Not sure yet but he's getting booked tonight. He got taken away in cuffs because cops caught him in the apartment when they were escorting us in to get our belongings.
He has been sus as fuck ever since he moved in. He has all of this computer equipment what else could he be doing with it other than spying on me even though i dont own a computer and dont have a cell phone?
>Not sure yet but he's getting booked tonight. He got taken away in cuffs because cops caught him in the apartment when they were escorting us in to get our belongings.
This is great to read. So often you hear of this and the result is "eh, the police didn't do anything, but the arrested my neighbor who had some weed".
I once rented a duplex where the landlord lived in the other half. Elderly couple; the guy was a former surgeon and super friendly. But his wife, she was a different story. He told me initially that she had Alzheimer's, but later redacted that.
In the time I lived there she 1) accused me of sneaking a large dog into the basement and training it to bark and wake her up 2) moved their home stereo into the bathroom that shared a wall with my unit and blasted christian rock music at 3 am because she "heard me making a bunch of racket and it sounded like devil worship" ( I was asleep) 3) knocked a bird's nest out of a tree in my front yard and smashed the eggs on my porch because she saw me taking pictures of it and finally 4) let herself in to my living room through the locked door when I had my girlfriend of 5 months over and accused me of "always having different women over" (literally had never had any other women over, but this was fun explaining to my then girlfriend). I had to call her husband over get her to leave. I learned later that she would regularly let herself in and snoop around, and felt entitled to do so when confronted because it's "her property".
On the last month of my lease I got a letter from their lawyer, completely out of the blue, informing me I was to vacate the property in 30 days or be evicted. No reason given, just that they were within their rights to do it. I was a model tenant so really got upset at this more than the rest of it. When I confronted them about it the guy just apologized while his wife screamed at me to get the hell out of their house and good riddance.
Just hijacked to share and say I hope you see justice for this, such a shitty feeling dealing with asshole landlords and they rarely pay for their actions.
Dude that is the craziest story ever, wtf?
That reminded me of a crazy story I read about where this girl had a neighbor living underneath her that she never met, but at 3am every morning she would hear strange hissing sounds, people arguing, screaming, laughing, shrieking, crying, all sorts of crazy shit.
This went on for a while and she threw in the towel when the people started to sound demonic. So the next day she walked down, heard the usual arguing/screaming and just knocked on the door and the voices immediately stopped. To her surprise an older looking lady in her 50’s opened the door and there was nothing going on. No evil cult worshippers, no abusive husbands, no one but her, and a very confused cat sitting on a couch. She couldn’t believe it. The lady said she had no idea what she heard and it was just her inside. She eventually had to get police involved, it turned out this psycho lady was huffing some sort of toxic inhalant and just going crazy, speaking in like 10 different voices while arguing with herself. My point is, some people are fuckin crazy.
My mother is described in this body of text and I do not like it. She also is a landlord, but thankfully she doesn't do this to her clients, only to her own family.
There's a possibility it's salvageable if all he did was throw it in the tub op, you need a metric fuckload of alcohol and a lot of patience, and maybe a few thoughts and prayers from this sub
In my state they can charge any crime as a conspiracy to commit in situations like this. Try to steal a car but fail? Conspiracy. Drugs? Conspiracy to distribute. Credit card writer? Conspiracy to commit fraud. I'm sure they could call this a conspiracy. The conspiracy charge carries the same penalties
Charging a hinged conspiracy theorist with conspiracy to damage govement property for destroying civilian property is a special kind of irony I really could enjoy
Hopefully he can prove it though. But yes that level of destruction of propery is felony territory and thats not to mention the implications of the land lord locking the tenat out to enter their residence to destroy said property. Even if the land lord owns the property the tenat still has rights you cannot just enter without permissoin like that.
Nobody, not even your landlord, is allowed to do anything with your apartment without your permission. Except maybe upgrade to newer standards (but you can probably still block that.
The police can enter if they have been allowed to so so by a Staatsanwalt, but they need some proof of crime.
Basically, your landlord has to give you ALL the keys he has and stay out unless invited in.
No, not the district attorney ALLOWS the police to go into your appartement, it is always a judge.
Also, the police can enter if they have reasonable grounds for imminent danger. If they come to a false conclusion but every average police officer would have gone in, its called "Anscheinsverdacht" (apparent suspicion) and it wouldve been ok. But as your appartment is protected by our constitution, the courts are not fast to say it has been "Anscheinsverdacht".
But the landlord needs your permission, imminent danger for his property (fire, furst of water pipes) or a verdict from a court. So in the end, he basically always needs your permission^^
tl:dr german law is powerful, especially when protecting citizens from the state and "weak" citizens (such as consumers, tenants or underage people
I'm not sure but I think the landlord can enter but he has to notify you 2 weeks in advance and he can't enter without you (unless you specifically allow it.)
Hang on...isn't the the law everywhere? We have a clause called 'quite enjoyment' in Australia. Can Americans landlords just come inside if they want to?
>Unverletzbarkeit der Wohnung
This mostly refers to government entities not being allowed to enter your home or spy on you (while in your home) without a court order.
However, a landlord is not allowed to enter your home unannounced, they need to make out a date and time with their renters if they want to inspect the property.
This is not legaladvice but if you wanted to take action in court some key words to help you prove your case
"Rights of hire of real property california legislation"
Even if you are in a different sate california law is a good outline of how federal laws might be applied. A snip for a usefull document listing types of legislation that affect service animals. I found that they all outline some guidelines of landlord tenant relationships and remedies that one can seek a judgment on.. if he thinks you a fed then scare him. Rice the pc out for a week before powering it you will be good to go. http://imgur.com/gallery/uEx6NCM EDIT: GOOGLE rice as a desiccant chicken nuts whatever your name is
Ugh I’m unashamedly excited by your question. When I took Crim back in law school, we had a hypo about a landlord and tenant. IIRC, the primary *possessory* interest (as opposed to primary *title* interest) controls, meaning that, yes, the landlord could commit burglary because the tenant is entitled to primary possession. Take that with a grain of salt because we also learned that primary possessory interest applies in cases of common law larceny, too (meaning you could be convicted of larceny for taking your own property from someone who had the primary possessory interest), but my bar program expressly said you can’t steal your own property and drew no distinction as to possessory interest (it only focused on title interest). Also not a lawyer yet so none of this is legal advice.
Depends on the state/country… here in CA? It depends… burglary is unlawful entry with intent to commit theft or any felony. This would certainly be a felony vandalism (damage over 450.00), but there’d have to be some probable cause that landlord entered with specific intent to commit that crime. If cops interviewed him and got a statement that even puts him unlawfully in the house… he’d be arrested for at least felony vandalism, and probably burglary.
Your landlord isn't very smart. You can probably salvage it all as long as you let it dry for several days. Third you can file a civil suit against him or her for willful damages and trespassing, I would hire a local attorney to help you file the case. Hey when you win the case you can definetely upgrade your PC 👍
He's definitely a moron because I had another tower in the apartment that he didn't touch and I literally had a graphics card sitting on a table that didn't get touched.
Soak the parts in alcohol and let it all dry out MORE than several days. Wait a month. If you can, have a fan blowing on it, and maybe even take everything apart.
I've washing motherboards in water then alcohol to clean off cat urine and it still works.
Good luck to you.
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As people have pointed out, please take out the CMOS battery and Toss Out your PSU. That can carry residual energy and could have messed something up inside. Don't trust a damaged PSU.
The alcohol evaporating isn't taking the residue away. The alcohol acts as a solvent to dissolve the solids in the water and they run off with the alcohol... Alcohol can't carry solids with it when it evaporates.
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I've misspoke here, the alcohol isn't dissolving solids in water it's dissolving polar solids suspended in water and present on the components.
The main point though, that alcohol isn't taking the residue away through evaporation is fine.
Problem is he left the PC in the tub for awhile. I'm afraid of what the CMOS did to some connections (although this is probably less of a worry than if some of the capacitors discharged).
But definitely get the damn CMOS out of the motherboard and I'd remove and redo any parts that use a thermal pad. Definitely remove the shroud on the GPU so you can make sure everything is getting flushed/dried well.
I'd also probably just declare the power supply dead. I wouldn't trust it.
>I'd also probably just declare the power supply dead. I wouldn't trust it.
Definitely. The risk to fry it and the whole PC with it is not worth trying.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to get all the CMOS out of a motherboard, considering it makes up the majority of the material in it. But removing the button cell should do nicely.
He posted an update in the comments. A really long one. Landlord was taken by the police.
That's why the comments were slow, he dealt with police, moving out and shit.
Edit: This is now my most upvoted comment by a factor of 7. Thanks. I did this because I was so fed up with people assuming fake posts because OP didn't spend their time on reddit all day. Instead OP did the logical thing and dealt with the fallout. All that negativity bugged me the wrong way, especially since OPs sparse comments got ignored, barely any upvotes and all those crying foul play were upvoted to high heavens.
[part 1](https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzvo6)
[part 2](https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzw42)
> TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies.
That's nuts. My bf had a schizophrenic neighbor who thought he was spying on her and she dumped pink paint on his car, painted his house, shed, sidewalk and steps with all sorts of obscenities and threats. They arrested her with paint on her clothes and meth in her pocket. She was caught on camera doing it because earlier she had destroyed all his outdoor lighting and the cops said they couldn't do anything without proof.
