I picked up Mr. Flufferbottom and set him gently in the trash incinerator, along with his uneaten breakfast.

The city is under state receivership after its finances were entangled in a complicated scheme for upgrading a trash incinerator.

In 2011, reeling under a mountain of debt tied to renovations of the city trash incinerator, Harrisburg filed for bankruptcy.

Harrisburg is in a $317 million hole due largely to the expensive repairs and upgrading of its trash incinerator.

It has been struggling under some $320 million of debt stemming from expensive upgrades and repairs to its trash incinerator.

Then one night we're doing a job on this place the kids called a satanic worship site in this old shut-down trash incinerator.

For example, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, may come close to defaulting because it financed an expensive trash incinerator that has burned through cash without generating revenue.

The financial crisis has been tied to $300 million in public debt that was accumulated during an ill-fated retrofit of the city trash incinerator.

The unlucky were sent to trash incinerators and, as Saul was well aware, were often still alive when thrown in.

"This is the trash incinerator," says Peter, slapping the square door.

'You could say,' he began, 'that my birth into this incarnation was from a plastic crate on the conveyor of the Calais trash incinerator...'