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Body of Hoarder Found in Home After 5-Day Search DALLAS AUTHORITIES HAD TO CUT HOLES IN THE ROOF

Silver Lotus — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:11:36 GMT

UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!

Police showed up at Skip Bynum's house in Dallas last Saturday after his friends reported that the 67-year-old was missing. It wasn't until Thursday that searchers finally found his body amid decades of junk he had hoarded over the years, reports MyFox Dallas. In fact, the piles were so high that authorities had to cut holes in the roof and get in through the attic. Still, it wasn't until police got a warrant to begin hauling out the clutter that Bynum was found. The cause of death isn't known yet.

Neighbors say they knew Bynum had a problem but didn't feel the need to report it. “I wasn’t going to go in and intervene and say, ‘Dude, go clean up your house,'" one tells the Dallas Morning News. The city is going to decide in the next few days whether the house needs to be demolished, and neighbors already are bracing for an onslaught of rats if it comes down. One bright spot: A friend was able to rescue Bynum's chihuahua from the mess.

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Moonlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:36:07 GMT

How sad is that. I can't imagine a human being living like that. Maybe he was substituting his things for people. Who knows?

If the poor man couldn't make it, at least his little dog survived.

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sophiamarie — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:33:25 GMT

The other night I watched an episode with 3 hoarders living together. A pair of twins (Loren and Oren) and an older brother. How sad is that????

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Yuban3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:39:41 GMT

I can't watch those hording shows. Nine times out of ten, the hoarder has mental issues, and they are substituting junk for whatever is missing in their lives.

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sidsmom — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:40:30 GMT

Joel Lavender of Dallas Fire-Rescue said some of the debris was stacked as high as twelve feet inside, reaching to the ceiling in some cases. Crews digging through the trash found a dead raccoon and two dead dogs among the debris, as well as gallon milk jugs full of urine because the bathroom was too full of trash to be used.

Firefighters cut holes in the roof so they could crawl into the attic of the home. However, after an exhaustive search through "multiple piles of debris," authorities called in a team with search dogs Thursday.

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Moonlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:43:41 GMT

On 3/29/2014 sophiamarie said:
The other night I watched an episode with 3 hoarders living together. A pair of twins (Loren and Oren) and an older brother. How sad is that????

It's the worst when kids are subjected to that. I saw one episode in which the mother sat around and ordered her kids to cook for her surrounded by that filth and clutter.

Ugh.

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Yuban3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:43:43 GMT

On 3/29/2014 sidsmom said:
Joel Lavender of Dallas Fire-Rescue said some of the debris was stacked as high as twelve feet inside, reaching to the ceiling in some cases. Crews digging through the trash found a dead raccoon and two dead dogs among the debris, as well as gallon milk jugs full of urine because the bathroom was too full of trash to be used.

Firefighters cut holes in the roof so they could crawl into the attic of the home. However, after an exhaustive search through "multiple piles of debris," authorities called in a team with search dogs Thursday.

Ewwwwwwwww!

I'll be the first to admit that my bathroom isn't spicn'span clean, but that is just beyond disgusting!

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Yuban3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:46:16 GMT

The worst ones (in my opinion) are the animal hoarders. My heart breaks for those poor innocent creatures, trapped in filth.

Why does the owner do it? Because they "love" them.

That's not love.

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Moonlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:48:31 GMT

On 3/29/2014 Yuban3 said:
The worst ones (in my opinion) are the animal hoarders. My heart breaks for those poor innocent creatures, trapped in filth.

Why does the owner do it? Because they "love" them.

That's not love.

The animal welfare organizations see a lot of that, too, but the hoarders are rarely held accountable.

Yes, there's a mental health issue (I'd hate to think that behavior's normal), but 120 cats and one litter box is nothing short of animal abuse nonetheless.

