Some People are retarded pigs

turnsouth · **on:** June 19, 2012, 04:28:35 PM

A customer brings in a one year old minivan, complaining that the sliding doors squeak. They live on a dirt road, so I open one of the doors, and there is one year's worth of dirt, dust, mud, and a child's dried crusty vomit crammed into the rollers, hinges, seals, mechanism, and latches.

And I get "That would make it squeak?"

I guess they could have missed the problem since it blends so well with the filth inside the van...

Smurfin pigs.

nuphoria · **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2012, 04:30:20 PM

Nasty.

Ignorance is an epidemic I think.

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:12:17 PM

Time to charge then $40 for a can of WD-40 and three hours' labor to apply it.

Def

turnsouth · **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:18:32 PM

The porter got most of it clean, but the front latch is ruined, so I have to replace that. It's disgusting, everything I touch is sticky. The bowl in the cup holder appears to be fermenting.

Wish I had a chem suit...

Biru · **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:30:27 PM

It could be worse. A couple of years ago a customer brought in a Marshall guitar amp head that was shorting out. I proceeded to open up the amp and a FLOOD of cockroaches proceeded to rush out of the head!

It was like a horror film. The service center owner proceeded to curse the amp's owner because he was sure we'd have to fumigate and forbade me to work on it. I felt dirty for a week. The roaches scurried everywhere: my bench, the floor, into the sales area. It so caught me by surprise that I honestly didn't have time to react. The only thing I can figure is that a mother must have entered through the input jacks and set up house. There were electrocuted roaches everywhere inside the amp.

Point: At least the dried vomit doesn't scurry! Good Luck!

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:31:54 PM

I can't understand why folks would do that. I'm not one of those folks that keeps my car so clean that you could perform surgery in it, but you have to look after things- especially when those things cost as much as a new car or van!

The worst part is, if that's leased then it'll get a good scrubbing and go on to the next person who thinks they are getting a great deal, with no idea what's been in it.

We had a car similar to that a little while ago- one of the places I work is where a lot of cars come in off ships and/or rail for distribution across the country, and a couple of years ago we had a VW Jetta come in from Mexico. All the City Golfs and City Jettas are made in Mexico, and one of the guys from the assembly plant thought it was a great way to try and get out of the country, so he packed the trunk with enough food, water and booze to get him wherever he thought he was going. He lived in that trunk for about two weeks when he was found, and you can just imagine the smell.

He was caught and deported while the car had to be completely gutted- all the fabric bits and pieces needed to be stripped and replaced, but let's face it, you can never get it all. Still, the car was cleaned up and sent to destination, which means someone out there has a nice Jetta that was at one point completely full of human excrement, urine and sweat- and they have no idea...

Def

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:32:22 PM

Quote from: Biru on June 19, 2012, 05:30:27 PM

It could be worse. A couple of years ago a customer brought in a Marshall guitar amp head that was shorting out. I proceeded to open up the amp and a FLOOD of cockroaches proceeded to rush out of the head! It was like a horror film. The service center owner proceeded to curse the amp's owner because he was sure we'd have to fumigate and forbade me to work on it. I felt dirty for a week. The roaches scurried everywhere: my bench, the floor, into the sales area. It so caught me by surprise that I honestly didn't have time to react. The only thing I can figure is that a mother must have entered through the input jacks and set up house. There were electrocuted roaches everywhere inside the amp.

Point: At least the dried vomit doesn't scurry! Good Luck!

EW!

Def

turnsouth · **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:38:23 PM

Funny thing that. After living for a year in an apartment where the roaches were just as much tenants as the humans, they don't really bother me any more...

Sazabi · **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:50:33 PM

*clicks on the thread title*
...
*scrolls down, reading the thread*

Whelp, that's enough Internet for the day.

bushidomosquito · **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2012, 06:31:24 PM

Amateurs. You ain't seen filth until you've inspected subsidized housing for a living. I worked for H.U.D. (housing and urban development) for 3 years and I really think only the crazy cat ladies wading through a foot of poop can top what I've seen there.

One guy got evicted for drugs and he took the cover plates off all the switches and outlets and poured sugar down inside the walls with a funnel. He also poured pancake syrup into the holes under the kitchen and bathroom sinks where the pipes came through the walls.

Then he left the place so disgusting and destroyed that maintenance locked the door and put off the remodel for months. When I showed up for inspection I picked that unit and they said I didn't want to go in there. I said I did and they opened the door and the floor was like the temple of doom completely covered with roaches and the air was filled with flies. The walls were black with bug droppings and I had to call the health department to clear out the building.

