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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Is your ceiling made of corrugated cardboard? I'm being serious.
If it was your roommate spilling a jug of juice, then letting it ignorantly seep through the floor for 3-4 hours, then yes, he should pay for it.
If it was an honest mistake and he cleaned it up right away, I would talk to your landlord. Tell him to pay for your laptop or you'll be calling a building inspector to check your place out. There is absolutely NO WAY a building that is up to code should have juice seep through the floor so quickly and on to your laptop.
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Well... It's not completely out to lunch. It'd take a perfect storm, but it could happen.
Say the roommate dropped the jug of juice right beside a cold air return, and the juice went right in it. Then say that the HVAC installer did not duct tape the cold air ducts. That'd result in a bunch of juice pouring out of the cold air and on to the top of the main floor ceiling, looking for somewhere to flow. Then say that the path of least resistance has a light box directly in it's path... Bingo, juice raining out of a light. And since lights are usually strategically placed where they'll be most effective, it's not hard to believe that a laptop was directly below it.
The juice spiller is still an idiot.