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The original was posted on /r/amitheasshole by /u/Zapruder88 on 2024-01-18 18:33:27+00:00.
I (35M) rented an apartment with a $750 dog fee charged upfront for providing dog waste bags and maintaining the onsite dog park. Yes, kind of absurd, but I had to pay it in full. I only lived there 5 months, but the fee is for a year. I finally bought a house and moved out 9 months ago.
By chance, I drive by my old complex about once a month, so I stop in one of the garbage areas where there are several rolls with a thousand bags in them and unravel 60 bags to get me through the next month. Nobody that lives or works there ever seemed to care possibly because I still have out of state license plates and the apartment is a hot spot for new transplants to the area.
Today a woman got out of her car and started harassing me for taking too many bags calling me a 'klepto' because when older residents in the complex need a dog bag, they end up walking around in the freezing icy cold so they can be responsible pet owners. I pointed out that there are several stations with hundreds of bags in each, but she threatened to take a picture of me and call management since she never saw me or my dog before and that it was 'theft by unlawful taking'. I apologized for not knowing better and got the heck out of there.
AITA for 'stealing' something I technically paid for but didn't get the chance to use completely?