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The craziest thing I have ever seen
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http://tinyurl.com/8a92g
I do drains, but that is ridiculous.
The rest of that site is well worth a look, some really cool stuff in there.
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Really? Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?
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Originally Posted by KeriVit
Really? Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?
Reminds of that:
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Originally Posted by gadster
You do drains?
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Originally Posted by OB1
You do drains?
But not windows.
Man that is freaky.
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Originally Posted by gadster
http://tinyurl.com/8a92g
I do drains, but that is ridiculous.
The rest of that site is well worth a look, some really cool stuff in there.
Are you going to tell us what the heck is that thing he is climbing down?
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It's a 100 metre (about 300ft) deep reservoir overflow.
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how come this is the craziest thing you have ever seen?? 
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If that hole gets clogged, I'd hate to see the plunger!
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Originally Posted by gadster
What do you do down there? Just have a nose aboout? Is it about the thril of being someowhere you're not supposed to? Where other people don't go? Do you ever find any skate(board)able stuff in the drains?
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Originally Posted by PB2K
how come this is the craziest thing you have ever seen??
That is a good question.
I guess it's because urbex is such a fringe activity, undertaken by regular people just like you and me, exploring their local areas. I'm happy to jump in a drain with a torch and walk around. It's a pretty harmless activity, and not too strenuous or extreme.
This is a good link to understand the ethos of urbex: http://cat.org.au/~predator/approach.txt
eg: Why go in drains?
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In life, you make choices. You can stay in bed and take no risks, or you can
go out and get a life. This involves the taking of risks, telling of yarns,
breaking of silly laws which restrict your freedom, finding out things of an
unusual or interesting nature. Now, some people take drugs, some people watch
TV, some people drive cars faster than the posted speed limit, some people
get heavily into teletubbies, some people play golf.
Since we find these things not very interesting, we explore drains. We like
the dark, the wet, humid, earthy smell. We like the varying architecture. We
like the solitude. We like the acoustics, the wildlife, the things we find,
the places we come up, the comments on the walls, the mazeÄlike quality; the
sneaky, sly subversiveness of being under a heavily-guarded Naval Supply base
or under the Justice and Police Museum.
Drain exploring is cheap since, despite there being a $20000 fine (a bit harsh
really) for doing it, it is almost never policed.
We enjoy thumbing our noses at petty bureaucrats and puerile legislators, and
their half-baked attempts to stop us going to the places where we go... places
they built with our tax money.
We like the controlled nature of the risks involved. We like the timelessness
of a century-old tunnel, the darkness yawning before us, saying "Come, you
know not what I hide within me."
We like the stupid looks we get when we mention it at cocktail parties.
We like the sploosh sploosh sound when we walk through the waters.
We like going where the bank tellers and council clerks and ticket officers at
the SRA never go.
We like telling the authorities that we are software programmers, analytical
chemists, civil engineers, telecommunications specialists etc, when they ask.
We like the whole thing and the pettiness of its illegality and poor public
perception is beneath us and totally irrelevant.
We are not stupid, we don't like being protected from ourselves, it hurts
noÄone, we like it, so we do it. Hear us cry...
Public access to Public works!!
But that guy is crazy. For instance, how would you know if you had enough rope?
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Originally Posted by gadster
But that guy is crazy. For instance, how would you know if you had enough rope?
When you get to the end of the rope, you don't go any further!
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Craziest thing you've ever seen? Get out more, please.
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