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@@jodiemirowski2980 exactly from that line of thinking. Ppl unalive ppl and help search for the body. Ppl literally do it all the time. Commit a crime and insert themselves into the investigation to look like the concerned friend, the worried boyfriend, the helpful landlord. They look innocent because they’re helping and they can try to steer ppl away from actual clues and just be in the know
@@lovelace4512 that landlord runs a business with impeccable strides to keep everything running perfectly and smoothly so his buildings don't deteriorate and become slums, he also conducts his business with heart. He cares for his tenants. I know all about how people do evil shit and then immerse themselves into "helping". You have to be crazy to look at this landlord and think he was Shady and evil
I saw the thumbnail and clicked right away. He was my teaching assistant for organic chemistry at my university 😭 it was so bizzare hearing about this story a few months back. He was always so nice, really goes to show you that you never know what people are capable of.
I think sometimes very nice people are over-doing it because subconsciously they are compensating for some deeply evil secret flaw. I’ve seen it time and time again in real life.
I am just so impressed with how many specialists the landlord brought in, trying to get to the bottom of the weird scent permeating the apartment. What a wonderful person!
@@frequencyprovision4195there are sadly a number of people who are not as willing to do that. It’s what you EXPECT, but it’s not always what you get. :(
Gentle reminder that Roman Polanski to this day is living in freedom and luxury in Israel despite being arrested for raping and torturing dozens of children. This shit happens all the time with our “allies”. I would honestly be shocked if this man’s “deportation” wasn’t undoubtedly the result of Chinese advocacy groups efforts to help him dodge imprisonment.
Too many viewers blindly believe the narrator's version of events. Story-tellers often tell "stories" (lies). It seems extremely possible that the couple upstairs intensified their noise after the man downstairs complained about it. I've had roommates and coworkers do similar things - and many who vigorously apologized to my face about it. And, no, I am not saying murder if ethical. But, a lack of sleep can drive a person crazy and many scientific studies prove this.
I''m a graduate of USF. I earned both my bachelors and Masters degree there. This guy should have faced consequences. Deportation is basically letting him go scot-free.
@@CameronBryce-jb6egmy landlord starts to act like Hocus Pocus witches when I’m 1 day late on rent but still give her the full amount plus late fee. And tells me I gotta cut the weeds down outside the fence when she has maintenance and groundskeeper available 💀
@@johnycruz8454I think that because they did the investigation themselves they potentially saved their lives because that guy wasn’t gonna stop so I understand you pov but some of the times Insticts are your best friend definitely not all the time . I would’ve personally sent my wife and baby to the hospital and did the investigation myself but woah this was crazy
When I lived in an upstairs apt with a boyfriend many years ago…our downs neighbor constantly complained about my boyfriend’s loud steps and slamming the cabinets which he was really loud and I was constantly reminding him to be quiet. Luckily for us he was coming up to our apartment to knock on our door when 3 guys robbing us busted out the door and he was able to scare them and get stuff back! Turns out the robbers were new friends of my boyfriends and he had let them in our apartment when I told him not to let anyone in. Because at that time we had all the gaming systems, flat screen tvs, etc. nice stuff but he didn’t listen. So they decided to rob us! So I’m thankful for our downstairs neighbor and for the fact that he wasn’t insane!
@@jenniferbaggett5775 i stuck around longer than I should have. But I finally set a trip to see my mom (in another state) and used it to find a job and a place. And one day early in the morning threw whatever clothes I could fit into a garbage bag and took off. It was my first and last abusive relationship. Thank goodness for that!
I moved into an apartment with my three small children after an ugly divorce that forced me to move several states away from my ex. This being the first time I had lived alone I was nervous the first night. Add three hyper kids in a new place and I was a bit jumpy. I noticed rather quickly that the neighbors that I shared a wall with were watching their tv extremely loud. Being new to the building and a bit anxious I just kept quiet since it was just the living room wall and not the kids bedrooms. I figured they would turn it off at some point. This was a Friday night. Cut to Monday afternoon and it’s still loud enough to hear every word in my apartment that was said. I decided I would say something after I ran errands. If they didn’t answer I could call the office. So off I went. When I pulled back into my assigned parking spot on returning, a young lady frantically ran out of the apartment next to me. Before I could even say anything she began to cry and asked me to park somewhere else because she has just found her father deceased in his apartment. Apparently he had passed away sometime on Friday sitting in his recliner watching tv. So yeah… after that I have always thought twice before getting angry in those situation’s. Ya never know what is going on on the other side of the wall. 😮
@@conqueror571 I actually immediately thought of that and asked if I could have helped. Unfortunately his time of death was early Friday morning. Long before I had arrived. I also wasn’t in a position to confront an unknown stranger with an issue that may have angered them, being the only adult with three small children. I also didn’t want to waste the police’s time with a noise complaint.
Never even had the thought of doing something to them? I have..... Just 2 very important things in that regard, 1 there is a very big difference in thinking of it and doing so. 2 doing this to an innocent baby... yes I agree, pure evil.
I used to have an upstairs neighbour who would have their niece 3 or 4 times a week to babysit. She was 2 or 3 and loved to run and jump off the furniture. It wouldn’t have been so loud if they had carpets but they had laminated floors. It went on for around 6 months before they asked me if I could hear the wee one when she was there. I told them that yes, she could be quite loud when jumping, but, she’s a toddler and kids can be loud. They asked why I hadn’t complained to them and I said, you have to except noise from people above you and I would never dream of complaining about a wee one having fun doing things all toddlers do. They apologised and bought a rug which dampened the sound a bit. People make noise, it’s part of life and it’s something you have to learn to live with when your home is in a flat/apartment block.
This guy Umar abdullah is a Bangladeshi PHD student living in USA for several years. I know his family personally, we were terrified hearing the story in tv.
Man that landlord deserves an award for going above and beyond to help them. Too bad the landlord my parents had when I was little wasn't this helpful I remember we had a leaky toilet that was leaking into the back stairwell and he told my pops to fix it himself that he doesn't have time to call someone to come fix it.
Your dad could have had it fixed and took the money out of the rent and put the receipt in with the payment. That's what I did as it 's not your property....
I literally used to live near someone who would have seizures and yell and the walls would vibrate. I just dealt with it bc they can’t help it. This man reacting to a baby who can’t help but cry is scary af. The inhumanity
@@jonah.donohueRon Desantis doesn't have the authority or the means to deport people out of the country, only the president has that. Because if Desantis did he would've deported more than just one.
Chemist here; the opioids, symptoms and scent don’t add up. There are far more toxic substances that would aromatize much more effectively and I suspect that’s what he would have used. Also, don’t know what lab has opioids available, none that I worked in. In any case this was horrific.
THANK YOU! Read this far into the comments to see if someone would say this. There had to be something else he was putting in there other than methadone and hydrocodone. Even if you nebulize those, the only thing that would’ve done is get them high. And yes, lethargic. If he had a PhD in chemistry, I’m sure there was something else deadly in there. Possibly chemicals they never found out about.
@@pointstill3755he clearly said other things so I'm thinking you want to tell someone what to use to kill someone then when they do I hope it falls back on you SOME PEOPLE SHOULD BE LEFT IGNORANT remember that
as a recovered opiate addict, I was scrolling through the comments, hoping to see someone else notice this. The inconsistencies caught my attention right away, had to have been something else in there. Very curious as to what.
My husband and I used to religiously watch your content without missing any episodes. I found out about his affair 4 months ago and we're currently not living together. I'm going through depression and a lot of anxiety and for a while, I could not get myself to click on your videos and watch it, as it reminded me of old memories with him..and it hurt. I finally decided to sit and watch all the episodes and I'm glad I did because your content is something I genuinely enjoy and look forward to. It does not feel the same as I'm still grieving, but thank you Mr Ballen for helping me take my mind off of what I'm dealing with at the moment. I missed listening to your stories! I hope one day I'll be able to watch your videos in complete peace and happiness, even if my husband is not around. I hope I heal someday. Much love and warmth to you 🤍
@@Amy-qe7ti Aw, thank you soo much Amy! You're too kind🥺 I hope it gets better too Strangers on the internet have been kinder than anyone around. Wishing you well! 🤍hope
I work nights on a psych ward so I listen to Mr. Ballen when the patients go to sleep. It’s the only thing that keeps me from going from a Nurse to a patient here. 😂Thanks Mr. Ballen!
What a hero! I have been a patient a few times at mental clinics, but they are for less extreme patients and more to help with depression etc. There was once a patient or two that was temporarily placed there when I was there and I have visited an acute psych ward and the only way I can stay sane and not break down over how sad everything is, is to go straight into secretly analysing their minds. I use humour to cope, but I don't know how you have the strength to do this full-time. Thank you! Your work is definitely underappreciated. ❤💚
@@tazzyanderson1192 People aren't often treated well in psych wards. As I teen I was in one because of temporary psychosis induced from poor sleep hygiene and deprivation (never let your kids have television in their rooms.) I was diagnosed as a psychotic schizophrenic and they tried to assign me Zoloft and heavy duty drugs indefinitely. Barely ever took the stuff because I knew I was misdiagnosed and I'm right as rain today after getting into weightlifting, cleaning up my diet, and getting adequate sleep. The mental healthcare system creates stigmas for people that can utterly obliterate lives and self-image for those impressionable enough to adopt the negative labels they so freely assign.
People aren't often treated well in psych wards. As I teen I was in one because of temporary psychosis induced from poor sleep hygiene and deprivation (never let your kids have television in their rooms.) I was diagnosed as a psychotic schizophrenic and they tried to assign me Zoloft and heavy duty drugs indefinitely. Barely ever took the stuff because I knew I was misdiagnosed and I'm right as rain today after getting into weightlifting, cleaning up my diet, and getting adequate sleep. The mental healthcare system creates stigmas for people that can utterly obliterate lives and self-image for those impressionable enough to adopt the negative labels they so freely assign.
I worked as activities director in a facility. People who work for years in behavioral health are a different breed. To work and keep it from eating your soul is a great goal to have. Always make sure you're okay first. Thank you for what you do.
@@ブレイヴフェンサ LOL I was 9 and was so excited to FINALLY move to Florida. It took me ONE DAY to beg Dad to get us out of there! lol We moved a month later, and I was so so glad about that.
I didn't realize until the camera being hidden that I knew this story. I remember this! It was so crazy to poison people (especially a baby) over noise! People are insane! Glad this wasn't fatal and they were alright!
I live in Tampa and remember when this story came out. Absolutely wild that someone with kids of their own can be so vile towards a newborn baby and the first time parents.
It's a managed complex so they have maintenance crew on site (or at least on call). Nothing unique about it tbh.. the majority of managed sites have great response time.
@@NoEvidenceForGodI guarantee they didn’t have an on staff HVAC/plumber and mold specialist lmao. The landlord clearly went above and beyond you must have not rented apartments much
No he isn't. All he did was what the law required of him as a landlord. Also, he knew darn well that he could be held liable if anyone died. He was looking out for himself.
But we shouldn't let that fact blind us from the good people who are still around. A wise man once said, "if you look for the light within the darkness, eventually you will find it. If you look for darkness within said darkness, it's all you will ever see." - Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) It's partially paraphrased but it still stands.
I know it’s kinda off topic but honestly what a fantastic landlord. Always keeping on top of repairs and maintenance, as well as listening to the family and bringing in all those different people to investigate and fix whatever’s wrong. If only more landlords were like that.
Wtf did this just happen or y'all talking about Westminster or that dude that took a pic of Brionna's car because yes he can put stuff in the vents & yes I did smell something Eric Schmidt is bitch ass because he the one that started this so it's whatever
Who has a sick baby, a headache and lethargia, smells weird smells, yet stays in the apartment all week and doesn’t even take the baby to the doctor? How can you be that passive? I find this incredibly annoying.
