The smell would be bad enough but can you imagine the flies and rats and other assorted pests that would come with this kind of dump?
Talk about a health hazard.
It wasn't just her and her kids, either. The woman had nine of her closest friends (can you say "crack house"?) living in her one-bedroom apartment with her. Some of them had kids in diapers as well.
Halfway through the summer, they destroyed the plumbing in the bathroom. For a week, they would walk a few blocks down to a convenience store to use the public restroom. After that, they decided to use their backyard. In broad daylight. Nice.
After they were finally evicted, the city sent a cleanup crew to take care of over one hundred garbage bags full of rotting filth from the garage. One of the city workers threw up in the driveway, and he does this for a living. I spoke with him after they were done. He said he'd never had a job as bad as that one. It took us until winter to finally be able to drive out all of the rats and raccoons who had been enjoying the feast.