"She called and said, 'My mother told me on her death bed that Grandma is in the storage unit. You can't sell our stuff,'" Castelli said.

There are laws. They can sell your stuff. They can't sell gramma. Just like they can't sell firearms found in them. The rest gets sold.

The disposal of a body is heavily regulated by the government; police are investigating whether any laws were broken. Such an infraction would most likely be considered a misdemeanor, police said.

There was no disposal of a body. It was being stored in a facility within the control of the family. Unless there are laws that dictate EXACTLY how long after somebody dies that they have to be buried, cremated, or whatever method that relinquishes "control" of the body, they can STFU.

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Yuuuup. I would. Until I had to be auctioned off.

Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent. When I asked where the dang wall socket was, they figured me out and wouldn't let me stay. Now I'm glad it didn't happen, knowing a dead person would be in the next room.

Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent.....

Hiro Protagonist?

Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent. When I asked where the dang wall socket was, they figured me out and wouldn't let me stay. Now I'm glad it didn't happen, knowing a dead person would be in the next room.

And if someone snapped a lock on the outside while you were in, in a few days that'd make two of you.

Why, though, do I just picture Dave saying "Folks don't like the smell of this unit, so I got it for fifty. Now, a good metal coffin can be disinfected, sandblasted and sold back to a home for easilly a grand. As for granny here, human bones are always in short supply for any Vodun or Santeria priests, and I got a friend who can get 600, easy, for a full skeleton, no questions asked. Far as I'm concerned, this just smells like money."

Mateorabi: Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent.....

Hiro Protagonist?

Cubansaltyballs: Me too. I like that show. I find myself hoping the yuuup douche loses every cent he has, hoping the old dude gets a big score, and brandi wears more sweaters or low-cut tops.

This, this and this...

i like hester... i buy 10 pallets a week at auction and i'm getting a kick ...

/yuuuuuuuuuuuup

and i also feel sorry for jarred's wife. barry is just like my dad.

Captain_Ballbeard: Mateorabi: Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent.....

Hiro Protagonist?

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Nice reference.

hey guys! can i be in the cool club because I read Snow Crash too???

///effing loved that book

also, i clicked 'smart' on every stephenson reference, um, because we are.

Just another example of big-government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.

Prop me up next to the jukebox

and keep the rats from eating my face. Thanks, Grandma xoxo

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God I hate that man. He really can't be that psycho can he? It's an act, right? Please tell me it's an act. If it's not, I'm surprised someone hasn't shot him.

I'm sort of ashamed that I watch those programs. But not having owned a TV for years and years, I'm sort of fascinated with those trashy programs. Especially the pawn shop one that takes place in Detroit. That stuff has to be a put on.

Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent. When I asked where the dang wall socket was, they figured me out and wouldn't let me stay. Now I'm glad it didn't happen, knowing a dead person would be in the next room.

People have been living in storage units since they first started building them. You're not the first or the last that has considered doing that. I'm glad that you didn't have to sink that low.

There is a storage unit farm way out in the sticks where they recently found a whole bunch of people living in them after - you guessed it: a meth lab fire. There was a big uproar over it and the righteous residents of the area automatically thought they were all dirty Mexican illegals. Nope. Just resident dirty hillbillies who were throw out of public housing or their single wides had slid into the river.

FTFA: The woman's body, which was prepared for burial and had been placed in the storage unit by her daughter, was in a long blue box with handles.

Ummm, I think that's called a coffin...Good journalism there, Lou.

No Silence of the Lambs reference? For shame.

This thread needs moar pics of Brandi:

Gaah sized Pwned. Try again:

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so would hit that

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"And that's including the casket..."

no benjamin raspail?

For some reason, I wanted to watch Storage Wars. I dunno why, I just heard about it and I thought it could be interesting.

The one of the very first episodes has a little person in it, and they just happen to pull out a little car in the very same episode?

I'm willing to overlook a little, but that was just insulting to my intelligence.

YouDriveAnIROC: hey guys! can i be in the cool club because I read Snow Crash too???

///effing loved that book

also, i clicked 'smart' on every stephenson reference, um, because we are.

You go ahead, I'm not worthy. Maybe next week when there's a "remote control brain implants" reference. Or one about Russian Orthodox Eskimos. (...with POOR IMPULSE CONTROL.)

Benjimin_Dover: "She called and said, 'My mother told me on her death bed that Grandma is in the storage unit. You can't sell our stuff,'" Castelli said.

There are laws. They can sell your stuff. They can't sell gramma. Just like they can't sell firearms found in them. The rest gets sold.



Um, no.

GregoryD: For some reason, I wanted to watch Storage Wars. I dunno why, I just heard about it and I thought it could be interesting.

The one of the very first episodes has a little person in it, and they just happen to pull out a little car in the very same episode?

