Man ‘dies after his massive porn magazine collection falls on him’

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Jimmy Nsubuga for Metro.co.uk


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A man apparently died after his massive porn collection fell on him.

The 50-year-old’s body was found buried under six tons of X-Rated magazines, according to reports.

Authorities only discovered the victim, known as ‘Joji’, six months after he had perished in his flat in Japan.

His family apparently sent a cleaning team to his apartment when they found out the circumstances of his death.

They hoped to have the magazines removed discreetly so his neighbours wouldn’t notice.

But it now seems one of the cleaning crew has leaked details of the joji’s death.

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The cleaner added it was not clear if the man had been suffocated by the porn magazines, or if he had a heart attack and then fell into them.

But strangely he said the man’s eyes had popped out.

The cleaner added every inch of the man’s flat was filled with the magazines and there were also clippings from his favourite articles laying around.

The collection apparently weighed a hefty at six metric tons (13,228 pounds).

[redred]

blurred octopus porn ?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Is there any other kind? :-s

[redred]

i think dee might know

[Goofy]

6 tonnes of porn? :lol:

[deebakes]

eyes popped out :lol:

:wank:

[Hugh_Janus]

phew. dee's okay

[Godfather]

I feel like this is the way a guy like this would've wanted to go :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Matt Novak - Gizmodo


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Did a man in Japan really get crushed to death by his porn collection? No. But you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise, thanks to this dumb game of Telephone we call The Internet.

“Porn really is bad for you!” the Daily Mail headline blares. “Lonely Japanese man who amassed a SIX-TON pile of dirty magazines died when it collapsed on top of him... and his body wasn’t found for six months.”

But almost nothing about that headline is correct. The Daily Mail seems to have taken a sad story of a man’s death in Japan and added a few lies to make it more sensational. And from there it went viral, getting picked up by the likes of The Mirror, The Toronto Sun, CBS Philly, and Sky News Australia, among a host of others.

So what really happened? Recently a Japanese man was found dead in his apartment. The man lived alone and had been dead for a month before he was discovered. The coroner ruled that he’d died of a heart attack. How do we know the real story? It was reported in Nikkan Spa in Japan on February 28, 2017. The Daily Mail story was published on March 3, 2017.

The Daily Mail story doesn’t link out to Nikkan Spa, or acknowledge at all where its information came from. The average reader would assume that all the information presented in the Daily Mail story was collected by the Daily Mail alone. It appears that nothing in the Daily Mail’s version contains original reporting, aside from the sensationalist errors that it introduced.

“Man killed by six-ton pornography collection,” the Toronto Sun said.

“Man crushed to death by porn collection,” Sky News Australia claimed.

“Man dies after 6-ton porn collection falls on top of him,” CBS Philly declared.

But none of that is true.

Yes, the man had a huge porn collection. But there’s absolutely no evidence that he died from it falling on top of him, nor that he’d been dead for six months. In fact, the most gruesome bit of evidence from the original story in Japan points to the fact that he fell on top of his porn collection during his heart attack.

The original story notes that many times people who live and die alone (known as “kodokushi” in Japan) aren’t found until bodily fluids leak through the floor onto tenants below. In this case, the magazines reportedly absorbed the bodily fluids of the man’s decomposing body because he fell on top of them.

“In order not to become a shame of the deceased, we try to dispose of adult toys in the room so that the bereaved family will not be aware of it,” a man from a cleaning crew who specializes in lonely deaths told Nikkan Spa.

The man was clearly a hoarder of porn magazines. And he died of a heart attack amongst his hoard of porn. But he wasn’t crushed by it. I guess “Hoarder dies surrounded by porn” is a less clicky headline than “OMG MAN LITERALLY DIES CRUSHED BY 6 TONS OF PORN.”

And you wonder why Wikipedia recently banned the Daily Mail as a source for information on the community encyclopedia? This is why.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:homer:

[Hugh_Janus]

thanks trump.... now nobody believes any news story :facepalm:

[deebakes]

:wank:

[Godfather]

That's too bad it's fake, but hoarders dying from their 'collections' either falling on them or trapping them has definitely happened :lol:

[deebakes]

that's the way dgx is going to go :(