• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      I used to have to poke around in manholes. Not all of them have the name of the city on them, and not all of them go to a sewer. Some of them have cables in them.

      The one pictured does look like a municipal manhole cover instead of one belonging to AT&T or another communications company, just because of the design on it.

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        That was one thing I could never do when I was an “urban explorer” (fancy term for trespassing in to municipal water infrastructure), manholes always freaked me out so much my friends couldn’t even peer pressure me.

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          That’s for the best. You can 100% fall over dead before you know what’s happening in an unventilated manhole.

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      I seem to remember this being a Reddit post some years ago actually. Don’t know much more than that.