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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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To: Free Vulcan
I have been through the garages and sheds of a hoarder. I had to take my belt off to keep from scratching paint of the rare cars crammed together...
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:49:47 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Search continues for missing Tag line... More news at 11)
To: RDTF
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:51:03 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
To: Graybeard58
Its not all that unusual. We all do it to some extant.
I have one closet stuffed to the top with old electronic stuff.
I actually used something from in there this year.
Last time I could say that was prolly 6 years ago.
That stuff has to go.
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:53:34 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: exit82
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:54:10 PM PST
by
packrat35
(To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women...)
To: mylife
You TARD!And proud of it!! : )
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:55:10 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: exit82
To: Apple Blossom
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:57:44 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
To: bamahead; Slings and Arrows
Human gopher alert.You gotta' be kidding.
This is the first alert of it's kind I trust.....right?....RIGHT???? /snicker
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:58:17 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: mylife
Same here ....she is a child of the depression era. She saves grocery sacks, coffee cans, , bread bag wire ties, and is very frugal, she irons and repairs sheets, towels , napkins etc that I know are decades old. Her home is clean and spotless but she is indeed a pack rat for crap per my observation of her pile of “stuff” she may need someday !!........:o)
But trash saved like this guy did ???
Weird !
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posted on
01/08/2009 7:59:42 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: mylife
I used to have electronic crap for days. (Incidentally, tube gear has exploded in value as you probably know) At some point, I realized that if the square footage of the req'd storage space had 1/5th of its current market value; for the one or two or three parts I could reasonably expect to get out the pile that still had a vague chance of working , I could hire a chauffered limousine to take me to the parts store, pay quadruple list price, and still come out ahead.
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:00:33 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Satire writers should get a bailout. The current reality is putting them out of business.)
To: Graybeard58
He was a widower and I have wondered if perhaps he had his wife stuffed and packed away somewhere.
If he's smart he did, cemetery plots are expensive, and a good taxidermist can always use the work.
Not to mention the widower's pleasure from finally being able to get the last word, lol
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:02:20 PM PST
by
mkjessup
("An empty limousine pulled up in front of the White House, and Barack Hussein Obama got out")
To: Attention Surplus Disorder; mylife
I could hire a chauffered limousine to take me to the parts store, pay quadruple list price, and still come out ahead. You're not a "mole", YOU are a "Pack rat"! $$$$
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:05:30 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Yup.
But those 40 dollar USB cables make you wanna hoard it L0L
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:08:20 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: EGPWS
You should see the gun safe ;)
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:09:18 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
What drives me to throw crap out is when it takes 6 hour to locate the 3 dollar thingy I saved when a trip to ACE could have me in business in 5 min L0L
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:12:05 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: RDTF
This sounds like a made up story.
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:14:21 PM PST
by
stevem
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Okay, that does it, I’m cleanin’ my house.
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:16:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(First 2009 Profile update Tuesday, January 6, 2009___________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: mylife
You should see the gun safe ;) Gah...Gah...
You should see the "red ball" Collins equipment AND gun safe...
Back atchya' my FRiend! ~snort
I wanna' see it, what is the admission fee mylife?
Regards,
EG
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:19:10 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: EGPWS
A Collins R390 for 350 bucks will get you right in ☺
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:21:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
When I was a kid, I collected every broken or non-functional piece of small electronics I could get my hands on, and had a rather impressive box of everything from CD walkmans to TV remotes in hopes of building something cool with some of it one day. Well, 6 or 7 years later, my brother is doing some circuitry work, and I offer to get some nail polish to match his spray paint for a button or something that’s too small to spray-paint. Although I never found the nail polish, I did find the old box of parts, and he was thrilled to discover some of the goodies that were salvageable from some of those old broken things =P
Right now, I’m in a small-ish room in a small-ish apartment I share with three other students - there’s no room for hoarding here. Although, I suspect my impressive stuffed animal collection is still sitting in my parents’ closet, along with several hundred Beanie Babies my grandmother bought for us kids starting long before they were popular and ending long after they’d gone out of style...
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posted on
01/08/2009 8:23:53 PM PST
by
Hyzenthlay
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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