16th Birthday... Couple of days prior my parents got a call from the sheriffs office in Butte County. Sheriff says they've arrested all the occupants of their rental home and we need to come "take possession" of the property. My parents owned a house (my childhood home) up there and had been renting it to a nice couple. Because this was 4 hours drive from where we lived they didn't check in on them much. My birthday party had to be cancelled, I had to call my friends and explain there was a family emergency. I was super bummed since your sweet sixteen is supposed to be a big deal. Once we arrived at the property, it became clear what kind of nightmare we were descending into. The tenants were IV drug users and had turned the house into a fucked up flop house. After the utilities were shut off months prior, they had dug a trench in the backyard to shit and piss into. The whole house was buried in about 2ft-3ft of vomit, needles, dog and human shit, garbage, etc. I remember a hamster cage bolted to the kitchen wall, 3ft of shit dripping down the wall from the base with a very dead hamster still in its wheel. My childhood bedroom had obviously been the kids room. I remember being hit with a flood of pleasant memories as I walked in, until I saw the filth those kids had been living in and totally lost it. My mom carried a pistol the whole time, fearful that they would make bail and come back while we emptied the place. Two full size dumpsters later the damage was so severe my parents gave up the property to the bank because there was no salvaging it. TL:DR Spent my 16th birthday shoveling human filth into a dumpster in a failed attempt to save my childhood home.