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5 Apartment Horror Stories Worse Than Having a Kitchen Filled With Raw Sewage

Rotting deer, migrating roaches, and icy stalactites, oh my.
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Last week my apartment filled with raw sewage after my upstairs neighbor thoughtlessly clogged the main drain pipe in our building with latex paint. In all my years of dwelling downstairs, it's definitely the worst thing an upstairs neighbor has ever done to me (even if it was unintentional). The inconvenience got me wondering what other atrocities—purposeful or otherwise—had been committed against the downstairs dwellers of the world. So we asked Cities readers to tell us if they could top my story. Five of you definitely rose to the occasion.

From roaches to deer to indoor bowling, you can read the worst apartment horror stories below (the truly awful bits are bolded).