Adventures with drop ceiling panels

[urbpan]

(Posted to found_objects)

My upstairs neighbors had plumbing leaks that came through our ceiling. While I was replacing the panels, debris rained down upon me. Mostly it was crumbled plaster board, but I found some other things, too:



It gets worse.


These were under one panel





And this was under another:



I pulled the skull aside to photograph it.



And then pulled the rest of the bones away from the debris (fly pupae, dermestid exuviae, mouse dander) to photograph it more clearly.

Comments

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

The mouse doesn't surprise me too much, but I feel sorry for whomever was living there when it died. I once pulled out a medicine cabinet to put up a flat mirror instead, and found a huge stash of rusty razor blades. At least there it made some sort of sense - there was a sort of slot in the cabinet that fed into the wall and it looked like they'd been shoved through it.

In your ceiling, though? Oh, wait- they were probably used to cut carpet or insulation or plaster board?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'm working on some kind of environmentalist rant about the mentality of the past: Put those dangerous razor blades here, in a hole in the wall, now they're gone forever--or at least someone elses problem, decades from now.

Jesus, I can't fathom it.

What's the harm in storing razor blades in the wall? Or damming all the rivers in the country? Or storing poison in the ground?

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

Those cabinets where my thought, too.
And the age of some of those blades...

At the time, that sort of wall storage probably seemed to make more sense than putting on the pile in your backyard. Safer, away from the kids.

There is an entire sub class of urban archeology dedicated to excavating backyard dump areas...