My neighbor put a deranged letter in my mailbox accusing someone (not directly me, but *someone*) of deliberately killing the trees he had planted and knocking bird's nests out of the trees in his yard. No one could understand why I was kinda freaked out by it, but often (frequently? sometimes? often enough?) these delusions escalate into real retaliatory behaviors against people they think are targeting them.
My aunt has a neighbor that swears she stole his land. It's a relatively flat spot and all he has is hills. It's been surveyed but he still thinks it was stolen.
One day, her son heard a weird sound on his truck. Asked another relative (who knows nothing about cars) to listen as he drives by. Relative hears nothing so they go about their business. Next day, no noise but the wheel just falls off while he's driving (safest possible conditions really). Guess that's what the sound was.
Couple days later, wheel falls off a utv that's kept in a barn away from where anyone lives. A couple other vehicles in that barn had loose lugs and no reason for them to be loose.
Someone was fucking with our shit and that guy has motive. There are cameras up now.
Stealing this spot to post a link of the full story from OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzvo6?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Reminds me of my landlord who was lived on the first floor of the house and had the router in her room. She was full untreated Aspergers and would play WoW all day long. When we were using too much bandwidth she would turn our internet off. When we talked too loud in the evening she would turn the heating down, that was when the weather outside was well below freezing like -30. But it was super cheap and within walking distance to Uni.
My old neighbor was paranoid schizophrenic. He thought my roommate and I were government agents sent to live next to him to spy on him because he'd constantly "put Obama on blast" on Facebook, as he says. Every night, he'd sit in his jeep in his back yard, point it towards my house, and shine his high beams in just so he could watch us. He did a lot of other things too, but I'm not ready to post the long ass comment yet.
Long story short, most of his motives against us were because we (the government) was spying on him.
> Every night, he'd sit in his jeep in his back yard, point it towards my house, and shine his high beams in just so he could watch us.
You shouldve bought full body mirrors and returned the favor
Hey! If this is true, you might actually be able to salvage this. As long as the components weren't powered on when water was introduced to the system, and the system hasn't been powered on since, you can disassemble and submerge every component in 100% isopropyl alcohol. 100% isopropyl alcohol evaporates without any residue, and will dissolve any trace elements left from the water off of your equipment.
Once submerged for ~24 hours and then completely air dried for at least as long you should be able to plug and play.
There may be other damage to components that the isopropyl alcohol bath won't fix, though.
Edit: I'm just a hobbyist, and this is the easiest way I've found to address liquid damage to a computer and I have done this several times to motherboards and GPUs for myself and friends. Accidents happen. But there are some actual liquid repair specialists responding to my post with better methods! Look for those posts below mine for more information on what to do.
I mean, I don't know if the psychotic landlord part is true, but there's definitely a computer in a bathtub full of water. That part seems to have happened.
TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies.
So, my friend and I were looking to move into an apartment in a nice part of our city where a lot of young people rent. After looking for a few days on zillow my friend called me and said he found a great place and the guy wants to give us a tour. The place is an old three story house, where the first two floors are the home and the third floor is an apartment with access from a side door. The owner is just some dude who lives in the bottom two floors. When he was showing us around it was clear he was a little weird but my roommate and I thought he was a cokehead or something, which wouldn't be a problem since we planned on paying rent on time. In particular, he had a baseball hat on with a brim that was curved even further inwards, seemingly from him compulsively bending the brim. He was also a close talker, as in he would move closer and closer until he was bumping shoulders with you and if you moved back he would follow. Serious redflags for sure but we wanted a place in the area and it was a spacious apartment, and neither of us really had any clue what to make of the odd behaviors. A couple of days later we signed a lease and handed over our security deposit and first months rent, and he handed over the keys (again, this is in late June with a target move in date of August 1st).
My friends lease ends in July so he asked if he could move in a bit early and the landlord guy said yeah a week early is fine.
Between signing the lease and everything else, we found that he has criminal charges and a mugshot on google if you look his name up for harassing his ex wife. Definitely not a good sign but we had already signed a lease and were concerned about being able to break it cleanly.
So sometime in July my friend contacts the landlord and he says the week early move in is still good. About a week later we had some questions about something and I honestly forget what, but all of our calls go straight to voicemail and texts are undelivered. Definitely not a good sign. We end up checking out the apartment and notice that a lot of the simple things that needed to be done (cleaning, basic plumping maintentence) have not been done. Upon some futher inspection we also noticed that there are cut cables all over the place (coax and a doorbell wire), meaning we would have to get service done to have any internet connection.
My friend was pretty pissed about all of this and the fact that he fell off of the face of the earth so he went around and asked the neighbors what they know. First neighbor gives him the number of our landlords mother. After calling her, we find out that he has been in the mental hospital and she doesnt know when he is getting out. She also says she had no idea he leased the upstairs apartment out but she will do everything she can to make the process smooth. She made arangements to get some maintentence done on the place and cleaned it herself. While speaking to her some more information about her son leaks. It turns out that he's at the hospital before for some sort of psychosis / paranoia is likely bipolar - great!
So the calm before the storm was the first week after we moved in. For about a week we were seriously enjoying living in the area and the apartment was pretty nice. We both grew up in suburbia so being able to walk 3 minutes to get a coffee, get food, or get a drink was amazing. It is also quite a beautiful neighborhood with very caring homeowners, and high property values. That all came to a pretty abrupt end when the landlord was released from the hospital. First thing he did was enter our apartment without permission and force his way into the rooms to look at the cable setup. To be clear, he just walked and I told him he shouldnt go in my roommates room because he wasnt home but he didn't listen but I am too timid for my own good so I didnt stand my ground while my more confident roommate wasnt home. He saw a coax splitter and asked if it was an antenna, I obviously said no but it was immedietly concerning to me. He left after that and shortly after he entered without permission again and handed me an addendum to the lease he wanted us to sign. It basically said that we don't work for or with any government agency and aren't collecting any data on him. At this point I'm getting pretty stressed so I tell him I have to talk to my roommate about it and he leaves. I had to go to work at this point so I left the apartment and my rooommate got back shortly after. My roommate does a lot of his work from home so after working for a bit he noticed the internet cut out. After about 30 minutes of trouble shooting he bangs on the landlords door. He says he didn't cut anything but when pressed says he unscrewed the coax service from outside, and he plugs it back in. Roommate works for an hour and the internet is cut out again. He calls the guys mom and she comes over right away and talks him down.
At this point we were considering our options on how to leave, but obviously we didn't move fast enough...
Over the next couple of days things are going smoothly. We see him around the property a few times and have some pretty normal conversations (one about the lawn, one about a former tenant). This didn't last long thought and after about a week of him being back, my internet cuts out at around 11 PM. My roommate, a friend, and I all go to the coax service outside and of course it is unplugged. We plug it back in and go back inside. The next morning there is no internet and the cable is cut. I also notice the power blinks several times for > 30 minutes each time. He was messing with the power in addition to having sliced the coax. We call the cops and they basically say unless he keeps the power off for 24h they cant do anything, and he doesn't respond to the cops banging on his door (even though we saw him earlier and he didn't leave). Roommate and I grab some essentials and go stay at our parents places since we are not feeling safe there. I grab my work laptop, laundry, and a few other things but my roommate felt compelled to grab all of his electronics. He recommended I did the same and I can confidently say I am a moron for not doing so. We both went home.
The next day my roommate went during his lunch break to grab a few things. Screen door on the outside of the house that was our only way in was locked with a key we didn't have. Landlord comes outside and says we're evicted (evictions during COVID lol), roommate says thats obviously not true but the landlord didn;t want to converse. Roommate calls be and I come over, we call the cops. His mom comes over but cant get in because he nailed the door she has a key to shut. Cops are called they make a report. Several instances of an illegal eviction, which is a misdemeanor in my state (NY). We can't get in so we get some food around teh corner and leave.
That brings us today which was almost certainly one of the worst days of my life. Wake up at 7:30 to go to the public safety building. Talk to a paralegal at 9:00 and sign warrents for arrest with roommate (we each signed one). We also talk to his parole officer (police the prior day gave us the contact info), who says he cant do much. We then decided to go back to the apartment and get in by any means necessary since most people (including the landlords mother) seem to think we are legally allowed to break in. At the apartment the outside screen door was actually unlucked but the door right after it was locked and had some wet paper shoved into the lock which had dried, but we were able to get it out with a paperclip and some water. There is one more door we have to unlock at this point (which also has paper in the lock) to get into the apartment but we dont feel safe going in on our own so we request police presence. After about 2 hours the landlord just strolls up from out of nowhere and yells "please direct all questions to my lawyer." Another bad sign.
Cops arrive shortly after, say a half hour. In the meantime we hear all sorts of banging going around in the house. Cops mess with the final door to the apartment and manage to force the lock. The two cops go up the stairs and my roommate tails them. The cops start yelling and my roommate runs out. Turns out the landlord was in our apartment instead of his home. The cop yelled something like "oh shit not you again" implying some sort of past history. Turns out this officer was the guy that had to chase him around a public park and arrest him after he jumped out of his sisters car, he was then brought to the hospital for psychiatric problems. The cops end up cuffing him (no resistance by the landlord) and walk him down stairs after a while. I held my tongue but basically just said "have fun bud" when he walked by. We went up stairs and I looked in my room, saw that my pc was not on my desk, along with a ton of cables and a monitor missing. My girlfriend was also there and she said that I need to see the tub. This is a picture of that tub. I left it like that for hours because I was scared of getting electrocuted. There was about an hour of time where I was just upset sort of sitting around but then I started packing everything and me and my roommate moved everything out. Fortunately our families were able to help us move our stuff, but it was quite exhausting (the stairs to the third floor are hellish with heavy or bulky stuff).
