The bad guy ended up trapped in the silo with the corn or whatever pouring down on him.

That was also in an episode of Smallville. Just if you were wondering.

What was the silo thing in Witness? Someone get burried by silage?

I just picked up the anniversary DVD of Witness that came out last week, and on the making-of documentary, Weir says that this scene was the most dangerous one to film, especially since they used the actor, and not a stuntman (they got a scuba tank and mouthpiece from the nearest town, and kept it within arm's reach of the actor, who reached for it when he couldn't hold his breath anymore).

Working in grain elevators is dangerous, not only due to falling silage, but also because of spontaneous combustion explosions, which killed a distant cousin of mine some fifteen years ago (I don't think that they ever found his body, since it was pretty well vaporized along with the other eight elevator employees killed).

But oh, the hayloft and the light that came through the walls and the sound of rain on the tin roof and the smells.

Playing hide-and-seek in Gramma's barn (empty of livestock after Grandpa died when I was a baby), climbing up the ladder to the hayloft for a game of basketball, playing king of the hill on the haybales, dodging around the old school desks stored there (the church school didn't have any storage space, so Gramma agreed to hang on to them)--fun times.

That is fucked-up, yo.

Heh. I take it you've never seen a Survival Research Laboratories show.

I guess not. I don't even know what that is.

playing king of the hill on the haybales

I loved climbing on haybales. But my dad didn't bale hay (hence the blowing of chopped hay into the barn) so the only time I got to do that was when we were visiting somone else's farm or if my dad had to buy baled hay when we had a poor crop of our own.

I got to drive the tractor when I was little. I got it profoundly stuck in mud. I also got to drive the truck, which now makes me cringe.

playing king of the hill on the haybales

Who got to be Boomhauer?

I never got to play on hay bales as a kid, or on tractors.

Given my self injury track record, this might be a good thing.

ION news, As of right now, I have nothing important left to do today. Can I go home before someone changes that?

I got to drive the tractor when I was little. I got it profoundly stuck in mud. I also got to drive the truck, which now makes me cringe.

I was ten the first time I drove a tractor. And maybe 11 the first time I drove a truck - I had to drive it to the back forty for my dad. The only thing I did wrong was parking it on a hill with it still in drive (it was the first time I drove something with an automatic).

Once I had to help my dad get a tracter out of the mud - I drove one of the two other tractors he chained to it to help pull it out. Good times....

Hay bales were so much fun to clamber all over!

My sister has bought hay bales to put in her yard when she had masses of children running around. I can't remember why she had masses of children in her yard, must have beeen a party or something.

So has she lived in nice, safe areas all her life?

Maybe Bob et. al. were displayed prominently to make any intruders entering through the open door think twice about continuing into the home?