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 Glitch0010
   
Location: The Drive, Vancouver, BC
Gender: Male
Get Strange
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< on 9/24/2009 9:16 PM >
|  | | | I was recently in Toronto, looking for appartements in the Downtown area to rent.
My travels brought me close the the Eatons Center (Queen Street side) It was late evening and I was making my way up Queen Street and stopped to fiddle with my IPod when I noticed a strage glow coming from below me. To my amazement I found myself standing on a drain cover. Even more shocking was the fact that the strange glow was emanating from within the drain itself.
I stepped around the drain to get a better view into its depths when I spied a long (20 meters) series of connected rope lighting running down the length of the drain.
Immediatly my first impulse was to pull the cover off and enter the drain. unfortunately the streets were packed with people traveling to where ever they were going.
My question is Does anyone know who put the lights there and why they did it?
I find it hard to believe that they have been placed there by the city, and even harder to believe someone has used the drain cover to access the tunnels below.
Someone help me, I cannot stop thinking about that drain and those damn lights.
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. |
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kowalski
 
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 1 on 9/24/2009 9:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by Glitch0010
My question is Does anyone know who put the lights there and why they did it?
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Yes, I know who and why. But it's not a drain.
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TacDical
  
Location: Anywhere Everywhere
Who know's what's below
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 2 on 9/24/2009 9:29 PM >
| | | | please enlighten us?
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
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Glitch0010
Location: The Drive, Vancouver, BC
Gender: Male
Get Strange
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 3 on 9/24/2009 9:30 PM >
| | | | Okay what is it? I know we're a Ultra Secret Society, with many rules and Dogma. But I cannot stop thinking about it.
I HAVE to know.
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. |
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Yankee Traveler
Location: Greenfield, MA
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 4 on 9/24/2009 9:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by Glitch0010
Okay what is it? I know we're a Ultra Secret Society, with many rules and Dogma. But I cannot stop thinking about it.
I HAVE to know.
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Actually, we
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are an ultra secret society with many rules and dogma 
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| |  | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 5 on 9/24/2009 9:34 PM >
|  | | | We have agents among the utilities. Let's just say that their 'projects' are the reason all road work takes longer and uses more prefab&concrete than it should...
Achievement Unlocked
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kowalski
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 6 on 9/24/2009 9:36 PM >
| | | | It's a utility tunnel. Arched concrete, about 5.5 feet high at the centerline. Rope lights, as indicated. A trough down the middle of the floor for drainage. Occasionally a large valve control wheel. And that's about it.
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kowalski
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 7 on 9/24/2009 9:42 PM >
| | | | Addendum: Okay, I feel a bit embarrassed to be pulling this sort of ultra-mysterious shtick. But this is a publicly visible thread, and talking about something like this in detail in a public and googleable forum thread is not something I'm going to do.
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TacDical
Location: Anywhere Everywhere
Who know's what's below
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 8 on 9/24/2009 9:47 PM >
| | | | true to that brotha
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
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unlisted
 
Gender: Male
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 9 on 9/25/2009 2:15 AM >
| | | | Dammit, now I am curious as well..
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 10 on 9/25/2009 2:17 AM >
| | | | I posted photos of this a couple years ago. Glad someone went down to check it out. (and I'm not surprised it was Kowalski!)
[last edit 9/25/2009 2:26 AM by yokes - edited 1 times]
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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kowalski
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 11 on 9/25/2009 2:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
I posted photos of this a couple years ago. Glad someone went down to check it out. (and I'm not surprised it was Kowalski!)
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Hey, to be fair, I wasn't the only one on the expedition.
[last edit 9/25/2009 2:54 AM by kowalski - edited 1 times]
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 12 on 9/25/2009 1:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
I posted photos of this a couple years ago. Glad someone went down to check it out. (and I'm not surprised it was Kowalski!)
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I believe you saw what that particular stretch of tunnel looked like on Saturday, on the south wall of my tent. Not that I know anything about mysterious rope lights, nor would I associate with a n'er do well like Kowalski.
yep. |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 13 on 9/25/2009 2:03 PM >
| | | | That's cool. I didn't recognize it as such.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Rust
 
I am a rustbucket
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 14 on 9/26/2009 6:25 AM >
| | | | It's part of the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling system.
There's your straight answer.
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 15 on 9/26/2009 6:37 AM >
| | | | Good ol enwave tunnels.
Always something going on with them.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 16 on 9/26/2009 3:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Rust
It's part of the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling system.
There's your straight answer.
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Man, you really know how to take all the fun out of my attempts at becoming an elitist prick.
yep. |
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Rust
I am a rustbucket
| | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 17 on 9/27/2009 7:05 AM >
| | | | The pleasure was all mine.
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
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<Reply # 18 on 9/27/2009 7:40 AM >
| | | | Posted by Rust
The pleasure was all mine.
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Yeah, rust won't be havin that shit.
I praise your consistency and down to earth manner.
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| |  |  | | Re: Lighting Up The Darkness - Toronto Drain Mystery
<Reply # 19 on 9/29/2009 9:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Yankee Traveler
Actually, we
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are an ultra secret society with many rules and dogma
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Actually aren't we the Ultimate Society with Secrets, rules and dogma?
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