They finally had to break a window and toss dozens of bug bombs inside to kill them all and hire a crime scene cleanup crew to take out all the bug corpses. They said there were many 5 gallon plastic buckets filled with the dead bugs they shoveled off every surface and the bathtub was filled to the top with them because it was dripping and was their only source of water and most of the ones that fell in couldn't climb back out.

The whole place had to be stripped to the studs and rebuilt because in addition to the sugar they had eaten the paper off the back side of the drywall and the poop on the other side had started mold that ate into the gypsum from the other side so the walls just fell apart when touched. I've seen meth labs condemned by Haz-Mat that didn't require as much work as that place.

Ashley · **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2012, 07:06:40 PM

captain spaulding · **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2012, 07:16:14 PM

I was going to eat some breakfast, but I think ill wait now.

Gryffin · **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2012, 07:48:12 PM

>urp<

Well, catching up on MTO while eating my lunch SEEMED like a good idea at the time...

Biru · **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2012, 08:15:29 PM

bushido's post had me thinking of a customer of mine. He works on houses for a charitable organization. They're most low-income, older houses and apartments. Not too long ago he was doing some drywall work and had to remove an electrical outlet cover. When he did, a CLOUD of fleas just rushed out and covered him. The house was full of beasties. I honestly didn't want him within a mile of me for months. Even now he gives me the creeps.

In turn's case, someone ought to make a Lysol fumigator like those insecticide foggers. Just set it off inside the car and at least you've made SOME headway. Of course, then the controls wouldn't work...

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #14 on:** June 19, 2012, 09:13:49 PM

As a landlord, I hope that if anyone ever does to my unit what was described above, there wouldn't be any way for me to satisfactorily clean it out. I'd have to arrange for the rest of the tenants to go away for the weekend and torch the building and we could start fresh with a new one....

Def

borgwarrior · **Reply #15 on:** June 19, 2012, 09:40:10 PM

Bushdo: next time, grab a flamethrower, and fry those beasts...And try to think youre in starship troopers

bushidomosquito · **Reply #16 on:** June 19, 2012, 09:47:00 PM

Quote from: borgwarrior on June 19, 2012, 09:40:10 PM

Bushdo: next time, grab a flamethrower, and fry those beasts...And try to think youre in starship troopers

I'm always down to burn a roach mate, but one at a time, one at a time.

Steinar · **Reply #17 on:** June 19, 2012, 10:34:50 PM

And people say the Internet isn't used for anything educational anymore...

Pacu · **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2012, 10:59:55 PM

Try not to think about....
how much fecal matter is in the seats at the movie theater
how no one washes their hands after using the loo and then finger farts all the electronics at work.
what monkey drug his butt across your fresh fruit
how long the mayo to your hamburger sat out open over the weekend at the local fast food joint
how much of that mayo was organic

turnsouth · **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2012, 12:47:30 AM

Quote from: Pacu on June 19, 2012, 10:59:55 PM

how much of that mayo was organic

Eeww, organic food really grosses me out. I hate when they put the organic vegetables next to the good ones in the market, with their disease carrying flies and larva.

Speaking of which...

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2012, 01:40:10 AM

That's hilarious!

Def

tosh · **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2012, 01:49:46 AM

I'll jump in too...

Last week we had a job of boarding up a young offenders hostel - they'd run amock and smashed the place to bits every window was popped and then, they'd removed all the pipe work for scrap without switching off the water supply, sinks were smashed open for the taps the place was flooded!! But...But worse of all they threw dead chickens into the loft....
No one knew... the building was emptied and locked up whilst waiting for insurance surveys. It was weeks until they showed up, I'm told they refused to enter because of the stench, the place was teeming with insects, flies, maggots etc etc.

Honestly, those responsible should be dragged to the gutter screaming and their throats slashed wide open.............Pure and utter S C U M.

Worse thing is I've got no work except the prospect of the insuarnce company agreeing to our quote to put it all right. Can you imagine... the place is boarded up ...pitch black inside and I might have to strip it out and re-do all the 2nd fix.

Erm.. used hypodermic needles springs to mind and god knows what else.

Holy smurf.

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2012, 01:58:41 AM

And people wonder why landlords want as much info as they can get about people before we rent to them....

I love Facebook though- it makes that job a lot easier!

Def

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2012, 02:17:09 AM

Wow... My husband's been in Florida for a week, so we went off to dinner. I get home, and decide to give MT.O some reading time.

This stuff does not mix well with fajitas!!!!!!

I went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1990, and tried to help pay my way through working as a janitor there. At one point we got to evict a bum from a stairwell... who we were almost certain was dead. No such luck. Then I got to shovel a foot thick layer of urine, vomit, and feces encrusted wet cardboard out of that stairwell. Good times. Sure, it doesn't match some other tales of horror here, but still...

