Imagine breaking into a house, planning to steal some valuables, but instead finding an electrical substation.

@ashmellow78

2 жыл бұрын

steal the electrical substation

@chrisbourque8196

2 жыл бұрын

You seem to have mistaken Toronto for an American city ;)

@gearloose703

2 жыл бұрын

With the price of copper today, gutting transformers is way better business than breaking into pretty much anything else.

@ZaHandle

2 жыл бұрын

imagine breaking into a house and just seeing 2 electricians slacking off in there with a substation behind them

@TehKaiser

2 жыл бұрын

Texas has those.

I live a few blocks away from one of those oil drilling sites. Yes, it's ugly, but the good news for home owners is that the oil company who owns it must transport their oil from the well to a refinery using pipes. When those pipes go through your property, they have to pay your "rent" for the privilege of using your land. The amount they pay is proportionate to oil prices: high prices mean they may be paying hundreds or thousands of dollars. Pretty nice side income for doing nothing.

@EebstertheGreat

2 жыл бұрын

In Ohio, they just buy your mineral/subsurface rights. But they don't buy them from you, because you never had them; somebody else sold those rights long ago, so they didn't come with the house when you bought it.

@jarjarbinks6018

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose that would offset the potential impact oil rigs have on home values

@depressed.lemonade

2 жыл бұрын

passive income 😈

@User31129

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of like being a farmer and letting the power company put wind turbines on your land. I'd do that if I was a farmer.

@yeri786

2 жыл бұрын

@@User31129 I think that's a fair comparison if you tweak it slightly. You've already got wind turbines up when you bought the property and just inherit then rights to the profits from them. It's a sweet deal unless you want to, say, put in a pool which would require digging up the yard, but you can't because the oil pipe is in the way and it can't be moved.

My personal favorite is cell phone towers disguised as trees. They're always about 3-4 times taller than all the trees around them, and stand out as awkwardly as an undercover narcotics cop at a rave, but there's something hilariously charming about these failed attempts to blend in. Edit: Wow, this is undoubtedly my most liked and replied to comment I've ever made on KZread. And it's not even specifically about the video's subject. I guess people just really have thoughts on monopoles. Thanks everyone!

@TheAtomBuilds

2 жыл бұрын

Ya and they have like four branches at the top

@Kamushy

2 жыл бұрын

they have these in aus too they look really dumb

@j-network1214

2 жыл бұрын

the ones around here are made to look like palm trees, but only so much as I can tell what they are supposed to look like

@DanburyDK

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed these years ago in Connecticut. Also flagpole antennas.

@SoCalSeaChaser

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s in El Monte, but there’s one that someone put the branches on a “pine tree” wrong, so it looks like an upside down triangle 😆

I grew up two blocks from that "beige rectangle" and only recently discovered that my parents still receive quarterly checks because that kept the mineral rights when they sold my childhood home. So weird.

@443DM

2 жыл бұрын

how much is it every quarter?

@geton9882

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool

@klayman2

2 жыл бұрын

@@443DM depends how much is pumped out, when i was in Texas we got $300 every quarter for our rights

@johndc2998

2 жыл бұрын

@@breakingthemasks 😂😂😂

@KB-ke3fi

2 жыл бұрын

@@klayman2 yeah us too here in west TX. we have 8,000 acres with 37 pumps. Most of it is sold to California refiners because it's closer to Long Beach than Houston. Ours was $1,500 each well per year...so about $55,000 a year lease and the federal tax rate was high, but Biden administration made us cap the drilling when he got in office and put everyone out of work, so now nothing for us and the government gets no tax money, and now Long Beach has to get oil from overseas at a much higher rate and the oil is dirty oil and takes a lot more money to refine as opposed to Texas sweet crude which is cheap to refine, so the refineries have to pollute more to refine the dirty a$$ foreign oil so the price goes way up for gasoline and plastics because they don't use Texas crude anymore.

So interesting side note, not all of the oil rigs are hidden, especially in east L.A. it's really not weird to see totally normal looking oil rigs

@andie_pants

2 жыл бұрын

Now I've got the Cheech Marin song playing in my head. :-P

@mikebar42

2 жыл бұрын

Do u know what happens if they have a blowout in the building?

