Have You Ever Been To A Hoarders House?

I ran across a sister duo that were hoarders. It was in high school and I was doing my Eagle Scout project which consisted of helping repaint several older people with disabilities houses. One of these was a deaf-blind guy my dad knew who ran a candy snack stand down at the central post office (I wish I had a video of how that worked because it was set up so cool with a manual typewriter machine on the front for customers that would come up in braille for the guy. He also had card file boxes that had type of what the item that also had braille on it as well. A customer would go through the box, find the card, and hand it to Marvin.) When I and my crew were working at his house, I would spell out words letter by letter in the palm of his hand. It was slow but worked.

Anyway, Marvin had a dog who was older and after getting his house painted, Marvin was going to move into a retirement home. These sisters found out that Marvin was going to put the dog down when he moved and decided to kidnap it. They were going to take the dog when Marvin let it out to whiz. They weren't expecting for me and my guys to be there so that sort of broke things up as they were trying to lure the dog away. They drove a little station wagon that was loaded to the gills with stuff.

Fast forward a few months and they turn up in the news. These sisters were living in an older house not far from the post office in a more depressed part of town. Somebody who frequently walked past the place started to complain to the city about the stink coming from it. Official folks showed up and it turned up there were dozens and dozens of cats in the place with paper, cat crap, and other stuff up as high as these old gals could reach or throw. Under some power invested with the city, the place was commended and bulldozed within a couple of weeks. I'm not sure where the sisters ended up but I don't think either was around much longer...