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Cause I sure did. I will say first and foremost this is a really stupid and dangerous thing to do. A quick rain can fill those things shortly and drown you. But, stupid teenager stuff etc. A friend went down with some other kids first, and immediately had to tell us how cool it was. Keep in mind these were storm drains, not sewers, and were surprisingly clean and dry; when it wasn't raining. So we planned our first excursion. Two flashlights each, some snacks, water, and weed. Also bolt cutters, hacksaws, any other tools we could think of. The best one had a service entrance in a city park. It was like a manhole cover but a grate, and seriously easy to lift out of the way. Wasn't secured at all. Four teens hopped in, pulled the grate back into place and we were on our way. That one was about 40 minutes to travel through. 4-5' pipe diameter so it was easy enough to crouch and walk all hunched over. Halfway through there was a junction point where another drain came in. This was great because it was essentially a big room, we could all sit, smoke weed and chill. Since it was two drains joined together the outgoing pipe was even bigger, so a lot less crouching. It finally dumps you half way across town. Again an unsecured exit through a metal fence. We're in a big gully that runs about a mile between two neighborhoods, but we just hopped some fences, ran through backyards and got on the town streets. Walked back on the surface to the park where we had a car. We did that run at least 3 times, sometimes with different people. There were a lot of 10-15 minute runs we found, but that one was always the best. Feel free to share any stupendously stupid poo poo you did as a teen, especially if it involved storm drains.
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So you're one of my friends from high school. Good to see ya!
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like, a coin? Had to google that one.
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Gutcruncher posted:As a kid living in Colorado Springs, there was lots of great storm drains. Like our own private homes away from home for hangin out and eating candy Yeah, we'd read the forecast and watch the skies before we'd drop in. Seriously deathly in 20 minutes if a storm breaks out unexpectedly.
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never found any cool treasures. Found a dead rat once. It was half decayed and we smelled it before we found it. Idiot friend actually picks it up by its tail. Many shouts of "WTF?", "Put that down!", "what's wrong with you?" I give him the benefit of the doubt in that he was seriously stoned, but there were admonitions about how we DO NOT pick up animal carcasses. So no cool treasures really. Just good times. In the storm drain.
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satanic splash-back posted:2 of my childhood friends drowned in a storm drain together, do not recommend. That's horrible, and I freely admit it was stupid as heck. Not advocating, just we all did dumb things as kids; some worse than others.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I met a pretty cool clown in the storm drains. Did you have fun? Was there teenage sex and spiders involved?
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A neat one in the college years were decommissioned silos for nuclear missiles. ICBM stuff. The nukes were long gone, but the silos remained. I went as far as the fields they were in, but never went in one. There used to be a nuke down there, are you making GBS threads me? No way in heck was I going down one. But kids did, and they reported fun times. The poo poo hit the fan though when some dude slipped and fell like 40-50' on the climb down. Amazingly he only had a broken leg and a bump on his head. The college being a bunch of idiots issued warning that "Students should not be exploring nuclear missile silos" around campus. Which of course any genius could predict caused a whole lot of students to ask, "What?! there are missile silos nearby?! Let's go!" The sites totally had to put in extra fencing and security after that.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
These pics are cool as heck. We never found anything so extravagant.
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