@albear972

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because wealthy people don't live in East LA ese!

@ronaldweasley6175

2 жыл бұрын

yep. lots of oil rigs east and northeast of mirror park

@mikebar42

2 жыл бұрын

@@andie_pants low ride ER

LOL! Those floating oil platforms off the coast of Long Beach are literally called The Oil Islands. We all know they are pumping oil, but the islands do look rather nice from a distance. However, if you drive your boat up close to one if the islands, you'll see some gross foam in the water.

@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567

2 жыл бұрын

Why didn't you guys call it The Oilands

@noisycarlos

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 that's how Scottish people say islands anyway

@polishsmolish19

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah from Long Beach you can see them right from the beach

@GringoLocoo_

2 жыл бұрын

@@noisycarlos lmao

@Djuntas

2 жыл бұрын

Arent they litterally ruining the beach and water then?

As a local pilot, we actually use a lot of these as visual reference points to tell ATC where we are. They tend to be fairly large structures that stand out well from the air, but a lot of the other local pilots I've chatted with don't realise why.

I always knew those windowless buildings in the middle of the city were sus.. people don't really think of LA as an oil hub - but growing up I had a family friend whose wealth came from their grandpa striking oil by surprise in his backyard.. they never had to work a day in their lives

@Tubes12AX7k

Жыл бұрын

'Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea...'

This is like when you build a city in Civ V but then after oil is revealed on the map it turns out that your city is on top of it

@ValiantValium

2 жыл бұрын

"I know we got like 12 pop here, but in 10 turns, all of you will have become settlers, or else."

@Deilwynna

2 жыл бұрын

in civ 6, if you place a district on a hex that later is revealed to have a late game resource, it automatically gathers that resource when its discovered with the district remaining in place. doesnt matter if its the city center district, cultural wonder or even a housing district, it will still automatically work the resource when it pops up under it

@MrGilang100

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deilwynna well, like this video then.

@p00bix

2 жыл бұрын

Iraq IRL It sucks how badly Iraq got fucked over by Colonialism, Poverty, the Saddam Regime, and War. Basra could scarcely be more perfectly positioned to among the world's great metropolises.

@yusufhanif3704

2 жыл бұрын

Basra was one of the world’s greatest metropolises, I believe sometime right after WW2 Ireland was actually poorer than Iraq. Colonialism, foreign, and internal agendas messed that all up and on top of that Iraqis will have to deal with climate change, dwindling water resources, dying rivers, and desertification. There few countries my heart hurts harder for than Iraq.

In Switzerland, especially along the borders, there are fake barns/chalets/houses that are actually armoury stores, artillery guns or other military supplies. They’re disguised to blend into and some actually have slightly transparent windows and you can see into them Edit: you can tell which ones have artillery guns, they have a strong concrete lower floor, and the windows are the holes they stick the barrel through

@xX_MC_OvU_PvP_YT_Xx

2 жыл бұрын

Round these parts brother you just go to any old Walmart and they'll have the same supplies

@Carewolf

2 жыл бұрын

Well, they are not designed that way to look pretty, but to confuse any particularly confused french army that accidentality invades.

@jabber1990

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool. Other countries should take note

@R_V_

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, for example "The Tim Traveller" made a video on a fort disguised as a house on the road between Geneva and Nyon.

@tenalafel

2 жыл бұрын

they also have airbases disguised as motorway tunnels and so many bunkers disguised as other things that's difficult to count them all.

3:22 I'm a supervisor for the New York Subway. I've been to this building before. It is literally a shell of a building over the ventilation. It blew my mind when I first started working here and I was shown it. BTW, we in NYC pronounce it Joral-Lemon St, not Jor-a-lemon lol

One of my favourite hidden pieces is for cellphone towers. They’re often disguised as palm trees in places like Hawaï, or pine trees in other places. Similarly they often get put alongside a church and disguise the tower as a giant cross.

