OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

[jstewismybastardson]

I don't remember details, but someone a while back took photos in an abandoned state hospital. That was interesting but a bit creepy.

was it this?
West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands empty – but it’s filled with dark secrets

watching that program about the abandoned mental hospital made you realize how easy it was way back when to get someone institutionalized ... women got sent to "asylums" by their husbands for being lazy

(channeling my inner Ray Rice) oh the good old days !

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Why are there so many abandoned asylums strewn about the country? When I first got my license one of the first things my friends and I did was visit an abandoned asylum out in west Jersey. My cousins in New York state and Massachusetts had similar experiences. Why don't they tear these things down? Is there some law regarding medical facilities being knocked down for health reasons or something?

 

[Comeds]

Why are there so many abandoned asylums strewn about the country? When I first got my license one of the first things my friends and I did was visit an abandoned asylum out in west Jersey. My cousins in New York state and Massachusetts had similar experiences. Why don't they tear these things down? Is there some law regarding medical facilities being knocked down for health reasons or something?

I never did those, I did a bunch of old forts in my area.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

While we're talking about abandoned buildings, Dry Tortugas Park off the Florida Keys is pretty neat. It's a tourist attraction now but it's technically an abandoned civil war fort. I visited it this winter. Well worth the boat ride.

 

[Phantomphan]

was it this?
West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands empty – but it’s filled with dark secrets

watching that program about the abandoned mental hospital made you realize how easy it was way back when to get someone institutionalized ... women got sent to "asylums" by their husbands for being lazy

(channeling my inner Ray Rice) oh the good old days !

Don't think it was a tv program but a photo essay. But, it was definitely along the same lines as this.

 

[forty_three]

I never did those, I did a bunch of old forts in my area.

Have you ever been on Fort Carroll Comeds? I haven't been out there since the early 90's but it was pretty neat. Didn't take a camera.

Lot of "guard dogs", but perhaps they were just wild dogs. And lots of bird crap. I got up on the outer wall but didn't venture in very far.

Why are there so many abandoned asylums strewn about the country? When I first got my license one of the first things my friends and I did was visit an abandoned asylum out in west Jersey. My cousins in New York state and Massachusetts had similar experiences. Why don't they tear these things down? Is there some law regarding medical facilities being knocked down for health reasons or something?

They have to be careful with old buildings and asbestos. That's why the never tore down the old Ohio Reformatory (where they filmed Shawshank). It would have been more dangerous to tear it down than to leave it abandoned. Now they are restoring it as a landmark partly because it's been used in so many films and TV shows.

Abandoned | Ohio State Reformatory - Abandoned

I haven't taken the tour, but I've driven past. Incredible looking old building.

 

[Comeds]

Have you ever been on Fort Carroll Comeds? I haven't been out there since the early 90's but it was pretty neat. Didn't take a camera.

Lot of "guard dogs", but perhaps they were just wild dogs. And lots of bird crap. I got up on the outer wall but didn't venture in very far.

Yeah I went in the early 90s. The only animals we saw were birds. There were signs about guard dogs and rats but we wandered around and saw none.

Longest small boat ride I ever took. From Chase to Ft. Carroll, never again. It was hours being bounced around.

 

[pixburgher66]

While we're on the spooky abandoned kick: ever read up on Povelgia?

Strange Geographies: The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia | Mental Floss

It was once used as a quarantine island, well actually for many years it was. Place is basically built on bodies. Then there was a mental hospital run by a crazy man. Freaking sweet story. One of those you can't stop reading up on. Recommend doing some of the heavy digging in day light. Freaked me out.

 

[Abe Vigoda]

41 Eerie Photos of Abandoned Soviet Buildings | Mental Floss

16 Spooky-as-Hell Photos From Inside Chernobyl | Mental Floss

38 Bleak Photos of Abandoned Shopping Malls | Mental Floss

There is also a recent one on CNN about Sarajevo

 

[Comeds]

This is a bit long but I liked it.

The Novelizationalist with Brian Cox from Funny Or Die

 

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Now that's what I call carma.

 

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Talk about having a fire sale.....

No returns!

 

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[davnlaguna]

Man Arrested For Allegedly Nabbing Shotgun That Fell From LAPD Motorcycle « CBS Los Angeles
So a motorcycle cop's shotgun falls of the bike. They use police K9s to locate it. One of the police dogs bites a police man. They arrest the guy who found the gun in the road for theft.

 

[puckhead]

I love how his jacket goes all Hulk

 

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I see WW made it out for Putin's latest speech.

 

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9200!

 

[Winged_Wheel88]