Have You Ever Been In A Sewer? [Archive]

The Fifth Turtle

10-10-2011, 01:13 PM

If so, what was it like?

I think if it weren't so disgusting, "sewer tours" might have been a good ($$$) attraction during the Turtles craze.

This thread is awesome. I personally have never been in a sewer, I just came here to comment on the topic.

Redeemer

10-10-2011, 01:20 PM

This thread is awesome. I personally have never been in a sewer, I just came here to comment on the topic.

Really??? It says u are in a Manhatten sewer right now!!!:lol:
I have been in a sewer it was nasty, disgusting, cockroaches roaming around, mice everywhere! it was called high school!!!:lol:

Ok maybe not, but Im not kidding about the cockroaches and mice :P

I have never been in a sewer, and seriously what parent would pay to let their kids go play in a disease ridden sewer? Maybe if ikt was super clean but lets face it, its a sewer,:ohwell:

BubblyShell22

10-10-2011, 01:33 PM

Nope, never been in a sewer.

Herald7

10-10-2011, 01:40 PM

Yeah I almost made it to 11th and Bleeker once, but the stench was just too much! :lol:

Shreddhead

10-10-2011, 02:13 PM

Back in those days before high school i got into a lot of random trouble/mischief. one such example was getting into places that i wasnt allowed, i think you see where im going with this. I remember going into a manhole with a friend on what i guess you'd call a "scientific expedition" where we learned that real sewers are nothing like the spacious, red bricked ones of the OT. Although i didnt see any rats, after a few quick spray paintings we high tailed it out of there. Thinking about it now, i should have taken a tmnt stencil down to spray paint.

Andrew NDB

10-10-2011, 02:22 PM

A drainage sewer like the Turtles occasionally live in or a sewer sewer?

ABrown

10-10-2011, 03:21 PM

Ugh, no I've never been in a sewer! Why in the shell would anyone want to do that?

Redeemer

10-10-2011, 03:52 PM

Ugh, no I've never been in a sewer! Why in the shell would anyone want to do that?

Better question "Who wouldn't want to do that???" :lol:

pannoni1

10-10-2011, 04:10 PM

Back when I was little, I would think that if I went into a sewer, I believed that I may see the actual Turtles in them, so that was my desire to look. Honestly, I've only been in a short tunnel under a two lane road. This was what was accessible to me as if I wandered into the storm drain in which I was too small to lift the cover, I'd get in big trouble from my parents. Even today, I'd only go into a sewer if I find it safe, such as if there is a tourist attraction (I'd like to see Paris's someday).

junkboy

10-10-2011, 04:20 PM

Great question.
A few years ago i saw one with the hole's cover open.I am 30 now. So i was not a child. I guess there was maintenance work or something like that. The workers had a break. I climbed down a few steps but then decided not to.
The question might be why would anyone want to be there as asked above... but when you love turtles, Leather Head, Croc, Morlocks, all those b-type monster movies and also have a thing for swamp creatures. ( ok sewer and swamp are two very different things but in a city one of the first places that comes to my mind for a hideously deformed creature is a sewer ) a sewer might look tempting to you.
But only looks... no need to test it i guess.

I wonder why i did not try that while i was a child. Probably i was a bit of nerdy for that.

Jester

10-10-2011, 06:39 PM

A drainage sewer like the Turtles occasionally live in or a sewer sewer?
THIS.

When I was a kid, living on a military base, there were tons of drainage ditches and tunnels. My friends and I would crawl through them. One tunnel came out to the curb, and had a man hole. I don't think we ever tried to lift it from the underside...way to heavy.

I seem to remember one time crawling through a tunnel with friends and hearing my mom calling me. I had to frantically crawl over my friends to squeeze out and go home.

Candy Kappa

10-10-2011, 06:47 PM

I don't think we have a sewer like the turtles hang around here where i live. But I have been in a flooded WWII bunker. dark, smelly, wet and inches from certain death. Fun times, fun times

Powder

10-10-2011, 07:56 PM

I used to hang out in the sewer all the time back in '06. My friends & I were always looking for places to do stuff & not get caught. ;)

Logan

10-10-2011, 08:39 PM

The closest thing to a sewer I've ever been in is my grandmother's neighborhood in Detroit.

