Did anyone watch Life of Grime on BBC1?

[Mrs Fish]

I am finding it very difficult to come to terms with the fact that some people can live in that way. All that rubbish... 12 years worth in that one flat

[DennisTheMenace]

made me some of it was disgusting

[apache]

DO NOT watch that program......I can't eat in a restaurant thanks to one esipode where a curry house was filmed taking left over chicken, washing it under a tap and putting it on the next order

edited to note....all the hurlies puke in synchro, cool

>> Edited by apache on Tuesday 11th March 22:12

[mybrainhurts]

"DO NOT watch that programme"..........

Why not? If you hadn't watched it, you'd still be eating second hand chicken, wouldn't you?ooooOOAYYARRRR.........NEXT PLEASEmmmmmmmmm..........

[elanturbo]

Gross!

Its 'car crash' TV,.. you cant help watching.

[sparkey]

My wife works for environmental health in Stockport (where some of the series is filmed) and some of the stories are much worse.

One old lady had about 20 dogs who were allowed to crap absolutely everywhere inside the house. When the crap was at a certain level on the floor, she brought in new carpets and put them on top, then repeated the process several times - imagine a lasagne made of sh!te and you get the picture ! Unbelievable.

[eric mc]

What the series has highlighted is the number of people out there who are totally incapable of fending for themselves in the real world. In the "old" days many of them would have been locked away in institutions. Care in the community? Neglect in the community more like.

[plotloss]

What got me about the entire torrid affair was that chap in the council flat, lives there for 12 years, doesnt throw anything away, defeacates and urinates on his own floor. Causes a huge health risk for himself and his neighbours and what do the council do, give him another flat, which they already know he is going to do the same thing to

Is there really no alternative?

Matt.

[M@H]

Mr Trebus has died... I was a bit sad in a way to hear that.. he was obviously completely batty, but must have had something horrific happen to him during his persecution to make him feel the need to keep everything around him...
Matt.

[apache]

eric mc said: What the series has highlighted is the number of people out there who are totally incapable of fending for themselves in the real world. In the "old" days many of them would have been locked away in institutions. Care in the community? Neglect in the community more like.

hear, hear, I lived near Doncaster many years ago when that school girl was stabbed by a chap who should have been in care

[eric mc]

I think Mr Trebus had spent time in a German Concentration Camp or Prisoner of War Camp during World War 2, which accounted for his "strange" behaviour. Being Eastern European, he would have been treated very badly whilst in any Nazi camp, whether the camp was for legitimate combatants or otherwise. The Nazis did not consider that the Geneva Convention applied to the lesser races such as the Slavs.

[icamm]

They recently had a Mr Trebus special (just before Christmas?) because he had died. Poor old bugger.

A friend of mine has been a housing inspector in Salford and more recently Chorley for nearly 50 years (retires this year) and the cases shown are only a small sample of some of the worst cases.

I don't think they've yet shown anything quite as bad as the stories he's told about finding dead bodies that are pretty much only stains on the bed. They've been dead so long in central heating that they've melted.

Definately makes you think twice about where you eat though.