Does the UK not have fire hydrants? What do they do if a building catches on fire? I should think that they’d really want some fire hydrants around with how close a lot of the building are to each other in some places....
@@autumnmoon4460 They have them too, but apparently theirs are "underground", accessible by lifting a metal grate. In London, there are over 115,000 of them, and a person is never more than 90meters from one.
@@johnathanmcprivacy9749 Oh, I see. I didn’t know that! I wonder if other countries do that or if they have fire hydrants like the US...? I’ll have to look it up....
not a water fountain...there is the drinking kind you have in the wall of public buildings or parks, that is a water fountain. What you saw at 8:53 is a fire hydrant it is what firefighters connect their hoses to for water, or they connect the truck to fill a water tank inside it, and hoses connect to the truck. Sometimes the truck can also have a water cannon.
First rule of NYC is that you ignore whatever craziness is going on. And don't make eye contact on the subway. That guy pole dancing on the subway was pretty impressive, though, if only because he's doing it in a suit.
@@EC-dz4bq You're in a small enclosed space with a bunch of strangers (kind of like an elevator). So part of it is about respecting other people's personal space. In that situation, an occasional brief glance at someone is ok, but staring will make people feel uncomfortable. Also, staring at someone doing some crazy thing may be taken as a challenge. So best to disengage unless you know them or someone genuinely needs help.
@@EC-dz4bq It's not really the rule that you don't make eye contact or ignore people doing unusual things. It's more like you ignore people and avoid eye contact if someone is doing something unusual and disturbing, like they might be seriously mentally ill and potentially dangerous. If they're doing something unusual that's cool, like a performance of some kind, then they want you to look at them, and it's totally fine to do it. Anyone dancing, playing an instrument, making art, dressed up in a wacky costume, or anything like that, it's fine to stare. There are lots of people in NYC who perform on the streets. Some are really talented. They want you to look, and everyone does. If they look like they're possibly schizophrenic/off their meds, talking to themselves, or something like that, then it can be safer to mind your own business. Oh, also, if you make eye contact with someone who's dancing, singing, or playing an instrument on a subway, they will probably hold out their hand to you for money at the end of the song. They walk past anyone who was ignoring them. It's fine to tell them you don't have any money for them, but some people are uncomfortable doing that, so they just don't look if they don't want to give them a little something after the show.
@@priscillawilson2634 yes, I don’t know about the stops in the city, but it hits many places. I’ve taken it from Santa Clarita to get to the Rams games
If you're ever in NYC you just have to recognize those types of people, ignore them, and get further away whenever possible. If you ever walk on the street, you'll find people pacing, talking to themselves, or doing other strange behaviors and the best thing is just to walk away and pretend to not even notice them.
@@tonycardone990 Yeah, some of them have pretty wild stories, true or not. I still remember the homeless man in Florida who told me his secret recipe for cooking a shoe made of suede or leather.
I am from NY State and most of the people I know will worn people never go to the city, its full of nut jobs, and it smells like sour Milk. No one in their rightful mind who lives in NY state will ever get near that trash city.
@@Darkphoenix3450 I would call it a piss and rotten dumpster smell, but that was in the late 80's . I lived and went to school in upstate NY, but my mothers boyfriend lived in the South Bronx so I had to spend some of my weekends in the city. It was such a shock for a kid that walked 5 miles on dirt roads to and from school everyday. At home our only heat was a wood stove, our closest neighbor was almost a mile away, and would spend all my free time running around the woods.. In the Bronx I wasn't even allowed to go outside of the roach ridden apartment alone. After moving to another state I hated how everyone assumed that I was from the city , as if all of NY is NYC. I also didn't have a city accent and people couldn't understand why 🙄
I’m not from New York but there’s a unwritten rule on their subway that I was told we I visited. “if someone is being weird on the subway you just ignore and no matter what do not engage with the crazy”
@@jacklewis5452 naw I’m from sweet home Alabama we make Facebook pages to keep up with the local crazy ppl. Literally we have one for our local weirdo “peanut”
The most New York thing I've ever seen was a group of people bringing an entire couch on the subway. I'm from Jersey City, New Jersey so I live not too far from the city.
I've done this. Person was giving away a couch and was only 20 minutes away by train. My roommates and I were poor. You gotta do what you gotta do. Fully regret it though as my feeble arms gave way half way between the subway station and our apartment.
@@limiabean lol I found that dumpster diving around where rich collage kids live and study, at the end of the year they throw away all sorts of expensive stuff that mommy and daddy paid for, you could find couches , chairs, rugs , shelves , mini fridges and all sorts of stuff that they just don't want to bother taking with them when schools out.
