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- Thread starter Burning Man
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NFLTG
I've 'walked' through hoarder houses where I could taste the air. Here's a lead I recently got to creepyville:
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Liquid
NFLTG
Here's your room for the night:
If you need to do some laundry....
If you need to do some laundry....
Point Break
Super Anarchist
Oh, I’ve seen much worse. Now imagine it’s 2 am and on fire….filled with smoke and heat down to the floor and you’re crawling in trying to find your way around because there are reports the hoarder is trapped.
It sucks. I had one where the piles collapsed on the interior attack/rescue crew and they couldn’t figure the way out. They had to call a Mayday. They got out and the hoarder didn’t.
bmiller
Super Anarchist
What's all the hubbub about men competing in women's sports all of a sudden. It's been going on for decades.
Voyageur
Super Anarchist
nothing a little gasoline and a match can't fix
slap
Super Anarchist
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NFLTG
I've seen worse too just not a doll 'collector' like that. I've been in a house were each room was different storage, say for empty tin cans and large plastic Folgers canister, the other room had the magazines and newspapers, etc, up to window sill and above.
Walking in, my first thought is always about fire. No way someone is getting out though the house...
I've been in hoarder houses with the pile canyon pathways. That's got to be a top Fireman nightmare!
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NFLTG
Voyageur
Super Anarchist
that one needs to go up in flames like the train in ohio. that's what they do with meth labs. can you imagine what you could find in that building? that said, our neighbor passed at 95, he was a hoarder. nice people got a good deal and cleaned up the mess. great to have them next door.
Point Break
Super Anarchist
Yep.............house next door to mine in 2005. Backyard and side window. It took me several years and lots of drama but I got it cleaned up and a nice couple bought it and renovated it.
Grande Mastere Dreade
Snag's spellchecker
Point Break
Super Anarchist
Early in my career we had just started the paramedic program in the fire department in the city I started with (after 5 years I went to a much larger department). In 1977 I was one of the first firefighters to go to medic school to start the program. 6 months later we came back and started running paramedic calls. A lot of things were very new to the department. The paramedic unit the city bought was a brand new shiny big box ambulance as we did all the transports. It was staffed with the two firefighter/paramedics and a firefighter/EMT as the driver. Our driver was an old timer who just was not thrilled with this new fangled "pretend doctor" program as he called it.
So we're at a trailer park in a trailer home where the elderly woman lived alone and it was.........a mess. Piles everywhere and she was the original "cat lady". There must have been at least 20 cats (probably more) running around in the house. The kitchen counters were covered in old food, open cat food cans, and trash. Piled high! Cat boxes filled to overflowing scattered around the living room along with boxes of.....who knows.....and cat poop everywhere. She was having chest pain so while I'm getting her medical history from her I asked what meds she takes. She said she didn't remember the names but they were in a drawer in the kitchen. I asked our driver to go into the kitchen and find the meds and bring them to me so I could see the labels. So he is gingerly opening drawer after drawer looking for meds when he opens one and a large rat jumps out of the drawer, runs up his arm, hits his chest, drops to the floor and scampers under a pile of trash. He quietly closed the drawer, walked out of the trailer and no amount of coaxing could get him back in.
Its amazing the conditions some folks live in.
So we're at a trailer park in a trailer home where the elderly woman lived alone and it was.........a mess. Piles everywhere and she was the original "cat lady". There must have been at least 20 cats (probably more) running around in the house. The kitchen counters were covered in old food, open cat food cans, and trash. Piled high! Cat boxes filled to overflowing scattered around the living room along with boxes of.....who knows.....and cat poop everywhere. She was having chest pain so while I'm getting her medical history from her I asked what meds she takes. She said she didn't remember the names but they were in a drawer in the kitchen. I asked our driver to go into the kitchen and find the meds and bring them to me so I could see the labels. So he is gingerly opening drawer after drawer looking for meds when he opens one and a large rat jumps out of the drawer, runs up his arm, hits his chest, drops to the floor and scampers under a pile of trash. He quietly closed the drawer, walked out of the trailer and no amount of coaxing could get him back in.
Its amazing the conditions some folks live in.
Autonomous
Turgid Member
...as nervous as a rat in a cat house.
White Lightning2
Anarchist
Ok, completely unrelated to hoarding...
I live in a very "rural" area (well, it used to be) where most vehicles are parked outside.
I had an older dodge truck that was our "dump run/Hay hauler/Lumber fetcher truck
I kept finding signs of a mouse. Tore the truck apart several times looking for how it was getting in and never found it. Never saw it. Just occasional droppings. So, I quit looking.
About 20 years later we sell the truck and as it's driving away I told my wife "I'm gonna miss Fred". You named the truck Fred?? No, the mouse that has been living in it for the last 20 years.....
Apparently I had forgotten to mention that in all the trips to various places we had taken in it. She was less than thrilled......
WL
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
We've got a hoarder in our neighbourhood - the windows are completely blocked by crap - incredible fire hazard, especially as the house is totally run down with neglect.
