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I think he is on the phone trying to figure out where the hell the cleaning crew went!

Okay, first off...it ran too thin to be real, real blood would coat more than "run". Second, the splatter pattern makes no sense (there really is no "pattern" to it at all). Fix that and the color and you'll be onto something to scare "some people" RB Vannacutt.

I got in to the rotunda. I nearly fell throught to the basement. but what was on the otherside was awesome.

Its my best friend plank.

Planet of the Apes definitely. Darth Vader maybe - but I don't think he appeared until ~1992. In which case I wonder which monster/creature he replaced as they didn't buy any new cars for the ride.

these photographs are extraordinary....this mistery and darkness in them..it`s something i haven`t seen before. too cool =) i love it

Just as long as none of you people ever sit on a jury, I'm happy...

I specifically said that I wasn't calling Marcia a liar, merely pointing out that people's testimony on their own behalf isn't unbiased. That has nothing to do with where Marcia works, what field she works in, or anything else specific to Marcia. It's very simple: people don't ordinarily admit to wrongdoing, so if someone is accused of wrongdoing, their claim that it didn't happen does not prove that it didn't happen. That's called he said/she said, and even a small child knows better than to put stock in it. But, well, whatever they taught in the school you went to, it sure wasn't logic! Lord save me.

Lynne, why so defensive? You may be an expert on the treatment of the mentally ill, but setting yourself up as an expert on abuse seems misguided to me. I would hope that you are not an expert when it comes to abuse within the system at all.

By the way, since the last time I posted, I've read the autobiography of the gentleman Marcia is accusing of "having been influenced" to say bad things about Pennhurst merely because he's retarded. Shame on her. He's the very last person to be influenced or controlled by anybody; he's a past president and a founding member of Speaking for Ourselves, a disability advocacy group run by the disabled for the disabled. His every word is laden with dignity. But don't take my word for it, go read it, let the man speak for himself.

i dunno id probably have to have a lot of smokes to walk around there alone for a while.......just irks me walkin around there after i saw wat was there.....some say thse ghosts are only there if you want to see them.......supposedly if u dont wanna you can block them out.....but the people who do see them want to and open their minds up to the other side

Aww come one Lynne, we all know that the people who know most about the field are those who don't actually do anything in it! ;) It's like, I work in insurance, so of course MY view of what happens here is wrong because I actually see it.

To Lynne, Marcia, and everyone else in this field: Most of us realize that you are trying your best to do what can be done, and we don't think you're abusive. There are a few whack-jobs who won't believe the truth when it's right in their faces. Like Lynne said, the hell with 'em. They're too stupid to matter... :D

Yo hedon do u know where there are any files or books or videos in this place?

Motts, do you see visiting any more hotels in the near future? The Pines gallery is the ultimate!

Marcia, my friend - ignore the above comment, darlin'. Sometimes people like to think that everyone else is horrible but themselves. I think it's time that you and I just give up on trying to educate people who are happy to believe the worst about others. Sad to have to come to this point, isn't it? Branded a liar and untrustworthy merely because of the place you worked. Almost seems undemocratic somehow, doesn't it?

So maybe we all need to just walk out of the institutions right now and let the criticizers and labellers and name callers come and do our jobs at the pay that is given and with the mandatory overtime hours attached. They'd be back here in 24 hours (if they could last that long and/or not kill off our fragile people with their lack of knowledge about how to do this very specialized job) and they would be begging us to come back. Luckily for them (and for the folks we work with!), that will never happen. So let 'em be righteous, let 'em throw stones, let 'em not call you a liar "directly", just by ugly insinuation. I say the hell with 'em.

But one day I'll tell you how I REALLY feel. :-)

sweet

Virginia,

No, nothing like that I've heard of where I have worked.

Those are forced draft fans.