Swagger / eXploring News

Published on: February 17th, 2022 | Last updated: February 14, 2022 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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Programming note…
Where DOES the time go? Obv this newsletter has been on a bit of a winter hiatus. The days of cranking this out every week won’t be back anytime soon, as I’m prioritizing all my writing time on a long overdue novel. I’m going to aim for every month at least though, so I won’t leave y’all hanging.

It was also a rough few weeks. Too many people sick, in danerous situations and even dying. RIP my dude FEISM. I’m still in shock a bit about his passing. A better criminal you could not wish to have by your side on a long night of tagging or running track…

With that in mind, here’s a few bits of news that I did scratch down over the last six weeks…

‘Bando News and Messy Views
Out in LA, you can rob Amazon packaged and guns right off the freight train. And if you don’t want to deal with looting a moving train, maybe derail it? The only thing shocking about this story is that it’s not happening everywhere. Those double stack container trains filled with all sorts of goods bought online and they are ‘locked’ with simple clips that anyone with a bolt cutter can snip off. I will say, the story about guns sounds a lot more like copaganda than reality. Have thieves gotten guns off trains? Probably. Is it happening every day? I find that hard to believe.

Back here in NYC we just cannot avoid talking about NYC’s new ‘swagger’ mayor. He literally told reporters he’s afraid to ride the subway. How as this guy ever a cop? How does that inspire anyone to ever take the train on over to Work Island again? He is intent on bringing back all of the very worst practices of the NYPD in a new ‘war on crime’. ‘Anti-crime’ undercover goons won’t save NYC. They didn’t in the past and they won’t now… maybe some day NYC will have a mayor who isn’t 9871389475893475 years old, and isn’t a sociopath cop republican hiding in a democrat costume.

“So, he’s wrapped up in a blanket and dropped off in the inside of the interior of a vacant business.”—either that’s a crazy typo or the homicide detectives in Detroit talk with marbles in their mouths. Either way, the D racks up yet another ‘bando building corpse.

Back in NJ, I’ve always been amazed at how much disused, abandoned equipment New Jersey Transit (NJT) has laying around. Most of it is actually partially owned by the federal government via loans, so they couldn’t get rid of the stuff. NJT is now moving to rid itself of the 40+ comet III coaches they’ve got lingering down on the shore. Unfortunately, the Morristown & Erie, a serial buyer of garbage passenger cars, is probably out of money and doesn’t have any more track to park this crap. Some scrapper is going to get a good deal.

LOL check out this Oath Keeper idiot who allegedly has a secret escape tunnel, as if he’s fucken El Chapo. Dude’s nothing more than a racist hillbilly, he should crawl in his hole and die there.

A security guard was shot and killed in TEXAS outside a ‘bando that was apparently being used as an illegal game room and what the fuck is that even? Game as in hunting deer? Game as in all night poker with high rollers throwing down fifty boxes of ziti on wagers?

Speaking of Texas, you too can buy an abandoned bunker down there for just under $400k.


Too underground for you? Maybe you want something with it’s own air strip, in the middle of nowhere South Dakota? Sure, you can have that.

Can these abandoned train stations in the Bronx be saved?

A hiker who must have gotten mad high or something got lost while hiking the impossible railroad in southern Cali. if you’re familiar with the terrain, you know how absolutely absurd it would be for anyone to get lost up there.

Are there tunnels under Anchorage, Alaska? Maybe. But there’s definitely an abandoned tiki bar and shooting range. Sounds like a good time.

People in Dayton, Ohio are pissed their town is full of ‘Bandos but they keep voting for the same idiots whose policy choices created this situation…

Do homeless people ever escape from the tunnels under Las Vegas? Of course.

So let’s just throw the proverbial media bucket at literally everything any urban explorer finds in the UK. This week alone we’ve got a story about a daredevil explorer (whatever that is), an abandoned dentists office with ‘creepy‘ false teeth, a ‘creepy‘ abandoned polo club, a ‘creepy tunnel‘ in north Wales, and an ‘eerie‘ castle. So what I’m hearing is the UK is full of creeps? 😛 HEY! Y’all cracc about the states all day. Nothing but love folks.

Also in the UK, that new tunnel at Stonehenge? Still happening I suppose.


Bando Burning up and Biting the Dust
Last fall I reported on a big ole’ fire at a ‘bando in Tyler, Texas. That very same building caught fire again, likely as a result of squatters trying to stay warm.

If you’re anywhere near Knoxville, TN, check out this big bando building before someone seriously lights it up.

Check out this wonderful ole’ powerplant in Canada that was imploded last weekend.

A bando in Burlington, Vermont burned up last weekend and if Bernie Sanders was still mayor that building would been active, used to house people, and not a blight on the city. I blame capitalism. But hey I blame capitalism for literally everything bad. Because, well, that’s usually the root cause. Don’t blame me those are the rules.

Wrap up…
Spring’s coming. Stay well, go forth, loot, tag and vandalize like there’s no tomorrow. Because there might not be one.

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