Thrillseekers scout out forbidden urban sites-Urban explorers stake out forbidden sites

Star Tribune ^ | September 18, 2005 | Herón Márquez Estrada

[wallcrawlr]

Mike Gilday is an urban explorer who, along with about 75 others, loves to climb down storm sewers to explore the labyrinth of tunnels under St. Paul. Here he climbs out of a storm sewer entrance located in Mounds Park.

[Prime Choice]

How wonderful of the Red Star Tribune to glamorize these idjits.

Eventually one of these nude cartwheelers is going to get in a pinch and they're going to sue the city for not keeping them from doing the boneheaded things they do. And naturally a Liberal jury will award them millions.

Just another day in paradise.

[Tax-chick]

The underground is getting terribly crowded," said Greg Brick

LOL! Hard to be a cutting-edge innovator when everybody's doing it! I remember reading about this stuff in the WSJ when I was still employed, which makes it at least 10 years ago. Looks like the fad is peaking.

[Lurker]

They ought to charge a few of these numbskulls.

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[Firefigher NC]

Being "underground" and "non-conformist" is just another matter of conformity to a certain group. Nothing too original.

[seacapn]

Isn't this stuff really popular in Detroit? I remember reports of parties being held at the top of the abandoned David Broderick tower on weekends, or during Tigers games.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Dude! Come on over, Man! I've got this awesome septic tank you can explore for me, and save me the pumping charge this season. It's awesome, Man! Bring a bunch of your freaky friends. *SNORT*

[VastRWCon]

A nice summer rain storm will wash them all out.

[Lokibob]

A group of us were doing this in the 60's.

An aquaintence wandered around the thin ledge of a New York skyscraper 50 stories up.

I have been to the top of the domes of 4 different state capitals.

[Drew68]

Brings back old high school memories of exploring abandoned missle silos in Colorado some 20 years ago. Those places were monstrous and spooky and pitch black!

[2111USMC]

When I was a kid, we used to walk the storm sewers all the time.

Would save a lot of time getting to some places.

This would have been back in '68 or '69!

Guess we were "ahead of our time"!

[Tax-chick]

Certainly wouldn't hurt, especially if they fine them. Personally, I don't care if people crawl around in sewers or prance nude on stages that aren't being used, but I think the person who mentioned the lawsuit against the city when your "intrepid explorer" hurts is little self is dead-on.

[Tax-chick]

I did the same once or twice when I was in college, when there was an interstate between point A and point B.

[fella]

When I was a kid in the 50s this was just called roaming around. These people seem to not have done that when they were kids so now they do it in late adolescence. To me it's a sign of retarded maturity, one of the goals of the left. They assume that they can manipulate immature people more easily. That's my theory as to why they are drumming down our kids.

[mother22wife21]

LOL "Be an individual,everybodys' doing it"

[wallcrawlr]

Only a few will understand this reference:

[Morgan's Raider]

Just last week, St. Paul police arrested three college students for breaking in to the city sewer system near City Hall. The trio, carrying gunpowder and fireworks, said they belong to a group called Urban Invaders.

Awwww, they were just going to celebrate Guye Fawkes Day...

[tet68]

Baaaah! We were doing this sort of stuff thirty years ago.
Wait, make that FORTY years ago. Egads!

[gridlock]

I was doing this stuff twenty years ago. My older brother was doing it thirty years ago. Go near any college campus, and you'll find a lot of this going on.

[Cate]

Ah, chicken weinies, come into my garage, you can clean it while you're in there....