A pair of “hateful” squatters who lived in a Queens home rent-free for nearly four years finally left — but not before trashing the unit and filling it with dangerous and disgusting booby traps.
They left raw meat in a trash bag and an unplugged fridge full of uncooked salmon, leaving the place reeking of rotting food, landlord Vanie Mangal said.
The rogue renters also bashed in the kitchen sink, and ripped out circuit breakers from the electric box and a new thermostat from the wall, she claimed.
But the coup de grace was a nail allegedly inserted into a ratty couch cushion that could have seriously injured Mangal, 33, or anyone who tried to sit on the sofa in the two-story home on 115th Street in South Ozone Park.
“It comes down to them just being hateful people,” the frustrated owner said of alleged deadbeat tenants Rosanna Busgith and Philip Garnett, who left Jan. 17, just a day before a city marshal was set to boot them.
“You would think that they would feel some type of remorse … but no, they would do things like this just to try to hurt us.”