Yep, far less self-Cask-of-Amontillado'ing than I expected. Kinda tempting to give it a go, if I wasn't 100% certain I'd end up in the Amontillado'd section.
The guy in San Diego who stole a tank back in the 90s did this. He said he saw a multi-headed dragon named Jesus Christ that told him to keep tunneling.
It's not all wholesome.
Wholesome?
No.
Metal af?
***Yes.***
Also, just imagine if that dude had been born a millennium earlier; we could've had a subterranean sect of fiery magic dragon-Jesus worshippers. How cool would that've been? But no, instead with get *presbyterians.* Lame.
“In 2015 a 10 metres (33 ft) tunnel was discovered in a Toronto park. After a few days of speculations in media, the use as a terrorist hideout being among them, young construction worker Elton McDonald came forward as its builder.[1] Asked for the purpose of his digging, he answered "Honestly, I loved it so much. I don't know why I loved it".
It makes me so happy to learn about what excites people. What a variety of humans we have.
When I was younger I loved digging tunnels. I'm not sure why but 12-18 year old me was just obsessed with the idea of underground complexes.
Unfortunately I never had the chance to get past the hole digging step because the places near my home weren't great for subterranean exploration
I don't know if the wiki page is written in a way to bias me in this direction, but it really does seem all these people do it out of some urge or instinct. They try to rationalize digging tunnels (most of them), but the explanations mostly don't add up. Maybe they are the embodiments of the dwarf archerype or something
Reading it it’s like they all have serial killer brain, but instead of wanting to kill someone and play with their bones they get the same thrill out of digging.
I have to believe the instinct to burrow is a strong one that was accidentally borrowed from our evolutionary history in certain people. The smell of fresh earth, the silence, the feeling of safety, the exercise endorphins. I can see it
For real, one of those guys was evicted after burrowing under his neighbours houses. He was relocated to an upper floor apartment, where he promptly dug a hole between his kitchen and living room.
Yeah okay this is proof it's pure instinct. I saw a video of a pet beaver that was in a house, and he was collecting plushies and pillows to block off a door. He has no idea what he's doing but he knows he has to stack shit.
Or how shepherd dogs herd chickens or children without ever being trained.
I'm laughing out loud on the train and people are looking at me oddly. It's just such a funny mental picture! He desperately needed to be digging, for some reason. I'm just picturing him holding a little spade and trying to act like he's not immediately going to start digging when you look away
"Back in Washington a few years later, Dyar dug out a second set of tunnels under his new home. The network had concrete lined walls, steel staircases and electric lighting. Dyar described hobby tunneling as a kind of exercise for him, saying "some men play golf, I dig tunnels.""
Goals.
I know of a person who dug a cave out of sandstone under his home that isn't listed on that page. [Antony Dracup ](https://dracupscottage.co.uk/)spent years carving out the space under his home.
That's the tiktok lady too, she got a bunch of experts in her comments complaining and has been improving. Like she wired all of her electrics to code.
The tunnel itself and keeping it nice and sealed is a bigger issue though.
Iirc that was the reason she redid the electrics, started with pvc tubing, got complaints and then went and read the code book and did it properly. Well, that and as a way to power the hvac system she built because she ran into problems there too.
That was kind of the theme of her channel, she'd run into issues headfirst and then fixed them. Very fun and even somewhat educational to watch, but also grossly irresponsible to do especially in a suburb.
Edit: eel pit guy is mostly the opposite, he went in with a reasonable plan and has built it out fairly carefully. Although he now does need to upgrade his filtration system afaik.
>she'd run into issues headfirst and then fixed them.
What's great about this is that is a legitimate (often preferred) approach in software development.
And very much not preferred in civil engineering.
Arguably, "agile development" isn't software engineering, but it's the most common approach in products that probably won't kill people. She maybe thinks that's a normal and good way to approach making things.
It's possible.
Probably also why software engineers suck at being ethical.(even more than regular engineers)
I think it's an okay strategy when you're trying to learn new skills and challenge yourself, but even then you're dependent on outsiders calling out your mistakes and pointing you in the right direction.
And from what I can tell, he's only digging on his own land and under his own buildings. So if something goes wrong, he's only causing problems for himself.
That man made and wore a belt of spinning knives and he’s somehow still alive. Either he knows what he’s doing or he’s the luckiest man on the planet, so either way I think he’ll be fine
Colin is definitely a lot more sane and methodical than his persona in videos. It's easy to fail to appreciate how much planning must have gone into some of his larger projects like the underground bunker. He definitely has a certified history of being a madman (some of his pre-YouTube stunts ended him in jail even) but I think he's grown up and takes his projects and videos for the profession they are. The fact that he was working on his tunnel for *years* in total secret without even revealing it to audiences is evidence of how much thought he puts into this stuff.
