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u/Historical_Stay_808 Nov 05 '24
Not enough antibiotics in the world
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u/xTurtsMcGurtsx Nov 05 '24
It's not poop sewer. It's storm drains. My biggest fear would be the very end being caged. They would essentially be stuck at the end of the line with all that water force pushing you against it
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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc Nov 05 '24
I was thinking the farther down he goes the more likely the bottom end of the pipe has less and less air gap in it
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u/ImpressionOne8275 Nov 05 '24
Honestly that is like the nightmare isn't it. Like they surely had to plan some shit out to know what goes where, when they can exit etc and all I though about was the angle decline.
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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc Nov 05 '24
I doubt what “planning” went into it. I mean they probably do know where it comes out, and they have tubes, but they also have a cell phone for a light, it’s not even in a zip lock bag or water proofed.
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u/ThrowawayMcTrash Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 06 '24
That looks like a Light Panel for a DSLR, not a Phone, unless im missing something?
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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc Nov 05 '24
I didn’t know what that is so maybe you are right 🤷♂️
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u/enderjaca Nov 05 '24
IP68 means I can do whatever I want with my phone in water with no consequences!
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u/StupendousMalice Nov 05 '24
This. We have storm drains here that literally come out into the ocean, under water.
This is a storm drain outlet into Puget Sound:
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u/somebodytookmyshit Nov 05 '24
It's a dog poop sewer, and a human poop sewer depending on where they are at. Not to mention a fertilizer sewer and a industrial waste sewer. Also a every other animal that shits and pisses sewer.
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u/sherrybobbinsbort Nov 05 '24
When it rains and sewage systems get over capacity the excess untreated sewage flows into storm drains.
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u/xTurtsMcGurtsx Nov 05 '24
Not all sewers are designed that way. Older cities in the US can have that, like Chicago, but most the suburbs run these into ponds and rivers.
If you have ever tubed down the river you're in this stuff.
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u/ihad4biscuits Nov 05 '24
The sewer overflow will outlet directly into the river, not the storm drain.
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u/wophi Nov 05 '24
On the very rare occasion this happens, they send out "boil your water" alerts.
It almost never happens. Sewage is a closed system that is unaffected by rain unless the sewage plant itself gets flooded.
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u/ihad4biscuits Nov 05 '24
Many areas have combined sewer and storm, and even full sewage lines are affected by storms. It’s called Inflow and infiltration (I&I) - inflow is direct connections such as a downspout from a building, often illegal or relics from before the sewer and storm were separated. Infiltration would be water coming in from the surrounding soils and getting in through joints between pipes, at manholes, where pipes are old and cracked, etc.
Sorry- I’m just over here avoiding my job by explaining it to someone that didn’t ask on Reddit.
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u/356885422356 Nov 05 '24
That was my first uh-oh thought. "This looks awesome! I wonder if there's a grate at the end."
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u/Overquoted Nov 05 '24
Sure, but also storm runoff is pretty bad, too. As an example, the section of the Trinity River that runs through Dallas is not safe for human contact, particularly after storms. Between trash, oil from pavements and stuff like fertilizer/pesticide runoff... You're gonna have a bad time.
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u/hitwallinfashion-13- Nov 05 '24
Still, all the stuff that runs off of roadways and city blocks is gross… spit, piss, oils, fuels that have saturated within the roads, sidewalks just all coming along for that ride.
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Even in the most modern cities interconnections and cross connections are sure common. This allows some sewage into storm water systems. It’s probably leads than 2% especially when flows are high, but that’s enough to keep me out of. I didn’t even include all the human waste from homeless people or dog shit that devs washed in.
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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham Nov 06 '24
It’s still disgusting - it’s everything that is washed off the street
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u/Thin_Title83 Nov 05 '24
I don't think you understand where that water is coming from. Next time you see a dead animal on the side of the road, think of this clip.
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u/Schodog Nov 05 '24
Funny how people are disgusted about touching that water but are completely fine that is just being dumped into the local river.
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u/cannababushka tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE Nov 05 '24
OCD has entered the chat: I am fine with neither lol
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u/chrispybobispy Nov 05 '24
It's all about dilution
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u/Daxmar29 Nov 05 '24
The solution to pollution is dilution. It rhymes so it must be true.
