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UPDATE: Trucks still hauling stuff away from hoarder’s home

I visited Kenneth Epstein's house Saturday afternoon and for a second time, he said he was too busy to talk to me. Nor would he talk to me if he was not so busy, he said bitterly. "You can write whatever you like about me."

He was busy washing his ski poles, apparently in an effort to salvage them and prevent them from going into the 1-800-GOT-JUNK trucks for things to be hauled away.

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