Onetime in walmart I seen a line of fiends at the ATM and i was like wtf then i walked outside it was another line of them at a taxi, the taxi driver was serving literally like 100 crackheads right there in the front of walmart lmao
lol this is why people think new yorkers are rude when we don't react to things. imagine being late for school and piled trash blocking the subway. literally trash piled to the ceiling....
@Ethereal •Solana• yea. lots of the time, only the tourist spots seem nice and thats because the people aren't busy and can just spend their time having fun. it is sad to see a lot of misunderstanding because of that tho
@Ethereal •Solana• We're not really rude, we're usually just kinda short with people cause we always got something to do unless we just chillin, though I can understand some of our mannerisms being seen as rude compared to other regions. In cars though? Everyone's kind of a dickhead on the road no matter where you go I find.
The main reason you see little to no reaction is cause we know to mind our business. Plus most of the time the people acting crazy are crazy people like crackheads so its better to just ignore them. Since they crazy you don’t know what they could do if you engage with them.
Fire hydrant! It’s for when the fire is a big one that needs a lot of water to extinguish. The ones in Britain are attached to the building and aren’t as common, because you had to pay the government to have a fire brigade come put out the fires. But they are starting to become more prevalent.
After living in NYC for a surprisingly short period of time you stop noticing almost everything that is in this video. You just keep your head down, and never make eye contact with anyone
@@EC-dz4bq it depends on the situation. While waiting for or riding a train, you want to remain calm and move away from the craziness or wait it out. It's easier if you have a cheap earbud in one ear so you look like you're listening to something.
8:40 - Those are Fire Hydrants. They're connected to the water mains and supply extremely high pressure water for Fire Fighters. They connect their firetrucks straight up to the hydrant for a bigger supply of water (in the event of a large fire) than the tanks on the firetrucks. In larger cities, we have them about every 200-500 feet (60-150 meters), so there's a lot of them. Sometimes they can fail, get damaged by cars, or not be closed properly which results in leaks. In the worst case scenario, if a vehicle runs it over and breaks the hydrant off of the main connection, they can turn into outright geysers, like in this video: ruclips.net/video/zxPqJYG1lVg/видео.html
Meanwhile, those of us in upstate NY are 🤦♀️ because everyone says "NY" instead of "NYC"... COMPLETELY different 🙄 (I'm sure the NYC peeps would agree)
People call New York City - New York (because that's what everyone thinks of when they hear New York and they say New York State when they refer to upstate New York.
@@jacklewis5452 some people may however, the majority of the time, people use "NY" as a blanket for the entire state when they're really referring to NYC. Nobody ever talks about Upstate unless it involves one of the major cities.
New York is huge. It goes to cony island which is a huge and great public beach to the Bronx botanical gardens and south to statin island and mid town manhattan. Worth taking it all in.
The water things are used by fire fighters so they have an unlimited water source like every block for fire you just plug your fire hose into the side of it and boom you have working hose. And I love how people from the uk treat weed like crack weed would not cause any of this except maybe the dancing shit if you took like 20 edibles
The trains have heat and air conditioning, making them desirable places for homeless people to spend time. I went to grad school in midtown Manhattan and saw this on the subways regularly.
The "Water Things" are Fire Hydrants. When the Fire Department needs to settle a burning building, they connect a giant hose to the nearest one and use said water to put out said flames. Each of the various knots/stubs on the sides of said hydrants acts as a separate valve is where the departments connect a hose. The animal,on the other hand, is a Raccoon which is a common scavenger (they constantly search through trash for possible food) and a frequent carrier of disease such as rabies.
The guy in the tie dye, dancing on the subway platform is also the spinning dreidel guy from earlier in the video. He’s always out doing his thing in nyc.
Raccoon was being cleaned with a FIRE HYDRANT Used by firefighters during a fire to put out the flames, fire hydrants operate by allowing your local firefighters to quickly tap into your water utility's pressurized water system. The firefighters remove a nozzle or two, fasten hoses to the nozzles and turn the valve to get the water flowing.
8:40 they’re called fire hydrants. If a house or building is on fire, firefights will hook up a hose to one of them to get water so they can extinguished it.
Fire hydrants - the are for fire fighters to connect hoses to for fires. They are being phased out in NYC (for several decades) for building mounted standpipes (new buildings are required to have them on their facade)
As a new yorker be prepared to see crazy people, crack heads, lots of karens, some cool and random things, and very suspicion characters to be very wary of. FYI if u are coming to the big apple the crazy people and crack heads are mostly homeless and can be VERY aggressive. For example My mom and i have seen homeless people spit on people or threaten people. Recently on Thursday there was this guy on the train talking to himself and walking back and forth the train cart and threw a rock at the train door and ran off yelling. The thing is u can't really avoid them because they are everywhere. U will see at least one or two crazy things living in this city for one day.
