Dead Toad Left in Box at Door... Live Lizard Left the Next Day

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In an era where about 8 out of 10 people live in multi-family housing complexes, conflicts and friction continue to persist in what should be the safest places. Neighbors fight over noise and resort to lawsuits due to a lack of trust.

TBC reporter Park Dong-joo looks into the dark side of apartment living.

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On the 21st, a person in their 50s, surnamed A, living in Dong-gu, Daegu, found a delivery box without a shipping label in front of their apartment door.

Inside the box was a dead toad.

The next day, another delivery box was left in the exact same manner, and this time it contained a live lizard.

Police investigations revealed that the person who left the boxes was a resident living upstairs, with whom A had been feuding over floor-noise issues since last year.

[Resident A / Apartment Resident: When the floor noise was bad, it was extremely bad. I must have filed over 30 reports with the police station.]

Another apartment complex in Suseong-gu, Daegu, is embroiled in controversy over the execution of long-term repair reserves.

At the center of the dispute is a parking lot painting project costing 1.6 billion won.

Some residents claim that the project costs were inflated, while the tenant representative filed complaints for obstruction of business against them, escalating the neighborhood dispute into legal battles.

[Kim So-hee / Apartment Resident: They keep calling the residents who point out the unfairness of this project agitators, and they are now even filing criminal complaints and accusations against us.]

In response, the tenant representative maintains that the selection of the parking lot construction company was conducted transparently in accordance with the long-term repair reserve execution plan.

Due to various reasons, a total of some 50 requests for audits on multi-family housing have been filed with Daegu City over the past five years, resulting in over 1,200 citations, though most only ended in warnings or corrective orders.

The arson incident at an apartment in Gyeongsan, which left 8 casualties, is also believed to have been triggered by long-standing conflicts between residents, but because the complex had a small number of households, it was not even subject to an audit.

This means there has been virtually no body to mediate years-long friction and conflict.

[Lee Sung-yong / Professor of Police Administration, Keimyung University: Such extreme expressions of anger or anger disorder situations occur in our society, and there is a clear limit to preventing crimes through police response alone. I believe the local community needs to build a foundation where social consensus and safety can be achieved.]

Apartments, which should be the safest havens, are suffering from conflicts that cannot be resolved even through police reports and lawsuits.

(Video by Lee Jeong-woo / TBC)

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