A woman has sparked outrage online after she admitted to putting almond powder in her flatmate's mac and cheese, knowing he was severely allergic, after he repeatedly stole her food.
Flatmate gripes are familiar territory for many of us, but most of the time we’ll grin and bear it. After all, is it really worth arguing over a few too many minutes in the bathroom in the morning or crumbs left on the kitchen counter? For one woman though, frustration with her housemate reached boiling point after she suspected him of stealing her food, leading her to devise a plan to ‘poison’ the thief — proving it was him, once and for all.
Posting in Am I The Asshole on Reddit, the 25-year-old, who we’ll refer to as Lizzie*, was ‘vilified’ and branded a ‘psycho’ for taking such extreme measures, but apparently doesn’t think she’s done anything wrong. Lizzie had initially lived alone in her flat but, due to financial difficulties, opened her home to a 27-year-old friend of a friend — we’ll call him Max*. Max was ‘fine at first’; he didn’t smoke or do drugs and paid his half of the rent and utilities. But issues began to arise when Lizzie would come home after working night-shifts to find her food was missing. She wrote: ‘I even started to label everything I made with my name, but my food still kept disappearing, which pissed me off.’ The young woman explained that she confronted Max about it multiple times and he denied it ‘over and over again’. Lizzie recalled cooking ribs before work to reheat when she got home, labelling them with her name, and texting Max telling him not to eat it along with a picture of the container. Still, the food was gone when she returned. After weeks of dealing with a food thief, she says she ‘just snapped’, adding: ‘No one lives here other than me and him and he doesn’t have a lot of friends… I know for a fact he doesn’t have anyone staying over, so it was him. ‘Plus, I even caught him eating my food a few times, so that just shows that he’s a sly pig.’ It was then Lizzie decided she was ‘going to mess with him’, and knowing Max was severely allergic to nuts, she went out of her way to buy some almond powder. ‘I put it in my trap meal of mac and cheese,’ she said. ‘I gave this guy a chance to spare his life, I told him not to eat it. I even made sure to tell him, “Hey, that mac and cheese is mine. Don’t touch it”.’ Lizzie sent him a picture of the container to be ‘extra clear’, and set up a secret camera to record her plan unfolding. When she returned home, she discovered Max had eaten the entire batch and left the container on the table. Lizzie left the apartment, but received a furious phone call from his mother a few hours later, telling her Max was in hospital with an allergic reaction. Lizzie wrote: ‘She was screaming at me, accusing me of being a monster and poisoning her son by feeding him nuts. I told her that it was food not meant for him, and sent her proof. I told her to read the messages I sent him, which showed the container and my reminder that he shouldn’t eat it. ‘His mum started berating me for being “careless,” asking why I would have something that he can’t eat… I got pissed and screamed into the phone that if he keeps taking my food, then I don’t know what else to do.’ While Lizzie said she didn’t feel guilty at all, many on Reddit were either sceptical about whether she was telling the truth, or outraged she ‘purposely put someone into anaphylactic shock’. ‘What if that was the time his allergy responded in a bigger way or he couldn’t get to his epi pen?’ @Crazylush wrote. ‘You literally could have killed him. Knowingly putting someone into anaphylaxis is pretty messed up.’ Another said: ‘You’re the a**hole. Attempted murder is bad, even when someone steals your mac and cheese.’ On the other hand, some felt Max was at fault for not listening to the clear instructions Lizzie sent him, telling him not to eat her food. But what does a lawyer say? Rachel Mason, a criminal lawyer at Slater Heelis Solicitors, tells Metro that Lizzie could be punished under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. She explains: ‘The fact that you are poisoning your own food makes no difference – the offence is made out because you are aware that someone else will eat it. ‘She could be prosecuted for maliciously administering poison or a noxious substance so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm or to injure, aggrieve, or annoy any other person.’ So, if it’s true, is there a solid chance Lizzie will land herself in hot water? ‘She is likely to be prosecuted,’ Rachel adds
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