4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

No, you are absolutely correct. We still brutalize and abuse them every gosh-darned day just for the heck of it.

Those gosh-darned chairs! You can't turn your back for a minute or they will chase you all over the place! >:-(

Knock it off, Motts. If you give people the REAL reason it was done it won't be near as much fun and they can't slobber and wet themselves whining about all the cruelty, torture, and death in those gosh darned heck-holes. ;-)

Definitely a warning - probably a psychic dog, would be my guess.

Your head hurts because you are trying to put it between the wall and my head, my little dollink. Anyone looking for "escapades" isn't generally looking for reality at the same time. Especially not if they have to face up to the idea that if you aren't part of the solution you are generally part of the problem.

My wild guess is that this person ISN'T the one who volunteered while still in school to work with the kids who were in the special needs classes and yet is now throwing stones at the people who actually had to provide the services without the resources. Funny old world where we get to publicly attack others when our own hands might have a little blood on them, isn't it? ;-)

I'm waving my magic wand now and Brina is going away.

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!

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.