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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Bizarre.
I think I’ve seen this movie...
A man who spent his whole life collecting buried treasure, himself becomes buried in treasure, only in the twilight zone.
I’ve known one compulsive hoarder and have been in their house. Interesting to say the least. There’s another who lives a block away from me, the local paper has actually done an article on her.
Ever read Stephen King’s “Insomnia”?
Maybe he should have asked Colonel Hogan about the art of digging tunnels.
On the brighter side, 74 by far surpasses the life expectancy of the average clean mole.
Proof positive that recycling kills. ;)
LoL!
I have!
I read it when I was trying to bring on slumber.
It didn't work for me though.
Nope. Can’t say that I have. Saw the movie though, did Meathead have that part of the psycho ex-nurse’s character written out?
It’s the “animal hoarders” who really make the six o’clock news. EeYuck!
lol
There is an old woman down the road who’s whole house is stacked with news paper and magazines that she thinks are special for on reason or another.
The entire place is piled high in neat stacks with a path down the middle.
Collier Brothers redux.
Very!
I worked with a man who carried two wallets, each stuffed with hundred dollar bills. I went to his house once, a nice house but every room was packed wall to ceiling with all sorts of things. Motor oil by the cases, paper towells, cartons of tooth paste, toilet papaer etc. Just unbelivable.
He was a widower and I have wondered if perhaps he had his wife stuffed and packed away somewhere.
Human gopher alert.
You TARD! L0L
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...
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.
And proud of it!! : )
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
ping
You gotta' be kidding.
This is the first alert of it's kind I trust.....right?....RIGHT???? /snicker
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 !
You're not a "mole", YOU are a "Pack rat"! $$$$
Yup.
But those 40 dollar USB cables make you wanna hoard it L0L
You should see the gun safe ;)
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
This sounds like a made up story.
Okay, that does it, I’m cleanin’ my house.
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
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...
Actually I saw a collins R390A for sale a while back for 350 which is an unreal price as the thing was in working order
Shipping would have prolly been 75 bucks LoL and it would take over my house! So I left it alone.
I used to align those back in the day
I’ve recently had a terrible experience with an acquaintance who has fallen into almost total chaos in the past few years. I hadn’t been in her house in probably three or four years, had only e-mailed with her and hadn’t seen her since that time. Her obesity has gotten worse, looks like 400 lbs. at this time at least. She can barely walk through her house because it appears that she just flings or knocks down piles of old catalogs and junk mail onto her floors until the piles are now about 3” deep all over the house, solid. Old cat litter litters the floor and her cat has been dead for several months, no way to get at the floors with a vacuum cleaner because of the trash anyway. - She was the baby of her family of several brothers and sisters who are in their 80’s and who need to do something about getting her some help or into assisted living, but I think they’ve just had it with her and aren’t able to deal with her spoiled and difficult behavior. I was all set to take her for surgery and stay with her and take care of her for a couple of days, driving her back and forth to appointments. Only thing was, she kept giving me incorrect addresses for the places we were to be going (it was out of town), so I ended up not having the right addresses to get maps to the places. . plus she kept acting real strangely after I drove for hours getting to her house to pick her up and then for several more hours trying to find the motel where we were to be staying in the town where she had made an appointment for surgery. It appeared clearly that she had just decided to be obstructionist, making it impossible for me to find the places, because evidently she had decided at the last minute she had changed her mind - but blamed ME for not being able to just magically find the places without correct addresses. - I clearly see the passive/aggressive nature of what she did in scapegoating me, but it was still very aggravating to me as I don’t give up easy. It’s almost like there is a very selfish,self-centered, almost cruel, abusive tendency in her disorder - but, after five or six hours of driving around in heavy holiday traffic, with ever-increasing bad behavior from her, I’d finally had all I was going to take from her and things backfired on her. She learned that actions have consequences. I pray for her, and I don’t like bad relationships with people, but her bad behavior really ended up backfiring on her, which was out of my control finally. I hope she gets some help getting taken care of or something.
Is this “hoarding”?
I’m gonna look in my dictionary for this one. What does that word mean?
Yowsers! Still considered one of the best radios ever made. I won’t ruin your “cherished delusions” about a certain depot that buried pallets of those in the ground..
When I was young and through high school I remember a man in my home town named Bob Gilbert.
He was clean, wore a white shirt and a bow tie and lived in a big house. He was elderly, he had a Hudson vehicle in his back yard and his house was full of cats and newspapers.
Man was he living a congested life.
The poor sot was $$$ too boot. He was a nice guy however and when he was a younger man did a fine job of introducing Francis Gumm onto the stage at the Rialto Theater in my home town.
Dang......trouble in many ways for all involved.
P35 and Dv—thanks for the article reference and for he correct spelling of the Collyer name.
Packrat35—how ironic that you are on THIS thread about hoarders!!!
Hoarding is very sad.
An old man who lived a few blocks away was a hoarder. His house had to be torn down because the trash, rot and vermin had made it structurally unsound. When they tore it down, the smell was noticeable for blocks.
I dont think you can get some of those proprietary tubes anymore.
The current limiting tube comes to mind.
It was a great Radio. The best!
But it was a boat anchor of propriety Mechanical tuning and RF Slugs and Collins filters and tubes.
Even Rockwell Collins doesn’t have parts
I have favor for the "heavy" stuff.
The TCS set me back $5 via someones lack of knowledge and time for me building a 600V power supply to run it.
: - )
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