A Friendly Reminder (Deleting Items From the End User Recycle Bin)

Don't forget - removing items manually from the end user Recycle Bin will lock your Content Database.

If you're deleting a lot of things, that means it will lock your DB for a *while*.

So, unless you have a dire and immediate need for space (in this case, I kinda did), don't do large-scale pruning until off-hours!