@Saladdressing67

2 жыл бұрын

the pine trees are hilarious cause theyre so bad. theyll put one up in an area with all oak trees and like no pine trees, and its also like 4x taller then all the surrounding trees. theyre just comically awful

@CJ-fb5ni

2 жыл бұрын

@@Saladdressing67 Ikr I live a very forested area and the freaking pine tower is still 2-3times larger than the surrounding trees and has like 10 "branches" its so funny.

if you’ve ever driven from LAX to hollywood on city streets you’ll also see just the massive, still out in the open oil fields dotting the hillside

@THRDNL

2 жыл бұрын

well that’s kenneth hahn for ya 🤷‍♂️

@gNatflaps

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stevie-J would you walk the 2 and a half miles across the inglewood oil fields?

@zonaryorange8734

2 жыл бұрын

@@THRDNL underrated park imo, but i’m glad the oil fields keep people away because the views on that park are phenomenal

@tfinkens

2 жыл бұрын

you seem them through the north side of ORange county, as well.

@RONPEE-STINGER

2 жыл бұрын

In watts too

London doesn't only have vents for the tube, they have entire plots bought to have open tunnels on, where the smoke could exit the system (from back when they had steam locomotives pulling the carriages in a pretty enclosed tunnel). And for it not to be just a hole between 2 Victorian houses with TRAINS going up and down, they put up Victorian looking hose facades made of essentially cardboard (Same idea as seen in Coyote and the Roadrunner)

@Lemonaitor

2 жыл бұрын

the lie of leinster gardens! I was so disappointed Sam didn't mention this.

@xander1052

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lemonaitor same, there's also all the ventillation shafts for the central line and co. dotting the streets of central london.

@PhilLesh69

2 жыл бұрын

Most cities also put transformers, telephone switches and other public utilities in buildings that look exactly like all the other neighboring buildings. For years I thought a house near mine was really just a house, but one day as I was walking my dog I caught a peek inside as a Pepco utility worker pulled his truck into the garage and I could see there was no wall between the garage and the house, and all kinds of transformers and big cables. They even built light boxes around the front windows which had curtains and everything, so they could have lights go on an off to make it look lived in.

@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't mention the London building because it's probably the most over mentioned one of the lot. In fact it is mentioned so much that it kind of defeats the whole purpose of covering it up in the first place. The real special "fake facades" are the ones we still don't know about.

@mastertrams

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, that old prank pulled on junior postmen! Go and deliver post to No.14 Leinster Gardens (that is the right house number, isn't it?)

I live in Huntington Beach, a bit south of LA, and I still see pumps everywhere on every day drives, even in the downtown area. The name for all the sports teams at my local Highschool was the “Oilers”

Thank you for finally putting my mind to rest. I always knew that the "Synagogue" near Pico x Robertson was an oil derrick but I never knew the massive building near Pico x Fairfax was one too, I always just assumed it was the world's most depressing-looking office building.

The Long Beach oil platforms were designed to look like hotels and were actually designed to blend into the Long Beach skyline. And they kinda do a good job because practically every visitor asks how they can go visit them (spoiler: you can’t)

@Network126

2 жыл бұрын

Just swim over 🤣

@ciello___8307

2 жыл бұрын

@@Network126 not worth it haha

@nemou4985

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if some hotel would make more money than a drillling site...

i'm glad to see that the oil industry is putting their infinite amount of money to good use!

@i2rtw

2 жыл бұрын

If only it were infinite.

@jabber1990

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsandwichindahouse ...and how'd that work out for Venezuela?

@i2rtw

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsandwichindahouse lol. I see what you did there.

@indicus9075

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsandwichindahouse id rather not be like venezuela

@johncampbell829

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsandwichindahouse lol!! funny!

This is some good content my dude. In hindsight it makes a lot of sense that certain things need to exist but people don’t want to look at so they just hide them. Now down a rabbit hole trying to see if there’s anything in my country like this

Alright, now that episode of Saved By The Bell where a company was going to put an oil rig in the middle of their football field makes sense. I thought it was a ludicrous premise.

@moronsaltable

2 жыл бұрын

Woops!! The judge granted a summary judgement against the plaintiff and the school district was reimbursed $450,000 for legal fees. One of the lawyers who helped in the Erin Brockovich PG&E case was Tom Girardi who's character was Kurt Potter still owes money to the estate of Ed Masry

Imagine planning to go to an air show but it gets cancelled because of an oil spill

@usensitivead

2 жыл бұрын

@GABRIELLA what?