Roaches. I'm allergic to roaches. It's not just that they're repulsive. I have literal roach allergies. My oldest brother and I helped someone move once, and when we pulled the fridge out of this place, the entire back side of it (I guess the compressor?) was a roach nest. We blasted the hell out of that thing with bug killer, but it was like... nothing I'd ever seen. Maybe 5,000 roaches, scurrying everywhere.

All of this reminds me of the Mythbusters ep (2003 season, ep7) where they put pig carcasses in a corvette for 2 months then try to scrub the smell out.

J-sews · **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2012, 03:52:44 AM

Ack! This thread is giving me the heebie jeebies

Ashley · **Reply #25 on:** June 20, 2012, 04:33:21 AM

Why do I read these threads on MTO.

Sent from Ash forum mobile

ironraven · **Reply #26 on:** June 20, 2012, 04:56:02 AM

My parents are landlords... oh, the things I've seen.

Two year old carpet ruined because someone put their fondue burner down on it without a pad. And used that to cook for a summer rather than buy propane.

A storage space that had been filled with garbage, rather than going to the dump a mile away. They moved in in November, moved out in April, about the time it started to thaw.

People who loved their Fry Daddy, and poured the oil down the drains and couldn't understand why they would gum up.

And now, I do tech support for manage property administration software. I get to deal with things like "accountants" who don't know how to add a negative number or how to say "ledger". *sighs* That smurfs me off at least as much as any of the above.

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #27 on:** June 20, 2012, 02:38:08 PM

I had tenants last year who were hippies- they were clean enough themselves but they refused to use the car so they walked everywhere, and yet they were too lazy to take their garbage around to the cans at the back of the house, so they kept their garbage inside and now I have a mouse problem.

The best bit was when their car was broken into, parked right in front of their door. They had two dogs, neither of which barked. My first question was, were the doors locked? No, they never do that back home in a small town in BC. Was the sensor light on? No, because lights cost money which is bad for the environment. I told them too bad, lock your bloody doors and appreciate the fact that the area should be well lit. So they upped the complaint by saying they didn't feel safe in the house anymore because the door doesn't lock. The previous tenants in that apartment were me and my wife, and I know for a fact the deadbolt worked when we moved out and they moved in, so I asked what they meant. They said the door locked, but you could open it with a screwdriver. This freaked me out because that was a good deadbolt on that door and I went down (I live upstairs now) when I lived in that unit. It turns out he was referring to the lock in the knob, which is actually an interior knob, the type you'd have in a bathroom, and yes, it can be opened by a screwdriver. I tested the deadbolt and it worked fine, and he said that was only useful when they were home as they couldn't get in if it was locked. So I asked if I'd forgotten to give them a key to it when they moved in- surely I couldn't be that dumb, but I was working a job on the opposite side of the city when they arrived, but even so, that was eight months earlier.... He looks at me for a second, says "hold on" and runs into the other room, and comes back with a key that he sticks into the only locking door in the unit and says "Oh, THAT's what that's for!"

He's currently getting his Master's degree...

My other tenant is usually pretty good but he panicked one day when he had a grease fire and rather than leave the pan on the stove when he grabbed the fire extinguisher (I replaced them all a year earlier when I bought the building), he decided to put the flaming pan in the middle of the linoleum floor while he grabbed the extinguisher. Now I have a giant burn mark in the middle of the floor of that kitchen.

Def

nuphoria · **Reply #28 on:** June 20, 2012, 02:48:07 PM

I struggle to understand the mentality of people who let things go like this. If you are physically disabled in some way, at least it makes sense that without appropriate support, things won't get done.

Here's a story of two perfectly healthy parents with a bunch of small kids, not far from where I live.

The social services had to go in as there were concerns raised about welfare. The workers found a room where the kids slept with what appeared to be a lot of "stuff" raising the floor up. This turned out to be the result of an argument the parents had had several years before. Neither of them wanted to get stuck with the job of changing and tidying up nappies so every time one was taken off a child it got thrown on the pile.... the floor of this room.

So, the result was several foot high of filthy nappies with a couple of blankets thrown over the top so the kids could use the room to sleep in. They were lying on their own urine and faeces soaked nappies and the parents thought this was acceptable.

Words fail me really.

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #29 on:** June 20, 2012, 03:20:59 PM

I helped a landlady friend of mine replace the carpet in a room once after the previous tenants had left the German Shepherd in there for two months because they couldn't control him outside.

I know there are bad landlords out there, but there are a lot of nasty tenants too, and at least the tenants don't get stuck with the bills.

Def

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