How do you not leave your apartment immediately the moment you realize you and your baby are losing hair? That is insane to me. I would have moved into a cheap hotel or stayed in my car with the baby until the source could be found and fixed.
@@VidelxSpopovich Sure but you can just as easily say they cant afford it because they just had a baby and a vacation. We dont know their financial situation anymore than I know yours.
The fact that they waited a full week to go to the doctor is the craziest part about this story to me. After 24-48 hours I’m taking my son to the doctor at least and then from there we could figure out mine and my wife’s problem too. Waiting a full week is crazy.
I totally agree!!! This was an absurd time to wait being sick after a chemical smell....let alone with a baby???? I do not understand that part at all....I'll camp somewhere, I'm NOT watching my kid be sick, let alone me be so sick to....I don't get it.
You really understand just how unhinged this dude was about all this "noise" when you remember the couple had been on holiday at the start of this story. Dude had literally been poisoning them for noise they were apparently making WHILE NOT EVEN BEING THERE.
@@Sealitre I don't mean that the poisoning started before they went on vacation. The noise that the guy complained about started long before the family went on vacation. You're acting like, on a whim, this guy just decided to poison the family because he imagined them making noise while they weren't even home, which of course is ridiculous. Whatever problem this guy had with the family, it started before they went on vacation.
I despise apartment living. You are literally living under the same roof with strangers and you have no control over who may be living above, below or right next door to you. Very chilling!! 😢😢 This is a perfect example of what can happen. They're very fortunate they survived.
There were at least 2 stories on this channel alone about unhinged neighbours in quiet suburban area who went to great lengths to harm innocent people because of jealousy, hate or just having fun. If a madman got fixated on you, doesn't matter where you live
Same!! 1000%!! I'd rather work twice as hard to afford renting a house. Small, and only 2 meters from the house is a human height fence surrounding it. Gratefully now I have my own house with the same "theme". Bad people are everywhere. But still!! I dont want anything or anybody living attached to my house. Period!! Except, siblings, but only if they have to.
Most disturbing part is not getting out of the house when they initially smelled chemicals. Wouldn't take me a week to figure out somethings wrong and leave.
How unbelievably scary for that family and how smart the husband was to investigate and catch this sick man in the act!! Thankfully, they have all recovered and hopefully are doing good.
I suffer from chronic ones but last week I had one last four days and did not go away with meds. Got a fever and exhaustion. Probably should’ve gone to the ER but didn’t want to deal with the bill. Never been in so much pain. Ended up sleeping and only getting up briefly to drink water. Still kinda feel weird actually.
Well now I feel paranoid all over again about the headaches after watching this. There has been a lot of maintenance going on around the house lately and my roommate said she’s also started puking and has a terrible headache too now. She’s also been sleeping. We had the ac checked, guess I should have the water heater and gas checked too. Hopefully we just have the flu. The hair thing too lol. It’s two girls with long hair and two fluffy dogs so we def shed like crazy. I always get migraines but this is a completely different pain. Dog literally also puked on my bed this morning. Idk how to check this stuff
Do you have an exact location? I just booked my flight to Florida to go thank them personally and then it hit me... I don't even know where the heck this guy lives 🤦♂️
i have neighbors who i feel experienced this type of wildly irrational ramping up of hypervigilance regarding noise. it happened over covid times and it is NOT changing. the upstairs neighbor can’t even walk without a complaint. this is terrifying.
Wow I never connected it to happening over Covid times but I had a massive row with my neighbour of 10 years because she started swearing and raging out her window at my 10 year old son for bouncing his football in the garden on a Sunday afternoon! She bangs the walls when I am tenderising a steak or other meat for dinner - I bang the steak and she bangs the wall 😂 I lived in anxiety for ages trying to be quiet but now I just live my life as I’m not doing anything wrong 🙄
Huge respect to the landlord for trying so many people to fix the problem! It's unfortunate that his efforts didn't result in an immediate solution, but he went above and beyond what I was expecting to try and help his tenants. 🙌
@@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR yeah, I posted my comment around the middle of the video and then feared I praised the bad guy until the end haha. Thought came to me right after I submitted.
Evidently he was important to the Chinese government, so they contacted the necessary U.S.officials and got him out of the country before he could be prosecuted and jailed.
I'm so happy you covered this story so that I could hear it from the family's perspective. I didn't realize how badly they suffered through all of that.
This is why your channel blew up. I saw this story so many times when it happened from news clips, TH-cam vids, reel/TikTok’s etc but the storytelling from those to this video is insane
As a Florida native, I have heard this story already. Truly mind boggling how some people think. Thank goodness that poor family ended up recording the door.
I swear there are some people who should NEVER live in apartments. Back in the late 90s, I was living with my parents in a 2nd story apartment, and our downstairs neighbor was just plain scary. He hated when we made the slightest noise. One early morning I had woken up for work, and while getting ready, I had set my lunch on my bed. I sat down, and an apple rolled off my bed, and landed on the floor with a soft thump. Next thing I knew, the neighbor came up, banging his fists on our door, SCREAMING about the noise!! At some point during that time, a friend of mine was staying with us, and heard him screaming at his young daughter, and her crying and saying "Daddy, no, stop!" She and I reported him to CPS, and someone came to investigate. I don't know what the outcome of that was, but a few days later he confronted my Mother in the parking lot, yelling at her for reporting him to CPS. Somehow I had never told my Mom that we had made that phone call, so she was blissfully able to respond with complete shock and truth that she had no idea what he was talking about. Some people are just downright scary and shouldn't be living so close to other people. I was never so relieved to move out of an apartment.
I'm glad you called CPS. Did you only do it once? Did his daughter finally get free of that abusive psycho? I've got so many questions. Good on you for calling CPS to begin with. 😘🫂👏👏👏
So you had no idea what he was doing to his daughter never saw any signs of abuse , you heard Daddy no stop and called CPS.? That tells me that you were probably making a heck of a lot of noise😅
I don't mind the occasional noise. But it's those people who decide that 3am is a good time to fire up the washing machine and do laundry. And when you draw their attention to the fact that it's 3am a n inappropriate time to do laundry,they assert their right to do what they want in their own apartment.
@@badkitty4922You don't call CPS on people unless you have a really good reason and know of an ongoing pattern of neglect or abuse. Especially not for ONE argument you overheard. You can completely ruin someone's life. No one knew what was going on there or what she was telling him to stop. Think about this, when our son was two he knew not to go in the road but I had a friend over one time and he was standing by his car parked on the street and my son kept waking over by him. Twice he stepped off the curb into the road by him and I told him to stay on the sidewall. The third time I gave him a one swat on the butt amd he started crying. A neighbor called the frickin' cops on me. He said his twelve year pld son just heard smack sound and told him I was smacking my kid on the face and je actually just believed that and called the cops. That's unbelievable behavior from another human to do that. He had no idea what was going on at all and knew damn well that I'm a very nice person and loving father. The police were totally understanding of me and apologized but people let their emotions and imaginations go crazy and do things like calling tue police or CPS on people arguing with their older children or disciplining them even when there's no pattern of abuse. Just having CPS called puts you in the CPS system and can haunt a parent in the future. Don't be like that and let your emotions and imagination make you over react to things.
Oh my god. Though this guy is sick, I can relate to the noise issue. I have the worst couple of neighbours I've ever had since March. The guy upstairs stomps (I've tried to replicate it to show him how loud he's being, and it hurts my feet so I don't know how he does it) to the point it vibrates my apartment. Sometimes he runs and causes my ceiling light to swing, no joke. The guy to my right is very quiet and nice during the day, but at night he keeps inviting his partner (and sometimes other friends) between 10PM to 1AM (because we're only allowed to have sleep overs 3 times a month, otherwise we have to pay a fee. That's just how it is in the country I live in, so he does this to be "sneaky), and then they - against this sneaky procedure to be SNEAKY - they get really boisterous and talk either at normal levels (which is too loud for our apartment as there's no insulation; we can even hear each other fart through the wall lol) all the way up until 4AM to 8AM. One of them will even sing around 2-4AM, and they also tend t move furniture around or clean during those hours. Meanwhile, some of us have to get up as early as 5-6AM which means some of us don't. get. sleep. I've reported them both. The stomping guy stopped stomping late at night which is great (but I still get frequent headaches from the stomping during the day), and the guy to my right will be quiet for a few days after a report before bringing over his friends and such. I'd gone through 6 months of very little sleep because of this, and started to feel like I was going crazy. I finally lost my cool, shouted at them through the wall at the middle of the night (I was shocked at how loud I got and instantly regretted it, BUT THEY KEPT TALKING LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED xD), and then proceeded to fill out a survey as to "why I was moving" for my apartment. The real reason is because I'm going back home, but I also included that even if I wasn't going back home that I would move because my neighbour (mainly the one downstairs to my right who talks all night) is one of the rudest I've ever had. (P.S. I have tried noise cancelling headphones and earplugs, but to no avail. That's how bad they are. LOL.) He's since been quiet for the last 5 days, I finally got sleep, and I feel so much better for it. I no longer feel like I'm in a constant rage state on the brink of insanity. LOL. So, I get this guy on the noise issue. It can be so difficult. But at the same time... MURDER IS NOT THE ANSWER. |= If there's a will, there's a way, and if you can will to murder you can will to move instead. 😂
I was staying with my dad in a townhouse for the summer one year and around 7pm we vacuumed the floor for like 5 minutes then sat down to watch tv. 10 minutes later we heard the doorbell and the cops were there and the next door neighbor was complaining about the noise . This was about the 5th time they had done that . They called because we were walking around the townhouse like 3 times, apparently the tv was too loud one time, and for the vacuum . Eventually my dad got sick of it and complained about them and they ended up being told to stop calling unless it was an emergency. The crazy thing is, them and their kids would make noise late at night consistently and we never thought about reporting them but us doing regular activities got the cops called on us .
I had a neighbor at a rooming house call the cops on me because in her insane mind I was watching tv too long in the common area lol. The cops were pissed at her for wasting their time.
Thats some b.s. happened to me and my kids from this bitch next door. it was unbelievable. hanging out with kids on a Saturday afternoon and cops show up. cause we were singing in our condo! Of course, they wouldn't tell us who it was but we figured it out.
Didn't have the cops called on us, but in our last apartment, we were told by the management team that we were being too loud and they'd received complaints from our downstairs neighbors. It was my husband, myself, and two kids at the time. The complains were that we were stomping around and letting the kids run around "at all hours of the night." We tried to keep our footsteps soft, encouraged the kids to be quiet, etc. Nope, still complaints about us being so loud at all hours of the night. Luckily, management didn't push the issue when we explained that our kids went to bed at 7pm (quiet hours started at 10pm), and that we were trying to keep the noise down while the kids were awake. They only told us so that we were aware there was a complaint so that we could change behaviors if necessary. Well, come to find out that the family *continued* to complain, only for management to discover that "all hours of the night" to that family (elderly couple and their two college-age sons) meant "anytime after 6pm" because the mother had migraines and went to bed at 6pm every day and had decided that everyone else in the building should be silent after that point. Management promptly told them that they weren't going to penalize us when we'd done nothing wrong.
@justinmanson2793 I grew up in a city with naturally occurring fluoride in our water. Does this mean that over 800,000 people have a problem? Silly.😂😂
I ignored my intuition as a young girl because I had been told I was emotionally disturbed all my life by the ones in my family who hated the truth. Now I am an old woman, I encourage all young people to trust their gut, instinct, intuition. 🙏🏼🤍⚖️
I have a neighbor who once complained because I was coughing when I was sick. Not the worst one for sure but still pretty ridiculous. And I had a neighbor whose dogs were constantly barking and yelping which made me have to go to my mum's for a while as it was that bad. But still to try to poison your neighbor like that is just pure evil, no matter what.
