As the police have their rules, that’s how they respect my rules. He takes a sachet and empties it into himself to sooth his demons. View All. He then attended an industrial school. Devils stab him in the heart. There's nothing new about him for a couple of years. I ended up the chief of the sewer. When he walks or crawls through the sewer you think it’s Santa Claus. How the diseased and destitute are forced to carve out a grim existence in the sewers of Eastern Europe Everybody comes here and says oh, we tried to take them to some social center or whatnot. Everything was bought and paid for, I didn’t steal anything! No one has offered us an opportunity to life. Take a stray dog that has lived all its life on the streets, put him in a cage and see what happens to him. No one would touch me, and my pockets were full of watches, money, gold. They were the boys back then. The tunnel at Dristor was 20-metre long. To empty the sewer? More than 90% of these people have AIDS, HIV, hepatitis and TB. I would go down to the creek and catch fish. 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. Since then I care a lot about him. All the one hundred dogs that he cares for seem to be hypnotized by the sound of his armour. It was winter, cold. The special troops have no chance. Police said the operation followed months of surveillance on what they described as an organised criminal gang and reports of child prostitution. Almost all of them come from communist orphanages. You hallucinate differently. The price of the powder varies depending on who you are. The ladder down the hole is under lock and key. A few months after descending in the station he joined a gang of thieves. I’d go to balconies, I’d steal from farmers, but I wasn’t a burglar. A man built like a boxer, with the mannerism of a petty dealer, smokes a cigarette on the steps in front of the Station. Then the hoodlums with the powders arrived and imposed new rules: ‘You want a fix? “I’m disappointed by weak and cowardly people – from the youngest to the oldest. Bruce Lee, The King Of Sewers. His feet slide between slabs of steel concrete. You can see Bruce Lee guiding them in. Everything that these people find they bring to me and I pay them. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I think about sex in public – in that moment everything becomes real. If you break them, it means you’ve got something against me. I would piss myself every time they hit me. Deep under the streets of Bucharest – in Europe, in the 21st century – there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB. That’s how I see things as I felt him close to me and he guides me in everything I do. I don’t ask to be given the power for a month, because I’m a real idiot. He has a family and now he volunteers for an organisation that feeds the homeless. A pensioner near by crosses herself. Then we have Bruce Lee’s dog, the leader of the pack and the biggest of them all. I almost died, even though I know this sewer so well. None of them contributes a penny. To enter a hole with two to three thousand drug addicts who prick each other with syringes, and to inject from the start. You’re half dead. He has visions. Under Bruce Lee’s protection he’s in a better mood. If people were missing they were either under arrest or out breaking into a shop. If he had stayed he would have gone to jail. I call God, father. The girls were raped and the bosses were bosses only for their own ends. They are not running around uselessly, they are not out robbing and stealing. "Bruce Lee vs. Life" documentary with English subtitles. 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. They are very dirty; they have syringes. Many who saw me thought to themselves: ‘GOD! Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is a beautiful city full of graceful architecture and rich with history. But for them to take away everything? He can’t stop until he’s run out of money – which doesn’t take longer than a couple of hours. I had no veins left on me. I wear a chain of about 30-40 kilos, one of those 10 metre long ones. After the 1989 revolution, they ran away from the orphanages and built an underground empire with its own laws and hierarchies. Bruce Lee – king of the sewers. Dozens were detained for questioning, including the 41-year-old suspected ringleader Bruce Lee, referred to as the "king of the sewers" and pictured above. Everything in the sewer was built by him. After that, we found ourselves another place to rent, in a bank. Firstly they cut the electricity. I deposited everything in the sewer and whoever was hungry or needed clothing would go to one of the boys who kept a record of the stock. They found themselves in the situation of not being able to supply electricity to keep their water coolers working. He retreats to a small park and opens the sachets. People would die. A patched vest crowded with war medals and brooches of semi-precious stones covers him. The guy’s quite trippy. We’d break into 30-40 cars then retreat into the sewer and put the manhole cover back in its place. He lived in block entrances until he met Mariana, a prostitute hooked on heroin. MAN (Translation): This is me as a child, I grew up here in the sewers. It was a valuable antique icon. He’s speechless: they are filled with sugar. We get along well with each other, and they understood from the very beginning that what I’ve spoken is the law and laws need abiding. Fracking goes global. Gabi lives with his aunts in Buhusi, but he’d like to return to the sewer if he could. No one forced him to stay in school and he didn’t get along with the director of the boarding school