I was in the navy for over 5 yrs 3 yrs was across the bay in Jersey I was in the city every weekend possible. I love and miss that city. I found the easiest way to identify a non-new yorker was if they looked up at all or paid any attention to the absolute batshit craziness going on around them.
I am so sad that there doesn't seem to be an Only in WV video. I feel like there would be some great material lol. I did see that Lost in the Pond did a reaction to Charleston though.
I was born and raised in New York and that "Only in New York" is so true, especially when it comes to things like the guy getting painted on the subway. You just ignore all the craziness and go about your business. You may glance at whatever is going on but you don't stop to stare or stop in general, you just keep going about what you're doing. Unless it is someone who needs help.
The clip with Lady washing the coon with the "water thing" that's what we call a fire hydrant. Which is for firetrucks used to supply them for putting out fires.
Fire hydrants are for in case of a fire, firefighters have ease of access to pressurized water. But mostly on hot summer days, citizens open them up to cool off.
The water thing is not a water fountain, it’s a fire hydrant. when the firefighters turn up to fight a fire, the plug the truck to that hydrant to supply the water. The are also often opened by residents on hot days to make sprinklers for kids to play in and cool down.
I have lived near New York my whole life and every time I go visit I come back just accepting everything in nyc goes and no one cares what you are doing
The thing you're asking about is a fire hydrant. It's a high pressure public water source that firefighters can attach hoses to if they need to put out a fire.
9:02 it’s a fire hydrant basically the firefighters use them for their hoses whenever there is a fire basically just for easy access to water but you can actually buy the wrenches used to turn the water on
8:56 its called a fire hydrant. we have a pipe system that goes under the roads that direct water to these hydrants so the firemen can use them to put out fires
That water thing you were talking about is a fire hydrant. The firemen hook their hoses to that and open it up for a high powered stream of water, to use to put out fires. A water fountain is a waist high metal box with a small spigot on top to drink out of.😊🐝❤
LOL, that scene with the raccoon at 8:26. That's a fire hydrant, not a water fountain. Fire fighters connect their hoses to it for their water source when fighting fires so they don't always have to rely on the water tanks in the trucks. The water lines are constantly fed water so to prevent pipes bursting from the pressure, the fire department will occasionally go through and just open up fire hydrants and let the water gush out all over the street so the water pressure does not break anything. In the summer people like to splash around in the water to cool off or do other fun things.
You notice the people on the subways will not even look at the people doing insane stuff. It’s like a normal thing. And you are trapped in there with the nuts
For sure. The only time I saw native New Yorkers react to somebody's subway shenanigans was during the blackout of August '03. We were on the train when the power went out, slammed to a stop in the dark, only to hear..."Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please - I'm asking for your help, any amount will help, I need to feed my children..." It was the same person who had walked up and down the train begging for money 5 minutes before. This time we were trapped, and the rest of the people on the train shouted her down instead of ignoring it.
As a life long NY-er I've pretty much seen an analog of everything in this video at least once. The "water things" are fire hydrants, and their accessible for the city fire trucks with at least one on every block. Most blocks have multiple hydrants. When we were children on hot days, we'd have an adult get a wrench, open them up wide so that there would be a torrent, and we'd jump in. Some of us would open a soda can at both ends and redirect the water everywhere. But Lav, the woman is washing a racoon which are not indigenous to NYC.
Yeah, when you live in NYC you learn to live in your mind when on the subway / streets and just generally mind your own business. Making eye contact is usually a bad idea with the crazies... and honestly we work too hard and play too hard to deal with the crazies between point A and point B. That said, for the most part if we see trouble or someone needing help, real New Yorkers stand up and help out. We come across cold and distant but really we’re just in our zone because as you can see there’s always plenty of stimuli and we have to coexist with everyone.
Was once on the 5 boroughs bike tour and saw a random guy riding a unicycle completely covered in a soda can suit hit a curb at full speed and faceplant to the sound of hundreds of crushing aluminum cans. Got a good chuckle and realized anywhere else it would have been absurd but in NYC it was about right.
Those are fire hydrants typically supposed to be for fire department to attach hoses to for fires.....but ppl use them especially on hit days to cool down.
The water things you were curious about is called a fire hydrant, there is at least one on each block and it is used in case of a fire then the firetrucks have an instant access to water
I feel like there should be a compilation for people on Hollywood Boulevard. They're the ones that imported the creepy people in Disney costumes to Times Square.
8:40 they're called fire hydrants. They're so that if there is a fire, the fire department can connect their hoses to them and have a steady supply of high pressurized water to put out the fire.
