[quote]Professor X wrote:
The clean spot.
Every landfill has one.[/quote]
LOL!
Where else are you going to sit to watch tv?
ProfX is right. I don’t see how they could ever clean that place up outside of condemning it or bulldozing it. How could you ever rent that place again to anyone? Imagine trying to talk someone into it?
“What’s that smell?”
“Oh the last tenant was probably the messiest and dirtiest person on the planet. There was just shit everywhere. We found dead cats buried under mounds of trash. We cleaned the place real good though.”
(Prospective renter runs away screaming)
[quote]Professor X wrote:
mom-in-MD wrote:
Daaaaang!!
I wonder if they ever got a hold of the person and what her reasoning was…
Can you imagine your reaction if you were that person that went inside to just leave a note?!
I feel bad for the people that had to clean that up!
Can you clean that up?
With what?
Lysol? A sponge?
A fucking bulldozer, some lighter fluid and a match?[/quote]
you got a point there. Probably the last option, but since it was an apartment, I’m guessing they’d have to tear that whole part of the building down.
I delivered stuff for circuit city years ago, we took a new fridge to this couples house in an older area of town. We walked into something like this mess, trash hip high with little paths to the rooms, it was so bad we had to bring a 25cuft fridge up 2 flights of stairs through the back door. We placed the fridge and the customer wanted the doors reversed, I ran to the truck to grad some tools, when I got back the customer was “loading” the new fridge. She was standing at the kitchen table 3ft away, throwing stuff into it, actually throwing food at a brand new frige. Before we left there was misc food all down the front, on the floor, splattered inside and out.
I cannot believe people live this way.
The city of Montreal and the SPCA had to intervene here recently to a duplex where a guy was hoarding cats. Aside from the piles of garbage and a bunch live animals, they found 40 dead cats in his freezer as well as some birds and other small animals.
The other tenant in the building had been complaining about the odor for almost a year, but the guy had changed the locks and the owner could not get permission to enter from the tenant. She was fighting to gain access with the rental board when finally the city stepped in to investigate.
People in the neighborhood had been reporting missing pets for quite some time, this guy was “saving” them apparently.
He was a mature student at a local college and went out everyday, seeming to live a normal life. If it wasn’t for the smell and the tenacity of the owner and other tenant to have their rights respected, he’s still be hoarding animals.
BTW, you have to go about this far in order to be evicted from a rental unit here. Sick huh.
[quote]dianab wrote:
The city of Montreal and the SPCA had to intervene here recently to a duplex where a guy was hoarding cats. Aside from the piles of garbage and a bunch live animals, they found 40 dead cats in his freezer as well as some birds and other small animals.
The other tenant in the building had been complaining about the odor for almost a year, but the guy had changed the locks and the owner could not get permission to enter from the tenant. She was fighting to gain access with the rental board when finally the city stepped in to investigate.
People in the neighborhood had been reporting missing pets for quite some time, this guy was “saving” them apparently.
He was a mature student at a local college and went out everyday, seeming to live a normal life. If it wasn’t for the smell and the tenacity of the owner and other tenant to have their rights respected, he’s still be hoarding animals.
BTW, you have to go about this far in order to be evicted from a rental unit here. Sick huh.[/quote]
Signs of a serial killer. That community is lucky he hadn’t escalated his attention to humans…yet.
You guys saying that place cannot be cleaned are wrong. Ive done “trashouts” before on nasty places (nothing close to this bad though) and it is possible to do. You just have to put some gloves on, get some bags, and goto work. Once all the trash is out, it will look 100x better. Im guessing the carpet has to be pulled up and all that stuff, but the bathroom will look like new with a little elbow grease. I wouldnt do it for less than $1000 though.
I’ve seen clutter before, but they were always hoarding stuff that could possibly be useful one day like electronic equipment, etc. The woman in those photos was hoarding waste, like used toilet paper. I think I’m going to puke.
Reminds me of a story a colleague of mine told me. A good friend of his has parents that hoard. Apparently their place was just filled with junk. You couldn’t walk more than a foot. There was junk piled up on every surface and on the floor.
