clothes out of the washer and leave them on a shelf instead of putting them in a dryer or letting us know our clothes were done. And I never let them set more than five minutes. I had a timer on my phone. I figured out who did it by sneaking and watching through a window.
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    For a week or so, any time they did laundry, I would wait for them to leave, then open up the washer at the beginning of the cycle. Their clothes didn't get washed and then they had to wait for them to cycle through. Edit: to clarify, it wasn't the fact that they took our clothes out and just left them out. They'd take our clothes out sometimes before the cycle was finished. Or if the clothes were washed, they'd take them out, then start their own load and take up the dryers so even when I came
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    mtdiaboman I had the same thing happen, but it was a roommate (had just separated from my ex wife) in a multi tenant renting situation. Gallons of milk, orange juice, packages of hamburgers and steak were missing. Left letters on the fridge and I spoke personally to all of them...nobody fessed up. Went on for weeks. Labeled everything I owned. To find the , I put big labels on my orange juice saying "Supplements! Do not drink". Added a pint of liquid magnesium salts I had for a scheduled colonos
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    Crikey MikeyLikey This. Is. Gold Blue. 317 ⇓ Reply ↑ Share
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    desireewhitehall Oh God, that's awesome. Way to go! I can only imagine the satisfaction of bringing such screams to a thief. 204 Reply ↑ Share
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    5meterhammer ⚫ Good on you OP. I mean, it seems like you gave them more chances than they deserve anyway.
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    Old-Goat Well done OP. You gave them all warning possible not to mess with the contents of the bottles, whether they contained Wisk or rocket fuel. One work of caution though. Don't leave your wash unattended for the immediate future. I once had some |toss light bulbs in the dryer. I wasn't feuding with anyone so I'm guessing it was kids being cute, but still that's a pretty big move. That's the problem with a justified lesson like that, unreasonable retaliation. Maybe a nanny cam you can leave
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    jeghn I once had someone steal ALL my towels.
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    Smaskifa Isn't bleach considerably less viscous than soap? Seems like you'd notice the soap is awful runny.
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    you my_father What happens when you finally replace the soap and they decide to tamper with it the same way you did previously. Would OP have a case against them?
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    [deleted] Yea that's the only negative here, I'd probably switch to those laundry pods for awhile and just bring them down versus leaving the detergent.
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    dhmallon You do realise you now can't store your soap in the laundry room any longer, right? Unacceptably high risk of bleach/dye/p☐ being put inside
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    krisnotkris I think I love you. I aspire to be that clever with my own revenge.
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    Tulabean Oh my god, if I could have I would have run down there as soon as I heard the scream and asked, "Did something happen to your clothes??"
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    RaChernobyl OP. I wish I was that brave. I had NO IDEA who I was messing with, and I wasn't about to find out in that moment. It was about 9am on a Sunday morning, and the otherwise quiet building was FILLED with screaming. It was LOUD.
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