Rochester, N.H. -- A man who police said has been accumulating garbage for decades in the front yard of his Rochester home has been jailed on contempt charges.

Neighbors said they have been fighting for years to get George Blaisdell to clean up his property. Now, he has been jailed while the city removes tons of trash that had spilled out onto the sidewalk, making it impassable.

Excavators had been working since Sunday to remove the trash and filled up a large trash bin eight times. Workers estimated that they would be cleaning up for about a week.

Blaisdell has been fighting efforts to clean up the property, filing several appeals. The city said the piles of trash were in violation of the health code, and he was eventually found in contempt.

Neighbors said Blaisdell is a packrat who refused offers to buy some of the trash. The garbage is now being hauled off at his expense, and the bill is expected to reach into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Blaisdell will remain in jail until the cleanup is finished and then be allowed to return home.
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Some people...argg..have you heard of that lady whos got like 4 mil in the bank, no children, but she lives in a junk heap?

I heard of her. They showed her house on "Maximum Exposure". It was filthy, with trash everywhere, inside & out.

Whoa!!! Does that mean my teenage daughter is destined to become a millionare??? You should see her room - LOL

Packrats! Meh! My oldest is one. I would throw out most of his room when he was in school...................


Lapiche

I think some of these people have a mental illness, especially when they can afford to have someone come and clean it up and don,t there has to be something wrong upstairs!

well, my mother had a neighbor who liked to throw bags and bags of garbage onto the side of the road, 3 days before the trucks even came to pick it up. never mind the fact that he was blocking parking spots, but garbage sitting in the sun for 3 hot days can really stink a place up. it got to the point where she didn't even want to sit on her stoop anymore.

the department of sanitation never came to do anything about it, despite being reported by several people.. and it's crazy that it took the city decades to finally do something about the pig in this article. i would have burnt his house down. it didn't take my mother's neighbor decade to clean up his lawn when i dumped his garbage all over it thank god, and he never did it again either.

I was a horrible packrat for many years, but now that I'm getting older I'm wondering why I keep all that junk in my room and I toss about a bag of 'stuff' out of my room ever two weeks.

L O L - i hear ya