• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    A witness snitch* reported seeing eight people remove a maintenance hole cover near McDonald Avenue and Colin Place in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn.

    Speaking to NBC New York, witness snitch* Aki Jakupovic said: “Three random guys walking around in a strange suit, open the sewer, go in like Ninja Turtles.” Surveillance footage obtained by NBC New York showed the men carrying flashlights and wearing hip waders. “I was looking at them, they were looking at me, you know, I could tell they were up to no good. They went in there, closed the cover, like, you know, they were never here,” he added.

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      You know the guys in your circle that fart a lot? They send those guys down. They’ve built up a tolerance to methane.

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        Sewer workers wear masks and install massive ventilation before working or entering sewers. I’m starting to realize lemmings have no idea how anything works.

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    YSK: manholes are dangerous. Never mind the nastiness and falling hazard. Many are cast-iron and because of the rust, the interior can be a low-oxygen environment. And that’s not the only way the air can be too fouled to breathe safely.

    If you’ve ever seen professinals entering manholes, they’ll be using a ventilation system to ensure fresh air and safety.

    EDIT: this isn’t just about breathing, sewer gasses can be fire/explosion hazards too.

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      Its not so much iron as it is all the organic matter that gets run into most drainage systems that decays and consumes oxygen while doing so.

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      ‘you know what we should do for our infrastructure? a network of tubes [the internet is not a big truck, it’s a series of tubes] that can kill you and cause explosions, underneath the whole city’

      ‘bill, the is the best idea you’ve had since installing lead pipes, a real visionary’

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          Even when that was common, there was a gutter that ran along the sides of the streets. People wouldn’t just dump shit in the middle of the road, they’d pour it in the gutter and the rain would wash it away.

          Still not the best thing ever, but it’s not like people had to wade through ankle-deep piss and shit just to get to the store…

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            Tangential: I passed an old street in the “Quarter” of New Orleans that was ripped up for construction. And let me tell you, the smell was familiar and horribly new at the same time. That olfactory memory certainly sticks with me

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            No, it would just splash around, and also just be raw sewage sitting out in the open air. Super hygienic.

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        Yeah, it’s a wild idea, but the number of lives they’ve saved and extended far outweigh any danger. Sewer systems might actually be what increased average human lifespans more than almost anything else in history.

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      Some guys did use this here while searching for ancient stuff, one died while 2 other escaped. It looks like an old woman was giving them info on where the ancient stuff are, which was wrong. It turned out, she was wrong.

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    The NYPD, to make sure there was not a threat to the public, sent their highly trained Emergency Services Unit officers into the sewer system

    Taking the piss, surely. Good thing the actual experts went in.

    the city Environmental Protection Department, which manages the system, also went in