Crazy man lives in car in backyard uses yard as toilet admits listening to Rush Limbaugh every day

[_Wayne_]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_fe_st/odd_living_in_car_5

PITTSBURG, Kan. - Steve Graham might not be in the doghouse over a dispute with his wife, but as far as his neighbors are concerned, he's not far from it. For the past seven years, Graham, 55, has been living in his car parked in the backyard of a house he and his wife, La Donna Graham, own. Graham said the two have "been having troubles" since 1999 and that he's been out of the house since about 2000. His wife still lives in the home.

But his neighbors, who say Graham plays loud music, often spouts obsenity-laced tirades and uses his yard as a toilet, aren't amused. They have asked the city to prohibit such living arrangements. Graham acknowledged that he watches TV, listens to music and sometimes sleeps in his blue, 1989 Buick Century. The car is parked on a concrete slab, mostly covered by a large, blue tarp that is secured with bricks and cinder blocks.

An extension cord from the house to the car provides power for a 13-inch TV, an oscillating fan and a radio. "I get better reception there than I do in there," he said, pointing at the house. "I listen to Rush (Limbaugh) every day, just about."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Is there any comment about this story...

That wouldn't be both insufficient and belaboring the obvious? ;-)

[TwilightGardener]

2. Nice to know his audience is comprised of fine upstanding folks...like yard-shitters.

No one, I repeat, NO ONE, is surprised.

[Bennyboy]

3. To be fair....

I am sure that some of old Rushbo's listeners shit inside the house too.

[lurky]

5. On the carpet, maybe?

[TwilightGardener]

6. Maybe this guy's an improvement, like my dog--he learned to do

his "mega-dittoes" outside.

[lurky]

7. Could be,,,

By the way, you should see what the Michael Savage fans do in their yards! :wow:

[lurky]

4. Funny thing is,

he was perfectly normal before he started listening to the stuff. ;)

[Maddy McCall]

8. This is mental illness...

I don't think that there's anything funny about it.

The guy needs help. :(

[jgraz]

9. I agree -- listening to Rush is fucking crazy.

The crapping in the yard is a bit odd as well...

[KT2000]

12. A case can be made

that the RW media contributes to mental illness - seriously.
The anger and eventual frustration these people put themselves through by listening to that crap does manifest in some very anti-social behavior. I certainly see if in the community where I live.

[Clintonista2]

10. It reminds me of that Costansa guy

The one who posted on freerepublic and sent threatening letters to everybody. Didn't he live in a car that had "deth to liberuls" written in the dirt on it's back windshield?

[KT2000]

11. And didn't he get arrested?

What ever happened to him anyway.

[YOY]

16. Went away with nary a pic or peep from the 'liberal media'

Funny how that story wasm handled....and it says a lot about the state of affairs in our country.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. He's poor and he's mentally ill.

So what if he's on the other side, politically. This guy needs both sympathy and help.

[Forkboy]

14. Thank you.

I agree.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Yes.

It's really quite tragic.

:(

[DarienComp]

17. This is just another example...

of the smug, condescending, excretory-elitism of the self-appointed Toilet Intelligencia, who find the idea of pooping in one's backyard as somehow beneath them.