234 Comments Posted by rich_edwards79

Puddleboy, do you write from personal experience or are your sleuthing skills just second-to-none?

But yeah, I'm definitely with Lynne either way :-)

According to the newspaper link on the KPPC front page, this building is doomed whatever happens. It's developed a serious list and is pulling away from parts of the lower levels. Pieces of masonry have begun to fall from the upper storeys.

I'd imagine it would take some serious underpinning to stabilise Bldg 93, which considering that no-one's prepared to fund the abatement process looks somewhat unlikely. I wonder if gravity, rather than a wrecking ball, will bring this place down in the end? It's a tragedy that such a fate can be allowed to befall something this massive and imposing.

I think if you performed ECT live on stage at Christmas, in Byberry, it would be to a full house of the 'OMG thats soooo KEWL' type of people who frequent opacity.us....

Maybe some audience participation would go down well.... zzzzzzap!

"A surprise in every one..."

Heheh Lynne they're her corpses... I tell her to keep her basement a little tidier but will she listen to me?

:-D

Funny how the holes are symmetrical - one either side of the doorway gable.

Moe, it's sad but this does happen. I've seen pictures of the Pines Resort on another site which show the heating system with full pressure still in it.

And as with the Pines, I wonder if a little time and effort spent on roof maintenance would have prevented millions of dollars worth of water damage in subsequent years as well as leaving far more options for the buildin's re-use.

How much would a couple of tarpaulins or sheets of corrugated aluminium for that damaged roof have cost, for instance?

This reminds me of the pictures of those shafts of light coming in through the roof of the ruined Superdome in NOLA following Katrina.

It looks like the beam of a spotlight - take a bow...

I for one am glad people like Lynne and Anna are here to educate those who see anything vaguely institutional as some sort of medieval torture chamber staffed by grinning sadists.

Popular culture has done much to tarnish the reputation of the entire field - this is as good a place as any for those who know different to bite back...

I suspect that many over-active imaginations have been given a sharp reality check following a visit to this site!

You're lucky. I can smell a rotting corpse a mile off. And if there's one thing that seriously freaks me out, it's something dead. Not a clean skeleton - those are interesting rather than scary but something half rotted makes me recoil if I come across it in the woods or whatever.

Another reason I'd make a lousy UE-er....

Remember - it's the thought that counts... lol!

Heheh bdhsnake I shouldn't say 'ECT' around here too loud if I were you - people have imaginations y'know...

Oh wait, you meant 'et cetera' - something completely different - lol!

No way out...

What constituted "extreme precautions" I wonder? Mace? Body armour? A platoon? :-/

You're not alone, I haven't seen Session 9 either!

I remember One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest though... nasty stuff, and probably the origin of much of the continuing interest in psychiatric facilities.

Remember... it's Hollywood!