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YIKES! I've seen my share of compulsive hoarding and it's disgusting. This lady's husband reported her missing in APRIL, and they just found her at home buried in a pile of her own crap. Even police dogs hadn't been able to find her before. The sheer nastitude of that place must have been monumental.

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/l ... s/19612152

I was flipping through the channels the other day and saw about a 2 minute piece of a show similar to this story. My question is how do people let someone get away with this?! Tie them down, slip 'em a rufie, wait till they're sleeping or gone, and just clean house. I'm actually the opposite. I hate clutter of any sort.

Saint John wrote:I was flipping through the channels the other day and saw about a 2 minute piece of a show similar to this story. My question is how do people let someone get away with this?! Tie them down, slip 'em a rufie, wait till they're sleeping or gone, and just clean house. I'm actually the opposite. I hate clutter of any sort.

Same here... There are so many crazy true stories, like people with 70-something cats and they find one behind their stove which died years before, or they find the people dead and being eaten by the cats. I think hoarders are a public health concern since they attract rats and vermin. Just institutionalize them.

One of the books on hoarding is called "Buried In Treasures", and this story lady gave a literal meaning to the phrase.

That is just sad.

Reminds me of this sick local story:

http://animalhoardinginfo.blogspot.com/ ... -both.html

I'm no animal rights equating them to humans type of person, but I do love animals and that's fucked up. That's not an animal lover to do shit like that, that's a fucked up person. The sick thing is this guy was a doctor.

Ehwmatt wrote:Reminds me of this sick local story:

http://animalhoardinginfo.blogspot.com/ ... -both.html

I'm no animal rights equating them to humans type of person, but I do love animals and that's fucked up. That's not an animal lover to do shit like that, that's a fucked up person. The sick thing is this guy was a doctor.

Absolutely disgusting, lol.

In spite of the closed windows, police and two animal wardens could smell feces, urine and ammonia, and fleas jumped onto their clothing in the yard. The longtime neighbor said he had never seen the dogs in the yard. Officers looked in the windows and saw dogs sitting on tables.

A sergeant reached the Friedmans by telephone and was given permission to enter the house using the garage door code. Animal Warden Steve Suder entered the house and came back out saying respirators and protective clothing were needed. Solon firefighters brought their hazardous materials gear to the home.

The warden and two officers entered and found the rooms strewn with clothes and dog feces. There was a child's wading pool in the front room that held brown water. They videotaped and photographed the scene.

"Every room in the house from the second floor bedrooms to the basement had animal feces on the floor and on the furniture," Patrolman Brad Lender wrote. "The second floor master bedroom had a few inches of dog feces packed down on the floor."



They ended up euthanizing every one of those animals except for 1 parakeet. They should have euthanized the couple who owned the house. It would have been humane.

Everytime I watch that show "Hoarders" (on TLC) I go into a cleaning fit. I'm not like that (with the hoarding or the mess - I'm just disorganized), or anything, but just watching that show makes me ITCH and I'll start cleaning things that don't even need to be cleaned. That is some frightening stuff. I've had to turn the channel on that one a few times, especially when they start opening refrigerators.

The sad thing is that it's more common than anyone would think! I used to do home health and it was actually a rarity to go into a home that was clean! I saw a few houses that could EASILY be featured on a show like Hoarders and then some that weren't quite that bad but I still wouldn't sit down in the home and I'd spend a little time as possible in the house. I would schedule my day from cleanest house to nastiest house then I'd walk in the door and shower before I did anything else! It sure didn't take me long of seeing conditions like this to finally decide that maybe it wasn't so bad when my kids left their backpacks on the couch and their shoes on the floor when they came home from school.

If you watch the hoarding shows on TLC, A&E etc. you'll see that these people can be helped by therapy.

oh lord!

Sarah wrote:If you watch the hoarding shows on TLC, A&E etc. you'll see that these people can be helped by therapy.

Shock therapy maybe.

KenTheDude wrote:

Sarah wrote:If you watch the hoarding shows on TLC, A&E etc. you'll see that these people can be helped by therapy.

Shock therapy maybe.

They should try that.

But when they do the followups, most of them seem to slip back into it anyway, so it's like, what's the point.

This is why I watch Food network. I need to see clean kitchens and edible food, not the grossness they reveal in these peoples' homes.