EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
In some shocking news, the abandoned WA mining town, ‘Wittenoom’ is alleged to be opening again despite being closed several years ago due to dangerous health concerns, after the government realised they could potentially make a quick buck from it.
Known as the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere, Wittenoom was once a prosperous mining town during the asbestos boom (20,000 residents) before it was officially wiped from the map in 2006 – three years after the government cracked down on the use of asbestos.
Roughly 2,000 people have already lost their lives to asbestos related diseases from living in the town, with more expected to die in the future as asbestos can take decades to kill someone. This has also included the complete devastation to the indigenous Pilbara community, as it was mostly local Aboriginal men who drove the trucks, and loaded and unloaded the bags of asbestos collected.
However, despite people being warned to stay away from the ghost town, visitors have continued to travel to the area out of curiosity – because there’s nothing more fascinating than potentially breathing in miniscule fibres that can cause you an excruciating death!
So now, encouraged by the recent news that five billionaires happily paid an exorbitant amount of money to travel to the depths of an ocean in a tin can built with spare parts, the Western Australian government is now offering the world’s richest people the opportunity to stay in the Wittenoom mine and sleep on a bed of comfy blue asbestos – for just a cool $250,000.
“If you really want an adrenaline rush, there’s nothing more exciting than playing in a pile of the most deadliest form asbestos in the world”, says a local councilman, “now imagine the bragging rights when you’re the one to die last.”
“We’ll even thrown in some tradie gear and they can pretend they’re one of the working class plebs that had to mine these devil fibres.”
“Delicioso!”
More to come.
