‘I no longer felt safe in my own home’: Roommates try to steal Canadian woman’s air conditioner and refuse to pay utilities, but her clever cousin helps her and they end up unemployed, facing legal consequences

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 6, 2025 9:00 PM EDT

There's losing faith in humanity, and then there's discovering your middle-aged attic-dwelling roommates are arguing eminent domain over your air conditioner while snorting their way through Canada's least charming episode of Breaking Bad. Nothing exposes the soft underbelly of shared housing quite like trying to get back a $300 appliance, only to be informed that, by the mysterious squatter logic of Carry and Justin, anything left upstairs for more than three hours becomes communal property.

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  • My roommates tried to steal my air conditioner and not pay for utilities...then this HUGE coincidence happened.

    "I knew I'd need my air conditioner back"
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  • I made a burner account just to ask for advice. However Charlotte I love your videos I watch them all the time!
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  • Also I'm sorry if this is long. But at least you like long stories! Anyways, I 25 (F) and my fiance (lets call him Jake 24 M) had a heated argument about my air- conditioner.
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  • Yes you heard that right...my air- conditioner. Let me start from the beginning and this might make more sense. So me and Jake live in canada, in the plains area where inflation is rising.
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  • Normally, im more of a go with the flow kind of person, I hate conflict and confrontation and for some reason I get heavy anxiety and fear when it comes to
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  • standing up for myself or having a backbone. This makes it very easy for people to walk all over me, yes I know it's an issue but I'm not sure how to fix it.
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  • Anyways, it's VERY expensive living in my area of Canada, I'm on dis lity because my baby passed away and my fiamce is working on call jobs for us to get by, because of that we had to live with room mates to make ends meet.
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  • Meanwhile, you’re stuck, forced to play both conflict-averse diplomat and the world’s most reluctant private investigator, while Jake the “let’s not rock the boat” fiancé sits on the sidelines like Switzerland with anxiety. As tension rises, you hatch a survival plan so old-school, it belongs on medieval tapestries: bring in the family enforcer. Enter Cam, the cousin who combines loyalty, assertiveness, and inconveniently good connections, who manages to trigger one of life’s rare perfect chain reactions.

     

    Carry, carried away on her own entitlement clouds, calls the cops to report her air conditioner thief, except Cam has receipts, the patience of someone with nothing to lose, and the delightful twist that her partner is, by fate, about to lose his cash gig and personal pharmaceuticals in the same twenty-four hour period. The universe, occasionally, has exquisite comedic timing. You get your air conditioner back, the utility money returns from the ether, and two would-be attic monarchs are left to ponder that ultimate cosmic law: play stupid games, win police-escorted prizes.

  • Let's call the room mates Justin (51 M) and Carry (57 F). I was completely fine with that and until last month we had no issues, i even let them borrow my air- conditioner because its hot in the attic where they sleep
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  • (this is important for later and my first mistake). However alot of things happened all at once back to back, my grandmother's health started declining (she has bl ding in her brain and the doctor needs someone to live with her), I had a
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  • (this was the year after my baby d d), and Justin screamed at me and brought back some childhood trauma. I was able to handle all that okay until the final nail in the coffin happened...I found out my room mates are doing illegal dr s...BAD ONES.
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  • I no longer felt safe in my own home, so I talked to my fiance and we agreed that it would be safer to move in with my grandma because she needs someone to stay with her anyways considering her health is declining.
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  • We gave our landlord our one months notice and began packing...when we told Justin and Carry they were furious and things in the house started becoming more tense... The first issue that arised was the utilities.
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  • In our lease we have to pay utilities ourselves and the utilities are under my name because I've lived there the longest (2.5 years). So we all agreed that Justin and Carry would just etransfer me their half of the utilities (mistake number 2).
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  • However when we informed them that we were moving in with my grandma (we told them it was for her declining health so we wouldn't cause drama) Justin and Carry decided to refuse to pay for July's utilities ($235) because me and my fiance were over by leaving. them
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  • My Fiance countered by saying we are giving them enough time to find another room mate. I even offered to help them find one, but they refused and refused to pay for the utilities for July
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  • (I got revenge by changing the wifi password, and turning off the utilities because i am moving in a few weeks anyways. This ed them off really p and it terrified me doing it, but i also didnt want them getting away with it.
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  • So i locked my bedroom. door and i hid downstairs). The second issue is my air- conditioner. Now it's hot upstairs in my grandmas house so I knew id need my air conditioner back...I bet you can guess what happened next.
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  • I went to them and hesitantly asked when I could get my air conditioner from their room so I can pack it up. Carry said never and it was hers now and slammed the door to the attack in my face.
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  • Keep in mind this is a 300 dollar air conditioner so I was p ed because I didnt have the extra money to buy another one. I went to my fiance about it and he said he would talk to them about it.
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  • But as the day grew closer to moving day that still never happened. I asked my fiance if he spoke to them yet and he said that they refuse to give it back and that because it's in their room now that means its their property.
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  • I got mad and said that's bulls I bought that air- conditioner 3 years ago from walmart and it belings to me, but my fiance said that they looked like they were on the illegal drs and didnt want to get into a fight with people unstable.
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  • Now you may be wondering why we didn't phone the police about the illegal drs. To tell you the truth we were genuinely to scared to do ANYTHING with the police until we were both safe and living in a place where they could not find us, however we did make a police report about it after we moved out.
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  • We were scared for our safety and neither me nor my fiance know what people on illegal dr__s are capable of and we didnt wanna find out. So anyways, I decided to face my fears and ask my cousin (lets call him Cam 32 M) to help me get my air conditioner back the day I move out.
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  • (I don't want to be alone with people who do illegal powder drs). Cam is alot more assertive and is the type of guy who doesn't care if your doing illegal sh or not he doesn't like people taking advantage of his family, so when I told him everything that happened he agreed to come help me.
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  • So Cam came and we confronted both Carry and Justin about my air conditioner. Oh! There's one more thing I forgot to mention. My cousin cam is the one who got Justin a cash paying contract job with his friend so....ya this just got more interesting when I learned that.
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  • My cousin noticed it was Justin that was my roommate (this was a funny coincidence) being a and said if he wanted to keep his personal construction Job with his friend he had to give me my air conditioner back or he would tell his friend that Justin does illegal drs and Justin would be out a job that pays 500 a week.
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  • Justin when he realized that cam was my cousin finally caved but his wife Carry refused to and decided to do something completely stupid...she phoned the cops on my cousin cam and said he was trying to attack her to get her air- conditioner.
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  • My cousin wasn't scared and the cops came. The cops seperated us into 2 groups (me and my cousin, and carry and justin) We both explained what happened and my cousin explained that Carry and Justin are carrying illegal dr is to the cops (we did it because I was moving anyways and it was my last night there).
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  • The cops were VERY interested in that information and did a search of their room. When they found the illegal dr__s they were both taken into custody and my cousin cam Uninstaller and took back my air conditioner while they were at the police station being charged with possession of illegal dr S.
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  • To be even more petty cam called his friend that Justin was working for and explained that Justin does illegal drs and owes me 235 that he refused to pay. What cams friend did was etransfer me the 235 and made Justin work 2 days for free then fired him.
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  • Now Carry and Justin have no income at all and are being charged with illegal dr__s. So ya. Im happy now, I'm with my grandma taking care of her AND I got my air conditioner and utility money back as well as put 2 people doing illegal drs behind bars.
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