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sidsmom — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:49:37 GMT

I find those Hoarding shows eerily fascinating. It's like a bad accident I can't look away from. One lady didn't have running water, so she placed plastic store bags in the toilet & after "using" them, just placed them in a corner. Hazmat uniformed cleanup folks had to be called in. Another lady had years worth of used needles from her insulin injections. Another couple had rabbits everywhere...their home was basically a rabbit hutch...so much stuff in the floor.

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Moonlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:51:04 GMT

The worst is when those poor cleaners end up disturbing somebody's happy home when they look under all that filth.

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Yuban3 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:51:53 GMT

On 3/29/2014 Moonlady said:
On 3/29/2014 Yuban3 said:
The worst ones (in my opinion) are the animal hoarders. My heart breaks for those poor innocent creatures, trapped in filth.

Why does the owner do it? Because they "love" them.

That's not love.

The animal welfare organizations see a lot of that, too, but the hoarders are rarely held accountable.

Yes, there's a mental health issue (I'd hate to think that behavior's normal), but 120 cats and one litter box is nothing short of animal abuse nonetheless.

G-d bless the people who rescue those poor animals from those horrid conditions.

I know that I couldn't do it. I would go home in tears every night.

The animals end up using the floor for their business, and it just piles up, and piles up, and they walk through it.

Ugh!

You just know that those places stink to high heaven.

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sidsmom — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:54:11 GMT

On 3/29/2014 Moonlady said:
The worst is when those poor cleaners end up disturbing somebody's happy home when they look under all that filth.

That was brought up with this Dallas case...as well as other cases I've seen on TV...the neighbors are disgusted w/ the rodent problem before the cleanup, but there's a bigger chance it's gonna be much, much worse for a while until the rodents dissipate to another location to call home. Eeps!

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HiLo — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:55:29 GMT

I have a friend who is a hoarder, thank goodness she is now going to a counselor to discover the reasons behind why she does this. I'm so glad she has come to her senses but she has to go through each piece of trash so it is hard to get anywhere when I try to help her. She is an intelligent person and her person is always clean.

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sidsmom — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:56:59 GMT

With animal hoarding, the owners usually surrender them to Animal Control/SPCA.

ETA: Moonlady....reason they don't prosecute is the hoarder is mentally challenged.

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Moonlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:02:48 GMT

On 3/29/2014 sidsmom said:
With animal hoarding, the owners usually surrender them to Animal Control/SPCA.

Yes, they do. And for that, they're often not prosecuted.

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Hooty — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:14:53 GMT

On 3/29/2014 sophiamarie said:
The other night I watched an episode with 3 hoarders living together. A pair of twins (Loren and Oren) and an older brother. How sad is that????

I only caught a bit of this show, the part about all the roaches crawling all over the place! One of the men was cooking on the stove and there were roaches crawling all over the stove, I had to immediately change the channel .............. disgusting!!!

These people are mentally ill!

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Shorty2U — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:16:54 GMT

How sad. Hoarding is a mental health issue.

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sidsmom — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:39:15 GMT

That's why all those shows provide funds for ""aftercare"".

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mistriTsquirrel — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:11:26 GMT

On 3/29/2014 HiLo said:
I have a friend who is a hoarder, thank goodness she is now going to a counselor to discover the reasons behind why she does this. I'm so glad she has come to her senses but she has to go through each piece of trash so it is hard to get anywhere when I try to help her. She is an intelligent person and her person is always clean.

My mother is like your friend. I wish she would see a counselor. When I talked to her about it 2 days ago, she seemed less resistant to the idea. However, I suggested she get counseling for her grief and not specifically the hoarding tendencies she has...but if she begins addressing her grief, I believe it will have a positive affect on her hoarding tendencies. I am seeing a counselor, and I am trying to get her to see that the benefits I've obtained from the counseling I've had over the years can happen for her as well, and that it takes time to make changes...change won't happen in leaps and bounds, it will happen in small steps.

The house isn't bad right now, because I've gone over there and helped clean and my brother is trying to help too when he is in town...but I'm afraid of what will happen after my dad dies.