I'm willing to overlook a little, but that was just insulting to my intelligence.


I watch it from time to time, mostly for Brandi - and wondering why she stays with that toolbox Jarred. But, yeah, it seems that it is staged, at least to some extent. My biggest gripe is how they assign the value of purchased lockers based solely on what the buyers say.

And just FYI, the folks who own and run these storage facilities get first pick on abandoned, and sometimes not so abandoned, units. Half the locks on the units are locks they sell in the front office - and there are only so many key combos. And once you abandon it, how the hell will anyone know whose lock is on there? I might trust the national chain type operations with surveillance cameras, might.

We had a meth operation get busted around here years back because the cooks were storing all of their labware in a storage unit and they come back to find a bunch of it missing - thus ensuing a broohaha between cooks, storage owners and another group of cooks they were selling it off to.

A Terrible Human: I want to hang out with Barry.

same here. Love his puns..

That's a $30 bill all day.

Rattrap007: A Terrible Human: I want to hang out with Barry.

same here. Love his puns..

This. Brandi needs to dump the cholo and hook up with Barry.

Cubansaltyballs: Benjimin_Dover: Cubansaltyballs: [www.brandipassante.net image 379x357]

Yuuuup. I would. Until I had to be auctioned off.

Me too. I like that show. I find myself hoping the yuuup douche loses every cent he has, hoping the old dude gets a big score, and brandi wears more sweaters or low-cut tops.

Hester's apparently pissed because he wasn't invited to the Xmas party for the show... gee asshole, "I don't want to make friends" Fine, you have none. Enjoy.
He's threatening to not appear next season. That's probably for the best. Some of his stunts could cause him to wind up out behind one of those units with his hands and legs tied and a big hole in his head. Some of those desert folk aren't to be messed with.

Barry is cool. I wouldn't be too broken hearted if I was as weird/cool as him at that age.

And the unspeakable things I would do to Brandi. There are not words.

chewielouie: Benjimin_Dover: "She called and said, 'My mother told me on her death bed that Grandma is in the storage unit. You can't sell our stuff,'" Castelli said.

There are laws. They can sell your stuff. They can't sell gramma. Just like they can't sell firearms found in them. The rest gets sold.



Um, no.

Right. I see firearms all the time on Storage hunters (yea different show, less competitive premise). I think Hester can't sell the firearms, probably because of some long ago felony that they don't talk about. He's the only one on that show that makes some mumbled excuse about firearms.

A Terrible Human: want to hang out with Barry.

Me too but i think a day with him would end at a Tijuana donkey show.

Captain_Ballbeard: Mateorabi: Smurfme: Back when I was young, I thought I had the greatest idea of all time; to move into public storage! You can't beat $30 a month rent.....

Hiro Protagonist?

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First thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

/Was hoping granny was hacking away and working as a stringer for the CIA, but we can't have everything we want, can we?

OHMAIGAWD, I love Barry..

gojirast: chewielouie: Benjimin_Dover: "She called and said, 'My mother told me on her death bed that Grandma is in the storage unit. You can't sell our stuff,'" Castelli said.

There are laws. They can sell your stuff. They can't sell gramma. Just like they can't sell firearms found in them. The rest gets sold.



Um, no.

Right. I see firearms all the time on Storage hunters (yea different show, less competitive premise). I think Hester can't sell the firearms, probably because of some long ago felony that they don't talk about. He's the only one on that show that makes some mumbled excuse about firearms.

Which is kind of what I was talking about but wasn't clear. Just because you find something in a storage unit doesn't mean that you get a pass from following the laws on the books.

Rattrap007: A Terrible Human: I want to hang out with Barry.

same here. Love his puns..

And he probably knows where to get teh better quality hookers. I'll be his wingman.

try fect taa daa: i like hester... i buy 10 pallets a week at auction and i'm getting a kick ...

/yuuuuuuuuuuuup

Yeah, I have enormous respect for the guy. I have no idea what he's like in real life, but there's no question he's extremely good at what he does. Better than all the others by a long shot.

That said, Barry is the one I'd most like to hang around with. He's cool, doesn't take himself too seriously, and has what appears to be a nice collection of cars, bikes, and musician friends.

Aaah, the lovely Ms Passante, so much fun time could be had with her... but only if she doesn't speak. Man, does she and her husband ever sound ignorant ! and frankly, they have become insufferable since they hit the big time.

/I love this show and don't feel guilty about it.

I was so pissed off that this show was created at all that when I first discovered it I watched 7 or 8 episodes in a row.



any excuse to post forever alone is a valid excuse

Tom_Slick: A Terrible Human: want to hang out with Barry.

Me too but i think a day with him would end at a Tijuana donkey show.

And this is a bad thing how?