A Canadian couple is facing eviction after their landlord raised concerns about air quality in their apartment, but the pair had an unusual explanation: their frequent farting may have been mistaken for smoking.Canadian couple claims landlord threatened eviction over their excessive farting A Canadian couple’s landlord thought something was seriously wrong with the air inside their apartment. The couple had a rather embarrassing explanation: they farted too much.According to a report by the New York Post, comedians S.E.
Grummett and Sam Kruger were embroiled in a dispute with their landlord after an air-quality monitor in her upstairs apartment detected elevated levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).The landlord, who had a chronic lung condition, believed the readings pointed to smoking inside the couple's apartment, which shared an air duct with her home.The couple, however, maintained that they did not smoke indoors. They said they had tried to identify the source of the readings by ruling out household appliances and home fragrances, but found no explanation through those checks.
They later suggested that their bodily functions could be responsible for the spikes recorded by the monitor, particularly because the readings reportedly increased overnight.According to the couple, a health specialist had also checked information from the monitor's manufacturer indicating that VOC levels could respond to bodily functions. The dispute eventually became part of an eviction battle before Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board.
The couple alleged that the eviction was retaliation for them asserting their tenant rights, rather than a genuine attempt by the landlord to address the air-quality concerns.In a fundraising appeal for their legal expenses, the pair wrote that they were being wrongfully evicted because they “fart too much." They also insisted that the situation was not a joke and said they believed the landlord's smoking allegations were based on readings caused by their flatulence.The couple further claimed that after they challenged the smoking explanation, the landlord sought to take back the apartment for personal use and return it to a single-family home. They argued that the move was made in bad faith and said the matter would have to be decided by the tribunal.The fundraiser had collected around $2,400 for their legal costs by Sunday morning, roughly a month after it was first posted, the New York Post reported.The claims about the air-quality readings and the reasons behind the eviction were the couple's account of the dispute; the matter was yet to be resolved.- Ends