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'Mountains Of Trash' Inside Car Blamed For Crash (Pic)
local6 ^ | February 12, 2007

Posted on 02/12/2007 3:14:14 PM PST by stainlessbanner

Mountains of trash stuffed inside a woman's car in Cape Cod, Mass., caused the car to accelerate and crash, according to police.

Police in West Yarmouth said there was so much trash in 53-year-old Ann Ann Biglan's Ford Focus that some of it fell onto the gas and brake pedals, causing her to lose control.

While losing control, Biglan drove through a post office parking space, over the curb and across a freeway.

She then hit a Ford Explorer and backed over another sidewalk before finally crashing into a flowerpot in a gas station's parking lot.

Biglan was charged with negligent and impeded operation of a motor vehicle, failure to use care in backing, and operating with a rejected safety inspection sticker.


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KEYWORDS: car; crash; garbage; trash
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To: stainlessbanner; All

Compulsive hoarding?

Has anyone heard of the Collyer brothers of New York City.....so interesting....

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


41 posted on 02/12/2007 3:35:57 PM PST by toldyou
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To: noexcuses
Oddly enough, my teenage son's car is spotless at all times.

Well you're probably not relying on your car for action.

42 posted on 02/12/2007 3:36:42 PM PST by KevinB
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To: stainlessbanner

I wonder if there are any used depends
in there some where?


43 posted on 02/12/2007 3:37:04 PM PST by WKB (This Baptist would vote for a Mormon before he'd vote for a moron AGAIN.)
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To: stainlessbanner

A clean car is a happy car!


44 posted on 02/12/2007 3:38:19 PM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Huntress

I was thinking there were probably rats in there but the cats would have taken care of them.


45 posted on 02/12/2007 3:38:28 PM PST by Ditter
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To: toldyou
Has anyone heard of the Collyer brothers of New York City.....so interesting....

I checked them out per your link. From the picture it looks like the only thing that 'ol Langley Collyer wasn't hoarding was teeth. LOL!

46 posted on 02/12/2007 3:41:57 PM PST by KevinB
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To: stainlessbanner
I'll bet her neighbors call her "a bit eccentric". I heard that used to describe Zsa Zsa Gabors husband. Us poor people are "just plain crazy".
47 posted on 02/12/2007 3:42:10 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: stainlessbanner

I've seen cars like this with newspapers and other stuff piled up to the windows. I've also seen people (mostly elderly) with newspapers piled up inside their houses so high you had to walk around them. I think it is a mental condition and it is not as rare as you might think.

I don't know for sure, but I'll bet older people are unsure about their future and keep things to make them feel better...nothing but a guess.


48 posted on 02/12/2007 3:43:53 PM PST by cowtowney
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To: noexcuses

I figure litterers probably have pretty clean cars. No personal offense intended.


49 posted on 02/12/2007 3:44:59 PM PST by Republicus2001
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To: stainlessbanner
She's a Hoarder, a surprisingly serious problem, not un common but does require serious help
50 posted on 02/12/2007 3:47:29 PM PST by cmsgop ( How do we know he's NOT Mel Torme?)
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To: stainlessbanner
Her cell phone was probably ringing, somewhere...

She later revealed to police that at least she was wearing clean underwear. You know what mom always said.
51 posted on 02/12/2007 3:49:16 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I'm shocked the gov't hasn't found an average consumption equation to tax breast milk.)
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To: KevinB

HA! Nope....I just looked under "House Contents," and there were no teeth!

Did you see the "House Contents?"

And I thought I was a pack-rat!


52 posted on 02/12/2007 3:50:00 PM PST by toldyou
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To: stainlessbanner
WHEW!!! I'm just glad there were no Depends amongst all that trash!!

Or were there?

53 posted on 02/12/2007 3:50:08 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Chuck Hagel is the Republican Joe Biden!)
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To: BallyBill

"I heard that used to describe Zsa Zsa Gabors husband."

Which one?


54 posted on 02/12/2007 3:51:12 PM PST by toldyou
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To: KevinB

Now that was funny!!!


55 posted on 02/12/2007 3:51:53 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I'm shocked the gov't hasn't found an average consumption equation to tax breast milk.)
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To: toldyou
HA! Nope....I just looked under "House Contents," and there were no teeth!

Did you see the "House Contents?"

I was commenting on the teeth in his mouth. I only see two in the picture. I did read the contents. It's interesting that they were from an upper middle class family (father a doctor) and were both very well educated. Very strange.

I actually have some experience with this. In the 80s a guy I worked with said he'd pay me $20 an hour to help clean out his recently deceased aunt's house in Federal Hill, Baltimore. I thought that was pretty good money so I agreed. Unfortunately, I quickly realized I shouldn't have agreed. Every floor of the house was stacked floor to ceiling with junk of every imaginable kind. There were narrow pathways through the junk that allowed some semblance of movement from room to room. The stench was overpowering. Fortunately we found no bodies.

This hoarding disorder seems to mostly afflict those who were in their impressionable years when the depression hit.

56 posted on 02/12/2007 4:01:52 PM PST by KevinB
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To: stainlessbanner

She will be just fine after a big cheeseburger, an order of fries and a milkshake:)


57 posted on 02/12/2007 4:02:21 PM PST by BobS
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To: windcliff

ping


58 posted on 02/12/2007 4:25:50 PM PST by stylecouncilor
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To: KevinB

LOL! I know you were referring to his picture.

Unbelievable story about the house you agreed to help clean!

My mom was a pack-rat, but some the things in her house we cleaned were four sets china (12 place settings each), numerous sets of crystal, glassware, many sets of cooking utensils, etc., still packed in their original boxes....some purchased 30 years prior to her passing. Not that she didn't offer to give them to us, her children,...she did. It's just that she had already given us similar items already.

Several years ago I befriended an elderly lady and agreed to attend a meeting with her at a church. I offered to pick her up at her townhouse. I couldn't believe her house when I entered...there were newspapers tied in bundles and stacked about four feet high in every room I could see. The house reeked of cat urine, and drapes on the windows were missing every other hook. Her furniture was worn and dirty, etc....

I really felt sorry for her and was honestly thinking of helping her until she looked at me and said, "Now, I hope you don't steal from me like some other people have. Just ask, and I'll give you what you want."




59 posted on 02/12/2007 4:37:22 PM PST by toldyou
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To: toldyou

More on the Collyer brothers:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1008564/posts


60 posted on 02/12/2007 5:45:33 PM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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