... is always good for some entertainment. Well, when you're not involved. Which I am, indirectly, but it's better to laugh than to rant & rave, or alternatively, cry.
You may remember me complaining in the past about how I'd lost "my flat" (the one I was meant to inherit) because he is now living in it and is going to render it inhabitable?
The (back)story is this... a while after my grandparents moved into their retirement home, my father found himself on the street because... I can't remember why. So my nan, silly and naive as she was, offered for him to stay at their old flat. It had just been redone cuz it had had a water problem, so it was all nice and clean and repainted etc.
He lived there for about two years I think... with 10 cats and whatnot else. Eventually she decided to kick him out because he was threatening & insulting her (nothing new) and not looking after the place and.. can't remember why else.
It cost roughly £12,000 to have the flat redone after they'd forcefully evicted him. The other day I came across the pics that were taken after he'd left so I'll share them with you. I'm warning you tho, this is hardcore stuff and not for the faint-hearted. So go here for the pics.
Um yeah. You can't even imagine the smell of the place. Remember, him and 10 cats. No one cleaned. Ever. Nope, not after the cats either. Food leftovers just got thrown wherever. There was like a greasy & dusty film over everything - it was UNBELIEVABLE.
So you thought my nan would've learned. But she didn't. When he came out of hospital with his heart problem earlier this year he'd (allegedly - he's a pathological liar) just split from his girlfriend/wife/whatever-she-is and had nowhere to go. So my nan took pity on him and offered for him to stay in her studio flat because apparently he was a better person now.
I told her that she was insane, that he would never change, that she was going to regret this and it would end up exactly the same as in the previous flat. She told me I was heartless and that she could not leave him in the street when he was oh-so-ill. My mum told her to just scrap the flat from her will as we didn't want it if he was living in it, and my nan hung up on her. 
She bought him a big expensive hospital-type bed, a TV, a laptop, whatnot else. She pays all his bills, phoneline, Internet, and he pays no rent of course. To thank her for it, he demands more more more, insults her, and lies to her. For you see, she owes him all of this. He doesn't have to be thankful to her. He's outraged that she's not giving him more.
He got back together with his wifey soon after (they were probably never separated in the first place). He asked my nan for a second set of keys "because the fire brigade wanted access in case something happened" (in truth of course it was for wifey). Once when my nan called she heard dogs barking in the background. He said it was on the TV (they were wifey's dogs). It didn't take long for my nan to admit that I'd been right about him never changing.
Now it transpires that wifey and her four dogs have officially moved in with him!! She has given up her other flat and taken residence at his address. Now you must understand, this is a tiny studio flat, around 20 sqm, which now houses two insane people and four large dogs. 
I can't even imagine how they actually all physically fit in there! As for how it will look and smell in a few weeks' time... let's not even go there.
So now my nan's of course trying to get him out again. The only way will be through the courts again (you may remember him saying to her "you don't think you're ever gonna get me out of here" a few months back), which is going to be a long, painful and expensive procedure. 
I hope she'll manage before she dies cuz I don't wanna have to deal with it.
I already started roaring with laughter before I looked at the pictures. Oh well, but to be honest, I actually HAVE seen worse, but this IS really bad. It looks like he's destroyed stuff on purpose, too. Has he kicked through the window of that one door in the kitchen or so?
Well, too bad, your nan was so naive, but I hope she'll go through the courts to get him out. If she wants to get rid of her money for nothing she should send it to me next time! 
Well, at least I would say thanx! 
Yeah I think he smashed the kitchen door with an axe or sth during a fight with wifey person.
And yeah there'd be a lot more useful stuff she could've done with all the money she's wasted on him over the years (literally millions I'd say).
Posted by: Clarissa on Thu August 24, 2006 at 22:36Fucking HELL. That kitchen is fucking gross... I bet even now your nan doesn't learn, either.
Jesus.
Posted by: BML on Thu August 24, 2006 at 22:43That just shows how insane this whole "blood is thicker than water" concept in life is. If your nan hadn't known him and if he had been just a stranger sitting in the street she would have never even thought about wasting her money on him.
Posted by: stagiaire on Fri August 25, 2006 at 11:00I know. But for a lot of people the whole family ties thing is very important. I see it all the time. For others, it isn't. Funny really.
Slore, I reckon one of them (more likely her) is gonna die before she can make the mistake again.
Posted by: Clarissa on Fri August 25, 2006 at 11:58I'm speechless.... 
is he mentally challenged or a drug addict?
Posted by: kal on Tue August 29, 2006 at 14:28Both I think, tho I have no proof of the latter...
Posted by: Clarissa on Tue August 29, 2006 at 14:36