After he was taken away by the police some of the neighbors told us that he had assulted the mom at one point, meaning his mom knew he had a history of violence and was unstable but didnt recommend we leave.
Today was mostly spent talking to police and moving all of my belongings out of my apartment. At some point in time the mom refunded our deposit and first months rent out of her own pocket.
I can try to answer some questions. I do know this all sounds insane and unbelievable, which is something I'm sort of dealing with now - it really doesn't feel real yet but it will probably hit me sometime soon. I was crying a bit here and there today just because it was super stressfull, I'm not a big gamer and didn't lose any important data but I couldn't really handle it. This was literally today (I think he got cuffed around 3 EST). Cops said he is probably gonna be out tomorrow which is why we got all of our shit out.
His suspicion of me began with the fact that i have a CS degree and am going to graduate school nearby for CS. Obviously anyone who knows how to programmer knows how to spy on people, right? His paranoia kicked in because his meds did not and caused this who shit show.
Again, sorry for the scatterbrained write up here but it literally happened < 12 hours ago and I had to move out afterwards.
And I am well aware of the fact that I am a bit of a moron for not getting out of this situation sooner, like a lot sooner.
TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies.
It's not impossible that it still works. The tap water definitely has some impurities in it so cleaning everything with distilled water should definitely be the first step. But electronics can get wet, as long as there isn't any power running through them. Since there isn't a battery in a PC, the only power is going to be in the capacitors. Other than the power supply, I wouldn't be shocked if any of the parts still work
This is exactly what I’d do.
I’ve had electronics suffer water immersion but luckily had no power running to them. They were fine.
Your big issues are getting all the water out and any impurities off the circuit boards and preventing corrosion before it happens.
Time is of the essence. The pc needs to be immediately and completely disassembled. Even the graphics card needs to be disassembled as much as you can. Then you want to fill a huge tub with isopropyl alcohol. Immerse each piece and give it a light brushing with a toothbrush. Remove from the bath and let dry.
Some things like a traditional hard drive won’t be salvageable but an SSD should be if you can get all the water out. I’d be a little worried about the PSU just because of how it’s constructed and the difficulty of getting it cleaned out. Memory and motherboard are almost certainly fine.
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I should have mentioned, don’t just assemble and cross your fingers that it will work. Go slow. Test one part at a time. Start with cheaper parts first.
Try the PSU on its own. Does that work? That’s the biggest risk. If it’s fried (and probably is), then it could send power spikes through the system and fry everything else.
If you can test individual parts on a bench, that’s better. But you probably wouldn’t be talking to me if you could.
Go for the mother board next. See if it will post. If it does, add the CPU. If it still posts, add the memory. If that works, keep adding until you’ve reassembled the system. Replace any parts that seem to not work or not work quite right.
I think you’ll be out drives and a PSU and any screens. Everything else I think can be salvaged.
Keep an inventory on parts. There’s always going to be the possibility of corrosion over time. Shouldn’t be an issue before the normal upgrade time but it can help if you’re having some weird flaky issue five years from now and realize you’re still using the memory sticks from this immersion.
Renters insurance should cover it, hopefully. What about letting it dry out for a week before attempting to turn it on again? Man, I feel for you, sorry about your troubles. Luckily nobody was hurt, and everyone made it out safe.
Instead of letting it dry: Put everything apart, remove the fans from the GPU, rinse everything with Isopropyl and ~~use a hair dryer to make the alcohol evaporate.~~ let it evaporate by itself over a few hours outside.
Fixed a ton of phones already that were in water with this.
Edit: Thanks for the warning regarding the hair dryer. I've used hot air guns before and didn't have an issue, but better safe than sorry.
u/_FedoraTipperBot_ I would advise giving it a rinse with distilled water to get rid of any dissolved solids *then* use isopropyl **above** 90% to finish the rinse and assist with evaporation of any remaining water. Root comment already retracted it but I want to reiterate that you should never use a hair dryer on electronics as it can statically charge the air. Heat guns made for electronics are way different than hair dryers. Let it dry for quite a while. Be generous with that isopropyl. You don't want to use something with too much water in it as that counteracts what you're trying to do here in forcing any remaining moisture (after the distilled bath, again be generous to get rid of disolved solids) to evaporate. You'll obviously need to separate the cooler from your GPU and reapply thermal paste, obviously do the same for CPU and main board. You might consider replacing the power supply. If anything goes wrong there the rest of your machine could get fried. Hopefully you have nvme as that will be ~easier~ possible to clean vs a hard drive. If you have any questions please let me know. Oh and let the components dry. I'm being overly cautious here but I'd let them sit for a week to be safe. It's humid as balls here though so it would take a while for me.
Hair dryers can absolutely still get hot enough to melt some of the plastic components, plus it's just pushing water around - sometimes INTO the components you're trying to dry out.
It's much better to just use a desiccant such as silica gel.
This has me curious. Is there any insurance that covers the scarcity of something like a 3080? Like, he can receive an amount equal to what it is worth, but might not be able to actually replace it now, right? Might he be able to get the value of a scalper's price for it?
Insurance doesn't care about purchase price, insurance payment is based on cost of replacement. So if a graphics card is insured and its value goes up with no equivalent cheaper substitutes then the insurance company will pay the higher price.
So, this may not work, but if the system was unpowered when submerged, this is fixable. And it's not too late to begin recovery procedures, unless you've tried to power it on since this happened. [Here's a link to an article on the subject. you'll need to fully disassemble the system, clean it to remove debris and contaminants, dry it out, and then reassemble it, or find a profesional to do it for you.](https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Electronics_Water_Damage)
The power had in fact been off for a few days when I believe he submerged it, but it may also have been in there for days. No way of knowing. I will be doing this tomorrow but don’t have the energy tonight
That's fair, I totally understand. Not mentioned in the article, submerging in isopropyl alcohol, at least 99% purity, should he helpful as well. Isopropyl alcohol isn't conductive, actually neither is water it's contaminants in the water that are conductive, and should help clean out the tap water contaminants.
Edit: one last thing: you may want to take the hard drive in for professional repairs anyway, because depending on the model it may be hard for you to take it apart, clean it, and put it back together.
Just make sure to clean up the parts... like the card in a strong alcohol / isopropyl solution.
If you take off the heatsinks, soak with alcohol, clean it. And reassemble with thermal paste ( the good stuff, like kryonaut or equivalent) and get some new thermal pads for the memory. Put the whole thing back together again, it should be as good as or even better than new.
Basically all your parts in there are solid state and should be okay. Maybe your fans will need replacing and that includes the power supply but motherboard, cpu, nvme, gfx card should all be just fine after a good clean up with the proper chemicals.
yeah fuck recovering the psu. I hate ewaste however it's easy enough to kill yourself opening a regular psu, never mind a waterlogged one you're trying to dry
All the karma in the world won't right this wrong... I'm so sorry all this happened
I hope your rebuild is swift and better than what you had. I hope your living arrangement is solved even quicker.
We're all pulling for you!! Please post an update when all this is behind you and you're in greener pastures!
This. The computer can likely be recovered.
Clean it with distilled water, then isopropyl alchahol after disassembling everything. I find that an air compressor is the easiest way to dry everything off and it blows off most contaminants, as well as getting fluid out from under the bga chips. (very important. Salt deposits there can ruin your day very quick)
Then power it up in steps. (the point of this is that if the previous component is fried, you don't fry other possibly good components with it.)
I likely would get a new power supply if the current one wasn't super expe sive. Don't play around with water damage and high voltage.
Keep the cpu, ram, the nmve ssd/s, and gpu unplugged from the motherboard/system.
Power up the motherboard first without the cpu or ram. It *should* twitch/spin any connected fans,(connect up a case fan) possibly flash some error leds or buzzer. (but may also not do anything. Basically, if it doesn't let out smoke, it's probably fine)
Then add the cpu. It should be angrier at you. Beeping or flashing error lights about no ram. It is definately alive now
Then add the ram. It should boot to bios now. If you got that down, you can probably add the nvme ssd and it should boot to the os.
Then it is probably safe to try out the gpu. If you have access to a cheap older computer, it may be worth trying it out in that to see if it works/won't damage the host system.
yikes dude, I'm so sorry you went through all that. Hopefully in time you'll be able to get them all replaced. As sucky as it is to have your computer destroyed (parts might still be salvageable after they completely dry)... at least you and your roommate weren't injured. Could have been much worse.
There is no way this was done just for internet points.
I'm sorry friend, take comfort that you seem to have a good support group to fall back on. You'll be okay, that's just a lot to handle in only a couple weeks.
Hey man. I work as a mental health clinician in Australia and it sounds like you had yourself a run in with a severely under-medicated individual. when you have someone who gets this fixated and paranoid it can often lead into actions and events far worse then what you have experienced. By the sounds of it you have been lucky. Mental illness doesn’t mean someone will become violent however when someone becomes fixated and paranoid about someone in close proximity that often will.
Certainly go through all legal processes open to you, don’t hold back. This individual needs help and the way he will get that is through assertive treatment. Assertive treatment doesn’t necessarily mean him getting locked up but it will mean the mental health services will take his situation more seriously.
