I know that if I was exploring some of the sites Motts has, and came across items like this, I would have a hard time restraining my urge to "pick up a little something" as a keepsake. Though I agree with him that the risk isn't worth it. Still it would be pretty tempting at times.

I am sure that as you said Motts, the daily schedules and such would be pretty dull reading, but what has always bothered me when looking through some of the galleries is the obvious lack of care a lot of these schools, hospitals and instituations seemed to have when it came to patient's records. There are any number of photos you have in the various galleries that show cases in which patient's medical records were just left behind when a site was closed down, seemingly without any care or concern for the privacy of those people who's histories were contained in those files.

There are a lot of people out there who don't show the restraint Motts does when it comes to "raiding" abandoned sites for souveniers, and I know I would hate to have been a former patient or family member of a patient and had to face the knowledge that my personal medical or mental health history could easily end up in the hands of someone out there who had no legal and certainly no ethical right to it.

I just don't understand how they can get away with just leaving sensitive files like that laying around. Aren't there legal and professional obligations and rules requiring these places to protect the privacy of their patients???