@@Mindonicon when you get people who don’t do even the bare minimum, then those who do their job’s bare minimum are great, especially after experiencing such assholes.
@@KoryGrayson then those people arent good people. Not every one is bad theres more good than bad. They have to do their job and there are some that arent as good but when they do their just doing their job they shouldnt be praised because of it
Not all people rush to the doctor when they have a headache. Once they thought there was something going on, they tried to figure things out. Losing hair isn't normal, especially if it's the entire family.
This is why healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Like most people, they couldn’t afford to go to the ER & tried to figure it out themselves. It’s not right. It sux!
2 things: First, can we just talk about how AWESOME their landlord was?! Second, I binged every single episode of MrBallen's Medical Mysteries during July 4th weekend and it has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts!!
The scariest thing is that these guys had a landlord who gave enough of a shit to hire professionals to deal with issues. Mine just has some hillbilly handymen who break more than they fix.
You are a wonderful storyteller. My Family is from Northern Europe and storytelling is an art with us. You have a gift for engaging and intriguing your audience, I love your channel 😊 ty
Just downloaded the Amazon music app to listen to your podcasts. Really enjoy listening to your stories while editing TH-cam video's and making thumbnails, I've found I actually get more work done while listening as opposed to just being in silence Thank you Mr Ballen for all the work you do we all appreciate it
I used to have a downstairs neighbor like that. He had recently started working the night shift, and instead of accepting that his job was interfering with his sleep schedule, he instead blamed his insomnia on his neighbors. One time he banged on my door complaining about loud scraping sounds while I was sound asleep.
... As a person who worked a nighttime job and had a sibling who also worked a nighttime job... It is a matter of both. The job may "interfere" with his sleep schedule for a while, but nighttime workers acclimate and become nocturnal. Unfortunately, we live in a world that mostly is of diurnal people and thus sometimes there does need to be some consideration for th0s who are nocturnal. So... it is just good to try to be calm and courteous. If someone with a nightshift job does come over and politely asks you to be quiet, be considerate. If they come over enraged, still try to be considerate, calm them down and if you are able to stop the cause of their frustration, then do so. If you have done what you can to stop whatever it is, but they still come over and are a *beep* , you can choose to be a *beep* back. If you really have no part in what is keeping them from sleeping, tell them they have the wrong place and try checking out the other neighbors. I know my boundaries. If there is construction going on nearby, just this weekend one of the neighbors was having a wooden fence reinstalled. I just went with it. It was a daytime job that could not be quieted or rescheduled. Meanwhile, at times there will be people I do confront. My room is next to a busy street. So this pair of bicyclers stop and have a conversation... right outside my window where my bed is next to. They took their time just standing there talking and eventually I *had* to get up, open the window and ask them nicely if they could go elsewhere to chat as I needed sleep. So... yeah... please don't blame night shift workers' jobs for their sleep schedules. They can't just quit their job because it is the night shift. They *have* to sleep during the day. So it does help if a neighbor tries to be considerate of their situation. You wouldn't like it at nighttime if you are trying to sleep and a neighbor was making noises that was disturbing your sleep.
@@nyxitylee2094I used to run nights for a month at a time slept in the day in a moving 18 wheeler cry me a river turn on a fan if you can't hack your job find a new one don't care. Sympathy is low for people who tell people to be quiet in their own home during day time hours. If youre truly tired you will sleep can't stand people having a bad attitude because they're tired it screams I'm baby shit soft
I have worked night shift for a decade. EAR PLUGS have saved my life. The world can't stop turning just because we need silence in the day time. Humans are a day time species. Pick another job if you can find a solution. I repeat, find yourself some good EAR PLUGS. Find the right ones that fit your ears well.
It's quite interesting that the guy below them had that severe of an issue. I say that because I had an apartment and the guy below us would freak out because my cats were running around, on a heavily carpeted floor. It came to a head when I was getting ready for my uncle's service. He literally came up to my apartment screaming at me and I told him that the landlord was in the back, go talk to him and I shut the door. He barged in and put his hands around my throat, and the cop said I was at fault because I defended myself, and being really angry, I drank some Yukon Jack while waiting for the cop and my ride. There was a witness and they didn't believe him. Really messed up.
I wish I could say that this is shocking, but after working as a mediation specialist for my city, dealing with feuding neighbors, I've seen worse. People can be horrible, and a horrible neighbor can make life a hell on earth.
@@Weave.seen.this.b4 That's what makes a mediation program so vital. Most of our referrals came from the police. No laws were broken, yet, but the situation is explosive. We could, nine times out of ten get people to at least come to an agreement. I was pushing for conflict resolution skills to be taught in school. But politics being what it is, the schools were and still are struggling just to keep teachers and give kids lunch. It's truly pathetic. So ignorance abounds....
@@izzy031096 😂 sometimes that works. Especially when men don't use guns. If they're bad enough to throw fists, and that settles the matter...I'm just sick of weak minded people who will shoot someone in a heartbeat, but they can't fight for 💩. People like that need to learn the value of humility. It's a virtue. 🌹
I had a neighbor below me who always complained that my cats running on the floor was driving him nuts. I wasn’t going to cage my cats. One night we came home from a mystery dinner show around midnight and we were tip toeing around the house so we wouldn’t disturb them and he came banging on our door. Apparently us walking as quietly as we could was upsetting him. We had to be able to walk on the floor. He kept banging until I called the police to deal with him because I wasn’t going to open the door since I didn’t know him that well and he was in a rage. He moved very soon after. What did this guy expect from this couple and their baby. Babies cry and make noise. The only time I made noise complaints on neighbors was when they would blast their stereos or all surround sound movies that made the walls shake. One man had just moved in and has his woofer system going at 2am while we all tried to sleep. It was absurd
Yeah some people are insane. My mom,me and a couple of her friends were celebrating her bday playing cards, chatting, laughing, no loud music. AT 4pm. And a douche old lady from downstairs called up police on us. Police came to the door, explained the situation and i invited them in too see this insanely loud party. Police officer got soo pissed that he went downstairs and told the lady that if she calls them aigan she will be in trouble xD I think the old witch was just mad she wasnt invited lmfao
We had an upstairs neighbor who used to get super mad at my toddler and pre-k aged kids, who were not even unreasonably loud. He worked nights so he slept during the day, and would stomp on the floor. I tried to keep my kids as quiet as humanly possible, it sucked to live like that.
Ive never had such a good landlord. Amazing. I understand being a landlord is difficult, so shout out to this one who went above and beyond to try and help them.
I thought it was aggravating having a neighbor that lets their dog poo in our yard. I can see things could be much worse. Thank you Mr Allen for another great story!
Gotta min max those construction costs. The money saved by not doing it right can easily be spent on the owners 2nd cancun vacation. Thats the problem with this country. Give it another 50 years and everything will be min-maxed to death.
@@Ruckus45 The problem comes when you actually compare it to other business types. Your standard business should aim for around 5%-10% profit margins. If you have a high volume business like amazon or walmart, this can be as little as 2%-5%. Car dealerships operate on 4% to 6%. Even high end luxury businesses like Apple struggle to break 15%-18% annually. Want to know what the AVERAGE profit margin is on residential apartments? 25% to 28%. There's not too many ways to make 30% legally. If you bought a stock that promised 30% returns year over year, you'd be suspicious. There's profit margin, then there's greedy margin.
I once had a neighbor whose bedroom was separated by a very thin wall from my living room. She was constantly complaining as I would have friends over often. I told her that the walls were thin and there was nothing I could do. One night she came home after going out drinking with her friends. I had some friends over and she banged on the door. I went outside and asked her what she wanted me to do. Then she said the surprising part aloud…she said she wouldn’t be so annoyed by me having people all the time if I invited her occasionally. So I asked if she wanted to come in and have a drink and she said yes. Apparently, one of my friends had figured this out because when we walked in together and I introduced her, all the guys said hello and then each one gave one guy $20 each. He told me that when we were out in the hall he bet everyone $20 that she was interested in me and that’s why she acted like that. All of my friends took the bet thinking she hated me, but he was right. After that night, she never banged on the door to complain again. She went from being my constantly angry neighbor to being my very happy girlfriend.
It really is so humbling seeing Mr. BALLEN rise to i wouldnt say fame but rise to be everyones friend through story telling i have been here since he had less then 200k followers its just amazing
Great storytelling as usual, Mr. Ballon! I saw an adaptation of this case on the Canadian series, "Bizarre Murders", that was done with tainted milk, instead of this guy's chemical concoction. Thx again for all u do, Mr. Ballen! 🐱😊😺
What a coward. I spent 5 years living in the basement of my house while I rented out the top floor of my house to a woman and her 2 teenage kids. The yelling I heard, the music that played directly above my bed at 11pm while I tried to get to sleep…. I should be awarded with an Olympic gold medal for my bravery and patience for not losing my mind!!
@@KmvS86 it was extremely helpful financially. I always had money and I was living very well at the time. But no.. it didn’t pay the mortgage off by any means
He mentioned that they did, but the doctors didn't know what was wrong. Seemed pretty obvious they were being poisoned though. A weird smell and 3 very sick people should have put up all sorts of red flags for doctors, firefighters, and police. They may not have known what was wrong, but they all knew something definitely was. So much so that they should have called in the CDC or other investigators to find out what's poisoning the family.
Obviously they didn't go to the right hospital to get checked out. If they had only gone to the Princeton Plainsboro teaching hospital, Dr. House and his team could have figured it out quickly and if one or all of them died it would have required Columbo and Quincy to figure it out. 😊
@davideaston8314 I bet you he was punished when he got back to China. He probably already got his organs harvested and cremated. China don't mess around with criminals, they don't want people like that walking their streets either. But you also have to keep in mind, a lot of Americans that get arrested over seas have been deported back the the states to face prosecution. Our embassy tends to negotiate with the other country. Even that guy that was arrested in North Korea was eventually brought back
@@GabrielGarcia-300 I might have agreed had it not been for the "relationship" between the US and China - there's more chance he would've been rewarded and celebrated as a national hero upon his return! lol
@davideaston8314 I've been to China, and have several friends there. You don't know much about China. Most likely never been there. You can't have an opinion about a place you never been to. Cute that you liked your own comment 😆
@@GabrielGarcia-300 Firstly I've been to China 3 times and Hong Kong twice (I live in Asia). Secondly I didn't like my own comment. Thirdly, see what making assumptions does in highlighting your own ignornace?!
I know how ming felt. Although I dealt with my upstairs neighbors differently. My upstairs neighbors had 1 son and he was 14 years old. He would ride his skateboard through the apartment on the hardwood floor, blast his radio, dance on the floor constantly stomping. But he would be doing it until 2 and 3 in the morning. Spoke with his parents and they said outright he has the right to play and it's not their fault we have daytime work. The building manager said they spoke to them but they can't force them to keep kid respectful. After dealing with them for 1 year I finally had an opportunity arise that not only stopped their rotten kid from making us miserable, but got payback legally. The people that lived in the 3rd floor apartment where moving out. I lived in the 1st and of course the evil family lived on the second. I went to the manager and said I wanted to move up to 3rd floor. Signed what I needed to sign and 1 month later I'm living on the 3rd floor. Now I have a 10 year old son who even though we lived on the 1st floor I would always try to keep the noise down for people that lived next door. But now I told my son I was going to move my mattress into the living room during the day and let my son jump on it. Bring his friends over to run around and simply be normal loud kids. The second day I lived there my now downstairs evil neighbors come knocking. The surprise on their face when I answered the door was priceless. I listened to their complaints and said " my son and his friends have a right to play". And I added very seriously " you can now go F yourself." And closed the door. My wife said the last part was a little harsh. Keep in mind that the old me would have smashed the dude. So I did quite well. I my son play however he wanted. They moved out like 7 months later. Only problem was getting my son to quiet down when the new people moved in. Lol. So that wasn't easy after giving him free reign.