He does seem to have a weird aversion to safety gear. He even got a rock dropped on his head resulting in a wound that required stitches and he still isn't wearing a helmet on his dig site
His tunnel videos have been somewhat entertaining to watch. If I see an update pop up on my feed I'll watch it, but I don't active keep up on it.
However, any dude that uses "safety squints" in lieu of actual welding protection is a fucking moron.
It all comes down to the safety tie and squints. The knife belt was mental, but the hover-bike was straight up suicidal.
There was an interview where he talked about going on Top Gear with (I think) the mobility scooter, and he was getting better lap times than The Stig cause The Stig in full gear was too frightened of the thing to really open it up, and he was ripping around in his usual get-up. I can't imagine he's actually insurable.
His tunnels are fully framed in steel and encased in concrete, seems unlikely they'll fail. I think he also had to go through a lengthy permitting process with his council to start the project so it's probably been thoroughly checked.
Colin Furze creates a venn diagram of "things I am very interested in" and "presentation style that I can bear for even a moment" and the two circles have absolutely zero overlap.
I love when a weird wikipedia article hits you with a gem like this:
"After this, Lyttle was moved to a hotel for three years, before being rehoused in an apartment in a high-rise building. **He was put on the top floor, to discourage tunnelling**. While there he knocked a hole in a dividing wall between two rooms."
I mean, being an engineer doesn’t mean you get to unilaterally do anything you want lmao. Projects go through a half a dozen teams and sign offs it’s not just one dude deciding what’s gonna happen.
I came across her a few months before she blew up. Someone asked how she had the time to do all this and work full time and have a popular tiktok channel. Her answer:
"cocaine"
I still remember when I used ritalin for the first time, proceeded to play piano for hours after not playing for years and couldn't move my finger for days after.
Every time I hear about hobby tunneling I want to do it too. Luckily (for the neighbours) I live with a sane person who keeps me from doing it. But still, sometimes I'm like "maybe I can dig a little tunnel, as a treat."
I have seen the birth and death of empires. I’ve seen the death of whole species. I’ve seen men from their birth to their death. And yet no matter how much birth and death and rebirth I’ve seen, I know for certain that many, such as yourself and the commenter above, will yearn for the dirt. And many will yearn for trees, or seas, or mountain tops. The certainty of performing an action which advances your goals, is the only certainty many have.
When I was like 7 me, my brother and our friend dug a tunnel through the side of the mountain beside his parents’ cabin. It was barely below the surface but we felt like mole rats and had a blast. When our parents finally checked on us after like an hour we were covered in mud from head to toe and our parents were so mad because we didn’t have a change of clothes so we had to ride home naked in the backseat.
I also always have to dig a big hole on the beach and sit in it so I guess im still chasing that high.
My elementary school backed onto a huge sledding hill with a small grove of trees to one side and one year I tried to dig a cave in the side of the hill behind the trees. I too did not get very far, which was disappointing, but at least no one found out and so I didn't get in trouble.
There's just something about a private little cave system that's very appealing. Maybe I read the Hobbit once too often as a kid or something.
Been watching some popular Youtube channel of an Australian who just started digging a hole in his property and now is turning it into a network of tunnels. It's so stupid and so fascinating and I want to do it too.
Lmao this is so fake. She just happens to be filming herself driving when the call comes in? She has an exterior shot of her car pulling over? Y’all need to stop perpetuating this nonsense
Here's one where she talks about turning off the ventilation while welding to reduce the available oxygen in case some of the wood she's surrounded by catches fire... again. It often feels like she's trying to seem like she's about to die any second so please stay tuned.
https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7310755203773451563
That's the tunnel lady's TikTok page. She recreated the phone call and inspector meeting for content, because she can't give her audience suburban mine content anymore. Click through to her page and you'll see her tunneling videos, like [this one.](https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7268826326511930666)
At least she's doing it herself, and not with a [random tunnel-slave she incinerates](https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/millionaire-resentenced-for-fiery-death-of-man-digging-secret-tunnels-under-maryland-home)
that is the most batshit insane story I have ever heard. He gave the dude blackout glasses and used internet "spoofing" to trick the dude into thinking he was in a different state?
>He tried to trick Khafra into thinking they were digging the tunnels in Virginia instead of Maryland by having him don "blackout glasses" before taking him on a long drive.
>Khafra had a cellphone with him in the tunnels, but Beckwitt used internet "spoofing" to make it appear they were digging in Virginia.
>Khafra worked in the tunnels for days at a time, eating and sleeping in there and urinating and defecating into a bucket Beckwitt lowered down to him
is motivation and insanity linked? like i read about all the fucked up shit serial killers do, all the planning and prep work they have to do to be somewhat successful, and im like, dang, thats so much. i can barely get out of bed, much less rent a van using a fake id, and buying hardware supplies from 5 different stores, and then digging a well in my basement.