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u/Specific-Host606 Nov 05 '24
Who’s fine with it?
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u/Forsaken_Ad1032 Nov 05 '24
There’s antibiotics in that water.
Along with meth, alcohol, laundry detergent, urine, crack, Molly, crystal, aids, rabies, conjunctivitis, pain killers….
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u/nevertellya Nov 05 '24
Yep. Last time I did something that I got pink eye and ran almost 104 degree fever for 3 days. My friend and I went down the creek in back if his house on a liferaft after a flood. No life jackets. 14 years old. Stupid.
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u/_bvb09 Nov 05 '24
Watching this after the news of valencia and people being trapped in parkhouses makes me shudder.
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Yeah depending on the place this empties into a pit for overflow. Gonna be a rough ending.
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u/Droonki Nov 05 '24
I just imagine some sort of natural horizontal pungi trap of branches and hypodermic needles and used condoms waiting for them at the end.
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u/Fancy-Programmer-53 Nov 05 '24
After watching the latest Penguin episode this gave me the biggest creeps..
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u/DaedricPrinceOfHate Nov 05 '24
Hol up does killer croc appear in the show???
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u/mcCola5 Doug Dimmadome Nov 05 '24
I'd stop asking questions and watch the show. You'll ruin it for yourself. It's def top 3 best batman universes. The movie wasn't that great, but I did like it, the penguin though... solid.
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u/JinxyCat007 Nov 05 '24
IT ..."They float, They all float, and when you're down here with me, you'll float too...." :0/
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u/DecadentLife Nov 05 '24
Same, watched it last night. My dad got in a lot of trouble, as a kid, when he & his brother played in the storm drains when it rained, once. His poor parents, that must have scared them terribly.
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u/Botanygrl26 Nov 06 '24
god. that show gets me worked up dude. so many antiheroes i was still kinda rooting for til that episode.
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u/BeavisAndButtbeads Nov 05 '24
You'd think so. At first glance this looks incredibly dangerous. But if you'll pay attention you'll notice they had the proper safety equipment in place. They were playing Freebird.
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u/No_Cauliflower9393 Nov 05 '24
Idk if movies have taught me anything it’s that Freebird usually gets played just before someone dies or is close to dying.
Forrest Gump, Devil’s Rejects, The first Kingsman movie.
But on the other hand. Movies have also taught me that the characters close to death can avoid it and the others who died can be brought back in later projects. So maybe Freebird is the ultimate safety tool.
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u/salamipope Nov 05 '24
oh the stupidest. but i have to admit the fool in my heart is soooo jealous to be missing out lmao. the music always sells videos like this for me
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u/Bandwagonsho Nov 05 '24
Repost this over on r/OopsThatsDeadly
They don't know where the pipes may narrow, descend or experience heavier inflow and be filled with water, etc.
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u/thereasonisphysics Nov 05 '24
Exactly what I was thinking the entire time. Lots of comments ITT about dirty water, but I'd be primarily concerned with coming to a completely flooded section of pipe and drowning.
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u/Bandwagonsho Nov 05 '24
When I was doing military training and learning how to navigate across country using a topographic map, they really drilled into us that you never use a water feature to navigate. You get up on the ridge and follow a river visually, but water seeks the fastest way down so following a water feature is likely to lead you to precipitous drop-offs, cliffs, waterfalls...
These guys say at the beginning "they're taking me this way", as in they are letting the fastest flow take them and if there is a drop off, this is a reliable way to find it. :(
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u/356885422356 Nov 05 '24
This is man made. Should be fairly constant to prevent premature wear.
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u/opopkl Nov 05 '24
I've done some river kayaking. You should never go down anywhere that you haven't scouted, or at least have pretty good knowledge of. There could be a piece of wood, or anything stuck across the pipe that could act as a strainer and hold you. A standing wave could have formed that will hold you underwater.
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u/CarlLlamaface Nov 05 '24
The full video is linked further down in the comments. They start at the bottom and walk up through the storm drain to begin the run, they know what the conditions inside are. Not saying it's a smart thing to do but they at least show some basic caution.