@Minty_Fern

2 жыл бұрын

It was a huge bummer because it was one of the incredibly rare shows where both the blue angels and thunderbirds were going to perform.

@dragonace119

2 жыл бұрын

@@usensitivead Its a bot.

@burgerking3392

2 жыл бұрын

It was super disappointing. I was waiting the entire year for it and 😭

@GAURAV25855ify

2 жыл бұрын

2 words for the Deepwater Horizon

I worked in the communication tower business for 12 years and yeah, they're not very attractive. One tower owner decided that they'd have their 180' tower painted a shade of blue that matched the sky. It stood out worse than the standard galvanized finish.

@Yawyna124

2 жыл бұрын

There are some in my area that are disguised as older coniferous trees and they pass pretty well. Wouldn't even cross your mind until you scrutinize them more, since it isn't exactly unheard of for there to be tall elder trees at the tops of hills. I've heard that success can be a bit more mixed for other sorts, though.

@marcellkovacs5452

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen GSM towers disguised as palm trees in tropical areas

@juliogonzo2718

2 жыл бұрын

You would think that would be an aircraft hazard

@stephenroberts1776

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliogonzo2718 Its probably so badly done its not even a hazard😂. Big blue tower on a cloudy day

@filanfyretracker

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliogonzo2718 I suspect they are shorter than the height the FAA requires one to consider for aircraft.

3:30 lol I literally live 2mins away from that sculpture and never noticed.

Living in the middle of a massive oil field and paying some of the highest gas prices in the nation…

@homeskillet3173

2 жыл бұрын

Midland?

I remember being a teen and Signal Hill when oil derricks became housing. At nights we'd occasionally wander around the construction site and climb on the equipment

I thought LA was fake in the first place, thanks for clearing up that it isn’t

@dannypipewrench533

2 жыл бұрын

No, you are actually right. Los Angeles is all of the infrastructure, mainly the highways, but also all of the other stuff like this. The buildings just happen to be there. The capital of Los Angeles is Interstate 405, because California sucks, Los Angeles sucks harder, and Interstate 405 is the hardest sucking thing in existence.

@flp322

2 жыл бұрын

No that's Bielefeld, Germany

@TheWeekndGaming

2 жыл бұрын

the lakers are a fake team so would make sense for the whole city to be fake

@whathell6t

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWeekndGaming Are you being serious or joking? Have you actually visited Pico-Union, Lincoln Heights, Paicoma, El Sereno, Sylmar, West Adams, Leimert Park, Hyde Park, Figueroa Corridor, Ethiopian Corridor, El Salvador Corridor, Filipinotown, Koreatown, Tehrangeles, Virgil Village, Cypress Park, Heritage Square, Lakeview Terrance-Hansen Dam, Green Meadows, Vermont Knolls, Vermont Square, Central-Alameda, Harbor Gateway, Wilmington, San Pedro, Boyle Heights, etc; of Los Angeles, CA?

@TheWeekndGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@whathell6t no i havent cause it’s not real

Wow I would have never imagined how widespread this practice is - Awesome video!

As a Texan, I can confirm that the schools definitely describe crude oil as a vegetable. Part of the food pyramid.

@TulliverS

2 жыл бұрын

*food derrick

@jarradscarborough7915

2 жыл бұрын

*crude pyramid

@s9josh778

2 жыл бұрын

I hope this is a hyperbole. I've heard it said seriously twice now.

@ricky-sanchez

2 жыл бұрын

*To make sure you consume your daily oil and minerals.

@Pedantic2025

2 жыл бұрын

@@s9josh778 I was only half joking when I made the comment, lol

In New England many cell phone ground stations are inside the steeples of old churches on hills. If the church didn’t have an adequate steeple for the purpose or had no steeple, the ground station operator paid to construct what’s needed. The ground station operators pay handsome rent to the churches whose steeples they utilize.

