common manners says they should have left their basket on the top of the machine....you just throw the clothes in and be done with it. If no basket on the top use the counter there.
Remote w/d facilities suck except sometimes you have no option to get them in the apartment.
Don't mess with the clothes though, that happened a lot up in Gainesville and one time others witnessed it and told the guys who did it....it made my laundry time go faster watching the ensuing fight of three roommates dragging some guy out into the hallway and beating the crap out of him....then their was police, his girlfriend crying and all this stuff
The guy took their clothes and put them in the laundry sink and poured their detergent and bleach into them. The sh!tty part was that there were about 10 washers and dryers and there were plenty available for him to use without being a prick. The clothes were in the washer he wanted to use.
He was trying to justify his actions to the cops. I don't know the outcome and who got arrested or not. It was probably a few hundred dollars in ruined clothes.