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A lively Bad Roommates Part 2 episode featuring four wild roommate stories from armchair experts across America. The hosts celebrate when one caller admits to being the bad roommate themselves. Stories range from someone treating hemorrhoids with a roommate's apple cider vinegar to an FBI raid for a pedophile roommate, plus a psychotic episode involving police and a near-attack during a night terror.
Apple Cider Vinegar Hemorrhoid Treatment Gone Wrong
Alyssa shares her story from 2016 Portland about living with a socially oblivious roommate in the dreadlock-and-didgeridoo phase of her life. The roommate displayed increasingly strange behavior like wiping her armpits with Alyssa's borrowed cardigan and stealing all the change from a friend's wallet. The final straw came when Alyssa discovered her roommate treating hemorrhoids by applying apple cider vinegar directly from Alyssa's personal bottle while her cat was missing.
- Roommate wiped her armpits with Alyssa's borrowed cashmere cardigan while making eye contact
- Roommate took all change except pennies from friend's wallet to pay for garlic bread without leaving a tip
- Roommate pulled Alyssa's mattress into living room for a sleepover without permission
- Roommate let Alyssa's indoor cat escape and get chased up a tree by dogs
- Alyssa caught roommate using her apple cider vinegar bottle on her hemorrhoids
" She looks at me and she goes, and takes her hands out of her pants has a rag on her hand, puts said rag on the rim of my apple cider vinegar, flips the bottle upside down, then proceeds to put the rag back down her pants as she says, I think I have hemorrhoids. "
" She was applying from the lip of the container. I'm surprised you didn't just put the container up to her anus. "
FBI Raids Apartment for Pedophile Roommate
David recounts a 2006 nightmare in Queens where he and his roommates quickly rented out a converted dining room to a college student who needed to move in immediately. A week after move-in, the roommate disappeared for days. David received an urgent call from his roommate Ryan while working at a luxury Manhattan hotel—their new roommate had been arrested by the FBI for crossing state lines for child pedophilia, and it was making the news.
- New roommate moved in early to converted dining room in railroad-style Queens apartment in February 2006
- Roommate disappeared without contact for several days after move-in
- Upstairs neighbor called roommate to watch paused news coverage showing FBI arrest
- FBI arrested roommate for crossing state lines to Connecticut for child pedophilia
- Their address appeared on sexual offenders website, requiring FBI intervention to remove
" Are you sitting down? And my reply is, was our roommate found dead? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he goes, no, worse. "
" The FBI has actually arrested him on crossing lines for child pedophilia. "
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