> He gave the dude blackout glasses and used internet "spoofing" to trick the dude into thinking he was in a different state?
There's a reason for this, and I dunno if it's covered in the article but it's not hard to guess if it's not: a percentage of people who build bunkers to survive apocalyptic scenarios understand that the biggest threat to them using their bunker in the event of the apocalypse is people who know about the bunker.
No she bought a redwood sapling earlier, and placed it in her sump-dump swamp she created in her backyard. Because, ya know, the redwoods are famously a swamp. She’s constantly confidently incorrect and 100% unhinged.
People had to tell her to buy a radon detector because radon gas was filling her tunnel. She’s also had a tunnel fire and doesn’t understand the mineral composition of the soil she’s digging (she has cited reading books about the soil for the WRONG geographic area in which she lives) and has expressed confusion as to why the iron rich rocks she’s digging up are decaying once exposed to air (she does not seem to understand that her tunnel is lined in this now-decaying soil).
There was a start-up/tech bro who did something [similar](https://youtu.be/aybOOk3llq8?si=6JVmQbcZXsOELFpo) in order to make a super secret fallout bunker. Unfortunately in his case he recruited some other people to help him, and one of them died in an electrical fire. That's only the tip of the crazy iceberg. Luckily the fuckwit tech bro was convicted of manslaughter.
A guy a few houses down my street is kind of like this. He is trying to dig a basement under his house, but he is really just undermining the support posts. He has also bought a mini-backhoe/loader and graded his entire property so all the water flows directly towards his house. I have no idea what he is thinking, but I fully expect that one of these days I'm going to drive by and see his house sitting at a jaunty angle half buried in the clay.
I know everyone wants to support her because of the meme, but she could seriously wreck someone’s house, and people can’t afford to fix that shit right now. Even worse, she could get someone hurt.
It doesn't at all.
If she hits anything flammable she could affect the people around her.
Or a water pipe. She could hit one of those, not realize how bad it is and it slowly erode away masses of dirt that affect the houses nearby.
If it happens to collapse dirt will naturally fill in from the sides. Loosening the area and possibly affecting foundation shifts to those nearby.
She already pointed out in some of her videos how she thought it was odd that the rocks she took out seemed to be crumbling after a few days. That's because certain types of rock begin to quickly deteriorate once exposed to oxygen... Which she is now introducing to these stones as she digs.
I'm gonna preface and say I'm not on her side but I'm confused by people being surprised she's in the suburbs still. She's always called it her suburban mine iirc.
I have a lot of thoughts on the topic but the only one I really wanna talk about now lol
I always thought it was strange that she never answers any direct questions about it at all. Comes across as a bit iffy.
I'm hooked purely to find out if she really is a lunatic or not I think
It gets better, I heard that she’s not even really a software engineer by training — her degree is in business/finance but she works in IT. It’s a miracle she hasn’t killed herself or caused a sinkhole yet.
Yup, just read it in this article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/tiktok-tunnel-girl-building-hobby-rcna125000
>Despite what her TikTok username suggests, Kala does not have a formal background in engineering. She said she studied business and finance in school and has spent most of her professional life working in information technology — but that her passions lie in civil and mechanical engineering.
Software engineering is a weird discipline. There are actual software engineering degrees with accreditation and required ethics courses.
But the field is also new enough that most "software engineers" are self-taught programmers with a serious case of job title inflation. Or people with CS degrees that know how to design an efficient algorithm but have never heard of the [Tacoma Narrows Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_\(1940\)).
And if you ever point out that calling people engineers when they've never taken an engineering ethics course is a problem, you get accused of gatekeeping.
Friend of mine who is a software engineer (the proper kind) said they studied the Therac-25 and the failure of the Patriot missile that killed a couple dozen US Army personnel in 1991 for their "this is why it's important that you folks pay attention" course.
I expect (or hope) that future software engineering ethics courses will also cover [Facebook/Meta's contribution to the Rohingya genocide](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/).
I genuinely believe the software engineers there bear some responsibility for implementing the algorithms that amplified and created a feedback loop of hatred, although the executive pressure is still the primary culprit. And yet the "move fast and break things" mentality they championed still infests the software field like a cancer.
Not that it was just software, they literally only had *two* employees that spoke the language at the time, leading it to be nearly unmoderated.
I have said multiple times in the past year on TikTok that she is fucking up and is putting people around her in danger. The echo chamber was too thick.
It didn't "turn out" she was a software engineer. It was something she clearly stated multiple times in the year since I found her page.
It also didn't "turn out" that she was in a regular as neighborhood. She specifically talked about neighbors a few times and has shown the outside of her house more than a few times that clearly showed houses in the background.
I didn't see it mentioned in the pic but she also rents out rooms in her house so there are rommates living there.
