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What would you do if you bought a new TV, hadn’t even taken it out of the box yet, and while you weren’t home, your roommates took it out of the box and broke it? Would you be mad at them, offer to help them, or try to get them in even more trouble?

In this story, one man is in this exact situation, and his roommates have turned the tables to the point where he’s wondering if he did something wrong.

They broke his brand new TV when he wasn’t home! The guilty party is pretty easy to identify!

Keep reading to find out why he feels like he might’ve messed up.

AITA for for forcing my roommates to pay for damages and getting a landlord involved?

My roommate Dave let his brother Dan move in without consulting me or the landlord.

Because it’s his brother and it doesn’t matter.

Dan is staying in his brother room on a blow up bed.

OP followed the rules of the lease.

Last week I bought a new tv for the apartment.

Per our lease all tv’s have to have a professional hang them to minimize damages to the wall.

That was being done on Monday.

I bought the tv on Friday night so it was just sitting in a box waiting for the person to arrive Monday.

Oh no!

For some reason while I was out on Saturday Dan and Dave decided they wanted to watch the tv and decided to hang it themselves.

The tv promptly fell off the wall broke the tv and left a hole in the wall.

They panicked and sent me a picture asking me to come home and help them.

I said no and forwarded the pic to our apartment manager because I’m over the situation and left a long rant about unemployed Dan living there causing damages.

They’re facing serious consequences.

The landlord was mad and talked to them Monday and now Dan and Dave has to go for breaking their lease agreement.

They can go willingly or through an eviction process but now they are mad at me because it’s putting them out right after the holidays.

I’m allowed to move in another roommate after that (pending landlord approval) but Dave and Dan are angry that I showed my landlord what they did and they are refusing to replace the tv because I made them homeless.

They blame OP.

Dave already lost his deposit because he’s gotta pay for the damages to the wall. So he can’t rely on getting his part of the deposit back to fund a new place.

The brothers think I should have handled the situation privately and not involved the landlord but I was sick of them both for sending me the picture and acting like it was my problem that they messed the tv and the wall.

OP is the victim here. They broke his new TV! I hate it when the villain blames the victim and actually succeeds at making the victim feel like they did something wrong.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person points the blame at Dave.

Another person has a suggestion of what to say to the brothers.

This person thinks they’re being really childish.

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Another person really thinks OP needs to get his money back.

The brothers owe OP the cost of that brand new TV. I wouldn’t feel bad at all about getting them evicted. They messed up, and now they’re dealing with the consequences. Hopefully, they’ll learn from their mistakes.