
Apartment floor collapses from weight of old magazines
Mainichi
A Tokyo apartment floor has collapsed from the weight of old magazines and newspapers piled up over 20 years, police said.
The six-tatami mat room on the second floor collapsed in Tokyo's Toshima-ku at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, and firefighting officials rescued the 56-year-old tenant shortly after.
The 75-year-old man who lives in the apartment on the first floor felt nervous after he heard the ceiling squeak, so he fled from the room to alert the local Mejiro Police Station....the rest...