That’s a fire hydrant. The fire department hooks up to them so they don’t have to rely solely on the water they can carry in the tank. Different colors mean different things in different areas. Mostly related to what the water pressure is, but some indicate dirty water (water that hasn’t been filtered and is not suitable for drinking).
Woman in Manhattan is washing a freaking raccoon and Luka is impressed by the fire hydrant. 🤣🤣🤣
You mean trash panda.
Lol
Does the UK not have fire hydrants? What do they do if a building catches on fire? I should think that they’d really want some fire hydrants around with how close a lot of the building are to each other in some places....
@@autumnmoon4460 They have them too, but apparently theirs are "underground", accessible by lifting a metal grate. In London, there are over 115,000 of them, and a person is never more than 90meters from one.
@@johnathanmcprivacy9749 Oh, I see. I didn’t know that! I wonder if other countries do that or if they have fire hydrants like the US...? I’ll have to look it up....
he's more baffled by the fire hydrant, never mind the trash panda getting bathed 😂
shh let him believe it's a water fountain
Hahahahaha!!!
Rocket taking a bath while waiting for Groot and Quill to pick him up 😂🤷
The raccoon being bathed in the fire hydrant is where I lost it. 😂
@@Tocinos Im actually surprised they don't have fire hydrants in the uk.
not a water fountain...there is the drinking kind you have in the wall of public buildings or parks, that is a water fountain. What you saw at 8:53 is a fire hydrant it is what firefighters connect their hoses to for water, or they connect the truck to fill a water tank inside it, and hoses connect to the truck. Sometimes the truck can also have a water cannon.
This!
What do the British do for firefighting if they don't have hydrants?
@@unknownuser9000 That would suck trying to find it while a house is burning down.
@@unknownuser9000 Got it, thanks!
@@unknownuser9000 That's pretty cool ngl
First rule of NYC is that you ignore whatever craziness is going on. And don't make eye contact on the subway. That guy pole dancing on the subway was pretty impressive, though, if only because he's doing it in a suit.
So as someone who have never even been to a city... why no eye contact?
@@EC-dz4bq You're in a small enclosed space with a bunch of strangers (kind of like an elevator). So part of it is about respecting other people's personal space. In that situation, an occasional brief glance at someone is ok, but staring will make people feel uncomfortable. Also, staring at someone doing some crazy thing may be taken as a challenge. So best to disengage unless you know them or someone genuinely needs help.
@@desertrose0027 oh okay, so like the same here. Lol Mind your own business. (Although strangers frequently talk to strangers here.)
@@EC-dz4bq It's not really the rule that you don't make eye contact or ignore people doing unusual things. It's more like you ignore people and avoid eye contact if someone is doing something unusual and disturbing, like they might be seriously mentally ill and potentially dangerous. If they're doing something unusual that's cool, like a performance of some kind, then they want you to look at them, and it's totally fine to do it. Anyone dancing, playing an instrument, making art, dressed up in a wacky costume, or anything like that, it's fine to stare. There are lots of people in NYC who perform on the streets. Some are really talented. They want you to look, and everyone does. If they look like they're possibly schizophrenic/off their meds, talking to themselves, or something like that, then it can be safer to mind your own business. Oh, also, if you make eye contact with someone who's dancing, singing, or playing an instrument on a subway, they will probably hold out their hand to you for money at the end of the song. They walk past anyone who was ignoring them. It's fine to tell them you don't have any money for them, but some people are uncomfortable doing that, so they just don't look if they don't want to give them a little something after the show.
8:43 the water things are fire hydrants, when fire trucks pull up they attach the hose to there.
the one with the racoon. The "water things" are called fire hydrants. they are used to put out fires.
They're standardized so firefighters hoses connect directly to them. The water is kept under pressure so it will push through the hoses.
@tconlon251 Well up until this video I assumed with fire hydrants, but now I'm thinking bucket brigade? lol
@tconlon251 If I'm not mistaken their mains are under the sidewalk. The whole Euro Zone is weird like that.
The dancing on the subway thing happens a lot in Los Angeles too. People will go from car to car and dance hoping to solicit tips.
And it’s always in the big intersection off the freeway
No kidding. That's one thing that I haven't missed with all of the lockdowns and whatnot. The train has been relatively tame.
LA has a subway?
@@priscillawilson2634 yes, I don’t know about the stops in the city, but it hits many places. I’ve taken it from Santa Clarita to get to the Rams games
Lmao when he said “trash”
We’re rubbing off on him
If you're ever in NYC you just have to recognize those types of people, ignore them, and get further away whenever possible. If you ever walk on the street, you'll find people pacing, talking to themselves, or doing other strange behaviors and the best thing is just to walk away and pretend to not even notice them.
