Preserved Topic: A childhood AHEM, teenage dream...

Ahh, today me and my friends discovered something very, very.... Cool....


Yes, today after school we came across a long, long, water tunnel that goes underneath a road. We saw a little opening/drainage place in a parking lot and noticed the tunnel led to it. We explored under this tunnel in pitchblackness with spiders and grasshoppers, and we went about 100 feet before we got to this... Room! Where the drainage brought light! We came back an hour later with a hammer and some nails and furniture... Some nails in the walls and some shelves went up, some spray paint on the walls, some chairs, and a.... toilet ... All in like an area of 6x5 feet and its about 7-8 feet high... So we decorated! We talked long about what we could do here... Homework, Chill, Magic, DnD... Plenty! It's a really cool place, if only we had more room, ermz... It's a really cool place and I am gonna get a Digital Camera soon and just take photo's galore...

I am sorry I just felt like sharing this.


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Not only will this prep you for your eventual (and inevitable) tour of duty as the prat of cell block 9, but there is the off chance that structural integrity is flawed, and the God that I don't believe in, really is just, and has exactly the right amount of sardonic humour.


I'm crossing my fingers in anticipation of true retardation par excellance.

Large water tunnel underneath the road?
...are you sure you didn't just spend your afternoon in a sewer?

Sounds like it's gonna be a "special place for the boys".


You know.

A toilet is considered furnature??? hmmm..... Functional furnature..... this could sell!

That sounds like a fun place to be when a flash flood comes around. Please do take pictues.

                                                           

wow! cool! power to you guys! (turtle power, that is).

say, that drain that lets in light - i don't suppose you know what else it lets in?

cookie to the person who writes an 'incy wincy insider climber up the water spout' song for us.



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arg...

looksy here... mates....

DG: I'm not sure what you're in insinuating but I think you commented on the fact that I might one day go to prison ... If thats the case, then damn you lol... j/k.... Or maybe you said what I am doing is illegal? Shit I hope not... please elaborate but not so rudely...

Dan: at first i thought i was walking aaround in Poo, but its just a tunnel that goes from one end of a road to the next that drains water...

Synax: u pervert shut up

Izzy: heh thats what i said, but we put up rain ducts to prevent all serious damage that would be delt to the place if had flooded... And we decided not to go in there when we see lots of cumulonimbus developing


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Yup, this is the first time I have [verbally] laughed on the Asylum! That is some funny shit guys! And Insider, could you let me know what your little "home" is like? Rent around here is ridiculous, and if those sewer caps are merely doorways to financial freedom, I'd like to know! Oh the possibilities! Real estate is not going to be the same anymore!

You guys wax each other's shells down there?

Your childhood dream was to be knee deep in a sewer?

-Jestah
Cell 277

*Bursts out laughing...colleges think I've lost my mind again...*

Can't you just find a cave in your area? Or a treehouse? Why does it have to be a sewer?

News flash - a freak flashflood drowns Toolschool students...

DarkGarden, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every time I read one of your posts, I have to search almost every word in a dictionary!

Would you please be more 'simple'?

BTW, dowa this means that insider is going to be far away from a computer?

Would be cool.....


When I was a kid and I was so ridiculous, I never talk to anybody about that....

Actually, I think it sounds pretty cool, provided it's safe.

Have you located the drain that lets in light from above ground?

reitsma: check your email

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
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Insider, what you've found there is a storm drain, a very dangerous place to be. Many kids die every year playing in those things. A sudden downpour, even quite a distance away, can cause a flash flood to sweep through there and drown the lot of you.

Oh, and some really nasty stuff washes through there off of yards (e.g. dog poo) and streets (e.g. oil and more dog poo).

Not to mention the amount and variety of substances/objects that people tend to nonchalantly kick, throw, pour, spit, or otherwise bodily deposit into storm drains

all I have to say is when rainy season comes around you better be sure your "hideout" isn't a place where water gathers .. we all don't need to find out we have a dead InSiDeR because he and his friends were trapped in the underground sewer drain


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It would be cool if it didn't get gross..but :-\ I'd personally never go down there. I'd agree: find a cave!!! that would be fun!! Though...watch out for things that like to stay in the backs of those x.x And unfortunately, where I grew up there weren't any....living in a place where there are cities and suburbs for miles and miles and miles everywhere lends little chance to have actual "nature" except when I went to camp!!!



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That is so cool. I wish I could find one of those around here. Mabey if I am over your way I will drop by and check it out

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I remember my first "fort". If you could call it that. I know the feeling. Congrats to you, but like has been said above, water is definitely going to be an issue. Be careful.

We used to have a few places like that to hang out.

