Alleged sewer explorers facing charges
Two urban explorers who allegedly climbed into a Toronto sewer and prompted an hours-long search by emergency crews are facing mischief charges.
Michael Cook, 27, and Andrew Edmond, 35, are charged with mischief after Toronto Police and firefighters pulled them out of a sewer in 14 Division.
Staff Sgt. Darren Halman said someone spotted the two going down a sewer grate in the Roxton Road Parkette near Ossington Ave. and Dundas St. W. about 10 p.m. Sunday.
Firefighters, a HAZMAT team, police and city works crews managed to track down the underground explorers by 2 a.m., Halman said.
Police were less than impressed with the city resources required in tracking down the duo.
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In a message on the site, Cook sums up why they explore the places underneath Toronto.
“This is a website about exploring some of those spaces, about immersing oneself in stormwater sewers and utility tunnels and abandoned industry, about tapping into the worlds that are embedded in our urban environment yet are decidedly removed from the collective experience of civilized life,” Cook wrote. “This is a website about spaces that exist at the boundaries of modern control, as concessions to the landscape, as the debris left by economic transition, as evidence of the transient nature of our place upon this earth.”
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