And not a Beanie Baby in sight. At least she apparently has good taste.
Change it to a m*slim building bombs in its apartment, and the m*slim is given welfare, free phones, free rent, and a discount on TNT.
Who was the rotten person who turned her into the rotten bureaucrat that made this decree?
HELP !
I'M OVER HERE UNDER THE TEDDY BEARS !!!
People have become such sniveling little tattletales. No doubt some nosy person saw this and ran to the local bureaucrat.
A few are cute. That many means she has a problem which she needs help for.
That’s nothing, last November I was doing my yearly assistance of Fedex through a contractor with their Christmas season deliveries and EVERY day I had a delivery to this house that was literally buried in everything you could imagine. Every window was filled to the top with everything you could think of, stereos, clothes, toys, magazines, tires cups, musical instruments, and the outside was the same. Stuff piled all around the house to almost the roof, the was even stuff ON the roof. And in the front was this porch which was filled to the top and this piece of plywood jammed against two columns that held up part of the roof to keep the stuff from spilling out and i would just leave the package over this plywood and the next day it would be gone. It seems this person had an unlimited amount of money - I would guess - and would constantly order stuff off the net and it must have been piling up for years. Never saw the person either. It was crazy, you could have just walked up to the house and walked away with a golf club set or shoes, records, all this stuff was all over the lawn and up against the house. I would always look for the neighbors too see to their reaction, but never saw anybody.
The article didn’t mention whether she is a widow, or if she has any adult children. It appears that this 73 year old is perhaps alone (except for the toys and her charity outreach).
Have to wonder about her financial situation and if anyone else will rent to her, after the publicity.
She has rented the apartment for 12 years - wondering if she pays for renters insurance for that fire hazard.
Just the one photo and her home does not appear to be a filthy garbage dump like most hoarders.
Hope she gets help.
The lady has a problem upstairs somewhere, if you get my drift.
It looks like she’s on a month to month lease with a 45 day notice, so the landlord doesn’t need to give a reason, just a notice.
... and on the next episode of Hoarders....
This tells you that the situation has gotten out of control, and goes way beyond a "hobby' or "collection." Yes, she's a nice lady, and I hope she finds a decent place to live and gets control of the situation.
At least they are not real cats....
As a fire inspector, I’ve seen much worse, but it’s still bad enough. The problem is (1) it increases the fire load inside the apartment. The more combustibles, the faster the fire (and smoke) will spread and grow. This endangers not just her, but others in the building. If she lives on an upper floor, there is an increased risk of collapse from the amount of water needed to put out a fire with a high combustible load that soaks up a lot of water. (2) With the rapid fire spread, increased heavy smoke, and tripping obstructions hindering her escape, she’ll be lucky if she gets out of the building before she’s overcome by the smoke, and (3) it’s an increased risk of danger from fire and smoke and burning debris to firefighters who have to crawl through every room to fight the fire and look for victims. If you’ve never lived through or fought a fire in a burning apartment, you have no idea.
“I’m the Toy Lady of Jacksonville...”
People from Jacksonville are [ahem] a bit daffy...in a nice way. :)