Going Underground
For those who haven't already stumbled across this story allow me to present to you The French Underground Cinema.
Go the sports squad!
No cinematic experience is complete without couscous.
In the words of the inimitable Hunter S., when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.....
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Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.
Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.
Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
Go the sports squad!
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Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
No cinematic experience is complete without couscous.
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After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".
There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".
There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
In the words of the inimitable Hunter S., when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.....
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Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
Comments
you have some weird shit in france. i will give you that.
If I lived in Paris, or spent much time there, I fear I'd be sorely tempted to explore off-limits parts of the underground.
Yes, I did see Alien vs Predator, but yes, a tornado did hit my house so I do have an excuse.
Originally posted by shetline
If I lived in Paris, or spent much time there, I fear I'd be sorely tempted to explore off-limits parts of the underground.
You devil you, shetline! Hold him back people. Don't let him anywhere near Paris. He'll lose all sense of moral decency and self-control and....and....and go explore the catacombs!
Originally posted by talksense101
dont you have catacombs with skeletons of more than 6 million humans down there ... the walls adorned with skulls and thigh bones?
you have some weird shit in france. i will give you that.
I never visited the catacombes, althoug I visited some underground aera in boat.
One day I will do it, with my daughter, who always said to me that she is not scared
Originally posted by Powerdoc
I never visited the catacombes, althoug I visited some underground aera in boat.
One day I will do it, with my daughter, who always said to me that she is not scared
The tourist-certified catacombs, or wandering off the sanctioned path?
Originally posted by shetline
The tourist-certified catacombs, or wandering off the sanctioned path?
Sanctionned path for my daughter
No I wouldn't do that
I wonder what things or People you may encounter. Some years ago, I heard story of wilds animals like crocodile and giant snake founded in New York's underground
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Sanctionned path for my daughter
No I wouldn't do that
I wonder what things or People you may encounter. Some years ago, I heard story of wilds animals like crocodile and giant snake founded in New York's underground
that is true. but mostly due to the people abandoning them.
i remember seeing a history channel on the seattle underground. but certainly nothing like this. very bizarre. i always think stuff like this can't exist or happen these days but i guess it can
Originally posted by applenut
that is true. but mostly due to the people abandoning them.
i remember seeing a history channel on the seattle underground. but certainly nothing like this. very bizarre. i always think stuff like this can't exist or happen these days but i guess it can
There is also story of snake comming out of the water closet in building (snakes moving from WC to WC). And these story where real.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
the water closet
OK, almost never.
Originally posted by crazychester
OK, almost never.
Now, now... I'd guess that Powerdoc's English is very influenced by British English. "Water closet", usually shortened to WC, is still a fairly common Britishism, isn't it?
Speaking of French and English and Brits and WCs... the British slang "loo" allegedly derives from the French "Gardez l'eau!", meaning "Watch out for the water!", a phrase shouted in warning when tossing the contents of a chamber pot out of your window and into the street.
Originally posted by shetline
The disadvantage of living in a relatively young country like the US is that it will take a thousand years for our big cities to become so wonderfully weird. Oh, we've got plenty of our own oddness, and even underground labyrinths of sorts, but nothing with such a strong secret-world appeal.
Perhaps you should visit New Jersey
Originally posted by talksense101
dont you have catacombs with skeletons of more than 6 million humans down there ... the walls adorned with skulls and thigh bones?
you have some weird shit in france. i will give you that.
TALK SENSE!
Did ANYBODY get this?
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
Originally posted by NJ Tom
Perhaps you should visit New Jersey
I grew up in New Jersey. I suppose I might not have discovered enough of the local weirdness during my youth, but nothing in that web site quite adds up to having a couple of hundred miles of underground catacombes beneath your city, filled with human skeletons and secret chambers.
Originally posted by shetline
I grew up in New Jersey. I suppose I might not have discovered enough of the local weirdness during my youth, but nothing in that web site quite adds up to having a couple of hundred miles of underground catacombes beneath your city, filled with human skeletons and secret chambers.
You got me there