I usually end up in a conversation with the crazy ones. Sometimes it's worth it to stop and talk to them other times you're better off just walking by
@@tonycardone990 Yeah, some of them have pretty wild stories, true or not. I still remember the homeless man in Florida who told me his secret recipe for cooking a shoe made of suede or leather.
I am from NY State and most of the people I know will worn people never go to the city, its full of nut jobs, and it smells like sour Milk. No one in their rightful mind who lives in NY state will ever get near that trash city.
@@Darkphoenix3450 that sour milk you smell is urine lol
@@Darkphoenix3450 I would call it a piss and rotten dumpster smell, but that was in the late 80's .
I lived and went to school in upstate NY, but my mothers boyfriend lived in the South Bronx so I had to spend some of my weekends in the city. It was such a shock for a kid that walked 5 miles on dirt roads to and from school everyday. At home our only heat was a wood stove, our closest neighbor was almost a mile away, and would spend all my free time running around the woods.. In the Bronx I wasn't even allowed to go outside of the roach ridden apartment alone.
After moving to another state I hated how everyone assumed that I was from the city , as if all of NY is NYC. I also didn't have a city accent and people couldn't understand why 🙄
I’m not from New York but there’s a unwritten rule on their subway that I was told we I visited. “if someone is being weird on the subway you just ignore and no matter what do not engage with the crazy”
thats probably a good rule for anywhere doing anything.
@@jacklewis5452 naw I’m from sweet home Alabama we make Facebook pages to keep up with the local crazy ppl. Literally we have one for our local weirdo “peanut”
The most New York thing I've ever seen was a group of people bringing an entire couch on the subway. I'm from Jersey City, New Jersey so I live not too far from the city.
Except that doesn't seem too unreasonable if that's the only way to move the couch lol.
Lol I read that wrong at first and thought you were saying that they were bringing the couch all the way to Jersey from NYC
I've done this. Person was giving away a couch and was only 20 minutes away by train. My roommates and I were poor. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Fully regret it though as my feeble arms gave way half way between the subway station and our apartment.
@@limiabean lol I found that dumpster diving around where rich collage kids live and study, at the end of the year they throw away all sorts of expensive stuff that mommy and daddy paid for, you could find couches , chairs, rugs , shelves , mini fridges and all sorts of stuff that they just don't want to bother taking with them when schools out.
We once carried a dresser and a night stand on the F to Howard Beach to my aunt's house 😂
Item being used by the raccoon is fire hydrant. The fire department plugs a hose in to it to get the water needed to put out fires
It's amazing what one can see in a Walmart at 3am, too.
Walmart anytime of day💀
@@slick8038 Yeah, but it gets better when the sun goes down....
@@Fridge56Vet True. I've been to Walmarts before around like midnight and I see the weirdest people
Onetime in walmart I seen a line of fiends at the ATM and i was like wtf then i walked outside it was another line of them at a taxi, the taxi driver was serving literally like 100 crackheads right there in the front of walmart lmao
@@Johndoe-kw5zr they sell everything.....
Lol 2:42 that looks like you who walked in front of the camera
Yea, I see it, lol
What are u doing here
mmmm not to me.
@@hyacinthdibley2420 cool
Quite a bit young, obviously, but they have a similar smile.
you'll find absolutely anything in new york nothing is out of the ordinary there shit happens you look judge and walk away lmao🐙💃🏾💀
LOL
This is sow true
@Joel Rudy omg thanks
We don’t even look we just keep it moving.
@Joel Rudy it dont work the link keeps crashaing
Just a normal day in NYC.
You never know what you're going to see but you always know it's going to be interesting.
lol this is why people think new yorkers are rude when we don't react to things. imagine being late for school and piled trash blocking the subway. literally trash piled to the ceiling....
@Ethereal •Solana• yea. lots of the time, only the tourist spots seem nice and thats because the people aren't busy and can just spend their time having fun. it is sad to see a lot of misunderstanding because of that tho
@Ethereal •Solana• We're not really rude, we're usually just kinda short with people cause we always got something to do unless we just chillin, though I can understand some of our mannerisms being seen as rude compared to other regions. In cars though? Everyone's kind of a dickhead on the road no matter where you go I find.
Lav Luka: What!?
New York: ...don’t ask 😑
The main reason you see little to no reaction is cause we know to mind our business. Plus most of the time the people acting crazy are crazy people like crackheads so its better to just ignore them. Since they crazy you don’t know what they could do if you engage with them.
Very true! And I learned it the hard way because weirdos will walk up to you if you look at them too long.
Im surprised the Saxophone Battle on the subway clip didnt show up. legendary video.
