688 Comments for Western Center

It looks like a "family" room...

WOW!!! This one breaks my heart...So sad!!

by the size of the holes left, i'm sure it doesn't matter where you're hit with bullet!
i do agree with the previous comment, maybe the other targets were taken down and those are the holes that were behind them?

Thanks again Motts! I would love to see your galleries from the South! Your Katrina shots sound like a great gallery....

Ya know...everyone always freaks out when they see a picture of a morgue and thinks it's creepy...but I'm thinking leaving people out and not refrigerating them when they die might be a lot creepier...

It used for Occupational Therapy for a calendar...I've seen them in the OT room at my daughter's school...

My first thought was.."That gives new meaning to be put on a pedestal!"

Seriously people! Lighten up...it's a joke that Grandpa fell asleep peacefully at the wheel while everyone in the car was screaming...it's called sarcasm....or bete noir. Unless, of course you have personal experience with this sort of thing...then, my apologies...;-)

Children can be diagnosed with EBD (Emotionally Behaviorally Disturbed) as young as the age of 3 yrs. old....they often have RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), and OCD..etc... these children often self-mutilate...hitting themselves, biting themselves and others. Sometimes they need to be put into a, "basket-hold" to stop themselves from being hurt...my daughter was diagnosed with these problems when we adopted her at the age of three...if we hadn't taken her, she would have ended up in a facility much like this because foster care has a hard time placing these children....
As sad as we may think these places are for a child, at least licensed professionals are taking care of them and they are not being sent back to Russia to an orphanage... that started the RAD, ODD, etc... in the first place....these children are very hard to raise without medication and a ton of education and understanding of their disorders....thank goodness for the professionals that take care of them in these places!

Nice use of the thesaurus Motts...

Okay, they couldn't take the pictures off the wall before they painted it?

I would imagine the tile/polished blockwork was not only for practical reasons like ease of cleaning, but also longevity and no need for yearly painting and the like. That would save quitte a few dollars over the life (and death) of the buildings.

Wow, that'd be an awfully hard surface if someone is in seclusion-what if the hit their head off the wall?

The tines are spaced too far apart to be a fork....

I haven't seen a "spit bowl" in years! At our facility we just sold a dental cabinet that matches the one in back in color, but it was a different style.