It’s very annoying when someone uses your stuff without asking.

In this gentleman’s case, an anonymous guy in his dorm was using his laundry detergent & throwing his clothes on the floor, so he thought of an ingenious way to literally expose the culprit.

Let’s read the story.

Steal my laundry detergent? Hope you like the bleached clothes look!

This happened when I was in college back in 2011.

I lived in a 4 story dorm that was all guys, about 40-60 guys per floor.

Meaning: chaos and every man for themselves.

Each floor had one laundry room with 3 washers and 3 dryers plus cubbies to store your laundry bag/soap while you were washing.

A few months into the semester I noticed my laundry detergent was disappearing faster than it should be, not a huge deal but mildly annoying.

What made it a bigger deal was that whoever was stealing my detergent would also take my clothes out of the washer and leave them on the floor so they could wash their clothes.

That’s just criminal. Justice needed to be made.

This pushed me over the line.

I would typically do a load while I went to class (Not classes!) so this made finding the perp tricky, then a golden idea hit me.

I went to Walmart and bought a new jug of laundry detergent, the same brand I always get, but I also bought extra-strength bleach.

I poured half the detergent from the new bottle into my old bottle and replaced it with the extra-strength bleach.

The laundry detergent thief did not see it coming.

That next day I did my laundry as usual but left the new and improved detergent in the cubby instead of my regular stuff, then I waited.

After class sure enough my clothes were sitting in a pile on the floor soaking wet and the whole laundry room smelled of bleach, just what I wanted!

Fast forward to the next week, every Monday night we had “Floor meetings” where we basically talked about rules and stuff as a floor.

I wonder if and how the thief will show up…

In walks the guy, we’ll call him Bob, wearing a newly bleached hoodie and ruined jeans.

Bob drops his pile of ruined clothes on the floor and starts spouting off about how “Someone owed him money for his ruined clothes”.

That’s rich coming from him.

The whole floor bursts out in laughter. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one Bob was stealing soap from.

He didn’t get another sentence out of his mouth before our RA told him stealing detergent was still a crime so it was his own damn fault.

Enjoy your bleached clothes, Bob!

Bob was majorly exposed.

His days of crime are over.

Let’s see what Reddit has comment on this.

A reader shares their thoughts.

This commenter shares a story.

Yup.

Someone shares their experience.

Another reader chimes in.

That’s on another level.

Bob had a case of the main character syndrome.

Hopefully, this cured it.

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