Bad habit is bad.

**foilman8805** · 01-8-2009, 09:15 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477873,00.html

Quote:

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.

The compulsive hoarder is believed to have become disorientated inside the walls of rotting trash and unable to find a way out — then collapsed with dehydration.

Neighbors raised the alarm after failing to see him leave his house in Broughton, Bucks, for several days.

When cops arrived, the stench from the garbage was so foul they brought in a police diving team equipped with breathing apparatus.

It is believed they crawled around the tunnel network until they uncovered Stewart’s body.

A neighbor revealed: “A police officer said the interior was piled up with huge mounds of rotting rubbish and there was an elaborate network of tunnels to move around."

“They think Stewart may have got lost and died from dehydration.”

I've heard of this habit before, and I think it's incredibly strange.

I kind of understand hoarding material possessions and things like that, but GARBAGE? REALLY? That's just sick. And then to get lost in it and die? Unfathomable.

Do you guys have any thoughts about, or maybe any experiences with this behavior? Please share.

Also, are there a lot of eccentric loners in Britain? Just wondering, lol.

rzr · 01-8-2009, 09:21 PM

At 74 something tells me it's psychological. It's a "weird" habit nonetheless, but there's got to be a reason for developing it.

**dashoe93** · 01-8-2009, 09:29 PM

Too bad he wasnt on that one show on the British channel where these two ladies clean up extremely dirty houses. I think its called 'How Clean is Your House?'

Minion133 · 01-8-2009, 09:30 PM

**tofurox** · 01-8-2009, 09:32 PM

Sad, but it still made me laugh!

Quigly · 01-8-2009, 09:33 PM

There have been stories like this in the past. In one there were two of them who did the same thing but they were paranoid about someone stealing their junk so they set up traps in their tunnels. One day one of the guys gets caught in his own trap. The other one goes to find help but gets lost in the tunnels and is crushed by and 'avalanche' so to speak, of his own debris.

Yeah it's weird and totally gross to me, but some people are just like that. It's their fault for not foreseeing the possible consequences of their actions.

rzr · 01-8-2009, 09:38 PM

If they're unaware of their psychological hinders it's not their fault. If they can't fix it or don't even realize there's something wrong with it, you can't really blame them. Despite all the labels us "normal" people cast, it doesn't matter, something had to have happened to them that caused this habit.

Quigly · 01-8-2009, 09:42 PM

Im still surprised that none of their neighbors knew that they were hoarding all that trash. I mean, they must have smelled it or something.

**tofurox** · 01-8-2009, 09:43 PM

Yea for realz.

rzr · 01-8-2009, 09:46 PM

They probably did.

Tr44nc33 · 01-8-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by foilman8805

“They think Stewart may have got lost and died from dehydration.”

Did he get lost for.... 20 hours?

Tater Tot · 01-8-2009, 09:54 PM

@^ He wasn't seen by neighbors for days.

I wonder how long it took him to collect all that junk? Also, for some reason, Pac-Man and Dig Dug both ran through my mind when reading this. I've probably been playing too much of the Namco 3-in-1 cabinet at work...

**richyrich55** · 01-8-2009, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Tater Tot

I wonder how long it took him to collect all that junk?

^Ten years retard...

Tater Tot · 01-8-2009, 10:37 PM

It's funny how I had to point out something overlooked by the poster before me to them, and yet I never called them a retard. Hmmmm. Isn't it funny how easy it is to point something out to someone without being an ass?

**Bluearrowll** · 01-8-2009, 10:38 PM

So much for clean freak..

Wow.

postdanceofromance · 01-9-2009, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by dashoe93

Too bad he wasnt on that one show on the British channel where these two ladies clean up extremely dirty houses. I think its called 'How Clean is Your House?'

I was thinking the same thing. -___-;
Sad story.

**TC_Halogen** · 01-9-2009, 01:46 AM

Hoarding actual trash is a habit I couldn't see anyone without a psychological disorder do. I mean, sure, people hoard items they once used to love, and sure, it does clutter up their space of living, but to actually hold on to garbage? That's just flat out strange.

**ZC_Wolfy** · 01-9-2009, 06:01 AM

It's by Fox News so it's probably incredibly exaggerated

Sgtzombie. · 01-9-2009, 06:52 AM

I clicked on the "Read more from the sun" link.
There are pictures and everything!
One local said: “It’s very sad. It sounds like he died in an awful way. The Environmental Health people knew about the state of his home but I guess because he paid his bills and didn’t break the law they just left him alone.”

Shows just how much the British Authorities care. ):

Izzy · 01-9-2009, 06:56 AM

I find this a little hard to believe. If its true there has got to be photos. I would very much like to see it.

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