ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
That Subway Window Serial Smasher I mentioned last week has apparently struck 63 times. In other words, he has successful and blatantly destroyed MTA property and has yet to be caught. Color me absolutely shocked! WHO WOULD EVER THINK YOU COULD BREAK THE RULES ALL DAY AND NOT GET CAUGHT?
This guy has a better chance of the Subway Snake catching him than the cops.
That New Tunnel… Smell?
Oh Noes! Construction of a new pedestrian tunnel in New Hampshire has local business owners flustered. How dare they build a tunnel!
Meanwhile in Utah, a new highway reconstruction will include another new tunnel that no one is complaining about… because fuck why would you complain about such a thing?
While these silly Americans spin in the wind trying to build new tunnels, Mexican drug cartels be out there digging RAIL TUNNELS under the border.
Kids trash abandoned Mall Karen is Mad!
Some derps posted a video of themselves trashing an abandoned mall and now some “urban explorers” are big mad at them, with quite a few karen’s in the replies talking about calling the cops on them.
Listen, I’ve been exploring for decades now. Places get trashed. Scrappers trying to feed themselves rip out the wiring. Graffiti artists looking for a discreet place to paint pull up. Artists re-purpose ‘bandos for BBQs and illicit gatherings. Abandoned property is inherently lawless. That’s the nature of the beast.
If you want to go out and explore non-trashed locations, you have to travel, and today that means going farther and wider than in decades past.
Stop complaining about it. Nothing will change because scrappers gotta eat, and graffiti is illegal nearly everywhere. And yes, you’ll have kids who just want to break everything. What’s the answer? Have Karen call the cops, throw them in jail and does anyone really believe that will magically make these kids better people?
The kicker here is the location itself: This building is already trashed! There’s no way these kids found this spot on their own. They heard about it on the internet. Explorers opened their big yappers and Quack Quacked all day about this spot. Now it’s trashed and infested with kids looking for clout.
You want to do something about this sort of thing? Keep your fucking mouths shut. Stop telling everyone you know every time you find an abandoned building. You want to get photos of untouched, long abandoned locations? Be ready to travel, do your own research, find spots before anyone else does, and photograph them before anyone shows up to trash it. Because that will happen. It has been like this since day one of ‘urban exploring’ and always will be. So stop fucking crying about it, do your own research, and shut your damn mouths.
ACAB
Whoever manages the official twitter account of the NYPD 26th precinct is apparently a conspiracy theory loving, brain worm infested, racist ass nazi motherfucker. But you already knew that.
They’re taking their cues from the Mayor himself, of course. Last week DeBlasio announced there would be Covid checkpoints at various entry points into NYC. As if anyone actually wants to come here right now…
…and of course, DeBlasio didn’t even bother to notify Port Authority cops about this plan, because hey why should the right hand know what the left is doing?
To round things out, NYPD loves to lie, even as a means to attack it’s own officers. Heaven forbid you don’t tow the party line. This was further evidenced last week when cops sent two helicopters and thirty officers to arrest a BLM organizer. They are heard repeated lying to the victim in an instagram live video, stating they had a warrant (none was ever shown), and that his lawyer was outside (the lawyer was on the phone with him, and most definitely not on the scene). The NYPD literally blew at least 50-100k of taxpayer money to harass a black man. Talk about institutional racism.
Mainstream media loves to talk shit about China and Russia ‘disappearing’ people but that’s what some in US law enforcement are trying to do, right here and now.
A swarm of shorties.
Guys guys guys there’s an abandoned home made box cab locomotive that was cobbled together using random ass spare parts, and it is legit the most bad ass thing I’ve ever seen. No you can’t have it. I see y’all making eyes at my soulmate here, but it’s too late. I’VE ALREADY NAMED IT! Find your own!
Jealous?
Don’t be, I’m nowhere near as cool as this guy licking a UP locomotive.
Rats are making a big NYC comeback and they gunna bite you in the ass!
LOL check out this epic stupidity battle between a judge and the city of Augusta, where the judge ruled the city absolutely must reopen a bando school and “law enforcement center”. Fuck that burn them both to the ground.
Youngstown Ohio is rallying to save… …an abandoned McDonalds. Hey uh, excuse me. Can y’all please turn that Ohio up another notch?
There’s a New York Times article about street art on boarded up storefronts around NYC and honestly building owners should be paying the artists for such works.
Speaking of graffiti, there should definitely be a Cornbread park.
Brooklyn’s Bottle Beach is now ‘closed’, which is kind of a joke considering the National Parks Service rangers who patrol is are not known for catching people.
LTV Loot Shop
The LTV loot shop will be temporarily closing next week. All limited edition items (even the scant few that haven’t sold out) will be discontinued. Stay tuned though, I’ll be reopening and releasing another drop sometime around November, filled with some very interesting limited run works of art.
Bando BBQ
Someone tried to set the outside of an abandoned south Cali church on fire and apparently the cops caught in fast? I’m going to bet a nickel this guy was an EDP…
A big ass bando fire took out not one but four buildings near Fresno.
International Update
The UK’s clickbait flavor of the month is a story of a boring bando that became a ‘shag pad‘.
Also in a the UK, an explorer came across a dead body in the abandoned home of a former wrestler. WOOOOOOOOOOO!
This Ukrainian woman who tried to dig a 35 foot tunnel to help her son escape prison is legit mom of the year. My momma always told me ‘don’t get caught I ain’t bailing you out!’. Words to live by I tell you.
And that’s a Wrap:
Itching to get the fuck out of the city? Maybe buying a Cheap Old House is for you? I’ve been following the original instagram account for ages (and have long been struck by how affordable these huge old houses are once you escape coastal cities). It’s a definite lifestyle choice but if you can pull it off, owning is always better than renting.
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