One was like a cellar under some apartments. Concrete floors and walls. Just a few steps to get in and out. I tell you what, fireworks sure were loud in there. At the time, I wasn't privy to what the older kids were up to in there. Smoking pot and things.

We also had an island in the fork of the river. It was about 20'x30' with some shrubbery for shade and to hide behind when things got nasty. I couldn't tell you how many shoes and sandals I lost while wading to the island. We did have a make-shift bridge for awhile, but it didn't last too long.

Then there was the old railroad car. Just sitting out in the woods minding it's own business. Had a barbeque pit and everything. It sure got hot in there during the summer. It was a great place to hang during spring and fall.

We also had a tree fort behind the school. There were trails back there that went for miles. Over the course of a week or so, we hauled all the lumber we could find back there and cobbled it together. We even made some bows and arrows that worked rather well.

Kinda makes me want to watch "Stand by Me" again. :sniff: The joys of being young and adventurous.

Oh I LOVE "Stand By Me"!!! It's got some rather gross spots (think: pie) but all-in-all a very cool movie!!! ::sighs:: I moved every few years growing up (heck, still since I'm in college) so I never made friends like that. Woulda been cool though.

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When I was a kid (teenager more like, maybe 17?) we lived near an old abandoned Nike Missile base. It didn't look as cool as the pictures at that link, as they had long before hauled off all the missiles, but the silos were still there, they had just poured about a foot of concrete over each one and left them. The missiles lay flat inside these things, and then big doors would open up and the missile would pivot out to take out Cuba or some such place, only it never happened. By the time I was a kid of trouble-making age, the base still existed, but was manned by only one lonely security guard. We'd break in there every weekend and jimmy our way into the barracks/warehouses scattered over the base, finding all sorts of cool stuff. For years we had picked away at one of the smaller doors to one of these silos, but at 17, we were ready for some serious con(de)struction. One rainy evening we broke in again, but this time we were armed with pick-axes and sledge hammers, being youths of sledge-hammer age by now, heh. Of course, even the most bored and lonely security guard will rouse himself in a rainstorm after a racket like this, right out in the middle of a flat concrete plain, banging away on concrete with steel doors under! It took about 3 weeks of trips to put a big crack through the slab blocking one door, each door being maybe 10 feet long by 4 feet wide. Coolness, it was counterwighted, and we were able to swing it open, concrete plug an all! When it closed, you'd never have a clue it was ever tampered with, at least from a jeep cruising by. We spent one evening running a spool of wire from a lampost nearby to our little bunker (burying the cable under the dirt, and wedging it into cracks on the concrete after.) Let there be light! Man, we had some mondo cool parties in that place. Towards the end of the summer we had some problems with flooding, but it mostly went into this big hole where the missile used to been.

So! I do understand. However, some of the other big brains are correct, you're likely to get drowned hanging out in a storm drain, they're designed to channel just tons of water, like right past your stuff, and you, filled to the brim most likely. I'd look around for abandoned government buildings, every town has 'em it seems, and government buildings all have deep dark basements, go figger. =)

Your pal, -doc-

"I'd look around for abandoned government buildings, every town has 'em it seems, and government buildings all have deep dark basements, go figure. =)"

Heh, reminds me of when I got pulled up for stealing a "No Trespassing" Sign from an abandoned Army Barracks just last year. Although I had to trespass in order to steal the sign. When I was pulled up by security I explained what I was doing and why I was doing it (Wanted it for my wall) and they let me have it! Too cool. But I lost it along with a full 750ml bottle of vodka in a card game. Ya win some ya loose some.

My youngster hangouts were usually large unpopulated outdoor areas. Like a big arse pine forest. At least it was big until we kinda burnt it down when we were stupidly experimenting with airesol cans and fire. I think it's all houses nowadays.

Man that forest was cool though. It had everything. Heaps of stray cows from some nearby farm (Usually only on Tuesdays). Wild boars to run away from (Only had to do that twice). A huge lake that I tried to river jump my bike into and managed to hit the only surface rock breaking my leg. Yup... we had it all. A good 200 acres and no one else was ever there. Yet I don't recommend breaking your leg in a place not accessible by a car.


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I heard that the military was seling some old missile silo station bunkers things. I read an article about in Omni many years ago. Now that's a studio apartment. One couple built a house on top of one and was in the Guiness for world's largest basement.

Can you imagine having that kind of space? The driveway and the "garage" doors alone are impressive.

It would be totally cool to have something like that, and Doc...wish I lived near something like that! hehe. I have got a ton of friends who could definately have some fun doing something of that nature hehe.

Hmm....abandoned govt buildings...not seen any here in SC, nor in Garden Grove (So Cal), my hometown. Go figger...

