YSK: manholes are dangerous. Never mind the nastiness and falling hazard. Many are cast-iron and because of the rust, the interior can be a low-oxygen environment. And that’s not the only way the air can be too fouled to breathe safely.
If you’ve ever seen professinals entering manholes, they’ll be using a ventilation system to ensure fresh air and safety.
EDIT: this isn’t just about breathing, sewer gasses can be fire/explosion hazards too.
Its not so much iron as it is all the organic matter that gets run into most drainage systems that decays and consumes oxygen while doing so.
Some guys did use this here while searching for ancient stuff, one died while 2 other escaped. It looks like an old woman was giving them info on where the ancient stuff are, which was wrong. It turned out, she was wrong.
‘you know what we should do for our infrastructure? a network of tubes [the internet is not a big truck, it’s a series of tubes] that can kill you and cause explosions, underneath the whole city’
‘bill, the is the best idea you’ve had since installing lead pipes, a real visionary’
Yeah, we really need to go back to emptying our chamberpots into the streets.
See, that’s the kind of out-of-the-box thinking we need around here!
Even when that was common, there was a gutter that ran along the sides of the streets. People wouldn’t just dump shit in the middle of the road, they’d pour it in the gutter and the rain would wash it away.
Still not the best thing ever, but it’s not like people had to wade through ankle-deep piss and shit just to get to the store…
Tangential: I passed an old street in the “Quarter” of New Orleans that was ripped up for construction. And let me tell you, the smell was familiar and horribly new at the same time. That olfactory memory certainly sticks with me
Gnarly.
No, it would just splash around, and also just be raw sewage sitting out in the open air. Super hygienic.
Most of them have covers and just specific spots where you can pour stuff in.
I’m not saying it’s better than plumbing and sewer systems, just that it’s not as bad as it sounds.
There had to be laws about people just dumping chamber pots out their windows, which means that people were doing that.
…Aim for the gutter…
Yeah, it’s a wild idea, but the number of lives they’ve saved and extended far outweigh any danger. Sewer systems might actually be what increased average human lifespans more than almost anything else in history.
Wait until you hear about the other network of underground tubes that can kill you and cause explosions underneath the whole city.
Now we know how Valve actually operates on a financial level.
Wtf Mamdani, let people enjoy manholes if they want to, it’s pride month ffs
Leela’s Great(x40) Grandparents
Old New York before New New York was built over its ruins
The time travellers have started arriving to witness the Great Collapse.
Due to the nature of time travel, portals through time can only be opened in an unobserved place. Sewers are just the places most likely be go unobserved, they don’t even bother putting security cameras down there most of the time…
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!
They’re in Brooklyn, wearing strange suits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel_incident - Part 2!
Came here for this, was not disappointed
C.H.U.D.
The 80s were a beautiful time.
Ever see Basket Case?Masterpiece.
I was/am a huge fan of Critters.
I love all of these. I’ll add Phantasm and Frankenhooker.
But where’s Bud?
I get the feeling this has been going on forever, they just didn’t have cameras everywhere to catch it.
must be those Antifa Sewer Soldiers
Mamdani’s Elite Guard
…is it Hasidic Jews again??
Perhaps they’re simply disgraced paranormal investigators following up on reports about pink slime that comes out of the pipes?
Who ya gonna call?
“Let’s the go”
-Super Linguine
“The pickle”
The NYPD, to make sure there was not a threat to the public, sent their highly trained Emergency Services Unit officers into the sewer system
Taking the piss, surely. Good thing the actual experts went in.
the city Environmental Protection Department, which manages the system, also went in
A
witnesssnitch* reported seeing eight people remove a maintenance hole cover near McDonald Avenue and Colin Place in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn.Speaking to NBC New York,
witnesssnitch* Aki Jakupovic said: “Three random guys walking around in a strange suit, open the sewer, go in like Ninja Turtles.” Surveillance footage obtained by NBC New York showed the men carrying flashlights and wearing hip waders. “I was looking at them, they were looking at me, you know, I could tell they were up to no good. They went in there, closed the cover, like, you know, they were never here,” he added.This is the kind of weird news I need to hear.
