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A truly interestin' and amazin' place to visit

Thanks to Squishybear, I have just spent the last half hour visitin' the area around Chernobyl vicariously though PRIPYAT ghost town (1970-1986). Some of the interestin' commentary:*

marauders in radiation poluted area are not just a regular marauders, they don't steal stuff for themselves. There were cases of radiactive tv sets and other stuff being sold on city second hand markets and then police shot 7 or 8 of them and it helped

and

Actually, some people coming back to their homes and settle down, those mostly old people who do not care if they die today or tomorrow. important is to die at home.

and my favorite

Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange extrim tours in this town, but people- their customers scared and have been complaining about silence which is hard to stand in empty town.

There are lots of pictures and it is a truly amazin' retrospective view into one of the major man-made disasters of the last century. Some of ya'll might remember that I live less than 5 miles from a nuclear power plant, myself.

*Text was cut & pasted exactly as appeared on the site, complete with errors. Remember, however, that author is not from English speakin' country, so, in my opinion, did a good job of communicatin' with such language.