Modern day Ghost Town

[Goodyguy]

Picher Oklahoma



Anyone metal detect there?

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[jeff of pa]

America’s Most Toxic Town

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_madmaxtown/#

[Goodyguy]

America’s Most Toxic Town

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_madmaxtown/#

I guess it could be dangerous to metal detect there without the permission of the local vigilante group. (chat rats)

"Except that a few people refused to leave. They call themselves chat rats, a loose and increasingly self-reliant colony armed with cell phones and Wi-Fi for communication, and guns for driving off scrap-metal scavengers"

[Smallchange]

we drove through there on the way to see a friend and my wife started crying while looking at all the abandoned houses with numbers spray painted on the doors...She just had our last son about 3 weeks before that so I think other forces were at work at the time! Its a desolate place amongst all the towering gravel piles and chain link fence surrounding the mining claims