These are the bedrooms. While he was away, martial law was declared in the sewer. That costs about 2 million lei a day plus all that oil. He pulls out two million lei and hands it to a scrawny tramp crawling out of the sewer. 54% Upvoted. Andrei is the spitting image of Bruce Lee, with rotten teeth and the temper of a rabid pit bull. I would piss myself every time they hit me. This thread is archived. A patched vest crowded with war medals and brooches of semi-precious stones covers him. This literal underworld is run by a man who calls himself Bruce Lee. Every night he’d check whose missing by calling out names from a register. We live out of garbage, and we steal every now and then. They are very dirty; they have syringes. The following morning, the day of Catalina's funeral, it was the turn of Bruce Lee - the self-styled "King of the Sewers". He is barefoot and has chains around his wrists and ankles secured with metal locks. They had no cables, no multiple plugs, they were pathetic. When I use Pure I’m extremely dominated by my sexual side and it’s difficult for me to get it out of my head. How the diseased and destitute are forced to carve out a grim existence in the sewers of Eastern Europe They are not running around uselessly, they are not out robbing and stealing. Before I knew God I was a different man. He knows Bruce Lee for 23 years now. This is how employ them. The rise of the megafarm. This is where afflicted generations abandoned by Romania immediately after the revolution live. There's nothing new about him for a couple of years. I don’t accept gifts, I don’t want anything for free. There’s a guy in there with a shamanic look. Fracking goes global. And its likely to do little for the Bucharest’s people of the tunnels That’s why they all call me Father.”, Pepp talk: Ștefan Mako, Vlad Ursulean și George Popescu. I was worried that I’d get carried away by some bad hallucination and lose it. Casa Jurnalistului When they first saw Bruce Lee, he was wearing very little. They have all they need – after a fashion. It follows previous awards for the film including a Royal Television Society prize and an Amnesty award. When Ceausescu was toppled so was I. To enter a hole with two to three thousand drug addicts who prick each other with syringes, and to inject from the start. The self-styled ‘king of the sewers’, Bruce Lee may be imprisoned – but another gang lord was bound to take his place. He is regarded as the king of the sewers because he determines who is permitted to move in. Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old. We were sitting in darkness before, with candles, we would catch fire, the pipes leaked and there was filth. None of them contributes a penny. They worked for Ortadogu, a Turkish transport company that made millions on the Turkish – Romanian route. He has a family and now he volunteers for an organisation that feeds the homeless. Briefly, I got rid of them all, because I didn’t like the way they were treating us, and I took over everything. Bruce Lee was 17 and had no money at all. He would chase all the faggots that were coming to take the smaller kids away. I'm sorry I don't speak Romanian but have been wondering what happened to him. He preferred to become homeless. I fasten it with three clips like that and I log onto the internet. Everything gravitates around Bruce Lee. The man behind the counter is called 'Bruce Lee' after his street fighting days. In the late fall of 1964, Wong Jack Man squeezed into the brown Pontiac Tempest, which already had five more people. We come from foster homes, poor, broken and alcohol ridden families. hey sealed the manholes and trapped me down here. The kids were careless, they’d get high and burn down the sewer. If he had stayed he would have gone to jail. That’s when they nicknamed me Bruce Lee. He broke the concrete wall and cut through the steel concrete with the flex. I also drink it, wear it, take it shopping with me and make money with it. I ended up the chief of the sewer. Dumbass! You’re like Superman. It’s always packed with people armed with used syringes who are ready to protect Bruce Lee. You’re not the only one who has access to them. In exchange he’s given two white sachets with PURE written on them in a rabid red. For instance if you go to the sewer he sells a sachet of white powder for 1 million, when he didn’t pay more than four hundred thousand for it. This is exactly the main impression. Liquid ivory. The police had enough of him. It’s just that I always out-smarted them. This makes you feel just like drinking a pint, only that it gives you a nicer vision and pleasure than the alcohol. He doesn’t necessarily agree with Bruce Lee’s businesses, but these kids in the sewers need him. One man, calling himself Bruce Lee and known as the 'King Of The Sewers', paints his head in aurolac, a lacquer used to paint metal which causes a high if breathed in. All the one hundred dogs that he cares for seem to be hypnotized by the sound of his armour. I wasn’t selling. It was a valuable antique icon. I don’t want to leave this place, says Mihaela. He got old, small, circular scars where the veins are visible. He got into a fistfight with some school mates, he caused a few scandals and found himself thrown out in the street. Following this incident a few tens grouped to lynch him, he hid in a humanitarian centre and when things calmed down he fled from the Station. He points at a tattoo on his leg that looks like Zorro drawn by a child, with a scribbled message above: I’ve been living in the sewers since I was a child. The ladder down the hole is under lock and key. Before I arrived to this