"You do feel like things are on the edge of something going horribly wrong when you've got people piling up at the entrance and cars coming with corpses in the back and driving off with them before you've got a chance to test the corpse or isolate it," he says.
Already one million tourists have arrived – spilling out of archaeological sites and the narrow alleyways of the picturesque Plaka district beneath the Acropolis, piling into restaurants and cafes and cramming the stores that sell the fodder of every classic Greek holiday: sandals, statues, T-shirts and bags.
"They should not be using peacetime customs methodology," he said, adding that material was piling up at Kathmandu airport instead of being ferried out to victims.
If you think about the point [just gone] for too long, you're going to maybe drag that over to the next point and into the next game, and so forth, so it's piling up.
Johnson wonders if dehydrated workers with already sugary kidneys are rehydrating with soft drinks or fruit juice, thus piling on a potentially explosive fructose load.
The government are supposed to represent the interests of the public when they deal with these companies, but the evidence is piling up that they're all in it together".
The Institute of Grocery Distribution, which represents the food and consumer goods industry, predicts that in five years the sales rung up in small neighbourhood stores will have increased by a third to almost £50bn – piling pressure on the economics of the traditional supermarket model.
With no refrigeration facilities, and bodies and body parts piling up in the alley near the quake-triggered landslide that covered Las Colinas in a wall of dirt, there was little choice but mass burial, said coroner Mario Alfredo Hernandez.
After he handed in his resignation to the AKP, the calls started piling in.
"Ministers are responsible for piling misery on top of misery for those who have to rely on our railway," he said.
This means that everyone's piling around to mine for Christmas instead.