True
I live in New York and I can confirm this. It's a wonderful city
Fire hydrant! It’s for when the fire is a big one that needs a lot of water to extinguish. The ones in Britain are attached to the building and aren’t as common, because you had to pay the government to have a fire brigade come put out the fires. But they are starting to become more prevalent.
After living in NYC for a surprisingly short period of time you stop noticing almost everything that is in this video. You just keep your head down, and never make eye contact with anyone
I keep seeing people say no eye contact? As someone who has never been to a large city, why?
@@EC-dz4bq Eye contact sort of... invites interaction? They'll want to talk to you if you do, which is 9 times out of 10 very uncomfortable lol
@@EC-dz4bq it depends on the situation. While waiting for or riding a train, you want to remain calm and move away from the craziness or wait it out. It's easier if you have a cheap earbud in one ear so you look like you're listening to something.
8:40 - Those are Fire Hydrants. They're connected to the water mains and supply extremely high pressure water for Fire Fighters. They connect their firetrucks straight up to the hydrant for a bigger supply of water (in the event of a large fire) than the tanks on the firetrucks. In larger cities, we have them about every 200-500 feet (60-150 meters), so there's a lot of them.
Sometimes they can fail, get damaged by cars, or not be closed properly which results in leaks. In the worst case scenario, if a vehicle runs it over and breaks the hydrant off of the main connection, they can turn into outright geysers, like in this video: ruclips.net/video/zxPqJYG1lVg/видео.html
I'm sure there's great compilations of madness in Vegas, LA, Chicago, Philly, and Portland.
3rd most populous country on earth * everyone has a smartphone * the entire world watching us = Florida man and NYC subway weirdos
I’ve been on the New York subway once in my life and that one time a homeless crackhead took a pee in the corner next to me. Was a sight to see.
Meanwhile, those of us in upstate NY are 🤦♀️ because everyone says "NY" instead of "NYC"... COMPLETELY different 🙄 (I'm sure the NYC peeps would agree)
People call New York City - New York (because that's what everyone thinks of when they hear New York and they say New York State when they refer to upstate New York.
What about the people on Long Island
@@jacklewis5452 some people may however, the majority of the time, people use "NY" as a blanket for the entire state when they're really referring to NYC. Nobody ever talks about Upstate unless it involves one of the major cities.
@@acegarr22 I guess the same would apply - point well made ✅
New York is huge. It goes to cony island which is a huge and great public beach to the Bronx botanical gardens and south to statin island and mid town manhattan. Worth taking it all in.
A wild city but we New Yorkers love it! 🥰
[Insert people cramming into the back of the bus on Central Park North]
And shoving the people coming out first.
The water things are used by fire fighters so they have an unlimited water source like every block for fire you just plug your fire hose into the side of it and boom you have working hose. And I love how people from the uk treat weed like crack weed would not cause any of this except maybe the dancing shit if you took like 20 edibles
I ain't even know if you finna. Be dancing lmao. You probably just finna pass put😂😂😂
The water things are fire hydrants. Mainly for scaring away evil spirits but initially built for kids to have water fights and to play.
The water thing was a fire hydrant, there everywhere (especially in cities) and are connect to water for the fire trucks to use in case of a fire
Luka the person on the subway with a the trash and bags was living on that cart and people were giving them food they were homless
The trains have heat and air conditioning, making them desirable places for homeless people to spend time. I went to grad school in midtown Manhattan and saw this on the subways regularly.
The "Water Things" are Fire Hydrants. When the Fire Department needs to settle a burning building, they connect a giant hose to the nearest one and use said water to put out said flames. Each of the various knots/stubs on the sides of said hydrants acts as a separate valve is where the departments connect a hose. The animal,on the other hand, is a Raccoon which is a common scavenger (they constantly search through trash for possible food) and a frequent carrier of disease such as rabies.
All the remarking about the fire hydrant, and little to say about the woman washing her trash panda on the street....
Fire Hydrant: For when there is a fire the fire truck drives up to them and hooks the fire hose to them.
There's an entire state of New York, this was just New York City.
The guy in the tie dye, dancing on the subway platform is also the spinning dreidel guy from earlier in the video. He’s always out doing his thing in nyc.
You've never seen fire hydrants in the UK?! They do exist.
that lost little kitty makes me so sad T-T I hope someone gave it a home
Yeah, I kept going " Help the kitty! Help the kitty! "
That thing with the raccoon is a sprinkler, New Yorkers use them to cool off in the summer.
No, that’s a fire hydrant,
@@yellow_rose- those things are used for sprinklers far more than for fires.
@@toecutterjenkins yeah but I didn’t say that they weren’t, I just said there fire hydrants! That’s the official name for them.
