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Garbage pile

As you can plainly see, this is a very big pile of garbage between the two buildings of the motel. This is not only furniture and appliances, but also bags of people's trash removed from the trash cans and thrown into the pile. This trash often contained used syringes from drug users living in the motel. This would remain here for often up to a week, be cleared out, and then slowly accumulate into another mountain of trash. Animals would tear open the trash bags and scatter the trash. At one time, this used to be the area where children played. In the room where the door with a hole in it is, there was a man living there with his two toddlers ages 3 and 4 and a newborn baby that grew to the age of 1 1/2 by the time they moved out. The toilet on the right was left there with waste still in it.

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Uploaded on November 14, 2011
Taken on April 12, 2010