This happens WAY TOO MUCH around here.
State literally does stink!
"House full of refuse is condemned; Police find cats living and dead" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | October 22, 2009
New Bedford officials have condemned a house in the city after discovering a man and his parents living in a home filled with garbage, human waste, 16 living cats, and two dead ones.
“The conditions were deplorable,’’ said Lieutenant Jeffrey Silva, a New Bedford police spokesman. “There were literally indoor compost piles of rotting food, coffee grounds, both human and animal feces and urine . . . various states of damage, deterioration, and disarray.’’
About noon on Tuesday, the city animal control officer found the foul conditions while responding to a complaint about the house. “He knocked on the door, and they actually opened it,’’ Silva said. “He immediately realized there was a problem.’’
Officials from police, fire, inspectional services, and the Board of Health converged on the two-story house at 359 North St. Almost immediately, inspectors informed the residents, a man and woman in their 50s and their adult son, that their home was unhealthy to live in, lacking working toilets, running water, or heat. “Just trying to navigate it was like the surface of the moon,’’ said Silva, adding that inspectors wore hazardous material suits after seeing the interior. “It was a difficult scene to process.’’
I'm having trouble just reading it.
Inspectors initially rescued 11 starving cats and recovered the skeletal remains of two more. Five additional cats were found yesterday in traps set by the animal control officer....
Silva said the three residents are unemployed, but all receive financial assistance, although he said it was unclear why.
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