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That beer video is the funniest thing ive seen all week the way it kept knocking off beers and he just kept standing there 😂😂
Those “water fountain things” are called fire hydrants in the US
Nice pick! I've been watching Only in New York videos for a while, some of the best compilations.
Everything is a normal day on the subway. Most people mind their business no matter what crazy shit is going on around them.
Raccoon was being cleaned with a FIRE HYDRANT
Used by firefighters during a fire to put out the flames, fire hydrants operate by allowing your local firefighters to quickly tap into your water utility's pressurized water system. The firefighters remove a nozzle or two, fasten hoses to the nozzles and turn the valve to get the water flowing.
8:40 they’re called fire hydrants. If a house or building is on fire, firefights will hook up a hose to one of them to get water so they can extinguished it.
man that clip when the kid broke that women ankles really made me wish for the old lavish back when he did basketball reactions
same :((
Fire hydrants - the are for fire fighters to connect hoses to for fires. They are being phased out in NYC (for several decades) for building mounted standpipes (new buildings are required to have them on their facade)
As a new yorker be prepared to see crazy people, crack heads, lots of karens, some cool and random things, and very suspicion characters to be very wary of. FYI if u are coming to the big apple the crazy people and crack heads are mostly homeless and can be VERY aggressive. For example My mom and i have seen homeless people spit on people or threaten people. Recently on Thursday there was this guy on the train talking to himself and walking back and forth the train cart and threw a rock at the train door and ran off yelling. The thing is u can't really avoid them because they are everywhere. U will see at least one or two crazy things living in this city for one day.
LOL that first one is by Dyckman
not me waiting for u to do my state of Texas especially during the winter storms 😂
Of all Texas cities, Austin is the weirdest I've lived in. And they're proud of it.
The fountain you were referring to with the racoon is called a fire hydrant. Firefighters hook up to them for a direct connection to the water lines.
Should watch more of these. They are amazing
I was in the navy for over 5 yrs 3 yrs was across the bay in Jersey I was in the city every weekend possible. I love and miss that city. I found the easiest way to identify a non-new yorker was if they looked up at all or paid any attention to the absolute batshit craziness going on around them.
@8:25 the lady was washing a racoon using a fire hydrant. The fire service uses those to get water to extinguish fires.
I am from NY and I am here to say these r soooo true and pretty much normal! Gotta love NY ❤️🤣
I'm from upstate and it's just as crazy
Love that the Santa's were playing a Bee Gee's song when he didn't know who the Bee Gee's were in the music video a few days ago
I am so sad that there doesn't seem to be an Only in WV video. I feel like there would be some great material lol. I did see that Lost in the Pond did a reaction to Charleston though.
5:50- not sure how someone would be that scared of tiny kitten
I love that interaction at 11:00 mins. A wholesome New York moment.
I was born and raised in New York and that "Only in New York" is so true, especially when it comes to things like the guy getting painted on the subway. You just ignore all the craziness and go about your business. You may glance at whatever is going on but you don't stop to stare or stop in general, you just keep going about what you're doing. Unless it is someone who needs help.
The clip with Lady washing the coon with the "water thing" that's what we call a fire hydrant. Which is for firetrucks used to supply them for putting out fires.
Fire hydrants are for in case of a fire, firefighters have ease of access to pressurized water. But mostly on hot summer days, citizens open them up to cool off.
The water thing is not a water fountain, it’s a fire hydrant. when the firefighters turn up to fight a fire, the plug the truck to that hydrant to supply the water.
The are also often opened by residents on hot days to make sprinklers for kids to play in and cool down.
The woman washing her pet raccoon at the fire hydrant...I’m dying.😂😂😂
How is this not somewhere in the South? (I can say that, I’m from Arkansas.) 😂😂😂
The water dispensing thing on the street is a fire hydrant. Firefighters hook their hoses to it when a fire's broken out.
I have lived near New York my whole life and every time I go visit I come back just accepting everything in nyc goes and no one cares what you are doing
The thing you're asking about is a fire hydrant. It's a high pressure public water source that firefighters can attach hoses to if they need to put out a fire.
9:02 it’s a fire hydrant basically the firefighters use them for their hoses whenever there is a fire basically just for easy access to water but you can actually buy the wrenches used to turn the water on
The water thing is a fire hydrant. Firefighters use them for direct access of water when something nearby is on fire.
