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Well, durn, you sure got a reaction out of me when I first read it! 8`-)

I didn't see anybody standing there, so I took the photo into 'photoshop' and brightened it up.

I still don't see anybody, but I could read the graffiti better. LOL

I ment 'et cetera' " not electroconvulsive therapy that the last time I use that abbreviation on this site at least .

The one in independance iowa is so surrounded by modern buildings and stuff it's hard to see it. I live in Iowa and pass it alot. They aren't to friendly there so I have never tried to go and look.

is there really ghost in byberry?

that looks like the basement i hear that used to be a morgue down there i used to be in unit 101 for girls in 1999

The number of humorous but incredibly tacky things I want to say in response to this have me sitting here, paralyzed . . . . . . 8`-)

Nah, I WISH it were true that many of the people who have come here have had their opinions changed by what they have read. However, unless people have to deal with something directly it is easier to believe what popular culture, such as movies and TV, tell you. And what reliable sources THOSE are, eh? ;-)

For most situations, and not just in this field, no one seems to care much about what happens unless they somehow become personally involved or they read or hear something about it. And journalists rarely write positive stories about systems that work because that is boring and honestly doesn't sell very well.

I am all for investigative journalism. That is how my field made most of its advances, I am sorry to say. We had the tools and the technology to make things better many years ago, but we didn't have the public funding because we didn't have public support. It took someone breaking stories about how bad things were to shake up the public to push for increased funding. Sadly enough, however, people somehow didn't quite get that the problems were NOT just the result of evil staff but were the result of no money and no on-going public clamor for things to get better. The history of the field, as is the case with many others, consists of nothing happening, a scandal finally coming to light, and money subsequently being thrown at it and it alone to "make the problem go away." People in all fields of human endeavor are "penny wise, pound foolish" and want to save money by taking short cuts or ignoring things until they have no choice but to look them in the eye rather than planning proactively and spending the money where it counts - up front.

Unfortunately, when negative conditions finally come to light, what you have is a scrambling toward finding someone to blame, and the system that created it gets a free "bye" card, and so the same situation "amazingly" recurs over and over and over. And over.

And over.

And again, all we do is shake our fingers at the poor schmuck staff who ended up in this field, accusing THEM of being the cause of all the misery, because they are the least powerful employees on the food chain. And we "pity" the poor people who were "tortured and abused" by the system. If you pity someone they become less than human - what you want is empathy, because empathy means that it could happen to you and to me and we feel "for" the person, not "about" the person. I pity animals, but I have empathy for humans, and that is what makes me an activist in this field.

And once again what I am saying probably doesn't make any sense at all to most people, so why am I such a schmuck to keep writing this? Maybe I *DO* need my meds adjusted after all. "Doctor, heal thyself!" :-)

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

So . . . . . . you are telling us you run into rotting corpses on a routine basis? If I were your girlfriend I'd be a little wary right about here. ;-)

Gotta love those violently red "bodily fluids" bags!

Well, *MY* bad - I thought bdhsnake MEANT "ECT"! 8`-)

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?