70,000 Beer Cans Found in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1></st1></st1:city>Townhouse
May 17th, 2006 @ 9:38pm
KSL.com John Hollenhorst reporting

<o></o>A seemingly unbelievable mess discovered last year in an <st1><st1:city w:st="on"></st1:city></st1> townhouse has suddenly become an Internet legend. It's all TRUE! You know how some people, after they use something, just can't bear to throw it away. That might make sense if it's magazines or clothes. But what if it's empty beer cans? In astounding numbers? When property manager Ryan Froerer got a call from a realtor last year to check on a townhouse, he knew something was up.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "Said it was the sickest thing he's ever seen. Just unimaginable that someone could live in that." He couldn't even open the front door. It was blocked from inside. Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "There was beer cans I would say probably this high up on the door." The realtor had forewarned him about the smell.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "He poked his head in, the smell was so awful he couldn't go in. " At the back door, Froerer was astounded by what he saw in the kitchen.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "As we approached the door, there were beer boxes, all the way up to the ceiling." Inside, he took just a few snapshots to document the scene. Beer cans by the tens of thousands. Mountains of cans burying the furniture. The water and heat were shut off, apparently on purpose by the tenant, who evidently drank Coors Light beer exclusively for the eight years he lived there.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "It's just unbelievable that a human being could live like that. "To all outward appearances, the person who lived in the townhouse was the perfect tenant. He always paid on time and he never complained. He kept a low profile in the neighborhood. Kirk Martin, Letter Carrier: : "Yeah I never delivered any mail there at all. I thought the apartment was vacant." The cans were recycled for 800 dollars, an estimated 70,000 cans: 24 beers a day for 8 years. Froerer e-mailed his photos to a couple of friends, who sent them to friends. Now he's getting calls from faraway places Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "It's amazing how the internet can have the effect and get around. I'm sure it's been around the world. " The townhouse was cleaned up last year and it's just fine today.

The man who lived there seems to be back on his feet. We spoke to him today and he says he's completely stopped drinking. He was welcomed back to his old job a few months ago, and his co-workers speak highly of him. <object classid=\"\&quot;\&quot;CLSID<img\&quot;\" src="%20https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif=" alt="" title="Big Grin" class="inlineimg" border="0"></object>

 

A while back, 2 friends and I rented a trailer locally, for about a year. In that time, we managed to entirely fill the spare bedroom with empty beer cans. Of course, we washed them out, placed them back in the 30 pack boxes, and stacked them, fit more in that way, and, well, if not, it stinks, quick.

I don't remember how much we got for them, but it was enough to pay for our final moving out party.

I do know it took a few trips to the beverage center to get rid of them...
Just something that started as "put em in here, we'll take care of em next week", turned into, "Hey, it's almost a wall in there!" then to "Alright, we gotta see if we can fill the room!"...

I honestly don't know how any of us held jobs at the time..


But this guy, that's just amazing, and disgusting.

 

70,000 beers cans at a dime each at the bottle depot ? .........
That's $7000.00

I'll go get my truck started

 

That's the first thing that went through my mind

 

Maybe he was a modern artist and going to make a beer sculpture or the largest beer pyramid and was a few cans short. lol

 

I think he had a drinking problem..

 

70,000 is that all? geeze sounds like a regular week of partying to me?

lol geeze ans the guy never brought them back for the deposit?

 

He had no problem drinking them

 

at least he's not a quitter

 

Thats what I would call dedicated. A dedicated drunk maybe, but nontheless dedicated.

 

i wonder what his liver (if he still had one) looked like.

 

hmmmm i recall beer was supposed to be good for you? i wonder if he went off to join the Us olympic team?

 

I still remember the trip to the redemption center after a 3 day week end party at my first apartment. Between cans and bottles I made a a little over $150. I think it cost me that in time to clean the place up after returning them.

 

the drudgereport.com has a link w/ video & pics. dude needs to recycle

 

wonder how much that would have been at the price of 65 cents a pound aluminum cans are going for around here now?