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So the moral is, if you're in an abandoned morgue, alone, and decide to somehow push the tray inside with you laying in it, leave at least one door open.
A little research revealed that refrigerator doors manufactured prior to 1958 had mechanical latches which were impossible to open from the inside. Kids would wind up playing in discarded refrigerators and wind up locking themselves in; the sealed door prevented and screams from being heard, and they would eventually suffocate. The New York Times published a figure of 115 children dying this way in over a decade long period before 1955.
Congress passed the Refrigerator Safety Act in 1956, and attempts to smash the latches off the remaining unused refrigerators has since minimized these incidents.
But, this law only applies to household refrigerators, not commercial or morgue freezers.
;-)
Yeah. That was corny. Couldn't help myself. ;)
Just interested in learning of "demons" and whatnot... Anyway.. So I don't get in trouble for talking of useless things... Amazing shot, Mr. Motts. And contrary to what others may think, I believe the graffitti kinda makes the picture look better... In an artsy, strange type of way. o-O
I love it Janice!
If you'd heard it was "cursed", why did you go there in the first place? ;)
BTW- maddd props to the photographer.
in the meantime,,,trespassers will be pummelled.
Looks like they're waiting to be fed.
It's an old, sad place full of bad memories. That's it.
It's so ugly and the people who leave it all over everything are vandals. They show how ignorant they really are.
Graffiti isn't art! Get real!
How sick !
Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
high school kids. At any rate these buildings are not for throwing a party... I have always been interested in old buildings
I'd have loved to go in it.
So it'd really be a pleasure so see some more stuff from there!
How could someone deliberately destroy a place with such a colorful history.
People don't understand what they are doing.
I wonder if they know how many people died in these places and how they are disrespecting them by writing vulgar things on the walls and destroying there home.
*shutter*
People have been talking about this for many years, it's a sad story.
However, this photo depicts something much more sad than simply a morgue--the graffiti itself is horrible. Sure, it's cool to leave your mark, but is it really necessary to vandalize something with so much history? Honestly, it's just so pointless to me.