Just when you think you’ve seen it all, everyday seems to introduce something new that you haven’t seen before. Let’s start off with actual pictures of the event in question:

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Now apparently this event happened about a year ago, but the general story is that the tenant of the building had lived in the Ogden townhouse for about eight years and during that time he was a heavy drinker of Coors Light beer. Evidently, rather than throwing away or recycling the empty beer cans, it was all literally just piled up around the house and in many cases there were beer can boxes stacked up to the roof.

After this mess was discovered by a realtor, the place was cleaned up and all the cans were recycled for about $800. An interesting number that came out of this is that with approximately 70,000 empty beer cans and seeing that the person has lived there for about eight years, that would mean that everyday he drank at least 24 cans of beer. I never knew anyone could drink that much in a day let alone everyday for eight years.

Thinking about those numbers further, if a can of beer costs say $1.60 a can, for 70,000 cans that would mean $122,000 or $14,000 a year the person would have spent on beer every year. I guess everyone knows that frequently drinking a lot can add up, but this is sure a good extreme case scenario on just how much one can spend on non necessities when it is done recklessly. It sure makes you think.

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