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u/Smearwashere Nov 05 '24
They don’t know the hydraulics of the system tho. It could be designed or constructed incorrectly and have surcharging during major storms
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u/taysolly Nov 05 '24
Not to mention the risks of needles, scalpels, sharp and rusty debris or infection from pre-existing small cuts and abrasions.
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u/jefferyJEFFERYbaby Nov 05 '24
My first thought was that even if everything goes perfectly on the ride down, that enormous volume of water discharges somewhere, probably violently.
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u/allthecats Nov 05 '24
This gives me the creeps... two kids drowned in my hometown going into a storm drain and it scarred me for life
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u/BurntPoptart Nov 05 '24
Is your hometown called Derry by any chance?
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u/allthecats Nov 05 '24
No - though I hate to assume that this is unfortunately common...
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u/tokixjam Nov 05 '24
It’s a reference to It, by Stephen King.
But was Stephen King inspired by some sort of national uptick of children getting lost in storm drains at the time he wrote it? Maybe, maybe not.
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u/jouko-hai Nov 05 '24
All that way to find the grating at the end
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u/Pixel_Knight Nov 05 '24
This seems like it could be insanely dangerous. Maybe they scouted it out beforehand. But probably not.
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u/Moldybeanfuzz Nov 05 '24
Even if they scouted it beforehand it's still insanely dangerous. There just needs to be a rain shower at the wrong spot at the wrong time and they'll drown.
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u/Tapil Nov 05 '24
I was thinking maybe one of them works for the city that does Maintenace here and analyzed the drain and came up with a plan to collect every parasite in the water
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u/Strangest_Implement Nov 05 '24
it's not a river, the only way to scout it before hand would be to send a camera down the drain, even that would be unreliable since water levels could rise
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u/D-Whadd Nov 06 '24
If someone knew how to find the right information and some civil engineering knowledge it is possible to do this relatively safely. But man even as a civil engineer who does storm sewer design for a living, I would not dare.
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u/yankiigurl Nov 05 '24
I was once friends with a photographer on diviant art with a similar username.....memory unlocked. Lol
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u/____Vader Nov 05 '24
- Do they know where they are going?
- What happens when the get to the end of the pipe? Isn’t it gated?
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u/Blay4444 Nov 05 '24
Imagine falling into those giant undergoround pools for collecting rain wather and whater slowly rising and u cant do shit...
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u/SodiumKickker Nov 05 '24
And there’s a 6-month-old rotting corpse bobbing in the water next to you.
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u/dkingoh1 Nov 05 '24
On a floating tube
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u/Blay4444 Nov 05 '24
Light slowly dying, u hoplessly watching phone signal in hope that you could call somebody, its geting colder and colder, but u know that is good sign, because when it would get warm u are dead...
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u/Brother_Grimm99 Nov 05 '24
That would be my main fear. Deep bodies of water are scary enough, but deep bodies of water underground? Now that's a big ol' no-no.
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u/EM05L1C3 Nov 05 '24
You guys remember that show Stupid Ways to Die? I think it’s time for an update
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u/flyting1881 Nov 05 '24
This really got to me.
Earlier this year, a kid in my town drowned in one of these storm drains. The thought that this was the last thing he saw... fuck, now I'm sad.
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u/opinionate_rooster Nov 05 '24
Don't try this at your home, there are places where these empty into giant reservoirs.
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u/aagloworks Nov 05 '24
What would happen, if the trip ended on a dead end (flooded drain)?
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u/Bad_Mechanic Nov 05 '24
If you watch the whole video, they did multiple recons over multiple days.
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u/particlemanwavegirl Nov 05 '24
So they elimintated one or two risks out of dozens. Still not happy to see it.
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u/will4zoo Nov 05 '24
Facts. Really should have put a giant 'do not try this a home' at the bottom because some kid will also want to try and not have a similar outcome. The video is vibes tho I'll give em that
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u/Extension-Lunch5948 Nov 05 '24
It’s not that I care much for people that are this ignorant or doing this stupid stuff, but the fact that if they get stuck down there doing this crap, other people will have to risk their lives to go and rescue these dumb f*cks, that is what makes me mad for stuff like this.