where he lived. In exchange he’s given two white sachets with PURE written on them in a rabid red. He was arrested and imprisoned for two months. She’s a woman, what a prick of a man! Wise guys go to them daily demanding their share. Bruce Lee, who led the underground community has been arrested along with 5 others. Whatever they stole. First we built up a layer of bricks and concrete over the pipes and then I poured this concrete all over. Otherwise, you are dead. Andrei is the spitting image of Bruce Lee, with rotten teeth and the temper of a rabid pit bull. He descended in the sewer underneath the Station and invested everything he had in there. You’re like Superman. I amazed them. We come from foster homes, poor, broken and alcohol ridden families. The dogs, the community, the generator and what else they invest in scrap and trinkets. I built these walls with holes in them in order to allow the air to circulate from one end to the other in the sewer. But he had no papers, so he rented a post office under-the-counter. Their feet are drenched in the muddy hot water that floods the whole tunnel, with floating syringes and condoms. I almost lapsed into gangrene. He has chains padlocked around his wrists and ankles to aid in fighting where he received his name. Simon can’t be corrupted by the rogues who go to him and demand their right or try to bully him. Either asphyxiated or burnt. We live out of garbage, and we steal every now and then. But this underworld is also home to a controversial figure known only as Bruce Lee… Prison turned him around. Money mean nothing to me. They also claimed they raided an upmarket villa – away from the tunnels believed to be owned by network’s leader, Bruce Lee. 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. Around him, the sewer is packed with men, women and children injecting themselves and sniffing glue. Moves to ban antibiotic pollution from pharma factories Now, because of me, they don’t touch them anymore, they know they’ll come to me and tell me. I don’t know how this country chose its leaders, they are all idiots. But I couldn’t do it with them, they are pathetic, finished. Mainline to addiction: A resident inspects a needle containing a synthetic drug similar to methadone No invite, no go! He bought us food and treatments. There are rogues who want to harm us; they are trying to squeeze money out of the guys. After the raid the city hall poured concrete over the entrances. He can still do it, even at 40. They worked for Ortadogu, a Turkish transport company that made millions on the Turkish – Romanian route. He spends about 20 million a day. He covered the pipes and brought in electricity. They’re public. 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. That’s why they all call me Father.”, Pepp talk: Ștefan Mako, Vlad Ursulean și George Popescu. Everyone who made her their wife did so All those who took her as a wife did so to make her produce money for them. He hasn’t met a woman to his liking yet. As a man, when I need a woman I pay for her. Every time they caught him they stripped and beat him with slim fibre glass sticks. Police seized knives, swords, stolen paintings and a large quantity of stolen cash. Even the police were avoiding me. This literal underworld is run by a man who calls himself Bruce Lee. His assistants are Andrei and Simon, his most trusted men and extra pair of hands he does his business with. We were sitting in darkness before, with candles, we would catch fire, the pipes leaked and there was filth. If he saw us barefoot, honest to god he’d buy us shoes. He has been living there for 24 years. It follows previous awards for the film including a Royal Television Society prize and an Amnesty award. I’m amazed they can sleep in that place. report. He’s like the God of the homeless. Now, it is the same – he is surrounded by vulnerable people: children, elderly people, women and stray dogs. Kugrash is hidden behind the Umbral Arcana, and presumably to most of the waking world just looks like a large rat. Around him, the sewer is packed with men, women and children injecting themselves and sniffing glue. Think about it. Over time I increase the weight. He pulls out two million lei and hands it to a scrawny tramp crawling out of the sewer. He gives his heart and soul for us. 54% Upvoted. Lee says that these residents use drugs because it takes their problems away. Bruce Lee, this underworld’s king and primary drug dealer, is a complicated figure. That’s when they nicknamed me Bruce Lee. He befriended the father that introduced him to the business. hey sealed the manholes and trapped me down here. I was conned. I don’t accept gifts, I don’t want anything for free. I had no family, I was bad, I was corrupt. And since I’m a good fighter I finished them all and took their place. She’s a girl and they make her work as a prostitute. Revealed: critically important antibiotics in use on UK pig farms March 7, 2020 March 13, 2020. He built a social centre that meets the needs of the people around him, and he governed it according to the best communal organizational method: he – the father, provides the cheap drugs, and his assistants, the apostles, hand them out to his followers. The tunnels and shack were a form of shelter for an alienated community – many of them born in Ceausescu’s notorious orphanages. People outside are aloof. I am the only one who succeeded in achieving something for the homeless. When he emerges he feels that his lungs are collapsing because of the heat and heavy air in the sewer. The kids were careless, they’d get high and burn down the sewer. 