336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

Beeugh, I wonder just WHAT tissue.

@local 79 - he didn't fry his fool self in the process?

Question for the resident comment-leavers who've worked on/with this stuff - if you saw that needle pegged so hard it was bending, would it be time for emergency shutdowns, venting pressure, or just plain running away as fast as you could go?

Seriously, what would likely be the problem in that scenario and WTF would you do?

@ Modmadmike - that is the exact reason for modern "lockout/tagout". Some idiot comes by and goes "hey, why isn't X running?" or "hey, who turned that off?". Honest mistakes, but tell that to the wife of the guy who had to be washed off the machine and buried in a plastic bag.

And THEN you have the real prizes who will look at a tag labelled "do not use!" (or similar) and flip the breaker anyway! They are the reason for the "lockout" part of the equation.

You wouldn't need a warning sign to make me keep my hands in my pockets around THOSE gears!

@ E - what was the purpose of using heating oil in the first place as opposed to some other fraction of oil?

@ E - thank you for sharing! Love to hear people's stories about these places!

And of course someone had to suggest they burned other things than coal...brrrrr.

@ mike - thanks for the info. This place really is educational!

So many powerful comments about stolen lives.

Will be including some thanks to God tonight that I grew up in a loving family with toys all my own.

Their souls are gone to eternity, but the awfulness remains.

Good thinking Motts. Post 9/11, if you're taking pictures and notice that more than two random people looking at you in obvious suspicion, it's time to pack up and leave *at once*.

@ chris - nice one. Personally I'm too disturbed to come up with anything clever at the moment.

@ nvusofmotts - I'm told that near everything really did have a 'psychedelic' cover/back illustration. The cultural spillover from the hippie/counterculture movement was THAT intense.

I couldn't have gone past that door without blocking it with something.

You do perspective shots SO dang well!