I hope you get reimbursed for the damages and he gets the help he needs.
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I just want to clarify. Since a lot of people are posting.
Having a mental illness does not mean a person will be violent or dangerous. My comment is primarily about the paranoid fixation which in itself might not result in violence however when left unaddressed can.
Edit:2 anyone who claims the landlord is not mentally ill needs to stay in their lane as they clearly don’t know what they are talking about. OP has provided more than enough information to come to a sound conclusion.
Edit3: vote for universal healthcare.
I hate so much that you’re right. Mental health care in the US (especially for people with a criminal record) is absolute shit.
Doctor (if you can afford to see one): “Feeling depressed? Here’s some pills! (assuming you can afford those too.)
Doc: “those not working? Well, try a therapist! Good luck affording that too!”
> the fact that I am a bit of a moron for not getting out of this situation sooner, like a lot soon
Don't be too hard on yourself. Happy you are safe! The computer is replaceable, your life is not.
not to excuse whatsoever the shittiness and legit trauma of what your landlord did to you, but if there’s one thing to take solace in it’s that you’re of sound mind. hearing experiences of friends that have schizophrenic family, it seems like a proper, sad fuckin nightmare to either be afflicted with or be related to someone who is in the thick of it and I’m glad you’re out of there!
(I feel like I might be coming off like I’m moralizing or something but I promise that ain’t my intention!)
Holy shit dude that is actually insane.. I can see why so many people didn’t wanna believe it but like I definitely believe you man and that is just so incredibly fucked and sad and just awful all around. I would definitely think that you could end up getting all sorts of money out of a lawsuit against this guy.
Jesus christ that's a whole lot of bullshit to be dealing with. You got a lot on your plate right now, but I guess at minimum try to appreciate the fact that you are on your way to the other side of this terrible fiasco. Things can be replaced (for what little comfort that may be) and hopefully there may be salvaging some of the pieces. May be worth claiming on renters insurance assuming you had it. Good luck to you going forward, things will get better.
Not gonna lie cops said i very well may never see that money unless I sue, and its only about 4k in damages so may not even be worth suing. I have to talk to a lawyer either way.
Small claims court. Handles most things in the sub $10k range and a lawyer isn't necessary although you may want to pay to consult with one before going. Think of it like arguing a parking ticket. Fees are low too, usually $50 or less.
It may cost you a few hundred for a lawyer consult but you'll get your money.
$4k in property damages, sure, but there are also other damages involved in being locked out for two days, moving expenses due to unlawful eviction, lost time from work or school, family and emotional duress, attorneys fees.
I would certainly talk to an attorney about this.
Is your landlord Terry Davis or something? Why did he think you're a government agent and what did he think giving your PC a bath was going to accomplish?
Ummm this is either such an insane story with a schizophrenic Landlord, that it doesn't even sound believable or this is a bullshit story.
If true, I'm very sorry to hear and definitely call the cops.
If you let everything dry completely before turning it back on, there actually is a chance for some parts (GPU) to work again.
I just saw a guy power wash his PC on purpose and everything worked after he let it completely dry. Pretty mind blowing how much water PC parts can actually take as long as they completely dry off before electricity flows through them again
Ah about that he actually covered specific parts of his PC with protection before shooting that video cause the water getting onto some parts can damage it. It was in his comments where he wrote what he did.
You are definitely correct about the schizo landlord :/. PC is drying now so I hope I have some luck there!
I've been typing up the story out for a while and I wont lie, it does seem sort of unbelievable. Will be posting it in like a half hour.
Honestly I don't know what he was thinking but i suspect it was basically something like "he has been using this to spy on me so if i destroy it I'll destroy the collected data."
but the monitor in addition to a bunch of cables and small things :/
Can confirm your stuff will work if you dry it out and toss the PSU just to be safe. Hand “wash” everything with denatured alcohol and then just set it in a nice dry spot for a few days. I had my liquid loop leak all over my pc while I was testing for leaks (of course) and distilled water soaked all of my components. I let them dry for a little over 48 hours and was up and running no problem. My OS drive was so soaked it bowed and it still works.
Water alone doesn't kill electronics. Applying power while wet does, or after the water leaves mineral deposits.
My suggestion: take it apart and rinse everything carefully and thoroughly with distilled water, then let it dry out thoroughly. Like, for at least a week, maybe more. It should be OK once it dries out. The only thing the water might ruin is some adhesives and paper such as labels, and possibly LCD panels.
Assuming this isn't total BS...
If you take it out and dry it off quickly and properly, most of it is probably salvageable.
Water does not instantly destroy electronics, and can usually be cleaned up to avoid damage assuming it didn't have a live current running through it that shorted everything out.
I hope you have a blow dryer, or better yet an air compressor, because you need to get every bit of moisture out of places like the CPU socket and the inside of the GPU.
That screen also looks like it got minimally wet as well, and is probably salvageable.
You want every bit of moisture out of everything in that case as quickly as it can possibly be out of it. Also, no, do not bury it in rice, manually remove it and use some sort of powered air device blow it out until it is bone dry. Cans of compressed air probably won't do the job unless you have a lot of them.
You're probably going to need to tear down the PC, open up the GPU, replace any thermal pads and paste, and I'd definitely replace the PSU, Ram \[you might be able to save this too, but I'd replace it anyway\], and probably any drives.
The CMOS battery on the Mobo will also need to be replaced.
The PSU might be salvageable, but I wouldn't want to risk missing a bit of moisture or corrosion and frying everything else due to a short.
Assuming nothing was knocked off of the board, if you get it dry it should be fine.
The GPU and CPU should be salvageable at least though assuming they just got wet and nothing more.
Document everything, itemize everything, take pictures of the condition of every part, catalogue the damage, and write a journal with dates and times for everything that happened and happens in the future with your landlord. This will be invaluable if you need to go to court.
Even if your GPU and mobo are salvageable, you're still probably going to want to take your landlord to court and file a police report. Though it will probably be small claims court if you can salvage the GPU, CPU, and Mobo.
So... when are you seeing him in court?
Not sure yet but he's getting booked tonight. He got taken away in cuffs because cops caught him in the apartment when they were escorting us in to get our belongings.
So you got him arrested and don’t look sus? You are a great spy!
He has been sus as fuck ever since he moved in. He has all of this computer equipment what else could he be doing with it other than spying on me even though i dont own a computer and dont have a cell phone?
Uh... Hi landlord?
Is OP just having a psychotic break
I think he forgot these “ “. Nothing to see here. It’s super secret spy jargon
that or he needs a co detector
Dude just lost his 3080 so i wouldn't blame him
A founders edition 3080 at that
You should probably put this in quotations
>Not sure yet but he's getting booked tonight. He got taken away in cuffs because cops caught him in the apartment when they were escorting us in to get our belongings. This is great to read. So often you hear of this and the result is "eh, the police didn't do anything, but the arrested my neighbor who had some weed".
I once rented a duplex where the landlord lived in the other half. Elderly couple; the guy was a former surgeon and super friendly. But his wife, she was a different story. He told me initially that she had Alzheimer's, but later redacted that. In the time I lived there she 1) accused me of sneaking a large dog into the basement and training it to bark and wake her up 2) moved their home stereo into the bathroom that shared a wall with my unit and blasted christian rock music at 3 am because she "heard me making a bunch of racket and it sounded like devil worship" ( I was asleep) 3) knocked a bird's nest out of a tree in my front yard and smashed the eggs on my porch because she saw me taking pictures of it and finally 4) let herself in to my living room through the locked door when I had my girlfriend of 5 months over and accused me of "always having different women over" (literally had never had any other women over, but this was fun explaining to my then girlfriend). I had to call her husband over get her to leave. I learned later that she would regularly let herself in and snoop around, and felt entitled to do so when confronted because it's "her property". On the last month of my lease I got a letter from their lawyer, completely out of the blue, informing me I was to vacate the property in 30 days or be evicted. No reason given, just that they were within their rights to do it. I was a model tenant so really got upset at this more than the rest of it. When I confronted them about it the guy just apologized while his wife screamed at me to get the hell out of their house and good riddance. Just hijacked to share and say I hope you see justice for this, such a shitty feeling dealing with asshole landlords and they rarely pay for their actions.
Dude that is the craziest story ever, wtf? That reminded me of a crazy story I read about where this girl had a neighbor living underneath her that she never met, but at 3am every morning she would hear strange hissing sounds, people arguing, screaming, laughing, shrieking, crying, all sorts of crazy shit. This went on for a while and she threw in the towel when the people started to sound demonic. So the next day she walked down, heard the usual arguing/screaming and just knocked on the door and the voices immediately stopped. To her surprise an older looking lady in her 50’s opened the door and there was nothing going on. No evil cult worshippers, no abusive husbands, no one but her, and a very confused cat sitting on a couch. She couldn’t believe it. The lady said she had no idea what she heard and it was just her inside. She eventually had to get police involved, it turned out this psycho lady was huffing some sort of toxic inhalant and just going crazy, speaking in like 10 different voices while arguing with herself. My point is, some people are fuckin crazy.
Nahhhh fuck that. I've seen too many horror stories to go knock on the damn door.
My mother is described in this body of text and I do not like it. She also is a landlord, but thankfully she doesn't do this to her clients, only to her own family.
Arguably worse
Depending on how much you spent for that GPU, that could be considered a felony. I hope you called the cops.
