Exploring News: Subway Smear

Published on: May 21st, 2020 | Last updated: May 18, 2020 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
As expected, it seems the subway shutdown is just being used as a coverup for massive fraud. A brave contractor talked to NY1 and showed videos of how they are given garbage low cost PPE and are mopping the floors with the same dirty water all day, effectively smearing the dirt all over the place. This checks out with what I personally witnessed last week: a station where it quite literally looked like someone just smeared a tasty combo of diarrhea and steel dust everywhere.

In other big news, the MTA is tinkering with the idea of making people reserve some space for their commute and since we’re living in the worst time line, I would expect them to start by giving everyone 6 feet and shrink that down to the customary -6 centimeters with someone else’s privates up against your ass in a few months.

Staten Islanders are Big Mad about this reservation idea, because they are worried about all the upgrades the subway system needs and OmG HoW ArE wE GoInG To PaY FoR It?! Ok Staten Islander.

I’m not sure how a reservation system would work for the subway, but if it includes reserving the ability to beat the shit out of fckjoshy, I am all for it. Someone should throw his candy ass on the third rail and dump some milk on his head. Let’s live stream his death and make an example out of him. Because we need a lot more examples of what happens when you’re a racist trash human in NYC. Because if you fuck around, you might find out.

Cops took an MTA bus being used by Essential Workers and turned in into a temporary homeless shelter, further proving all the bad things people say about cops.

I am all for allowing Raccoons to take to our subways. Let them eat the trash because lord knows the MTA ain’t cleaning that shit.

Serg & Ovie bust
Serge & Ovie were busted painting trains up in the Bronx last weekend. Apparently workers spotted them in the yard and called the cops. This represents a pretty rare arrest of graffiti artists, who have been otherwise running wild throughout NYC.

Police State News
There is literally a company called “StrongArm” that is now making devices that flash obnoxious lights and sound an alarm if you get within six feet of someone else wearing this device. How long before garbage companies like Amazon start using this tech on their warehouse workers and using it as an excuse to fire people? Can you think of all the ridiculously dystopian ways this tech can and will be used against you in the future?

BUY YOURSELF A NIKE MISSILE BUNKER
There is a former Nike Missile launching site (complete with abandoned buildings) for sale in Southern New Jersey. Apparently the bunkers are located in a separate nearby site which would be easy to wander into from your new property.

Shorties
WOW big surprise LITERALLY EVERYONE loves trespassing in houses under construction. Ahmaud Arbery was just curious like everyone else. One more reason why trespassing in unoccupied spaces should not be a crime.

You hate to see it: Illinois handing out cash to local governments to demolish abandoned buildings. Of all the millions of things to better spend money on right now.

Real estate developers in Alabama might finally have found a re-use for an abandoned mall. Not sure how Jay and Silent Bob feel about this.

Gary, Indiana is still trying to figure out what to do with all it’s abandoned schools.

New Jersey is still waiting for federal government funds for the Gateway Tunnel project—cash that will definitely never materialize until the current tunnels collapse. And even then, racist right wing assholes like Mitch McConnell will fight against it, calling it a ‘blue state bailout’.

Santa Cruz drug smuggling tunnel history, anyone?

Covid-19 is spreading at a significantly higher rate on Riker’s island—as if we needed any further proof that NYC’s racist ass “justice system” is filled with anything other than contempt for those caught up in the system.

Bando BBQ
An old elementary school outside Knoxville got the torch treatment. Perhaps by the same idiots who set a fire at the old Knoxville College campus last week?

An abandoned industrial building in Salt Lake City burned up after because Mitt Romney is GOING TO HELL! Wait, what? Who typed that?

Firefighters in San Diego rescued a homeless man who was trapped in a blazing abandoned Day Spa. Guess he didn’t get that happy ending he was looking for…

An abandoned apartment building in Concord, CA went up in flames. Located near an abandoned military base, it’s a wonder that this building survived this long.

Arsonists apparently just love this Koreatown (LA) bando strip mall.

And on a more grim note, a cool old mill building in Norton, Mass. caught fire last week.

International Update
Curious about Japan’s underground? Well, here you go.

Abandoned or nearly vacant villages in Italy might see a revival due to covid. The same argument might be made for rural areas of the USA, though it seems verrrrry unlike that anyone will be moving to some of the ghost towns hours away from the nearest hospitals. I’m pretty sure no one is moving to Balfour, North Dakota anytime soon.

LOL someone threw a rock at some UK ghost hunters and they ran like children. Reminds me of the time we chased some teens out of an abandoned mental hospital just after midnight. You’d think that yelling “Get back here! Asbury Park Auxiliary Fake Police!” would have made them realize they were being pranked but someone people just like running away?

AND THAT’S A WRAP
NYC is still somewhat surreal right now. Crime is up and streets are bombed hard with graffiti. The subway is still kind of a ghost town during the day. At 3AM, you can drive for twenty minutes through Manhattan without a single car in front of or behind you. Meanwhile, at rush hour traffic is up and will probably get extremely worse because the MTA is so bad at cleaning it’s shit and control their contractors.

As dangerous as this virus is, there’s nowhere else I rather ride out this storm. The city is yours for those bold enough to make the most of a bad situation.

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