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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/throwaway-roommate13 on 2023-09-17 02:44:00.

I (20F) live in student housing with 5 roommates. One of them (23M), Mark, constantly borrows and damages my things (dishes get returned dirty or not at all, broke my vaccuum, ripped my sponge in half somehow, …), so I keep my stuff in my room.

I have a shoe rack outside my door though, due to being a neat freak, and recently I treated myself by buying a pair of expensive shoes (330€ Naked Wolfe stretch boots). This is very exceptional since I usually live a pretty frugal lifestyle.

Two weeks ago I ran into Casey, Mark’s gf who often spends the night at his dorm, and she complimented my shoes, we had a small conversation about it but that was it. The next morning they were gone. I texted our hallways gc but no one knew what happened to them.

After this I ran into Casey in the hallway again and guess what she was wearing… that’s right my boots. I confronted her about this and she told me she decided to buy them after our conversation, but I know that that’s bs since she’s always complaining about her lack of money and she also doesn’t work.

Upon further questioning her she got visibly upset and stormed out. I’ve tried talking to mark about it and at first he was adamant she must’ve bought them herself. I told him that if that’s so she shouldn’t mind showing me her receipt, and if she didn’t I’d go to campus security.

After this he quickly changed his tune, he admitted Casey took them and he'd return them. When he did though, i noticed two big slits were cut into each boot. Apparently Casey couldn't fit into the boots because of her wide calves so she decided to 'modify' them.

I told Mark she ruined the boots and they had to find a way to reimburse me. He told me they couldn't beceause they didn't have that kind of money to spare right now. I told him it's not my problem and that Casey should've thought of that before stealing and wrecking mine.

I tried going to security but they said they couldn't help. So I did something much pettier instead. I took all of mark’s dishes, silverware, electronics, … out of the kitchen and set up a table outside of the dorms and sold it. I still only got like 150€, not even half the cost of the boots, but at least it’s something.

When mark found out he was furious but there wasn’t really anything he could do since none of my stuff is in the common areas, and again campus security is useless. From what I’ve seen he’s eating off of paper plates rn.

The other roommates are kind of devided. One of the other girls in the hall thinks that what I did is petty but fair. Taking other people’s stuff is a pattern for mark and it was about time he got some consequences. The other girl is devided, she thought something had to be done but I took it too far. The two guys think I’m insane for what I did over ‘a stupid pair of shoes.’

So Reddit AITA?