Tenants launch fundraiser after ‘landlord tries to evict them for farting an excessive amount of’
A comedy duo from Ontario accused of indoor smoking at their rented property have claimed the only reason they are being evicted is because they ‘fart too much’
The duo claim they are being evicted for ‘farting too much’ (Image: Instagram/thecreepyboys)
Two tenants are facing eviction over claims they “fart too much”. SE Grummett and Sam Kruger – a couple who perform ‘horror comedy’ and queer theatre under the name Creepy Boys – say air-quality readings suggest they might have trumped their way to homelessness.
The pair are taking Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board to court, according to the International Business Times. “This is not a joke. We wish we were joking,” read a site raising funds for the duo’s legal expenses.
Grummett and Kruger say their landlord suffers from a chronic lung condition and gave them the boot after noticing ‘volatile organic compounds’ detected by an air-quality monitor in her property’s upstairs unit, which shares an air duct with the couple’s apartment.
The pair perform comedy under the act name ‘Creepy Boys’(Image: S.E. Grummett/Gofundme)
The tenants claim they have never smoked inside and argued they took “every measure” to identify the source of the VOCs through trial and error. Discovering it was not related to appliance use or home fragrances they began to suspect their own flatulence.
A health specialist has since verified information from the monitor’s manufacturer suggested VOC levels react to bodily functions. According to the comedians the levels spike overnight and could be caused by their flatulence.
“We are being wrongfully evicted because we fart too much,” read the fundraising efforts, which claims after the tenants disproved the landlord’s smoking theory, she wrongly tried to evict them so that she could return the unit to a single-family home.
The pair have raised close to £2,000 to pay for their legal fees (Image: Instagram/thecreepyboys)
“We are currently being evicted for ‘personal use’ but we believe this is retribution for us enforcing our tenants rights, as well as, our landlords belief that the poor air quality readings in her unit are from us smoking,” the pair wrote.
“We believe this to be in bad faith. In Ontario, such evictions have to be heard by the Landlord Tenant Board. So, we are going to court.”
Around £2,000 had been raised for the pair’s legal costs by Sunday morning, a month after the site was posted.
