> NEVER Throw A Firecracker Into A Manhole!

The advice I gathered was:

1) never put a body part above the manhole
2) dont delay on the drop

Fixed that for you....

>> ^eric3579:

Kids, don't play with fireworks and enclosed fart gas.

At Dubai's only sewage treatment plant there are long queues and serious delays.
Truck drivers who are paid by the lorry load to collect waste from the city's septic tanks wait for several hours to dispose of their foul cargo legally.
There simply is not the capacity to deal with all the human waste the city dwellers produce.

"After dark some drivers are taking a shortcut and dumping their loads straight into manholes meant only for rainwater."

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7663883.stm

Crowd: "CLAP..CLAP..CLAP...YAY!!"
Nancy Reagan: "WTF??..where am I?..who are you!!..your not Ronny!?!?!?"
Marco Rubio: "STFU old lady...and keep walking"
Nancy Reagan: **notices the manhole cover is missing and sees her chance to escape**
Marco Rubio: "get back here!!!"
Crowd: "CLAP...CLAP....WOO-Hooooo.....**silence**"

That was in Montreal, on Wolfe Street, between Rene-Levesque and Ste-Catherine. Because of the sudden rains we had on Monday (30 mm in 45 minutes), the manhole backed up and with the pressure of the compressed air, turned it into a geyser!

>> ^bareboards2:

Did I hear a "bonjour" at the end there?
Moral of this story: Never park over a manhole cover.


Actually, I'm gonna call that one a "Mon Dieu", not a "bonjour" and go out on a limb and slap on a *Canada tag

Did I hear a "bonjour" at the end there?

Moral of this story: Never park over a manhole cover.

Jesus Christ! I always forget sarcasm doesn't work on the internet.>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^grubert:
Never in my life have I felt so misled by a video title.

Seems pretty accurate to me, but not all of us spend our weekends the same way you do.

>> ^grubert:

Never in my life have I felt so misled by a video title.


Seems pretty accurate to me, but not all of us spend our weekends the same way you do.

>> ^Stonebreaker:

Most likely an electrical transformer is on fire down there.


And is setting methane on fire, I'd guess.

Well, in honesty, I covered the cable lay (PPC-1) for a final year project in my telecoms eng. course, so it wasn't a recent research effort

Theres a few videos of them pulling the fibre through the manholes on land, and at the manhole underwater too. A few shots of the side-scanners, and the plough, and the amplifiers, and the divers placing it on the seabed in shallow waters...just a massive ammount of content. It also covers the deployment of the datacentres that feed the fibre.

Very cool and transparent project. I was going to buy shares when they opened, but didnt have the capital at the time
They opened at something like 20c, and the company sold to an aussie ISP here for something like $3 ea. Insane stock growth over 18 months.

Or was an open manhole with a 10 foot piece of pipe dropped down with a snowman built around the exposed part. But that is just the Wile E. Coyote in me.

The dude who keeps falling into the hot water and the other one with the stopwatch are a duo of comedians, they call themselves Ninety Nine and have their own show. They prank each other mercilessly, as you can see - this time the prank consists of making the shorter dude fall into tubs of very very hot water, and they time how many seconds he was able to take it; the water appears to be so hot that they thoughtfully place vats of crushed ice nearby, for a bit of relief. The particularly cruel side of this duo is that they will play the same (fairly violent/painful) prank on the same guy within the space of two minutes or so, sometimes they'll do it a third or fourth time until he gets really paranoid and afraid of everything from doors to manholes. Don't ask me why he was wearing a woman's bathing suit there, I haven't a clue, but it's in line with what they do. Their New Year's Eve shows go on for hours, are live and packed with a ridiculous amount of pranks. For further enlightenment, clicky: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3+%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3&uni
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After the Joker's manhole meat, Robin's running down the middle of the street.

Must be Jason Todd.

Dear LORD, I hate that accent. And medical bills are "mounting"? You didn't break any bones. You're getting an MRI? If doctors thought you were even close to needing one, you would have had one when you went to the hospital.

And now that I've watched the video, I can say with full ease that she's an idiot and deserved what she got. You were walking toward a couple of city workers in the process of doing something with the manhole. They were only ten feet away. That means there was a big white truck that probably had flashing amber lights and the workers most likely had orange vests. Nevermind the obvious noise involved with removing a cover. Also, we can know safely assume that the workers weren't just dicking around at the truck when they went for the cones, or the mother would have been sure to mention that. From that, we know that the girl wasn't very far away from the hole when the workers left to get it, because the time window to walk ten feet, grab shit, and walk back is NOT very big.