Man’s Collection Overtakes Home
Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on April 8th, 2008 at 12:02 pm There was a recent Reuters story about a German man whose passion for collecting all sorts of stuff lead to him being unable to live in his own home. I’m not a psychiatrist but clearly he was suffering from some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder:
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man was such an avid collector of weapons and other paraphernalia that he ran out of space at home and had to sleep in a hotel, neighbors said following the 71-year-old’s death…
…Heiner Hautermans, a reporter at the Aachener Nachrichten paper, said neighbors related how the man, who lived alone, collected everything from clothing to garden tools and watches.
“The house was stuffed to the rafters,” he said. “By the end, the neighbors said he had to sleep in a hotel sometimes because there was no more room.”
I’ve seen some folks who have a rather large accumulation of Scouting stuff but none who have taken it quite to this extent.
Do you know any Scouting memorabilia collectors who are as obsessive as this gentleman? Maybe they collect mugs? 
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