@leerman22

2 жыл бұрын

lol they pay rent to god, in a manner of speaking

We have facade buildings in London for when the subway trains used to use steam and needed somewhere to vent. Somewhat ironically most of them are in the more expensive neighbourhoods, where residents didn't want a subway tunnel passing through when they were originally built.

@violenceisfun991

2 жыл бұрын

@GABRIELLA wasteman

@maquettemusic1623

2 жыл бұрын

Subway? Underground you mean

@will7its

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine that......

@unbanned6175

Жыл бұрын

@@maquettemusic1623 sub = under. Way = road. So maybe, but maybe those lines go specifically under roads, which would make them technically a subway

@unbanned6175

Жыл бұрын

@@maquettemusic1623 they call it the tube over there though

Wow! I've seen those islands off of Long Beach, but I never guessed what those things are doing. On the other hand, there are some oil wells visible from the train in Santa Fe Springs, and there is no disguising them.

my “neighbor” is one of those electricity houses in Toronto. i love it honestly, only have one neighbor to worry about, and they’re a really cool family. no noise pollution either. couple trucks once in a while but thats it

as a houstonian I must say the oil rigs + other facilities are more on the way to Galveston/surfside than like right by the city

Sam Yorty calling a petroleum derrick "civic beauty" is EXTREMELY on-brand.

@Am-Not-Jarvis

2 жыл бұрын

Sam Yorty was LA's first part-time, absentee mayor. The second was Eric Garcetti.

@lucykwiatek5159

2 жыл бұрын

@@Am-Not-Jarvis As a great man once said to LA pols, "I yield my time, fuck you."

@theyoutubecommentator7733

2 жыл бұрын

How civic is civic beauty in honda civics?

@toyocolla6374

2 жыл бұрын

@@theyoutubecommentator7733 depends on how well you tune it

@kzang386

2 жыл бұрын

@@theyoutubecommentator7733 rice/10

i lost it at the “tower of hope you dont get cancer”🤣🤣

Good job, nice pace and no fluff!

I live somewhat close to LA and its perfectly normal to see a bunch of those see-sawing oil things just off the freeway

@ethanclupper7034

2 жыл бұрын

Those are called pumpjacks, you probably don't care but there is the name

@Tbug20

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanclupper7034 the more you know

@katieandkevinsears7724

2 жыл бұрын

I call them nodding donkeys.

@Ch0c0lateChimp

2 жыл бұрын

@@katieandkevinsears7724 I called them rope hammers

I wish you would have included the El Segundo Offshore Terminal. To maintain the attractiveness on the shore from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach, chevrons oil refinery in El Segundo has underground pipes that go a few miles out under the beaches and into the ocean. Oil tanker ships like the one I used to work on drop anchor at the end of these pipes and the refinery specifically employs people whose job it is to get on a launch boat and connect the ship while it is anchored in the ocean. The oil keeps flowing and the beachgoers have no idea.

@GAURAV25855ify

2 жыл бұрын

Diu know Louisiana Oklahoma and Alaska are also oil and gas driven states as well Oklahoma is a vineyard for rich Texans

@seanthe100

2 жыл бұрын

@@GAURAV25855ify the difference is none of them have 10 million people living right on top of the industry.

@oilman5578

Жыл бұрын

@@GAURAV25855ify yep add in Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, for a bit New York, some in Idaho, Colorado, some in Montana, pretty a bunch of the East Coast. (There is actually the potential for a north sea sized field off the east coast but people don't want rigs in thier backyard).

“And most of them are digging for that sweet black, dinosaur vinegar.” Beautiful. 😂

3:13 I thought that was a joke you made, and then I looked back to my screen and saw the article 😳

@jpaugh64

2 жыл бұрын

I know!!! It a citing a school newspaper, so it was a bunch of high-schoolers making that joke. It was their friends who were getting cancer, so I guess they're entitled to their humor.

"sipping that spicy jurassic juice" is beautiful. i am going to try my hardest to work this phrase into conversation

@jpaugh64

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperEgo1989 The effect is greater if you can successfully use the phrase in a conversation that someone else starts. That's really tricky to get right, but has a huge payoff if the joke lands.

