Man killed by 6 ton pr0n collection

[Charmonium]

You have to admire the dedication.

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/man-killed-6-ton-porn-collection

A 50-year-old Japanese man was found dead, buried beneath six tons (that’s more than 13,000 pounds, in case you’re curious) of porn magazines, the Daily Mail reports. Not only that, but his body wasn’t discovered until six months later when his landlord stopped by to inquire about why the man hadn’t paid his rent.

It’s not entirely clear if the man, known as Joji, had a heart attack and fell into the pile of magazines which then toppled over and buried him, or if they had somehow fallen onto him first and then crushed him to death, but cleaners who were hired to haul the magazines away say that every nook and cranny of his apartment was filled to the brim with piles of magazines. (Metro U.K. also reports that when the cleaners found him, his eyes had popped out.)

And, in what is possibly the saddest and most horrifying aspect of this story, the cleaners say that even if he had lived after the initial accident, nobody would have heard Joji’s cries for help because the magazine piles would have muffled his cries.

 

[SKORPI0]

All that pron now would easily fit in a 8TB HDD, after being scanned. Aquaman style. RIP.

He should be featured in this TV show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding:_Buried_Alive

 

[GagHalfrunt]

All that pron now would easily fit in a 8TB HDD. RIP.

Yep, that's why when my collection surpassed two tons I went digital.

 

[Charmonium]

You can't scan the pages if they're stuck together.

 

[Svnla]

For those that do not know, porn in Japan is censored, ie. blurry at the bottom.

That's a lot of magazines. I wonder how many were there.

 

[SKORPI0]

Link with pics showing pile.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's a lot of porn. Definitely could have been made to fit in a <100lb raid chassis.

Actually looking at the pic it's hard to believe that's 6 tons. It's a lot, but does not seem like THAT much. That much loose content should be easy enough to shuffle out of. I'm going to go with the man dying first then the pile just happened to fall.

 

[mikeymikec]

Actually looking at the pic it's hard to believe that's 6 tons. It's a lot, but does not seem like THAT much. That much loose content should be easy enough to shuffle out of. I'm going to go with the man dying first then the pile just happened to fall.

Paper does weigh a lot considering that it's easy to store a large amount in a small area, however who the hell would bother to take the time and equipment to weigh that lot. Reporter probably asked whoever how much there was, the response was "a lot", reporter says "about 6 tons?", "probably".

"6 tons" sounds more headline-grabby than "a lot".

 

[compuwiz1]

You can't scan the pages if they're stuck together.

A little forethought indicates that you scan the pages before they're stuck together.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Makes me wonder a little bit about the weight of all of those cases of Staples' paper that people on FW seemingly hoard, every time it goes on sale with a coupon + EZ rebate at Staples. (Used to be be nearly every week.)

Some people filled their garages with it. Thing is, too, that with those sales, the reams were mostly free ($0.01), or actually get paid to purchase it. (Some people resell them to local businesses / schools, or donate them.)

I mean, I'm a hoarder, of PC parts and stuff, but ... I'm not even THAT bad.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Paper does weigh a lot considering that it's easy to store a large amount in a small area, however who the hell would bother to take the time and equipment to weigh that lot. Reporter probably asked whoever how much there was, the response was "a lot", reporter says "about 6 tons?", "probably".

"6 tons" sounds more headline-grabby than "a lot".

Yeah that makes sense, I don't imagine it would be easy to measure that and they probably didn't take time to think much about it and just made up some numbers. Fake news!

 

[BoomerD]

Poor Shorty...we barely knew ye.

 

[sdifox]

So I guess porn avalanche is possible.

 

[lxskllr]

six tons (that’s more than 13,000 pounds, in case you’re curious)

hmm... I wonder what kind of tons they're talking about? Maybe they were using my calculator from the fwp thread :^D

A magazine is about .25#, so that would be ~48k magazines. At .25"/magazine, it would make a single stack 1000' high.

 

[feralkid]

(that’s more than 13,000 pounds, in case you’re curious)


That would be metric tons.

I thought Mens Health was a 'murrican publication. Fake news. Failing. SAD.

 

[ch33zw1z]

When keeping it real goes wrong

 

[MongGrel]

Poor Shorty...we barely knew ye.

Shorty is a pretty durable cat though.

 

[Matthiasa]

Looking at it i wouldn't be surprised if there about a tons worth in the pictures taken alone. If it was like that in the rest of the apartment was also stacked 2-3 feet high it might actually be close to 6 tons. Paper is surprisingly heavy...

 

[KeithP]

This is why every guy needs a "porn buddy."
https://youtu.be/q-tMpouIwpA

-KeithP

 

[SKORPI0]

I wonder whoever did the cleanup kept them (the clean copies) or threw them in a landfill.

 

[sdifox]

hmm... I wonder what kind of tons they're talking about? Maybe they were using my calculator from the fwp thread :^D

A magazine is about .25#, so that would be ~48k magazines. At .25"/magazine, it would make a single stack 1000' high.

Metric, like the rest of the sane world. 1kg ~= 2.2lbs so 6,000kg * 2.2 ~= 13,200lbs

 

[lxskllr]

Metric, like the rest of the sane world. 1kg ~= 2.2lbs so 6,000kg * 2.2 ~= 13,200lbs

I'll concede metric sanity, but mixing units is insane. Pick one, and stick with it.

 

[sdifox]

I'll concede metric sanity, but mixing units is insane. Pick one, and stick with it.

Men's health is American, original news item from Japan would be in metric so the magazine added the lbs for the American consumers.

 

[madoka]

Paper does weigh a lot considering that it's easy to store a large amount in a small area, however who the hell would bother to take the time and equipment to weigh that lot. Reporter probably asked whoever how much there was, the response was "a lot", reporter says "about 6 tons?", "probably".

I assumed a company was hired to clean up his place and they charged by weight of the trash removed, so they were the ones that would have an incentive to weigh it.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Now THAT'S a hentai oji-san