Do you collect anything besides

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Mid-Night Rider, Aug 31, 2010.

  1. suits-books-tools-motorcycles
    maybe Ex-wives
    My mother was a pack rat--raised dirt poor
    don't know if that expains it or not
    got 2 sisters that are about as bad as mom was



    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hk3EHn9n_UVFd2eEMcvmTEJVgNuAD9HS12QO0
    Body of Las Vegas woman found in clutter at home
    By OSKAR GARCIA (AP) – 3 days ago
    LAS VEGAS — A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to
    a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home
    amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable even to search
    dogs.
    Bill James apparently had no idea that the body of his pack-rat wife,
    Billie Jean, was under the same roof as he helped police scour the home
    and the Nevada desert for any sign of her. Then he spotted the feet of
    the body poking out of a floor-to-ceiling pile of junk Wednesday,
    revealing in shocking detail the woman*s penchant for hoarding.
    Police say they searched the home several times — even using dogs from
    a unit that helped locate bodies at ground zero after Sept. 11 and
    Hurricane Katrina. But they were unable to find the body of amid the
    piles of clothes, knickknacks, trash and other junk.
    "For our dogs to go through that house and not find something should be
    indicative of the tremendous environmental challenges they faced,"
    police spokesman Bill Cassell said.
    Clark County Coroner*s office spokeswoman Jessica Coloma said it could
    take weeks to determine when and how the 67-year-old woman died. The
    husband has been cooperative throughout the investigation and quickly
    notified police of his discovery.
    One thing is not in doubt about the case: Billie Jean James loved to
    hoard. It*s a behavior that has received new attention this year with
    two popular reality TV shows — "Hoarding: Buried Alive" and "Hoarders"
    — that chronicle the lives of people who live in absolute squalor
    because they cannot bring themselves to throw anything away.
    A similar situation could be seen at the James* home in a desert-front
    cul-de-sac near the Las Vegas Strip. In the driveway sits two huge trash
    bins that require industrial-sized trucks to haul them away. The front
    patio is filled with knickknacks including old chairs, smaller trash
    bins and a 10-foot basketball hoop.
    Inside, Cassell said James* piles of clutter left just small pathways to
    walk and strong odors that hindered their search — generated by
    animals, decomposing garbage, food, clothes and other stuff.
    "If there had been any indication that there was a remote possibility
    that somebody was back underneath that stuff we would have taken the
    appropriate action," Cassell said.
    Sari Connolly, who walked dogs with James and her husband daily at a
    nearby park with a group of friends, said the woman bought things at
    thrift stores each day and accumulated them in the house.
    "She became this hoarder person and she wouldn*t let anyone come in her
    house," Connolly said.
    Connolly said one of Billie Jean James* closest friends once asked to
    use the bathroom at the home after a camping trip, but James wouldn*t
    let her in.
    "It sounds like it was beyond control," said Connolly, who had a big
    banner made to help find James during the search.
    Approached at the home Thursday, Bill James declined to speak with an
    Associated Press reporter.
    Cassell said initial reports had James last seen walking away from the
    house in late April. He said along with the dogs, police visited the
    house several times and searched the desert with a helicopter equipped
    with infrared detection.
    Friends and family searched the nearby desert several times on foot,
    horseback and with all-terrain vehicles. They created a Facebook page to
    help coordinate efforts, while the family offered a $10,000 reward in
    hopes of finding a woman described as a peace activist who to loved
    hiking, camping and the arts.
    Nine digital billboards publicized her search amid the bright lights of
    Las Vegas to draw attention the search, and Connolly said they hired
    someone to hold a banner in a spot near the home where a woman reported
    possibly seeing James.
    "This was certainly something that was not glossed over," Cassell said.
    "We did everything that we could."
    But Connolly said she and friends think police may have botched the
    search.
    "I*m trying to figure out how a body couldn*t smell so bad — that*s
    what everyone*s saying," she said. "It*s the million-dollar question
    right now."
    The case is not completely surprising given the fact that 2 to 5 percent
    of Americans are chronic hoarders, said Dr. David Tolin, a hoarding
    expert from Hartford Hospital who co-wrote "Buried in Treasures" to help
    people who compulsively collect things.
    "Every year, there*s at least a few deaths that can be attributed to
    hoarding," he said.

    Decent people should be accorded the respect they deserve
     
    Mid-Night Rider, Aug 31, 2010
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    Andy Bonwick Guest

    snip>
    That takes you out of the equation then.

    Normally I'd suggest that you get a life but because it's you I'll opt
    for asking you to end your own one. Go and slash your wrists you waste
    of space.
     
    Andy Bonwick, Aug 31, 2010
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    Krusty Guest

    Because he's a trolling retard. Killfile & move on.
     
    Krusty, Sep 1, 2010
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    Hog Guest

    Question and answer in one sentence
     
    Hog, Sep 1, 2010
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    Zeb Johnson Guest

    (Mid-Night Rider) wrote:
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    Decent people should be accorded the respect they deserve

    Andy spouted
    That takes you out of the equation then.
    Normally I'd suggest that you get a life but because it's you I'll opt
    for asking you to end your own one. Go and slash your wrists you waste
    of space.

    I THINK YOU HIT A NERVE!
     
    Zeb Johnson, Sep 1, 2010
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    Thomas Guest

    I don't think he's using Lozzo's sig. I think he'd like his sig to be
    "Loser," but he's too stupid to spell it correctly.
     
    Thomas, Sep 1, 2010
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  7. Some a@@hole spouted
    Why do you keep using Lozzo's sig, you fuckwit?

    I agree, he should quit slandering
    Lozzo with that quote.

    He should say something nice, like
    Lozzo said " I bought a BMW in his sig."
     
    Queen of Spades, Sep 1, 2010
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    boots Guest

    Jeepers, it's webtv, just KF everything from there. There's no chance
    any of it is intelligent.
     
    boots, Sep 1, 2010
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    Forest Gump Guest

    (Zeb Johnson) said:

    I THINK YOU HIT A NERVE!

    I doubt it. A nerve in a Brit is smaller than a
    backbone in a Frenchman.
     
    Forest Gump, Sep 2, 2010
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