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Man Dies Inside Trash Labyrinth

Posted by samzenpus on from the smell-bad dept.

A man whose home was so full of trash that he had to build an network of tunnels to get around may have died after getting lost in the maze. Officials think Gordon Stewart, 74, died as a result of dehydration, after becoming unable to find his way out of the network of carrier bags, boxes, old furniture and other junk. Neighbors had become concerned that they had not seen Mr Stewart for several days and raised the alarm. Officials had no comment on the Bog of Eternal Stench or the whereabouts of the Goblin King.

12 comments

  1. Humor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This really isn't funny.

    An elderly gentleman, not likely right in the head has died.

    Where's the punchline?

    1. Re:Humor? by Aristophrenia · · Score: 1
      Nobody said it had to be funny. But it is! A maze of trash?! That's funny! Although he should have simply followed the right-hand wall(Or is it the left-hand wall?).

      ...not likely right in the head...

      Was there any doubt on this when the article mentioned that he had most likely been piling all that trash up for 10 years?

      --
      "Yeah, but by we know yo mama gives EVERYBODY root privilege..." -jpetts (208163)
    2. Re:Humor? by gd23ka · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It happens more often than people think. I know of a woman that died that way, she lived in a literal maze of old newspaper, clothing, spoiled food, absolutely spoiled food and what I thought were weird fungus growths. Under the food there was a layer of _SHIT_ because at some point she couldn't get to the toilet anymore... and isn't it interesting how piles of newspaper smell when you piss on it for months and years. My friend was her landlord.
      The other time I saw stuff like this was when I was looking for an appartment. She was in her early 30s, she looked and smelled like the shower she never used and the place was full of trash I had to make sure I wasn't stepping into anything. Both were jewish btw.

    3. Re:Humor? by Rosy+At+Random · · Score: 1

      Didn't your friend try and do something?

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      Would you like a slice of toast?
    4. Re:Humor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ok, now I feel a bit better about my house, my kingdom for more pictures!

    5. Re:Humor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why bother. If the rent is coming in month by month.

      Once the place gets to a certain level of "dirtiness" you know you have a complete gutting out job to do. May as well do it in 10 years after collecting the rent than do it now and risk bringing in unreliable tenants.

    6. Re:Humor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Was he eaten by a grue?

    7. Re:Humor? by gd23ka · · Score: 1

      To be fair, I'm sure most jews don't live, eat and sleep in their own feces or urine. However the two individuals
      were jewish. The elderly lady that was renting from my friend was also a nuisance in other respects and the
      younger lady I went to look at her appartment had an Israeli flag and a Menora on top of her TV. Interestingly
      enough the flag was the only thing that looked half-ways clean.

    8. Re:Humor? by gd23ka · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well you know the thing was, that lady had been in that appartment for 18 years. There is NO WAY on earth you can get rid
      of 18 years of shit, piss and decomposing food saturating walls and ceilings with their stench. I was looking for a real cheap
      appartment at that time because I was strapped for cash, but tell you what my friend flatly refused to rent it to anyone after
      we got the place cleaned up... (cleaned up means we got rid of everything in the appartment including what we could SCRAPE
      OFF) and mainly because he was concerned for the health of whatever future tenants and that he might get sued over it if they
      got sick. And tell you what, I went into the place a month later again and that residual smell almost immediately made me
      throw up in the sink.

  2. British Language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The correct term is 'Rubbish' - this is a British article, there is no need to attempt to change the language for the summary. By doing this, you clearly think American audiences are stupid.

  3. jew != evil by gd23ka · · Score: 2, Informative

    You got to differentiate between jews and zionists. _Orthodox_ jews are immersed in a curriculum of hatred for
    anyone non-jew from cradle to grave. But however much they hate and despise us, by themselves they amount to nothing more than
    a nuisance. Then there is the far more palatable class of _secular_ jews, i.e. the israeli middle class. These are every
    day people mostly caught up in propaganda just like the rest of us, and they too are waking up and getting wise to
    their own set of criminals in their government. If there's any hope it lies with this class of people. And in the end
    you have that third and final class of people and these are the Zionists. They leverage the orthodox, they leverage
    the Arabs and everyone else in between (Hamas btw was created by the Mossad). If you're going to pick up a stone
    and throw it into somebody's face who deserves it, don't pick the retard who was maliciously brought up that way and
    doesn't know better, or the middle class guy (just like you) who is most likely even strongly on your side. Go for the
    zionist scum that is responsible for the mess in the first place.