Hoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of His Own Trash

Fox ^ | Jan 8, 2009 | Sun UK

[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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[tubebender]

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...

[VaBthang4]

[mylife]

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.

[packrat35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

[EGPWS]

You TARD!

And proud of it!! : )

[Deo volente]

The Collyer brothers set the standard for this type of sickness. In fact, it is sometimes called the “Collyer Brothers Syndrome”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

[bmwcyle]

ping

[EGPWS]

Human gopher alert.

You gotta' be kidding.

This is the first alert of it's kind I trust.....right?....RIGHT???? /snicker

[Squantos]

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 !

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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.

[mkjessup]

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

[EGPWS]

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"! $$$$

[mylife]

Yup.

But those 40 dollar USB cables make you wanna hoard it L0L

[mylife]

You should see the gun safe ;)

[mylife]

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

[stevem]

This sounds like a made up story.

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, that does it, I’m cleanin’ my house.

[EGPWS]

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

[mylife]

A Collins R390 for 350 bucks will get you right in ☺

[Hyzenthlay]

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...