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Exploring News: Corona Virus Fatbergs!

Published on: February 20th, 2020 | Last updated: February 18, 2020 | Written by:

Corona Virus Fatbergs!
If you’re wondering where Corona virus came from, well… once you see it, you’ll never unsee it.

Ok so let’s back up – is there any truth to this story? This story came onto my radar via a U.K. based garbage tabloid, so its validity is suspect AF. Like all good lies though, it’s based in factual information. According it China’s state media outlet, the outbreak began at a food market, where sanitary practices were lacking. Gutter Oiling really is a thing in China. Numerous reliable news outlets have reported on it. It sounds pervasive even today. While we’ll probably never know exactly causation of the current Corona Virus outbreak, it’s safe to say poor sanitary practices played a role.

ATTENTION ‘BANDO KMART SHOPPERS!
“Free Drunk Ass, non-lawyer, upstate New York Judge has just arrived (via crashing through our front door!) Come Get Yo Mans!”

I’ll bet a nickel that all charges will be dropped.

ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
Some silly goons put on Haz-Mat suits and pranked a subway car full of extremely gullible derps. That’s how you know it’s 2020, because if this shit was the 1980s we’d be like GIT DA FUCK OUTTA HERE WIT DAT I’M RIDING HERE!

Speaking of “Riding Here“.

The MTA has finally retired their last remaining R42 cars. True story I learned a ton about the subway system riding these cars growing up.

Graffiti writers did two more Whole Trains out by Jamaica Yard. I’m a little surprised they pulled this off, considering the attention cops have been paying to those layups. Nevertheless, the right wing OMG NYC Bad Old Days people have very much lost their minds over this.

Shorties:
Artist Okuda San Miguel redecorated an abandoned house in Fort Smith, Arkansas and shoo-ey those buck-tooth po’buckers down there ain’t never seen nuttin like it!

Residents of Niles, Michigan are all riled up about a huge bando factory which has sat vacant for nearly ten years. Looks like a really fun place to shoot at.

If you’ve never heard all the conspiracy theories about Denver’s huge airport, well, get yourself educated. What DID they build under there?

The dead decaying Northridge Mall is still living that zombie life.

LOL Seattle has no fucking clue what or who urban exploring is.

To the surprise of absolutely everyone, ‘bando factories in Detroit are full of random chemicals.

Rosedale, Colorado has a huge abandoned school that they’re looking to do something with. It looks fairly well secured, considering it has been abandoned over ten years and hasn’t burned to the ground.

Forbes has a garbage article about “Dark Tourism“—what non-explorers call being edgy.

Bando BBQ!
Another dirty ass Canadian Bando burned up in Kamloop. Where the fuck is Kamloop you ask? Fuck if I know.

Cops arrested a homeless man after he accidentally lit up the Eugene, Oregon ‘bando he was living in.

International Update
Auckland, New Zealand is building a massive new commuter tunnel. Wouldn’t mind seeing that construction project.

A seriously old tunnel was found in Bengal.

An abandoned UK college has been turned into a Netflix show set. And ooooo also in the UK, Skelmersdale College is a ‘bando to put on your shopping list.

The city of Botoşani, in Northeast Romania, is going to spend roughly $1M to scan for long forgotten tunnels below the city, with an eye on opening them to tourism. Why the fuck they’re not just paying Urbexers to do this is beyond me (smells like a scam).

A Ghost Ship ran itself aground near Cork, Ireland. The ship was drifting across the Atlantic for seventeen months. The story of this ship is reeeeallly worth a read.

AND THAT’S A WRAP RANT.
There are quite a few old white graffiti artists in NYC who are openly supporting Donald Trump. If you don’t get why that’s a problem, consider who Trump’s BFF is: Rudy Giuliani. Under Ghooliani, Graffiti became a ‘quality of life’ crime to be violently suppressed by his NYPD goons. He oversaw the creation of a new anti-graffiti squad dedicated to rounding up writers. He pushed for higher criminal charges against writers. Before Giuliani, tagging in NYC would result in a slap on the wrist. After Giuliani, writers were hit with bigger fines, forced to do hours of ‘community service’, and were often assaulted by cops upon arrest. He started a database to track writers, and his goons would periodically stalk or raid the homes of those with prior graffiti arrests (They literally had a team for this, ironically called G.H.O.S.T.).

So when you see any graffiti writer openly supporting Trump, you really have to question their intelligence and motivations. They are supporting someone who definitely rather see them in Jail. The only assumption I can make is that any writer who supports Trump is either a complete fucking idiot, or a racist nazi garbage human being who I rather not know.

And if you’re thinking maybe you should vote for Bloomberg, well… some of y’all gotta wake the fuck up. It’s Bernie or bust, folks.

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