Dirty Blond

10-10-2011, 08:42 PM

With the housing market as it is, I'm not surprised more people aren't taking to the sewers.

EvilStarLegacy

10-10-2011, 09:09 PM

Sewers in movies look so interesting. People go down a man hole to find a "river" with perfectly dry walkways on both side and metal fences. I have a feeling it's not all that beautiful down there...

Machias Banshee

10-10-2011, 09:37 PM

Never been to a sewer, but if I wanted to see an underground location, it would be The old City Hall Station in NYC (http://jalopnik.com/5684324/new-york-subway-city-hall-station-photos/gallery/1)

Shreddhead

10-10-2011, 09:53 PM

Never been to a sewer, but if I wanted to see an underground location, it would be The old City Hall Station in NYC (http://jalopnik.com/5684324/new-york-subway-city-hall-station-photos/gallery/1)

I wouldnt mind making a lair there :trazz:

LeoNerdo

10-10-2011, 10:00 PM

No, but there is a small manhole in the back yard of my parent's house next to the street. When I was a kid I always used to wonder what it was like down there.

Jester

10-10-2011, 10:13 PM

Machias Banshee

10-10-2011, 10:19 PM

Well that would explain a lot about you... :P :lol: <3

Jester

10-10-2011, 10:20 PM

Well that would explain a lot about you... :P :lol: <3
Dunnit though?

drewizzle88

10-10-2011, 10:42 PM

Sadly I have been down the hole many times, If I had to guess I'd say between 20-30 times, and almost always to change the grinder pumps on lift stations, they are so nasty, I wouldnt wish it on anyone. It's a big reason I made a job change.

Jester

10-10-2011, 10:53 PM

Donnie

10-10-2011, 11:20 PM

The romanticism surrounding sewers and Turtles fans is evident, and there have been times I wanted to check it out...but geez, it must be a breeding ground for diseases and infestations. No thanks!

Stingray69

10-10-2011, 11:41 PM

Along a similar vein, have any of you been silly kids enough to crack open a glow stick and pour the liquid inside on your skin, because the plastic stick looked kinda like a mutagen canister, hoping that you would mutate. Heck, I swore I grew new hair on my arms...:P

Heck yea I've done that. Never been in a sewer though but we used to slid though a drainage pipe that ran under my road. You would go in one side slide threw and you dropped off about 5 feet into a little pool of water. We don't have Sewars where I live.

drewizzle88

10-10-2011, 11:49 PM

Was kinda wondering how long it'd take to get a sewer maintenance worker here. :P

I was just there because I was an electrician and would disconnect the pumps and I'd go down to help guide the pumps out and keep the cords from getting pinched, it was really a big FAIL, the smell is wierd, unique, and always was the same. :tlol:

Jester

10-10-2011, 11:52 PM

I was just there because I was an electrician and would disconnect the pumps and I'd go down to help guide the pumps out and keep the cords from getting pinched, it was really a big FAIL, the smell is wierd, unique, and always was the same. :tlol:
Oh...well...my mistake. :D

drewizzle88

10-10-2011, 11:56 PM

Oh...well...my mistake. :D

Oh its all good :D

Luzmagica

10-11-2011, 12:56 AM

No way! Scary! :teek: I'm afraid of confined spaces, closed and smelly ones specially... .... Only consider it if a Terminator were hunting after me .... :trazz:

Icebot

10-11-2011, 03:39 PM

I've never been in a sewer and the way they are, I wouldn't want to go in one. I would go in one if they were like the ones on planet D'Hoonib from Turtles In Space Part 1 of the 2003 series. They showed how clean they keep those sewers.

Dirty Blond

10-11-2011, 06:16 PM

Are sewers a good place to bring girls?

(Seriously, dudes; not a troll question . . .)

:trolleye:

Jester

10-11-2011, 06:29 PM

Are sewers a good place to bring girls?

(Seriously, dudes; not a troll question . . .)

:trolleye:
The text says you are serious, but the eyes tell me you're not...I'm confused.

I guess the real answer depends on your intentions with the girl (like if you're disposing of her body, for instance) and her tastes (is she some bizarre freak?), but in most cases no...not one bit.

Leonardo_

10-11-2011, 07:41 PM

Crazy...I never would go into a sewer. Its not healthy to do so. The gases down there are poisonously...

