Death via Uncleanliness

[Taboo]

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WOODMERE, New York (AP) -- An elderly woman was rescued after being found buried beneath a pile of debris, garbage and animal feces in a home, authorities said. An elderly man was found dead.

Helen Bushwick, 85, was discovered Thursday when volunteer firefighters went to the two-story house on Long Island after relatives said they couldn't reach her. Debris mixed with human and animal waste was piled high in every room, some all the way to the ceiling.

"A six-foot pile of rubbish collapsed on her and trapped her in there," Erik Kinney, a volunteer firefighter, said of Bushwick.

The man was found Friday when authorities resumed a search. His name was not released.

Bushwick was taken to a hospital where she was admitted suffering from dehydration. Officials weren't sure how long the couple had been trapped, but neighbors said they last saw them about a week ago.

There was garbage -- "cans, boxes, clothing, papers, whatever you can collect in every room, some spots to the ceiling, some three feet to the ceiling," Kinney said. "Feces -- raccoon, possum and human" were found in buckets and in the trash.

"The stench was very strong, as you can imagine," he added.

A sign was posted on the home saying it was unfit for human occupancy, said John Rottkamp, first deputy commissioner of the buildings department in the town of Hempstead, which has jurisdiction over Woodmere. The gas also had been turned off.

The house will be boarded up, and the woman's relatives will be allowed to go through the contents, authorities said.

Ill probably die after an avalanche of soda cans... one hand still on the keyboard.

 

[Remus]

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[Russian Mafia]

I guess I should take the trash out more often.

 

[Smoke]

God that sounds awesome

 

[Beerdude26]

Feces -- raccoon, possum and human" were found in buckets

Best hobby ever.

 

[NeptuneUK]

ewwww

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Let's not start this again *thread get's locked*


*NeptuneUK B@nt*

 

[Que-Ever]

As long as it's my own, I'm cool with it.

 

[tehsolace]

and the woman's relatives will be allowed to go through the contents, authorities said.

hahaha i ****ing love how news writers sneak in the hidden sarcastic remarks... hilarious!

 

[dfc05]

These guys were crazier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

Instead of merely letting the trash pile up haphazardly, they engineered mazes of trash... with booby traps (in case of burglary). One guy was blind; his brother would wander out at night to get food. The brother accidentally got killed by one of his own booby traps. Then the blind guy starved to death.

That said, I read that story as a little kid (in a book about OCD)... and always thought it would be cool to set up mazes and secret passages and booby traps in your house. :O

 

[Smoke]

Where`s that story about the guy who let his roommate trash the house then went into it to rescue a fake hostage?

I love that story.

 

[highlander]

:| Wow. just Wow.

 

[Gunner]

****ing insane.

 

[Marinmald]

sounds kinda like the neighbors we used to have, man I am glad they are gone. unfortunetly, all the vermin that used to live there, spread out when people were brought in to clean that filth.

 

[hool10]

These guys were crazier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

Instead of merely letting the trash pile up haphazardly, they engineered mazes of trash... with booby traps (in case of burglary). One guy was blind; his brother would wander out at night to get food. The brother accidentally got killed by one of his own booby traps. Then the blind guy starved to death.

That said, I read that story as a little kid (in a book about OCD)... and always thought it would be cool to set up mazes and secret passages and booby traps in your house. :O

Wow! That's insane. :| I heard that Albert Einstein had this problem too. He was one of the smartest people alive, yet he could'nt keep his surroundings tidy.

 

[Taboo]

Wow! That's insane. :| I heard that Albert Einstein had this problem too. He was one of the smartest people alive, yet he could'nt keep his surroundings tidy.

I think being a little untidy and piling garbage up to the point of death are two entirely different things.

But, on that same note, Ben Franklins hardest virtue to achieve was organization.

 

[Jintor]

Wow! That's insane. :| I heard that Albert Einstein had this problem too. He was one of the smartest people alive, yet he could'nt keep his surroundings tidy.

Yeah, but Einstein was a genius, AND he didn't die from crap collapsing on him. (Literally).

 

[Murray_H]

hahaha i ****ing love how news writers sneak in the hidden sarcastic remarks... hilarious!

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[Xendance]

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Thats what I thought mate.

 

[Kula Meenur]

oh lol... no freakin way