(no subject)
If you’ve spent any time in Youngstown, you’ve driven past them. Old steel mills or copper plants with their windows busted out and the sun shining in one side and out the other. They’re enticing-what secrets could be hiding behind their crumbling brick walls? You imagine that despite the No Trespassing signs, people have been coming in and out ever since the doors were boarded up. You intend to be the next.
You crawl in through a broken window and are faced with a rather boring sight. A thick layer of dust covers a room devoid of furniture or any other interesting artifacts. With a flashlight in hand, you go from room to room and are faced with the same blank walls and empty floors. Soon, you realize that there is something wrong with this image. There are no beer bottles, no graffiti, no signs that anyone has been into this building since it was abandoned years ago. Why not?
Eventually, you realize that it’s not just humans who have been avoiding the old factory. You don’t see so much as a single mouse dropping on the dusty concrete floor.
In reality, there probably is a homeless man or group of thrill-seeking youths in the building, and there are plenty of mice and birds. But none of them will hear you scream.
You crawl in through a broken window and are faced with a rather boring sight. A thick layer of dust covers a room devoid of furniture or any other interesting artifacts. With a flashlight in hand, you go from room to room and are faced with the same blank walls and empty floors. Soon, you realize that there is something wrong with this image. There are no beer bottles, no graffiti, no signs that anyone has been into this building since it was abandoned years ago. Why not?
Eventually, you realize that it’s not just humans who have been avoiding the old factory. You don’t see so much as a single mouse dropping on the dusty concrete floor.
In reality, there probably is a homeless man or group of thrill-seeking youths in the building, and there are plenty of mice and birds. But none of them will hear you scream.