What’s The Goss?!
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Michigan cops are BIG MAD that “drift” (aka driftershoots, who has changed his name a few times now on IG in recent days) climbed the Mackinac bridge and apparently got away with it. The trouble for Drifter is that all these social media outlets are cowards who quickly hand over your name, phone number, GPS location, cell tower pings, your fuckbois’ measurements, etc. Unless our dude used a burn phone, it really is only a matter of time before they catch up with him. Changing his user name won’t stop them. May as well own it and try to parlay the fame into something else.
In other news look at these shitbag UK cops FINING a bunch of explorers for violating Covid travel restrictions. Maybe they shouldn’t have been in a pack of five, but driving to an abandoned building to go chase away the boredom? Daaaaamn! Free my dudes we all need the cracc!
What else is popping? Logan Hicks is selling more prints from this years Covid shutdowns. Never bad to support real art.
PhotoDom‘s got all kinds of great photo related items on sale for your holiday needs.
SUBWAY GRAFFITO OUTBREAK!
Not only are subway trains being graffiti bombed again, those trains are now getting painted with pieces far more elaborate than we’ve seen in years. Jose Martinez broke this story early last week, in an article he interviewed me for. The NY Post followed up two days later with its own article.
As I was telling Jose: graff writers are clearly spending more time painting in more detail. A few years back, writers were doing whole trains with big letters just to prove it could be done (especially after the epic takedown of my fam in MUL Crew years back for their whole train—which was unprecedented at the time). Now that graffiti is practically legal in NYC (lots of word of mouth chatter that cops just look the other way), and subways are closed overnight, writers have more space to play.
Johnny 5 of course is pumping out the copaganda—claiming they need more cops to stop this. Yeah ok there work slowdown guy. Cops could catch writers if they wanted to. But it’s clear they don’t.
This shit is like Marijuana. Just make it fucken legal already. NYC could have curated, extremely artistic permission painted subways. It would draw thousands of tourists. But our garbage elected officials and cops still believe in the suppression of of graffiti art, which has racist roots. Legalization needs to be a campaign issue in 2021. Let’s make NYC the art capital of the world once again.
That New Tunnel Smell
Protesters in the UK shut down Stonehenge as they fight against a new access tunnel set to be built on the site.
Also in the UK, NIMBYs and ‘green activists’ are shitting on London’s Silvertown auto tunnel plan because they want zero infrastructure to be built for cars ever again. Can’t say I agree with that mindset. Meanwhile, New Zealand might crank out a new road tunnel and good for them, going ahead there and separating auto traffic and pedestrians. What a concept!
Subway Madness
Why am I not surprised someone with the last name “Caputo” was robbing the MTA of nearly half a million dollars in fake overtime. What a dim-wit. Sure, pad the OT a little, but like any crime you gotta never go too far. I’ve never met a Caputo who knew when to stop.
Shorty’s Short Shorts
My dudes you got to check out this twisted story out of Waltham (MA)—where the admin building of an abandoned developmental campus was set on fire. The kicker here is that the town is using the property for a tasteless holiday light display. They are “ChristWashing” the abuse that took place here.
San Fran’ cut some corners and didn’t clean their tunnel ballast and fucken duh of course that’s going to bite you in the ass! ANY NUMTOT COULD HAVE TOLD THEM THIS. Wash your rocks bish!
A huge old hospital at Fort Knox is being demolished. Also down south, officials in Meridian (MS) have condemned a gorgeous old building that reprobates are attracted to like a roach motel!
Why is Forbes publishing UE content? And boring content at that?
Bando BBQ
A ‘bando building in LES caught fire last weekend and took out the very historic church next door. Hopefully they can recover but it’s looking real grim.
The old Eagle Mountain abandoned prison in California had a fire last week and if you don’t know where this bando is, well, thank you media for providing a handy map 🙂 The whole damn town is a bando!
A massive old paper mill in Oregon caught fire over the weekend. One less glorious bando…
Sounds like another squatter fire in Salt Lake City and damn, just house the homeless already. Maybe then we won’t have to read even more news stories like this one, where someone in Fort Worth was rescued by firemen in a flaming bando.
International Update
This hospital in Co. Galway seems to be the worst kept exploring secret in Éire.
Check out this least exciting narration of an abandoned UK theater.
NUMTOT wine from a Japanese train station? Sure, why not…
And that’s a Wrap:
Tis the season to just fuck all this shit.
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