@nuclearcatbaby1131

Ай бұрын

More like Pleistocene juice since that's when all the La Brea fossils come from

One way that cell phone towers are "hidden" in the Middle East is by making them look like palm trees. Of course it's easy to tell that they aren't palm trees because of how much taller and straight they are.

@JonReevesLA

2 жыл бұрын

They do that in L.A., too.

@angelrobles7201

2 жыл бұрын

They do that in Mexico too. Guess they do that everywhere.

@MottyGlix

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen that in New Jersey and in Maryland, along (or on the medians of) highways.

@brookeking8559

2 жыл бұрын

In New England many cell phone ground stations are inside the steeples of old churches on hills. If the church didn’t have an adequate steeple for the purpose or had no steeple, the ground station operator paid to construct what’s needed. The ground station operators pay handsome rent to the churches whose steeples they utilize.

@brookeking8559

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stevie-J LOL! I never thought of it that way. If the signal is bad, should one ask for forgiveness or for a blessing?

Wow! Thanks for the info. I had no idea.

I'm glad I attended the first day of the Pacific Airshow because of the spill that occurred off the coast there. I was originally planned on going the next day which got canceled during that night.

“Which knowing my audience is probably most of you” I feel so called out

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZread by Half as Interesting is truly a gift. 👍

Cool video. My dad worked for Beverly Hills Oil for most of my childhood. I think I still have one of his trucker caps from the 80s.

0:51 You are absolutely right. And i have no idea why lol

LA really is one of the worlds stickiest cities

@captainmacmellon2333

2 жыл бұрын

that and Las Vegas

@vincenttt8289

2 жыл бұрын

Immediately after the Great Molasses flood, it was Boston

@tobiasrud

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincenttt8289 this guy Sam O' Nellas

@skenzyme81

2 жыл бұрын

Especially the Valley. Avoid couches.

@Ginrikuzuma

2 жыл бұрын

must be all the crap on the floor

"The most american solution : Keep drilling for oil and just cover it up ! Like literally... cover it up" I had a good laugh from this one 🤣

@leerman22

2 жыл бұрын

They're just hiding it from Karen.

@sandersson2813

2 жыл бұрын

Why not? Its hidden not because they are covering it up, but to make it look more attractive.

It's very common for companies to hide or disguise things that most would consider unsightly. Cell phone towers in urban settings are one of the most common. I've seen some that look like flag poles, palm trees, fir trees and some antennas are just cleverly hidden by making them look like part of the façade of a building. These are referred to as "stealth" towers and many people walk right past them and don't even realize they are there.

This video just reminded me of one of my favorite episodes of the TV show Emergency! Season 4, Episode 2 "I'll Fix It". In that episode, they rescue someone trapped in a house that is flooding with oil because it was built on an "inactive" oil well that started erupting.

I live in Toronto and used to have one of those hidden substations next to my condo. It was demolished a few years back and I moved from the area shortly thereafter, but I've always wondered what they did with the space. The plot of land was between two residential buildings and too small to do a lot with. I assume it has something to do with the Eglinton Crosstown LRT but I'm not sure.

@GAURAV25855ify

2 жыл бұрын

No offense Toronto has no oil Riggs

@NebulonRanger

3 ай бұрын

In the east end, it was also really common to not know where your Bell CO or Rogers distribution building was, because they're often hidden in storefronts or doctor's office buildings, like the Bell one near where I used to live at Danforth and Main.

I had a friend from Texas who was living in the LA area for years, who had no idea about this, even though at the entrance to his job was a very poorly hidden one across the street.

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

Texas tea

A neighborhood I lived in in north Colorado Springs used to have one of these just a few houses down the street at the top of a hill. It was sort of a ritzy country club neighborhood, and the building concealed the pumping station for the neighborhood's water supply.

They've also started disguising cellphone towers as plastic trees. I hate it. There is an authentic beauty to industrial architecture, an unapologetic paean to function and utilitarianism. I don't need my infrastructure to look like ticky-tacky suburban kitsch.

@AGDinCA

2 жыл бұрын

Started? My friend, that's been going on for at least a decade.

