Centralia, Pa., just cannot catch a break. First, in 1962, a slow-burning fire in the network of abandoned coal mines under Centralia caused sinkholes, carbon monoxide plumes, and insane underground temperatures that made it unlivable. Then the town was evacuated and condemned. And now? Now, as Buzzfeed discovered, the place is just crawling with dicks.

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Some of the vandalism is a little more generic:

And there’s lots of other graffiti. Some of it’s even kinda positive.

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Jennifer Boyer

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(Note, however, small dick on righthand side of above photo.)

Anyway, this is just another reason to be wary of coal. Did solar ever lead to a town being covered in dicks? It did not. Solar leads to places being covered in dickheads. Totally different.