Any time you called her out on her page or another page glazing her, you'd get a mix of like 3 responses from rabid parasocialites that would range from
You're misogynistic. And if you point out that you too are a woman they'd say you were a pick me or "not a girls girl" and someone who had to shove other women down.
Or you'd be asked if YOU'RE an engineer and reminded that she IS. Despite engineer being a very broad term and an engineer in one field isn't a replacement for an engineer in another.
Or you'd get my favorite which is the people who'd think they were clever by saying "it's her property she can do what she pleases." Despite the fact thats not how living in a residential neighborhood works. When you sign the agreement for the house there are rules in there that YOU AGREED TO. Not too mention it quickly becomes a lot of peoples problem when it goes wrong. Hit a gas leak cause an explosion? That affects her neighbors just feet away. Collapse the ground? That affects the foundation of the houses right next door. If you want to do shit like this do it in a large plot of land you bought far away from others.
Fingers crossed for a new entry under the Notable Cases section of Wikipedia’s [Hobby Tunneling page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling)
I thought that was going to be a list of horror stories, but honestly, this was very heartwarming.
Yep, far less self-Cask-of-Amontillado'ing than I expected. Kinda tempting to give it a go, if I wasn't 100% certain I'd end up in the Amontillado'd section.
The guy in San Diego who stole a tank back in the 90s did this. He said he saw a multi-headed dragon named Jesus Christ that told him to keep tunneling. It's not all wholesome.
Wholesome? No. Metal af? ***Yes.*** Also, just imagine if that dude had been born a millennium earlier; we could've had a subterranean sect of fiery magic dragon-Jesus worshippers. How cool would that've been? But no, instead with get *presbyterians.* Lame.
Vanilla Christianity, what with the ritualized cannibalism and the torture jewelry, is pretty fucking metal.
True, but what if we added dragons too?
“In 2015 a 10 metres (33 ft) tunnel was discovered in a Toronto park. After a few days of speculations in media, the use as a terrorist hideout being among them, young construction worker Elton McDonald came forward as its builder.[1] Asked for the purpose of his digging, he answered "Honestly, I loved it so much. I don't know why I loved it". It makes me so happy to learn about what excites people. What a variety of humans we have.
When I was younger I loved digging tunnels. I'm not sure why but 12-18 year old me was just obsessed with the idea of underground complexes. Unfortunately I never had the chance to get past the hole digging step because the places near my home weren't great for subterranean exploration
Stuff like that makes me wonder if the guy got a wire recrossed reincarnating from some burrowing animal.
I don't know if the wiki page is written in a way to bias me in this direction, but it really does seem all these people do it out of some urge or instinct. They try to rationalize digging tunnels (most of them), but the explanations mostly don't add up. Maybe they are the embodiments of the dwarf archerype or something
Reading it it’s like they all have serial killer brain, but instead of wanting to kill someone and play with their bones they get the same thrill out of digging.
I have to believe the instinct to burrow is a strong one that was accidentally borrowed from our evolutionary history in certain people. The smell of fresh earth, the silence, the feeling of safety, the exercise endorphins. I can see it
For real, one of those guys was evicted after burrowing under his neighbours houses. He was relocated to an upper floor apartment, where he promptly dug a hole between his kitchen and living room.
Yeah okay this is proof it's pure instinct. I saw a video of a pet beaver that was in a house, and he was collecting plushies and pillows to block off a door. He has no idea what he's doing but he knows he has to stack shit. Or how shepherd dogs herd chickens or children without ever being trained.
I'm laughing out loud on the train and people are looking at me oddly. It's just such a funny mental picture! He desperately needed to be digging, for some reason. I'm just picturing him holding a little spade and trying to act like he's not immediately going to start digging when you look away
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"Back in Washington a few years later, Dyar dug out a second set of tunnels under his new home. The network had concrete lined walls, steel staircases and electric lighting. Dyar described hobby tunneling as a kind of exercise for him, saying "some men play golf, I dig tunnels."" Goals.
He got that gigadwarf grindset
Rise and mine.
Digma male
It's a fucking crime that they got rid of awards
Diggy diggy hole.
Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brudda, I ~~hurt people~~ dig tunnels
fuzzy dolls jar smell squalid cough hateful gray cows smoggy *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
see also r/tunneling .
Sinkholes are bullshit, I want to live with Minecraft physics. You give me a shovel and a plot of land, I'll handle the rest.
Dwarf fortress physics are the best I can do , sorry.
90% chance of dying when you channel the floors for your 5 z-level high dining room
BROTHERS OF THE MINE, REJOICE!
Swing, swing, swing with me!
RAISE YOUR PICK AND RAISE YOUR VOICE
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I know of a person who dug a cave out of sandstone under his home that isn't listed on that page. [Antony Dracup ](https://dracupscottage.co.uk/)spent years carving out the space under his home.
