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Some years ago, there was a case like that here, reported in somewhat of a sensacionalistic manner in one of the Police-News show of bigger audience. It was in a middle class neighborod in the city of São Paulo ( the largest South American city ); the people of that neighborod were extremely bothered by the awful smell that was coming from an old lady's house. The crazy thing was, she was a WEALTHY old lady, she had many buildings scattered through the city, her income came from renting those buildings. She also had a 40 - some year old son that lived with her.

I guess both son and mother were somewhat mentally disturbed. Because the old lady's house was so completely full of junk and garbage, it was really unbelieavable. I am not talking about the outside of the house; no, I am talking about all the INSIDES, of the old 1940's home - a 2 level home, I must add. Every part of the house, the living room, the bedrooms, everything, was like a sea of garbage and junk. I am not exaggerating. It really was like a sea: all that garbage was at the level of an adult person's midsection, in every part of the house. They literally had to SWIM through the garbage to be able to walk inside that house. It was not like she just kept useless stuff, like 10 year old newspapers; it was even worse than that: the sacks of organic garbage, that normal people put outside the house to be retrieved by the garbage truck, she kept, all of them, alongside her piles of junk. On top of that, she also had MANY cats. And she had been living like that for YEARS.

The house was just so cluttered of junk and garbage, that she didn't sleep in her bed for years - her bedroom was cluttered as well, and the bed was buried under all the junk and garbage. Believe me, she slept every night, during all those years, in a junky, decaying, full of corrosion - and obviously, not working - late 1970's/early 1980's small FIAT automobile, an automobile that was somewhere in the middle of all that mess.

When the public authorities arrived to clean the house, both mother and son made a lot of protest, crying that the city authorities were "violating their rights" . I don't remember exactly, but the TV news guy said that something like 300 TONS of junk and garbage were retrieved from that house that day. I remember that they needed several trucks to do that job.

My grandparents also used to store a lot of junk on their backyard. But not even close to that old lady's level!!!

I remember that at one time, they had many old and useless washing machines and dish washers outside their house. Every time a washer broke beyond repair, after they bought a new one, instead of sending the old one to the dumpster, they simply let the old one sit on their backyard. They also had other types of junk there as well.

One day, my mother paid a cleaning company to clean all that mess on her parents backyard. It took the cleaning company a whole afternoon to do the job.

There was, still, one spot left untouched: an old and ugly wood house that they have on the back of their backyard. There was also a lot of unhealthy stuff on the basement of that house. An uncle of mine cleaned that himself some weeks ago. The level of junk that was there was also hard to believe: from old 1970's car wheels to lots and lots of rotting pieces ( big pieces ) of wood, pieces large enough to make another house. Those pieces of wood were rotting from both humidity and rat urine. My uncle said that my grandfather kept those pieces of wood since the 1960's . There were a lot of rats ( big rats ) in there as well. One of them was already dead.