Short Stories

The Problem With Insane Asylums

The was a man who worked for a local hospital. One day he was entrusted to take 20 Mentally Insane patients to an Insane Asylum. The hospital rented out a large bus, specially designed to keep the patients restrained.

He stopped at a gas station and bought a few bags of chips and bottles of water for the long journey. After putting his stuff beside him in the passenger's seat, he checked on all the patients. They didn't talk and most didn't look at him. They looked hungry and thirsty, so he left to buy them food out of pity.

When he returned to the bus, the patients along with his earlier bought food was gone. He ran to his seat and drove around a bit to find them. As he looked around, he noticed a bus stop sign and exactly 20 innocents waiting for the bus.

The sneaky man pulled over to them and they got on. He explained to his gullible passengers that they had to pass through a mountain because their next destination was blocked because of an accident. He also said that the seat belts and leg restraints keep them from hitting themselves on parts of the his because the mountain is bumpy.

When he arrived into the asylum, he told the passengers to wait because he had to pick up something important. When he went inside he said that these 'patients' were extremely violent and deny mental instability. They nodded understandingly and barged in the bus, putting them in straight jackets and ignoring them screams and pleads.

When they found one of the teal patients living off of chips in the woods, they realized the mistake they made it was too late. The 20 people who were brought to the asylum went insane just by being there. 

How did the caretakers not notice they're different? Because they weren't. They acted like everyone else, every 'mental' person htere is in fact sane. Insane Asylums don't always know if someone is really insane. That's why we don't use them anymore.

Because that's the problem with insane asylums.