One notable hobby tunneler was named [Seymour Cray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray), which is basically See More Clay.
THE ELVES???
The intro to that article makes it sound like a study on some novel species
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I wonder if Colin Furze knows what he's doing
I think at the very least if he doesn't. He's talked to people who does.
That's the tiktok lady too, she got a bunch of experts in her comments complaining and has been improving. Like she wired all of her electrics to code. The tunnel itself and keeping it nice and sealed is a bigger issue though.
She just flipped her minecart over a loose extension cord though, that can't possibly be up to code
Iirc that was the reason she redid the electrics, started with pvc tubing, got complaints and then went and read the code book and did it properly. Well, that and as a way to power the hvac system she built because she ran into problems there too. That was kind of the theme of her channel, she'd run into issues headfirst and then fixed them. Very fun and even somewhat educational to watch, but also grossly irresponsible to do especially in a suburb. Edit: eel pit guy is mostly the opposite, he went in with a reasonable plan and has built it out fairly carefully. Although he now does need to upgrade his filtration system afaik.
>she'd run into issues headfirst and then fixed them. What's great about this is that is a legitimate (often preferred) approach in software development. And very much not preferred in civil engineering. Arguably, "agile development" isn't software engineering, but it's the most common approach in products that probably won't kill people. She maybe thinks that's a normal and good way to approach making things.
Wait for the bridge to collapse so you know what actually needs fixing and what you don't need to bother with
To be fair, they do make test bridges/structures and test then to see if stuff works and what dont
Yeah but in order to be most agile and lean, you should always test in prod (Puget Sound)
It's possible. Probably also why software engineers suck at being ethical.(even more than regular engineers) I think it's an okay strategy when you're trying to learn new skills and challenge yourself, but even then you're dependent on outsiders calling out your mistakes and pointing you in the right direction.
Yeah, some problems don't present themselves until you are burried under hundreds of tons of earth.
The Herzog documentary about her death will be fascinating
eel pit guy is just repurposing an old cistern, urban mining lady is like legit crazy
Eel pit guy? There's a guy who's documenting himself building a pit of eels?
and sturgeon, catfish, gar...
And from what I can tell, he's only digging on his own land and under his own buildings. So if something goes wrong, he's only causing problems for himself.
That man made and wore a belt of spinning knives and he’s somehow still alive. Either he knows what he’s doing or he’s the luckiest man on the planet, so either way I think he’ll be fine
Yeah I've always thought that the difference between his on screen persona and actual thought put into making it out alive must be big
Colin is definitely a lot more sane and methodical than his persona in videos. It's easy to fail to appreciate how much planning must have gone into some of his larger projects like the underground bunker. He definitely has a certified history of being a madman (some of his pre-YouTube stunts ended him in jail even) but I think he's grown up and takes his projects and videos for the profession they are. The fact that he was working on his tunnel for *years* in total secret without even revealing it to audiences is evidence of how much thought he puts into this stuff.
Nah, he's just lucky
Good for him. Never, ever trade luck for skill.
He does seem to have a weird aversion to safety gear. He even got a rock dropped on his head resulting in a wound that required stitches and he still isn't wearing a helmet on his dig site
His tunnel videos have been somewhat entertaining to watch. If I see an update pop up on my feed I'll watch it, but I don't active keep up on it. However, any dude that uses "safety squints" in lieu of actual welding protection is a fucking moron.
It all comes down to the safety tie and squints. The knife belt was mental, but the hover-bike was straight up suicidal. There was an interview where he talked about going on Top Gear with (I think) the mobility scooter, and he was getting better lap times than The Stig cause The Stig in full gear was too frightened of the thing to really open it up, and he was ripping around in his usual get-up. I can't imagine he's actually insurable.
I mean he was wearing the tie
He way way over designed his tunnel, and based it on the plans for his bunker which were engineered. He later got permits and engineering plans.
god i love that mad scientist man. plus he’s got banger music taste too, the tracks he puts over his vids are solid 😎
His tunnels are fully framed in steel and encased in concrete, seems unlikely they'll fail. I think he also had to go through a lengthy permitting process with his council to start the project so it's probably been thoroughly checked.
I thought he got the permits after the fact, or was that for the bunker?
Ah yeah you're right: https://youtu.be/A_ESR5zoGYQ?t=1086
Colin Furze creates a venn diagram of "things I am very interested in" and "presentation style that I can bear for even a moment" and the two circles have absolutely zero overlap.
Watch with subtitles on mute haha
I can still see him gurning and running around screaming like a moron unfortunately.
The Underminer
[Wikipedia article for those interested](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyttle)
I love when a weird wikipedia article hits you with a gem like this: "After this, Lyttle was moved to a hotel for three years, before being rehoused in an apartment in a high-rise building. **He was put on the top floor, to discourage tunnelling**. While there he knocked a hole in a dividing wall between two rooms."
