Excessive Hoarding Leads To Demolition Of Ringgold Home

Описание: It's an extreme case of code violation ending with the county's demolition of one man's house. The property had been in his family for generations and now he's left with nowhere to go.

Lonnie Stubblefield says he now only has the clothes on his back and doesn't have a place to live. He says Catoosa County condemned his house and tore it down. All because of what the county calls excessive hoarding.

People come and loot. They bring stuff they stole out of other houses, throw it out so they have room for my stuff. I come home from work and I'm like, shh that ain't my stuff. But there it is, says Stubblefield.

But take a walk around Stubblefield's Bandy Road road home and after days of cleaning, crews still have a long road ahead. Catoosa County officials say they had no other choice.

We've taken pictures out there of him urinating in bottles and saving bottles and defecating on plates and saving it. It's just not a healthy and safe place for him to be, says Catoosa County Code Administrator James Davis.

Davis says Stubblefield was given violation after violation over a 10 year period in hopes he would clean up the mess. But when they say he failed to comply, it left the county with a tough decision.

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