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Hmm....abandoned govt buildings...not seen any here in SC, nor in Garden Grove (So Cal), my hometown.

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Odd behavior; even temperament...

Ok first I would like to adress to some comments:

Everyone: IT ISNT A GOD DAMN SEWER!!!! I MADE SURE OF THAT BEFORE I WENT IN THERE!

Wes: No it isn't what you think it is, and my friends have already been in it a week or two ago when it rained, and all it did was rise about 6 inches of water, considering that it DID rain pretty hard.

DG: Please elaborate on the... prison comment

WS: The nearest cave is in lousiville and that would be Horse Cave, ask AT about it if you must

Genevieve: Really it isn't grose! Otherwise I wouldn't go down there. There are a few grasshoppers in another tunnel.

DL: So far all I have seen was some coke cans and ciggarette packs, we had this theory that it may have been inhabited before...

WJ: When I found that place Stand By Me was exactly what I was thinking of. BTW not to get off topic but I was thinking of you today at school in biology. We had to light some uhh, gas, and my friend was to turn it on while I went to get the sparkler thing thats ignites the gas. I come back and he said he turned the gas on a tit' (yea right, and a beaker was in front of it which is what we were gonna heat), and I stood far back and BOOM, turned that bitch on and about 7 inches of flames shot that beaker to the floor and in to shards. It reminded me of when you lit your burner and 2 feet of flames as you described about a year ago in a thread in the Philo forum. Heh, not to wonder off topic though... No tree forts, no caves, just a water tunnel that goes under a road from 1 ditch to another with lots of little tunnels filled with nothing but concrete. Lemme say this again, ITS NOT A SEWER. But I really would like to know if it was illegal, if so I am getting the hell out of there, don't want to get cought playin cards in the ol' water tunnel.

Doc: WOW I can't even begin to fatham a person like you w/ a sledge hammer and pick ax


I really appriciate all the safety concerns, a LOT. I am still very timid about stepping down there, but it seems the more I do, the safer it is, or so I hope. ~gulp~

~Pops in Stand By Me~

Thanks all.


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[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 09-10-2002).]

Well, just 'cause it's not a sewer doesn't mean it's safe. If it's intended for just water, as people have pointed out, it may still be dangerous.

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Doc: WOW I can't even begin to fatham a person like you w/ a sledge hammer and pick ax.

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Hmm, that's funny, I would've figured that would be an easy and natural thing to imagine! I especially like sledgehammers, I used to never drive anywhere in my old beaters without one, you can never tell when a sledgehammer will be just what the doctor ordered! (I also carried a morgan-knocker, just in case, heh.) I still keep a small 3 pound sledge around for small household tasks. (Malin is such a lucky girl! =)

I got in trouble at an old flat I used to live in in Minneapolis once, the rumour was that the apartment building I lived in used to be right across the street from an old speakeasy from the '20s, and there was supposed to be a tunnel from my building to the one across the street. (Long since walled up, I figured.) How awkward to be found in the basement trying to explain the pick-axe, lemme tell you.

Please, tell me I'm not the only one who gets himself into these kind of situations! How embarrassing.

Your pal, -doc-



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Isn't horse cave more towards Bowling Green?

I've never been there, though I have mammoth cave... muuhaha...

We have a cave right up the road from us, it's on private property and big enough to drive a mac truck into!
I have to admit, after watching Ninja Turtles growing up, I'd have to check out the freakin drain...
Cowabunga dudes

Slime: Doh! I forgot to comment to you... Yes we located it and its at the highest point of the parking lot so water won't really be a problem, the only problem would be the direct water from the sky that falls through, other than that the water just slides down the parking lot

Doc:

Well... Our school has this project for us freshman, make a float for the homecoming parade, go figure...

And at the end of the parade we have a destruction ceremony . Yes that is right... The time has come to dip the head of the hammer in the barrel of karosene and light up and then... BAHHHH DIE FLOATS!!!!!

You can count on pictures from that parade!


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So...who knew that abandoned hospitals had security guards 24/7...


~cough~


It's amazing how little the people you're talking to will listen when you try and convince them that you were merely prying the window open to make sure that it was safe.

I still say I saw that gurney moving all by itself...I wonder if they'll let me rent the place for Halloween...

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1) Yes, it was a prison-bitch comment.
2) The "refuse" that Jamie was referring to wasn't just smoke packs and cans...though drinking from the can may be an impetus for it...
3) Ever tested runoff water to see what's in it? No? Don't...that was one of the worst days of bio-chem lab testing ever.



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AT....

