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Some NYC Urban Legends Revisted

sewergator1110.jpg The Bowery Boys are ruining all the fun by pointing out debunked urban legends—like, did you know that no one ever really tried to saw Manhattan in half (you can read about that one in this book)? And the birth rate didn't rise nine months after the Blackout of 1965... so maybe you weren't an accident, after all. There were, however, alligators in our sewers, lots and lots of alligators (maybe).

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  • Brian

    Tesla earthquake machine came close

    "He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one&endash;ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.



    Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could have laid the building in the street. And, with the same vibrator he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour."

    http://www.excludedmiddle.com/earthquake.htm

  • ASSTACKLER

    I'd be more worried about trolls, orcs or Cthulu down in those tunnels...

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