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Hoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of His Own Trash
Fox ^ | Jan 8, 2009 | Sun UK

Posted on 01/08/2009 7:34:02 PM PST by RDTF

An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home — then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst.

Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74, had filled his rooms up to the ceiling with 10 years’ worth of garbage and clutter, making it impossible to walk around.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hoard; hoarder; hoarders; hoarding; mentalillness; ocd; pigsty; squalor
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1 posted on 01/08/2009 7:34:02 PM PST by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Bizarre.


2 posted on 01/08/2009 7:36:35 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RDTF

I think I’ve seen this movie...


3 posted on 01/08/2009 7:36:49 PM PST by sinanju
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To: RDTF
"Submitted for your approval..."


4 posted on 01/08/2009 7:38:16 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RDTF
Hillary's FBI files found!
5 posted on 01/08/2009 7:40:48 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: mylife

A man who spent his whole life collecting buried treasure, himself becomes buried in treasure, only in the twilight zone.


6 posted on 01/08/2009 7:41:12 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: RDTF

I’ve known one compulsive hoarder and have been in their house. Interesting to say the least. There’s another who lives a block away from me, the local paper has actually done an article on her.


7 posted on 01/08/2009 7:41:30 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: sinanju

Ever read Stephen King’s “Insomnia”?


8 posted on 01/08/2009 7:41:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: RDTF

Maybe he should have asked Colonel Hogan about the art of digging tunnels.


9 posted on 01/08/2009 7:42:33 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: RDTF
Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74,...

On the brighter side, 74 by far surpasses the life expectancy of the average clean mole.

10 posted on 01/08/2009 7:43:00 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: RDTF

Proof positive that recycling kills. ;)


11 posted on 01/08/2009 7:44:09 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: LukeL

LoL!


12 posted on 01/08/2009 7:44:24 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cripplecreek
Ever read Stephen King’s “Insomnia”?

I have!

I read it when I was trying to bring on slumber.

It didn't work for me though.

13 posted on 01/08/2009 7:45:18 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: cripplecreek

Nope. Can’t say that I have. Saw the movie though, did Meathead have that part of the psycho ex-nurse’s character written out?

It’s the “animal hoarders” who really make the six o’clock news. EeYuck!


14 posted on 01/08/2009 7:46:25 PM PST by sinanju
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To: mylife

lol


15 posted on 01/08/2009 7:46:58 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Free Vulcan

There is an old woman down the road who’s whole house is stacked with news paper and magazines that she thinks are special for on reason or another.

The entire place is piled high in neat stacks with a path down the middle.


16 posted on 01/08/2009 7:47:21 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RDTF

Collier Brothers redux.


17 posted on 01/08/2009 7:47:38 PM PST by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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To: Free Vulcan
I’ve known one compulsive hoarder and have been in their house. Interesting to say the least.

Very!

I worked with a man who carried two wallets, each stuffed with hundred dollar bills. I went to his house once, a nice house but every room was packed wall to ceiling with all sorts of things. Motor oil by the cases, paper towells, cartons of tooth paste, toilet papaer etc. Just unbelivable.

He was a widower and I have wondered if perhaps he had his wife stuffed and packed away somewhere.

18 posted on 01/08/2009 7:47:59 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Slings and Arrows

Human gopher alert.


19 posted on 01/08/2009 7:48:09 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: EGPWS

You TARD! L0L


20 posted on 01/08/2009 7:49:44 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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