Post times... You posted while I was posting

No I think it's up by lousiville ? All I remember was mammoth cave took like 2 more hours to get to than horse cave from E-Town. And mammoth cave is in lexington... I had the option of going there a week ago w/ my good ol' Boy Scout troop (puke) , I am only in it for eagle.... and summa camp.... Heh, I could go on and on about some good ol' klondike scout stories...

Heh.

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its fun editing our posts right DG? No i won't taste the water

and im just wondering, does it bring you pleasure to verbally asault me? do you feel better about your self? i mean you can have an opinion about it being stupid or whatever but please im begging you leave me alone


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[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 09-10-2002).]

In Lexi? it's down a few miles from BG, I use to live down there... It may also branch into Lexi, but the main openning isn't there...

Do a good turn daily...!

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Why not? it's a fad it seems... bah!

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Arg, Im lost AT, I am still think im living in florida even though I haven't in, uhh 8 years....

Hmm, try this... I want to see if anyone has probs...
http://www.inhisgrasp.org/chats/banned/

Fun? not really.
Not taste...test...fuckwit.
Pleasure? Nah. Amusement at the expense of your ego and your idiocy? Yes.
Begging? God I hate begging...especially faux begging.

My turn.

Gonna let it go this time? As you mentioned, it can all be "just opinion"...so why crack? Why react and play fool to a statement? I think the stormdrain idea is asinine, and probably holds shades of the future in great display. Point was made...and yet you'd rather run down a road sure to bring you more grief and more illustration of that selfsame idiocy? Seems a bit masochistic to me.

People have given you some great advice here...and here's just a hair more: Yes it's illegal to try and occupy a city stormdrain. It's also hazardous, and more than a slight bit lacking in preplanning.

Nonetheless, feel free to hang out there in the rain. That's natural selection...and I'm not saying it to be sarcastically mean...I just mean it.

We lowered my 4-wheeler into a big opening of some sort of drain once on the outskirts of the town I grew up in and drove the thing all the way in to the middle of the city.

Oh how fun it was to make silly noises at passersby through the manhole cover.

Insider just because you watched the drain in one rainstorm doesn't mean that its safe. I was a storm in KC where the rain came down so hard that the drains filled in less than 20 min, turning the streets into rivers and parking lots into lakes. You'll be underneath all this water. It only takes one bad storm.

Hey, what krets said sounds like a blast, and I liked exploring places like the one you found when I was a kid. But your talking about hangin out there and doing some kinda "Dead Poets Society" thing. Bad idea.

If you insist on doing this and are eventually drowned tell your next of kin to email me so I can post the details and this thread here.

-tiki, cell 478

ahah, thats the best award ever...

i like the one where this elephant zoo keeper fed this elephant a shitload of laxative, and he was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time and the elephant shit all over him... he suffocated in shit... its a shitty way to die...

Yes, and with a little dedication you too can be a winner.

edit- tiki assumes no liability or responsibility if insider decides to try and win himself a darwin award

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I would recommend that before playing in storm drains you got a good grounding in physical geography - things like overland flow, run off, catchment areas etc - you can have serve flooding when there isn't a cloud in the sky. They built the drain there for a purpose. The same goes for caves - its not a place to play. A friend of mine died caving thanks to a flash flood and she was an experienced caver (with a good physical geography background).

If you aren't worried about the weather then try and catch one of those disaster shows like the one with the crashed petrol tanker - there was fire spewing from the drains for blocks. People are always looking for quiet grids to dump vile things down.

A topic DG (and others?) has alluded to is that it can also be a pretty poisonous place and a good place to catch something unpleasant (I presume you are going to be eating and drinking in there). We've had some flooding around here and a woman she knows has had the environmental health in who have found E. coli in her basement - I'd hate to think what wonders live down there. Weil's disease is a particular favourite:
www.caving.org.uk/wdic/

But, you know, have fun - your teenage years should be about staring Death in the face but bear in mind that he has near inifinite resources and you have one shot at this.

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No not eating, drinks maybe... We only go there for like an hour and a half every day after school, its not like its a home . But I understand the chance, I will take that into account thanks emps.

Who closed this thread? Earler? Thanks to the person who re-opened it

don't get too excited insider.
I in no way condone your stupidity or existence.

but in the future, can whoever closes this (or any other) thread please post in the thread why you are doing so.
(and i was under the impression that we had already agreed on this.)

We had agreed upon it. Maybe that person thought it was just obvious... I dont see it though.

So please DO post Who you are and Why you close when you close.

Bang on.

                                                           

If you are going to play DnD there you could set up two other location, one in a park, and one in a house. Then when you are in the dungeons you go underground to play, the park if you are doing alot of woodlands type play, and in a house for city play. TA-DA instant atmosphere.


Hmmm... Might try that with a backyard/basement/livingroom combo at my house.

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