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.

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banneryear1868 15 points 3 years ago

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.

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CADmonkey 3 points 3 years ago

That's for the best. You can 100% fall over dead before you know what's happening in an unventilated manhole.

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Pyr_Pressure 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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peyotecosmico 7 points 3 years ago

If you are a Turtle that practices martial arts

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ObviouslyNotBanana 6 points 3 years ago

I seem to remember this being a Reddit post some years ago actually. Don't know much more than that.

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dasgoat 54 points 3 years ago

Imagine this shit coming up when the streets outside flood or something

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ObviouslyNotBanana 17 points 3 years ago

Fun!

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jaybone 8 points 3 years ago

Pretty sure this does not meet code.

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dasgoat 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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JaymesRS 34 points 3 years ago

Easy alternative if the shitter is clogged. Rent +$700

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turmacar 7 points 3 years ago

"Backup squat toilet"

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Glitch777 32 points 3 years ago

Bro lives under the secret base of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

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ObviouslyNotBanana 21 points 3 years ago

Under?

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QuinceDaPence 17 points 3 years ago

He comes from a land down under.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 9 points 3 years ago

Where women do what

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tacosanonymous 9 points 3 years ago

Glow.

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Jimmyeatsausage 28 points 3 years ago

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

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timt 18 points 3 years ago

*coal chute

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SonnyVabitch 6 points 3 years ago

From French chute, fall, see also parachute, "protect against falling".

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Jimmyeatsausage 5 points 3 years ago

Thank you... I knew it wasn't "shoot" but no other spelling looked right

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Slow 18 points 3 years ago

It’ll be easy for the robbers to get into the house.

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Norgur 15 points 3 years ago

well, at least you can easily... dispose of... say... unusual waste

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LazaroFilm 9 points 3 years ago

You need turtles and pizza

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RIP_Cheems 6 points 3 years ago

Oh, you found the rat pit, put that trap door back, put it, PUT IT BACK MOTHERFUCKER.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 4 points 3 years ago

Nah that's free calories ain't no way

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glennglog22 5 points 3 years ago

Why does the design on it look like something from an ancient civilization?

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afraid_of_zombies 2 points 3 years ago

Sounds about right. Pieces of garbage would charge us by weight if they could.

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wiikifox 3 points 3 years ago

we can't? /s

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