All Things Exploring: Of Intergalactic Manholes and an R32 City.

Published on: November 19th, 2019 | Last updated: December 10, 2019 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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METRO AND CHILL
An old Montreal Metro car as been repurposed into a college chill zone. Now that’s some serious hardcore NUMTOTING right there. We should be installing subway cars all over NYC. Central Park? Add a subway car. Times Square? Add a subway car. Colleges? High schools? Elementary school yards? ADD A SUBWAY CAR GOD DAMN IT.

When I’m elected Mayor, I will see to it that every retired rail car finds a reuse. They will be repainted with graffiti and street art. They will be celebrated for their role in saving the planet. We will open an entire CHURCH OF NUMTOT constructed of R32s!!!

This is the Trespassing Stadium Tunnel Cat Squatter content you love:
The black cat who ran out on the field during a football game is apparently part of a feral colony living around and under the stadium. That big chonk looked pretty well fed. Hopefully that kitty is a-ok and doesn’t spark a crackdown on fluffy feral trespassers—because when you’re a cat, the planet is yours. There’s no such a thing as trespassing. Become the cat.

SHE IS THE LION NOW.
Myah Autry, the Bronx Zoo lion lady, turned herself in last Wednesday night. She was finally back out on the streets Friday morning and it seems she has no pending court dates. Sounds like they let her loose on time served? Or just dropped teh case entirely?! Fucken’ crazy either way.

No news outlets seemed to do a followup. The Post pretended the cops caught her, while the Daily News had a more realistic article. The fact here are simple: the cops never would have found her if she didn’t turn herself in. That us taxpayers wasted a whole month of a detectives pay trying to find her really says nothing good about this garbage city.

MTA GOING YOUR WAY
Vandals did some great whole-car art on the D line for Halloween. The MTA really just needs to start running these cars. Everyone—literally everyone, would love it.

Father/Son graff Squad
A father & son graffiti team out on Long Island got busted while street bombin’ in Bay Shore. No word on if their handstyle was even halfway decent.

Shawshank Non-Redemption.
What happens when you have a life sentence, and shortly die in jail before they revive you? You try to get out of jail, of course. The courts didn’t let him loose, of course, but hey, it was worth a shot right?

Florida Man goes Exploring.
Heading to Florida? Here’s a potential shopping list of sites for you.

WHEN SEWERS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD
Lucy sent me this amazing tip that y’all need to see to believe: according to one guy, the first item launched into space was a manhole cover. Eventually this manhole cover will crash into some alien planet and they’ll think that sewers are home to the smartest people in the galaxy. They will pray to the Drain0r Gods.

The case of the Alabama Corpse
Remember those two explorers who found a corpse in a Birmingham warehouse? The body was finally identified.

Trump to the Northeast: Fuck Your Economy
Senators from NJ are still trying to get Team Trump to give a fuck about the North River tubes—aka—the tunnels that link Amtrak and NJ Transit from Jersey to NYC. These tunnels are over one hundred years old, and badly in need of repair or replacement. Trump of course doesn’t give a fuck, despite the fact that when the tunnels collapse, it will severely impact the entire economy of the country.

ONE LESS BANDO!
Demolition began on that old abandoned municipal pool building in Cali, while a old Tobacco stemmery in VA is going to be torn down.

Some little tech company just got over $200k to convert a ‘bando church in Keene into their new office space. Somewhat fittingly, the company specializes in SEO, Pay Per Click ads, and all that online marketing stuff the world worships today. Meanwhile we all out here thinking where do I send the cocaine and blow jobs to bribe me some government funding?

Bando BBQ!
A Canadian ‘bando caught fire for the third time in less than a year and will be demolished. The same goes for an old Canadian National railroad building in Halifax. This is why we can’t have nice bandos people. Maybe this abandoned school in Norfolk, VA will also have to go?

A ‘bando warehouse in Rockford, IL burned out last week. Honestly, I kinda hate Rockford. They seal up their bandos good, and none of them look worth the effort.

A ‘bando apartment building in Logan, W.VA went up in flames in the middle of the night. Squatter fire season is definitely upon us. Fire crews up in Hartford, CT had to handle three fires at once last week—at least one of them was squatter and cold related.

It doesn’t need to be cold for a squatter fire though. Honolulu is filled with homeless people. It’s not surprising when a rare building goes abandoned, squatters move in, and sometimes accidentally start fires. The homeless problem in Hawai’i seems particularly vexing. Housing costs are high. And unlike the rest of the US, if you can’t afford a home it is harder to escape the islands.

Remember that abandoned hotel in Western NY? An arson struck for a third time within a month, finally burning the place to the ground. How many dead hookers were in that place, anyway?

International Update
Check out this great set of photos from a shadowy group of urbexers in Hong Kong. According to them: “There’s no one else out there like us. And the govern­ment should be more active in preserving these places, because it’s also preserving our Hong Kong identity.” Amen. No one gave a damn to photograph or preserve much of NYC’s industrial history these last twenty years. The government shouldn’t whine about our trespassing, they should sponsor us.

Wooo Yaaay a Brexitland Fireworks Factory! And, to the surprise of no one, there are no secret tunnels in Barnstaple.

Pretty horrifying news out of Italy: three firefighters responding to a small fire at an abandoned farm were killed when a bomb went off inside the building. A second device was found nearby. Hopefully the garbage mommaluke who placed these devices gets caught and maybe dismembered himself…

China is building a railway to Laos, dropping in a mind boggling 4,585 meter long tunnel along the way.

That Berlin Wall tunnel we mentioned two weeks back is now open to the public. Apparently Big Media lost their minds trying to be the first to get in it. Fucken Losers. Explorers are always the first in.

A whole new set of catacombs and corpses were found in Egypt this last week.

Don’t forget to check out some weird scenes from inside the New Zealand gold mine.

AND THAT’S A WRAP.
Now that we’re well underway with regular updates, I’m considering potential new names for this newsletter, and some other minor adjustments (like dropping the date from the web version). As always I’m all ears for any story tips y’all got. Yeet that shit into my inbox.

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