The Building Inspector – The Weird Side of the Internet
Written by Staff on March 20, 2026
The Building Inspector – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
A woman, thirty years old. She’s recently moved to an apartment complex and she saw a man, fifties, and she thouhgt nothing and she saw him again. Coincidence, whatever, but he had his phone out and it looked like he was pointing it at her. Because he was, and for the next eight months, he put her through hell, through the building association.
This was in China, and it shows that ‘that guy’ is a global phenomena. This was ‘that guy’; no, this was the big boss combat version of ‘that guy.’ He would walk around with a little pencil and tiny notepad and write every little petty infraction against a lease that had a ‘nuisance behavior’ clause that you could pied piper a whole village of rats through.
I’ve never lived anywhere with a real association, building or homeowners. My neighborhood associations were you talked smack about everyone who didn’t keep their properties up until you got tired of it and moved to North Carolina. But give people a little bit of power and a purpose no matter how insignificant and tyranny is standing over your flower bed,
It took eight months for someone to suggest to this woman that she go to the police and get a restraining order. And yes, it’s a building complex, but all of those people had to know about this guy, right? Yet he’s “investigating” this woman; yeah, “investigating.” And no one spoke up. Or even went to her in private and took her aside.
And I get that people who live somewhere want to have a say over the standards that they agree upon, shared values and whatnot. But it’s literally creating an extra government. If I want a fifteen foot steel Marlboro man with neon tobing and smoke puffs made with water vapor, there’s a line somewhere that says life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and my artistic taste please me. So where you go from there? Because anarchy sucks but it probably looks cool. Shouldn’t there be a rule where if anyone becomes insufferable you can tell them to pound sand and they have to.
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