<p>My roommate has a thing of staying up until 4am playing video games with the volume on high. As a result this has prevented me from getting a decent amount of sleep and performing as well as I could in school. Because of this some friends and I took the TV (which I brought) and hid it in someones room. 5min after he notices it missing he freaks out saying he demands the TV back. He knows I’m in on it and as a result stole the LCD monitor to my computer. Luckily I have a laptop here and then the school’s computers. What should i do? Should I demand he give back my monitor and report it? Should I go a step further a knock out his internet on his computer? What would be a good approch? </p>
<p>*Already tried talking and he won’t listen. I’m not doing it just to be an ass. His grades are very poor, and I feel mine have been affected by it a tad too.</p>
<p>Him playing games at night and getting grades is not your business (nor should you care) AS LONG as they don’t interrupt you at odd hours which he is doing at night i guess.</p>
<p>That said, it’s pretty ridiculous that your roomate demanded the TV back when it wasn’t even theirs to begin with on top of them taking your LCD?</p>
<p>Anyways, state that the TV did not belong to him, and you can do whatever you please with it, and demand your LCD back. I would recommend just beating their ass, but i don’t want you to get kicked out of school :P. If worst comes to worst I think your only option would be to move out as playing little annoying tricks on each other really won’t solve anything imo.</p>
<p>You sound like kind of an ass. There had to be another way to resolve the issue. I think he was wrong for playing videos games in the middle of the night (if he had the sound on and was disturbing you). You should have talked to him about it (before you took the TV). If all else fails, you go to your RA.</p>
<p>Sibelious, there’s maybe 5 weeks of school left (less for some, I know, but 5 for me). Res Life and the RAs are most likely going to say “You’ve lived with this guy for the last 8 months, you can last a few more weeks”. But that doesn’t mean this issue can’t be delt with in some other manner. Have thr RAs and Res Life get on him. Explain that he’s being unfair to you, won’t reason or cooperate about what is and is not acceptable in the middle of the night, and that it is affect your school work, not to mention your sanity! Unless the issue is really threatening to your health or your life, they probably won’t move either of you so late in the year.</p>
<p>If he did that to me, I’d be furious. I wouldn’t have to come to CC to be reassured that my complaint was valid. I’m not putting you down in any way; you are absolutely in the right to be upset. I’m just saying it would have taken me all of 5 seconds to report this guy. Talk to anyone who is in charge that will listen and then propose a deal: “This TV is mine to do whatever I want with. I did bring it so that we could both enjoy it, but your enjoying it ar 4am is NOT okay. Either you give me back MY monitor and swear to me that the TV goes off or on mute at midnight Sun-Thurs nights, and 1am on Fri and Sat nights, or it doesn’t come back”.</p>
<p>if u know u can beat him
first tell him to give it back,</p>
<p>then if he doesnt, tell him he has one of three choices.
A. u get administration.
B.U will make his life hell
C. u will beat his ass and make his life hell</p>
<p>I don’t what kind of advice you’re looking for. I’m sure he hid the LCD somewhere outside your room and even if you knew where there would be no way to prove it’s yours unless there were some distinguishing characteristics.
The only thing you can do is to get back at him. Maybe try what frostburg said, but even then you should do something.</p>
Are you in college? Have you ever lived with a roommate?</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore and lived with 5 different suitemates (1 of which was my roommate) last year and 5 this year.</p>
<p>In college, you have to be more tolerant of others, even if they are to get along with. Snatching the TV back and hiding it is only going to make him angry, which it did (he took your computer monitor). You displayed passive aggressive behavior. There’s a reason why the school employs RA’s.</p>
<p>Well, first of all I would just ask him to put on headphones or something when he’s playing games late at night. If he doesn’t comply then report him for being a disturbance. Since you chose to take the TV away instead (which I wouldn’t have done), I guess you could report him for stealing your LCD. The TV was yours after all.</p>
<p>Honestly I’d just scare him. Tell him if he doesn’t give it back you’re going to make a complaint to the police for stolen property (the LCD), which he can’t do since the TV belongs to you. And if he doesn’t give it back, I actually would report it cause LCD’s are expensive. And what’s the best comeback he can use? Complaining that you stole your own TV from yourself?</p>
<p>-Sigh- this is college. Don’t take **** from anyone. This kid is EXACTLY like my roommate. After a 2.4 gpa his first semester (international student paying 40k a year to major in ECE…), he still does the same stuff. </p>
<p>Here’s what you do. T.V was yours plain and simple. He stole something from you, in particular an LCD? I hope it was expensive. It’s called the police and unfortunately petty theft (if it’s expensive you have another story :)) Utilize them, you do pay their salary (unless you live in New Hampshire…). At the least, he will be out of your room for two days, between arrest and court. I wouldn’t worry about reputation either. The way it sounds, he never leaves his room, probably is an anti-social, non-hygenic individual. People won’t care. </p>
<p>Now if you don’t want to make a big deal over things, which I would be totally disappointed, as I would LOVE to hear about it ending in this manner, just take BIGTWIX’s suggestion: beat his ass.</p>
<p>kinglin, you sound like a spiteful little 4yo that took the cookies and hid them from his siblings. your roommate hasnt reacted well, but seriously - you started it. And saying the TV is yours has little basis, ussually one roommate brings the tv…</p>
<p>There some inane responses in this thread. If it’s his property, he can do whatever he wants with it. The roommate stealing HIS LCD is a crime. Report it.</p>
<p>if you have evidence that he’s stealing ur LCD, you could report it to the police. Even if you don’t have evidence you could still report it to the police and if the police find the LCD with some evidence ur roomate can get into trouble and in the end it’ll be worth it.</p>