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He showed me a screenshot of a video from a doorbell camera of someone obscuring their face and told me it was me.  The person has the same hair and skin color as me but otherwise the face is obscured.  \n\n\nHe claimed to have video evidence of me stealing \"hundreds of dollars worth\" of my neighbor's packages.  He gave me an ultimatem of confessing then and there so we could \"settle things,\" or he would give his evidence over to the police.  He also said it would be a 30-day eviction notice either way.  \n\n\nI haven't stolen anything, and I told him that.  He wouldn't let it go and kept urging me to confess.  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He becomes irate over nothing. I moved a rug to vacuum and he flipped out on me and my roommate. Since this is not his first episode, my other roommate recorded the conversation on his phone. At one point he said he saw a pube in the bathroom, and my other roommate said \"what you don't have pubes\" (meaning everyone who has pubic hair drops one in the bathroom without noticing sometimes).\nThis prompted the crazy one to expose his pubic area at me and my good roommate still recording. He didn't drop dong, but he lowered his pants to the point there any further there would have been dong. He has a sadistic look on his face when he did it. This has been a few days but it took some time to process and I am very offended and no longer feel safe in my own home. 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I literally had the chemical in my hair for over 30 minutes and got severe chemical burns to the point where now my hair was falling out and snapping off and my head even three weeks after getting the relaxer was very tender to the touch I finally had to shave my head over the weekend so that I could have the snapping and breaking ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1h6h9yh/sue_a_salon_botched_relaxer/","score":0.7,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["l'oreal","loreal","softsheen-carson","strength of nature","namaste","godrej","olaplex"],"products":["hair relaxer","hair straightener","chemical relaxer","perm"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":96,"subreddit":"legaladvice","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1h6h9yh/sue_a_salon_botched_relaxer/","created_iso":"2024-12-04T14:27:23Z","search_term":"hair relaxer","num_comments":16,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:02:52Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.91,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:02:52Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:02:52Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_f590e6980a7c9c","matter_id":"mat_1bfdd921349bc9","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:190aplc","kind":"reddit_post","title":"Is my girlfriend being racially discriminated against?","summary":"Location is Los Angeles, California.\n\n​\n\nSo my girlfriend and I work at a small, family owned bakery. 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