Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:53:03 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paper Weights
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>strongl at sddc.army.mil 12/31/03 09:44AM
>        New York (Associated Press)  A man who says he sells books and
>magazines on the street was rescued after being trapped for 2 days under =
a
>mountain of reading material in his apartment.
>        Patrice Moore, 43, had apparently been standing up when the books,
>catalogs, mail and newspapers swamped him on Saturday.  Firefighters and
>neighbors rescued Moore on Monday afternoon and he was hospitalized in
>stable condition Tuesday morning with leg injuries.  "I didn't think I =
was
>gonna get out."  Moore told the New York Post, adding that he called for
>help repeatedly.  His landlord discovered him Monday after coming to the
>apartment to give Moore a small loan and heard a strange voice inside.  =
The
>landlord pried the door open with a crowbar, found Moore trapped and =
alerted
>the fire department.  The apartment was stuffed from wall to wall and =
floor
>to ceiling with stacks of paper.  Emergency workers and neighbors dug =
thru
>the debris to reach Moore, filling 50 garbage bags with paper.  He was =
freed
>about a half hour later.
>        Moore, a former mailroom clerk now receiving public assistance, =
said
>he collected books and magazines for more than 10 years and earned =
money
>by
>selling them on the street.  The incident recalled the legendary case of =
the
>Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were discovered dead in their house in =
Harlem
>after one of them became trapped under a pile of papers and the other =
died
>of starvation.

Hmmm . . . .almost pulped to death . . .

mjw