Moral Dilemma

[FanGirlX]

So we've received a letter from the building management company today (block of flats - I rent). Someone has left some rotting smelly meat in the communal area and it has caused a stink. They are going to press for criminal damage / nuisance against the person who did this and evict them. They are going to check CCTV to find the culprit.

I think it might have been me by accident, or perhaps DD age 3. About 2 weeks ago I came home from shopping, unpacked and realised I'd lost 2 chicken breasts. I checked my car and the hallway and couldn't see them, assumed I'd dropped them in town or left them on the counter in the butcher, forgot about it. Sometimes DD does fish around in the shopping bags too. I'm thinking this could be my chicken and it's either fallen out of my bag or DD has taken it out and dropped it.

We move out in 2.5 weeks anyway.

Should I contact them and say this may have been us but it was an accident. Or wait for them to check the CCTV and contact us?

In order for them to take any money out of the deposit they would have to prove to the TDS that it was definitely us. If I admit it (given it was an accident) I feel like I won't get a reference and some of my deposit money may be taken.

@Crinkle77

OP surely if it was your daughter you'd notice her picking something up and stashing it behind the fireplace?

Maybe not when I've got her and the shopping in to the hall, closed the door and am getting the shopping into the flat. If she snatched it and hid it when I was facing the other way, I might not have seen.

She hid some potatoes under a wardrobe in the summer - they smelt too.

@FlowerFlour

The owner is telling on himself. Hiding putrid meat around the place to get revenge on somebody is something he would do, so when finding rotten meat he immediately thinks it was done on purpose.

Good for you for reporting them when you leave.

If I found some putrid meat, my immediate thought would be that it had fallen out of someone's shopping or rubbish. Either that or an animal had sneaked in with it.

Say nowt! It’s hardly your fault that their cleaning procedures are awful. Get some pics of the fire door once you’re safely out and have your deposit and report that, though.

Don’t think you’ll be getting the jail.

@TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet

Er… have they checked all the tenants are alive and well?

Either way, report the fire door, the hidden cctv etc to everyone you can!

I will be reporting away! I did some research last night and there are many authorities I can report to. Will give him a headache at least and maybe a few fines.

I heard them in the hallway discussing it and they were saying this is criminal damage and causing a nuisance, the person who did this will go to prison.

I’m actually over the moon about this. I thought prison sentences depended on having actually broken a law. But if we can just send people we think are nuisances to prison, I have a list!

Wait until you get your deposit back, then knock on his door, tell him it was you, then run away, yelling over your shoulder that he’ll never take you alive. Or grass on your DD. Tell the police she tried fitting you up for it but you’re not going down for something she did. She’s only three. Worst case scenario is a couple of years in a young offenders institute. With good behaviour, she’ll be out in time to start school.

She’s only three. Worst case scenario is a couple of years in a young offenders institute. With good behaviour, she’ll be out in time to start school.

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