Walkin' man

[Gravdigr]

It's hard to get over that kinda thing.

[sexobon]

Watch out for female suicide bombers on bicycles.

[Griff]

Don't over look the fat bottomed girls on bicycles either.

[Gravdigr]

They make the rockin' world go 'round.

[glatt]

It's been a couple weeks since this area was locked down for security. All the fences are gone, and cops are back to regular numbers. The one thing that remains is the security seals on the manholes.

I've been walking by these for weeks, and decided it was worth further investigation. First of all, there are hundreds of these things (I didn't count them) in a multiple block area around the convention center that hosted international delegations for the nuclear summit.

At a regular walking height, you hardly notice them. If you bend over to look, they look like this:


When you get closer for a nice shot, they take on some texture:


If you try to pry one up, you notice immediately that instead of being like a paper or tape label, they are a stretchy rubber. You curl your fingers underneath and keep pulling until the stretching gives way to tearing.


And they have a little lingering sticky glue on the torn edges, but are otherwise just some flappy rubber sheets with perforations.

[glatt]

You start to see a story in some of them.
This manhole shifted since the summit.


Storm drains, even right next to the summit have no seals at all. That because the gutter part can't be closed off, so why bother with the rest. Plus, if you are small enough, you can crawl in through the storm drains from another neighborhood. Train a racoon and strap a bomb to it.


This manhole was opened and then resealed.


And this guy went crazy even taping a water shutoff cover. This wasn't done consistently.

[glatt]

And maybe the craziest thing I saw was sealing off light poles to the ground. And in this particular case, doing it while leaving the access hatch to the wiring un-sealed.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Just think how much planning and paperwork, recording all those seal numbers which the government will probably keep forever, and not in a jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch, but a top secret high security(expensive) location. I wonder if the seals have RFIDs in them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Did you know they can get fingerprints from a photograph?

♫ Oh the NSA is coming to your house
♪ Anytime now, night or day
♫ Yes, the NSA is coming to your house
♪ So it may be time to pray

[Gravdigr]

I used to get slop and walk around town. Then they started arresting ppl for that...

[glatt]

I think I was trying to type "slow" but the keys are on opposite sides of the keyboard. I must really be too slop.

[glatt]

I didn't take this picture. I found it when I was Googling who the hell that band was playing in the park on my lunch hour half an hour ago.


Who's that handsome devil in the corner?

[xoxoxoBruce]

glatt the photobomber.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by glatt

I didn't take this picture. I found it when I was Googling who the hell that band was playing in the park on my lunch hour half an hour ago.
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Who's that handsome devil in the corner?

And why is he cupping his junk?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Walking Man is in one of the most photographed locations in the country. I'll bet he's in a shitload of photographs scattered around the world from MI6 to KGB to Mossad to NKMSS, to ASIO to CIB to... well you get the picture... they did.