Such a satisfying story. The double standards of your neighbor. I'm glad you gave them a taste of their own medicine. Riding a skateboard in an apartment? I've never heard of such madness.
Probably the the worst thing I had to deal with in my rental history was hearing the woman above having s*x. She was a screamer. I eventually had a conversation with her about it and said "Please try to refain those activities while my daughter is here on weekends." She was clearly embarrassed but she complied and apologized.
Just cuz you have a kid, doesn't mean you can act like that. Having a kid isn't special and doesn't give you special rights. She has a right to live in her apartment as long as she's not making noise all night. There's usually a time cutoff for noise where it becomes warranted. Entitled parents ruin everything for everyone. Y'all demand everything to be accommodating
@@kai0tfooolI also think ‘screamers’ should be conscious that they live in an apartment building? And also take into account the age of the building itself…
Dude, in my privileged jerk opinion, apartments are for quiet SINGLES ONLY. If you want to have loud sex, OR kids then you need a good job and your own house. It would also be great if apartments PRIORITIZED sound deadening or coded apartment buildings so that all of the same types of people could annoy each other. Hopefully newborn moms would be more tolerant of other new born moms etc. (Like I said-this is a privileged jerk's opinion, but I've seen more evidence that it's valid having lived in dorms and apartments after living in a house my whole life.) The noise issue from neighbors can induce LETHAL PSYCHOPATHY (see story above). People aren't meant to live in thin walled stacked boxes.
I've been listening to Medical Mysteries ever since you announced it!!! I love it!! One of my favorite medical tv shows is "Monsters Inside Me" and "Mystery Diagnosis", so that podcast is right up my alley!!!
I've read and watched many videos about this incident, most of them starts the story with the neighboor complaining about the noise .. but with MrBallen he tells the story from the family's perspective and how they felt during the incident, which puts a lot of mystery to the story and makes it 10 times more interesting .. thats why i watched all his videos TWICE in a span of few weeks
What a spiteful man, I'm glad he was caught. Hi from Staffordshire England! I'm going to tootle over to Prime for a listen on my headphones for an hour with a cup of tea before bed. Have a great week 😊
Oh, snap! I visited that region back in 2006. A good Portuguese friend of mine and I stayed mainly in Worcestershire. The energy is purer there, much purer than anywhere in New England. You have a great week as well!
@@LumisScrimmins Yes, that's the one. Learning what happened and imagining being the mom shattered me... That culprit was truly evil. And for what?! Because their neighbors were a bit noisy?! It's beyond insane.
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You have to give the landlord props for taking their concerns so seriously and immediately investigating any rational cause of their symptoms.
I was thinking he was the culprit by trying to control who came to look for what and seeming like the concerned landlord to throw off suspicion
@lovelace4512 the landlord was actually going above and beyond helping them. How could you think the landlord was involved?
Right?
Every landlord I've ever had would've told me to pay for it or move out...or ignore me completely lol
@@jodiemirowski2980 exactly from that line of thinking. Ppl unalive ppl and help search for the body. Ppl literally do it all the time. Commit a crime and insert themselves into the investigation to look like the concerned friend, the worried boyfriend, the helpful landlord. They look innocent because they’re helping and they can try to steer ppl away from actual clues and just be in the know
@@lovelace4512 that landlord runs a business with impeccable strides to keep everything running perfectly and smoothly so his buildings don't deteriorate and become slums, he also conducts his business with heart. He cares for his tenants. I know all about how people do evil shit and then immerse themselves into "helping". You have to be crazy to look at this landlord and think he was Shady and evil
The craziest thing about this episode is how awesome that landlord was.
I know he is the kind of landlord you want, but few very rarely get.
Ikr! How rare is this landlord, he needs protecting at all costs
For real,very rare specimen there lol
nah, he shouldve moved them to another unit..
Right
I saw the thumbnail and clicked right away. He was my teaching assistant for organic chemistry at my university 😭 it was so bizzare hearing about this story a few months back. He was always so nice, really goes to show you that you never know what people are capable of.
This guy is literal walter white
I think sometimes very nice people are over-doing it because subconsciously they are compensating for some deeply evil secret flaw. I’ve seen it time and time again in real life.
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@@thesincitymamaWow.
Why wasent he arrested?
Man, what if that baby was crawling on the floor around that door. He would've killed that innocent baby. What an absolute monster.
He's a monster and he walks free. Sometimes life is just unreal!
The craziest part is that was very likely his goal!
@@JMSmith137 No, the craziest part is he's a father of 2 himself.
@@khatdubell such a pity for those kids to have this kind of father
I cant believe that there are unresponsible parents out there and wait so damn long with going to a doctor.
I am just so impressed with how many specialists the landlord brought in, trying to get to the bottom of the weird scent permeating the apartment. What a wonderful person!
You’re impressed by someone doing what they are obligated to do?
@@frequencyprovision4195No. They're impressed by how DEDICATED the landlord was to doing what they were obligated to do. There's a difference
@@frequencyprovision4195there are sadly a number of people who are not as willing to do that. It’s what you EXPECT, but it’s not always what you get. :(
@@frequencyprovision4195.... Google sarcasm... might help you understand
@@frequencyprovision4195 when the bar is in a deep hole in the ground, any bit higher than that is extremely impressive
I hate the fact that he was deported back to China and remains free, with no conviction in sight. Infuriating. Deranged dude on the loose.
Same here!!!!
On the other hand, he costs your country no more money and has to live in China.
exactly! That monster deserves to face justice and that family needs closure. Instead he gets to live free in another country? horrid.
Well, at least he did not finished his PhD program and can’t return to the US for the fear of being arrested.
Gentle reminder that Roman Polanski to this day is living in freedom and luxury in Israel despite being arrested for raping and torturing dozens of children. This shit happens all the time with our “allies”. I would honestly be shocked if this man’s “deportation” wasn’t undoubtedly the result of Chinese advocacy groups efforts to help him dodge imprisonment.
Absolute evil. I cannot Imagine slowly murdering a baby and it’s parents? Horrific individual.
Too many viewers blindly believe the narrator's version of events. Story-tellers often tell "stories" (lies). It seems extremely possible that the couple upstairs intensified their noise after the man downstairs complained about it. I've had roommates and coworkers do similar things - and many who vigorously apologized to my face about it.
And, no, I am not saying murder if ethical. But, a lack of sleep can drive a person crazy and many scientific studies prove this.
@@genkiferal7178 Spotted the psychopath
@@genkiferal7178 the world is over populated. Who going to miss a small family 😂
@@rob2927 certainly India and China are - the places the victims and victimizers are from
Wait what? I’m only a minute in. WHAT??? I’m skeert of evil like that. 😮
I''m a graduate of USF. I earned both my bachelors and Masters degree there. This guy should have faced consequences. Deportation is basically letting him go scot-free.
China is ruled by the criminal CCP. If anything, it’s like sending him to a penal colony.
Word
I’m really impressed with how concerned the landlord was, and the lengths in which he went to figure out the problem
Right?!?! Must be a very nice expensive place.
maYBE A FEmale landlord
@@plautus-jc8bemAyBe a FeMaLe lAnDlOrD....that's what you sound like
maybe its the extra weight but you look like you give good head
@@CameronBryce-jb6egmy landlord starts to act like Hocus Pocus witches when I’m 1 day late on rent but still give her the full amount plus late fee. And tells me I gotta cut the weeds down outside the fence when she has maintenance and groundskeeper available 💀
And now imagine the headache that that baby experienced without medication...
This was my first thought. Poor kid
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My thought immediately. I wouldn’t have waited that long for my baby to be seen by a doctor. Come on man. 🤦🏽♂️ (didn’t want to judge, but really?)
@@johnycruz8454I think that because they did the investigation themselves they potentially saved their lives because that guy wasn’t gonna stop so I understand you pov but some of the times Insticts are your best friend definitely not all the time . I would’ve personally sent my wife and baby to the hospital and did the investigation myself but woah this was crazy
I hate parents like this
I love the appreciation the landlord is getting most don’t care if the place is falling apart, he’s literally a gem dude
When I lived in an upstairs apt with a boyfriend many years ago…our downs neighbor constantly complained about my boyfriend’s loud steps and slamming the cabinets which he was really loud and I was constantly reminding him to be quiet. Luckily for us he was coming up to our apartment to knock on our door when 3 guys robbing us busted out the door and he was able to scare them and get stuff back! Turns out the robbers were new friends of my boyfriends and he had let them in our apartment when I told him not to let anyone in. Because at that time we had all the gaming systems, flat screen tvs, etc. nice stuff but he didn’t listen. So they decided to rob us! So I’m thankful for our downstairs neighbor and for the fact that he wasn’t insane!
That boyfriend sounds like a real gem. :/ 😢
i sure hope you ditched that dude.
Hope you got rid of the boyfriend, with friends like his who needs enemies.
Was your boyfriend dark skinned ?
@@jenniferbaggett5775 i stuck around longer than I should have. But I finally set a trip to see my mom (in another state) and used it to find a job and a place. And one day early in the morning threw whatever clothes I could fit into a garbage bag and took off. It was my first and last abusive relationship. Thank goodness for that!
Noise cancelling headphones: ❌
Chemical warfare: ✅
this comment ! so true though how can you be that entitled that you cant just put some music on to drown out the noise ?
Yeah, but it's not very comfortable to sleep with headphones.
But don't get me wrong; I don't defend his way of taking care of the problem.
@@perpetualbystander4516 its all in the perception if you ask me, its alot more comfortable than listening to a baby cry
This made me laugh and now I feel guilty 😕
@@fractalfae5418 making light of a bad situation cant be all bad :D
I moved into an apartment with my three small children after an ugly divorce that forced me to move several states away from my ex. This being the first time I had lived alone I was nervous the first night. Add three hyper kids in a new place and I was a bit jumpy. I noticed rather quickly that the neighbors that I shared a wall with were watching their tv extremely loud. Being new to the building and a bit anxious I just kept quiet since it was just the living room wall and not the kids bedrooms. I figured they would turn it off at some point. This was a Friday night. Cut to Monday afternoon and it’s still loud enough to hear every word in my apartment that was said. I decided I would say something after I ran errands. If they didn’t answer I could call the office. So off I went. When I pulled back into my assigned parking spot on returning, a young lady frantically ran out of the apartment next to me. Before I could even say anything she began to cry and asked me to park somewhere else because she has just found her father deceased in his apartment. Apparently he had passed away sometime on Friday sitting in his recliner watching tv. So yeah… after that I have always thought twice before getting angry in those situation’s. Ya never know what is going on on the other side of the wall. 😮
On the flip side, some (a lot) people are just inconsiderate assholes.
Damn thats crazy..
Or maybe immediately get anger. He might’ve lived if you called immediately never know 🥲
@@conqueror571 I actually immediately thought of that and asked if I could have helped. Unfortunately his time of death was early Friday morning. Long before I had arrived. I also wasn’t in a position to confront an unknown stranger with an issue that may have angered them, being the only adult with three small children. I also didn’t want to waste the police’s time with a noise complaint.
@@WonderDerek I agree! Not worth starting something when I had three kids to take care of alone.
I have experienced the worst upstairs neighbors ever and I can't even imagine doing something like this, pure evil.
