For the Love of All Things Gritty by Dee Ashley, on Flickr

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Posted by Dee Ashley It totally intrigues me when a vulnerable location, for whatever reason, is able to avoid the fate of most of its counterparts at the hands of scrappers and vandals. I haven't yet figured it out, but there is a place here near the TX/OK border that has: 1. super easy entry 2. lots of valuable components, not to mention gorgeous frames and custom woodwork, just leaning against walls 3. NO vandalism, no (or very little) theft of these unique and some very valuable items. 4. It has very high visibility and it's been abandoned since the freaking 1980's-early 90's! It's like a few of these places have an invisible shield or something. Still blows my mind... I do want to see this spot that you posted though. A San Antonio friend offered to take me - if only it was a little bit closer!

It's more a function of the parenting in the rural areas...kids are still getting swats or other REAL consequences for bad behavior. I'm very interested in this phenomena and hope someone does research and writes some papers about it. I personally just can't understand the disconnect that allows a person to destroy for kicks. It's that goddamn video games...but that's a dead horse.

Posted by The Good It's more a function of the parenting in the rural areas...kids are still getting swats or other REAL consequences for bad behavior. I'm very interested in this phenomena and hope someone does research and writes some papers about it. I personally just can't understand the disconnect that allows a person to destroy for kicks. It's that goddamn video games...but that's a dead horse.

Its been done. In my college psych 101 class, we discussed for a whole week teen rebellion and vandalism was a big part of course. They said what you would expect, young people that feel they have no control over their life or power over anything acting out.

So there was "this guy I knew" he grew up in a middle class neighborhood in a major city. He and the group he hung with had a passion for shooting out city street lights with high powered pellet rifles.

When you would hit the actual bulb and filament POP sparks would fly. (so I heard) Sometimes a nosey neighbor would dime them out (the way it was explained to me) which often resulted in exciting foot pursuits with the cops through alleys and yards. (as I was told)

Personally I think he just liked to see the sparks fly and the adrenalin rush he got running from The Man.

As for the little wussies that break toilets and spray paint pics of what they wished their peckers looked like I have no idea.

As part of my "career" as a security professional, I attended a one day seminar on how to guard buildings and we discussed something called the "Broken Windows Theory".

Basically, if a building (for example) is abandoned and it is reasonably isolated from common civilization, it will remain unmolested until such a time as someone undiscipled makes their way to it for whatever reason.

This person decides to break a window, because he's been told by society it's impolite to do so and he's curious as to what the big deal is. He shatters a window, it makes an exciting crash, he gets a small thrill.

So, now we have a building with a smashed out window.

Other people come by, and they see this smashed out window. The theory states that psychologically speaking people will take this smashed out window as a signal to smash out all the other windows.


And so we have vandalism begetting vandalism.

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Wichita Falls-212 by Mark La Force, on Flickr

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Clutter Bug.

~Majestic Hot Springs~ by Mark La Force, on Flickr

Posted by Dee Ashley Clutter Bug. click to view

lonely chair orgy !

Can one truly be lonely during an orgy?

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Untitled by Matt, on Flickr

Not an abandoned location, but still one with a lot of the same aesthetics as one.

One from earlier this week in Surfside, TX

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