‘He deleted all my homework’: stunned Hong Kong university student returns from shower to find computer sabotaged after fierce row with roommate
- Deteriorating relationship between university roommates descends into petty act of computer sabotage
- City’s online community condemns behaviour of the file-deleting roommate and urges victim to call in the police
A frosty and deteriorating relationship between a pair of Hong Kong university roommates has gripped the city’s social media.
The most recent dip in what has been a simmering stand-off between the two students sent their relationship to rock bottom and has sparked legal concerns among online observers of the spat.
In late 2022, one of the students involved posted on the city’s anonymous forum, Dcard, that he and his roommate “never get along and have nothing to say to each other.”
Two days before he posted that message the pair had a row.
As a result, the poster, who does not usually turn off his computer when he leaves the shared room, was shocked to find that his roommate had deleted all the homework he had left on his Google Drive when he returned.