My agency, the Railroad Commission, has an abandoned mine section that plugs old mine shafts with federal dollars, so you can blame them. But don't get any wrong ideas...we don't regulate railroads. Go figure. The word is that most or all of the known entrances to old mines in the state were sealed, under the auspices of some state or federal program, either permanently (with concrete slabs or walls or dynamite or bulldozers) or with locked gates (to allow access in case of some emergency or scientific study) and sufficient legal penalties should the gates be violated. Too bad. It was kinda neat having 5000 drunks wandering about during the chili cook-offs with 600 foot pits punctuating the countryside. Now, through the efforts of dedicated do-gooders to protect the public from their own ignorance, we no longer have access to a lot of fun things. Who shall protect us from the ignorance of the do-gooders?
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