@demoniack81

2 жыл бұрын

They've been doing this for ages m8

@michaelmccarthy4615

2 жыл бұрын

People don't notice anything above their head unless they are looking for something

Imagine breaking into a house and literally striking oil

I actually once was watching a program that had a collection of interurban trains from California when they existed and when the program was showing videos of the former Pacific Electric railroad, the narrator at one point mentioned that one of the stations was near an oil well somewhere off screen. I didn't give it much of a second thought and assumed that the oil there eventually dried up. When I watched this video that oil wells are still all over LA but in disguise, I was honestly so surprised since I've been to LA a few times before and didn't notice anything resembling something oil related, or if I did see anything oil related, I don't remember it

Cool video! I wish you would have included the locations of some of those buildings in L.A. I knew about the one next to Beverly Hills High School.

There is a video on Defunctland about a small LA amusement park that used a working pump as their advertising by making it look like a grasshopper.

I hope that one day, all my years of walking into random buildings to see what's inside will pay off and I'll find one of these bad boys.

This video triggered memories of working in an auto parts store in the vary late 80s to early 90s where I saw the word "synthetic" used on the labels of "motor oil", that as that auto parts store chain was going out of business thus the "oil shelves" went empty! However, obviously, "synthetic" oil can be produced in a laboratory rather than drilled up out of the Earth - for much less money!

wasn't expecting a toronto hydro shoutout here!! yeah we have hydro stations hidden as houses but they typically are pretty obvious anyway (normally they have a toronto hydro sign on the door or front lawn lol)

That's a decent effort, but I have to admit that oil platforms look way too cool to cover up. Land derrecks, not so much though. And living in Shipyard Town, Oil Sate, I get to see them in't harbour quite often. Though the drilling is done out of view in the middle of the ocean, I only see them when they're not operating.

@ciello___8307

2 жыл бұрын

It depends. In a residential area, they are an eyesore

2:56 wow an oil derrick really gives me hope for the future, especially when global warming and pollution will just disappear when you can’t see it directly

Woah. I grew up in LA. I remember seeing those rigs along the hillsides of the park we always went too, but I otherwise had no idea!

Someone finally made it video about these. I know all about every one. I live by the old towers in brea. I love the historic charm

You missed the army bases in Switzerland disguised as normal houses but house massive gun batteries to defend against invasion!!!

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

and the "mountains". That's what they want you to think they are.

@prime_optimus

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidthomson802 Yeah. And the grains of sand are secretly a bunch of super small nuclear bombs.

Of all the videos on youtube, I least expected the Nuremberg U-Bahn to be mentioned in a video about drilling oil in LA.

@RobinMueller1

2 жыл бұрын

Alter same haha, der Brunnen kam aus dem nichts

@offichannelnurnberg5894

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobinMueller1 Wobei ich ja fast alles über die U-Bahn weiß, aber das mit dem Brunnen war tatsächlich etwas neues für mich, ich wusste zwar, dass da die U-Bahn fährt, aber dass der Brunnen was mit der U-Bahn zu tun hat war mir nicht klar.

I live in toronto and the hydro electric houses are really common, the one nearest to me is right next to my childhood elementary school. They’re often disguised as old buildings because well they were built a long time ago.

never thought about this before. nice information

Whee, oil wells, fake facades, and possibly intrigue! This sounds like the setup for a movie.

Explains why you can't enter most buildings in GTA 5.

@Richi_Boi

2 жыл бұрын

There is disappointing amount of gta5 references in this comment section

@jpaugh64

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 That always bothered me, but at least now I know why!

I’ve always wondered what those towers in The Long Beach islands were. They seemed like bird preservations or something. They looked ominous or hiding something.

My grandpa put up a lot of oil derricks along the 57 just north of Yorba Linda back in the 60’s. They’re not covered up and most are still in operation today.

All my life living in LA we all see the oil drills in random spots, but *I NEVER KNEW THEY WERE HIDDEN AROUND* 🤣

Alternative title: How Fake Buildings Hide LA'S Slicky Icky

your cuts to ad's are mad fair play !

Visited LA for the first time recently, being the nerd that I am I had so much fun looking for all the oil wells that I could find.