Exactly
i bet they werent indian though
Never even had the thought of doing something to them? I have..... Just 2 very important things in that regard, 1 there is a very big difference in thinking of it and doing so. 2 doing this to an innocent baby... yes I agree, pure evil.
I used to have an upstairs neighbour who would have their niece 3 or 4 times a week to babysit. She was 2 or 3 and loved to run and jump off the furniture. It wouldn’t have been so loud if they had carpets but they had laminated floors. It went on for around 6 months before they asked me if I could hear the wee one when she was there. I told them that yes, she could be quite loud when jumping, but, she’s a toddler and kids can be loud. They asked why I hadn’t complained to them and I said, you have to except noise from people above you and I would never dream of complaining about a wee one having fun doing things all toddlers do. They apologised and bought a rug which dampened the sound a bit. People make noise, it’s part of life and it’s something you have to learn to live with when your home is in a flat/apartment block.
@@AFHSpike… what?
This guy Umar abdullah is a Bangladeshi PHD student living in USA for several years. I know his family personally, we were terrified hearing the story in tv.
I hope they're all doing ok!
Man that landlord deserves an award for going above and beyond to help them. Too bad the landlord my parents had when I was little wasn't this helpful I remember we had a leaky toilet that was leaking into the back stairwell and he told my pops to fix it himself that he doesn't have time to call someone to come fix it.
You could of got someone to fix it and give the landlord the bill as it's their property
Your dad could have had it fixed and took the money out of the rent and put the receipt in with the payment. That's what I did as it 's not your property....
I literally used to live near someone who would have seizures and yell and the walls would vibrate. I just dealt with it bc they can’t help it. This man reacting to a baby who can’t help but cry is scary af. The inhumanity
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And the fact that he had kids too! Like they didn't do the same thing at that age?
N none of y’all have medical experience 😂😂
Ikr. He's nuts
By the way, backward baseball caps are not attractive!
So they just let an attempted murderer walk away. F***ing unbelievable!
Florida is the wild West. 😊❤
@@CharleytheGermanShepherdRon DeSantis
Not when they're chinese nationals. It makes perfect sense unfortunately.
@@jonah.donohueRon Desantis doesn't have the authority or the means to deport people out of the country, only the president has that.
Because if Desantis did he would've deported more than just one.
@@Zyryne1naw its the deep south and in the deep south we handle things differently like gtfo
Chemist here; the opioids, symptoms and scent don’t add up. There are far more toxic substances that would aromatize much more effectively and I suspect that’s what he would have used. Also, don’t know what lab has opioids available, none that I worked in. In any case this was horrific.
THANK YOU! Read this far into the comments to see if someone would say this. There had to be something else he was putting in there other than methadone and hydrocodone. Even if you nebulize those, the only thing that would’ve done is get them high. And yes, lethargic. If he had a PhD in chemistry, I’m sure there was something else deadly in there. Possibly chemicals they never found out about.
And yes, those two also wouldn’t have a smell like that.
@@pointstill3755he clearly said other things so I'm thinking you want to tell someone what to use to kill someone then when they do I hope it falls back on you SOME PEOPLE SHOULD BE LEFT IGNORANT remember that
He’s not going to spill the entire recipe for other would-be attempted murderers even if he did know.
as a recovered opiate addict, I was scrolling through the comments, hoping to see someone else notice this. The inconsistencies caught my attention right away, had to have been something else in there. Very curious as to what.
My husband and I used to religiously watch your content without missing any episodes. I found out about his affair 4 months ago and we're currently not living together. I'm going through depression and a lot of anxiety and for a while, I could not get myself to click on your videos and watch it, as it reminded me of old memories with him..and it hurt. I finally decided to sit and watch all the episodes and I'm glad I did because your content is something I genuinely enjoy and look forward to. It does not feel the same as I'm still grieving, but thank you Mr Ballen for helping me take my mind off of what I'm dealing with at the moment. I missed listening to your stories! I hope one day I'll be able to watch your videos in complete peace and happiness, even if my husband is not around. I hope I heal someday. Much love and warmth to you 🤍
You'll get through this gurl
You are so strong and brave. I’m so sorry for what you are suffering through. It will get better, I promise, it just takes time. Keep fighting!❤
@@Amy-qe7ti Aw, thank you soo much Amy! You're too kind🥺 I hope it gets better too
Strangers on the internet have been kinder than anyone around. Wishing you well! 🤍hope
I pray peace and courage for you. Hang in there! 💛
I believe in you! Please get better cause you deserve it : )
I work nights on a psych ward so I listen to Mr. Ballen when the patients go to sleep. It’s the only thing that keeps me from going from a Nurse to a patient here. 😂Thanks Mr. Ballen!
What a hero! I have been a patient a few times at mental clinics, but they are for less extreme patients and more to help with depression etc. There was once a patient or two that was temporarily placed there when I was there and I have visited an acute psych ward and the only way I can stay sane and not break down over how sad everything is, is to go straight into secretly analysing their minds. I use humour to cope, but I don't know how you have the strength to do this full-time. Thank you! Your work is definitely underappreciated. ❤💚
@@tazzyanderson1192 People aren't often treated well in psych wards. As I teen I was in one because of temporary psychosis induced from poor sleep hygiene and deprivation (never let your kids have television in their rooms.) I was diagnosed as a psychotic schizophrenic and they tried to assign me Zoloft and heavy duty drugs indefinitely. Barely ever took the stuff because I knew I was misdiagnosed and I'm right as rain today after getting into weightlifting, cleaning up my diet, and getting adequate sleep. The mental healthcare system creates stigmas for people that can utterly obliterate lives and self-image for those impressionable enough to adopt the negative labels they so freely assign.
People aren't often treated well in psych wards. As I teen I was in one because of temporary psychosis induced from poor sleep hygiene and deprivation (never let your kids have television in their rooms.) I was diagnosed as a psychotic schizophrenic and they tried to assign me Zoloft and heavy duty drugs indefinitely. Barely ever took the stuff because I knew I was misdiagnosed and I'm right as rain today after getting into weightlifting, cleaning up my diet, and getting adequate sleep. The mental healthcare system creates stigmas for people that can utterly obliterate lives and self-image for those impressionable enough to adopt the negative labels they so freely assign.
I worked as activities director in a facility. People who work for years in behavioral health are a different breed. To work and keep it from eating your soul is a great goal to have. Always make sure you're okay first.
Thank you for what you do.
@@stoiccrane4259your right and I don’t tolerate people being mean to the patients!
Everyone should be so lucky having a landlord like that!
In Florida? It's a Biblical miracle. 😊❤
My landlord is also kind and humble. Blessed to have such a good guy
@@Zyryne1almost everything good is a biblical miracle in Florida
@@ブレイヴフェンサ LOL I was 9 and was so excited to FINALLY move to Florida. It took me ONE DAY to beg Dad to get us out of there! lol We moved a month later, and I was so so glad about that.
@@nobody7817what was wrong w florida?
I didn't realize until the camera being hidden that I knew this story. I remember this! It was so crazy to poison people (especially a baby) over noise! People are insane! Glad this wasn't fatal and they were alright!
I live in Tampa and remember when this story came out. Absolutely wild that someone with kids of their own can be so vile towards a newborn baby and the first time parents.
Wonder if his family knew?
I'm in Tampa. What part did this happen in?
That has to be the best landlord in history! Kindness and concerned for the family! Getting professionals to come search the place the same day!
Good lord we aren’t all evil. Landlords are people just like you
@@larrygro Yeah.
That landlord is the hero really in this story - he's a rare landlord for sure.
It's a managed complex so they have maintenance crew on site (or at least on call). Nothing unique about it tbh.. the majority of managed sites have great response time.
@@NoEvidenceForGodI guarantee they didn’t have an on staff HVAC/plumber and mold specialist lmao. The landlord clearly went above and beyond you must have not rented apartments much
@Westcoastrocksduh You are lucky I've heard. I've never rented but things friends have told me - nightmare
@Westcoastrocksduh I only ever had one landlord but he was great. He even came around and did the gardening.
No he isn't. All he did was what the law required of him as a landlord. Also, he knew darn well that he could be held liable if anyone died. He was looking out for himself.
16:54 Tzu Ming: father of two
Also Tzu Ming: can’t handle a baby being loud nearby
I feel for the kids, just how the hell
I remembered watching this story on the news. I did NOT know it was this bad. Thank you for covering this story. People are crazy.
I don’t even get shocked anymore with how evil people are in this world.
How did you watch the video when the video has only been uploaded for two minutes?
You didn't even watch the video... 🤦♂️
But we shouldn't let that fact blind us from the good people who are still around.
A wise man once said, "if you look for the light within the darkness, eventually you will find it. If you look for darkness within said darkness, it's all you will ever see."
- Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
It's partially paraphrased but it still stands.
@@nickangelo116 This is an old very popular story. I knew what it what it was just from the thumbnail.
This is an automated comment, it took the title of the video and generated a comment 😂
I can't begin to imagine how terrifying it must've been for them. So glad they were able to identify the source and get treatment.
What?! This is nonsense! Why did they let him get away with this?! Such evil person and I can’t believe he’s not locked behind bars…
It's frightening that they waited so longer to get medical attention
I don't even have kids. But I was thinking to myself bring the baby to the hospital the second it starts acting different and throwing up😕
@@KizzleCakes-cq4it And losing hair!
They did go to the doctor but they couldn't find what was wrong
That's the part that gave me the most anxiety in this tale.
That was my first thought also. All those symptoms seemed pretty intense for being travel tired or even a common flu or virus, especially the baby.
I know it’s kinda off topic but honestly what a fantastic landlord. Always keeping on top of repairs and maintenance, as well as listening to the family and bringing in all those different people to investigate and fix whatever’s wrong. If only more landlords were like that.
Wtf did this just happen or y'all talking about Westminster or that dude that took a pic of Brionna's car because yes he can put stuff in the vents & yes I did smell something Eric Schmidt is bitch ass because he the one that started this so it's whatever
By all means! I agree!
How is that off topic?
Exactly
I have a landlord like that. He lives across the street from us and his whole family is wonderful. WAY different from our last 2.
It's called doing what is required by law.
There Are good people everywhere.It's good that you've found some too.
Same here. So blessed to have an amazing, respectful and caring landlord couple :) it's so rare these days sadly
Having an awesome landlord is such a blessing. Congrats. 🎉
Who has a sick baby, a headache and lethargia, smells weird smells, yet stays in the apartment all week and doesn’t even take the baby to the doctor? How can you be that passive? I find this incredibly annoying.
How do you not leave your apartment immediately the moment you realize you and your baby are losing hair? That is insane to me. I would have moved into a cheap hotel or stayed in my car with the baby until the source could be found and fixed.
If you cant afford to pay for an apartment AND a hotel, what the f*** do you do??? They were already paying doctors bills.
Yea man you dint know people finical well being just cuz ppl look rich don’t mean they are ❤
@@louistech112 They had just taken a big vacation AND had a baby so odds are they weren’t exactly broke.
@@VidelxSpopovich Sure but you can just as easily say they cant afford it because they just had a baby and a vacation. We dont know their financial situation anymore than I know yours.
That’s what I was thinking.
The fact that they waited a full week to go to the doctor is the craziest part about this story to me. After 24-48 hours I’m taking my son to the doctor at least and then from there we could figure out mine and my wife’s problem too. Waiting a full week is crazy.
Baby's hair is falling out? Oh, but that happens. Not at her age? Still, so what. Now dad's hair is falling out? GET A CAMERA.
I totally agree!!! This was an absurd time to wait being sick after a chemical smell....let alone with a baby???? I do not understand that part at all....I'll camp somewhere, I'm NOT watching my kid be sick, let alone me be so sick to....I don't get it.