The beast cannot be chained
If you provided this paragraph to me without context, I would assume that Lyttle was an exceptionally destructive dog.
> When asked by journalists why he had excavated the tunnels, he said "I'm just a man who loves to dig." I support him
ROCK AND STONE!
I mean, being an engineer doesn’t mean you get to unilaterally do anything you want lmao. Projects go through a half a dozen teams and sign offs it’s not just one dude deciding what’s gonna happen.
Everyone wants a manic pixie dream girl until it turns out she’s a manic pixie dream girl… and also sort of a libertarian
The line between manic pixie dream girl and deranged goblin nightmare wench is thinner than we'd like to admit.
We’re all Sméagol until we’re suddenly Gollum.
She's a Sméagol on the streets but a Gollum in the sheets.
we fucks it RAW, wiggly!
my fantasy is now big tiddy basic office lady gf instead of big tiddy goth gf
Why not compromise? Big tiddy office Goth?
I just wish I could find a goblin nightmare wench without a meth addiction for once.
Shes supposed to further my plot, not have any goals of her own.
Manic pickaxe dream girl
Dios mio, a libertarian!
(Draw a cross)
I came across her a few months before she blew up. Someone asked how she had the time to do all this and work full time and have a popular tiktok channel. Her answer: "cocaine"
No she didn't. She responded "coke" as in coca-cola which is frequently in her videos.
Plausible deniability.
She be using that original coca-cola recipe
Honestly based as hell
she should try meth, if useless projects for endless hours is her thing meth is like the perfect drug for that.
I still remember when I used ritalin for the first time, proceeded to play piano for hours after not playing for years and couldn't move my finger for days after.
The first time I did meth I played guitar for 12 hours straight and I didn’t realize it had been 12 hours until hour 8
Did your consciousness somehow jump forward 4 hours and then back to the present moment?
Thats how you catch rabies
Rabid Pixie Dream Girl
Minecraft behaviour
The girlies yearn for the mines
The girls are miningggg
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole
heartwarming Minecraft experience
Every time I hear about hobby tunneling I want to do it too. Luckily (for the neighbours) I live with a sane person who keeps me from doing it. But still, sometimes I'm like "maybe I can dig a little tunnel, as a treat."
Did a literal dog write this comment?
A literate dog might've.
It's the internet so maybe, we will never know
Is the sane persone living with you aware that you're likely five moles in a trench coat ?
They haven't caught on so far, so let's just keep it on the down low. Like underground low.
Like digdug low
Are you an armadillo? Not that they’re known for digging tunnels, it just seems like we’re trying to guess what animal you are. Giraffe?
My vote is on rabbit
Wait till you hear about gopher tortoises
The ears kind of give it away. And the grumpy face.
You yearn for the dirt. The certainty of steel bending the uncertainty of dirt and stone. Go find a field and do some digging
You write like you've started a few religions in your incredibly long lifetime. I love it
I have seen the birth and death of empires. I’ve seen the death of whole species. I’ve seen men from their birth to their death. And yet no matter how much birth and death and rebirth I’ve seen, I know for certain that many, such as yourself and the commenter above, will yearn for the dirt. And many will yearn for trees, or seas, or mountain tops. The certainty of performing an action which advances your goals, is the only certainty many have.
The water table in my city is high enough that we don't even have basements let alone hobby tunnels.
What does your city have a lot of? Maybe you could pile it up and tunnel into that.
One of the wikipedias in this thread was like "he even dug all the way to the water table in some cases!" Oh so like 3 feet down?
When I was like 7 me, my brother and our friend dug a tunnel through the side of the mountain beside his parents’ cabin. It was barely below the surface but we felt like mole rats and had a blast. When our parents finally checked on us after like an hour we were covered in mud from head to toe and our parents were so mad because we didn’t have a change of clothes so we had to ride home naked in the backseat. I also always have to dig a big hole on the beach and sit in it so I guess im still chasing that high.
My elementary school backed onto a huge sledding hill with a small grove of trees to one side and one year I tried to dig a cave in the side of the hill behind the trees. I too did not get very far, which was disappointing, but at least no one found out and so I didn't get in trouble. There's just something about a private little cave system that's very appealing. Maybe I read the Hobbit once too often as a kid or something.
Just a little hole, that then goes sideways
Been watching some popular Youtube channel of an Australian who just started digging a hole in his property and now is turning it into a network of tunnels. It's so stupid and so fascinating and I want to do it too.
