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 kjohnnytarr
  
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos: CoMO
 |  |  | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 3 on 1/21/2008 5:33 AM >
|  | | | oh, my bad dude.
It seemed like a good idea at the time... |
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Kuroneko
    
Location: Tokyo
Gender: Male
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 4 on 1/21/2008 5:35 AM >
| | | | I would normally say; alcohol, vandalism, drain, flood = natural selection. Pity they had to die for their stupidity though...
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kjohnnytarr
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos: CoMO
| | | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 6 on 1/21/2008 6:01 AM >
| | | | Wow, all this condescension for the dead... like we all haven't ever done anything just as stupid at some point.
It seemed like a good idea at the time... |
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Emolite
Location: Philadelphia/Princeton
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 7 on 1/21/2008 8:17 AM >
| | | | Sad, I really wouldn't say Darwin Awards either. A sudden flood, drunk or sober has a pretty good chance at disaster depending on where you are in the drain, although it certainly would help to be sober ;\
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 8 on 1/21/2008 8:21 AM >
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It mentions Fortress drain in Sydney. Seeing as how the cave clan have explored that many times, I wonder if they will have any comment.
Not pointing blame, but whoever the unfortunate taggers were, me thinks the drain will be sealed up now to prevent further access..
More proof of no drains when it rains!
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Origato
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 9 on 1/21/2008 9:23 AM >
| | | | The media seems to have gone off the deep end. The two drowned have been described as:
Graffiti vandals.
Graffiti artists.
Urban Explorers.
amateur Urban Explorers
Cave Clan
Not Cave Clan
Heros
Not Heros.
Lucky
Unlucky.
I've done journalism. There was something there about checking your facts. The media of today seem to prefer a technique called "grasping at straws."
That's what I like about my town. No sea for at least 1000km in any direction.
So, I take it these were drunken grafos?
Caution! This user is a wise ass and may use sarcasm.
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parallax
Location: Sydney, Australia.
Gender: Male
Cave Clan are go!!
| |  |  | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 10 on 1/21/2008 9:39 AM >
| | | | Yeah, the media loves sensationalism here in Aus.
To clarify:
Not Cave Clan. Graffers, but not shit ones, quite respected in the community from what I'm led to believe.
So far the media beat-up has been focused largely on the Graf community only hope with the national media bans in place it should blow over like most other stories.
Cave Clan Australia
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HaroldOfTheRock
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 11 on 1/21/2008 1:17 PM >
| | | | Ugh, what an awful way to go.
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dsankt
 
Location: live and in the fresh
| | | | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 12 on 1/21/2008 2:31 PM >
| | | | Ironic really, if there weren't bars on the drain outfall to prevent people going in, all three of them would have been washed out into the sea and (maybe) survived.
But hey, think of all the lives that were saved because noone could get in through the outfall! Oh wait that didn't stop anybody.
sleepycity.net: watch out for the third rail baby, that shit is high voltage. urbex and urban exploration photography |
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Biscottie
Location: Southern California
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 13 on 1/21/2008 8:05 PM >
| | | | That is unfortunate. Although I don't condone graffiti, I do admire well done pieces of graffiti. But either way, they could have just as easily been exploring instead of spray painting the inside of a drain.
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Origato
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 14 on 1/21/2008 8:08 PM >
| | | | There was more media on it this morning, including mention of this web site.
http://www.smh.com...1200764171880.html
That picture seems to be this one.
http://siologen.de...art/Waves-29361593
I wonder if Siologen will get paid for that image use? Or if the media just stole it? Considering that they edited his picture, perhaps they never even asked to use it.
Some one has been speaking to the media.
http://www.smh.com...1200764171913.html
Video.
http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=34797
Haha. Urban Exploration is an Art folks. Yep, join the local art competition.
http://www.news.co...ytelegraph/story/0,22049,23086214-5001031,00.html
http://www.news.co...ytelegraph/story/0,22049,23087129-5001021,00.html
Sad news indeed.
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 15 on 1/21/2008 8:34 PM >
| | | |
| I wonder if Siologen will get paid for that image use? Or if the media just stole it? Considering that they edited his picture, perhaps they never even asked to use it. |
They might, but then maybe NSW/Sydney Water would have a few questions about it.
A CCer, n'est pas?
It's sad news, but what about the lifeguards and innocent locals who went to rescue them, whose lives were put at risk all because they wanted to spraypaint a drain after drinking?
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Origato
| | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 17 on 1/22/2008 6:32 AM >
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Siologen is a user? What sort of user? Drug user? Uses people? To quote that story. "Thrillseekers ... this photo of The Fortress, by a user called siologen, appears on the international urban exploration website www.uer.ca Sunday's survivor escaped through bent bars."
Sweet, my newly acquired hero is a user. I would have tought he was a photographer.
This reminds me of years ago some guys I think were associated with the cave clan did some disinformation story to the media about the dole army. It was just a feed of bullshit to the media who brought it wholesale. Maybe it is time to pull off another gig like that.
The dole army.
http://www.abc.net...tories/s474408.htm
http://evatt.org.a...ons/papers/27.html
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siologen
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
I Go Where The Drains Are
| | | Re: Drain Death, Sydney Australia
<Reply # 19 on 1/23/2008 8:07 AM >
| | | | Im a drain user...
Scans:
Telegraph:
Herald:
N for the record, the quotes attributed to me were taken from website interviews i did 5 years ago.
Big Drayyynes!
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