The craziest part lol? Really?
@@algae_ I mean yea it’s obvious not the craziest part, you’re right. But it is still really crazy that they waited that freaking long.
You would wait that long?
You really understand just how unhinged this dude was about all this "noise" when you remember the couple had been on holiday at the start of this story. Dude had literally been poisoning them for noise they were apparently making WHILE NOT EVEN BEING THERE.
How do you come to that conclusion? He was already upset before they left on holiday. When they came back he was ready.
Lol what? You don't think this started prior to the family going on vacation?
@@american_cosmic If it started prior to the vacation, you don't think they'd have noticed the smell or exhibited any symptoms before going?
@@_droid Because the smell was there when they got back, remember? They opened all the windows to flush it out.
@@Sealitre I don't mean that the poisoning started before they went on vacation. The noise that the guy complained about started long before the family went on vacation. You're acting like, on a whim, this guy just decided to poison the family because he imagined them making noise while they weren't even home, which of course is ridiculous. Whatever problem this guy had with the family, it started before they went on vacation.
Pure Evil. May God protect us from people consumed by devils
I despise apartment living. You are literally living under the same roof with strangers and you have no control over who may be living above, below or right next door to you. Very chilling!! 😢😢 This is a perfect example of what can happen. They're very fortunate they survived.
There were at least 2 stories on this channel alone about unhinged neighbours in quiet suburban area who went to great lengths to harm innocent people because of jealousy, hate or just having fun. If a madman got fixated on you, doesn't matter where you live
It's nice if you can avoid it
Unfortunately, if you don't have money, you don't really have a choice just to hop your neighbors will be good people
Same!! 1000%!!
I'd rather work twice as hard to afford renting a house. Small, and only 2 meters from the house is a human height fence surrounding it. Gratefully now I have my own house with the same "theme".
Bad people are everywhere. But still!! I dont want anything or anybody living attached to my house. Period!!
Except, siblings, but only if they have to.
i hate it too. Always had issues with loud neighbors. No matter which apartment
Most disturbing part is not getting out of the house when they initially smelled chemicals. Wouldn't take me a week to figure out somethings wrong and leave.
not everyone has the means to move when they have evil neighbors. not everyone thinks clearly when they are being poisoned either.
Literally! Why would you just all live with blinding headaches and lethargy for a whole week before even trying to find out what’s wrong???
Hello!!! I'd have turned on my heel instantly. With an infant?! Absolutely not. 😊❤
@@gwendolyn2442with an infant?! Bye. 😊❤
@@gwendolyn2442 natural selection
100% kudos to this landlord! He was amazing handling this!
Floridians are incredibly into litigation. It's kind and wise of the landlord to hop to. 😊❤
How unbelievably scary for that family and how smart the husband was to investigate and catch this sick man in the act!! Thankfully, they have all recovered and hopefully are doing good.
Headaches that last more than 72 hours are a medical emergency.
Yea I was like “Did they not go to the hospital after losing their hair and feeling sick?”
Try telling that to the doctors that's completely dismiss you or patient dump you here in Florida.
@@dabzprincess92 Same here too. ER docs only care if you're gushing blood.
I suffer from chronic ones but last week I had one last four days and did not go away with meds. Got a fever and exhaustion. Probably should’ve gone to the ER but didn’t want to deal with the bill. Never been in so much pain. Ended up sleeping and only getting up briefly to drink water. Still kinda feel weird actually.
Well now I feel paranoid all over again about the headaches after watching this. There has been a lot of maintenance going on around the house lately and my roommate said she’s also started puking and has a terrible headache too now. She’s also been sleeping. We had the ac checked, guess I should have the water heater and gas checked too. Hopefully we just have the flu. The hair thing too lol. It’s two girls with long hair and two fluffy dogs so we def shed like crazy. I always get migraines but this is a completely different pain. Dog literally also puked on my bed this morning. Idk how to check this stuff
"He was quiet and kept to himself"...
The tagline from every horrific story.
Yes 😅😅
As someone living alone quiet and kept to myself I feel attacked 😂
Every. Single. Time.
@@marwahasan9961 as long as you arnt a psychopath with homicidal tendencies... you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Indeed
The place is called, Oxford Place at Tampa Palms. If you are around there, stop bye and thank the landlord/office folks for being so supportive.
Or just leave them alone to do their job and stop suggesting people go and harass them?
@@TheTacticalHaggis Or you could do the same! as in F* Off.
@@TheTacticalHaggis how is thanking someone harassment??
@@TheTacticalHaggis😹
Do you have an exact location? I just booked my flight to Florida to go thank them personally and then it hit me... I don't even know where the heck this guy lives 🤦♂️
i have neighbors who i feel experienced this type of wildly irrational ramping up of hypervigilance regarding noise. it happened over covid times and it is NOT changing. the upstairs neighbor can’t even walk without a complaint. this is terrifying.
Wow I never connected it to happening over Covid times but I had a massive row with my neighbour of 10 years because she started swearing and raging out her window at my 10 year old son for bouncing his football in the garden on a Sunday afternoon! She bangs the walls when I am tenderising a steak or other meat for dinner - I bang the steak and she bangs the wall 😂 I lived in anxiety for ages trying to be quiet but now I just live my life as I’m not doing anything wrong 🙄
Huge respect to the landlord for trying so many people to fix the problem! It's unfortunate that his efforts didn't result in an immediate solution, but he went above and beyond what I was expecting to try and help his tenants. 🙌
Can we take a minute to praise this amazing landlord?
I was so surprised by how good the landlord was, that I instantly thought that he must be the cause of the problem
@@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR yeah, I posted my comment around the middle of the video and then feared I praised the bad guy until the end haha. Thought came to me right after I submitted.
Truly the most shocking part!
I know, @Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR, I thought that the landlord was suspicious too
😄
Mr. Ballen loved my comment and then he took it away. He played me like the like button 💔
Why deport a violent felony suspect BEFORE trial? That seems so foolish.
Right??
@@trishpipkins Why waste the resources?
Its ok, bidens got the boarders open wide, I'm sure he'll be back...
Evidently he was important to the Chinese government, so they contacted the necessary U.S.officials and got him out of the country before he could be prosecuted and jailed.
@@ebayerr do you have any sources for that claim?
I'm hooked on these. I love how Mr Ballen used his hands to act out some of the story. It's pretty engaging.
"Not a real photo of " always get me 😄
Fr same 😂
Same and I don't want him to change it😂
He low key does it on purpose now 😅
Sometimes he makes it quite obvious he's joking around. Always gets me too 😅
Y'all are ruining it
@@TyeArtisik no
I wanna take a moment to appreciate how much the landlord tried to do to help them. Thats a class act!
They HAVE to. Would you let this continue within your property which is your livelihood?
I'm so happy you covered this story so that I could hear it from the family's perspective. I didn't realize how badly they suffered through all of that.
Love your gesticulation, really adds to the narrative.
This is why your channel blew up. I saw this story so many times when it happened from news clips, TH-cam vids, reel/TikTok’s etc but the storytelling from those to this video is insane
True. I’ve heard the story many times but not in this much detail.
I've never heard this story, so I was super riveted to every word.
As a Florida native, I have heard this story already. Truly mind boggling how some people think. Thank goodness that poor family ended up recording the door.
I swear there are some people who should NEVER live in apartments. Back in the late 90s, I was living with my parents in a 2nd story apartment, and our downstairs neighbor was just plain scary. He hated when we made the slightest noise. One early morning I had woken up for work, and while getting ready, I had set my lunch on my bed. I sat down, and an apple rolled off my bed, and landed on the floor with a soft thump. Next thing I knew, the neighbor came up, banging his fists on our door, SCREAMING about the noise!!
At some point during that time, a friend of mine was staying with us, and heard him screaming at his young daughter, and her crying and saying "Daddy, no, stop!" She and I reported him to CPS, and someone came to investigate. I don't know what the outcome of that was, but a few days later he confronted my Mother in the parking lot, yelling at her for reporting him to CPS. Somehow I had never told my Mom that we had made that phone call, so she was blissfully able to respond with complete shock and truth that she had no idea what he was talking about.
Some people are just downright scary and shouldn't be living so close to other people. I was never so relieved to move out of an apartment.
I'm glad you called CPS. Did you only do it once?
Did his daughter finally get free of that abusive psycho?
I've got so many questions.
Good on you for calling CPS to begin with. 😘🫂👏👏👏
So you had no idea what he was doing to his daughter never saw any signs of abuse , you heard Daddy no stop and called CPS.?
That tells me that you were probably making a heck of a lot of noise😅
I don't mind the occasional noise. But it's those people who decide that 3am is a good time to fire up the washing machine and do laundry. And when you draw their attention to the fact that it's 3am a n inappropriate time to do laundry,they assert their right to do what they want in their own apartment.
@@badkitty4922You don't call CPS on people unless you have a really good reason and know of an ongoing pattern of neglect or abuse. Especially not for ONE argument you overheard. You can completely ruin someone's life. No one knew what was going on there or what she was telling him to stop. Think about this, when our son was two he knew not to go in the road but I had a friend over one time and he was standing by his car parked on the street and my son kept waking over by him. Twice he stepped off the curb into the road by him and I told him to stay on the sidewall. The third time I gave him a one swat on the butt amd he started crying. A neighbor called the frickin' cops on me. He said his twelve year pld son just heard smack sound and told him I was smacking my kid on the face and je actually just believed that and called the cops. That's unbelievable behavior from another human to do that. He had no idea what was going on at all and knew damn well that I'm a very nice person and loving father. The police were totally understanding of me and apologized but people let their emotions and imaginations go crazy and do things like calling tue police or CPS on people arguing with their older children or disciplining them even when there's no pattern of abuse. Just having CPS called puts you in the CPS system and can haunt a parent in the future. Don't be like that and let your emotions and imagination make you over react to things.
@@aethelred9781 Yes.
Oh my god. Though this guy is sick, I can relate to the noise issue. I have the worst couple of neighbours I've ever had since March. The guy upstairs stomps (I've tried to replicate it to show him how loud he's being, and it hurts my feet so I don't know how he does it) to the point it vibrates my apartment. Sometimes he runs and causes my ceiling light to swing, no joke. The guy to my right is very quiet and nice during the day, but at night he keeps inviting his partner (and sometimes other friends) between 10PM to 1AM (because we're only allowed to have sleep overs 3 times a month, otherwise we have to pay a fee. That's just how it is in the country I live in, so he does this to be "sneaky), and then they - against this sneaky procedure to be SNEAKY - they get really boisterous and talk either at normal levels (which is too loud for our apartment as there's no insulation; we can even hear each other fart through the wall lol) all the way up until 4AM to 8AM. One of them will even sing around 2-4AM, and they also tend t move furniture around or clean during those hours. Meanwhile, some of us have to get up as early as 5-6AM which means some of us don't. get. sleep.
I've reported them both. The stomping guy stopped stomping late at night which is great (but I still get frequent headaches from the stomping during the day), and the guy to my right will be quiet for a few days after a report before bringing over his friends and such. I'd gone through 6 months of very little sleep because of this, and started to feel like I was going crazy. I finally lost my cool, shouted at them through the wall at the middle of the night (I was shocked at how loud I got and instantly regretted it, BUT THEY KEPT TALKING LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED xD), and then proceeded to fill out a survey as to "why I was moving" for my apartment. The real reason is because I'm going back home, but I also included that even if I wasn't going back home that I would move because my neighbour (mainly the one downstairs to my right who talks all night) is one of the rudest I've ever had. (P.S. I have tried noise cancelling headphones and earplugs, but to no avail. That's how bad they are. LOL.)
