XN: Edge of Insanity

Published on: August 20th, 2020 | Last updated: August 17, 2020 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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ASS: Assorted Subway Shenanigans
Interim NYC Subway President Sarah Feinberg suggested to a reporter that they should basically go fuck themselves for tweeting that they couldn’t take the subway because there were no functioning vending machines. With the MTA billions of dollars in the hole, this is a seriously bad look. We’ve gone from Train Daddy to… this? #CuomosMTA is still Cuomoing…

That New Tunnel… Smell?
Looks like those stupid boring Las Vegas tunnels will indeed be expanding, just like Musk’s flailing ego.

For anyone who might happen to be in BENGALURU, go follow that TBM. And speaking of TBMs, New Zealand is getting in on the new tunnel game with their brand new tunnel boring machine.

WHAT THE FUCK IS AN EKRANOPLAN?
READ THIS STORY AND FIND OUT. No really, if there’s one story worth reading this whole month in this newsletter, this is the one.

ACAB & Co.
I’m not one for copaganda but this vid of a California cop saving a dude whose wheelchair got stuck on some freight tracks looks legit enough? Regardless of it’s validity, ya gotta be careful with wheels on tracks… easy place for cyclists to wipe out and meet a particularly gruesome death.

Contrast this with the NYPD, who refused to stop an assault happening directly in front of them, because they were afraid someone might toss some water at them. But hey they are ‘heros’ right? These same ‘heros’ just endorsed noted racist Trump. In 2016 well over 75% of NYC voters voted against the orange fascist clown. But the NYPD of course is largely staffed by officers from the suburbs. Perhaps it’s time to bring back that residency requirement? We don’t need an occupying force here.

QuarantineWhile, the NYC Government is running out of cash, and will likely have to lay off up to 22k employees. Mayor “Tax and Spend” DeBlasio really went wild with hiring and never thought about a day that the city budget might not be flush with cash. Now that day is here, and the reckoning is going to be brutal. It will be years—repeat that with me—years before NYC recovers. And with more office workers leaving the city and planning only to return to their offices a few times per month, the prospects are not looking good. The New York Daily News giving up their office space is just one more sign that commercial real estate will be taking a punch to the face.

Meanwhile, homeless people are still living on the streets, unable to even find bathrooms to keep clean with. Perhaps all these landlords that are pushing restaurants into bankruptcy should have to use these storefronts to shelter homeless and provide the public with bathrooms?

Up in Minneapolis, rioters again targeted a police station with rocks and graffiti, and an apparent lone youth tagged the fuck out of a bunch of cop cars in Hartford.

A swarm of shorties.
It has been awhile since we’ve had a garbage list-icle article to link to, but here’s some abandoned car dealership photos… from the outsides? What is this trash? Does anyone read readers digest anymore? What is even happening here.

LOL New Hampshire exploring derps keep getting busted at this big old home and why even bother with that spot?

Looking for a once in a lifetime chance to check out a tunnel that is usually submerged, where hundreds of sandhogs were exposed to silica dust and died a few years after its’ completion? Well, get your ass down to West Virginia.

There are catholic schools closing all over NYC and now’s your chance to maybe check them out before they get rented out as charter schools.

Speaking of closed church stuff, this big bando United Methodist Church headquarters in Atlanta is about to bite the dust.

LTV Pop Up Loot Shop Closing
The LTV loot shop will be closing up shop Thursday evening. Everything in the shop now will likely not return again. We’ll be back in the fall with some very rare limited edition products.

Bando BBQ
Got that mid sized Birmingham Bando BBQ you ordered up right here. Rated B for BORING! Slightly less boring is this San Diego bando fire, featuring a heavily graffitied building.

International Update
Here’s a fun article about draining in Korea and yes of course it has some models doing a shoot down there. All kidding aside, these are some great looking tunnels that’ll get all you infrastruc-exuals WAP.

Of course a 30 year old corpse was found in a bando in Paris. When in Paris, play it safe and always run Metro tracks.

Cannibal Ants have escaped a nuclear bunker in Russia and now we’re all going to die RIP humanity.

The UK’s eternal struggle against being eaten from below by Fatbergs continues.

Ya heard about the Rock of Gibraltar’s tunnels, yes?

And that’s a Wrap:
Being in the USA right now is kinda like sitting on a powder keg, surrounded by psychopaths with lighters. Have you created your exploring bucket list yet? If you thought cops were bad now, it’s going to be far worse under actual republican fascism. Get it in now, because tomorrow is not assured.

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