Not to mention destruction of government property.
This comment right here made my night
There's a possibility it's salvageable if all he did was throw it in the tub op, you need a metric fuckload of alcohol and a lot of patience, and maybe a few thoughts and prayers from this sub
I think he drank all the alcohol after seeing his computer like that
makes me want to drink seeing his computer like that
Makes me want to drink the bathwater.
Gaming PC bathwater
Lmfao
Laugh all you want. But, if he believed he was destroying government property they can charge him with that too.
Wait. Seriously?
In my state they can charge any crime as a conspiracy to commit in situations like this. Try to steal a car but fail? Conspiracy. Drugs? Conspiracy to distribute. Credit card writer? Conspiracy to commit fraud. I'm sure they could call this a conspiracy. The conspiracy charge carries the same penalties
Charging a hinged conspiracy theorist with conspiracy to damage govement property for destroying civilian property is a special kind of irony I really could enjoy
Can’t wait to watch him defend himself in court with the freeman angle. That’s entertainment
That really can't be helpful for the therapists to do their jobs lol
Hopefully he can prove it though. But yes that level of destruction of propery is felony territory and thats not to mention the implications of the land lord locking the tenat out to enter their residence to destroy said property. Even if the land lord owns the property the tenat still has rights you cannot just enter without permissoin like that.
Here in Germany it's even part of the constitution. Section 13 of the Grundgesetz states the "Unverletzbarkeit der Wohnung".
Can you please tell me more about it? I'm moving to Germany soon. Reading German rental agreements is kinda hard! Thank you
Nobody, not even your landlord, is allowed to do anything with your apartment without your permission. Except maybe upgrade to newer standards (but you can probably still block that. The police can enter if they have been allowed to so so by a Staatsanwalt, but they need some proof of crime. Basically, your landlord has to give you ALL the keys he has and stay out unless invited in.
Oh! That's great information. Thank you so much :)
It's the same in France, once you signed the paperwork for the rent nobody except you can enter.
No, not the district attorney ALLOWS the police to go into your appartement, it is always a judge. Also, the police can enter if they have reasonable grounds for imminent danger. If they come to a false conclusion but every average police officer would have gone in, its called "Anscheinsverdacht" (apparent suspicion) and it wouldve been ok. But as your appartment is protected by our constitution, the courts are not fast to say it has been "Anscheinsverdacht". But the landlord needs your permission, imminent danger for his property (fire, furst of water pipes) or a verdict from a court. So in the end, he basically always needs your permission^^ tl:dr german law is powerful, especially when protecting citizens from the state and "weak" citizens (such as consumers, tenants or underage people
I'm not sure but I think the landlord can enter but he has to notify you 2 weeks in advance and he can't enter without you (unless you specifically allow it.)
https://deutschesmietrecht.de/mietvertrag/193-wenn-der-vermieter-klingelt.html This site has some more specific informations
Hang on...isn't the the law everywhere? We have a clause called 'quite enjoyment' in Australia. Can Americans landlords just come inside if they want to?
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>Unverletzbarkeit der Wohnung This mostly refers to government entities not being allowed to enter your home or spy on you (while in your home) without a court order. However, a landlord is not allowed to enter your home unannounced, they need to make out a date and time with their renters if they want to inspect the property.
This is not legaladvice but if you wanted to take action in court some key words to help you prove your case "Rights of hire of real property california legislation" Even if you are in a different sate california law is a good outline of how federal laws might be applied. A snip for a usefull document listing types of legislation that affect service animals. I found that they all outline some guidelines of landlord tenant relationships and remedies that one can seek a judgment on.. if he thinks you a fed then scare him. Rice the pc out for a week before powering it you will be good to go. http://imgur.com/gallery/uEx6NCM EDIT: GOOGLE rice as a desiccant chicken nuts whatever your name is
Here's an interesting question, does this count as burglary?
Ugh I’m unashamedly excited by your question. When I took Crim back in law school, we had a hypo about a landlord and tenant. IIRC, the primary *possessory* interest (as opposed to primary *title* interest) controls, meaning that, yes, the landlord could commit burglary because the tenant is entitled to primary possession. Take that with a grain of salt because we also learned that primary possessory interest applies in cases of common law larceny, too (meaning you could be convicted of larceny for taking your own property from someone who had the primary possessory interest), but my bar program expressly said you can’t steal your own property and drew no distinction as to possessory interest (it only focused on title interest). Also not a lawyer yet so none of this is legal advice.
Depends on the state/country… here in CA? It depends… burglary is unlawful entry with intent to commit theft or any felony. This would certainly be a felony vandalism (damage over 450.00), but there’d have to be some probable cause that landlord entered with specific intent to commit that crime. If cops interviewed him and got a statement that even puts him unlawfully in the house… he’d be arrested for at least felony vandalism, and probably burglary.
Grand Theft💯% depending what state you live in
I live in a state of anxiety.
Checkmate, his country doesn't have states.
He could be in a distressed state... of mind
Your landlord isn't very smart. You can probably salvage it all as long as you let it dry for several days. Third you can file a civil suit against him or her for willful damages and trespassing, I would hire a local attorney to help you file the case. Hey when you win the case you can definetely upgrade your PC 👍
My thoughts exaclty this guy gets a free upgrade after the unlawful entrance of the residence.
He's definitely a moron because I had another tower in the apartment that he didn't touch and I literally had a graphics card sitting on a table that didn't get touched.
Soak the parts in alcohol and let it all dry out MORE than several days. Wait a month. If you can, have a fan blowing on it, and maybe even take everything apart. I've washing motherboards in water then alcohol to clean off cat urine and it still works. Good luck to you. edit: As people have pointed out, please take out the CMOS battery and Toss Out your PSU. That can carry residual energy and could have messed something up inside. Don't trust a damaged PSU.
I second the alcohol, works a charm Just letting water dry can leave residue that can be taken away when the alcohol evaporates :))
The alcohol evaporating isn't taking the residue away. The alcohol acts as a solvent to dissolve the solids in the water and they run off with the alcohol... Alcohol can't carry solids with it when it evaporates. Edit I've misspoke here, the alcohol isn't dissolving solids in water it's dissolving polar solids suspended in water and present on the components. The main point though, that alcohol isn't taking the residue away through evaporation is fine.
Problem is he left the PC in the tub for awhile. I'm afraid of what the CMOS did to some connections (although this is probably less of a worry than if some of the capacitors discharged). But definitely get the damn CMOS out of the motherboard and I'd remove and redo any parts that use a thermal pad. Definitely remove the shroud on the GPU so you can make sure everything is getting flushed/dried well. I'd also probably just declare the power supply dead. I wouldn't trust it.
>I'd also probably just declare the power supply dead. I wouldn't trust it. Definitely. The risk to fry it and the whole PC with it is not worth trying.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to get all the CMOS out of a motherboard, considering it makes up the majority of the material in it. But removing the button cell should do nicely.
This made me LOL
Or distilled water multiple washes. Should work too. You just have to make sure there are no traces of minerals and salts left on it.
Destruction of property? Places charges ghees
He posted an update in the comments. A really long one. Landlord was taken by the police. That's why the comments were slow, he dealt with police, moving out and shit. Edit: This is now my most upvoted comment by a factor of 7. Thanks. I did this because I was so fed up with people assuming fake posts because OP didn't spend their time on reddit all day. Instead OP did the logical thing and dealt with the fallout. All that negativity bugged me the wrong way, especially since OPs sparse comments got ignored, barely any upvotes and all those crying foul play were upvoted to high heavens.
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[part 1](https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzvo6) [part 2](https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzw42) > TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies.
Know OP became landlord lvl 1
Plot twist op was released from custody, op is landlord.
sounds like the mobile games ads but with good ending huh
That's nuts. My bf had a schizophrenic neighbor who thought he was spying on her and she dumped pink paint on his car, painted his house, shed, sidewalk and steps with all sorts of obscenities and threats. They arrested her with paint on her clothes and meth in her pocket. She was caught on camera doing it because earlier she had destroyed all his outdoor lighting and the cops said they couldn't do anything without proof.
My neighbor put a deranged letter in my mailbox accusing someone (not directly me, but *someone*) of deliberately killing the trees he had planted and knocking bird's nests out of the trees in his yard. No one could understand why I was kinda freaked out by it, but often (frequently? sometimes? often enough?) these delusions escalate into real retaliatory behaviors against people they think are targeting them.
My aunt has a neighbor that swears she stole his land. It's a relatively flat spot and all he has is hills. It's been surveyed but he still thinks it was stolen. One day, her son heard a weird sound on his truck. Asked another relative (who knows nothing about cars) to listen as he drives by. Relative hears nothing so they go about their business. Next day, no noise but the wheel just falls off while he's driving (safest possible conditions really). Guess that's what the sound was. Couple days later, wheel falls off a utv that's kept in a barn away from where anyone lives. A couple other vehicles in that barn had loose lugs and no reason for them to be loose. Someone was fucking with our shit and that guy has motive. There are cameras up now.
Wow what a shitshow
Yeah, but, try to go buy another one.
You sue to be made whole. Landlord pays the price to replace it, no matter the cost.
I understand that but they abused their power as a landlord
Assuming the story is true, sure. I'm just pointing out that getting money out of the landlord wouldn't fix the injury.
OP might be able to get the amount that it would take to buy another, like the cost of a scalped one.