He's since been quiet for the last 5 days, I finally got sleep, and I feel so much better for it. I no longer feel like I'm in a constant rage state on the brink of insanity. LOL.
So, I get this guy on the noise issue. It can be so difficult. But at the same time... MURDER IS NOT THE ANSWER. |= If there's a will, there's a way, and if you can will to murder you can will to move instead. 😂
I was staying with my dad in a townhouse for the summer one year and around 7pm we vacuumed the floor for like 5 minutes then sat down to watch tv. 10 minutes later we heard the doorbell and the cops were there and the next door neighbor was complaining about the noise .
This was about the 5th time they had done that . They called because we were walking around the townhouse like 3 times, apparently the tv was too loud one time, and for the vacuum . Eventually my dad got sick of it and complained about them and they ended up being told to stop calling unless it was an emergency. The crazy thing is, them and their kids would make noise late at night consistently and we never thought about reporting them but us doing regular activities got the cops called on us .
😂😂😂 cool story
I had a neighbor at a rooming house call the cops on me because in her insane mind I was watching tv too long in the common area lol. The cops were pissed at her for wasting their time.
Thats some b.s. happened to me and my kids from this bitch next door. it was unbelievable. hanging out with kids on a Saturday afternoon and cops show up. cause we were singing in our condo! Of course, they wouldn't tell us who it was but we figured it out.
Didn't have the cops called on us, but in our last apartment, we were told by the management team that we were being too loud and they'd received complaints from our downstairs neighbors. It was my husband, myself, and two kids at the time. The complains were that we were stomping around and letting the kids run around "at all hours of the night." We tried to keep our footsteps soft, encouraged the kids to be quiet, etc. Nope, still complaints about us being so loud at all hours of the night. Luckily, management didn't push the issue when we explained that our kids went to bed at 7pm (quiet hours started at 10pm), and that we were trying to keep the noise down while the kids were awake. They only told us so that we were aware there was a complaint so that we could change behaviors if necessary.
Well, come to find out that the family *continued* to complain, only for management to discover that "all hours of the night" to that family (elderly couple and their two college-age sons) meant "anytime after 6pm" because the mother had migraines and went to bed at 6pm every day and had decided that everyone else in the building should be silent after that point. Management promptly told them that they weren't going to penalize us when we'd done nothing wrong.
Your neighbour is liability , these families don't deserve to ...
It’s truly amazing how long people go ignoring their intuition.
@justinmanson2793 I grew up in a city with naturally occurring fluoride in our water. Does this mean that over 800,000 people have a problem? Silly.😂😂
Doesn't sound like they ignored it. They were on it from day 1
I ignored my intuition as a young girl because I had been told I was emotionally disturbed all my life by the ones in my family who hated the truth. Now I am an old woman, I encourage all young people to trust their gut, instinct, intuition. 🙏🏼🤍⚖️
except in this episode, if you watched it.
Yes, fluoride also reduces iq. My water filter removes it. @@StubbyandShifu
Even though I'd heard this story before, MrBallen comes at this from the other side and kept it a mystery the entire time. Superb story telling.
Where have we heard this story before? Do you remember?
@@xxEasydoesitxxI was just thinking the same.
7:05 was when i noticed that I've heard it before.
I think it was maybe Mr Ballen
@denzelkiptalam4150 I was thinking the same thing but at the beginning. He said he'd never done a story like this before.
@@denzelkiptalam4150 I, also, think he did this one before.
@@denzelkiptalam4150it was all over the news and social media when it happened
I have a neighbor who once complained because I was coughing when I was sick. Not the worst one for sure but still pretty ridiculous. And I had a neighbor whose dogs were constantly barking and yelping which made me have to go to my mum's for a while as it was that bad. But still to try to poison your neighbor like that is just pure evil, no matter what.
That landlord is amazing.
No, he did his job to keep his property from deteriorating.
Lol he is amazing because he is just doing his job? Lol ok pal
@@dilberta6046exactly. Cant believe people praise others for such minimal things🤦♂️
@@Mindonicon when you get people who don’t do even the bare minimum, then those who do their job’s bare minimum are great, especially after experiencing such assholes.
@@KoryGrayson then those people arent good people. Not every one is bad theres more good than bad. They have to do their job and there are some that arent as good but when they do their just doing their job they shouldnt be praised because of it
After 2-3 days, I've already called the fire department, am in a hotel and am calling my doctor. Their slow response is bizarre.
Being poisoned and sick might affect your decision making skills, I guess, and being tired from a trip
Not all people rush to the doctor when they have a headache. Once they thought there was something going on, they tried to figure things out. Losing hair isn't normal, especially if it's the entire family.
They were going to their doctors. The Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with them.
They didn't have the means to go somewhere else.
This is why healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Like most people, they couldn’t afford to go to the ER & tried to figure it out themselves. It’s not right. It sux!
I have a feeling Mr.Ballen might be a kindergarten teacher in his past lives. He tells all this story with such energy it attracts all the listeners ❤
Cringe
He was a Navy SEAL ffs....jesus
@@MachanoBakas Your single i'll bet the entire universe on it without a second thought
@@chinglesscheddar cope
I love the medical mystery show! Also, every other show from Ballen Studios! ❤❤
4:21 who else is yelling “GET OUT OF THE APARTMENT!”
Right?!?
Thank you!
I am! Ugh🤦♀️
I am! Ugh🤦♀️
I just don't get it !!
Baby is throwing up and they think it's jet lag !!
Some people really do need a license to have children 😮
2 things: First, can we just talk about how AWESOME their landlord was?! Second, I binged every single episode of MrBallen's Medical Mysteries during July 4th weekend and it has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts!!
The scariest thing is that these guys had a landlord who gave enough of a shit to hire professionals to deal with issues. Mine just has some hillbilly handymen who break more than they fix.
At least you don't live in Turkey... OMG... we order things from back home to fix their "fixes" after they leave...
We don’t even have anyone respond to our maintenance requests T-T
My sister's landlord has tourettes and constantly makes fart noises. If he's not doing that, he's picking his nose like he's scrambling to find gold😂
Mine shows up when he feels like it. 😂😂😂
My landlord doesn't even have hillbillies to help him 😢
You are a wonderful storyteller. My Family is from Northern Europe and storytelling is an art with us. You have a gift for engaging and intriguing your audience, I love your channel 😊 ty
It may not be the reason the perpetrator was caught, but huge props to the landlord for taking prompt and diligent action to try to solve the problem.
Unheard of in Florida. 😊❤
Just downloaded the Amazon music app to listen to your podcasts. Really enjoy listening to your stories while editing TH-cam video's and making thumbnails, I've found I actually get more work done while listening as opposed to just being in silence
Thank you Mr Ballen for all the work you do we all appreciate it
I used to have a downstairs neighbor like that. He had recently started working the night shift, and instead of accepting that his job was interfering with his sleep schedule, he instead blamed his insomnia on his neighbors. One time he banged on my door complaining about loud scraping sounds while I was sound asleep.
He was hallucinating already from the lack of sleep.
... As a person who worked a nighttime job and had a sibling who also worked a nighttime job... It is a matter of both. The job may "interfere" with his sleep schedule for a while, but nighttime workers acclimate and become nocturnal. Unfortunately, we live in a world that mostly is of diurnal people and thus sometimes there does need to be some consideration for th0s who are nocturnal. So... it is just good to try to be calm and courteous.
If someone with a nightshift job does come over and politely asks you to be quiet, be considerate. If they come over enraged, still try to be considerate, calm them down and if you are able to stop the cause of their frustration, then do so. If you have done what you can to stop whatever it is, but they still come over and are a *beep* , you can choose to be a *beep* back. If you really have no part in what is keeping them from sleeping, tell them they have the wrong place and try checking out the other neighbors.
I know my boundaries. If there is construction going on nearby, just this weekend one of the neighbors was having a wooden fence reinstalled. I just went with it. It was a daytime job that could not be quieted or rescheduled. Meanwhile, at times there will be people I do confront. My room is next to a busy street. So this pair of bicyclers stop and have a conversation... right outside my window where my bed is next to. They took their time just standing there talking and eventually I *had* to get up, open the window and ask them nicely if they could go elsewhere to chat as I needed sleep.
So... yeah... please don't blame night shift workers' jobs for their sleep schedules. They can't just quit their job because it is the night shift. They *have* to sleep during the day. So it does help if a neighbor tries to be considerate of their situation. You wouldn't like it at nighttime if you are trying to sleep and a neighbor was making noises that was disturbing your sleep.
Rats in the walls, maybe.
@@nyxitylee2094I used to run nights for a month at a time slept in the day in a moving 18 wheeler cry me a river turn on a fan if you can't hack your job find a new one don't care. Sympathy is low for people who tell people to be quiet in their own home during day time hours. If youre truly tired you will sleep can't stand people having a bad attitude because they're tired it screams I'm baby shit soft
I have worked night shift for a decade. EAR PLUGS have saved my life. The world can't stop turning just because we need silence in the day time. Humans are a day time species. Pick another job if you can find a solution. I repeat, find yourself some good EAR PLUGS. Find the right ones that fit your ears well.
It's quite interesting that the guy below them had that severe of an issue. I say that because I had an apartment and the guy below us would freak out because my cats were running around, on a heavily carpeted floor. It came to a head when I was getting ready for my uncle's service. He literally came up to my apartment screaming at me and I told him that the landlord was in the back, go talk to him and I shut the door. He barged in and put his hands around my throat, and the cop said I was at fault because I defended myself, and being really angry, I drank some Yukon Jack while waiting for the cop and my ride. There was a witness and they didn't believe him. Really messed up.
I wish I could say that this is shocking, but after working as a mediation specialist for my city, dealing with feuding neighbors, I've seen worse. People can be horrible, and a horrible neighbor can make life a hell on earth.
@@Weave.seen.this.b4 That's what makes a mediation program so vital. Most of our referrals came from the police. No laws were broken, yet, but the situation is explosive. We could, nine times out of ten get people to at least come to an agreement. I was pushing for conflict resolution skills to be taught in school. But politics being what it is, the schools were and still are struggling just to keep teachers and give kids lunch. It's truly pathetic. So ignorance abounds....
Bring back mutual combat I say
@@izzy031096 😂 sometimes that works. Especially when men don't use guns. If they're bad enough to throw fists, and that settles the matter...I'm just sick of weak minded people who will shoot someone in a heartbeat, but they can't fight for 💩. People like that need to learn the value of humility. It's a virtue. 🌹
@@miapdx503if your a medication specialist why did you not comment on the fact that there is no possible way an opiate caused thos symptoms lmao
@@TristonDaniels-y2z Honey. The word is MEDIATION. Medication not in this conversation. 😏
I had a neighbor below me who always complained that my cats running on the floor was driving him nuts. I wasn’t going to cage my cats. One night we came home from a mystery dinner show around midnight and we were tip toeing around the house so we wouldn’t disturb them and he came banging on our door. Apparently us walking as quietly as we could was upsetting him. We had to be able to walk on the floor. He kept banging until I called the police to deal with him because I wasn’t going to open the door since I didn’t know him that well and he was in a rage. He moved very soon after.
What did this guy expect from this couple and their baby. Babies cry and make noise. The only time I made noise complaints on neighbors was when they would blast their stereos or all surround sound movies that made the walls shake. One man had just moved in and has his woofer system going at 2am while we all tried to sleep. It was absurd
my subwoofer is why I cant move into an apartment, that shit shakes the walls 😅
Yeah some people are insane. My mom,me and a couple of her friends were celebrating her bday playing cards, chatting, laughing, no loud music. AT 4pm. And a douche old lady from downstairs called up police on us. Police came to the door, explained the situation and i invited them in too see this insanely loud party. Police officer got soo pissed that he went downstairs and told the lady that if she calls them aigan she will be in trouble xD I think the old witch was just mad she wasnt invited lmfao
We had an upstairs neighbor who used to get super mad at my toddler and pre-k aged kids, who were not even unreasonably loud. He worked nights so he slept during the day, and would stomp on the floor. I tried to keep my kids as quiet as humanly possible, it sucked to live like that.
