Two men charged after climbing in Toronto sewer
Posted April 6, 2010 9:50 am.
Last Updated July 29, 2015 7:25 am.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Two Toronto men are facing mischief charges after allegedly climbing into a city sewer over the weekend.
Police were called after the two were spotted entering a sewer late Sunday night, in the Ossington Avenue and Dundas Street West area.
A HAZMAT team, firefighters and city works crews were all sent in after them, and four hours later the two were found and returned to the surface world.
Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Cook and 35-year-old Andrew Edmond were charged.
The two, who call themselves “urban explorers,” run a website chronicling their exploits in Toronto’s underground.
But it’s unlikely they made fans of the emergency crews who had to find them at considerable expense to taxpayers — not to mention the other, more important work they might have been doing.