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. In the other half, tens of mean dogs guard the bedrooms. Bruce Lee was born Florin Cora and he’s from Râmnicu Valcea. When I was younger – maybe! We were little children hovering around him. It’s purely an impression that someone else, a presence, participates in what happens within you. He used drugs daily for eight years. He crawls to a stereo, he turns it on to a commercial station and sits down cross-legged near Viorel. God doesn’t look at clothes or muscles, he looks at the heart. The Turks used to beat up the tramps, take their girls and send them to Turkey and force them into prostitution. For me they meant something. The police had enough of him. e secured the sewer against all kinds of dangers they could confront: police, strangers, all the unwanted persons. One day only. He made money selling drugs and with scrap metal dealings. They had no cables, no multiple plugs, they were pathetic. He punched a few people who then went to the police, and so Gabi ran to Bucharest. In a little town from Moldavia, a dwarfish lad pisses on a railway line. The boys that were not caught would return in the morning with food, electrical items or clothes. Since I had no lawyers, no papers, no nothing – everybody tried to double-cross me. The only solution was to ask him for help. We were happy that we didn’t need candles anymore. This is where afflicted generations abandoned by Romania immediately after the revolution live. Simon is skinny, with a Brazilian footballer’s hair style and he looks like the wiser one. I’ve got a 9-year experience in martial arts.I’ve got 9 years of martial arts. 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. The system treated them in a most savage way. We used hundreds of bags of sand and cement. 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. The followers bring metal and valuable items in exchange for powders, aurolac, protection, shelter, food and money. Does anyone know what happened to Bruce Lee King of the sewers? He’s like a father to me. 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 ’. You dry up like a corpse. I’m the only in the entire country who knows all the sewers. I cook for the entire sewer from here all the way to the other end. While Viorel is playing around with some white liquid in a bottle lid, a girl creeps through the sewer adorned with dogs, aurolacs and a group of tramps who are trying out some powder. Go and do this job. Bruce Lee starts hitting him with his fists, legs, karate. He wanted to beat up one of our boys. They removed the manhole covers, pepper-sprayed the whole sewer and sent down the police special forces. Before I knew God I was a different man. The sewers also have a huge population of children. To have 20 people around you, limbs intertwined like snakes, some cutting themselves… How can they sleep, eat? I would catch people on the street and rob them… I’d steal their money at cash points, I’d throw dust into their eyes and I’d take their money. It was a few hundred years old. We were bandits. She works as a prostitute, it’s her business, she has her own money, explains Bruce Lee. He had gold, silver, diamonds in his hands and he never cheated me. By night, I steal electricity from the idiots, straight from the pole. Underneath we’ve created trenches for the water, so it drains away. They see that I’m close to them. This was the complex just last week – before the raid took place: It had 20 rooms, beds for 60 people, kitchens, internet access and a pool in the courtyard. Listen here, this is the clever thing: this concrete on the bottom wasn’t poured directly on the pipes. It reverted to how it was. This is how I keep fit. 4 of 4 We were conned again. Then I could have fucked anyone. Bruce Lee, King of Bucharest's Sewers (5-20-2014, 7 pm, Channel 4, UK, 13 min. ) I haven’t found one I can rely on, a serious one. Bruce Lee’s house is this entire world, as far as you can see. I started shooting into the pubis and the main arteries. His home is underneath the Gara de Nord since he escaped a humanitarian organisation. He slept on artificial fibres at the bottom of a manhole, among rubbish and rats. It was mortal combat. The face you saw could have been Bruce Lee’s. – Bruce Lee is my father, and father is at home! Juice and those stupid things, energizers. I bought it from others. He was peaceful with me, even his lieutenants were ok with me. The self-styled ‘king of the sewers’, Bruce Lee may be imprisoned – but another gang lord was bound to take his place. Until I got to Bucharest I didn’t know how to steal. He points to a tattoo on his inner thigh, it reads: “Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers”. 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. I put the bag in my mouth and attacked them. He misses Bruce Lee and life in the capital. His mother abandoned him three days after birth. There is nothing you can offer me. I didn’t know it was made out of silver and gold. He comes here daily and stays until late at night.. Marius swindled foreign currency and other banned stuff during communism. I cut off all the heads, every single one. He covers himself from head to toe in Aurolac silver paint, he identifies with the drug. He is the father of the homeless. He lives only underground. He keeps the underground supplied with a metallic paint called Aurelac that … Gabi had everything he needed there – food, money, drugs and protection. Bruce is the self-proclaimed King of the Tunnels. 05.06.2014. I hardly advanced a couple of steps and I had already given away 5 million to the people around me.
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