A landlord in Huwei, Yunlin found that the water bill was NT$6,000 more than the previous period. He asked the tenants to pay attention, only to find that a female tenant had lost contact. He almost collapsed when he opened the door. The room felt “bombed” like a ruin and full of garbage. The bathroom faucet was broken and water was leaking all over the room. The pet rabbit was not taken away and starved to death, leaving only fur and bones. The outrageous behavior was just because the landlord did not allow her to renew the lease. The loss is estimated to be about NT$100,000. Now he has called the police and filed a lawsuit for compensation.
The unlucky landlord pointed out that the female tenant had rented for about 3 years and often paid the rent late in recent years. In mid-June, the female’s parents paid 2 months’ rent for her, and the female said she wanted to renew the lease. At that time, it was agreed that if they could not contact each other in the future, they would not renew the lease. They also communicated with the female’s parents, but because they “read but did not reply” to the reminder for water and electricity bills, they informed them that they would not renew the lease. Unexpectedly, this happened.
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This female tenant broke the bathroom faucet, put a bucket underneath to collect water, and covered it with pants to cover the leaking sound. The garbage in the room was not cleaned up and thrown everywhere. The furniture was soaked and rotten, and the stench was overwhelming. She even abandoned her pet rabbit and locked it in a cage for two weeks. It starved to death. The flesh and blood were eaten away by maggots, leaving only fur and bones. The pet life ritual business operator who came to deal with it also said it was “really outrageous.”
The landlord contacted the parents and got the answer that “they did not renew the lease, so they destroyed the house”, which made her furious. After a preliminary inventory, the losses, including furniture and cleaning, were about 100,000 yuan. The police have been notified and the woman will be sought for compensation through legal means in the future. Yunlin County Consumer Protection Officer Zhang Jialin pointed out that the tenant’s destruction of facilities on the grounds that the landlord did not renew the lease was illegal. According to the first paragraph of Article 184, Paragraph 1 of the Civil Code, the tenant can be asked to pay damages for tortious acts, or according to Article 354 of the Criminal Code, the tenant can be sued for damages.
As for the woman’s behavior of starving the rabbit to death, the county government’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Station stated that it has violated the provisions of the Animal Protection Act and can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than 2 years or detention, and a fine of 200,000 to 2 million yuan. The follow-up investigation and evidence collection is currently underway, and the case will be transferred to the Yunlin District Prosecutor’s Office for investigation in accordance with the law.
