TruTV's "Storage Hunters"...I watch this show and I see bottom feeders, the dregs of humanity.
For the last year and a half, I've paid $160 a month for storage. A few weeks ago, I pulled everything out because:
1). By the time I pay the monthly fee and get everything out, I could buy all new stuff, and
2). A couple of times I was late on the bill and ran the risk of the fucking inbred troglodytes on "Storage Hunters" having a shot at "auctioning" to buy all of my shit.
The son of a friend of mine goes to these auctions regularly. He's a stoner and an alcoholic-in-training and an all-around fucking idiot. My greatest fear was that this fucking waste of space would walk up one day and say "Look at what I just bought" and it would be ALL...MY...SHIT.
As a society, we're better than this...aren't we? The again, Mitt Romney is running against Obama, so maybe we aren't.
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I understand your POV and more than anything, that's what I'm thinking about when I'm watching: wondering what happened that the owner's abandoned their stuff, whether deliberate or accidental or due to death or what.
But then, the treasure hunter inside me watches it differently.
I am tempted to one day try going to one of these auctions, but I already have enough stuff of my own (in storage!).
But what should the storage facility owners do with the abandoned stuff? 
...and you're right, the business owners are left high and dry, so the only way to recoup their losses is to sell the goods inside the lockers.
All I'm saying is that 100% of the characters on that show...whether recurring characters or guest stars...are, in my estimation fuckstains, bottom feeders.
If you met this son of my friends, you might...as many of my friends do...have some degree of sympathy / empathy for his parents for raising a kid like this. He could easily be on "Storage Hunters."
And I do understand the treasure hunter aspect. I just look at the people on this specific show who are hunting the treasure and they make my skin crawl.
