Roasted Nuts / eXploring News

Published on: July 28th, 2021 | Last updated: July 25, 2021 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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File Under HOLY SHIT!
Last week’s subway flooding in Zhengzhou, China is a must read, must see set of photos and videos. Apparently the result of overzealous dam building and our new climate apocalypse-normal, the government is calling it a once in a thousand year flood. You know, just like that sweaty car salesmen trying to talk you into buying a 2002 nissan. Anyway, it seems at least 12 people died in the subway flood, though governments love to under-count these types of numbers. One can only wonder when this won’t happen in the US again? (Hurricane Sandy put quite a bit of NYC’s subways under water) Fuck it, the world looks better when nature reclaims it anyway…

Not even a week later, and London’s tube suffered severe disruptions due to flooding. Think about that. We’re talking about fucking LONDON here. It’s always raining ion London. Literally.

Meanwhile, water has become a lootable commodity in California. You would think maybe republicans would consider the creation of entire new crime categories as a reason to be against climate change but STATES RIGHTS! Or something?

‘Bando News and Messy Views
Hey look it’s time for those once every four year abandoned Olympic venue photos.

File Under Attention Whoring: this video with 800k views (and counting) of someone screaming in an abandoned mental hospital. I sure do hope some Q-Anon fans still exist, so they can claim this video is real. Maybe this is where the fake ballots are born?

St. Cloud Minnesota is planning to restore an abandoned tunnel as a home for bats. No word on if any mentally deranged billionaires plan to live and hide weapons down there with them. Wow that was a terrible line eh? What kind of Joker is writing this?!

“West Virginia communities want to clean up abandoned buildings. But where’s the money?” IDK ask fake democrat president Joe Manchin cuz I’m sure he doesn’t give one fuck.

KFDM has a story about some guy looting an abandoned hospital in Texas, and now of course the town wants to do something about the property but can’t. Also, KFMDM has nothing and everything to do with this story—cuz when you’re looting, you defo should be blasting some Megalomaniacal.

There’s a new online tool that can help you find abandoned buildings in St Louis. Or you could also just throw a rock in any direction and hit one. IDK go on down there fuck around and find out.

Meanwhile, in Russia, Vladimir Putin lives in a house connected to what sounds like an entire underground pocket universe. The Flerkin would approve. Speaking of The Flerkin, Loki is cool and all but when is there going to be a whole god damned show about Flerkins?

You heard about these abandoned planes in Thailand? Apparently squatters charge admission—not sure if they charge to paint them tho it’s probably worth fucking around to find out.

Part of an abandoned apartment building in Cleveland collapsed, and I’m kinda big mad I can’t get over there and explore it.

The abandoned Catesby Tunnel in the UK has been converted to a wind tunnel test site for F1 race cars. No word on if you can go on in and do a test drive but I’d pay a solid wooden nickel for that.

The abandoned mausoleum in Cranston, RI is getting some more media attention. Filled with hundreds of dead bodies, this building has been officially declared ‘abandoned’ by the courts. According to Cranston’s new Mayor, “We’re looking at homeless people, drug addictions, prostitution. All taking place here”. Sounds like one hell of a party! Sign me up!

New Tunnel Smell
While not a new tunnel, this report of the MTA looking to buy robots to do tunnel drilling work is—interesting. The technology exists to eliminate a lot of manual maintenance and inspection work, but the MTA’s union is definitely not a fan of this sort of automation.

Read all ’bout the challenges of building a new tunnel in Mumbai.

Yo Yo Yo you catch the Merch Drop?
We are now restocked on LTV Track Gang shirts! Get them while you can, because once they are sold out, they likely won’t be coming back into stock.

‘Bando Building BBQ – Bakersfield Blitz Edition.
An abandoned movie theater in Colorado was lit up and investigators are asking the public for information and there’s not really anything sadder than a desperate investigator staying up at night hoping someone snitches so he can go arrest someone get some overtime and maybe catch up on his child support payments.

The abandoned Hobet mine in West Virginia has become a haven for crime and arson and really, it’s only sad that no coal executives were tied up and toasted there.

Bakersfield residents are hoping capitalism will magically put a stop to their weekly abandoned building fires—the latest claiming a closed Chinese restaurant. That makes about as much sense as Britney Spears conservatorship.

Firefighters in Florida “saved” a single story abandoned building from burning up. Who wants to bet a nickel the arsonist goes back and finishes the job?

And that’s a wrap…
Y’all ready for the third wave of this virus? Big shout out to all the un-vaccinated idiots out there, for whom the delta variant would not be possible. If y’all can just die this time around that would be great.

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