Edmund Trebus
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Edmund Zygfryd Trebus (November 11, 1918–September 29, 2002) was a Polish émigré to Britain and compulsive hoarder, who came to fame when he was featured on a British television documentary called A Life of Grime. His most famous phrase was, "Stick it up your chuffer!".
After moving to England just after the end of the Second World War, Edmund married. He and his wife (who would predecease him) had five children. All still live in Britain but seldom visited him.
Edmund had been "a collector" all his life and he was often seen pushing a hand cart filled with his latest acquisitions, which he would carefully sort into similar piles in his garden and home. One of Edmund's major loves was Elvis Presley, and he managed to collect and store away almost every record recorded by the artist.
When he was in his eighties he lived by himself in a run-down house in Crouch End in north London. He was constantly in trouble with the environmental health department of the London Borough of Haringey, because of complaints about the rubbish surrounding his home. He lived in a tiny area of the house on the ground floor, surrounded by piles of rubbish because he never threw anything away. The BBC documentary, A Life Of Grime, showed Trebus arguing with council workers who had arrived to clean his house. He was eventually placed in a nursing home, where he died at the age of 83.
