3 TMNT wannabe's get lost in NY sewers

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2008/10/15/2008-10-15_three_found_busted_after_getting_lost_in.html

Three blockheaded teenagers were busted playing in a sewer Wednesday in Queens - after getting lost while pretending to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, police sources said.

Schiller Milfort, 16, of Hollis, and Marvin Ottley, 17, of Bellaire, along with an unidentified 15-year-old boy, were shirtless and in their shorts and sneakers when firefighters plucked them out of a sewer in Kissena Park.

The make-believe heroes were crawling around the sewer system when they got confused and lost their way, police sources said.

They were not injured, officials said.

"These three idiots were playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wanted to go into the sewers," said one police source. "They were never in danger, just goofing off and being stupid."

Milfort and Ottley were charged with criminal trespassing. The other teenager was released to his parents.

[Eiko]

You would think they would know better than to go running around the sewers.

[Jester]

I kinda did as a kid, younger than them though. And technically it wasn't the sewer, just rain water drainage tunnels. There wasn't much getting lost, we never went to far, though one day I heard my mom calling me and I was in the middle of our little crawling convoy. It was fun trying to get around all my friends to get home.

[Sage Ninja]

eww, that must have been freakin nasty to pull them out of there!

[Ninjinister]

Just goes to show that the Turtles are somewhat popular if kids in their late teens were trying to emulate them! :lol:

[Sewer Bull]

Haha, silly kiddos.

[Mars-Chan]

I would say something about this, but a wise rabbit once told his friends: "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."...so...I'm going to button my lips and not say a word.

[KROW]

I never did this when I was younger, despite my love for the turtles. Whenever I'd see a manhole, I'd just wonder and leave it at that. I only had one friend at the time who was into TMNT like I was, and when we'd get to playing as them, we'd just go into the basement. It's cold, kinda dank, and there were pipes on the ceiling, so it wasn't really all that different, aside from the poo smell and chance of disease.

As for the article itself, these kids could have been doing something far worse than this to get the attention of the police.

Sewer-surfing; my anti-drug.

[ToTheNines]

Schiller Milfort, Marvin Ottley and a kid with a name so nerdy they refused to release it to the public... wow.

They were prolly live-RPG players that got bored of being red sonja's, so the decided to make us look bad.

[Dr. Doom]

I'm not going down there, it smells like poo-gas!

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Schiller Milfort, Marvin Ottley and a kid with a name so nerdy they refused to release it to the public... wow.

Actually, it is illegal to mention the names of minors in the news media who have been arrested or charged or otherwise are in legal trouble.

Back in 1991, I heard of two instances of children caught attempting to open manhole covers to look for the Turtles. This is the first time I have heard of anyone having made it this far.:o

[Raph's Girl]

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[ToTheNines]

Actually, it is illegal to mention the names of minors in the news media who have been arrested or charged or otherwise are in legal trouble.


1. It was definantly a joke

2. 16 and 17 year olds are also minors

[Zog the Equalizer]

1. It was definantly a joke

2. 16 and 17 year olds are also minors

Actually you're considered a legal adult at the age of 17 and can be tried as such.

[ToTheNines]

Actually you're considered a legal adult at the age of 17 and can be tried as such.

I don't think so dude. I can't vote, I can't sign myself out of school, and it's not entirely frowned upon for me to have sex with people younger than 17.

[Lil G]

:ohwell:Actually you're considered a legal adult at the age of 17 and can be tried as such.

it depends on the the crime. my mom beat up this girl when she was seventeen and only had to do community service. they considered her a youth. and its not on her criminal record

[Jelly Bean]

wow that must have sucked for them. But I kind of thought that most sewers aren't big enough for people to be running around in them. Anytrime I got the oppertunity to see down a man hole, it was just big enough for rats to crawl around in.

[Evenstar227]

I don't think so dude. I can't vote, I can't sign myself out of school, and it's not entirely frowned upon for me to have sex with people younger than 17.

You can vote at age 17. The conditions are you have to be 18 by the time of the general election and you can only vote for candidates (the reason being minors cannot own land therefore cannot vote on issues). At least, this is the case in Ohio.

[Zog the Equalizer]

Here in Texas you can't vote at 17 and 10 months...or something close to that.

[Kendamu]

Dumb kids. Closest I ever came to that was going a few feet into a drainage pipe. THough there was that one time two friends and I managed to pry open a manhole when I was six. We weren't gonna go down there, though. We just wanted to see what it looked like.

[Hannah]

Screw you guys, this is sweet! I'm going to go do this right now.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

When you're a teenager, you do things like playing TMNT more with irony than when you're a kid.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Screw you guys, this is sweet! I'm going to go do this right now.

If you can actually pick up a manhole cover, you're a much tougher cookie than I thought!:o

[Hannah]

They're, what, 100 pounds? Psh. I do it every day.

[cup-mikey-gertha]

I'm not going down there, it smells like poo-gas!

Now, we know how The Turtles smell? I wonder if Donnie invented a 24/7 air freshner. And how about Mikey's collection? They're in mint condition but smell like poo-gas?

:lol:

[Leogeddon]

Perhaps it would've been better if there were four of them instead of three? Then they wouldn't be lost!