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Favorite Comment: Fixer Daniel says, “Just wait 10 more days and the manhole cover will be full and you can open it (or 24 if it is waning, it is hard to tell on that pic)”
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the bank foreclosed on the turtles cuz they spent all their money on pizza rather than rent
The chalk leads us to ask the old question: Why is this manhole cover not perfectly round?
apparently a city sewer maintenance worker was trapped underneath, starved to death and they just did the best they could with outlining the body
The alternative was to leave a partially sunken manhole cover for pedestrians to trip on. Good DPW kludge. Plus, it’s NYC… ’nuff said
DPW: Department of Public Whoops
erm how are they planning to use that manhole exactly?
“So we stand here, at the crime scene. The victim is believed to be involved in a illegal waste trafficking cover up scheme.”
They are using different colors for non-living victims… apparently.
Just wait 10 more days and the manhole cover will be full and you can open it (or 24 if it is waning, it is hard to tell on that pic)
I can never tell if it is diving or surfacing.
The metal shelled turtle lays its eggs under several inches of warm asphalt. The only natural predator is the common street resurfacing worker.
So this is what Mayor Bloomberg meant when he said they’ve sunk a lot into the streets this year.
So that’s where the tax money goes…MENSA memberships and spray paint.
Good thing they kept the outline…
VERY
Oy vey! The Turtles will be f***ing angry at somebody. Nachdem sie sich Wacker zur Oberfläche vorgearbeitet haben, wurde der Verantworliche erst Plasser, bevor er Theurer dafür bezahlen durfte. X-X
..denn er hätte Liebherr besser aufpassen sollen, bevor es Knaack macht!! Das ist doch nicht so Schweerbau, oder?!?
What????
They speak English in what?
I’m new to this site & sorry, but I just don’t understand this one. Can someone help explain it to me? Plskthxbai
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with your own explanation of what you think the photo is about. Be creative and use your imagination… There are no wrong answers. This explanation will self destruct in 10 seconds……… BOOM!
Bad news. I can still read it.
I guess I shouldn’t have kluged the fuse with a shoe string
Zing!
Title is an obscure reference to teenage ninja mutant turtles (cartoon/movie from the 80′s).
ok… I’ve let you puzzle it too long. I made a (German) pun with the names of several european construction machine manufactururing / renting companys. e.g.: wacker = tough, brave (Wacker Baumaschinen; known 4 motorized hammers and power tools)
blass = pale
teuer = expensive ;jn. teuer bezahlen lassen = to demand a high price for sth. (Plasser & Theurer = producer of special railway construction machines)
lieber = rather (Liebherr = big producer of excavators and bulldozers)
Knack! = (Knaack rents really big mobile cranes)
schwer = heavy (adj) ; difficult (adv) (Schweerbau = German construction company 4 special Projects)
Are there any questions left??
Probably done by gamers who were finally fed up with playing sewer levels.
Well, the ground’s pretty smart actually. You eat the manhole cover, and once it goes through the digestive system it will land directly in the sewer, instead of having to pass through a toilet.
Les Nessman finds work at the DPW after the WKRP scandal.
Oh my. That title was even better than the picture. I almost snorted yogurt out my nose.
One word: Assfault.
Brilliant in so many levels. None of them street level.
Street says: Mai doctor tolled me moar iron! nom, nom, nom…
(misspelling intentional)
Another great title…
So let me get this straight. Is New York City so poor that they pave the streets with… barely black-painted sawdust?
Nah, paint is way too expensive. It’s closer to sawdust mixed with foul smelling hot tar. I’d expect sawdust to hold up better than NYC streets do though, though, so it might be something cheaper.
Sadly, this is not an uncommon occurrence in NYC.
Now how are the Ninja Turtles supposed to come out now?!
I just hope it’s somehow obvious from underneath that it’s been sealed over. Imagine some sewer worker running through the tunnels, trying to escape pursuing zombies, giant rats, alligators, Cloverfield monsters, pirates, Giuliani, etc. He thinks he’s finally found a way out to glorious freedom, only to die a horrible death because for some reason the fershlugginer thing won’t freakin’ open.
This is not uncommon. It’s even common for the entire cover to be buried. That is why they make these: http://www.bestsurveystuff.com/
They just need a natural disaster such as a Volcano in LA or Tsunami in NY to come along and pop them all up with a tremendous amounts of pressure. Don’t you guys ever watch disaster movies?
Clearly, this was done by Ray and Egon in hopes of containing the river of ectoplasm. Trust me, it’s best left alone.
Is that one of those ‘Perspective works of art” that is really graffiti??
“Like, WHOA Leo, what did you put in my pizza, Dude? I’m getting trails off my nunchucks and the manholes are melting!”
Not a fix, but a fail; though, I personally very much liked the heading.
Agreed. Epic fail.
It would be EPIC if there were a photo of a street running down from the point of view with ALL manholes buried in asphalt.
I laughed until I cried…and then I laughed because I was crying.
This reminds me of Friday the 13th part 8: Jason takes manhattan.
In one of the later scenes the main character is being chased by Jason in the Sewer. what im trying to say is wouldnt you hate it if you were being chased by Jason voorhees in the sewer and you couldn’t get out all because of that (pictured above)?
Remember kids, you can flush all your turtle pet related problems down the toilet, oops too late…..damn radiation levels!
When one manhole closes, another opens – http://thatwillbuffout.com/2009/08/28/funny-car-photos-why-magneto-shouldnt-drive/#comments
FAIL
make that super-fail
I’m suprised no one knew that there was a fifth turtle,Sewer.
wtf
well…that’s common in Romania
? …
oh, and it wasn’t a question