XN: The Dankening

Published on: July 9th, 2020 | Last updated: July 8, 2020 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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That New Tunnel Smell
Akron, Ohio built a large expensive drain tunnel, and just took out a an insurance policy to protect it. Sure wish I knew about that sucker when I was in Akron last year. Then again, they had plenty of bandos to check out too.

Up in Michigan, a new gas pipeline, that is set to run through a new tunnel, will not be fast tracked.

Quarantinewhile, in Mexico, OIL SMUGGLERS are now using underground tunnels to transport their stolen goods. I absolutely love Mexico. No matter what type of illegal shit you’re moving, there’s a tunnel for it.

The new MB tunnel in Australia likely will have opened by the time you’re reading this. And up in Canada, progress continues on two new commuter rail tunnels.

ACAB
Ooooo the Post is BIG MAD that protesters tagged up a courthouse and chased away a naked Trump supporting attention whore.

For perspective, check out this BLM protest in IDAHO. Where counter-protesters assaulted a few BLMers and many of them wore nazi symbols. These are the people who our grand parents and great grand parents fought to eradicate in the 1940s. What an absolute embarrassment that we have someone occupying the white house fully supporting these actual nazis. They should all be rounded up and shot in the head.

Meanwhile, NYC’s garbage politicians mostly voted for a budget last week that includes building new jails and maintaining NYPD staffing levels while cutting nearly all other social services. And if you think all of the social services being slashed this time around are bad, just wait until next years budget—which is also projected to have a huge hole in it. Will the same idiot city council folks vote again next year to maintain 36k police officers in NYC? For contrast, London has 31k cops and a similar population size.

While everyone is arguing that we need more cops (due to more crime), the NYPD has a long history of faking it’s crime numbers. So is crime actually up, or are they just reporting crime to aid their argument for more funding? Why should we rely on their traditionally falsified numbers?

There’s literally no need for this huge headcount. Simply not hiring more cops for 3-5 years would allow the numbers to organically drop to something more realistic. But here we are… with cops sitting on nearly ever other street corner in Manhattan all night goofing off on their phones (go to midtown at 1AM, see for yourself), and doing nothing to catch actual violent criminals.

Margaret Morton, RIP
NYC photographer and true urban exploring original Margaret Morton passed away this last weekend. Margaret moved to NYC in the 1980s and became fixated on documenting the lives of NYC’s Homeless population. She entered squats and tunnels just to seek out the homeless, whom she would befriend and photograph. Her work was instrumental in finding homes for those who lived in the Freedom tunnel just before Amtrak kicked them all out in 1996. She did this work during what was one of the more violent, sketchy periods in the New York underground. Homeless people often were less than welcoming of strangers in their domain. To be a woman, fearlessly entering this forgotten underside of the city was remarkable in it’s own right.

I only had occasion to meet her once, during and after a reading for New York Calling (for which we both wrote chapters). She struck me and an amazingly down to earth, humble documentarian of nearly forgotten lives. While it is sad she’s departed from this world a bit too soon, her work will live on, and the lives she touched will forever have been brighter for the honor of knowing her.

ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
OF COURSE the MTA is testing strange chemicals to clean the subway.

Meanwhile, the NYPD seems to be no closer to catching the terrorist who murdered a train operator and destroyed an entire subway in March.

A DYNAMIC DUO OF SHORTIES
The cops caught up with a spouse-abusing drug addict in an abandoned building and god damn that guy must have had one hell of a bender at 9AM. Should have stuck to wake and baking… and maybe not assaulting anyone of course.

In absolutely amazing Philly news, the old Graffiti Pier is going to stay exactly as it is.

Bando BBQ
That big industrial bando that caught fire in Sioux City Iowa last week was likely set by transients.

An old health facility just outside Cleveland had fires in two buildings at once last week. Located across the street from a catholic school, I’ll bet a nickel on who the culprits were.

Two idiots were busted after setting an old coal transfer building in Michigan on fire. Over in Utah, it looks like some other muddafucka set this big ass building on fire.

Speaking of absolute idiots and Gobshites, some eegits in Dudley, England set a grand old abandoned school on fire, and now it’s gone.

International Update
Thousands of Horny Monkeys have taken over abandoned restaurants and movie theaters in Thailand, as they battle each other over the lack of food (traditionally provided by tourists).

NICE. The corpses of hundred of people who literally had their heads chopped off were recently found under a chapel in Paris. Speaking of SKULLS, want to buy a human skull? And hey if you’re really into Bunkers Booze and Bones, those Odessa catacombs keep making the news.

Some Derp-xurz visiting Taiwan nearly got smashed by a train while exploring a long dark tunnel filled with mystery and intrigue.

Smart ass kids in the UK mocked some cops who scaled a seven foot wall to come find them (there was a stairs like right there). Good to see that the Marty Method is still alive and well in 2020 (named after a Montreal radio DJ/explorer who always found the hardest way possible into any bando).

And that’s a Wrap:
Summer has truly arrived and sat on NYC’s face. The Dankening is overwhelming. AND YET, fun can be found all over town for those eager to seek it out.

Enjoy this oddly quiet moment, for the next wave of chaos is sure to creep up on us soon enough.

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