A friend of mine said in Moscow Russia people use to dig basements under precast concrete car size storage units. Every once in a while the the whole unit would fall in the hole halfway or more.
The underground world of hobby tunneling
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#22Here's a really interesting one. (sort by oldest, third video onwards) - https://www.youtube.com/@Paleas/videos Tradie somewhere in QLD, I am guessing. Perhaps underneath a condo or small hotel. At some point, they become a bit 'psytrance music video', from what I remember.
Judging by later videos his tunnel collapsed (no casualties) and he moved to some other outdoor location and activities.
I can’t imagine this being safe at all in a city, with the amount of underground infrastructure and weight of buildings, houses, sidewalks and pavement all around you. Seems irresponsible.
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#23> TikTok’s “Tunnel Girl” has focused fresh attention on the amateur excavators who build their own underground infrastructure — often in defiance of local laws. Gotta love we’re at the point where digging a tunnel on your own land, which you own, is illegal lol
Except she’s digging it in 200sqft of urban housing backyard in Herndon, VA USA. If you have 10 acres and want to dig a hole, go for it. But if you want to dig a tunnel in your backyard and your two neighbors houses are 100ft or less away… yeah, I would think twice.
Even if you're in the middle of nowhere, people expect to be rescued if something goes wrong... sort of like that Titan submersible. In the abstract it's fine to take huge risks, but it sucks when people implicitly turn those costs over when something goes wrong.
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#24Looks more like an underground bunker.
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#25> TikTok’s “Tunnel Girl” has focused fresh attention on the amateur excavators who build their own underground infrastructure — often in defiance of local laws. Gotta love we’re at the point where digging a tunnel on your own land, which you own, is illegal lol
wait until you find out what happened when the temple of damanhur was discovered
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#26I somehow understand why builsing infite space under your house is weirdly calming.
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#27> TikTok’s “Tunnel Girl” has focused fresh attention on the amateur excavators who build their own underground infrastructure — often in defiance of local laws. Gotta love we’re at the point where digging a tunnel on your own land, which you own, is illegal lol
it's for a good reason; many people who tunnel don't know how to make tunnels safe, and there's lots of collateral damage when they fail.
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#28Minecraft addiction in real life
The children yearn for the mines.
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#29> TikTok’s “Tunnel Girl” has focused fresh attention on the amateur excavators who build their own underground infrastructure — often in defiance of local laws. Gotta love we’re at the point where digging a tunnel on your own land, which you own, is illegal lol
A badly-dug tunnel can be a huge risk to your neighbors' properties, as well as to any underground infrastructure in the area.
And to the poor people who have to risk their lives getting you or your corpse out.
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#30Here's a really interesting one. (sort by oldest, third video onwards) - https://www.youtube.com/@Paleas/videos Tradie somewhere in QLD, I am guessing. Perhaps underneath a condo or small hotel. At some point, they become a bit 'psytrance music video', from what I remember.
Judging by later videos his tunnel collapsed (no casualties) and he moved to some other outdoor location and activities. I can’t imagine this being safe at all in a city, with the amount of underground infrastructure and weight of buildings, houses, sidewalks and pavement all around you. Seems irresponsible.
Oh absolutely.
I'm surprised that no-one located (somehow) and reported him before then.
I'm sure the digger would say that it's just rubble (nothing structural) he was touching, but there are of course plenty of issues & it's besides the point / could be incorrect anyway.