The one pictured does look like a municipal manhole cover instead of one belonging to AT&T or another communications company, just because of the design on it.
That was one thing I could never do when I was an "urban explorer" (fancy term for trespassing in to municipal water infrastructure), manholes always freaked me out so much my friends couldn't even peer pressure me.
I was under the impression that the grates which don't have a city name are older from a time before people realized that they can be stolen and sold for the value of the scrap metal.
Then municipalities started to stamp their name on it and metal recyclers couldn't take them anymore unless you took it to a shady recycler so the value dropped.
If the house is old enough, it might be an old coal shoot chute for a boiler in the basement. Lived in an old farmhouse for a bit that had one of these
On the plus side, if the Foot Clan attacks, you'll have easy access to allies.
It is also a reasonable explanation for any disappearing pizza.
* stares intently at username, but says nothing *
Like my username implies I am definitely not responsible for breaking into this persons home and stealing 3-4 pizzas last week.
We’ve been watching this guy and we agree he is telling the truth.
You've said to much. A team has been dispatched to your location.
The NAACP has eyes and ears everywhere. Do not resist.
Or do, make my day.
They can't steer a long boat or play a sitar for shit, though..
What a shit hole
this is literally a shit hole
that's the joke
No city name on the lid? Maybe this is the best crawlspace access ever?
I used to have to poke around in manholes. Not all of them have the name of the city on them, and not all of them go to a sewer. Some of them have cables in them.
The one pictured does look like a municipal manhole cover instead of one belonging to AT&T or another communications company, just because of the design on it.
That was one thing I could never do when I was an "urban explorer" (fancy term for trespassing in to municipal water infrastructure), manholes always freaked me out so much my friends couldn't even peer pressure me.
That's for the best. You can 100% fall over dead before you know what's happening in an unventilated manhole.
I was under the impression that the grates which don't have a city name are older from a time before people realized that they can be stolen and sold for the value of the scrap metal.
Then municipalities started to stamp their name on it and metal recyclers couldn't take them anymore unless you took it to a shady recycler so the value dropped.
No idea how true that is though.
If you are a Turtle that practices martial arts
I seem to remember this being a Reddit post some years ago actually. Don't know much more than that.
Imagine this shit coming up when the streets outside flood or something
Fun!
Pretty sure this does not meet code.
Doesn't matter, they'll sublet it to some poor student and call it 'close to the city centre' because the king''s shit floats through those pipes.
Easy alternative if the shitter is clogged. Rent +$700
"Backup squat toilet"
Bro lives under the secret base of the teenage mutant ninja turtles
Under?
He comes from a land down under.
Where women do what
Glow.
What do the men do, then?
Mostly plunder but sometimes chunder.
The more you travel, the more you realize we're all alike!
If the house is old enough, it might be an old coal
shootchute for a boiler in the basement. Lived in an old farmhouse for a bit that had one of these*coal chute
From French chute, fall, see also parachute, "protect against falling".
Thank you... I knew it wasn't "shoot" but no other spelling looked right
It’ll be easy for the robbers to get into the house.
well, at least you can easily... dispose of... say... unusual waste
You need turtles and pizza
Oh, you found the rat pit, put that trap door back, put it, PUT IT BACK MOTHERFUCKER.
Nah that's free calories ain't no way
Why does the design on it look like something from an ancient civilization?
Sounds about right. Pieces of garbage would charge us by weight if they could.
we can't? /s