Busted For Treasure Hunting In NYC Sewers
It sure sounded like a great idea at the time:
Click here for reuse options!Three men hoping to find valuables in New York City’s extensive sewer system were facing criminal charges for climbing through a manhole cover and spending several hours on a treasure hunt in the muck-filled caverns, authorities said on Friday.
A spokesman for the New York City Police Department said Marquise Evans, 21, dislodged a manhole cover on a street in Brooklyn late on Wednesday and allowed two other men to climb inside.
Witnesses called police, and responding officers and firefighters, outfitted in protective garb, followed the men but could not locate the pair, the spokesman said.
About four hours later, the two men, identified as David Hannibal, 45, and Damion Nieves, 35, emerged and were taken into custody, police said.
The men had taken metal detectors with them into the sewer in the hopes of finding valuables flushed or dropped down toilets and drain pipes, the spokesman said.
They came up empty-handed, police said.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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fahvel August 14th, 2015 at 13:22
mon dieu, the crime of the century!!!! when it’s done in rome or florence or paris it’s called archeology. when in nyc it’s a crime. wtf!
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 08:22
They were lucky they weren’t overcome by gas
Red Eye Robot August 14th, 2015 at 13:48
Comrade DeBlasio is really improving NYC’s image, Killing black people for selling untaxed cigarettes and now arresting garbage pickers, meanwhile, crime and murder are on the rise in NYC.
whatthe46 August 14th, 2015 at 13:54
damn. deblasio is killing black people? please link the site so i can read it for myself. i don’t just wanna take your word for it. you understand don’t you?
Red Eye Robot August 14th, 2015 at 14:47
NYC just paid the family of Eric Garner, (Black Man), $6,000,000, who they killed for selling untaxed cigarettes. Try and keep up.
Larry Schmitt August 14th, 2015 at 14:55
So the mayor is personally responsible for everything done by every employee of the city? Wow, that’s a huge responsibility. Why would anyone ever want to be mayor of New York? I have never heard anyone else hold the mayor responsible for Garner’s death.
whatthe46 August 14th, 2015 at 19:55
this mayor is Obama’s brother from another mother. gotta blame ’em.
Larry Schmitt August 14th, 2015 at 15:04
From the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/nyregion/june-crimes-in-new-york-city-at-lowest-since-94.html?_r=0
“New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton on Wednesday said that last month was the city’s lowest-crime June since 1994, when he was in his first stint leading the Police Department, in an era of much higher crime rates.
At the current pace, Mr. Bratton said, the city is poised to log fewer than 100,000 major crimes — including murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft — this year, a low unseen since such records became reliable and consistent in 1993.”
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 08:21
To bad the books were cooked
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 08:21
HEY Gary!!!! How’s it hangin???
jasperjava August 15th, 2015 at 10:55
Since when are you concerned about police killing black people? Since you could pin it on a leftist mayor, I suppose. I guess Giugliani was responsible for every crime committed by NYPD during his tenure? No? Didn’t think so.
As a proud white supremacist, you would be expected to celebrate Eric Garner’s death. What are your Klan buddies going to think? But I guess logical consistency is too hard for “people” like you.
Suzanne McFly August 15th, 2015 at 12:21
Using red tool logic, we can blame Giuliani and bush for 9/11
Red Eye Robot August 17th, 2015 at 11:06
No doubt you blamed Rudy for every thing negative in NYC during his tenure, certainly liberals in NYC and the NYC media did. So we will play by your rules and say yes, Comrade DeBlasio is responsible for his officers killing Eric Garner over $2.50 in unpaid taxes on a pack of ciggs
jasperjava August 17th, 2015 at 12:01
In that case, as a law-and-order conservative and a white supremacist, you must be happy with this outcome.
Larry Schmitt August 14th, 2015 at 15:41
Is that supposed to be an “easy” way to make money? Most people take their metal detectors down to the beach. Or get an actual job. What a warped sense of values. I mean, they mighta run into one of those monster alligators that were flushed by the hundreds (or so the legend goes).
Budda August 14th, 2015 at 16:10
Something smells here, after all what are they charged with? Trespassing?
Larry Schmitt August 14th, 2015 at 16:43
Probably the same way they would be charged if they were found climbing a telephone pole or in a water treatment plant. The public has no business in facilities used by utilities (sorry, I couldn’t figure any other way to put it). There is a liability (sorry again) issue if they get injured.
StoneyCurtisll August 14th, 2015 at 19:27
Cant blame them for trying…
whatthe46 August 14th, 2015 at 19:53
i’m just getting nauseated at the thought.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 08:20
Ed Norton did alright down there
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 14:44
it’s poop and stuff. gross. i don’t know about the ed norton thing. what’s that about?
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 15:01
ROTFLMAO…..The Jackie Gleason show… Ralph Cramden, married to Alice (Audrey Meadows) and was a bus driver for 5th Avenue lines in NYC ..His down stairs neighbor and best friend was Ed Norton (Art Carney) worked in the DPW in the sewers
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 15:04
don’t laugh at me, forgot about the Jackie Gleason Show.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 15:11
I knew that would catch you…in syndication as the Honeymooners….still miss the June Taylor Dancers and Ray Block and his Orchestra …Jack did a lot of the arrangements.. Like Red Skelton…so many characters…if you get a chance catch “Gigot”.. a movie in which Gleason played a mute.. the family sat on it for years …watch it if you can…a whole different side to him…
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 15:20
thanks.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 15:28
Hey there aren’t that many old farts around
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 15:37
oh stop.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 15:56
Ditch the 46…say 76
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 16:01
laughing.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 16:02
Gotcha…I’m a 46 too
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 16:13
well, i haven’t been 46 for 4 years. i’ll be 50 on Dec. 26. still get carded when i buy beer though.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 16:44
Well I am a 46 edition … lots of memories of the way back when…like Lexington Ave being a two way street …and the sound of the 3d Ave EL
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 16:58
i’ve never been to NY. i want to visit so badly.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 17:20
Please…there is soooooo much more to New York than NYC
whatthe46 August 15th, 2015 at 17:32
my sister went to college there for a year. she enjoyed her stay. she was out there by herself at 18. she came home to finish got her bachelors then moved to SF. she loves it.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 17:37
Talk to alli about SF
StoneyCurtisll August 15th, 2015 at 19:26
Hey Ralphie boy~!
http://www.loti.com/articles/Jackie_Gleason_html_mfe5340.jpg
Warman1138 August 14th, 2015 at 23:53
Hope they had their hepatitis shots.
rg9rts August 15th, 2015 at 08:19
Empty handed???No handcuffs