1,827 Comments Posted by eldokid@aol.com

This is in reply to Lynne's comment although I do realize it is several years after. Maybe it will be seen if people are like me and regularly visit this site to look over old galleries. I agree with most of what you say, but at the same time I have to put my two cents in and say that perhaps the reason why people don't report stuff, even anonymously, is maybe because they don't want to have to deal with the after effects. I didn't work in a health care environment, but in retail at the time and I reported things that I saw someone doing that I felt was wrong. Basically theft. Well, I was labeled the "whistle blower" and my life was hell afterwards. Granted this wasn't a situation of people being harmed or abused, but the principle is the same. The company ended up firing the one who was doing the dirt, but I had to live with it after and continue to work there, and let me tell you it was extremely uncomfortable. I felt as though they did not trust ME even though I was the one doing the "snitching". So perhaps the reason WHY people don't report abuse is because they don't want to have to deal with the aftermath of being called a whistle blower and being treated worse than the person doing the crime. This is just my opinion because I lived through it, but I'll tell you, if I had to do it over I would have kept my big fat mouth SHUT.

Autoguy you bring up a point I neglected and that was that you have to have the means to keep up the property and taxes, but my point was give people a break, especially those on minimum wage. It just seems to me that there are way too many homeless people in this country that could benefit from something like this instead of just letting the property rot and be vandalized.

How do you decide how long to expose a shot? That's what I've always had trouble with, I either expose it too short or way too long.

@ flushed - your comments intrigue me and I would love to hear more of your experiences. Feel free to write to me if you want to, I'm a great listener.

That looks just like my shower curtain!

Can you imagine looking through that and seeing an eye looking back at you? OMG!!

@ Freespirit - I don't understand it either. Look at Detroit. Blocks and blocks of vacant houses just left to rot or become the victim of arsonists. I know there are circumstances like the economy and the area, but after these houses go through foreclosure, instead of just letting them sit vacant to eventually be bulldozed, why don't the sell them dirt cheap to people that are homeless or otherwise destitute. If they sold these houses for ten bucks, I'm sure they would draw people to buy them. Maybe make conditions like you have to live there for so many years. I don't know, I just think something should be done instead of just letting these places just rot away until all that's left is an empty field. I look at street after street in sections of Detroit and other cities and see these huge, once beautiful houses falling apart, half burnt or what have you. It's disgusting that this happens in this country.

I think I read somewhere on this site that he only does this with people he trusts his life with or else he goes alone. Which is probably how I would feel about it. I sure wouldn't want to explore places with a bunch of yahoos!

I've always been fascinated with collapsed / missing floors, not sure why.

I can't believe someone hasn't stolen that.

OMG this is terrible. It's bad enough to be stuck six feet under ground, but to be left and forgotten like this is soooo sad.

my mother used to yell at us "make sure you rake up all those seeds from that tree!" . . I guess this is what she thought would happen, eventually a tree would grow through the house.

what a beautiful building to have just go to waste

When standing here taking a photograph, are you ever afraid that some rogue animal (or human) will jump out from the darkness and attack you? Do you look around when doing this? I'll tell you, I would be so scared that I could not focus on taking a picture!

Gorgeous! It almost looks infrared. You can feel the silence in this photo