Woman Sentenced To Jail For Filthy House

local6 ^ | Nov 6 2004

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OMAHA, Neb. -- After ignoring six years of prodding from the city, a woman is going to jail for having a filthy house.

A Douglas County judge Thursday sentenced Rosie Fellman to 45 days behind bars for littering, with breaks every 10 days to clean up her central Omaha home.

Trash and debris has been piled up to 5 feet deep in the house and garage, which are a health and fire hazard, the city's chief housing inspector Kevin Denker said.

Last month, inspectors found more than 100 garbage cans in the driveway.

City Prosecutor Marty Conboy said the city has spent six years trying to get Fellman to clean up. There was not much else the judge could do, Conboy said.

At the end of Fellman's sentence, the judge will decide if she has improved the home's condition. If not, she could be sentenced to another 45 days in jail.

The city has ordered the home demolished, but Fellman, who lives alone, is appealing the order.

"If she doesn't clean it out we'll just tear down everything," Denker said

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fire at will

[nuconvert]

"Last month, inspectors found more than 100 garbage cans in the driveway."

Well, empty them and give her a hundred more.

[grellis]

Trash and debris has been piled up to 5 feet deep in the house and garage...

I bet the neighbors just loved that smell in the summertime. Nothing quite as refreshing as rotting garbage simmering in the sun.

[Chemist_Geek]

"How dare the gubmint tell this lady how she should live!" /so-called "property-rights"

[bannie]

Dang, I'm a GOOD housekeeper and didn't even know it!

:)

BTW: Did y'all know that the word, "slut," used to mean "a bad housekeeper"?

This lady is a slut.

[martin_fierro]

No amateurs, please. Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list

[uncleshag]

Note to self: Vacuum sometime today.

[DietCoke]

I have to wonder if this lady has had a mental health evaluation. Sounds like a hoarder/obsessive compulsive disorder to the extreme. I think it's sad.

[anniegetyourgun]

All this time I thought it meant "one who drinks using feet."

[ko_kyi]

She should get an ashtray before something BAD happens

[MaryFromMichigan]

Kinda makes you wonder where the cigarette is gonna go, huh?

[uncleshag]

Another Kerry supporter on November 3, 2004.

Second note to self: Go shower now.

[martin_fierro]

Man, I caught flack all day yesterday for posting great stuff like that.

Post after post got pulled.

Now I'm gun-shy. < |:(~

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the door
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloopy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts...
The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall...
Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold French fries and rancid meat,
yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sahra Cynthia Stout said,
"OK, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course, it was too late...
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sahra met an awful fate,
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sahra Stout
And always take the garbage out!

[CrazyIvan]

Five feet deep? How tall is she? It really isn't a problem until you can't see over it. (I was a bachelor for 46 years, three of those in an all male dorm.)

[martin_fierro]

I almost expected to see a Burma Shave™ sign at the end of all that. < |:)~

[grellis]

There are property rights and there are property wrongs. I have no problem with someone living like this if they have a forty acre spread out in the country, where such an accumulation of trash really won't affect neighbors. I live in a downtown area, though, and I have had neighbors like this. Maybe I don't have a constitutional right to be able to walk out my door with no fear of gagging from the neighbor's stench, but come on!!!

I agree with you, Diet...she is probably unstable. How could a sane person choose to live in this manner?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Here's a good one for the libertarians to sort out. Does a person have a right to live in a pig sty if the pig sty belongs to him?

[JoeSixPack1]

Trash and debris has been piled up to 5 feet deep in the house and garage......

She's hittin' the BONG way too much!