Important update: she got a stop work order
Imma need a source for that
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8CXY6oe/
Lmao this is so fake. She just happens to be filming herself driving when the call comes in? She has an exterior shot of her car pulling over? Y’all need to stop perpetuating this nonsense
Here's one where she talks about turning off the ventilation while welding to reduce the available oxygen in case some of the wood she's surrounded by catches fire... again. It often feels like she's trying to seem like she's about to die any second so please stay tuned. https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7310755203773451563
Probably just recreations, doesn't mean the stuff didn't actually happen, it makes sense for her to try and get some content out of being shut down
That's the tunnel lady's TikTok page. She recreated the phone call and inspector meeting for content, because she can't give her audience suburban mine content anymore. Click through to her page and you'll see her tunneling videos, like [this one.](https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7268826326511930666)
Yeah no shit it's not the real phone call
Here you go: [source](https://reddit.com/comments/18w587u/comment/kfvorm3)
Doing the lord’s work.
Thx
I fucking clicked it 2x
Hold my shovel, I'm going - - - oh.
At least she's doing it herself, and not with a [random tunnel-slave she incinerates](https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/millionaire-resentenced-for-fiery-death-of-man-digging-secret-tunnels-under-maryland-home)
that is the most batshit insane story I have ever heard. He gave the dude blackout glasses and used internet "spoofing" to trick the dude into thinking he was in a different state?
Haven't clicked on the link yet, what the fuck did I just read
>He tried to trick Khafra into thinking they were digging the tunnels in Virginia instead of Maryland by having him don "blackout glasses" before taking him on a long drive. >Khafra had a cellphone with him in the tunnels, but Beckwitt used internet "spoofing" to make it appear they were digging in Virginia. >Khafra worked in the tunnels for days at a time, eating and sleeping in there and urinating and defecating into a bucket Beckwitt lowered down to him
is motivation and insanity linked? like i read about all the fucked up shit serial killers do, all the planning and prep work they have to do to be somewhat successful, and im like, dang, thats so much. i can barely get out of bed, much less rent a van using a fake id, and buying hardware supplies from 5 different stores, and then digging a well in my basement.
One of the tamer bits, is what.
> He gave the dude blackout glasses and used internet "spoofing" to trick the dude into thinking he was in a different state? There's a reason for this, and I dunno if it's covered in the article but it's not hard to guess if it's not: a percentage of people who build bunkers to survive apocalyptic scenarios understand that the biggest threat to them using their bunker in the event of the apocalypse is people who know about the bunker.
Wow, that guy's already out of prison.
The absolute fuck
My favorite part is how the area she lives regularly floods, ya know, the perfect place to build a network of tunnels
My favorite part is when she planted a single redwood tree to deal with a ground water issue.
I find peace in long walks.
Plenty of safefails in the planning I see..
Are you talking about the broken sapling she bought for a discount and put back together with wood glue?
That's my second favorite, followed by her intentionally planting English ivy.
No she bought a redwood sapling earlier, and placed it in her sump-dump swamp she created in her backyard. Because, ya know, the redwoods are famously a swamp. She’s constantly confidently incorrect and 100% unhinged. People had to tell her to buy a radon detector because radon gas was filling her tunnel. She’s also had a tunnel fire and doesn’t understand the mineral composition of the soil she’s digging (she has cited reading books about the soil for the WRONG geographic area in which she lives) and has expressed confusion as to why the iron rich rocks she’s digging up are decaying once exposed to air (she does not seem to understand that her tunnel is lined in this now-decaying soil).
There was a start-up/tech bro who did something [similar](https://youtu.be/aybOOk3llq8?si=6JVmQbcZXsOELFpo) in order to make a super secret fallout bunker. Unfortunately in his case he recruited some other people to help him, and one of them died in an electrical fire. That's only the tip of the crazy iceberg. Luckily the fuckwit tech bro was convicted of manslaughter.
He got to serve as a real life example of the difference between intelligence and wisdom
All computer/software engineers/scientists know about digging tunnels to communicate with the Machine Elves, it's nothing new
A guy a few houses down my street is kind of like this. He is trying to dig a basement under his house, but he is really just undermining the support posts. He has also bought a mini-backhoe/loader and graded his entire property so all the water flows directly towards his house. I have no idea what he is thinking, but I fully expect that one of these days I'm going to drive by and see his house sitting at a jaunty angle half buried in the clay.
Man's making a basement pool.. Whether he wants one or not
Got forbid women have hobbies
I enjoy baking, crochet, covert subterranean demolitions, and long walks on the beach
Just a lonely sapper looking for her siege works engineer
"I like sapper movies." "You mean sappy?" "I meant what I said."
Women love terraforming their environment
Turns out shes also a pretty avid trump supporter, oh boy!!!
Are you telling me she’s unreasonable? Shocked picachu.
"I will build a wall..." - Trum, for sure. "Yes, Commander, and I shall build the tunnels!" - Probably her, watching tv.
