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This picture is very disturbing to me also. Everything about it is weird. I think that there was good and bad employees at Pennhurst but I would have to disagree when people say that it was a picture painted wrong in the court system. From reading stories that people wrote who were patients there and reading the many reports written by the employees I am sure and would stand by my words that Pennhurst was a horrible dreadful place for the people that HAD to live there or were PUT there.

That is the thing about these people that just go back there to destroy things there is no reason for it. Someone said something about people destroying history I guess this is history but I would hate to think of this as an meaningfull history. Well because of it being closed down for the way they treated the patients I would hope that it would change the way people in these places get treated but I doubt it.

Someone piled the books like that because they dont just fall to the floor and make a nice neat pile....

There was a fire just a few years back it is in The Mercury Newspaper if you want to read about it.

This picture takes me back to one of the buildings me and my b/f went into I can not remember the name of it right now but I know excactly were it is and it still makes my blood run cold. We were walking through the building and we came across a chair and the scene looked just like this one in the picture. The chair was facing us as we entered the doorway when we came back to exit in the oppostie direction the chair then was facing us again. Both of us walked very fast out of the building and did not say a word to the other until we were saftely away from the area. Then we both agreed that something felt very weird inside and that something was not right. I no I was scared we still talk about it.

I've often thought about installing seatbelts on my own toilet at home, just in case... Then again, I've got handcuffs attached to my bed, so maybe I'm not the best role model!

Thanks, there wasn't much evidence to suggest that it was someones room so I'm not positive, but chances are it was.

I do know for a fact that plenty of worshipping occurs at my "temple" when somebody is on their knees, so John's comment is not surprising!

Can I get away with one more comment to the idiot, since s/he is posting under a different name? How dare I call myself Dr Sketch? Aside from the fact that you spelled it wrong (say 100 Hail Sketchs' in retribution), how would I have any problem calling myself that?

As for meeting my maker, I've already met it. We talk all the time, often about nothing important, just enjoying each others' company. We laugh about people like you whose faith isn't strong enough to take a joke. Even if we DIDN'T talk all the time, your religion states that he is everywhere at all times, so the things I say should not be a surprise, correct? Use logic for a minute, get your head out of your ass, and join the real world.

Ok, I'm done. Thanks Motts!

Does anyone know if that is really true that the Mayflower ward was really isolation. It has been quit a few months since I have been there so I can not remember what buildings we were in but we have been in almost all of them and I never saw mattresses on the walls but I did come across rooms still locked, and I never have gone in the tunnels or up in the attics or down in the basements so I no we have missed stuff.

Well if someone kept falling off the toilet, don't you think a seat belt would be a good idea?

That is true that people came back to live on the grounds right after it was closed down because they knew nothing but this place regardless of how they were treated. I think that homeless people have spent nights here because when walking through the buildings you will see stuff like this. I could never spend a night here personally it is hard walking through here in the daytime. To answer someone's question about bumping into people up here. I have been up there more then I can count I have come across the military guards up at the womens building and locals just taking a walk or people driving out quickly in the night. Once me and my B/F came across a dog that was acting very strangely that really scared me and him to the point I just wanted to get in the car and get out of there. The dog was whinning and everywhere we would go he would show up as if to warn us to leave.

Funny how an open well might have mist coming off of it... Mine does the same freaking thing, and nobody points it out!

Ive seen Lonely chairs,Lonely beds,But lonely lamps?

Lynne, put the knife down hon, get out your cumezekyama, and repeat after me, "Just because they're stupid, doesn't mean they deserve to die..."

brina, don't be an idiot. Do your own research, and you'll understand. Also, it wouldn't hurt to take a remedial English class, and learn the difference between no and know, there, their, and they're, and basic sentence structure. My head hurts...

Jen is yet more proof that our education system is failing... miserably...