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.

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[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?