Katie

10-11-2011, 08:58 PM

I've never had the desire to go in a sewer. Ever. Or a storm drain...or anything.

And Blond guy....I'm probably one of the more adventurous tomboy type girls on here and if my boyfriend took me to a sewer he'd find himself pretty single pretty quick.

pannoni1

03-01-2012, 12:29 PM

Apparently, some people like to look for treasures in them. Maybe Nick should do an episode about humans hunting for treasures in the sewers. According to the OP in this link, he thought that it smells like laundry detergent in there.

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=83716&whichpage=1

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

03-01-2012, 12:56 PM

Actually, I always felt sorry for April and Irma, hanging out with the Turtles in the sewers, could just imagine what their clothes would smell, and they still seemd to wear the same clothes in almost every episode...

Why wasn't the Turtle Farm in Northampton, Massachusetts the 1987 cartoon for exchange, as it is in Mirage? I know Casey Jones wasn't around that much, but it could be April's or Irma's grandmother who just was mentioned having passed away some years ago, and now standing empty. Would rock especially for the season 4-5 solo adventures (probably even for episodes like "Increduble Shrinking Turtles" and "Return of the Technodrome").

I love the Turtle Farm in the 2003 show and everything around, like the high mountains, dark forests and lakes and rivers. I also love the wonderful rural Upstate New York setting in "Unifentified Flying Leonardo" in the 1987 show, under the dark and starry sky of the night. I'm a sucker for the solo adventures in that show, many of them use rural setting. (as a kid I thought it was boring since it they had no Shredder)

twopinacoladas

03-01-2012, 04:18 PM

Anyone interested in exploration of sewers or subway stations etc I really recommend this video http://vimeo.com/18280328

They go into NYC's closed railway station as well, it looks like its out of TMNT III I saw it quite a while ago was really cool. My friend liked it so much he wanted to go explore the sewers. Not such a good idea, exploring other areas would be fun but I don't think I'd want to go in the sewers so I have never done so. As a kid I did pry the man hole covers up a little not to much tho didn't want to get in trouble :)

Archon_Turtle

03-01-2012, 05:15 PM

I've wandered around in drainage sewers before...

Though if you want a seriously creepy/fascinating underground location, I highly recommend the Catacombs in Paris.

ssjup81

03-02-2012, 01:20 AM

As a kid, I wanted to go down into the sewer and...hope to find the Turtles' lair. :tlol: I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, though (despite the fact I was born in NYC). The main thing that kept me from trying, other than I would get in trouble, was the fact that I wasn't in Manhattan. How goofy, right? Oh, and the answer is no, of course. Now, when I was a bit older, common sense set in and I was like, "The Turtles' lair is too good to be true. The sewers can't possibly look that clean." I now wonder how many kids during the Turtle Craze actually did try to explore the sewers in hopes of finding the Turtles.Along a similar vein, have any of you been silly kids enough to crack open a glow stick and pour the liquid inside on your skin, because the plastic stick looked kinda like a mutagen canister, hoping that you would mutate. Heck, I swore I grew new hair on my arms...:PI never tried that. I've always wanted to crack the thing open, but not for mutation reasons. :lol:

Killer Moth

03-02-2012, 05:04 PM

I think Freakazoid said it best when he had go into the sewers, "I hope that's a candy bar floating there." So, yeah, that's enough for me never to think about it.

Still, I'm always amazed fiction can do the Absurdly Spacious Sewer routine, when the reality is the exact opposite. Nothing to do with the Turtles, but I always liked Friday the 13th Part 8's sewers the best -- absolutely spacious and New York City apparently floods the sewers with toxic waste every night. Sounds like an opportunity for a cheap (and good) crossover. Hmm...

Mr._Mutant_Man

03-02-2012, 11:39 PM

Actually, I always felt sorry for April and Irma, hanging out with the Turtles in the sewers, could just imagine what their clothes would smell, and they still seemd to wear the same clothes in almost every episode...

Could you imagine how nasty April's boots would have ended up being?

They definitely wouldn't have stayed a nice white, that's for sure. :ohwell:

Nintendophile

03-03-2012, 03:27 AM

I don't want to go in the sewer. It smells like poo gas.

Killer Moth

03-03-2012, 03:46 PM

I don't want to go in the sewer. It smells like poo gas.