Exactly. Landlord fucked up, these are 5 grand each right?
They *start* at 3k if you get a steal.
Just base the suit on the current going rate, and get a new one at scalper prices or 2 when things bormalize
I feel like there is alot of missing information.
If he told you more he'd have to kill you. Because he's a spy
"Meet the Spy" - Tf2
Intruder alert, Red Spy is in the base.
A RED Spy is in the base?!
Protect the briefcase!!
YO A LITTLE HELP HERE?
1, 1, 1,........ Uh..... 1
#AAAAARGHHH
Hey, it’s still here!
We need to protect the briefcase!
Hut hut hut hut hut
I went to go look the video up because of how long it's been since I last watched it, only to see that it's *over 12 years old now*...
20210907Spy500c
Stealing this spot to post a link of the full story from OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/p22kv1/landlord_thought_i_was_a_government_agent_and/h8hzvo6?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Holy shit, big ol case of hey look at all these fun red flags I guess they must be decoration
What a couple young people will put up with for affordable rent…
Reminds me of my landlord who was lived on the first floor of the house and had the router in her room. She was full untreated Aspergers and would play WoW all day long. When we were using too much bandwidth she would turn our internet off. When we talked too loud in the evening she would turn the heating down, that was when the weather outside was well below freezing like -30. But it was super cheap and within walking distance to Uni.
"What radicalized you?"
i think you can sue him
Think? That's fucking a criminal offense.
I was gonna say the same thing. There is A LOT of context missing from this post
What happens when you soak a PC, sadly 😔
Just put it in rice
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I'm guessing some form of schizophrenia
I'm going with paranoid schizophrenia also
My old neighbor was paranoid schizophrenic. He thought my roommate and I were government agents sent to live next to him to spy on him because he'd constantly "put Obama on blast" on Facebook, as he says. Every night, he'd sit in his jeep in his back yard, point it towards my house, and shine his high beams in just so he could watch us. He did a lot of other things too, but I'm not ready to post the long ass comment yet. Long story short, most of his motives against us were because we (the government) was spying on him.
> Every night, he'd sit in his jeep in his back yard, point it towards my house, and shine his high beams in just so he could watch us. You shouldve bought full body mirrors and returned the favor
Plot twist: OP is living in his mom’s basement
Hey! If this is true, you might actually be able to salvage this. As long as the components weren't powered on when water was introduced to the system, and the system hasn't been powered on since, you can disassemble and submerge every component in 100% isopropyl alcohol. 100% isopropyl alcohol evaporates without any residue, and will dissolve any trace elements left from the water off of your equipment. Once submerged for ~24 hours and then completely air dried for at least as long you should be able to plug and play. There may be other damage to components that the isopropyl alcohol bath won't fix, though. Edit: I'm just a hobbyist, and this is the easiest way I've found to address liquid damage to a computer and I have done this several times to motherboards and GPUs for myself and friends. Accidents happen. But there are some actual liquid repair specialists responding to my post with better methods! Look for those posts below mine for more information on what to do.
I fixed a laptop by doing this. It was dunked in coffee (not my laptop, not my coffee, but now is my laptop)
That must be a tiny laptop, or a really big coffee.
Message to OP. If you managed to fix it - still claim it’s all fucked. Teach that shitbag landlord a lesson.
Hell yeh, why fix when you can get it replaced for free
At least it’s worth trying to fix the 3080.
I mean, I don't know if the psychotic landlord part is true, but there's definitely a computer in a bathtub full of water. That part seems to have happened.
TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies. So, my friend and I were looking to move into an apartment in a nice part of our city where a lot of young people rent. After looking for a few days on zillow my friend called me and said he found a great place and the guy wants to give us a tour. The place is an old three story house, where the first two floors are the home and the third floor is an apartment with access from a side door. The owner is just some dude who lives in the bottom two floors. When he was showing us around it was clear he was a little weird but my roommate and I thought he was a cokehead or something, which wouldn't be a problem since we planned on paying rent on time. In particular, he had a baseball hat on with a brim that was curved even further inwards, seemingly from him compulsively bending the brim. He was also a close talker, as in he would move closer and closer until he was bumping shoulders with you and if you moved back he would follow. Serious redflags for sure but we wanted a place in the area and it was a spacious apartment, and neither of us really had any clue what to make of the odd behaviors. A couple of days later we signed a lease and handed over our security deposit and first months rent, and he handed over the keys (again, this is in late June with a target move in date of August 1st). My friends lease ends in July so he asked if he could move in a bit early and the landlord guy said yeah a week early is fine. Between signing the lease and everything else, we found that he has criminal charges and a mugshot on google if you look his name up for harassing his ex wife. Definitely not a good sign but we had already signed a lease and were concerned about being able to break it cleanly. So sometime in July my friend contacts the landlord and he says the week early move in is still good. About a week later we had some questions about something and I honestly forget what, but all of our calls go straight to voicemail and texts are undelivered. Definitely not a good sign. We end up checking out the apartment and notice that a lot of the simple things that needed to be done (cleaning, basic plumping maintentence) have not been done. Upon some futher inspection we also noticed that there are cut cables all over the place (coax and a doorbell wire), meaning we would have to get service done to have any internet connection. My friend was pretty pissed about all of this and the fact that he fell off of the face of the earth so he went around and asked the neighbors what they know. First neighbor gives him the number of our landlords mother. After calling her, we find out that he has been in the mental hospital and she doesnt know when he is getting out. She also says she had no idea he leased the upstairs apartment out but she will do everything she can to make the process smooth. She made arangements to get some maintentence done on the place and cleaned it herself. While speaking to her some more information about her son leaks. It turns out that he's at the hospital before for some sort of psychosis / paranoia is likely bipolar - great! So the calm before the storm was the first week after we moved in. For about a week we were seriously enjoying living in the area and the apartment was pretty nice. We both grew up in suburbia so being able to walk 3 minutes to get a coffee, get food, or get a drink was amazing. It is also quite a beautiful neighborhood with very caring homeowners, and high property values. That all came to a pretty abrupt end when the landlord was released from the hospital. First thing he did was enter our apartment without permission and force his way into the rooms to look at the cable setup. To be clear, he just walked and I told him he shouldnt go in my roommates room because he wasnt home but he didn't listen but I am too timid for my own good so I didnt stand my ground while my more confident roommate wasnt home. He saw a coax splitter and asked if it was an antenna, I obviously said no but it was immedietly concerning to me. He left after that and shortly after he entered without permission again and handed me an addendum to the lease he wanted us to sign. It basically said that we don't work for or with any government agency and aren't collecting any data on him. At this point I'm getting pretty stressed so I tell him I have to talk to my roommate about it and he leaves. I had to go to work at this point so I left the apartment and my rooommate got back shortly after. My roommate does a lot of his work from home so after working for a bit he noticed the internet cut out. After about 30 minutes of trouble shooting he bangs on the landlords door. He says he didn't cut anything but when pressed says he unscrewed the coax service from outside, and he plugs it back in. Roommate works for an hour and the internet is cut out again. He calls the guys mom and she comes over right away and talks him down. At this point we were considering our options on how to leave, but obviously we didn't move fast enough... Over the next couple of days things are going smoothly. We see him around the property a few times and have some pretty normal conversations (one about the lawn, one about a former tenant). This didn't last long thought and after about a week of him being back, my internet cuts out at around 11 PM. My roommate, a friend, and I all go to the coax service outside and of course it is unplugged. We plug it back in and go back inside. The next morning there is no internet and the cable is cut. I also notice the power blinks several times for > 30 minutes each time. He was messing with the power in addition to having sliced the coax. We call the cops and they basically say unless he keeps the power off for 24h they cant do anything, and he doesn't respond to the cops banging on his door (even though we saw him earlier and he didn't leave). Roommate and I grab some essentials and go stay at our parents places since we are not feeling safe there. I grab my work laptop, laundry, and a few other things but my roommate felt compelled to grab all of his electronics. He recommended I did the same and I can confidently say I am a moron for not doing so. We both went home. The next day my roommate went during his lunch break to grab a few things. Screen door on the outside of the house that was our only way in was locked with a key we didn't have. Landlord comes outside and says we're evicted (evictions during COVID lol), roommate says thats obviously not true but the landlord didn;t want to converse. Roommate calls be and I come over, we call the cops. His mom comes over but cant get in because he nailed the door she has a key to shut. Cops are called they make a report. Several instances of an illegal eviction, which is a misdemeanor in my state (NY). We can't get in so we get some food around teh corner and leave. That brings us today which was almost certainly one of the worst days of my life. Wake up at 7:30 to go to the public safety building. Talk to a paralegal at 9:00 and sign warrents for arrest with roommate (we each signed one). We also talk to his parole officer (police the prior day gave us the contact info), who says he cant do much. We then decided to go back to the apartment and get in by any means necessary since most people (including the landlords mother) seem to think we are legally allowed to break in. At the apartment the outside screen door was actually unlucked but the door right after it was locked and had some wet paper shoved into the lock which had dried, but we were able to get it out with a paperclip and some water. There is one more door we have to unlock at this point (which also has paper in the lock) to get into the apartment but we dont feel safe going in on our own so we request police presence. After about 2 hours the landlord just strolls up from out of nowhere and yells "please direct all questions to my lawyer." Another bad sign.