The guy decided to do something about it. He paid for his parents to go on a two week cruise (it took a lot of convincing for them to go).
When they finally took off for the cruise, he and some friends of his rented a dumpster and cut a huge hole in the front of the house. It took a few days to clear all the junk out. Then he replaced the flooring, and installed a sliding glass door into the hole in the wall (in case he ever had to clear the house out again).
The parents came back from vacation and were pissed. They didin’t talk to their son for months…
If that is indeed TP on the floor of the bathroom; it is proof that she knows how to clean SOMETHING!
I’m pretty amazed too at some people’s complete laziness.
There was a weird family I knew growing up, I absolutely hated them - they were involved in a program I was in at my high school. They were the definition of hick even though we didn’t live in a hick town. All of them were fuck ugly and never took showers. In high school, the dad of the family, who I had never really spoken too before, came up to me and tried to fucking tickle me. I wish I could go back to that moment and punch him square in the face - it certainly would have been justified. In any case, I did have the misfortune of having to visit their house one day and this reminded me of it…thankfully I didn’t have to see their bathroom or anything though, just their entrance room, but that was bad enough.
this lady isn’t lazy. She obviously has a psychological issue
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
this lady isn’t lazy. She obviously has a psychological issue[/quote]
True…but I am also wondering how someone like that manages to live life daily. This isn’t just “dirty”, this is complete neglect of ANY form of cleanliness. I mean, we all had dirty roommates in school, but I have never seen someone step over cat shit for months and then avoid using a trashcan at all.
How does someone like that work? Was she on welfare?
[quote]oneils wrote:
Reminds me of a story a colleague of mine told me. A good friend of his has parents that hoard. Apparently their place was just filled with junk. You couldn’t walk more than a foot. There was junk piled up on every surface and on the floor.
The guy decided to do something about it. He paid for his parents to go on a two week cruise (it took a lot of convincing for them to go).
When they finally took off for the cruise, he and some friends of his rented a dumpster and cut a huge hole in the front of the house. It took a few days to clear all the junk out. Then he replaced the flooring, and installed a sliding glass door into the hole in the wall (in case he ever had to clear the house out again).
The parents came back from vacation and were pissed. They didin’t talk to their son for months…
[/quote]
Is there more to this story? Did this cure the parents of their hoarding or did they go back to their old ways?
I haven’t heard anything since. I’ll ask my co-worker if he ever got an update. My bet is that they went to their old ways and the son probably has to do some sort of regular check-up.
Also, it sounded like they were never going to go on a vacation again.
Thanks oneils. I’m just trying to wrap my head around how people get to that point.
My thoughts are either A) A bout of laziness spiraled out of control and became too overwhelming to deal with or B) Trash hoarders genuinely like having the trash around (on whatever level).
I guess the reasons behind hoarding food waste would be different vs hoarding old papers/useless items vs hoarding animals. And how someone would react to a helping hand.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
this lady isn’t lazy. She obviously has a psychological issue
True…but I am also wondering how someone like that manages to live life daily. This isn’t just “dirty”, this is complete neglect of ANY form of cleanliness. I mean, we all had dirty roommates in school, but I have never seen someone step over cat shit for months and then avoid using a trashcan at all.
How does someone like that work? Was she on welfare?[/quote]
Right. A little mold on the shower curtain is one thing, while tossing shit-covered toilet paper into piles in the corner is another.
All those cigarettes, however…it was strangely beautiful. Like trash-art. Imagine how long it must have taken to smoke all those cigarettes, then allow them to accumulate in little sand-sculpture ash-piles, which then grew large and spilled over everything. Amazing.
Seriously I had a friend in high school who was a hoarder. Comic books, old newspapers, boxes, DVD’s, etc. They did take the trash out, and you could walk from room to room via a path. It was nothing like that place, but it was something to see. He and his mom (who was a shut in) went on vacation and we actually broke in and cleaned the place for them because we spend so much time there. It returned to status quo within a month though. Sad really because it was a beautiful old house.
I feel a lot better about how my apartment usually looks now.
[quote]analog_kid wrote:
I feel a lot better about how my apartment usually looks now. [/quote]
Me too, but a lot worse about my species.