Huzzah. Another Freakazoid reference.

Seriously, though, when I was watching the original mini-series for the first time in years, last month, in the back of my mind, I've had this thought -- "Why didn't Burne or any person comment on the fact April might have really reeked?" That was another thing I liked in "A Thing About Rats" -- she actually took a shower. I understand why she didn't or might not have thought about the odor issue, as she was busy discovering the Foot Clan plot, and all, but, really, ew.

Maybe April got a ton of yellow jumpsuits in her closet, pulling an Einstein. Either that or she has a fantastic dry cleaner.

I Crave Pizza No More

03-03-2012, 04:11 PM

I've been in a number of sewers. One of the more bizarre episodes involved watching a raccoon float past us on some sort of debris.

Mr._Mutant_Man

03-04-2012, 09:51 AM

Anyone else ever see the 1988 remake of The Blob? This thread just made me remember that movie. The heroine of the movie ends up going down into the sewers with her brother and his friend. The blob ends up following them down there, which they realize when a rat suddenly disappears.

magidkaiser

03-09-2012, 05:32 AM

never been in a sewer !

Magneto

03-09-2012, 08:39 AM

Can't say that I have.

No real interest either.

JJ TMNT

03-12-2012, 02:06 AM

I went into a sewer once. A new neighborhood was being constructed and they were just setting up the sewer lines and such. It was dangerous, stupid and I get uncomfortable thinking about it. We wondered in a hot summer day in the desert. The pipes started getting smaller and smaller. Then we noticed a pipe that had just enough wiggle room to creep through it. It was about 50 feet long. I started to wiggle my way through and my friends were going "YEAH KEEP GOING KEEP GOING!" At the end there was a light and a BIG open area that we knew we could climb out of. I started panicking because it got too tight and knew I could still back up but if I went any further I'd have to commit. I almost started crying. I immediately backed out and walked away not giving a damn about what everybody was going to say about me turning back.

Friends can lead you into dark places, literally... That was just plain stupid.Thank god I made the right choice to back out.

UsagiYojimbo

03-12-2012, 03:56 AM

I just laughed when I saw the title of this thread, and had to reply.

I've never been in a sewer myself, but a mate of mine used to work for the city sanitation department. Every so often he'd break out a few horror stories about what kind of items, fluids, and solids he would find whilst on the job. *insert about-to-puke smiley* :lol:

mysterycolor

03-12-2012, 04:21 AM

i love the teenage mutant ninja turtles... and i love pennywise the clown... but i have no interest in hanging out in the sewer...

Jester

03-12-2012, 05:43 AM

i love the teenage mutant ninja turtles... and i love pennywise the clown... but i have no interest in hanging out in the sewer...
WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE, GEORGIE!!!

Tim Curry at his best...

mysterycolor

03-12-2012, 10:22 AM

WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE, GEORGIE!!!

Tim Curry at his best...
abso-freakin-lutely- i ♥ ♥ ♥ that movie :)

Genesis

03-12-2012, 10:33 AM

I don't want to go in the sewer. It smells like poo gas.Or rather, crud vapours!

Master Splinter

03-12-2012, 11:34 AM

WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE, GEORGIE!!!

So I guess I know what I am doing tonight... :)

-ms

mysterycolor

03-12-2012, 12:10 PM

So I guess I know what I am doing tonight... :)

-ms
...floating?

Master Splinter

03-12-2012, 03:23 PM

...floating?

Nah, watchin' IT.

-ms

mysterycolor

03-12-2012, 04:27 PM

Nah, watchin' IT.

-ms
a truly wonderful choice... i will have to do that soon as well... i watch "IT" at least once a year :)

longbowhunter

03-13-2012, 10:20 PM

Back in grade school I had a buddy who....I guess you could say he was a building hacker. He used to sneak into tunnels,power stations,empty buildings,schools....he never took anything or messed stuff up,he was just bored and wanted to see how easy it was to get into these places. We lived near a university and there were a lot of tunnels/drainage culverts that ran under the ground and came up in various places. The university was also heated/cooled by steam so there were a lot of pipes and tunnels underground for the steam works that we got into. I was a big kid so all I remember are a lot of tight spaces....and rats...and cockroaches. Kind of cool,but not really all that fun. I probably wouldnt have gone if not for the threat of peer pressure.