Some people think they deserve complete silence from surrounding sounds in an apartment. They’re absurd.
They need to build these buildings better so these types of issues don't occur.
Ive never had such a good landlord. Amazing. I understand being a landlord is difficult, so shout out to this one who went above and beyond to try and help them.
I thought it was aggravating having a neighbor that lets their dog poo in our yard. I can see things could be much worse. Thank you Mr Allen for another great story!
This is why I hate apartments. They are built so cheaply that you hear way too much from neighbors
Gotta min max those construction costs. The money saved by not doing it right can easily be spent on the owners 2nd cancun vacation. Thats the problem with this country. Give it another 50 years and everything will be min-maxed to death.
@@TheeGlocktopusProfit margins are needed in any business. Apartments will cost more to rent if better materials are used. That's just how it goes.
@@Ruckus45 The problem comes when you actually compare it to other business types. Your standard business should aim for around 5%-10% profit margins. If you have a high volume business like amazon or walmart, this can be as little as 2%-5%. Car dealerships operate on 4% to 6%. Even high end luxury businesses like Apple struggle to break 15%-18% annually. Want to know what the AVERAGE profit margin is on residential apartments? 25% to 28%. There's not too many ways to make 30% legally. If you bought a stock that promised 30% returns year over year, you'd be suspicious. There's profit margin, then there's greedy margin.
This doesn't sound like a cheap apartment, considering how much cavalry the landlord was willing to call in and pay for.
*laughs as loud as he wants in his apartment complex made of 30cm thicc concrete walls*
a landlord with empathy ??? I'm shooketh
Are there supposed to be emotions involved in a landlord/tenant relationship?
Forsooth!
@@sophiasdreamquinnblue8977 in my opinion yes if somone is staying in a property you own it would help foster a level of respect between eachother
@@catchloe1989 not heard that word before !! i love it
@Loki_explores no your renting the place...it's yours...it's not a hotel, they aren't supposed to take care of you
I once had a neighbor whose bedroom was separated by a very thin wall from my living room. She was constantly complaining as I would have friends over often. I told her that the walls were thin and there was nothing I could do.
One night she came home after going out drinking with her friends. I had some friends over and she banged on the door. I went outside and asked her what she wanted me to do. Then she said the surprising part aloud…she said she wouldn’t be so annoyed by me having people all the time if I invited her occasionally. So I asked if she wanted to come in and have a drink and she said yes.
Apparently, one of my friends had figured this out because when we walked in together and I introduced her, all the guys said hello and then each one gave one guy $20 each. He told me that when we were out in the hall he bet everyone $20 that she was interested in me and that’s why she acted like that. All of my friends took the bet thinking she hated me, but he was right.
After that night, she never banged on the door to complain again. She went from being my constantly angry neighbor to being my very happy girlfriend.
Omggg I love this
That’s sweet
Warning label: NEVER mess up as a boyfriend... the relapse will be worse!
It really is so humbling seeing Mr. BALLEN rise to i wouldnt say fame but rise to be everyones friend through story telling i have been here since he had less then 200k followers its just amazing
So true. I remember when he had 5k followers
This was one of the greatest story telling I’ve ever heard in my life.From start to finish u left me on edge.You really are a GOAT story teller.
He truly is THE GOAT.
This story has nothing to do with goats.
Yess he is a great storyteller and with very good timeline plus building up the story without loosing the smooth paste. Immediatly suscribed.
Annoying asf! Why does he think we want to look at his head at ALL? 500 words a minute. Stfu.
Hes a great edger
How terrifying for that family, this is pure evil. I hope they recovered fully and moved far away from that place.
Great storytelling as usual, Mr. Ballon! I saw an adaptation of this case on the Canadian series, "Bizarre Murders", that was done with tainted milk, instead of this guy's chemical concoction. Thx again for all u do, Mr. Ballen! 🐱😊😺
What a coward. I spent 5 years living in the basement of my house while I rented out the top floor of my house to a woman and her 2 teenage kids. The yelling I heard, the music that played directly above my bed at 11pm while I tried to get to sleep…. I should be awarded with an Olympic gold medal for my bravery and patience for not losing my mind!!
Did it help you pay your mortgage off atleast?
@@KmvS86 it was extremely helpful financially. I always had money and I was living very well at the time. But no.. it didn’t pay the mortgage off by any means
Lol you're the darsh that rented out the floor above you.....
Ur not a wise person are u
Did they know you lived in the basement 😂? I always wondered if you could have people in your home without knowing they lived down there.
8:59 if only every landlord was like this guy...............
That man is so considerate 😊
You'd think the parents would get medical attention for all of them much sooner
That was my first thought, it was like the literally refused to go to the hospital until the internet didn't have anymore answers for them
He mentioned that they did, but the doctors didn't know what was wrong. Seemed pretty obvious they were being poisoned though. A weird smell and 3 very sick people should have put up all sorts of red flags for doctors, firefighters, and police. They may not have known what was wrong, but they all knew something definitely was. So much so that they should have called in the CDC or other investigators to find out what's poisoning the family.
@@ChaseSchleichthey went to get medical attention after A WHOLE WEEK 🥴 …. Insane…. And with a baby too???
@9:56 🤦 Why blame the parents for being irresponsible when you didn't pay attention to all the details?
Obviously they didn't go to the right hospital to get checked out. If they had only gone to the Princeton Plainsboro teaching hospital, Dr. House and his team could have figured it out quickly and if one or all of them died it would have required Columbo and Quincy to figure it out. 😊
Enjoy your clips. Please continue being you!
How is someone suspected of such a heinous crime, allowed to be deported so as to avoid prosecution?
I been wondering the same thing.
@davideaston8314 I bet you he was punished when he got back to China. He probably already got his organs harvested and cremated. China don't mess around with criminals, they don't want people like that walking their streets either. But you also have to keep in mind, a lot of Americans that get arrested over seas have been deported back the the states to face prosecution. Our embassy tends to negotiate with the other country. Even that guy that was arrested in North Korea was eventually brought back
@@GabrielGarcia-300 I might have agreed had it not been for the "relationship" between the US and China - there's more chance he would've been rewarded and celebrated as a national hero upon his return! lol
@davideaston8314 I've been to China, and have several friends there. You don't know much about China. Most likely never been there. You can't have an opinion about a place you never been to. Cute that you liked your own comment 😆
@@GabrielGarcia-300 Firstly I've been to China 3 times and Hong Kong twice (I live in Asia). Secondly I didn't like my own comment. Thirdly, see what making assumptions does in highlighting your own ignornace?!
I know how ming felt. Although I dealt with my upstairs neighbors differently. My upstairs neighbors had 1 son and he was 14 years old. He would ride his skateboard through the apartment on the hardwood floor, blast his radio, dance on the floor constantly stomping. But he would be doing it until 2 and 3 in the morning. Spoke with his parents and they said outright he has the right to play and it's not their fault we have daytime work. The building manager said they spoke to them but they can't force them to keep kid respectful. After dealing with them for 1 year I finally had an opportunity arise that not only stopped their rotten kid from making us miserable, but got payback legally. The people that lived in the 3rd floor apartment where moving out. I lived in the 1st and of course the evil family lived on the second. I went to the manager and said I wanted to move up to 3rd floor. Signed what I needed to sign and 1 month later I'm living on the 3rd floor. Now I have a 10 year old son who even though we lived on the 1st floor I would always try to keep the noise down for people that lived next door. But now I told my son I was going to move my mattress into the living room during the day and let my son jump on it. Bring his friends over to run around and simply be normal loud kids. The second day I lived there my now downstairs evil neighbors come knocking. The surprise on their face when I answered the door was priceless. I listened to their complaints and said " my son and his friends have a right to play". And I added very seriously " you can now go F yourself." And closed the door. My wife said the last part was a little harsh. Keep in mind that the old me would have smashed the dude. So I did quite well. I my son play however he wanted. They moved out like 7 months later. Only problem was getting my son to quiet down when the new people moved in. Lol. So that wasn't easy after giving him free reign.
Jesus dude
Outstanding! 🤘
Nice karma!!! Also- thank you for both spelling and using reign correctly!! Lol...
HAH. This is a level of petty that I aspire to 😂
Such a satisfying story. The double standards of your neighbor. I'm glad you gave them a taste of their own medicine. Riding a skateboard in an apartment? I've never heard of such madness.
Probably the the worst thing I had to deal with in my rental history was hearing the woman above having s*x. She was a screamer. I eventually had a conversation with her about it and said "Please try to refain those activities while my daughter is here on weekends." She was clearly embarrassed but she complied and apologized.
Just cuz you have a kid, doesn't mean you can act like that. Having a kid isn't special and doesn't give you special rights. She has a right to live in her apartment as long as she's not making noise all night. There's usually a time cutoff for noise where it becomes warranted. Entitled parents ruin everything for everyone. Y'all demand everything to be accommodating
@@kai0tfooolI also think ‘screamers’ should be conscious that they live in an apartment building? And also take into account the age of the building itself…
@@kai0tfoool You poison people's apartments, don't you?
Dude, in my privileged jerk opinion, apartments are for quiet SINGLES ONLY. If you want to have loud sex, OR kids then you need a good job and your own house. It would also be great if apartments PRIORITIZED sound deadening or coded apartment buildings so that all of the same types of people could annoy each other. Hopefully newborn moms would be more tolerant of other new born moms etc. (Like I said-this is a privileged jerk's opinion, but I've seen more evidence that it's valid having lived in dorms and apartments after living in a house my whole life.) The noise issue from neighbors can induce LETHAL PSYCHOPATHY (see story above). People aren't meant to live in thin walled stacked boxes.
@@alyssamurphy2002 Well... guess it's a GREAT thing that YOU are not in charge then, isn't it?!?!??
I've been listening to Medical Mysteries ever since you announced it!!! I love it!! One of my favorite medical tv shows is "Monsters Inside Me" and "Mystery Diagnosis", so that podcast is right up my alley!!!
Monsters inside me is a favorite of mine too!
I've read and watched many videos about this incident, most of them starts the story with the neighboor complaining about the noise ..
but with MrBallen he tells the story from the family's perspective and how they felt during the incident, which puts a lot of mystery to the story and makes it 10 times more interesting .. thats why i watched all his videos TWICE in a span of few weeks
What a spiteful man, I'm glad he was caught.
Hi from Staffordshire England!
I'm going to tootle over to Prime for a listen on my headphones for an hour with a cup of tea before bed. Have a great week 😊
Oh, snap! I visited that region back in 2006. A good Portuguese friend of mine and I stayed mainly in Worcestershire. The energy is purer there, much purer than anywhere in New England. You have a great week as well!
He was caught but deported, so he's not getting any punishment. Not exactly a happy ending.
1:06 It wasn't me this time. I blame the Like Button.
Reminds of the Thalium poisoner PoS... There are some profoundly detached, downright evil people out there...
Big ups Mr. B! Keep soaring!
That's not the guy who left the poisoned soda in that family's house, is it?
@@LumisScrimmins Yes, that's the one.
Learning what happened and imagining being the mom shattered me... That culprit was truly evil. And for what?! Because their neighbors were a bit noisy?! It's beyond insane.
@@coconyt3623 Imagine how easy it is to poison someone's food or water while they're away. Many cases we don't hear about.