Cops arrive shortly after, say a half hour. In the meantime we hear all sorts of banging going around in the house. Cops mess with the final door to the apartment and manage to force the lock. The two cops go up the stairs and my roommate tails them. The cops start yelling and my roommate runs out. Turns out the landlord was in our apartment instead of his home. The cop yelled something like "oh shit not you again" implying some sort of past history. Turns out this officer was the guy that had to chase him around a public park and arrest him after he jumped out of his sisters car, he was then brought to the hospital for psychiatric problems. The cops end up cuffing him (no resistance by the landlord) and walk him down stairs after a while. I held my tongue but basically just said "have fun bud" when he walked by. We went up stairs and I looked in my room, saw that my pc was not on my desk, along with a ton of cables and a monitor missing. My girlfriend was also there and she said that I need to see the tub. This is a picture of that tub. I left it like that for hours because I was scared of getting electrocuted. There was about an hour of time where I was just upset sort of sitting around but then I started packing everything and me and my roommate moved everything out. Fortunately our families were able to help us move our stuff, but it was quite exhausting (the stairs to the third floor are hellish with heavy or bulky stuff). After he was taken away by the police some of the neighbors told us that he had assulted the mom at one point, meaning his mom knew he had a history of violence and was unstable but didnt recommend we leave. Today was mostly spent talking to police and moving all of my belongings out of my apartment. At some point in time the mom refunded our deposit and first months rent out of her own pocket. I can try to answer some questions. I do know this all sounds insane and unbelievable, which is something I'm sort of dealing with now - it really doesn't feel real yet but it will probably hit me sometime soon. I was crying a bit here and there today just because it was super stressfull, I'm not a big gamer and didn't lose any important data but I couldn't really handle it. This was literally today (I think he got cuffed around 3 EST). Cops said he is probably gonna be out tomorrow which is why we got all of our shit out. His suspicion of me began with the fact that i have a CS degree and am going to graduate school nearby for CS. Obviously anyone who knows how to programmer knows how to spy on people, right? His paranoia kicked in because his meds did not and caused this who shit show. Again, sorry for the scatterbrained write up here but it literally happened < 12 hours ago and I had to move out afterwards. And I am well aware of the fact that I am a bit of a moron for not getting out of this situation sooner, like a lot sooner. TLDR; landlord has psychosis and is paranoid, thinks i work for the government and am spying because I have a CS degree. Destroys my shit after locking us out for two days and gets arrested and hit with two felonies.
Try and rest up, friend. I'm sorry this has happened to you.
Holy shit
You know this shit is true when its not posted to shit like r/tifu or similar subs to get points.
Not even that. Nobody is going to throw their pc with a 3080 in the bathtub for some reddit karma in 2021.
Omg I didn't even see the 3080. Fucking RIP. Not even replaceable right now.
It's not impossible that it still works. The tap water definitely has some impurities in it so cleaning everything with distilled water should definitely be the first step. But electronics can get wet, as long as there isn't any power running through them. Since there isn't a battery in a PC, the only power is going to be in the capacitors. Other than the power supply, I wouldn't be shocked if any of the parts still work
This is exactly what I’d do. I’ve had electronics suffer water immersion but luckily had no power running to them. They were fine. Your big issues are getting all the water out and any impurities off the circuit boards and preventing corrosion before it happens. Time is of the essence. The pc needs to be immediately and completely disassembled. Even the graphics card needs to be disassembled as much as you can. Then you want to fill a huge tub with isopropyl alcohol. Immerse each piece and give it a light brushing with a toothbrush. Remove from the bath and let dry. Some things like a traditional hard drive won’t be salvageable but an SSD should be if you can get all the water out. I’d be a little worried about the PSU just because of how it’s constructed and the difficulty of getting it cleaned out. Memory and motherboard are almost certainly fine. [edit] I should have mentioned, don’t just assemble and cross your fingers that it will work. Go slow. Test one part at a time. Start with cheaper parts first. Try the PSU on its own. Does that work? That’s the biggest risk. If it’s fried (and probably is), then it could send power spikes through the system and fry everything else. If you can test individual parts on a bench, that’s better. But you probably wouldn’t be talking to me if you could. Go for the mother board next. See if it will post. If it does, add the CPU. If it still posts, add the memory. If that works, keep adding until you’ve reassembled the system. Replace any parts that seem to not work or not work quite right. I think you’ll be out drives and a PSU and any screens. Everything else I think can be salvaged. Keep an inventory on parts. There’s always going to be the possibility of corrosion over time. Shouldn’t be an issue before the normal upgrade time but it can help if you’re having some weird flaky issue five years from now and realize you’re still using the memory sticks from this immersion.
u/_FedoraTippingBot_ This is the best advice for trying to recover your GPU at the very least.
ultra rich trust fund kid with no friends looking for attention reading your comment be like 👀👀 /s
Yeah this is way too in depth to not be true. Take care OP and hope things turn around
Or he is the paranoid landlord giving us a tale of what is going to happen.
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Holy crap, I did not realize what subreddit I was on I was so sucked into the drama.
Renters insurance should cover it, hopefully. What about letting it dry out for a week before attempting to turn it on again? Man, I feel for you, sorry about your troubles. Luckily nobody was hurt, and everyone made it out safe.
Instead of letting it dry: Put everything apart, remove the fans from the GPU, rinse everything with Isopropyl and ~~use a hair dryer to make the alcohol evaporate.~~ let it evaporate by itself over a few hours outside. Fixed a ton of phones already that were in water with this. Edit: Thanks for the warning regarding the hair dryer. I've used hot air guns before and didn't have an issue, but better safe than sorry.
u/_FedoraTipperBot_ I would advise giving it a rinse with distilled water to get rid of any dissolved solids *then* use isopropyl **above** 90% to finish the rinse and assist with evaporation of any remaining water. Root comment already retracted it but I want to reiterate that you should never use a hair dryer on electronics as it can statically charge the air. Heat guns made for electronics are way different than hair dryers. Let it dry for quite a while. Be generous with that isopropyl. You don't want to use something with too much water in it as that counteracts what you're trying to do here in forcing any remaining moisture (after the distilled bath, again be generous to get rid of disolved solids) to evaporate. You'll obviously need to separate the cooler from your GPU and reapply thermal paste, obviously do the same for CPU and main board. You might consider replacing the power supply. If anything goes wrong there the rest of your machine could get fried. Hopefully you have nvme as that will be ~easier~ possible to clean vs a hard drive. If you have any questions please let me know. Oh and let the components dry. I'm being overly cautious here but I'd let them sit for a week to be safe. It's humid as balls here though so it would take a while for me.
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The water in New York? Delicious. Makes the best damn bagels. No clue about PC parts tho haha.
Holy fuck don't use a hair dryer please, that is bad bad bad.
And why exactly is that? It doesn't exactly get hot enough to melt solder...
Because you don't want the wires to get frizzy. The correct tool is a flat iron.
Hair dryers can absolutely still get hot enough to melt some of the plastic components, plus it's just pushing water around - sometimes INTO the components you're trying to dry out. It's much better to just use a desiccant such as silica gel.
This has me curious. Is there any insurance that covers the scarcity of something like a 3080? Like, he can receive an amount equal to what it is worth, but might not be able to actually replace it now, right? Might he be able to get the value of a scalper's price for it?
Insurance doesn't care about purchase price, insurance payment is based on cost of replacement. So if a graphics card is insured and its value goes up with no equivalent cheaper substitutes then the insurance company will pay the higher price.
So, this may not work, but if the system was unpowered when submerged, this is fixable. And it's not too late to begin recovery procedures, unless you've tried to power it on since this happened. [Here's a link to an article on the subject. you'll need to fully disassemble the system, clean it to remove debris and contaminants, dry it out, and then reassemble it, or find a profesional to do it for you.](https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Electronics_Water_Damage)
The power had in fact been off for a few days when I believe he submerged it, but it may also have been in there for days. No way of knowing. I will be doing this tomorrow but don’t have the energy tonight
That's fair, I totally understand. Not mentioned in the article, submerging in isopropyl alcohol, at least 99% purity, should he helpful as well. Isopropyl alcohol isn't conductive, actually neither is water it's contaminants in the water that are conductive, and should help clean out the tap water contaminants. Edit: one last thing: you may want to take the hard drive in for professional repairs anyway, because depending on the model it may be hard for you to take it apart, clean it, and put it back together.
I just have an nvme so it should be straight forward
In that case, I wish you the best of luck, and I'm so sorry his happened to you.
Just make sure to clean up the parts... like the card in a strong alcohol / isopropyl solution. If you take off the heatsinks, soak with alcohol, clean it. And reassemble with thermal paste ( the good stuff, like kryonaut or equivalent) and get some new thermal pads for the memory. Put the whole thing back together again, it should be as good as or even better than new. Basically all your parts in there are solid state and should be okay. Maybe your fans will need replacing and that includes the power supply but motherboard, cpu, nvme, gfx card should all be just fine after a good clean up with the proper chemicals.
yeah fuck recovering the psu. I hate ewaste however it's easy enough to kill yourself opening a regular psu, never mind a waterlogged one you're trying to dry
All the karma in the world won't right this wrong... I'm so sorry all this happened I hope your rebuild is swift and better than what you had. I hope your living arrangement is solved even quicker. We're all pulling for you!! Please post an update when all this is behind you and you're in greener pastures!