8:56 its called a fire hydrant. we have a pipe system that goes under the roads that direct water to these hydrants so the firemen can use them to put out fires
That water thing you were talking about is a fire hydrant. The firemen hook their hoses to that and open it up for a high powered stream of water, to use to put out fires. A water fountain is a waist high metal box with a small spigot on top to drink out of.😊🐝❤
Don't know if there are videos out there but dude there's crazy everywhere 😁. Oh man they missed the Naked Cowboy.....a New York treasure 💗
Lol... Instead, we got same naked fat guy. *Urrp.* [:-6
LOL, that scene with the raccoon at 8:26. That's a fire hydrant, not a water fountain. Fire fighters connect their hoses to it for their water source when fighting fires so they don't always have to rely on the water tanks in the trucks. The water lines are constantly fed water so to prevent pipes bursting from the pressure, the fire department will occasionally go through and just open up fire hydrants and let the water gush out all over the street so the water pressure does not break anything. In the summer people like to splash around in the water to cool off or do other fun things.
yeah the "water fountains" are actually fire hydrants. The fire trucks connect the hoses to them to put out fires.
You notice the people on the subways will not even look at the people doing insane stuff. It’s like a normal thing. And you are trapped in there with the nuts
For sure. The only time I saw native New Yorkers react to somebody's subway shenanigans was during the blackout of August '03. We were on the train when the power went out, slammed to a stop in the dark, only to hear..."Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please - I'm asking for your help, any amount will help, I need to feed my children..." It was the same person who had walked up and down the train begging for money 5 minutes before. This time we were trapped, and the rest of the people on the train shouted her down instead of ignoring it.
The racoon thing was a fire hydrant for firefighters to use as a water source.
You should react to “Henry the 8th” by oversimplified
8:27 that is a fire hydrant and their purpose is for fire engines to hook up to have access to the city's water system when fighting a fire
These water things are for the firefighters to get a large amount of water fast, you also find them in Europe. We have them to here in Italy
As a life long NY-er I've pretty much seen an analog of everything in this video at least once. The "water things" are fire hydrants, and their accessible for the city fire trucks with at least one on every block. Most blocks have multiple hydrants. When we were children on hot days, we'd have an adult get a wrench, open them up wide so that there would be a torrent, and we'd jump in. Some of us would open a soda can at both ends and redirect the water everywhere. But Lav, the woman is washing a racoon which are not indigenous to NYC.
Yeah, when you live in NYC you learn to live in your mind when on the subway / streets and just generally mind your own business. Making eye contact is usually a bad idea with the crazies... and honestly we work too hard and play too hard to deal with the crazies between point A and point B. That said, for the most part if we see trouble or someone needing help, real New Yorkers stand up and help out. We come across cold and distant but really we’re just in our zone because as you can see there’s always plenty of stimuli and we have to coexist with everyone.
It's a fire hydrant. The fire dept. hooks their hose to it during a fire to draw water directly from the public main.
Was once on the 5 boroughs bike tour and saw a random guy riding a unicycle completely covered in a soda can suit hit a curb at full speed and faceplant to the sound of hundreds of crushing aluminum cans. Got a good chuckle and realized anywhere else it would have been absurd but in NYC it was about right.
Those are fire hydrants typically supposed to be for fire department to attach hoses to for fires.....but ppl use them especially on hit days to cool down.
The water things you were curious about is called a fire hydrant, there is at least one on each block and it is used in case of a fire then the firetrucks have an instant access to water
"What are these water things" LOL
It's a fire hydrant, can be found on pretty much every street in America.
Those water things are called fire hydrants and they're full of water for firefighters to use. Also parking in front of one will get your car towed
I feel like there should be a compilation for people on Hollywood Boulevard. They're the ones that imported the creepy people in Disney costumes to Times Square.
2:31 Mr. Mark Twain relaxing and enjoying the weather lol.
Fortunately, there were few cameras in NYC in the ‘70s & ‘80s when I was growing up there.......
It’s called a fire hydrant. Firefighters use them to connect to to put out fires
They are fire hydrants that are to put out building fires, and they can attach to a fire pump truck if needed
Thats the main thing with New York, we have so many different people of different... everything that we don't care about anything weird at any time.
10:04 "what if a train comes out of nowhere" - as a train operator (or driver as you call them in the UK), that is our biggest fear!
8:30 those are fir hydrants. Used by the fire department to put out fires. They just hook up hoses onto them and use the water to fight the fires.
8:40 they're called fire hydrants. They're so that if there is a fire, the fire department can connect their hoses to them and have a steady supply of high pressurized water to put out the fire.
That’s a fire hydrant. The fire department hooks up to them so they don’t have to rely solely on the water they can carry in the tank. Different colors mean different things in different areas. Mostly related to what the water pressure is, but some indicate dirty water (water that hasn’t been filtered and is not suitable for drinking).
8:57, It’s a fire hydrant that fire fighters hook their hoses up to. It’s an almost infinite supply of water.