place, people were dropping like flies. The sewers are controlled by a man called Bruce Lee who walks around with a pack of dogs. Police have a raided network of tunnels and sewers in Bucharest, home to a community of drug addicts. He comes here daily and stays until late at night.. Marius swindled foreign currency and other banned stuff during communism. If they had looked past the shit and saw what I had on me, them fools, they would have had a heart attack. That’s how I see things as I felt him close to me and he guides me in everything I do. Bruce Lee – king of the sewers. The sewers, and their king Bruce Lee, were the subject of a recently released Channel 4 News film. Bruce Lee, King of Sewers. God have mercy on us… Viorel takes out a bag from his chest pocket, breathes deeply into it, then cimbs down the hole. Covered in the silver paint they all inhale, to outsiders he appears like a sci-fi character stalking the streets with… It so happened that I poked one’s eye out and another’s teeth. He made enough money to buy a hotel for his gang.He wanted to buy Dunărea, near the station, wich now lies abandoned. He collected so much equipment, you would have been amazed. But he was prepared: he had a jackhammer, pickaxe and flex. I had no idea what I had on the wall. He only knew how to protect himself, but on the street you must break all the rules, there is only one rule: survival. share. They took everything! He loved a homeless guy for many years whom he took home. The police confiscated anything they found to be of value: cash, three kilos of copper, brass, paintings. Everything that these people find they bring to me and I pay them. report. Source: Photographer and filmmaker Joost Vandebrug. People outside are aloof. Bruce Lee was born Florin Cora and he’s from Râmnicu Valcea. One day only. I only share my bed with prostitutes. Moves to ban antibiotic pollution from pharma factories Prison turned him around. An elusive and mysterious man known as Bruce Lee has lived in the sewers for the past 24 years, where he is treated like a king. The system treated them in a most savage way. Underneath we’ve created trenches for the water, so it drains away. Everything we needed. Go and do this job. She’s a woman, what a prick of a man! Light, heating, understanding and parental advice. But if each of them tells you their life story, how they spent these last years with me, you won’t believe it.”. Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Chinese Hospital in Chinatown, San Francisco.According to the Chinese zodiac, Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous omen. If he saw us barefoot, honest to god he’d buy us shoes. We liked those lights and we’d hang them up all over the pipes. We were conned again. In a sewer under Bucharest’s biggest train station a man covered with iron chains and tattoos sits on a matrimonial bed watching an action movie on a flat screen. Even back then he had a clean sewer, all made up, with many children and elderly. They were the boys back then. In winter the pipes were so hot your skin got peeled off if you touched them. It was winter, cold. The girl is 17 and since the age of six she’s been living in orphanages and foster homes. I want them to look at my heart. His home is underneath the Gara de Nord since he escaped a humanitarian organisation. Back then he didn’t know how to connect to the street lights. Many who saw me thought to themselves: ‘GOD! They saw how I could fight and they were left speechless. Bruce Lee and his brigade were suspected of stealing some expensive art from the home of some French people. Gabi lives with his aunts in Buhusi, but he’d like to return to the sewer if he could. We knocked through a huge wall and came across those cables. No one would touch me, and my pockets were full of watches, money, gold. They wouldn’t arrest me as I made them sick, I reeked of aurolac paint. Some dogs curl up behind him and press, as if they would like to lift and carry him around on their backs. We were bandits. The Aurolac is better than this glue. He’s sweating, his pupils are dilated and he’s rubbing his hands like a schoolboy in front of the class. She’s better off alone and producing money for herself! Many of his friends died because of drug use. He pours half of the yellowish – gummy substance into the bag and sniffs until his eyes snigger. He crawls to a stereo, he turns it on to a commercial station and sits down cross-legged near Viorel. There are only women at the entrance. I know that if I take something I’ll have to return the favour, and if I make you a favour I’ll become corrupt. Take a stray dog that has lived all its life on the streets, put him in a cage and see what happens to him. But in the sewer Stefan is a wreck. Dolphin slaughter. In the other half, tens of mean dogs guard the bedrooms. Police said the operation followed months of surveillance on what they described as an organised criminal gang and reports of child prostitution. The only good thing was the heat generated by the pipes, and for this he had to pay the local rogues a fee. I cheat the losers nicely. He takes a sachet and empties it into himself to sooth his demons. Police have carried out a large-scale raid on a network of Bucharest tunnels and sewers, home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse and TB. Then I could have fucked anyone. And if a pipe bursts the water will surely not to reach us. He’d steal car batteries and headlights so that they didn’t live in the dark. You cannot just walk in however, you have to be invited by the guy standing up, Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee’s house is this entire