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nycwriters · 05-21-2004, 03:39 PM

This is horrific!

How is it possible for someone to live this way?!

sparticle · 05-21-2004, 03:43 PM

Jesus Q. Murphy! They ought to just burn the farkin' place!

lvlycwgirl · 05-21-2004, 03:44 PM

I worked with a crisis intervention group for a phyc hosptial right out of college. We would often times go to the residence of a patient to do an on-site evaluation, this pictures you showed were very commonly seen.

Magpie · 05-21-2004, 03:51 PM

This is so sad. Sad that he lived this way, sad there was no one who couldn't or didn't help him get help out of his nightmare.

Willow Sylph · 05-21-2004, 03:55 PM

That's totally disgusting!!

Smartypants · 05-21-2004, 04:25 PM

I had neighbors like that when I first moved to San Francisco. It was a guy in his sxities who lived with his mother, who was in her 80s or 90s, in a three-room apartment, and their place was a mirror image of mine. Someimes the smell, just unbelievably fetid, would come through the wall, especially in the kitchen where there was a pantry built into the common wall. It really did smell as if someone (or an army of people) had died in there. i don't think they ever cleaned in there -- I don't think they were capable of it -- and once the mother told me that her kitchen range hadn't worked in 12 years, but she didn't want to tell the (absentee) landlord for fear he would evict her or raise her rent for complaining. I am sure the same was probably true of the plumbing.

When the mother died, the son was incredibly lonely, so he would sit in his front room with the door open so he could greet people who passed by. Unfortunately, the smell was so overpowering that neighbors insisted he keep the door closed.

In the case of my neighbor, or the Web page you've posted, or the pepole lvlycwgril talks about, social services really need to be called in to help. This is sad stuff, and not entirely in the control of the people involved.

zenbabe · 05-21-2004, 05:23 PM

Willow Sylph · 05-21-2004, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smartypants
I had neighbors like that when I first moved to San Francisco. It was a guy in his sxities who lived with his mother, who was in her 80s or 90s, in a three-room apartment, and their place was a mirror image of mine. Someimes the smell, just unbelievably fetid, would come through the wall, especially in the kitchen where there was a pantry built into the common wall. It really did smell as if someone (or an army of people) had died in there. i don't think they ever cleaned in there -- I don't think they were capable of it -- and once the mother told me that her kitchen range hadn't worked in 12 years, but she didn't want to tell the (absentee) landlord for fear he would evict her or raise her rent for complaining. I am sure the same was probably true of the plumbing.

When the mother died, the son was incredibly lonely, so he would sit in his front room with the door open so he could greet people who passed by. Unfortunately, the smell was so overpowering that neighbors insisted he keep the door closed.

In the case of my neighbor, or the Web page you've posted, or the pepole lvlycwgril talks about, social services really need to be called in to help. This is sad stuff, and not entirely in the control of the people involved.

That's sad. Yeah, there definately has to be something bad going on upstairs if a person is capable of living in that type of environment. Personally, I'd feel like jumping out a of a tall building if I had to live in a place like that.

05-21-2004, 05:41 PM

nycwriters · 05-21-2004, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smartypants
In the case of my neighbor. . . social services really need to be called in to help.

Did you?

Smartypants · 05-21-2004, 05:54 PM

I talked it over with my downstairs neighbor who had a social worker, and I think that's how they got connected. I must admit I did not like to have a lot of interaction with them. More so with the mother when she was alive, although she wouldn't let me discuss her probs with the landlord. The son was just too scary/nutty to want to get involved with.

Avalon · 05-21-2004, 05:58 PM

How sad

And it is more common than most of us know.

lvlycwgirl · 05-21-2004, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smartypants
In the case of my neighbor, or the Web page you've posted, or the pepole lvlycwgril talks about, social services really need to be called in to help. This is sad stuff, and not entirely in the control of the people involved.

Unfortunately, social services gets overwhelmed with calls reporting this exact thing. The sadest part is that there are so many people unable to take care of themselves or their living environment and not nearly enough helping hands.

trisherina · 05-21-2004, 06:50 PM

Poor maintenance guy. You look at something like that, where do you start?

The damage deposit wouldn't make up a tenth.

05-21-2004, 03:39 PM	#1
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05-21-2004, 04:25 PM	#6
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	I had neighbors like that when I first moved to San Francisco. It was a guy in his sxities who lived with his mother, who was in her 80s or 90s, in a three-room apartment, and their place was a mirror image of mine. Someimes the smell, just unbelievably fetid, would come through the wall, especially in the kitchen where there was a pantry built into the common wall. It really did smell as if someone (or an army of people) had died in there. i don't think they ever cleaned in there -- I don't think they were capable of it -- and once the mother told me that her kitchen range hadn't worked in 12 years, but she didn't want to tell the (absentee) landlord for fear he would evict her or raise her rent for complaining. I am sure the same was probably true of the plumbing. When the mother died, the son was incredibly lonely, so he would sit in his front room with the door open so he could greet people who passed by. Unfortunately, the smell was so overpowering that neighbors insisted he keep the door closed. In the case of my neighbor, or the Web page you've posted, or the pepole lvlycwgril talks about, social services really need to be called in to help. This is sad stuff, and not entirely in the control of the people involved. __________________ "I don't think God wants us to believe in him. If he wanted us to believe in him he'd do something about it -- like exist perhaps!" --Linda Smith

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05-21-2004, 03:43 PM	#2
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	Jesus Q. Murphy! They ought to just burn the farkin' place!

05-21-2004, 03:51 PM	#4
Magpie Wishing on a pickle. Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: One mile up Posts: 3,082	This is so sad. Sad that he lived this way, sad there was no one who couldn't or didn't help him get help out of his nightmare.

05-21-2004, 05:54 PM	#11
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	I talked it over with my downstairs neighbor who had a social worker, and I think that's how they got connected. I must admit I did not like to have a lot of interaction with them. More so with the mother when she was alive, although she wouldn't let me discuss her probs with the landlord. The son was just too scary/nutty to want to get involved with. __________________ "I don't think God wants us to believe in him. If he wanted us to believe in him he'd do something about it -- like exist perhaps!" --Linda Smith

05-21-2004, 05:58 PM	#12
Avalon Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: A much better place Posts: 5,931	How sad And it is more common than most of us know. __________________ I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx

05-21-2004, 06:50 PM	#14
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	Poor maintenance guy. You look at something like that, where do you start? The damage deposit wouldn't make up a tenth. __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

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