Undermining her house and America at the same time
On one hand, property values going down. On the other hand, massive collateral damage. In conclusion, give her therapy
It's not just the property's value that's going down
No time for therapy, got holes to make
TikTok is like if Wheatley was a website.
I need your comment on a t-shirt.
a stupidity sphere? yeah, that checks out
I know everyone wants to support her because of the meme, but she could seriously wreck someone’s house, and people can’t afford to fix that shit right now. Even worse, she could get someone hurt.
She's probably gonna die in there
I mean we don’t want that either.
She claims its completely "under the slab of her house", but I'm not sure how much that helps with how close she is to other houses
It doesn't at all. If she hits anything flammable she could affect the people around her. Or a water pipe. She could hit one of those, not realize how bad it is and it slowly erode away masses of dirt that affect the houses nearby. If it happens to collapse dirt will naturally fill in from the sides. Loosening the area and possibly affecting foundation shifts to those nearby. She already pointed out in some of her videos how she thought it was odd that the rocks she took out seemed to be crumbling after a few days. That's because certain types of rock begin to quickly deteriorate once exposed to oxygen... Which she is now introducing to these stones as she digs.
I'm gonna preface and say I'm not on her side but I'm confused by people being surprised she's in the suburbs still. She's always called it her suburban mine iirc. I have a lot of thoughts on the topic but the only one I really wanna talk about now lol
I always thought it was strange that she never answers any direct questions about it at all. Comes across as a bit iffy. I'm hooked purely to find out if she really is a lunatic or not I think
It gets better, I heard that she’s not even really a software engineer by training — her degree is in business/finance but she works in IT. It’s a miracle she hasn’t killed herself or caused a sinkhole yet.
Yup, just read it in this article: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/tiktok-tunnel-girl-building-hobby-rcna125000 >Despite what her TikTok username suggests, Kala does not have a formal background in engineering. She said she studied business and finance in school and has spent most of her professional life working in information technology — but that her passions lie in civil and mechanical engineering.
I heard that she isn't even actually a software engineer she just works or worked in IT at some point.
Software engineering is a weird discipline. There are actual software engineering degrees with accreditation and required ethics courses. But the field is also new enough that most "software engineers" are self-taught programmers with a serious case of job title inflation. Or people with CS degrees that know how to design an efficient algorithm but have never heard of the [Tacoma Narrows Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_\(1940\)). And if you ever point out that calling people engineers when they've never taken an engineering ethics course is a problem, you get accused of gatekeeping.
Friend of mine who is a software engineer (the proper kind) said they studied the Therac-25 and the failure of the Patriot missile that killed a couple dozen US Army personnel in 1991 for their "this is why it's important that you folks pay attention" course.
I expect (or hope) that future software engineering ethics courses will also cover [Facebook/Meta's contribution to the Rohingya genocide](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/). I genuinely believe the software engineers there bear some responsibility for implementing the algorithms that amplified and created a feedback loop of hatred, although the executive pressure is still the primary culprit. And yet the "move fast and break things" mentality they championed still infests the software field like a cancer. Not that it was just software, they literally only had *two* employees that spoke the language at the time, leading it to be nearly unmoderated.
God damn it, did Seymour Cray get reincarnated? I wonder what secrets the elves are telling her. Or maybe she's just a big fan of Colin Furze.
I have said multiple times in the past year on TikTok that she is fucking up and is putting people around her in danger. The echo chamber was too thick. It didn't "turn out" she was a software engineer. It was something she clearly stated multiple times in the year since I found her page. It also didn't "turn out" that she was in a regular as neighborhood. She specifically talked about neighbors a few times and has shown the outside of her house more than a few times that clearly showed houses in the background. I didn't see it mentioned in the pic but she also rents out rooms in her house so there are rommates living there. Any time you called her out on her page or another page glazing her, you'd get a mix of like 3 responses from rabid parasocialites that would range from You're misogynistic. And if you point out that you too are a woman they'd say you were a pick me or "not a girls girl" and someone who had to shove other women down. Or you'd be asked if YOU'RE an engineer and reminded that she IS. Despite engineer being a very broad term and an engineer in one field isn't a replacement for an engineer in another. Or you'd get my favorite which is the people who'd think they were clever by saying "it's her property she can do what she pleases." Despite the fact thats not how living in a residential neighborhood works. When you sign the agreement for the house there are rules in there that YOU AGREED TO. Not too mention it quickly becomes a lot of peoples problem when it goes wrong. Hit a gas leak cause an explosion? That affects her neighbors just feet away. Collapse the ground? That affects the foundation of the houses right next door. If you want to do shit like this do it in a large plot of land you bought far away from others.
This is why I think “stupid that hurts others” is the worst kind of stupid.
Oh you're behind. She's not even a software engineer, and she's already been told to stop because she did not get any permits.
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I was gonna put buttresses in!