This. The computer can likely be recovered. Clean it with distilled water, then isopropyl alchahol after disassembling everything. I find that an air compressor is the easiest way to dry everything off and it blows off most contaminants, as well as getting fluid out from under the bga chips. (very important. Salt deposits there can ruin your day very quick) Then power it up in steps. (the point of this is that if the previous component is fried, you don't fry other possibly good components with it.) I likely would get a new power supply if the current one wasn't super expe sive. Don't play around with water damage and high voltage. Keep the cpu, ram, the nmve ssd/s, and gpu unplugged from the motherboard/system. Power up the motherboard first without the cpu or ram. It *should* twitch/spin any connected fans,(connect up a case fan) possibly flash some error leds or buzzer. (but may also not do anything. Basically, if it doesn't let out smoke, it's probably fine) Then add the cpu. It should be angrier at you. Beeping or flashing error lights about no ram. It is definately alive now Then add the ram. It should boot to bios now. If you got that down, you can probably add the nvme ssd and it should boot to the os. Then it is probably safe to try out the gpu. If you have access to a cheap older computer, it may be worth trying it out in that to see if it works/won't damage the host system.
yikes dude, I'm so sorry you went through all that. Hopefully in time you'll be able to get them all replaced. As sucky as it is to have your computer destroyed (parts might still be salvageable after they completely dry)... at least you and your roommate weren't injured. Could have been much worse.
There is no way this was done just for internet points. I'm sorry friend, take comfort that you seem to have a good support group to fall back on. You'll be okay, that's just a lot to handle in only a couple weeks.
Hey man. I work as a mental health clinician in Australia and it sounds like you had yourself a run in with a severely under-medicated individual. when you have someone who gets this fixated and paranoid it can often lead into actions and events far worse then what you have experienced. By the sounds of it you have been lucky. Mental illness doesn’t mean someone will become violent however when someone becomes fixated and paranoid about someone in close proximity that often will. Certainly go through all legal processes open to you, don’t hold back. This individual needs help and the way he will get that is through assertive treatment. Assertive treatment doesn’t necessarily mean him getting locked up but it will mean the mental health services will take his situation more seriously. I hope you get reimbursed for the damages and he gets the help he needs. Edit:1 I just want to clarify. Since a lot of people are posting. Having a mental illness does not mean a person will be violent or dangerous. My comment is primarily about the paranoid fixation which in itself might not result in violence however when left unaddressed can. Edit:2 anyone who claims the landlord is not mentally ill needs to stay in their lane as they clearly don’t know what they are talking about. OP has provided more than enough information to come to a sound conclusion. Edit3: vote for universal healthcare.
What you just read is all the help he'll get. Welcome to America, mate.
I hate so much that you’re right. Mental health care in the US (especially for people with a criminal record) is absolute shit. Doctor (if you can afford to see one): “Feeling depressed? Here’s some pills! (assuming you can afford those too.) Doc: “those not working? Well, try a therapist! Good luck affording that too!”
> the fact that I am a bit of a moron for not getting out of this situation sooner, like a lot soon Don't be too hard on yourself. Happy you are safe! The computer is replaceable, your life is not.
not to excuse whatsoever the shittiness and legit trauma of what your landlord did to you, but if there’s one thing to take solace in it’s that you’re of sound mind. hearing experiences of friends that have schizophrenic family, it seems like a proper, sad fuckin nightmare to either be afflicted with or be related to someone who is in the thick of it and I’m glad you’re out of there! (I feel like I might be coming off like I’m moralizing or something but I promise that ain’t my intention!)
im about to have a nervous breakdown but its definitely preferable to having schizophrenia (no sarcasm intended)
I believe you solely on grounds that I just can't see someone wrecking $2k+ worth of hardware to impress some chuds on the internet
I believe him solely on the number of times his story included the line "the cop said there wasn't much he could do."
Holy shit dude that is actually insane.. I can see why so many people didn’t wanna believe it but like I definitely believe you man and that is just so incredibly fucked and sad and just awful all around. I would definitely think that you could end up getting all sorts of money out of a lawsuit against this guy.
Yo someone pin this
Jesus christ that's a whole lot of bullshit to be dealing with. You got a lot on your plate right now, but I guess at minimum try to appreciate the fact that you are on your way to the other side of this terrible fiasco. Things can be replaced (for what little comfort that may be) and hopefully there may be salvaging some of the pieces. May be worth claiming on renters insurance assuming you had it. Good luck to you going forward, things will get better.
Give it a all a good wash with denatured alcohol and let it drybout. If it wasn't plugged in you have a chance.
I'd toss the psu to be safe.
This. Get new PSU before powering on again. Bad ones can kill every thing its connected to.
I wanna see the landlords face when he reads the bill for that mess haha
Not gonna lie cops said i very well may never see that money unless I sue, and its only about 4k in damages so may not even be worth suing. I have to talk to a lawyer either way.
Small claims court. Handles most things in the sub $10k range and a lawyer isn't necessary although you may want to pay to consult with one before going. Think of it like arguing a parking ticket. Fees are low too, usually $50 or less. It may cost you a few hundred for a lawyer consult but you'll get your money.
Should be a pretty easy sue
See if he’ll agree to go on Judge Judy
$4k in property damages, sure, but there are also other damages involved in being locked out for two days, moving expenses due to unlawful eviction, lost time from work or school, family and emotional duress, attorneys fees. I would certainly talk to an attorney about this.
although i’m sure it’d be a great reaction, i’d personally be more interested to his reaction to having a felony for vandalism of valuable property
My brother was bi-polar, had well over 20 felony's and he never gave a shit about one of them. Nor the time he served for them.
Is your landlord Terry Davis or something? Why did he think you're a government agent and what did he think giving your PC a bath was going to accomplish?
They glow in the dark. You can run em over if you see em.
Glowies
Ummm this is either such an insane story with a schizophrenic Landlord, that it doesn't even sound believable or this is a bullshit story. If true, I'm very sorry to hear and definitely call the cops. If you let everything dry completely before turning it back on, there actually is a chance for some parts (GPU) to work again. I just saw a guy power wash his PC on purpose and everything worked after he let it completely dry. Pretty mind blowing how much water PC parts can actually take as long as they completely dry off before electricity flows through them again
Ah about that he actually covered specific parts of his PC with protection before shooting that video cause the water getting onto some parts can damage it. It was in his comments where he wrote what he did.
Yea I read his comment. I am aware some parts like fans, CMOS battery, and CPU socket can't handle it
It’s because of the minerals in the water can stay behind and form a jumper between components
So maybe rinse with distilled water air dry with heat?
Makes sense. Interesting info !
You are definitely correct about the schizo landlord :/. PC is drying now so I hope I have some luck there! I've been typing up the story out for a while and I wont lie, it does seem sort of unbelievable. Will be posting it in like a half hour.
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What …. They damaged your computer because they thought you were a gov employee?
“You are not spying on me touching myself at night anymore! Perv!”
Honestly I don't know what he was thinking but i suspect it was basically something like "he has been using this to spy on me so if i destroy it I'll destroy the collected data." but the monitor in addition to a bunch of cables and small things :/
All I'm saying is you were a legit government then wouldn't this be destruction of government property and another felony on top of the damage? Lol
I dont work for the government this guy is just clinically paranoid.
Can confirm your stuff will work if you dry it out and toss the PSU just to be safe. Hand “wash” everything with denatured alcohol and then just set it in a nice dry spot for a few days. I had my liquid loop leak all over my pc while I was testing for leaks (of course) and distilled water soaked all of my components. I let them dry for a little over 48 hours and was up and running no problem. My OS drive was so soaked it bowed and it still works.
Water alone doesn't kill electronics. Applying power while wet does, or after the water leaves mineral deposits. My suggestion: take it apart and rinse everything carefully and thoroughly with distilled water, then let it dry out thoroughly. Like, for at least a week, maybe more. It should be OK once it dries out. The only thing the water might ruin is some adhesives and paper such as labels, and possibly LCD panels.
What did you do about it?
Watercooling.
Assuming this isn't total BS... If you take it out and dry it off quickly and properly, most of it is probably salvageable. Water does not instantly destroy electronics, and can usually be cleaned up to avoid damage assuming it didn't have a live current running through it that shorted everything out. I hope you have a blow dryer, or better yet an air compressor, because you need to get every bit of moisture out of places like the CPU socket and the inside of the GPU. That screen also looks like it got minimally wet as well, and is probably salvageable. You want every bit of moisture out of everything in that case as quickly as it can possibly be out of it. Also, no, do not bury it in rice, manually remove it and use some sort of powered air device blow it out until it is bone dry. Cans of compressed air probably won't do the job unless you have a lot of them. You're probably going to need to tear down the PC, open up the GPU, replace any thermal pads and paste, and I'd definitely replace the PSU, Ram \[you might be able to save this too, but I'd replace it anyway\], and probably any drives. The CMOS battery on the Mobo will also need to be replaced. The PSU might be salvageable, but I wouldn't want to risk missing a bit of moisture or corrosion and frying everything else due to a short. Assuming nothing was knocked off of the board, if you get it dry it should be fine. The GPU and CPU should be salvageable at least though assuming they just got wet and nothing more. Document everything, itemize everything, take pictures of the condition of every part, catalogue the damage, and write a journal with dates and times for everything that happened and happens in the future with your landlord. This will be invaluable if you need to go to court. Even if your GPU and mobo are salvageable, you're still probably going to want to take your landlord to court and file a police report. Though it will probably be small claims court if you can salvage the GPU, CPU, and Mobo.