Have You Ever Been In A Sewer?
 

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.

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:

Nope, never been in a sewer.

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

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.

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

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:

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).

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.

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.

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

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. ;)

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

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

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...

Never been to a sewer, but if I wanted to see an underground location, it would be The old City Hall Station in NYC

I wouldnt mind making a lair there :trazz:

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.

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

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

Dunnit though?

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Oh its all good :D

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:

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.

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.

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

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.

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/t...16&whichpage=1

Turtle Farm
 

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)

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 :)

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.