'Police... open up, we know you've made a mess in there'

'Police... open up, we know you've made a mess in there'
By Toby Harnden in Arlington, Virginia

(Filed: 16/07/2006)

Sam Shipkovitz viewed his home as his castle, a place where he could pile his possessions from floor to ceiling and answer to no one.

Unfortunately, his local hoarding task force saw things a little differently. The latest victim of what he brands "America's neatness police", Mr Shipkovitz, a patent lawyer, returned home one evening to find that the locks on his apartment door had been changed. A bright yellow sign stated: "Unfit for Human Habitation."

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