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Your Sewer on Drugs

By Posted on 2.26.2008 9 Comments

Jörg Rieckermann snaps on a pair of purple rubber gloves, picks up a crowbar, and levers a manhole cover out of the way. Heres my access to the underworld, Rieckermann, who speaks with a faint German accent, says as he hoists up a barrel-shaped robot suspended above a stream of raw sewage.

5.15.2008 at 10:13pm - Comment by Hitari0

Could they simplify it to one page, perhaps?