Hoarder's home buried under 10,000 empty beer cans – some refilled with urine
'Hoarding the alcohol, refilling the cans with urine and hoarding that – it is very, very clear that something is very wrong.'
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archived 28 Apr 2023 21:21:29 UTC
Professional cleaners found a home filled with about 10,000 empty Coors Light cans (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
A beer-guzzling hoarder packed his home with roughly 10,000 empty cans of Coors Light – and apparently refilled some of them with hundreds of gallons of urine.
Two professional cleaners, Tom DeSena, 23, and Junior Lallbachan, 26, set out to clean up the two-story house in Florida.
‘We didn’t know what to expect. We were told there’s hoarding, beer cans, kind of an alcohol situation and that there’s a lot of garbage, but there were no pictures. Junior and I were kind of walking into it as a surprise,’ said DeSena, according to Kennedy News and Media.
‘There’s cans in the walls, there’s holes in the sheet rock and in the sheet rock there’s cans. There’s cans in the cooker, and in the mattress and in the drawers and in the closet, in the toilet.
‘Let’s just say, guessing, there’s 10,000 cans. That means that for every one can, there’s ten to 15 roaches. Probably ten million roaches in that house.’
A video posted on social media by DeSena, of Long Island, New York, shows the pair opening a door to the hoarder home and finding a sea of cans and Coors Light boxes.
‘Holy s***,’ says Lallbachan.
The upstairs of the three-bedroom home was not spared either.
It took the professional cleaners four days to remove the empty Coors Light cans (Picture: Kennedy News and Media/@thesoulmediators)
‘We barely made a dent,’ DeSena said, showing tied up trash bags and a dumpster.
He added that the pile of cans was ‘easily three to four feet high’.
‘I’m not a doctor, but you can tell… this isn’t normal. Hoarding the alcohol, refilling the cans with urine and hoarding that – it is very, very clear that something is very wrong,’ said DeSena.
‘I just thought, “damn, this person’s struggling”. That’s really all there was, and then we started shoveling.’
The tens of thousands of beer cans attracted cockroaches (Picture: @thesoulmediators)
As the duo shoveled, the cans tumbled down ‘like an avalanche’, DeSena said.
The entire clean-up job took four days. They filled nearly four dumpsters with all the trash.
‘We do know that we’re doing a good thing, we’re doing a good job,’ DeSena said.
‘It’s people’s lowest point in life, and we’ve got to be there to get them back on their feet and help them move forward.’