I'm in Toronto & my wife & I lived across the street from a Uranium Processing Plant for a *year* & we only learned that it existed from a newspaper article about 3 years after we moved away from that address.

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

what neighbourhood?

@AdrianParsons

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidthomson802 The plant is on the North West corner of Lansdowne & DuPont.

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianParsons ah. Thanks. If I think hard I might remember that corner. I might put it into a novel. thanks again

@heartache5742

2 жыл бұрын

that sounds like someone should pay you a health compensation

@nox5555

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianParsons The streetname should have been a give away.

As a born-and-raises Texan, I love me some roasted crude with my morning longhorn steak.

Toronto has a lot of substations very fascinating, its neat seeing these in other cities.

Huh, so that episode of saved by the bell where they find oil at Bayside wasnt as unrealistic as I always thought it was…….. well the finding oil part, the fact they didn’t end up drilling is still unbelievable

@ciello___8307

2 жыл бұрын

I Dont really think a school district would approve an active oil drill on a school today

I was just on a cruise ship in the port of Long Beach and I did see those oil rigs disguised as islands.

3:34 I live in Nürnberg, it's directly outside of the "Weißer Turm" subway station near Plärrer in the city center, and yeah the air there feels weird sometimes but it isnt actually that bad

love it when i learn something new. ty

I walked past the fountain in Nuremberg today, as so many times before, and never knew that it‘s purpose was ventilation for the subway. Again what learned, as Lothar would say.

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

trials and error

I was gonna go to that airshow too!! This is so crazy but explains a lot; I figured there was a lot of oil they'd want to tap into, so I guess it's no surprise they'd find a way hahaha

Whoever writes the scrips for HAI is a legitimate comedic genius. These videos are always just as humorous as they are interesting.. Keep up the stellar work, gentlemen.

Never knew this, quite fascinating.

The old oil fields look so creepy and otherworldly... I would bet that's where Tolkien got some inspiration for the orc structures

I do appreciate the toronto shout out. Yeah we have tons of these fake houses and other fake buildings downtown for this exact use.

@davidthomson802

2 жыл бұрын

someone should make a map. I mean make a map available.

The fact that he keeps calling the Wells Derricks is killing me. As a derrickhand, I can confirm that the Derrick is the tower they end up removing because it's just there to drill down.

As someone who has lived near an abandoned looking house in Toronto for most of my life. I’ve never been able to find an answer to my that house was abandoned but not for sale. Constantly overgrown lawn people visiting maybe every few months. That house being a secret substation makes way more sense

This could be a plot for a hollywood movie. just saying. it's literally in their backyard.

This seemed like a perfect topic to segue to bricks.

I live in the country side of CT. We have a "dairy farm" that is actually a chemical plant/warehouse. Its hard to get info on it actually. Other than there not being cows out front, you would never know though. They restrict their trucks to night as well.

There is a steam pump facility in downtown Denver that looks like a windowless office building, near the convention center. Non discript buildings hiding what's inside are EVERYWHERE

Time to fill my brain with more facts that I can annoy my friends and family with.

@gtbkts

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Muhahahahha

@pandoraeve9751

2 жыл бұрын

Big mood. (Though my father also listens to this channel and thus we often team up to just go on about a thing we learned about that's super cool and possibly annoying everyone else in the process who is not also like us.)

@jpaugh64

2 жыл бұрын

@@pandoraeve9751 You're lucky to have such a supportive dad! I hope to be like him someday!

It will be cool of new open-world games would use these as collectibles. Instead of looking for some obscure random graffiti in the middle of a dark alley, you would observe every structure you could see and figure out if any of them feels "off". It's a great way to encourage exploration without making it seem like a chore.

@qactustick

2 жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't it seem like a chore? Still sounds like basically the same thing to me.

@falafel2964

2 жыл бұрын

@@qactustick Well for one, they're basically huge, but just hidden in plain sight. You don't really need to go to every nook and cranny like most standard collectibles do. You can simply look for them by just looking at the skyline whenever you're driving off to somewhere else.

@cyber_dragon_123

2 жыл бұрын

*screams in The Witness*

@megamaser

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the most boring game ever.