Metropolitan Accomplice












(Thanks to Nicola Twilley for the tip!)

4 thoughts on “Metropolitan Accomplice”

  1. In Florida last week a tunnel to a bank was found that was thought to be just another sinkhole. Geological aberration used to mask a bank heist. The film Hard Rain with Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman springs to mind; the next Oceans 15 or whatever will be a bunch of geologists and climate change experts perhaps. It certainly makes Mole Man a more realistic potential villian for some future Batman film.

    But presumably there must be many sensitive buildings that are located over sinkhole prone areas especially as climate change intensifies the process with extreme droughts and floods alternating.

    1. Stephen, there is also a running B-plot in the book Suttree by Cormac McCarthy where a character fantasizes about robbing a Knoxville bank from below, using the city’s natural cave network as a point of entry; at one point, he waxes poetic about buildings falling through the surface of the Earth, after which he could rob them. It’s a very small detail, though, in an otherwise long and difficult book.

  2. Just a note that the BLDGBLOG feed isn’t getting updated with the newest posts. The last post in the feed is December’s “Submarine Psychiatry”.

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