Infestations -

[Ryan Rash]

I'm having a bit of a mouse problem at my house. Nothing to serious right now, but I'm definetly gonna have to call an exterminator.

It got me thinking about Rocky's account of Bob's last few days, about how he was living in absolute filth and squaller, and how bugs were making a feast of him. Even before then, Chris's house was just waiting for the day when the health department got around to taking a look inside and ticketing, if not outright evicting, the Chandlers.

For good reason, too: the conditions of his house are ideal for vermin to propagate.

Thoughts?

 

[Fibonacci]

Generally, bug bombing a house and then not leaving food around gets rid of rodents in less serious cases.

The health department was already contacted years ago, and they basically said that the Chandlers can live how they want, there's no way to intervene unless we're talking serious stuff that can spread beyond the perimeter, like SARS or mosquitoes.

 

[Vulcan Raven]

Trolls actually reported the home to the green county health departement.
Their response was that all the residents are adults capable of making desicions for themselves...

 

[Kosher Dill]

The health department isn't going to lift a finger unless other people are literally in danger. Like if the house were about to fall down and kill someone, or it became a breeding ground for Ebola virus or something. Plain old filth is every American's sovereign right.

 

[CatParty]

think of it like chris's
at this point, the owner is the only one to do something about it.

 

[Henry Bemis]

The only people who can make the call now are their neighbors, who must be either trying to ignore the whole thing like good backwoods folks or waiting on baited breath for the first collapsed structure or whiff of eau de Chandler.

 

[razor5396]

Did he not mention also that they had bats in their attic as well? From what I can gather, bat guano is a major health hazard do to its powdery consistency and ability to be easily transported through the air. I can only imagine the health hazards present to both Barb and Chris's lungs.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

14 BC is also heavily infested with Autism.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Personally I think more like the bugs have a Chandler infestation.

 

[Optimistic]

I imagine their house must be completely overrun with fleas. They have multiple indoor/outdoor cats and considering they can hardly be bothered to wash themselves, I doubt they take the time to bathe their pets. I also doubt they would purchase flea medication for the cats or do anything for them other than put a bowl of dry food down whenever they remember. Outdoor cats get fleas very, very easily and I can't imagine Barb or Chris taking the time to catch them all and apply medication.

Of course, when it comes to common pests, it might be shorter list of what doesn't live in that hole - they probably have everything from ants to possums to wild billy goats living somewhere in that hoard.

 

[pickleniggo]

The only people who can make the call now are their neighbors, who must be either trying to ignore the whole thing like good backwoods folks or waiting on baited breath for the first collapsed structure or whiff of eau de Chandler.

This. The neighbors could also file a complaint due to all of the miscellaneous cars/junk in the yard. However, something tells me Ruckersville doesn't exactly enforce any standards. I know that if my yard looked like theirs, the town would be all over that.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Can you imagine how much it must suck being one of their neighbors?

 

[pickleniggo]

Can you imagine how much it must suck being one of their neighbors?

I kind of wonder if Sarah Hammer's family still lives next door. That was the Ruckersville house right?

 

[Kosher Dill]

I kind of wonder if Sarah Hammer's family still lives next door. That was the Ruckersville house right?

They probably say "I wonder what ever happened to those Chandlers. The neighborhood went to hell ever since that looney obese transvestite moved into the old Chandler place."

 

[Ryan Rash]

The only people who can make the call now are their neighbors, who must be either trying to ignore the whole thing like good backwoods folks or waiting on baited breath for the first collapsed structure or whiff of eau de Chandler.

This. The neighbors could also file a complaint due to all of the miscellaneous cars/junk in the yard. However, something tells me Ruckersville doesn't exactly enforce any standards. I know that if my yard looked like theirs, the town would be all over that.

We had some random civie call the health department on us a while back because my ex-neighboors left a bunch of their shit in trash bags on our porch after they got evicted (they kept saying they would take it all back, but only came once to retrieve some of their stuff. We put the rest out for the garbage truck to pick up) and nearly got slapped with a ticket. We managed to get that cleaned up most of the way and are still working on it.

What of the lawns of 14 Branchland Court? I can't speak for Ruckersville, but around here, the city frowns upon letting grass grow out of control (it could conceal all manner of disease-carrying vermin like raccoons and possums), and I highly doubt Chris would be one to run the mower under his own steam.

 

[pickleniggo]

What of the lawns of 14 Branchland Court? I can't speak for Ruckersville, but around here, the city frowns upon letting grass grow out of control (it could conceal all manner of disease-carrying vermin like raccoons and possums), and I highly doubt Chris would be one to run the mower under his own steam.

Sucks about your neighbors, they sound like winners.
To answer your question, about a year ago someone posted a more recent pic of the exterior of 14 Branchland Ct. The lawn is pretty much dead grass and foliage - it seems nothing can sustain the odors seeping out of the house...

 

[Marvin]

The grass is growing out of control. It's full of miscellaneous objects. Also, it'd be the county, not any city that would care about Ruckersville.

 

[Stratochu]

The grass is growing out of control. It's full of miscellaneous objects. Also, it'd be the county, not any city that would care about Ruckersville.

Cars too. I know Son-Chu and Bob's tractor are dead in the yard, I'm guessing the Aerostar and Mitsubishi are kept out there now too. The BMW (apparently fixed up by Bob before his death, presumably drivable, and actually looking decent now) and Cadillac are kept in the circle drive around back as we saw in the Free Bitch photos, where is the Honda (I'm guessing it's a mid/late 80s Civic hatchback) mentioned in the first leaked email to Jackie?

 

[Fibonacci]

I'm pretty sure all counties have similar laws. In mine, if your lawn is higher than a foot, Code Enforcement can be dispatched to write you up. Any authority can report it, but most don't. If Code Enforcement shows up, 9 times out of 10 it was a neighbour. If Code Enforcement gets another complaint after the first warning, the county eventually services the lawn and sends you the bill, along with a fine.

Don't count on that ever happening though; Chris's lawn isn't nearly long enough. And most of his neighbours have put up with so much more than an unpleasant yard.

 

[Bugaboo]

Oh boy, oh boy, I do love a good infestation thread! I've already posted about what might lurk in the bowels of the chandler household using my knowlegde of entomology and I'll do it again a billion more times because I just love talking about it!
So, a short list of things that more than likely inhabit the Chandler home:
Silverfish, termites, ants, fleas, ticks, spiders, bedbugs, house centipedes, rats, mice, German roaches (aka the bad kind of roach) more dust mites than all the Goodwill's in the area possess, isopods (maybe, they eat decaying plant matter but I'm not sure how much of that the house has) flies and maggots of all kinds and apparently bats have been confirmed to live in the attic.
Note that all of these animals (except centipedes, silverfish and isopods) stand a serious health and/or safety risk when in large numbers. Except bedbugs, they just make you uncomfortable they can't kill you.