world, as far as you can see. And its likely to do little for the Bucharest’s people of the tunnels, UK university’s return of looted Benin Bronze puts pressure on other institutions, Myanmar opposition group calls for UN peacekeepers to stop killing spree, Pfizer Covid jab 100% effective for children aged 12-15, new study suggests, Some will say Macron has acted ‘too late’ on France’s lockdown, says The Economist’s Sophie Pedder, Brazil’s health system ‘bedlam’ as daily Covid deaths reach record high amid variants fear. The pipe is now protected of the extra weight by two layers of concrete. He’d smear aurolac paint over his clothes, face and hair. It’s terribly tragic. He controls the comings and goings of the damned and sells them drugs or a powdered metallic paint called Aurolac, which they inhale to ease the symptoms of hunger and cold. He bought us food and treatments. He then attended an industrial school. I didn’t know it was made out of silver and gold. The Turks used to beat up the tramps, take their girls and send them to Turkey and force them into prostitution. Bruce Lee, who led the underground community has been arrested along with 5 others. You know what he asks for? Bruce Lee, King of Bucharest's Sewers (5-20-2014, 7 pm, Channel 4, UK, 13 min. ) The first feeling is a sort of awareness that everything you think of and all your mental processes are not exclusively yours. In 1992 the Turkish ruled in Gara de Nord. My main food is garlic. They couldn’t eat anymore. All the electrical cables go through his electric panel. I am street fighter. Almost all of them come from communist orphanages. I almost lapsed into gangrene. Their feet are drenched in the muddy hot water that floods the whole tunnel, with floating syringes and condoms. Then go steal or beg for me.’ All the rules disappeared. He likes to call himself “King of the Sewers” his arms and torso are a patchwork of scars and tattoos from a lifetime of self harm. I am very light. He retreats to a small park and opens the sachets. I don’t ask to be given the power for a month, because I’m a real idiot. He hasn’t met a woman to his liking yet. We all called him father. I’ve got a 9-year experience in martial arts.I’ve got 9 years of martial arts. Initially I was afraid of Bruce Lee because he wore chains and smeared aurolac all over his face. I haven’t found one I can rely on, a serious one. He’s like a father to me. “I’m disappointed by weak and cowardly people – from the youngest to the oldest. There was an arson attack on us because we wouldn’t pay. Darkness. We even have internet here. You lose weight, and after a while, your body refuses anything. They didn’t sell everythingat once so that they don’t attract police attention. You are under the impression that you can fully love anyone. A man built like a boxer, with the mannerism of a petty dealer, smokes a cigarette on the steps in front of the Station. On the day of the funeral, Bruce Lee (left) – the self-styled King of the Sewers — arrived barefoot and with his head painted with aurolac, bright silver paint that the addicts sniff. In the end I connected them to my source here from the sewer. The boys that were not caught would return in the morning with food, electrical items or clothes. It reverted to how it was. I call God, father. He has silver hair, which he colors with paint, jingling medals all over his clothes and he is never seen without his pack of stray dogs. Bruce Lee, this underworld’s king and primary drug dealer, is a complicated figure. The tunnel Lee lives in … – Bruce Lee is my father, and father is at home! Father would carry them out of the sewer, lift them in his arms and take them to the ambulance. He is all I have. I spent two months in the underground to get to know Bruce Lee, the enlightened despot in the Bucharest sewers who built the main hub for the homeless in Romania, and to understand how his creation works. You can see Bruce Lee guiding them in. He can’t stop until he’s run out of money – which doesn’t take longer than a couple of hours. The tunnels and shack were a form of shelter for an alienated community – many of them born in Ceausescu’s notorious orphanages. Lee says that these residents use drugs because it takes their problems away. I hit like a hurricane, but I don’t feel well. Radios, tools, everything. Bruce was released, sorted them out and it all went back to how it was. I close and open them, I’m the boss. I almost died, even though I know this sewer so well. They laid concrete over me and I still managed to get out. He punched a few people who then went to the police, and so Gabi ran to Bucharest. Superbugs in our pork. The self-styled ‘king of the sewers’, Bruce Lee may be imprisoned – but another gang lord was bound to take his place. People come and ask him for money to pay their rent or bank loans. Versions of this feature were published by Channel 4, Daily Mail and lots of other channels from around the world. Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is a beautiful city full of graceful architecture and rich with history. I put the bag in my mouth and attacked them. save. He used drugs daily for eight years. They bark at the cars and bite out of car parts that get too close to the master. They saw that mymin was ripe, clever and cunning and said ‘come, join the gang’. It’s both euphoric and like stepping away from your own self. His feet slide between slabs of steel concrete. I started sweating, a kind of panic attack. He covered the pipes and brought in electricity. He spends about 20 million a day. He keeps the underground supplied with a metallic paint called Aurelac that … Either asphyxiated or burnt. He is the father of the homeless. Bruce says he never used a syringe, only aurolac. But he had no papers, so he rented a post office under-the-counter. With his demons on a leash, Stefan sits sweating on a hot pipe, leaning against the counter filled with powders and syringes. "Bruce Lee vs. Life" documentary with English subtitles. An alternate universe inhabited by Nicu, his friends and their leader Bruce Lee. We were little children hovering around him. I was conned. Juice and those stupid things, energizers. We used hundreds of bags of sand and cement. The sewers, and their king Bruce Lee, were the subject of a recently released Channel 4 News film. In the 90’s there was a different crowd here. Man, it made me steal! I’m better off alone. You’re half dead. Wearing a sheep coat and traditional clothing, all the rogues laughed at him. Whatever they stole. You can only crawl in and only if you’re less than 70-80 kilos. This is the entrance into the underground kingdom. This chance of a better life – we created that for ourselves and on our own. I attacked them at the station a few times. I eat little meat, but I overindulge with cheese and milk. Below the ordinary hustle and bustle of the city of Bucharest, Romania, hundreds of people like Lee live underground in the sewer tunnels beneath the city. Romanian foster children were thrown in the street, so they built an underground empire. Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers, produced by Ecologist Film Unit’s co-director Jim Wickens for Channel 4 News, has won best short film at the 2015 One World Media awards. While the identity of this man was not officially released, local media say he is Florin Hora, who uses the street name “Bruce Lee.” Authorities also provided a video of the seizure of various electronics, several allegedly stolen paintings, and a number of syringes from the tunnels under North Station. The kitchen is over there in the back. More than 90% of these people have AIDS, HIV, hepatitis and TB. If they see that you’re better dressed they will sell you a quarter of a gram for a million and a half. Bruce has lived in the sewers for over 24 years and he is basically King of the sewer people. The programmes that the NGOs and the town hall came up with to integrate these poor creatures are useless. The special troops have no chance. Every time they caught him they stripped and beat him with slim fibre glass sticks. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Firstly they cut the electricity. With silver-painted hair, hundreds of medals that jingle when he walks, and a pack of dogs at his heels, he’s called ‘The King of the Sewers ’. We’d break into 30-40 cars then retreat into the sewer and put the manhole cover back in its place. Before, they used to beat these guys to a pulp, kill them. Over the past year, some of the so-called ‘sewer people’ constructed a shack by the tunnel entrance in an attempt to build a better life above ground. He keeps the underground supplied with a metallic paint called Aurelac that … Nov 10, 2018. I n a sewer under Bucharest’s biggest train station a man covered with iron chains and tattoos sits on a matrimonial bed watching an action movie on a flat screen. I am the terminator. To the guys around me I’ve said the following: go, rummage through bins. I’d go to balconies, I’d steal from farmers, but I wasn’t a burglar. He had billions, but he never took a penny without asking. When he emerges he feels that his lungs are collapsing because of the heat and heavy air in the sewer. It doesn’t make you as dizzy; you’re calmer and you speak sweetly and softly. In a little town from Moldavia, a dwarfish lad pisses on a railway line. It’s purely an impression that someone else, a presence, participates in what happens within you. They’re public. Simon can’t be corrupted by the rogues who go to him and demand their right or try to bully him. Bruce Lee, this underworld’s king and primary drug dealer, is a complicated figure. I’d remove the scales, wedge them open and eat them. We had plasma TVs, stereos, disco lights above, it was very beautiful. I turned darkness into light. I’m amazed they can sleep in that place. I am the only one who succeeded in achieving something for the homeless. The rubbish was piling up. They only put enough to fill the corner of the bag. He transformed the sewer into a shop for stolen items. Well, he has his men who work for him. The tunnel at Dristor was 20-metre long. In the underground tunnels of Bucharest lies the hidden world of the Lost Boys. I’d tie a spark plug to a rope, take ten guys with me, break the car windows and they’d steal anything of value. Until I got to Bucharest I didn’t know how to steal. We had electricity in the sewer from a bus ticket office. He is one of the children abandoned during Romania’s communist anti-abortion policy. Mainline to addiction: A resident inspects a needle containing a synthetic drug similar to methadone No invite, no go! A wall of heat, perspiration, thumping music and diesel fumes hits us as we descend into the darkness, clouding our senses. Discuție. As the police have their rules, that’s how they respect my rules. Come back to me and I pay you. This lea… He befriended the father that introduced him to the business. That’s what I want as well. Shredder’s mole. Then the hoodlums with the powders arrived and imposed new rules: ‘You want a fix? You need to follow some strict rules to live in the sewers: you don’t fight in the sewer, you don’t start arguments and you don’t drink. He looks after the dogs as if they were children.
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