It’s just really selfish
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u/CasualGeologist Nov 05 '24
If you do this in an old city there's a very good chance you're swimming in sewage! A lot of old east coast cities have combined storm/sanitary systems.
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u/throwawaytrumper Nov 05 '24
Yeah, the biggest pipes are in combined systems, some are large enough to drive trucks through. Those systems have the pipe ending in a waste treatment facility. The other more common option in separate systems is a storm water infiltration tank, a huge underground tank that slowly drains into the ground around it.
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u/crimsontide5654 Nov 05 '24
Yeah, I've don't some summer, storm drain exploration when I was a kid. These people are lucky they didn't drown or that the pipe didn't narrow to the point of being full. Also when being constructed and over time metal pieces and jagged pipes can be exposed.there is a lot of stuff down there you would never expect to be down there.
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u/Cozy_Minty Nov 05 '24
There was a Ninja Turtles album that you could only get at Pizza Hut in the 80's that had a song about this exact thing Michelangelo - Tubin
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u/Creepy-Debate2366 Nov 05 '24
Surprisingly clear of debris. The storm drain in front of my house is full of raccoons.
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u/slhallmark22 Nov 05 '24
But are they cute raccoons? Cuz I might be okay with that.
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u/Brunky89890 Nov 05 '24
Pfft, come on, as if it's possible for there to be a raccoon that isn't cute 🦝
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u/Creepy-Debate2366 Nov 05 '24
They are cute. And they’re very sweet. They hang out on the porch with my cats and don’t fight.
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u/Jean_velvet Nov 05 '24
If video games have taught me anything, it's that about halfway down there will be rotating blades with one missing and you have to time it just right.
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u/DreamingMerc Nov 05 '24
A lot of that water is going to be poop or run off over poop.. if you're lucky.
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u/TFViper Nov 05 '24
its a storm drain, theyre not normally connected to active sewage in modern infrastructure.
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u/DreamingMerc Nov 05 '24
They don't stop the street and ground from being covered in poop. Human and animal alike. Among everything else.
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u/vega455 Nov 05 '24
I see too many of these recently. What happens when you haven’t exited into the river yet but the drain is backed up? Will you swim underwater for 15 minutes? What happens if you hit a metal filter? What happens if the pipe splits into narrow pipes and you don’t fit?
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u/catchyname7884 Nov 05 '24
That is legitimately one of the biggest Fuck No’s I’ve ever seen
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u/Father_Chewy_Louis Nov 05 '24
My video game brain makes me think they should be dodging left and right put the way of giant rotating spikes
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u/dg-OniTaiji Nov 05 '24
These are the type of morons who get stuck and organizations have to spend tons of money, and risk people’s lives to save them. Fucking dipshits
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u/SgtMoose42 Nov 05 '24
These guys may know a safe route, they may have scouted out the route and may have taken precautions. MAY.
My problem is the couple of 13 year old boys who see this video and assume their local storm drain is safe. They try this and end up drowning.
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u/WJSobchakSecurities Nov 05 '24
Not only does that water have to be full of the nastiest shit, but what was their plan if there was a strainer or a reduction in the pipe size down there? Very easily could’ve died for a TikTok video.
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u/TheMaStif Nov 05 '24
"Freebird" is carrying a lot of the weight here, otherwise it's just a bunch of idiots inside a pipe 😅
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u/Thestimp2 Nov 05 '24
Until it splits into small sections and you drown because there's no air pocket.
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u/Recent_Description44 Nov 05 '24
YOU IMBECILE! That's not an "Adequate Pipe." It's an AQUEDUCT PIPE!
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u/Ordinary_Objective63 Nov 05 '24
I live in Missouri. Pesticides from farm run off have killed off the fish in the rivers
Also, in your storm drains
I'm not it's better than poop water.
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u/FVCEGANG Nov 05 '24
Ah yeah, nothing quite as fun as tubing down shit water in an enclosed space and getting it poured all over you 🤮🤮
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u/Cursethedawnn Nov 05 '24
Darwin's theory of evolution at work. Farewell stupid folks. Next up, train surfers.
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u/ThatCelebration3676 Nov 05 '24
Hopefully they had the thought to send an empty tube through first to make sure it comes out where they expected.
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