Urban Exploring Gone Awry
Posted in the Minneapolis Issues Forum:
This morning at around 4am, we were awakened by voices in front of the house. We looked out the window and there were 3 people, wearing all black with black stocking caps, standing around the manhole in the street in front of our house, the cover was off and one person was half in the manhole…
It turns out they were self styled “Urban Adventurers” looking for the tunnels and caves under Nicollet Island…
Unfortunately, it was a bad day for urban adventure. Not only did they get busted, but (i) the reason they were standing around was that one guy was big enough that he was stuck in the manhole and couldn’t get out - the cops had to free him and lift him out; and (ii) if they had been successful in getting down, they soon would have soon figured out that they picked the wrong manhole - they were not headed into the water supply tunnels, which go to the caves, but into the totally separate and rather pungent city sewer system, which I’m sure have a mystique all their own.
Did the Nicollet Island tunnels and caves make it into Melanie Gilbert’s Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness documentary?
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It wasn’t in he documentary - I’ll take the blame for this one.
i wasn’t stuck… i ran out of ladder and couldent pull myself out… i exhasted my energy trying to pull up… im 6′7 and weight about 300 lbs i barely fit down there so i wanted out and that ladder was missing the top step… it was about a 35 foot drop back down and i grew tried… but i am happy the cops came… evan though it was quite embarassing, in fact i told my friends to go and leave me behind cause i saw the lights and knew someone called the police.